Your morning briefing: What you should know for Friday, September 11

Trade talks hanging in the balance after UK rejects EU ultimatum

Talks on a post-Brexit trade deal with are hanging in the balance after Brussels demanded the UK abandon plans to override key elements of the Withdrawal Agreement.

At a stormy meeting in London, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove insisted the Government "could not and would not" drop measures in legislation tabled earlier this week.

It prompted European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic to accuse the UK of an "extremely serious violation" of international law, putting the ongoing trade talks in jeopardy.

Meanwhile, Boris Johnson is facing growing unrest among Tory MPs deeply unhappy at the threat to undermine Britain's traditional support for the international rule of law.

Holidaymakers scramble to return after new quarantine restrictions imposed

British holidaymakers face another race against time to get home before new quarantine rules on countries including Portugal and Hungary come into force.

The Government announced on Thursday evening that Portugal, Hungary, French Polynesia and Reunion have been removed from the quarantine exemption list.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said that travellers arriving in England from those countries after 4am on Saturday will have to self-isolate for 14 days.

Harry Dunn's alleged killer 'on wrong side of road for 20 seconds' before fatal crash

Lawyers acting on behalf of Harry Dunn's alleged killer Anne Sacoolas have said she drove on the "wrong side of the road for 20 seconds" before the fatal crash.

Legal representatives for the 43-year-old issued a public statement detailing her side of the story, in which they claim she was "otherwise driving cautiously and below the speed limit".

According to her lawyers, Sacoolas "instinctively" began driving on the right hand side, and could not see Mr Dunn due to "the crest of a small hill”.

The teenage motorcyclist was killed in the crash outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in August last year - a US military base where the suspect's husband worked as an intelligence official.

Russian hackers 'targeting US election again'

Hackers have attempted to spy on people and groups involved in the US 2020 presidential election, Microsoft has said.

The Russian group which hacked the Democratic campaign in 2016 is again involved in the cyber attacks, according to the tech firm.

Most of the infiltration attempts, by Russian, Chinese and Iranian agents, were halted by Microsoft security software and the targets notified, it said.

Little Mix and Diversity stars unite for mental health campaign

Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Diversity dancer Ashley Banjo and other black celebrities have teamed up for a video about mental health awareness on World Suicide Prevention Day.

Famous faces from the worlds of fashion, music and TV declare "I am enough" in the campaign created by former The Only Way Is Essex cast member Vas J Morgan.

The line-up includes actresses Jodie Turner-Smith and Nathalie Emmanuel, actors Evan Ross and Rickey Thompson, models Winnie Harlow, Sabrina Elba and Leomie Anderson, and singers Alexandra Burke and Fleur East.

Morgan launched the I Am Enough campaign in a bid to raise money so members of the black community can access free mental health support, raising nearly £50,000 so far.

On this day...

1297: Scottish hero William Wallace defeated the English at Stirling Bridge.

1777: The British, under General Howe, beat the Americans commanded by George Washington at the battle of Brandywine Creek in the American War of Independence.

1841: The commuter age began for the south-east of England when the London to Brighton commuter express train began a regular service, taking just 105 minutes.

1895: The FA Cup was stolen from football outfitters William Shillock in Birmingham - 68 years later an 83-year-old man confessed that he had melted it down to make counterfeit half-crown coins.

1914: WC Handy published his St Louis Blues which has since been recorded more than 100 times.

1915: The first Women's Institute was formed in Anglesey, Wales.

1928: The world's first television play was transmitted live by station WGY in New York. The Queen's Messenger, a 40-minute transmission had only two characters, but there were four actors, as old-fashioned cameras could not be moved around.

1972: The BBC TV quiz programme Mastermind was first transmitted.

1978: Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov was stabbed by a poisoned umbrella point wielded by an unknown secret agent at a London bus-stop. The unidentified poison brought on a coma and Markov died on September 15.

2001: 2,977 people - 67 of them British - were killed when passenger jets hijacked by al-Qaida terrorists struck the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon outside Washington. A fourth hijacked plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.

2012: Andy Murray capped an astonishing year by finally clinching his first Grand Slam title - the US Open - a month after being crowned Olympic champion.