The French defender last night apologised and accepted he had flouted lockdown restrictions by inviting two friends and a chef to his £5million Cheshire mansion to see in 2021.

The Competition and Markets Authority has started examining eBay's £7billion deal with Norway's Adevinta as part of a crackdown on digital monopolies.

GPs have converted the spacious hall at Nevendon Community Centre in Wickford into a makeshift clinic, with doctors even up early to open the centre at 8am on New Year's Day.

Sir Charles Walker, chairman of the Commons Administration Committee, pictured, said the complaints system must be seen to be fair and warned against reverting to the old arrangements.

Loved-up roofer Dale McLaughlan, 28, made the 25-mile journey from Scotland to the Isle of Man to visit his girlfriend Jessica Radcliffe, 30, last month. But the journey nearly ended in disaster.

Rebekah Vardy's lawyers claim a team of people read over Coleen Rooney's statement before it was published on her social media accounts. Mrs Vardy is Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy's wife.

A government propaganda unit has been secretly working to dismantle a British neo-Nazi network linked to murders and extremist plots around the world, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Sylvia Young, 60, a couturier, was holding the meeting last Sunday in her garden in Greenwich, south-east London, when two burly uniformed Met Officers paid her a visit.

Residents sat opposite their visitors in the 'rooms of hugs' in Campania on Saturday, set up by a social services consortium to help people who cannot otherwise see their vulnerable relatives.

LEAH HARDY: I'm hardly heartbroken about being forced to take a break from wasting time on Facebook. But what is sinister is being condemned as a purveyor of 'hate speech' for a harmless joke.

A Channel 4 drama about Catherine the Great will include a disclaimer to warn audiences that some scenes are imagined. It comes after calls for The Crown to display a similar message.

Sir David Sloman, NHS regional director for London, stressed that surgery is continuing despite the increased demand on hospitals from Covid-19.

The proposed law, due to come before Parliament within the next few weeks, will give local authorities the power to move illegally camped travellers to legal sites in neighbouring authorities.

The UK's leading gardening charity has been accused of being 'another British institution falling to the modernisation agenda'.

Corbyn, 73, was among 17 people who were arrested at the demonstration at Speaker's Corner on January 2. A large group of people gathered to object to their rights of free speech being curtailed.

Donald Trump's Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger told politicians that even China's leaders now admit their previous claims the virus originated in a Wuhan market are false.

The scientist leading the UK coronavirus vaccination programme has defended the decision to extend the gap between the two doses, insisting it is 'the way we save lives'.

Tomorrow marks another major milestone in the fightback against Covid as 530,000 doses of the new, British-made vaccine will start to be given out.

The first confirmed cases of the UK-originated mutant strain of COVID were found at a remote nursing home in a rural Colorado town, it has emerged. Victims were National Guard members.

More Left-wing councils were last night joining the revolt against Government plans to keep schools open. Brighton and Hove City Council demanded primaries teach remotely amid rising Covid cases.

Analysis found nearly one in four people in England live in a constituency with no hospital, GP practice or appropriate community building for giving coronavirus vaccines.

UK security services were handed a list of 6,287 terrorist suspects in 2019 - but just 147 are still part of Prevent. Of the 6,287 people 697 got help through Prevent at the time.

Sweden-born Greta Thunberg said her global superstardom won't last forever so is trying to 'use her position' to get as much done as possible 'in this limited amount of time'.

A party in a restaurant basement was shut down after a police raid in Haverstock Hill, northwest London. Twenty people were issued a fine of £200 each for breaking Covid lockdown rules.

Documents from the National Archives show that the Major administration was concerned at potential public anger over the cost of a replacement vessel.

The Truth About... Boosting Your Immune System, which airs on Wednesday, features six volunteers who undergo a six-week crash course designed to turn around their immune systems.

Neil Ferguson and colleagues at Imperial College London have been accused of jumping to the conclusion that lockdown was effective, then making assumptions to support their belief.

The Home Secretary was dismayed last month when 23 people, including rapists, due to be deported to the Caribbean country, were instead removed at the 11th hour after legal challenges.

California researchers examined 2 million positive coronavirus samples from recent months and found that they contain similar genetic mutation to that of the B117 variant found in the United Kingdom.

Former Miss Great Britain Zara Holland and her partner Elliott Love were detained at the airport as they tried to flee the Caribbean island rather than quarantine at a monitoring unit.

The Find Out Now poll found the younger you are, the more likely you are to be anti-vaccination. More than a quarter of 18-to- 34-year-old women said they would say no to the jab, citing fertility concerns.

When ABIGAIL SHRIER, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, investigated the issue for a book, her first prospective publisher pulled out following protests by staff.

ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Is the former Tory Minister turned Strictly contestant Ann Widdecombe making another bid to step up into the Lords? 

Britain's long-awaited departure from the EU coincided with what critics described as ill-tempered tirades, offensive remarks and heavily biased reportage in the BBC's end-of-year programming.

UK head teachers are calling for this year's exams to be scrapped to prioritise 'wider public health, pupil and staff safety'. They claim it would be unfair to force students to sit exams.

As part of a mission dubbed Operation Delta Force - named after the elite US Special Forces unit - teams of medics and logistics experts will help to deliver the vaccine in harsh winter weather.

Some 200 patients a year undergo the operation on the NHS, but hundreds more remain on waiting lists and about 20 die each year because of a shortage of available hearts.

Nirmal Purja is this weekend continuing his bid to become the first climber to conquer the deadly 28,251ft peak during winter.

Sportsmail understands that UEFA's TV deals will expire and have to be renegotiated if the tournament isn't played, so in reality the Premier League doesn't have room to pause.

Jo Wood's son, Harley Watson, was mown down by paranoid schizophrenic Terence Glover outside Debden Park High School, in Loughton, Essex, in December 2019.

A tweet from the Cardiff Central MP's account tonight said: 'Jo has asked us to let you know that she is being treated in hospital for Covid.'

The first batches yesterday began arriving at UK hospitals, including the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, West Sussex

Larry King, the 87-year-old broadcasting legend best known for his long-running guest interview show on CNN, has been diagnosed with COVID-19, it has been reported.

BERNARD JENKIN: Some MPs seem to not want restored freedoms, but abolishing the tampon tax is just the beginning.

The 36-year-old Boston native was spotted out walking with her brood and two nannies near the luxury home in New York state that she shares with her actor husband Alec Baldwin.

PETER HITCHENS: One of the strangest things about our recent national madness has been the role of Professor Neil Ferguson, who has come to dominate Johnson's Covid policy.

A stowaway who clung to the undercarriage of a jumbo jet and survived an 11-hour, 5,639-mile flight from South Africa to London has spoken for the first time of his terrifying journey.

Researchers discovered this is the age we make the strongest musical connection because the records playing on the radio get entwined with major life events in our formative teenage years.

In a photo which is believed to have been posted by one of the footballer's friends on Instagram, the four players are pictured in one house with 11 other adults, two children and a baby.

A study into how often folk searched the web to learn how to use selfie-editing software such as Photoshop to enhance pictures they put online found Brits were the biggest culprits.

MoS COMMENT: If this immunisation can be given as soon as possible to the most vulnerable, the whole apparatus of lockdown, curfew and closure can be dismantled and we can reclaim our normal lives.

Despite fears of chaos on New Year's Day following Britain's official departure from the European Union, only three lorries were turned away at the Dover border.

It is a year since the world learned of a deadly new respiratory disease stalking the Chinese city of Wuhan. Yet we still know little about how and why the virus spread, writes IAN BIRRELL.

STELLA MORRIS: Julian is fighting a political extradition to the United States, where he risks being buried in the deepest, darkest corner of the US prison system for the rest of his life.

Terence Glover killed Harley Watson (left) and injured nine other children and an adult outside a school in Loughton, Essex, in December 2019. Until now, it has been reported as a 'hit-and-run'.

Brolucizumab, has now been approved by NHS chiefs for patients with wet age-related macular deterioration - a painless yet incurable eye disease that's the leading cause of blindness in over-55s.

The advice was simple: one jab, and then another three weeks later. But surgeries have now been told to postpone giving a second jab to the 600,000 or so patients who've already had one dose.

Tonight temperatures could drop to -12C (10F) overnight in Scotland as Britain is engulfed in wintry conditions during the first week of 2021.

Animal Rights campaigners have claimed hundreds of birds found dead in Italy were frightened to death by fireworks on New Year's Eve. Others called it a 'grim omen' for 2021.

The warning comes after Britain's approach to its coronavirus vaccine rollout was updated to say that a 'mix and match' approach to vaccine administration is 'reasonable' to complete the two-dose schedule.

Paediatrician Dr Ronny Cheung took to social media to blast 'lies' told by the matron at a London hospital during an interview with Adrian Chiles on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Brecon Beacons authorities have expressly told people to follow 'stay at home' orders and not come to the site.

Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, who helped discover the Ebola virus in 1976, said humanity faces an unknown number of new viruses.

The rift between the two princesses of Denmark is believed to have hit boiling point after Marie's family moved to Paris.

There has been no sign of Jack Ma since late October after China's rulers turned against him after he criticised regulators and state-owned banks at a financial technology conference.

Figures released by Zuto, the car finance company, have shown the cheapest and most expensive daily rates across 40 cities in the UK - with Wolverhampton being the cheapest.

Patricia Faulkner, 53, broke her leg and her dog Millie died when she was hit by a car in Birmingham. Kallum Aish, 18, has been charged with causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

The recruitment process for former surgeons, nurses, GPs and physicians to assist in delivering the vaccine rollout has been faced with 'dispiriting layers of red tape.'

Harold Reed passed away on Christmas Eve aged 101 after battling the virus in a care home in Dover, Kent.

Imperial College London researchers found that the new variant that's been wreaking havoc in the UK may be 48 percent more transmissible, and has been found to be most common in under 20s.

With the UK leaving the EU and questions remaining over Britain's relationship with Europol, there have been warnings that the fight against international crime could be slowed.

Aniso Abulkadir claimed that she and her friends Luxika Rajeswaran and Oyindamola Olatuyi were assaulted at Baker Street Tube station by Pawel Uczciwek in a 'racially abusive' attack in 2017.

Roxy, a three-year-old Shih Tzu, stunned her owner when she returned to her Welsh home on New Years Eve - eight years after she went missing and was presumed dead.

The 38-year-old allegedly destroyed around 50 brand-new vans with the stolen JCB that he had driven 18 miles to the factory on an industrial estate in the Basque capital Vitoria, Spain.

The rave, which was broken up by police, took place at a luxury property called Knoll House in the upmarket hamlet of Sewardstonebury in Epping Forest, Essex.

The comedian, 58, has defended J.K. Rowling, saying she doesn't believe the author is transphobic.

The Duke of Sussexes', 36, mental health documentary series with Oprah Winfrey, 66, has 'stalled', after facing several delays, insiders told The Sun

The eighth earl of Harewood, David Lascelles, has accepted defeat and has given up a centuries-old practice of removing the letter 'e' from the name of his estate.

Four Royal Navy warships left Portsmouth hours before the Brexit trade deal took effect on New Year's Eve to put a stop to any illegal fishing in UK fishing grounds.

These evocative pictures of closed pub The Green Man's last day show long unused pint glasses and packets of dusty peanuts on a bar. The underground drinking hole closed for good in 1993.

The founder of BioNTech Uğur Şahin warned a 'gap' had emerged after EU leaders bet on other vaccines' approval rather than ordering from those already available.

Footage taken in Adelaide, South Australia, shows the rogue cyclist riding his bike in a zig-zag motion into an intersection.

Over 800,000 private renters in England and Wales have built rent arrears since lockdown measures began, according to new research published today.

Young adult author Jessica Cluess has been 'canceled' after she defended the writers of The Scarlett Letter and other classic novels on Twitter against Lorena Germán.

Liliana Gasinskaya made international headlines when she sought political asylum in Australia in 1979. Now the release of her KGB file reveals the moves Soviet officials made to discredit her.

Maxwell's attorneys have alleged that accepting a confidential settlement in October from Epstein Victims' Compensation Program indicated Annie Farmer has a financial motivation.

Shadow health minister Rosena Allin-Khan said it had been 'inappropriate and wrong' to raise 'unsubstantiated' claims about her political opponent on Twitter.

A Queensland woman felt 'something looking at her' in a Brisbane hospital room before spotting what she thought were a pair of eyes peeping through the air vent above her.

Chudier Pal, 29, was arrested after his girlfriend Stephanie Lee Robinson, 30, was found dead in a home on Ravenscar Street in Doubleview, northern Perth about 7.15am on Saturday.

The young girl was struck on Elm Street, Evans Head in New South Wales about 4.40pm on Sunday.

Australian camping retailer BCF has found itself in hot water after making a light-hearted coronavirus joke featuring a man eating a bat in their latest advertisement.

Dentist Andy Bates, from North Yorkshire, revealed he 'gave up' after having to wade through a huge checklist of training modules so he could qualify to administer the Covid-19 vaccine.

HMS Prince of Wales has spent just 87 days at sea - a third of the time of her sister ship HMS Queen Elizabeth. The vessel will now be stranded in Portsmouth until May next year after being flooded.

Bali's once-popular Kuta Beach is now a deserted coast filled with pictures capturing a dirty shoreline covered in washed up bottles, bags, and plastic, with 30 to 60 tonnes picked every day.

Sir Lenny Henry, 62, called for the BBC and other traditional broadcasters to follow the lead of Netflix in casting actors that represent Britain's ethnic diversity.

Helal Safi ,45, was found dead at an apartment on Stapleton Street, Pendle Hill in Sydney on Saturday after a neighbour heard shouting for help around 4am.

The bodies of Senior Constable Kelly Foster, 39, and the younger woman were recovered on Sunday about midday after they went missing at Wollangambe Canyon yesterday.

Labor leader Anthony Albanese recalled how he didn't see the breakdown of his 30-year marriage to Carmel Tebbutt coming on New Year's Day 2019. He has since started dating 41-year-old Jodie Haydon.

Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue have both previously stated they are in favor of the handout, but have again pushed for the payment ahead of the crucial Georgia run-off races next Tuesday.

Dozens of protesters swarmed a shopping centre on Sunday without wearing masks on day one of compulsory face coverings across Greater Sydney.

Following Perth's New Year's Eve festivities, thousands of beer cans left behind by revellers were scooped up by avid recyclers, who cashed in on their impressive haul.

Failed Congressional candidate George Santos, from New York, claimed his fiance was fired after his Instagram showing photos of the couple at Trump's NYE party was shared by the NYT.

The Australian and Indian teams are set to fly to Sydney on Monday to continue preparations for the third Test, before flying to Queensland for the fourth and final match.

In a statement released on Saturday night, Romney described the move as an 'egregious ploy that 'dangerously threatens our Democratic Republic.'

Lenny Pozner, whose six-year-old son Noah died in the Sandy Hook school shooting, spoke to 60 Minutes with his face disguised to avoid revealing his true face to dangerous obsessives.

Zara Kay was reportedly ordered to a local police station in Dar es Salaam on December 28, where she was put into custody for 32 hours.

Maddie Suy, from Sydney's inner-west, was given just two years to live after being diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, and her family hoped the surgery will save her life.

Marc Short, Pence's chief of staff, issued a statement Saturday saying the VP 'shares the concerns of millions of Americans about voter fraud and irregularities in the last election.'

Nathan Barnden, 27, battled the devastating blazes that burned across the country between October 2019 and March 2020 and saved 13 people - but lost his uncle Robert Salway and cousin Patrick.

Miya Ponsetto, dubbed 'SoHo Karen' for attacking a 14-year-old black boy in a Manhattan hotel, was previously arrested for drunken behavior at a Beverly Hills hotel and for DUI.

On Saturday, hundreds of youngsters were seen soaking up the sun on South Beach, as others flocked to a nearby hotel for a raucous pool party.

McKevitt was one of four men found liable for the horrific attack which killed 29 victims and marked the single deadliest atrocity during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Founder Nick Wheeler (pictured) told The Mail on Sunday: 'We are reacting to what the customer wants. A lot of customers are telling us they don't want us to make shirts in China.'

At least 275,897 new COVID-19 infections were reported across the country as of Saturday evening, as hospitalizations remained above six figures once again.

The Northern Beaches outbreak has spread to Melbourne, with masks only now made mandatory in some indoor settings in Greater Sydney more than two weeks after the cluster first emerged.

The research, carried out by Focaldata, will cause consternation in Downing Street after a tumultuous first year in power.

In an interview with Judge Jeanine Pirro Saturday, Peter Navarro falsely claimed Vice President Mike Pence has the power to delay Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20.

A U.S. judge on Friday rejected Gohmert's lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence, who is set to preside Wednesday over a joint session of Congress to formalize the results of the election.

Brisbane and Melbourne residents have slammed state health authorities after waiting in testing clinic queues of up to six hours, only to get turned away. 

A cricket fan has turned into an instant legend by catching the ball in his beer cup at a topsy-turvy Big Bash League cricket match on Saturday.

Persistent, unpredictable bad weather caused dangerous flash flooding around the mid north coast of NSW, closing bridges and roads, while 52mm was dumped on a country town in a day.

Writing in the The Mail on Sunday, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urged teachers and parents to get children back to school saying they must not 'bear heaviest cost' of the pandemic.

Speaking on Soccer Saturday, Paul Merson revealed that his wife is due to give birth 'later today'. Mr Merson has had children with two previous wives, Lorraine and Louise.

Chief minister Fabian Picardo today tersely declared that 'this is our land' after Madrid's top diplomat said her government would oversee cross-border travel.

The woman dubbed 'Soho Karen' - 22-year-old Miya Ponsetto - has been seen for the first time since being named as the woman who assaulted a 14-year-old black boy at an NYC hotel.

Several witnesses from different locations across Oahu, Hawaii reported seeing a large glowing, blue mass flying over the night sky around 8.30pm on Tuesday.

The large dog, said to be owned by a tourist and which had no collar, was standing over the helpless marsupial in Raymond Island, Victoria, with the koala locked in its jaws.

Genomic sequencing found the Berala cluster in western Sydney and the northern beaqches Avalon cluster are not linked, NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said on Sunday.

A book by an Oxford professor of experimental psychology reveals how to use senses to improve daily life including taking a hot shower an hour or two before bedtime.

Victoria has recorded three new locally acquired cases of coronavirus all linked to the cluster in Black Rock, Melbourne, which now stands at 21.

Yaniv Hanoch, associate professor at the University of Southampton in the UK, found that motorists who took part in the research responded better if shown 'positive' driving messages.

The Royal Marines have sparked anger after using the Parachute Regiment's official motto for use in a marketing campaign.

Barrister Ian Neil SC said employers may be able to use their 'lawful and reasonable direction' powers to order employees to get the jab to guarantee the safety of their colleagues.

Thieves have added to the pain and suffering of the family of alleged murder victim Ellie Price who was allegedly stabbed to death by her boyfriend Ricardo Barbaro.

Amazing photographs through the decades show the history of migrants who traveled to Australia's vast open spaces and warm climate in search of the Australian dream and to enrich the nation.

After Niall Aslam left the villa, there were widespread concerns that someone with autism should have been exposed to the ridicule and sexual rejection that is all part of Love Island.

The hit 70's musical Grease has become the latest target of 'woke' critics. Outraged viewers hit out on Twitter after the movie was screened on BBC1 on Boxing Day.

BirdGuides, a website and magazine which monitors rare breeds, recorded 8,300 reports of great white egrets in 2020.

New South Wales recorded eight new locally-acquired COVID-19 cases on Sunday as a mandatory face mask rule comes into effect.

Thousands of residents have been able to leave Sydney's Northern Beaches so they can go to work despite tough stay-at-home orders in the area.  

Footage posted by the president's eldest son showed dozens of revelers packed in on the dancefloor as Ice performed his hit song 'Ice, Ice Baby'.

Evan Liberty was convicted of voluntary and attempted manslaughter in the 2007 incident in which U.S. contractors opened fire in busy traffic in Baghdad's Nisour Square and killed 14 Iraqi civilians.

Both the first name and last name of a 2009 W-4 document have been scribbled out before she finally decided on Hillary L. Hayward-Thomas - the name she was born with.

The interview of 2021 - already? Nothing is off limits as Joan Collins reveals all in a candid interview in the Mail on Sunday's You magazine with her friend PIERS MORGAN.

Geovanni Valle, 15, was accused of being involved in the wild attack that took place in New York City, when cyclists surrounded and attacked both a BMW and a taxi in the middle of the day on Tuesday.

The Louisville, Kentucky, home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was vandalized just days after he refused to allow the upper chamber to vote on boosting stimulus checks to $2,000.

Christmas shopping season may be over, but the recommerce market never sleeps as shoppers return items to retailers only for them to be resold at bargain basement prices.

Physicians in California have revealed how hospitals are so overstretched amid the coronavirus pandemic that patents can only be admitted when another patient dies.

Six test cases have already been completed in the Philippines by researchers from King's College London, finding men in Australia, Canada, the US and Britain to have fathered children.

As of Saturday, the total number of U.S. deaths in the pandemic was approaching 348,000, and since March more than 20 million Americans have been infected by the virus.