Health Secretary Matt Hancock described the prospect of giving the jab to the most vulnerable in Britain by mid-February as a 'best-case scenario', failing to reassure parliamentary colleagues.

Number 10 has pledged to vaccinate around 13million of the most vulnerable people across the UK by mid-February, with the hope of ditching the most draconian curbs by March.

Zara Holland was seen soaking up the sun at the luxury Hilton Hotel in Barbados ahead of her court date today for breaking Covid rules as her boyfriend languishes at a medical facility there.

Google has reinstated TalkRadio's YouTube channel after it was shut down earlier amid claims the broadcaster 'violated' the website's 'community guidelines'.

Holloways, which has showrooms in London, had decided not to hold a traditional Christmas party that year and organised a trip to a pub instead.

Some 1.4million Israelis have already received a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab, immunising nearly a sixth of the country's population within less than three weeks.

Prince William volunteered at homeless centre The Passage in a 'private capacity' on three separate occasions before Christmas, where he helped pack food and spoke to residents.

Patients seeking treatment for coronavirus could be selected by 'lottery' in the event that there are insufficient resources available, according to a draft emergency triage document.

Dr Dre says he's 'doing great' after being admitted to the ICU with a brain aneurysm. The rapper and record producer suffered the aneurysm on Monday and was rushed to hospital.

A year after the outbreak started, WHO experts were due in China for a visit to explore origins of Covid-19, in a trip trailed by accusations of cover-ups, conspiracy and fears of a whitewash.

Harry Styles confirmed he is dating US actress and director Olivia Wilde when the pair arrived holding hands at at his agent's wedding in Montecito, CA over the weekend.

Roughly 1.1 million people in private households in England had coronavirus between December 27 and January 2. London has the highest regional rate. Pictured: Percentage testing positive in London.

HG Wells fans slammed a Royal Mint coin commemorating the novelist after his tripod war machines were illustrated with a fourth leg and his Invisible Man was depicted with a top hat.

Barry Hitchens had been visiting the Lost Garden of Heligan in St Austell, Cornwall, when he spotted the white-feathered bird and called a team of experts who identified it as a leucistic white sparrow.

The Workers' Party Congress met in Pyongyang yesterday. Leader Kim Jong Un gave an opening speech where he said the developmental goals set at the 2016 congress 'were not met'.

Roberts Buncis, 12, was found dead in Fishtoft, Boston, Lincolnshire, on December 12, 2020. A 14-year-old boy has been charged with Roberts' murder and was remanded in custody.

A new survey in the United Kingdom has found that mothers are more likely to be asked by their children for financial tips than fathers and that women are more likely to ask for tips than men.

The rector and churchwardens of St Edmund's Church in Kessingland, Suffolk, decided to remove what they say are unauthorised items from the churchyard last year during lockdown.

Lawrence Jones, 52, stepped down from running cloud computing firm UKFast in Manchester in 2019 amid allegations of sexual harassment and bullying in the office.

The Heritage Railway Association has warned that the industry could be jeopardised by Newcastle City Council's refusal to grant planning permission for a new mine.

Rail services could be slashed again under proposals being drawn up by officials after England was plunged into a third national lockdown.

Asked whether defendants could apply, justice minister Chris Philp (file photo, pictured) wrote on Twitter: 'They count as key workers so are eligible to be looked after by schools.'

The decision was taken after royal officials faced difficulties planning the events amid new coronavirus rules and lockdowns being announced in recent days.

The 65-year-old actress died Monday night at L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Hospital. Her partner and rep had said she died Sunday in a premature statement when she was still in the ICU.

The Northern Celt was boarded and its skipper told that he can no longer fish within 12 nautical miles of a contested rocky outcrop in the North Atlantic Ocean.

The actress, 33, took to Instagram on Tuesday morning to share a snap of her beloved boy in a hospital bed in an isolated room

The Sainsbury's app was under such high demand that the retailer had to temporarily limit access, while there were nearly 15,000 people queuing on the Ocado website.

Alexander Stern was reported missing by his family, including father Ronald Stern, three days after he disappeared on January 11 last year, a coroner said.

Overseas travel will now only be allowed for a handful of 'legally permitted' reasons such as work, putting paid to scores of vacations that have already been booked.

The Prime Minister told the nation that the rapid spread of a new, more infectious variant of the disease meant he had no choice but to order people to stay at home.

Dr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, warned the 'highly concerning' rise 'will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter'.

NHS England figures show that, in the most recent data from December 29, 81 out of 127 major hospitals had more patients with Covid-19 than on the country's worst day in 2019.

Millions of children will now be forced to learn online despite experts warning their education will 'go backwards' and many don't have laptops, tablets or a decent internet connection.

Students told they can't return to university residences until lockdown ends in mid February have been sharing their anger at being forced to still pay rent - often around £150 a month.

Zara McDermott and Sam Thompson broke Tier 4 travel regulations by jetting off to the Maldives to spend a romantic New Year's together.

Rishi Sunak declared that venues hammered by Boris Johnson's dramatic decision will get one-off £9,000 grants to keep them afloat over the next seven weeks.

Alexander Parkin who worked on the popular BBC Radio 3 show Late Junction and won nine Sony awards for his work, was first convicted of drug dealing in 2016.

The soaps confirmed production will continue despite the introduction of new restrictions during the third lockdown, after resuming filming with strict social measures over the summer.

Ken Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said harsh restrictions will 'put a lot of pressure' on constables in London.

Gareth Baines claimed his comments about mothers in A&E had been 'taken out of context'. He has since resigned from his role as chairman of Clwyd South Conservative Association, north Wales.

Doris Hobday and Lil Cox, both 96, from from Tipton, West Midlands, shot to fame when they appeared on Good Morning Britain in May and claimed the secret to long life is 'plenty of sex'.

Approximately 1,500 jobs and 173 stores are on the line for the retailer, who appointed accountancy firm PwC to handle the process. Forty per cent of its sales are usually made in the Festive period.

George Michael's ex-lover Fadi Fawaz has been charged with smashing a beauty salon window days before the fourth anniversary of the singer's death.

Local councillors in England said people travelling from urban Covid hotspots could put locals at risk as they urged everyone to obey the ban on travelling for non-essential reasons.

A 'labrador-sized' cat dubbed the 'Puma of Pontybodkin' was reported walking along a road in Flintshire, North Wales, on New Year's Eve.

Deborah James, 38, appeared on Lorraine today and highlighted the importance of people still attending check ups despite news of another national lockdown.

He had accepted an invitation to meet Indian prime minister Narendra Modi (pictured) as his first major trip after Britain completely left the EU, as a signal of intent to boost the UK's wider ties.

Unlike in the first lockdown, people can continue to move home, and do everything needed to complete that process. We explain more.

The new lockdown measures in England are fuelling concerns the stuttering economic recovery could be jolted off course in the first quarter, but there is hope as vaccines are rolled out.

As Britain is plunged into its third national lockdown, many are wondering whether the Covid nightmare will ever end.

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The island's PM Mia Mottley said that a handful of holidaymakers are ignoring their Covid morals, customs, laws and guidelines - and warned that those flouters 'must be held accountable'.

The secretive state adopted the new measures in December, fearing that its teenage citizens were growing too comfortable with words popular in democratic South Korea.

US officials were left 'extremely disappointed' after a British judge ruled on Monday that the WikiLeaks founder cannot be extradited to face spying charges.

CCTV footage caught the moment the man, carrying a torch, was attacked and bitten by the wild beast in the east of Russia.

Arizona leads the US for new cases per capita with 827 per 100,000 people in the week ended Tuesday, followed by California with 671 per 100,000, according to a DailyMail.com analysis.

Snow has fallen in parts of Kent and South East London this morning as the Met Office issued a travel warning for ice in stretching along the North East coast of Britain throughout today.

Sheldon, 6, and Shane Shorey, 7, were killed instantly while walking home in Wellington, near Dubbo, from the local pool.

West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson said he has urged the government to give officers power of entry, to help 'enforce the new regulations more easily.'

Moving trucks have arrived outside the house of Phil Collins house as his ex-wife prepares to leave his Miami mansion after snapping up a plush, new waterfront home.

Kody Madro, 31, who is from Illinois, jumped from the aircraft around 12,000ft above the Arizona desert in January 2020 when his mobile phone flew from his pocket.

The regulations underpinning the drastic curbs have come into effect in England after Boris Johnson said he was left with 'no choice' due to the mutant strain running rampant.

Susan Lucille Wright, 44, has been let out of prison having been granted parole in the first-degree murder of her husband Jeffrey Wright, 34 in 2003.

Democrat Reverend Raphael Warnock won his Georgia Senate run-off race against Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler last night, becoming the first black Senator in the state's history.

John Clancey was led away and detained on suspicion of 'subversion' after national security police searched his law firm which is known for taking on human rights cases in Hong Kong.

Cruise ships are set to return to Queensland - with voyages from Sydney expected in late April and a separate vessel based in Queensland from late June. 

Martin Kenyon, 91, went viral when he was interviewed about being one of the first in the world to receive a Covid vaccine. He charmed viewers and told CNN 'there's no point in dying now'.

Comey, who was unceremoniously fired in 2017 and has been the subject of a series of stinging attacks by Trump, said the next US attorney general should not pursue a criminal investigation.

Dale Mclaughlan, 28, spent £6,000 on the perilous 27-mile journey across the Irish Sea in rough conditions to reunite with Jessica Radcliffe, 30 - despite only meeting her weeks earlier.

McDonald's will remain open for drive-through and delivery but customers will no longer be allowed inside stores to place orders, even if they are taking them out.

The U-turn came hours before under-fire Education Secretary Gavin Williamson faces the Commons after finally confirming that GCSE and A-level exams will not take place this year.

San Antonio police responded to the scene of Eisenhauer Flea Market and found 200 car club racers. There they learned two people were injured after shooting fireworks.

New South Wales Health on Wednesday updated the list of venues linked to known Covid cases after recording four new locally acquired cases.

Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from their homes on a freezing night in Crawley after a gas leak at a block of flats. Police have declared a major incident following a report just after midnight.

A snake catcher found a venomous Eastern brown snake in an ordinary Brisbane backyard and asked Facebook followers to spot the snake - but many struggled.

The universal call for help proved crucial for a couple of students who became lost in a remote part of Australia recently.

Dom Ansah and Ben Gillham-Rice were killed at a house in the Emerson Valley area of Milton Keynes on October 19, 2019.

Mitchell Pearce has quit as Newcastle Knights captain after his 'flirty' texts to a club staffer were revealed.

Dr Jeffrey Wilson, research director at the Perth USAsia Centre, said 2021 'will not look' like last year where Beijing progressively blocked most of Australia's top exports.

Paul McInnes stole $2.1 million from Rheem and bought holiday and investment properties in Queensland, paid off the mortgage on his family home and splashed out on a six-figure speedboat.

Melbourne's shocking tradition of bloodshed continued throughout 2020 despite its residents being locked up for most of the year.  

Donald Trump's extraordinary crusade to overturn the presidential election will come to a head on Wednesday as Congress meets to certify Joe Biden's Electoral College victory.

A University of NSW-led review of existing COVID-19 infection data found five out of 139 newborns from infected mothers were diagnosed within several hours or just days after birth.

Superior technology used to trace COVID-19 in NSW has become redundant overnight in some businesses.

On Tuesday Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley announced his office will not file charges against white police officer Rusten Sheskey who shot Jacob Blake on August 23.

A new Netflix documentary, Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy, looks at how the drug devastated black and Latino communities in the 1980s.

The president issued a statement after the New York Times reported that Pence had told him over lunch that he had no constitutional power to 'decertify' states' slates of electors.

The NHS had pledged to keep cancer treatment going throughout the winter but patients have had operations cancelled at the last minute.

A man suspected in a string of assaults against women in Brooklyn is now under arrest and facing multiple charges. Khari Covington, 29, is charged with seven counts for attacks in the subway.

The woman was sunbathing at Lilli Pilli Point in the Sutherland Shire in Sydney's south when she discovered a creepy note left under two rocks.

Spicer, who served a seven-month stint as President Donald Trump's first press secretary in 2017, called out Pelosi in an Instagram post on Monday after the House banned gendered words.

A young boy escaped from a childcare centre in Caloundra, Queensland after he scaled the fence and walked to a park. The boy was located by two educators from another centre down the road.

Members of the White House COVID taskforce met at Camp David on Tuesday to discuss ways to improve the speed of vaccinations, with some recommending ignoring rules of priority.

One of Australia's leading medical professionals was once a wide-eyed high school student with her dreams set on becoming a doctor.

DeSantis told Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight Tuesday night that Americans are turning to the Sunshine State as a 'landing pad' amid the pandemic.

Violent clashes between supporters of Donald Trump and Washington DC police broke out on Tuesday night, at the end of a rally urged on by the president to dispute the election result.

Serena Williams's husband Alexis Ohanian is slamming retired tennis player Ion Tiriac as a racist and sexist after the 81-year-old suggested that she should retire due to her age and weight.

The Toyota HiLux was Australia's bestselling car in 2020 for the fifth straight year. Utes and SUVs took out seven of the top ten places on the sales charts as motorists embraced higher ground clearance.

Former first lady Michelle Obama bashed President Trump's effort to overturn the election results in states he lost, while urging people in Georgia to vote for Democrats in two runoff races.

Georgia announced its first case of the 'mutant' COVID-19 strain. The virus has  been found in an 18-year-old boy with no travel history. Georgia joins NY, CA, CO and Fl in reporting cases.

Peter Pitts, the co-founder of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, said Americans should assume the new mutant strain detected in South Africa already exists in the United States.

Democrat Raphael Warnock looked poised to knock Sen. Kelly Loeffler out of the Senate, while Jon Ossoff closed in on Republican Sen. David Perdue.

Arnold Schwarzenegger said January 6 would be 'Judgment Day' - the tagline of one of his popular 'Terminator' films - blasting lawmakers who plan to vote against Joe Biden's win.

The IRS announced last week that the second round of stimulus checks would start reaching Americans' accounts from January 4.

Scammers are offering fake COVID-19 vaccines on the dark web, in e-mails, messaging apps, and through robocalls impersonating goverment agencies amid the slow rollout.

The number of businesses going into administration has surprisingly plunged despite the Covid recession and the steepest downturn since the 1930s Great Depression. Some experts are worried.

Helen Jackson (in her youth, right) has died at the age of 101, having married a Civil War veteran in 1936, when she was 17 and he was 93. James Bolin (inset) married to help financially.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talked about where he'll live after leaving office and the Trump administration's legacy, indicating he knows there won't be a Trump Administration 2.0.

Qantas has brought forward international ticket sales for destinations including the US and UK despite growing coronavirus rates overseas.

Australian coach Justin Langer has taken a veiled swipe at opponents India after they threatened to boycott the fourth test in Brisbane over quarantine fatigue.

Champion Australian surfing siblings have spoken about their heroic efforts after a dramatic video of them saving a drowning woman in Hawaii last week shocked the world.

Residents in towns north of Perth in Western Australia are told to leave NOW as blaze threatens lives.

Police officers from the NYPD are to fly 2,500 miles to California in order to question the woman dubbed 'Soho Karen', 22-year-old Miya Ponsetto. She will be questioned by detectives.

Welding faults in a popular electric Nissan hatchback mean the park break could fail.

Sheldon, 6, and Shane Shorey, 7, died instantly after being clipped when a Holden sedan with P-plates lost control at Wellington, in central western NSW, about 4.30pm on Tuesday.

Cleta Mitchell, 70, participated in the leaked phone call where Donald Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to 'recalculate' the state's election results.

Sydney's Warragamba Dam has reached 97.8 per cent capacity after weeks of consistent rain in the city.

The Perth teenager - whose zest for life in the face of a terminal cancer diagnosis touched hearts across Australia - was operated on by renowned surgeon Dr Charlie Teo in June 2019.

The Toyota Hilux utility smashed through the front doors of Wests Leagues Club Mackay, on Queensland's east coast, at about 3am on Wednesday.

Officers swooped on a caravan park on the Pacific Highway at Heatherbrae, north of Sydney, on Tuesday evening and arrested the 29-year-old man.

The Centre of Economics and Business Research predicts the UK's first quarter output of this year will be £24.57bn lower than it would have been without the third national lockdown.

Video shows the shocking moment a Port Jackson shark is found trapped by a fishing line in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. It was rescued by two kind scuba divers.

Stuart McKenzie, from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers in Queensland, has warned pet owners to keep a close eye on their animals after a carpet python killed a kitten.

The dog walker, 21, allegedly flashed the 39-year-old woman his genitals after entering a garage at an address in Cranbourne in Melbourne's far south-east on November 2.

Officers were called to the Landsborough Hotel on Queensland's Sunshine Coast after staff heard noises coming from inside the rear toilet block on Wednesday morning.

Social media videos posted on Tuesday night appear to show Utah Senator Mitt Romney being confronted by President Trump's supporters on a flight to D.C.

Bobbie Houston, 63, revealed in a bizarre 2003 tape that she keeps fit and healthy to ensure she and her pastor husband can maintain regular bedroom antics.

Pence told Trump over lunch that he can't disqualify states' electors despite the president's tweeted demand that he do so - torpedoing his hopes that the VP would overturn the election.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said spectators would be expected to wear a mask from the moment they step on public transport to go the match until they leave the SCG at the end of the day.

A chilling message was heard by multiple air traffic controllers in New York on Monday afternoon, according to reports, that claimed a plane would be flown into the Capitol on Wednesday.

A male prisoner has died after he reportedly took a handgun from a correctional services officer and shot himself in the neck in the middle of a busy street.

Patrick Stallworth and his girlfriend Derick Brown have been charged by an Alabama court with the kidnapping and murder of three-year-old Kamille 'Cupcake' McKinney in October 2019.

Homicide detectives took Paul Charlton, 66, into custody on Wednesday morning as part of their investigation into the 2007 death of TV singer Joanne Howell.

Brad Hazzard was furious after finding out the Western Sydney family were slugged with the costly bill because they did not have a Medicare card with them.

The song was performed by Aboriginal performer Kutcha Edward during a live theatre production in 2013 but has gained popularity after the video shared by Indigenous label Clothing The Gap.

Dolal Idd, 23, was shot dead by Minneapolis police on Wednesday as they attempted to arrest him. He was suspected of illegally selling firearms.

Chaos erupted at the North West Point Immigration Detention Centre on Tuesday night. At least two convicted criminals scaled the building while others lit fires.

'I've checked - you're definitely allowed to get out of bed and dressed before studying online

The development, hailed as a world first, could be the breakthrough to help get crowds back to sporting events and festivals across the UK this summer.

While many Australians seeing them on beaches may think of them as jellyfish, they are in fact the egg sacs of predatory sand snails.

Paulina Bitolas, 25, sought damages from Victoria's Transport Accident Commission after she was hit by a ute in 2011 ,but a judge ruled that was not the cause of her back pain.

The fluffy marsupials were spotted making their way down a street in Casterton, a town in Victoria near the South Australian border with her joey on her back looking around curiously.

Facebook's data shows a user's movements throughout the day, which Australian researchers have built a model that can predict how clusters would spread.

An elderly pet cat named Stitch has been found dumped in a zip-tied garbage bag after he was suspected stolen three months ago.

One case from western Sydney is a household contact of a previously reported case whose source remains under investigation but is likely to be linked to the Berala cluster.

Pat Cummins, 27, was in Year 7 when his mother was diagnosed in 2005 but fought hard to beat the deadly breast cancer in time to watch her son's debut 13 years later.

Popular dessert bar Love Crepe in the inner-west Sydney suburb of Drummoyne took aim at the city's strict mandatory mask wearing order in a furious statement on Wednesday.

Health Minister Greg Hunt brought forward the coronavirus vaccine rollout to early March, but that is till more than a month after the vaccine is set to be approved and long after many other countries.

Worldwide demand for glass vials is just one of the factors behind the slow pace of coronavirus vaccination in the UK. Drugs firms warned about a potential shortage as far back as May.

London's Nightingale hospital is to double up as a mass vaccination hub, providing jabs seven days a week from 8am to 8pm. Work continued last night at the ExCel, Europe's biggest conference centre.