Romantics lapped up the tale of how Dale McLaughlan was so desperate to see Jessica Radcliffe that he made the four-and-a-half-hour trip But The Mail on Sunday can reveal the real story.

Officials have been told to prepare to use quarantine hotels and facial-recognition and GPS technology in order to ensure people stay in isolation when they arrive in the country.

A group of protestors holding Black Lives Matter signs were dispersed from Parliament Square by masked officers yesterday afternoon and five people were arrested for breaking Covid rules.

JOHN PRESTON: In the summer of 1984, shortly after Robert Maxwell became the owner of the Daily Mirror, the newspaper's then editor Mike Molloy bumped into a psychiatrist friend.

China is aggressively promoting flimsy theories that Covid-19 originated outside the country as World Health Organisation experts begin their investigation in Wuhan into the pandemic's source.

Whitehall sources are confident of accelerating the pace of the rollout to a point where four to five million people are receiving their shots each week.

SARAH VINE: When celebrity couples announce they're taking a break from social media, it usually means they're either heading for rehab or the divorce courts.

GAVIN ESLER: Like most Scots of my generation, I have several identities. Born in Scotland, I am from a Scottish and Ulster unionist family stretching back to the 17th Century. 

ITV'S This Morning has stopped using its regular on-screen psychologist after she posted a string of tweets vowing to ignore Covid-19 restrictions.

MOS COMMENT: The mystery of Wuhan - did the Covid-19 outbreak originate in a state laboratory there? - has now reached a new level. Mike Pompeo has added his voice.

A TV show dramatising Prime Minister Boris Johnson's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the birth of his son Wilfred during his first year in office is set to feature his lovechild Stephanie, 11.

Nilsen murdered at least 15 men at his flat in North London, between 1978 and 1983, before human remains were discovered in a blocked drain at his flat and he was arrested.

Parts of Britain experienced a blast of wintry weather as temperatures fell to -10C. Met Office had warned heavy snowfall could cut off areas but the warning was later called off.

Top retailers including & Other Stories, Asics, Sezane and Goodhood have blamed Brexit for the delivery chaos, with hold-ups lasting days or even weeks.

Parents and campaigners have expressed concern over private clinic GenderCare in Mayfair, London, that gives the go-ahead to teenagers to get sex-change drugs after as little as an hour.

Airlines were this weekend believed to be drawing up plans to further slash the number of flights they operate, with announcements expected in the coming days.

Scientists at the Wuhan lab admitted being bitten while collecting samples in a cave which is home to coronavirus-infected bats. One researcher said one animal's fangs went through his rubber gloves.

A year-long hunt by The MoS and Western intelligence officials for a Chinese lab researcher believed to be the world's first Covid-19 patient has been thwarted by a suspected state cover-up.

Just weeks after announcing his split from actress Gillian Anderson, Peter Morgan has apparently moved on to his next love - film producer Jemima Khan.

A record 324,233 more people received their Covid-19 jab last Friday, further boosting hopes that Britain will hit its target of 15 million vaccinated by mid-February.

The 38-year-old man, from Slovenia, acted aggressively towards police at Frankfurt International Airport when police approached him for not wearing a face mask at around 5.16pm today.

PETER HITCHENS: Just imagine the outcry if a Russian diplomat or politician had been mingling with the horrible rabble which stormed the US Capitol in Washington.

EXCLUSIVE: The Health Secretary was pictured carrying a rugby ball through Queen's Park in North London this afternoon, with a witness describing him as 'covered head to toe in mud'.

In a video call with five people across the UK who are helping to get the vaccine into arms, the Prince said he was proud of his grandparents for having the jab at Windsor Castle earlier this month.

Tory MP Caroline Nokes said that check-up cancellations and women's fears of attending GP clinics in the pandemic could mean up to 600,000 women miss out on getting a smear test.

An aide of the Duke is alleged to have discussed with ex-teen beauty queen Molly Skye Brown, 42, the possibility of making a fake Twitter account to ensnare a woman they suspected of doctoring the photo.

The Chancellor has pledged to emulate the dynamic Asian country by ripping up the red tape imposed by Brussels and 'raising our eyes to look to the future'.

Not even the Queen has escaped the financial fallout from coronavirus and Her Majesty is hoping to plug the gap with items from the Royal Collection store, including a pair of bed socks priced at £69.

In an interview on Friday, James Murdoch, the youngest son of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, hit out at 'media property owners' for promoting 'disinformation.

A police officer wrecked a pricey drone by pressing the wrong buttons on its operating tablet, sending it plummeting 70ft to its destruction in Crawley, West Sussex. Craft had cost £64,000

Tests are held to be particularly important by some minority groups in Britain. There is a hidden business with clinics, particularly in London, offering virginity certificates.

SAGE said that the rate of spread of the virus appears to have started falling in regions of England that were pushed into Tier 4 before Christmas but it's still rising elsewhere.

Boris Johnson said on Friday that from 4am on Monday all travel corridors will be suspended and anyone coming to the UK must have proof of a negative test in the previous 72 hours.

Some 20 of 138 acute NHS trusts recorded a dip in beds occupied by Covid-19 patients in the seven days to January 12 compared to the previous week.

Medical groups have written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock asking for new legislation protecting them from investigations should they need to withdraw life support to treat other patients.

The UK recorded another 1,295 coronavirus deaths on Saturday - a 25 percent increase on last week's figure - taking Britain's grim toll to 88,590.

The actor and political activist, 42, who has repeatedly challenged lockdown restrictions, shared the photo on Twitter on Friday beneath an apparently mocking post.

Archie Lyndhurst died his sleep after an intracerebral haemorrhage caused by acute lymphoblastic lymphoma/leukaemia at his family home in west London in September.

The US has seen a decrease in life expectancy of 1.13 years, on average, whereas in the UK the decrease in 0.9 years for women and 1.2 years for men.

Wealthy locals living a stone's throw from Buckingham Palace have made a series of complaints over recent weeks, but the occupants continued to pile up waste on the grass.

Piers Corbyn has established himself as a fervent anti-lockdown campaigner in the UK and 'anti-vaxxer' who has described the vaccine as a 'satanic death shot'.

The raw horror you are seeing in the photograph is the very last moment on earth of a Jewish family, teetering on the edge of a death pit as Nazi executioners with rifles fire from behind.

Healthcare services have 'collapsed' in the city of Manaus, where hundreds of patients are being airlifted to neighbouring states while others are evicted from their beds to make way.

In less than 24 hours, US scientists have reported three homegrown 'super-covid' variants - and experts say the world should brace for many more,

Doctors have placed 61-year-old Celebrity Big Brother winner Paddy Doherty on oxygen to help him fight the infection after he was admitted to hospital this week.

A spokesperson for US-based company Pfizer said Britain's supplies would be affected in late January and early February but the move would speed up production afterwards.

JOHN NAISH: The mutant strain of the Covid-19 virus that has emerged from the depths of the Amazon rainforest in north-west Brazil - and may already be in Britain - is alarming many scientists.

Modelling himself on Playboy's Hugh Hefner, Nygard kept a revolving harem of girlfriends, while his Caribbean parties tended to attract a better class of A-lister.

Charlotte Darwent, 27, who cares for the prince's rare-breed sheep at his beloved Dumfries House in Ayrshire, told the Mail that she is delighted with her luxury pied-a-terre in the fields.

Ex- footballer Gary Neville, who owns two luxury hotels in Manchester with Ryan Giggs, is one tens of thousands of business owners in line for a £1.2billion windfall.

An analysis of loose leaves from four Spanish beaches found plastic pellets, cosmetic microbeads and polyester fibres from clothes entangled in half of them.

A man wearing an orange hi-viz jacket posed as a delivery driver and when the homeowner in Walthamstow, London, opened the door four other people appeared and stormed inside on Monday.

Johnson, 52, was pronounced dead at 11.34pm on Thursday following lethal injection with pentobarbital at the federal execution chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana .

The UK population may have shrunk by 1.3million amid the coronavirus pandemic - a fall which would be the largest recorded since the Second World War.

Hilarious footage shows the worker in Akita, Japan, trying to nudge a massive pile of snow on a building's roof. But he quickly realised it was a bad idea when the snow came down like an avalanche.

Commuters in London packed onto tube trains this morning - hours before Sadiq Khan announced they would be hit by fare rises on them and trains and buses in March

Mark Andrews, 49, the Deputy Chief Officer at West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service, is being investigated for regularly visiting the home of his former secretary Anna Colwell, 34, in Worthing.

Professor Trevor Bedford warned that a higher number of severe infections would lead to more super-strains as it gives the virus additional chances to mutate to evade the immune system.

Date from Public Health England (PHE) reveals that in the week to January 14, there were 977 outbreaks of respiratory conditions in care homes with 739 confirmed as Covid.

Grant Shapps today suggested over-50s should think twice before booking a summer holiday despite rising optimism prompted by the roll-out of coronavirus vaccines.

Two police officers, one attending an incident in Bournemouth and another in Cambridgeshire, tested positive for Covid-19 after being spat at in two separate attacks on January 6.

The idea of introducing vaccine passports has already been floated in Europe, with Greek ministers suggesting that EU countries adopt a 'standardised' passport.

Some 27 of 140 major NHS hospitals had no space on critical care wards last Sunday and 12 didn't have a single bed free all week, averaging 100 per cent occupancy.

No10 released a new Covid poster which shows masked people queuing outside while a caption urges people 'don't let a coffee cost lives' during England's shutdown.

An anonymous mother, from the UK, has taken to Mumsnet to question whether it's OK for a childminder to 'sometimes' give toddlers a 'movie afternoon' when they're in her care.

The campaign, launched last year, saw celebrities including Love Island stars Shaughna Phillips and Josh Denzel share messages of support for the NHS on platforms such as Instagram.

In November 2019 there were 4.42million waiting for routine ops, and in November 2018 there were 4.45million waiting for further care, NHS England figures also show.

JANET STREET-PORTER: If you're loaded or homeless, you've got more chance of getting a jab in the next couple of weeks than most pensioners (me included).

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: All week, we have been publishing delicious and easy-to-prepare Fast 800 recipes developed by my wife, Clare - a GP who helps patients tackle their health problems via diet.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he is 'hugely concerned' that only a tenth of vaccines across the UK have been distrubuted in the capital. He said he will meet the government about it today.

Kenny Wilding, 42, from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, got the tattoo to raise money to help his friend Megan Smith, 25, to fly to the US for a clinical trial to treat her cancer.

Mother-of-two Stephanie Pase, from New South Wales, revealed how you can contain the clutter in every space of your house, from the wardrobes and kitchen to the bathroom and linen closet.

An amateur home cook has revealed how to make the perfect eggs with runny yolk.'There's really no other way to cook them! She said.

With camellia blooming alongside snowdrops, the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Wisley, Surrey, still offers plenty to see. It's open for those lucky enough to live within a short distance.

TOM UTLEY: From time to time I like to suggest modern contenders for the Kingsley Amis Prize, which I award to the phrase I currently judge to be the most depressing in the English language.

The man, identified only as 'RS', and 22 other Jamaican criminals due to be kicked out of the UK, submitted legal challenges which delayed their removal, to the fury of Home Secretary Priti Patel.

Hundreds of thousands of care home residents face heartbreak after visits were banned across England again, forbidding the 400,000 people in care homes from having close contact with family.

The Court of Appeal of Bordeaux in France has ruled that the 40-year-old refugee, who has asthma, would be killed by pollution if he was deported to his native Bangladesh.

The Knightsbridge Circle is offering its £25,000-a-year members first-class travel to countries who administer the vaccines privately - namely India and the UAE. The service is offered to over 65s only.

Rudy Giuliani claimed he was just quoting 'Game of Thrones' when he shouted to the crowd at the 'Save America' rally, 'Let's have trial by combat!' before members stormed the Capitol.

With Israel rolling out the world's fastest vaccination programme, studies of hundreds of thousands of people offer perhaps the most extensive real-world data on the vaccine's efficacy.

The actress, 79, who has never minced her words when discussing the politician, admitted she fled the UK in May and doesn't wish to return home until the case numbers have improved.

Shopping levels are at just one third of where they were last year, furlough numbers are increasing and more than one in 10 UK firms fear they will not survive past March, according to new data.

EXCLUSIVE: Sportsmail understands that Murray, due to leave this week for Melbourne , returned the positive test several days ago but is believed to be only experiencing minor symptoms.

Data from Public Health England (PHE) comes from more than 20,000 healthcare workers at more than 100 sites across Britain to see how likely reinfection was.

Tui, the UK's biggest package holiday company, said today that more than half of online bookings this week has been in that age group and many want a fortnight away instead of the usual seven nights.

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Dominic Raab today failed to guarantee that everyone will receive a second dose of a coronavirus vaccine within a 12 week target period as he dampened hopes of all UK adults getting the jab by June.

Mark Harper, the Tory chairman of the lockdown-sceptic Covid Recovery Group, said the Government needs to give people 'hope' while 'businesses need a plan in order to survive'.

The National Care Association sought legal advice as up to eight per cent of the 1.5million social care workers in England have turned down the jab.

Flat transactions worth £1.6billion were lost in September amid concerns over dangerous cladding similar to that found on Grenfell Tower, figures from the Land Registry show.

Pablo Cuevas was forced into hard quarantine for 14 days after a positive case on his flights, and so is hitting balls against a mattress in his Melbourne hotel room as he is not allowed outside to train.

Giuliani (left) was seen at the White House on Saturday, but hours later the Trump campaign issued a statement denying his claims that he is on Trump's legal team for impeachement.

Stores will be encouraged to impose a 'shop alone' policy after officials became concerned too many people were seeing it as 'trip out' for their family.

Monster mother Mairead Philpott has told her evil ex-Mick, 65, who is serving life for the fire plot that killed her six children, to 'stay away' amid reports he wants to reunite. Philpott is in a bail hostel.

A sculpture of a caveman encased in plastic that looks like ice has appeared along a trails in a Minneapolis park. The icy block surprised both locals and officials from the Parks Department.

Many Australians would think the shocking political violence seen at the US Capitol in Washington DC could never happen here. But blood has been spilled in the foyer of Parliament House, Canberra.

The NSW Premier has lashed out her Victoria counterpart for not reopening the border sooner after the federal government declared Australia no longer has any coronavirus hotspots.

Fourteen months after a sinister new disease emerged in Wuhan the global health body responsible for protecting the world has finally been allowed in to investigate the origins of coronavirus.

A member of a broadcast team on an Australian Open charter flight from Los Angeles to Melbourne has tested positive.

The Chinese government is under growing pressure to reveal the true origins of the coronavirus pandemic after US intelligence placed a Wuhan lab at the centre of the mystery.

An employee at the Tesco Extra on Chester Road in Stretford has died, although the supermarket would not confirm whether this was as a result of the outbreak 'out of respect for the family.'

This 1969 image of the Sydney Harbour Bridge during peak hour harks back to a time when most cars sold in Australia were either a Ford or a Holden with six cylinders and chrome bumper bars.

A caravan of Honduran migrants is approaching the U.S. border ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration, creating the first major test of Biden's plan to reverse many of Donald Trump's immigration policies.

China has threatened a 'counterstrike' against Australia after Canberra condemned Beijing's mass arrest of 55 politicians and activists in Hong Kong.

Donald Trump may be facing an inquiry in Fulton County, Georgia for his alleged attempt to interfere with the election there.

A new Opinium survey puts Labour on 41 per cent and the Conservatives on 37 per cent, providing a significant boost to Sir Keir Starmer's leadership.

Kimberley Duthie made headlines in 2010 and 2011 as a 16-year-old after leaking nude images of St Kilda players online. She had months before met some of the team at a footy clinic at her school.

First tennis authorities and the Victorian Government give the go-ahead to an event that the majority of Australians don't want and then, when it all goes pear-shaped, they don't know what to do.

Luke Hausler, from South Australia, committed suicide on January 10, leaving his loved ones in complete shock.

Flex Dan, from NSW, was born with craniosynostosis - a rare defect that means the skull's bones fuse together, giving little to no room for the brain to grow and develop.

Scott Andrew Didier, who owns Trump Investments, bought a prime piece of real estate on Bronwell Drive at Byron Bay, on the New South Wales north coast.

The LA County health officials on Saturday announced the B.1.1.7 variant has been detected in a male who had recently spent time in LA and later traveled to Oregon, where he is currently isolating.

Dorsey was working remotely a private island in French Polynesia on January 6 when Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, and his team pushed to suspend the president's account.

Police have launched a major search for missing 69-year-old Gareth Jones who was declared missing with his pet dog last night. Witnesses said helicopters and lifeboats were launched.

A Pew Research poll shows Trump's approval rating has dropped by nine points since August 2020 and only 60% of GOP supporters rate his performance positively.  

Wesley Allen Beeler, from Front Royal, Virginia, was arrested Friday evening as he tried to make his way through security checkpoints in downtown DC, CNN reported.

At least five people have been injured after gunfire broke out in San Francisco's Tenderloin District on Saturday night, police say.

Therese Duke, 50, said she felt 'forced' to resign from UMass Memorial hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts following the January 5 incident in Washington DC.

Michael John Carroll, 51, was found with multiple stab wounds at the front of a friend's house on Ronald Street at Tenambit, in New South Wales' Hunter region, at 7.20pm on Saturday.

Joe Biden will be keeping busy during the first days of his presidency after vowing to enact several executive orders right away while on the campaign trail.

Apple, based in Cupertino, California, has prototype folding screens for internal testing, but has yet to develop a full handset prototype, a person familiar with the work said.

Kamala Harris is just days away from being sworn in as the first female vice president, but that's not stopping her from enjoying some viral TikTok fame in a video that has been seen millions of times.

Disgraced Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz appeared to be taking time to reflect early Friday morning as he watched the sunrise from a bench at Manhattan Beach pier in Southern California all by himself.

Pfc. Christian G. Alvarado has been charged with the sexual assault of fellow soldier Asia Graham, who was found dead in her Fort Bliss, Texas barracks on New Years Eve.

Liz Jackson's 23-year-old son Rohan Browning ran a wind-assisted time of 9.96 seconds in the famed event at the Illawarra Track Challenge on Saturday.

Protestors demonstrated outside Arlo Hotel in New York's Soho on Saturday. It came after the parents of a black teen who was attacked in December accused hotel staff of siding with the woman, 22.

Police have spoken to the sole survivor of a fatal house fire that happened in Melbourne. 

Eric Munchel, 30, and his mother Lisa Eisenhart, 57, were pictured with zip-ties Munchel was arrested last Sunday; his mother, Eisenhart, was arrested Saturday. The pair are both from Nashville.

Queensland woman Maddie Gill, 22, went for a nap after work on December 5 last year and did not wake up again.

Sarah Kellen, 41, and her husband Brian Vickers, 37, are the subject of ire among neighbors at the SoHo, Manhattan condo building on Greene Street, where Vickers leads the condo board.

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany had her last day in the West Wing on Friday and was seen packing up her office later that night. She will remain working in her official capacity from Tampa until Wednesday.

Milan Loncar, 25, a recent graduate of Temple University, was walking his dachshund-chihuahua mix dog named Roo on Wednesday when he was shot dead just one block from his home.

From a dog-friendly winery in Surry Hills to a cafe with its own 'dog menu' in Queensland, more venues are becoming available for those who just can't bear to leave their furry friends at home.

Five of the six coronavirus cases recorded in NSW on Sunday were household contacts of a western Sydney case who was reported in Saturday's figures.

An Australian man has reunited a lost travel journal dated back to the 90's with its owner decades later.

Patrick Quinn, 30, from the New South Wales Riverina region in the state's south was bitten twice on the hand while retrieving the venomous reptile from a dog kennel on his mum's property.

This is the shocking moment an Amazon delivery driver appears to defecate in front of a customer's house in Manchester moments after dropping off a delivery.

Experts fear the Integrated Review, which is due to be delivered next month, will call for the Army to be reduced to 72,000 soldiers - despite Government pledges to keep a permanent force of 82,000.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe is facing a revolt from Icelandic farmers after he bought up vast tracts of the country's pristine wilderness to secure fishing rights to rivers there.

Staff at the Chester Road branch in Stretford, Old Trafford, are said to be 'on edge' after the death of their female colleague.

A scheduled test of NASA's Space Launch System rocket on Saturday quickly went off the rails, casting doubt on the next steps of sending Americans to space and the moon

Prince Charles's spin doctor Julian Payne is quitting his job, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Former BBC man was in charge of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall's public image for five years

Australia no longer has any coronavirus hotspots, with Health Minister Greg Hunt saying the nation has showed how it is 'containing the virus'.

Retired Army General Stanley McChrystal said there are terrifying parallels between the birth of Al-Qaeda and the violent siege on the US Capitol last week.

The plan is revealed in a document titled Medicines For The Many - a 50-page policy dossier, unveiled at the 2019 Labour Party Conference, 12 weeks before the first Covid cases surfaced in China.

Boris Johnson's gentle pedal generated a barrage of unwanted headlines because, as he was seven miles away from Downing Street, he appeared to be contravening official Government guidance.

Australian Wallabies rugby union star Matt Toomua, 31, has moved on to start a new relationshipw ith Canberra psychologist Naomi Cameron following his split from Ellyse Perry.

Ken MacQuarrie, who stepped down as the BBC's director for nations and regions at the end of last year, has been given the title of Executive Sponsor Safeguarding Impartiality.

The troops were taken into custody after commanders broke up a private party in an accommodation block. MoS understands they were celebrating after completing training at RAF Honington, in Suffolk.