Experts anticipate a 'feeding frenzy' as firms, including some run by high-ranking members of the ruling Chinese Communist party, seek to expand their influence over Britain.

Her Majesty was 'blindsided' last week when it emerged that the Duchess of Sussex and her husband had agreed to talk to the American chat show host.

SARAH VINE: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are two people who never seem to tire of reminding us how warm and caring they are.

Nightclub owner Bob Dunn first met Barbara Windsor in 1979 at a hotel in Devon and their week-long fling led to Barbara making him her manager so he could accompany her in public without suspicion.

The ambitious new inoculation target will form a vital part of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's long-awaited roadmap towards easing lockdown restrictions.

The adventures of Kermit the Frog, Animal, pictured, Miss Piggy and friends now come with an alert about 'offensive content' and can only be seen on an adult account.

In 1981, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a report on a rare lung infection in five 'previously healthy young men in Los Angeles'.

Ministers are said to be discussing measures to restrict the importation of European mineral water and seed potatoes as the UK looks set to end a number of continuity arrangements.

Parents need to think ahead and make arrangements for what should happen to the property in their wills - and ideally let everyone know in advance - or risk a messy legal battle.

NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said the mass vaccination programme shows 'early signs' it is leading to a fall in Covid hospitalisations.

A former education adviser says teacher union bosses are bringing the profession into disrepute and damaging education by trying to 'bully' Government into a U-turn.

Dr Shaun Fitzgerald from Cambridge said: 'The biggest factor is the much lower level of concentration of virus particles you would be subjected to outdoors.'

The chat show host prepared for the interview at her home in Hawaii before flying into California, where she also owns a property a short drive from the couple, on her £50million private jet.

With tensions already strained, the revelation of the interview with Oprah Winfrey sent matters into free fall and was deemed to be the final straw.

Harry and Meghan were stripped of their royal patronages as Her Majesty suggested a 'life of public service' is not compatible with the couple's lucrative new career in America.

Mourners, including senior UK diplomats, were stunned to hear Taila-Jordan McKenzie claim that her mother had been shabbily treated by her employer and please to baroness Scotland were ignored.

UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak is planning to extend furlough until Autumn. He will deliver a second Budget on March 3 and is expected to announce new taxes.

Sales of Molecule 01, which costs £72 for a 100ml bottle, are soaring thanks to the backing of celebrities and influencers such as TV presenter Davina McCall.

Grant Shapps has shelved a European Court of Justice rule which would have required mobility scooters to be insured as part of a Brexit dividend.

IAN BIRRELL: The official data shows a fall of more than 150,000 people receiving state payments in China in the first quarter of last year.

HUGO VICKERS: Few could doubt the anger and frustration felt by the Duke of Sussex as he lost his Royal patronages this week.

Neil Woodford from Devon made his name by returning profits when others lost their shirts in the dotcom crash of 2000, repeating the trick in the 2008 financial crisis.

DOUGLAS MURRAY: For years, Remainers said that our stability depended on EU membership. Now the EU is fracturing faster than even the most extreme eurosceptic would have dared to predict.

Tiina Jauhiainen pleads with the Queen of England to use 'whatever influence' she has with her long-term horse-racing friend Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum.

Louis De Zoysa (pictured) allegedly shot Matt Ratana, 54, on September 25 last year while handcuffed in a cell at Croydon custody centre in South London.

PETER HITCHENS: My great sin was to suggest that the Britain of my youth had been much more free than it is now. Oh, yes, they sneered, free for people like you - white, heterosexual males.

TOM TUGENDHAT: How do you 'unfriend' a whole country? The giant Facebook conglomerate has found the answer.

NIGEL FARAGE: The world is being taken over by stealth by the Chinese Communist Party. Under a neo-colonial project, President Xi Jinping hopes to achieve global economic domination.

The average house in California's Silicone Valley costs £5 million and the 7,000 uber-wealthy residents include tech titans Eric Schmidt, former head of Google.

PROFESSOR ROBERT DINGWALL: The real Covid news gets better every day in the UK. Case numbers are falling. Hospital admissions are falling. Deaths are falling.

Shehroz Mukhtiar (pictured) is among those using dormant firms as a front under the Government's Bounce Back Loan Scheme. It is feared the fraud could cost UK taxpayers billions.

UK holiday giant Jet2 has cancelled all holidays until mid-April after the Government imposed tougher border restrictions and quarantine rules.

Fears that travelling abroad will be impossible this summer have sparked a scramble for holiday cottages and campsites, with popular British destinations already full for August.

More than one third of residents of Pakistani and Bangladeshi descent in Birmingham - those over 70 and the extremely vulnerable - have not yet had their first dose of the jab.

Ahead of the UK PM's speech setting out a roadmap, pub owners and chefs said they have spent months preparing to serve customers outdoors.

The UK Health Secretary is said to have 'stopped talking' to Mr Blair after two proposals 'mentioned in private conversations' later emerged as Mr Blair's ideas.

The 90-minute programme, which will air immediately after CBS's flagship 60 Minutes show on March 7, is the couple's chance 'to woo and win over Americans'.

As childhood best friends, Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson were the perfect choice to play sisters in the hit British comedy Birds Of A Feather, but a seemingly irreparable rift has developed.

Campaign group launched a High Court challenge against Office for National Statistics (ONS) for letting respondents to the Census choose the sex that appears on legal documents.

DAN HODGES: Tomorrow the Prime Minister will begin to unlock Britain. He will do so on the basis of a clear, evidence-based plan.

High standards of the UK's NHS care that help many of us live longer with diabetes and survive heart attacks has meant we may have been left more exposed to the virus (file).

Baroness Simone Finn was appointed as deputy chief of staff and Henry Newman was made a senior adviser of Downing Street.

Chloe Middleton, 21, became one of the UK's first and youngest victims of coronavirus when she passed away at Wexham Park Hospital last March.

VIVIENNE PARRY: When I was a presenter on the BBC's flagship science show, Tomorrow's World, in the 1990s, medical robots were a favourite story.

The top prize gives someone the chance to become wealthier than a rock legend, such as guitarist Eric Clapton, who is worth £175million.

AMANDA PLATELL: We not heard a word about Facebook's row with Australia from their Vice-President of Global Affairs and Communications former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg

The Duke of Sussex will be forbidden from wearing full military regalia after suffering the blow of losing his honorary appointments with the Armed Forces, it emerged tonight.

Carl Leedham, 58, was put into intensive care at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and told he was dying on Thursday, February 11.

South Wales is due to be worst-affected by the downpour, with up to 8in (20cm) of rain possible, though very mild temperatures are expected in areas of the South.

Princess Eugenie, 30, and her husband Jack Brooksbank have named their son August Philip Hawke Brooksbank, Buckingham Palace have confirmed.

Devon and Cornwall Police have today arrested a 50-year-old man after the body of Edward Hinds was found in the Drift Service Reservoir, Penzance.

The photograph of Mercury loading up his plate with his Queen bandmate, drummer Roger Taylor, has been shared for the British band's 50th anniversary among others in a private collection.

Parents Sue, 45, and Noel, 50, from Lancashire, who share 22 children with their youngest being born in April last year, said they can go through 24 toilet rolls a week.

Pubs are set to serve people outdoors from April, while two households of any size will be allowed to meet outside as the Prime Minister prepares his plan for exiting lockdown.

Tonight's episode of the Channel 5 show sees Sally Lindsay travel to Devon to stay with the Honourable Alexander Clifford, 33, at Ugbrooke House.

Senior meteorologist Marco Petagna said 127.6mm of rain fell at Llyn-y-Fan, Carmarthenshire, South Wales, between 6am on Friday and 8am on Saturday.

Yorkshire firm Avacta have developed a new super-fast lateral flow test which is understood to be in its last testing stage at the Government's top-secret Porton Down lab.

The couple will remain His and Her Royal Highness but will not be permitted to use them on a day-to-day basis as they are no longer working members of the royal family, Palace sources confirm.

For most of us, working from home during the pandemic is a daily grind. But imagine setting up office with a view of tropical plants and the ocean - Barbados, to be precise.

Dozens of charities including Alzheimer's Society, the Red Cross and Age UK have paid out for unconscious bias training, despite a Government report saying it does not work.

The BBC Radio 4 interview on February 4 saw Zara Mohammed, from Glasgow, questioned by host Emma Barnett about the number of female imams in Britain.

A 31-year-old HR manager from Gloucester is said to be 'very relieved' after she was freed to leave Dubai days before all arrivals from the UAE were forced to go into quarantine hotels.

The credits will be used on alternative modes of transport such as bicycles and electric scooters but will also work on congestion-easing forms like public transport, car clubs and taxis.

Jess Aldridge, 24, (middle) with her boyfriend, Ryan Shelton, 29, (right) and Jess's mother Georgina, 44, who Ryan has run off with just days after Jess gave birth to their son in Gloucestershire.

Mohamed Ahmed Ibriham swept Iris Jones, 81, from Somerset, off her feet when they met on Facebook last year and she soon flew to Egypt to be with him.

Although Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce a 'roadmap' out of lockdown which will see more social mixing allowed within weeks, hairdressers are set to lose out.

As the Treasury makes its final budget decisions, it should be buoyed by the fact that, for all the damage Covid has done to shops, education, hospitality and business, tax receipts are holding up.

BEL MOONEY: Why would a country wish to skew its mortality figures by, I believe, wrongly certifying deaths? What has been going on?

In a boost to Britain's lockdown-ending hopes, modelling by the SAGE subgroup SPI-M-O found daily deaths could drop to 200 by March 14 if the vaccine drive continues at its current speed.

The Duke of Cambridge quizzed some of the 5,000 Armed Service members employed in the vaccination programme in online Zoom calls earlier this week about how the roll-out was going.

Ministers will unveil guidance allowing indoor visits to Britain's care homes - but hugs and kisses will still be banned, while visitors will be required to have tested negative for Covid-19.

STACEY SOLOMON: What should I organise these bits into? My mind focuses only on the task in front of me, rather than anything else that might be whizzing around in my head.

Tory Lord Hayward is used to puzzled looks when people learn that he is founder and chairman of Kings Cross Steelers - a gay rugby team - who tell their story in a new film.

The Princess Royal has now emerged as the 'least controversial choice' for the role, which was previously held by her father, the Duke of Edinburgh.

The amount of alcohol in the Belgian lager - for which the slogan 'reassuringly expensive' ran in the UK from 1982 to 2007 - has been reduced from 4.8 per cent due to 'wellness trends'.

Deimantas Kubilius was fired following the incident two months into Britain's first national lockdown in 2020. He 'dug in his heels' when he refused requests to wear a mask in his cab under new Covid-19 rules.

The two statements issued by Buckingham Palace and Harry and Meghan three minutes apart laid bare the 'deep divisions' between the Sussexes and the rest of Royal Family, royal experts said today.

Oxford University is accused of double standards over its decision to accept funding from the Sheikh of Dubai who allegedly kept his own daughter captive.

The Prime Minister's pet had chewed on antique furniture and books at the country residence in Buckinghamshire, as well as making a mess on the floor.

Members of the committee carrying out the probe were yesterday told the former First Minister Alex Salmond (pictured) is attending the Holyrood inquiry on Wednesday.

Ex-Cambridge rower Diana Thomas spent six decades as a man but claims trans militants are only stoking intolerance.

The report claims that the footballer's friends fear he will ruin his career if he doesn't get help with the star getting around Premier League drug tests by taking the Class C controlled pills.

PC Jonathan Wain, 49, was described as a 'true gentleman' and 'irreplaceable' by colleagues who worked with him in Bury.

RICHARD EDEN: Harry is not the only Royal Family member who's losing titles. I hear Earl of Strathmore is to be stripped of his role as honorary chieftain of the Strathmore Highland games

Anne Sacoolas who fled to America after a fatal crash which killed Harry Dunn offered only to pay expenses for the funeral after his family lodged a claim for damages.

Uber UK - which may have to pay millions in backdated compensation - had argued they are independent contractors and not entitled to benefits.

Taken almost 32 years ago, the snapshots from the hour-long photoshoot, held at a studio in Holborn, were never destined for public viewing and, until today, have never been made public.

JOHN HUMPHRYS: The Battle of the Astroturf will not claim a prominent place in the history books. Unlike Hastings or Trafalgar, the fate of our nation did not hang in the balance.

PAUL THOMAS on... Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

It comes amid fears the vaccine roll out has become a postcode lottery. Several areas in England - including in London - have reportedly started offering jabs to people in their fifties.

Office for National Statistics data released this morning showed that some £316.4billion has been added to the UK's debt mountain since the onset of the pandemic.

Millionaire nightclub boss Jeremy Gordeno has been handed a suspended prison sentence for not paying money owed to his ex wife. Gordeno, appeared at Reading County Court earlier today.

This week Bel advises a reader who is feuding with his brother after falling out with his sister-in-law at their wedding.

The Queen's extraordinary statement about the departure of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle brings to an end a week of turmoil for the monarchy.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have confirmed to The Queen that they will not be returning as working members of the Royal Family, Buckingham Palace said today.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have told the Queen they will not be returning to frontline duties following their year outside the Firm.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have parted ways with several sporting bodies after telling the Queen they will not return to frontline duties following their year outside the Firm.

The survey, conducted by the Office of National Statistics, will allow people over 16 to specify their gender identity. The move has been welcomed by the LGBTQ+ community as 'a historic moment'.

WARNING: SPOILERS The drama, which is based on the best-selling book by English author Sarah Pinborough, has left many viewers baffled by its kinky sex scenes and huge twist at the end.

It's A Sin writer Russell T Davies said famous gay actors 'don't exist to lead blockbusters' and straight actors must 'step aside' to help them get more opportunities.

Lisa Ford suffered multiple fractures, including a smashed pelvis and internal injuries, when her horse fell backwards onto her while she was riding on the Badminton Estate in September 2018.

The protesters, who have been underground for more than three weeks, are trying to stop HS2's plans to replace the green space outside Euston station in central London with a temporary taxi rank.

Transgender beautician Paris Bregazzi, 33, who once shoved a police officer onto Tube tracks has been jailed for nine months for barging two women and slapping another on her head.

The three letters that are coming up for sale form part of a collection of letters Diana wrote to another close confidant, Roger Bramble, the former Lord High Sheriff of Westminster.

NASA's Perseverance is 'alive on Mars'.' The rover has landed on the Red Planet following a 239 million-mile journey through space and will spend two years searching for signs of life.

London-based finance expert Martin Lewis shared his 'rule of thumb' on what percentage of your salary to put away on last night's episode of ITV's The Martin Lewis Money Show Live.

The newlywed couple had been on their honeymoon at the Grand Josun Jeju Hotel, in Jeju, South Korea, when they discovered the mirrored windows inside the hotel's sauna were see-through.

Prisoners at a jail in Asunción, Paraguay, led an uprising Tuesday that left six inmates dead, including three who were decapitated.

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Brittany Higgins last week came forward with the allegation she was sexually assaulted by a male colleague inside Defence Minister Linda Reynolds' office in 2019.

The Health Secretary said it was 'right to be cautious' ahead of Boris Johnson's big reveal of his roadmap out of restrictions tomorrow.

Two boys, 15, are in police custody suspected of stealing a car and kidnap as the owner's sons, aged two and four, were inside. West Midlands Police caught them 15 minutes after the alarm was raised.

Schools are to be handed hundreds of millions in 'catch-up' funding to draft in private tutors and pay teachers to extend their working day in order to make up some of the lost classroom hours.

The Prime Minister wants to reopen all classrooms on March 8 and is expected to announce the proposal when he reveals his roadmap out of lockdown tomorrow.

Singer Gordi took to Rod Laver Arena at Melbourne Park before the blockbuster clash between Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev to perform the national anthem.

The terrifying moment an elderly, injured woman narrowly escaped being dragged to the bottom of the Hawkesbury River by her car has been caught on camera.

Figures from the Stats-19 accident database, which were collected by the Department for Transport, showed there were 14 deaths on smart motorways in 2019 and 11 in 2018.

Leon Cullen, 33, appeared at Liverpool Magistrates Court yesterday charged with offences including conspiracies to supply firearms, ammunition and class A drugs after being extradited from the UAE.

They took aim at Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden after he suggested fashionistas use their 'star power' to get Brussels to back down on rules stifling trade since January.

Officers went to a Canberra neighbourhood about 9am on Saturday after reports of a disturbance, where they found a man's body, two injured men and an injured woman.

Sports equipment company Head uploaded a photo of Djokovic accompanied by the message: 'Congratulations Novak... record-breaking 9 time Australian Open champion'.

Ciara Nolan and Jean-Francois Bonnet found eight-year-old golden retriever Neesha near a summit in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland, on February 6.

Crisis management firm Brunswick looks to have made an immediate change to Eton's controversial headmaster's image as Simon Henderson wore a tie and changed his bookshelf.

In a move which could increase availability of donor organs for children, doctors from the Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambs, have used a machine to keep a heart beating prior to surgery.

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has banned the Health Department from advertising on Facebook after the social media giant blocked coronavirus updates.

Prince William is said to be the current favourite to take over the patronage having previously worked alongside the league's current chairman. It comes after Harry was stripped of his honorary roles.

Agent Ralph Carr said his client loves the capital of New South Wales and that he has a lot of history with the city.

A decade-long study from Kentucky University found those who scored highly for sexual satisfaction were less likely to develop mild cognitive impairment.

The incident happened on a suburban street in Maddington, in Perth's southeast, at about 10.30am on Saturday.

Senator Ted Cruz has staged a photo op that shows him handing out water to people affected by Texas' storms. Cruz posted the pictures to his Twitter account late on Saturday night.

Britain could be set to host the entire Euro 2020 tournament as government ministers draw up plans for fans to return to stadiums, it emerged last night.

A United Airlines flight has made an emergency landing after suffering major damage to one of its engines and dropping huge pieces of debris over a neighborhood in Broomfield, Colorado.

Gary Gates, a GOP state lawmaker who represents Texas House District 28 in suburban Houston, flew on his private jet to Orlando after power was cut to his home in Fort Bend County on Wednesday.

Bad weather across the country has delayed shipments of the vaccine. New York City is now down to fewer than 1,000 vaccine doses. Problems came after shipping hubs came to halt.

Queenslander Casey O'Neill defeated American Shana Dobson in the UFC Vegas 19 match-up in impressive style - and all while on debut.

Residents in Sydney's Jannali who were told their houses will be bulldozed to make way for a car park say they're not going anywhere and that NSW Transport 'has messed with the wrong block'.

SNL mocked Senator Ted Cruz for jetting off to Cancun while Texas was in grip of a humanitarian crisis and also sent up Governor Andrew Cuomo for his role in New York's nursing home scandal.

President Biden declared Texas to be a major disaster freeing up federal funding to individuals for temporary housing. At least 70 people died across the nation with 30 deaths in Texas alone.

The China-built Maxus Life Home V90 Villa Edition costs $413,000. The RV expands both upwards and outwards with slide-out walls and a powered pop-top extension that created a sunroom on the 2nd floor

Investigators hope to determine if Alex Jones, left, and Roger Stone, right, could face criminal charges for influencing those we breached the Capitol on January 6.

Real House Wives of Sydney star Krissy Marsh was targeted by hackers while putting down a property settlement for a $10 million beachfront home in Noosa, Queensland, in August.

Boris Johnson's dog Dilyn has become the unwitting victim of a bitter feud between the allies of Dominic Cummings and the UK Prime Minister's girlfriend Carrie Symonds.

Photographs of the delighted Princess, husband Jack Brooksbank and their new baby, who weighed 8 lb 1oz when he was born at Portland Hospital, were shared.

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, 52, right, called alleged bias on the site 'disheartening.' His own Wikipedia page documents a history of criticism against the site.

Video showed Patrick Mateo, 47, shoving Leelee Chin-Yeung, 52, to the ground outside of New Flushing Bakery in Flushing at around 1.50pm Tuesday following a verbal spat.

The New York congresswoman flew out to Houston on Friday but did not receive a universal welcome, as critics took to social media to tell her, 'Stay out of Texas'.

Dan Witts, 43, and his family were sound asleep at their Huon Valley home, in southern Tasmania, on February 7 and found the stricken creature when he went to investigate.

The 48-year-old, dressed casually in blue jeans, white long-sleeved shirt, black vest and espadrilles was seen leaving George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston at around 6pm after the trip.

Cops in Louisiana after investigating a shooting with 'multiple deaths' in Louisiana. The shooting occurred on the 6900 block of Airline Drive in Metairie.

Kaylee McKeown revealed her biggest motivation to win Olympic gold in July is her father Sholto, who lost his battle with brain cancer in August at the age of 53.