Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said the brutal infighting and an 'obsession' with breaking up the union was 'distracting' from the response to the pandemic.

EXCLUSIVE: NHS England statistics show that 95.9 per cent of all over-70s in England have had their first dose of the jab, with 15 areas of the country vaccinating more than half of all residents.

Prince Philip, 99, was said to have been 'comfortable' and 'responding to treatment' at the hospital in London in the last update issued by Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.

The Duke of Sussex, 36, shared his feelings on the Netflix show - which has come under fire over its unflattering portrayal of the royals, including Prince Charles - on The Late Late Show with James Corden.

The Duke of Sussex, 36, appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden last night, with the pair calling the Duchess over FaceTime to discuss buying the Fresh Prince of Bel Air mansion in LA.

Prince Harry revealed in a segment for James Corden's The Late Late Show that Archie has the 'most amazing personality' and is already putting four words together and singing songs.

Just 3,374 foreign criminals were booted out - a third fewer than 2019 and the lowest figure for a decade. The Home Office struggled amid Covid-related travel restrictions.

In a video call with NHS officials in charge of the rollout across the UK, the monarch encouraged those with doubts to 'think about other people rather than themselves'.

The alleged victims, who are all female and include three Olympians, are suing for 'negligence and breach of duty' on the grounds that they were subjected to 'persistent abuse' by coaches.

The MPs argue that the gender inclusive nouns make learning proper French more difficult and could even endanger the entire language.

The 65-year-old, who is now a patron of charity Kidscape, said he looks back on his school days with 'regret' after joining in with the 'pack mentality' at Orley Farm School in Harrow.

JANET STREET-PORTER: Thank goodness I no longer work as a BBC executive. As a heterosexual female with a decent home I'm exactly the kind of person the woke police don't want.

Gone Girl actress Rosamund Pike, 42, warned that 'body-tuning' in photographs is causing people to lose their 'grip' on what their bodies really look like.

Stephen Fry, 63, has said he believes director Ryan Murphy should have told Corden to 'dial it down' in his portrayal of a 'camp, podgy 1970s figure' in Netflix's latest musical The Prom.

Astonishing footage shows two Great Orme goats on the sloped roof of a terraced property near the tram station in the seaside town of Llandudno, North Wales.

Scammers pretending to be from HMRC have run riot in recent months, with reports of bogus calls tripling from December to January - even targeting the country's chief tax man Jim Harra.

EU leaders agreed to introduce vaccine passports by the summer in a virtual meeting last night, but work on a scheme by the EU Commission would take three months to complete.

Consumer group Which? has demanded the Government make good on promises to secure access to cash as thousands of free-to-use ATMs have vanished over recent years.

Wireless and Latitude festivals are also expected to go ahead this summer as long as the Government lifts coronavirus rules as planned on June 21, organisers have said.

Shops, pubs, schools and places of worship will have to draw up counter-terrorism plans under proposals set out by Home Secretary Priti Patel today.

All four conditions are largely preventable through diet and exercise - meaning two thirds of 906,000 hospitalizations likely would have been too, the Tufts University researchers write.

The 72-year-old film star broke his silence on Thursday after Paris prosecutors confirmed he faced trial and prison for the attacks allegedly carried out in 2018.

Experts predict that the California homegrown variant, known as B.1.427/B.1.429, spreads as easily as those from the UK and South Africa, and will make up 90% of state cases by March.

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Bridgerton star Ruby Barker would one day love to write to the parents, who put her up for adoption as a baby, to let them know she 'turned out alright'.

EXCLUSIVE: Around 1,200 people are currently in the quarantine hotels, a regime cooked up to suppress mutant variants from high-risk countries including Portugal.

A freeze would push thousands above the tax-free cusp and slap future payments with a 25 per cent levy, or as much as 55 per cent if paid as a lump sum.

A Government source added that the Prime Minister's emphasis on the need to rebuild after the pandemic meant he would not countenance a referendum for many years.

Teaching unions back the move but parents and charities insist they damage learning, while the government says only secondary school children will be expected to have face coverings.

A billionaire diamond tycoon can be extradited from Britain to India to face trial over an alleged £1.3billion fraud, a judge ruled yesterday.

Thousands of people with learning disabilities will be given free tablet computers to help them overcome their loneliness during the pandemic.

It was believed that local NHS health teams would be given the flexibility to go into jails and vaccinate inmates and staff - regardless of age.

The NHS is already short of 115,000 employees. That figure is expected to double over the next five years and exceed 475,000 by 2033, analysis by the Health Foundation suggests.

The Government is considering introducing collections for electronic waste across the country. A consultation will be carried out later this year.

Number 10's Race Disparity Unit reviewed the findings of major UK studies probing the link between ethnicity and Covid-19, finding higher deaths may have been a result of infection risk.

Organisers are scrambling to reschedule the Paris fixture, but they were faced with difficulties over players being released from their clubs.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is facing a mounting backlash over reported plans to increase both corporation tax and potentially capital gains tax (CGT).

ROBERT HARDMAN: With the wisdom of one who has endured more crises than most, she had not spoken for the sake of speaking. She had waited for the right moment.

SARAH VINE: Last month, it was announced that GCSEs and A-levels were being cancelled, with no details as to what would be replacing them. Yesterday, finally, a puff of white smoke.

HMP The Verne, on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, has recorded more than 120 coronavirus cases in a recent outbreak among a maximum capacity of 580 prisoners - Glitter was vaccinated this month.

Nicola Sturgeon has taken a swipe at Boris Johnson over his response to the coronavirus crisis as she appeared to back claims that Scotland had done better than England.

The boss of US bank Goldman Sachs, David Solomon, 59, insisted the firm would be looking to 'correct' the remote working situation 'as soon as possible'.

A judge at Southwark Crown Court said he was 'deeply concerned' to learn that Yi Liu (pictured) had still been able to teach despite pleading guilty to groping four young students.

Department of Health bosses today recorded 9,985 cases - down 17 per cent on last Thursday. Another 323 victims were also added to the official fatality toll, dropping by almost 30 per cent.

Dr Kit Yates, co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath, shared his daughter's maths question to Twitter in a bid to find out the correct answer.

In a new book Sylvie Bermann said Mr Johnson is a man who uses 'lies to embellish reality, as a game and as instrument of power. The ends justify the means. He has no rules.'

Office for National Statistics data showed only 36 out of 7,209 districts - or 0.5 per cent - had not recorded a single Covid-linked fatality. They were mostly scattered across the South West.

An official survey of businesses found a fifth of the workforce were on leave early this month - equivalent to around 6.5million people and up from 18 per cent a fortnight earlier.

Pfizer Inc has announced it has begun studying a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, part of a strategy to guard against mutated versions of the coronavirus.

British Gas owner Centrica has reported a 31 per cent fall in underlying earnings to £447million for 2020 as results came under pressure from the pandemic and warmer weather.

Gavin Williamson confirmed teachers will have control over the marks their pupils get, but insisted there will be 'meaningful checks' and 'quality assurance'.

The British Prime Minister's spokesman said: 'Outdoor hospitality is permitted so I believe it would be the case that takeaway alcohol will be permitted.'

NHS Health Education England tweeted a message to mark LGBT month, telling followers it would be 'we're focusing on misgendering' and encouraging people to do the same.

EXCLUSIVE: Data released by NHS England today shows the number of beds occupied fell around seven per cent last week, as Covid cases and death figures across the UK continue to fall.

ANDREW NEIL These are dark, even dangerous days in Scotland.

On average 12 migrants from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have died each week since December 2010 when Qatar was awarded the 22nd FIFA tournament.

Public Health England had sequenced more than 20,000 random test samples for flu by February 14 but hasn't yet detected a case of the virus in 2021.

TikTok user Kaansanity, 21, from the US,  often shares tech tips online to his 4.5million followers - but many have said his latest hack will encourage people to cheat by disguising dating apps.

The three-bedroom property in the former mining town of Aberdare, South Wales, is just a short drive away from Cardiff where similar terraced houses go for more than £400,000.

The London-born presenter, 49, smashed her children's iPads in 2018. Speaking to Prima magazine, Kirstie said her boys 'want to be online' while they're stuck at home.

The former Tory leader likened the jab to childhood vaccinations for disease like tuberculosis that are 'almost compulsory' in an interview with US network CNN.

Further inflaming tensions with the Kremlin, prosecutors said the suspect, named only as Jens F., had been passing intelligence on the parliament building to the Russians for three years.

Daniel Price is bringing a sexual discrimination claim against PiQ Laboratories in South Wales as he claims he was frozen out of conversations by lab manager Ashleigh Knowles.

Lord Rothermere spoke out after Australian ministers agreed to water down laws designed to make tech giants pay for news, after Facebook banned its users from accessing news.

The experiment took place between December 20 and February 1 - a period when the British mutant strain was rampant in Israel, making the vaccine's performance all the more impressive.

England and Wales are enjoying temperatures on a par with Malaga and Barcelona this week with Suffolk recording 65.1F (18.4C) which was even above the average maximum for May.

Perry Marshall met his married victim at the Nag's Head in Urmston last June. They had sex, but following a 'perceived rejection,' Marshall, from Salford, began to threaten the man and his husband.

People from around the world have taken to anonymous sharing app Whisper to share the brutal reasons they cheated on their partner, including those who simply looked for attention elsewhere.

STEPHEN GLOVER: Are vaccine passports imperative if this country is ever going to return to normality? Or do they represent another unacceptable infringement of our liberty.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to shelve plans for tax rises, including a 5p increase in fuel duty and changes to stamp duty in what is being billed as a giveaway budget next week.

The B.1.526 variant first appeared in samples collected in New York City in November and has two versions, which contain the E484K and S477N mutations.

Tory backbenchers said families would not forgive the Government after it struck down attempts to guarantee flat owners would not have to pay for safety repairs.

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An explosive historical rape allegation has been made against a cabinet minister in the Morrison government. The Prime Minister received a letter alleging the senior minister anally raped a 16 year old.

Caddick vanished a day after ASIC confronted her during a raid at her luxury Dover Heights home in Sydney's eastern suburbs on November 11.

The singer and actress Lady Gaga is said to be 'devastated' after hearing that two of her dogs were stolen and her friend and dog walker was shot in a brutal attack on Wednesday.

Macron, 43, said that 'in view of the latest scientific studies, the efficacy of the AstraZeneca vaccine has been proven', having caused uproar last month by disparaging the UK-designed jab.

Australia's supermarket giants have recalled a popular chocolate chip biscuit product amid fears it could cause a serious allergic reaction over an undeclared milk allergen.

Patricia Hidalgo, director of children's and education at the BBC, is leading the drive for more British cartoons and says it would be 'amazing' if the UK 'could produce Britain's answer to The Simpsons'.

The Duke of Edinburgh today began his 11th day in hospital in London where he is being treated for an infection ahead of the start of the weekend.

Biographer Angela Levin gave documentary-makers 100 hours of unheard interviews with Clifford, which she taped in 2004 before he was arrested and later jailed for sexual abuse.

Like Oprah, Corden was a guest at the Sussexes wedding in 2018 and even compered at the reception, but with his latest interview he's stolen the thunder of the biggest name in the business.

President Joe Biden raised human rights issues when he spoke to Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz but the White House didn't say if the two men discussed murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The British Hen Welfare Trust (BHWT), based in Devon, is appealing to consumers to switch their 'big is best' shopping habit to small, medium or mixed weight eggs to help the birds.

Over the past decade, many people have detected a pattern of minor changes in our culture - at odds with our hard-won rights to personal autonomy.

Lisa Khoury, from Mount Belvieu, Texas, claimed that her electricity bill soared from around $200 a month to $9,340 during the storm, according to the class-action lawsuit.

Scientific trials will be held at packed venues including football stadiums, nightclubs and conference centres to work out what testing regimes and safety measures are needed.

Amnesty International spoke to survivors of the atrocities and used satellite images to piece together the bloody events of last November in the ancient town of Axum, Ethiopia.

The 45-year-old golfer was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles on Thursday, two days after being operated on at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance.

The new offence should cover so-called downblousing as well as upskirting, the Law Commission said.

Guilherme Alves was apprehended in Brazil on Monday after he confessed to killing fellow online gamer Ingrid Oliveira at his home after inviting her over to play Call of Duty.

A woman left with life-long injuries after being doused in petrol and set alight by her ex-boyfriend in her Queensland home in 2017 wants him released from jail.

The former first son was speaking on Fox News' Hannity when he accused his own party of not having the fortitude to come out as the victor in their elections.

Ms Caddick's decomposed foot was discovered on Bournda Beach, six hours south of Sydney, on February 21 and police on Friday confirmed DNA testing proved the remains belonged to her.

John Boehner, who apparently has a pension for red wine, has been making the asides toward Ted Cruz while working on his book 'On The House: A Washington Memoir'

More than 120 doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine have been thrown out following a storage bungle at a nursing home in Melbourne.

Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, said on Thursday that 'common sense' showed that two fully-vaccinated people meeting up was an 'extremely low risk' activity.

Blake Davis, 31, was found guilty of manslaughter of Jett McKee after striking him with a sword after feeling his Forest Lodge unit in Sydney's inner west, on August 10, 2018.

Lagaria Slaughter supplied a fatal dose of the party drug Molly, to 20-year-old Katherine Schlegel at the Electric Zoo music festival in 2018 in New York City.

The handwritten letter said they could hear the man and his partner while they were sharing an intimate moment.

Chiara Passari accused the Australian tennis bad boy of clubbing until 6am in an Instagram Story video posted to her followers before quickly deleting the bombshell claims.

Purim celebrates the foiling of a plot to massacre the Jewish people around 2,500 years ago. Children in Brooklyn dressed up before heading out onto the streets of Williamsburg on Thursday.

The incredible moment a truck driver stops oncoming traffic on a busy Queensland road to let a gigantic carpet python cross to the other side has touched the hearts of Australians.

A number of dog lovers in suburban Cairns were on edge recently following the emergence of a confronting sign at a popular and highly utilised off-leash park.

'Thought I'd pop round and see if you knew when you'd be estimating Tom's GCSE grades, Mr Billings?

An American man was recently lost for words after spotting a very angry handwritten note left on a parked car in Brisbane in disabled spot.

State-owned operators Sunwater and Seqwater faced a class action lawsuit following the floods in southeast Queensland in 2011.

Bobby Stone (inset), a Miami Uber driver, has been charged with being an accessory to a crime after Sharon Martinez-Lazaro, 27, crashed her car in Miami on Tuesday night and got into his car.

The former president was spotted at his West Palm Beach course on Thursday - the day that Cyrus Vance Jr's team began combing through his tax returns. Trump will address CPAC on Sunday.

Liberal MP Katie Allen fought back tears as she described the toll dementia had taken on her father Bill Stephens, who was a doctor. The Melbourne backbencher explained her support for euthanasia.

The FBI is reportedly investigating whether the dognapping of Lady Gaga's bulldogs was politically motivated because she sang at President Joe Biden's inauguration last month.

While regional areas proved popular last year, Metropole Property Strategists said houses in inner and middle-distance areas of Australia's big cities were likely to see price surges this year.

Dr Hans Kluge told a press conference the condition is 'real and significant' and can lead to sufferers losing their jobs and being so tired they are unable to meet family and friends.

Both Meghan McCain and Re. Nicole Malliotakis had harsh words fro Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but they were joined by MeToo CEO Tina Tchen in calls for an investigation into his sexual assault allegations.

A sleezy Uber driver who raped a tipsy teenager after a night out with friends cruelly claimed she had been a willing participant. 

Buddy was last seen in Tocumwal, on the New South Wales/Victoria border at about 6pm on Thursday.

Zo Denham, 34, and his wife Whitney, 33, sold 161.23g of cocaine, worth about $58,500 in south-west Sydney - including multiple sales to an undercover cop.

The axed host of The Chase broke his silence to Daily Mail Australia on Friday as he seeks to have charges he assaulted his doctor girlfriend Orly Lavee dismissed on mental health grounds.

Workers on a Model 3 sedan production line in Fremont were told their line would be down from February 22 until March 7, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News.

The bloodied body of Robyn Beever, 82, was found in her home in Varsity Lakes in the Gold Coast on Thursday afternoon.

Lara Prychodko, 48, was discovered dead on July 10, 2018, by a maintenance worker after plummeting from the 27th floor of the Zeckendorf Towers in Union Square.

Texas recorded 7,640 new infections Wednesday, marking a 320 percent surge from 2,387 cases just one week earlier on February 18.

The details are included in 'Grace & Steel: Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the Women of the Bush Dynasty' by J. Randy Taraborrelli, our Tuesday, March 2.

The White House on Thursday said it would keep working with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as he faces allegations he sexually harassed a former aide.

It's the second time in less than two weeks Anna Sorokin has visited a New York salon to have her locks tended. She has been staying in a Manhattan hotel since her early release from prison.

Monique Munoz died in the two vehicle crash last Wednesday in Los Angeles. The / was trapped in the wreckage and died at the scene, LAFD said

Trump is prepared to push claims he won the 2020 election during his CPAC speech on Sunday as he plans to use his first public appearance since leaving office to springboard next phase of political career.

Enrique Tarrio refused to walk back a post he made moments after the Capitol riot that showed politicians hunched over as he condemned the members of the Proud Boys who stormed the Capitol.

Chris Billings, 33, was on Thursday found guilty of assaulting his estranged partner Alana at their Osborne Park home in April 2016 and was hit with a $4,500 fine.

Crossbench MP Rebekha Sharkie opposes the ban on Australians travelling overseas for a holiday. She may soon have more power with the government now clinging on with a bare majority.

The decomposed foot was discovered by campers on the NSW South Coast on Sunday February 21 and police on Friday confirmed DNA testing proved the remains belonged to the alleged conwoman.

Sylvia Quayle, 34, from Cherry Hills near Denver was murdered in August 1981. A DNA match was finally found in May 2020 with David Anderson, 62, of Nebraska. He was arrested February 10.

Ross River virus cases in Victoria are already more than double the average, prompting another warning from health authorities.

The heart-wrenching interview was conducted by Perino, 48, during Thursday's edition of America's Newsroom.

Pro-Kremlin jokers Vovan and Lexus pretended to be Alexei Navalny's campaigns chief Leonid Volkov while remonstrating with Amnesty's Acting Secretary General of Julie Verhaar.

More than 2,000 young women have shared harrowing stories of sexual abuse at the hands of first boyfriends, male friends or older schoolboys in a viral petition demanding better sex education in schools.

Victoria has recorded two new locally acquired cases of Covid-19 just hours before a string of restrictions were set to be relaxed.

The video showed the Trinity College students, in north Adelaide, laughing during the sickening act last week.

Sydney based footy star Latrell Mitchell is a fan of a controversial 'eshay' who has developed a cult following on social media thanks to his lack of respect for police and authority.

Australian cricket captain Aaron Finch's wife Amy has called out vile threats of violence and sexual assault aimed at the pair.

Australia has been accused of being a part of 'US-centered, racist, and mafia-styled community' due to its intelligence ties with the likes of Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The 2021 Australian Open winner shared a tweet of the ballgirl kneeling behind and smiling up at her following the incredible win against Jennifer Brady of the US.

About 10 Year 8 students were seen running wild at the SMYL community college in Rockingham, south-west Perth , on Tuesday after the workers arrived to fix a burst fire hydrant.

Asher Learmonth delivered a speech to Cranbrook School after the eastern suburbs institution featured 'too heavily' in a petition on social media, which included claims of sexual assault.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday night he would 'absolutely' back former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race if he was the nominee of the Republican Party.

Gates, the world's third richest man after Musk and Jeff Bezos, took a shot at the Tesla CEO after the electric vehicle maker announced taking a $1.5 billion stake in Bitcoin.

The ASICS shoe was found with missing businesswoman Melissa Caddick's foot inside by campers at Bournda Beach, on the New South Wales south coast, on Sunday.

It has been announced McDonald's restaurants will participate in the Dine & Discover program, with eligible NSW residents able to spend their two $25 vouchers at the fast food chain.

A foot inside a shoe was found on a beach on the NSW south coast on Sunday, February 21, before DNA testing confirmed it belonged to the alleged conwoman.

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said travel would resume to 22 of the 25 destinations, including Los Angeles, London, Singapore and Johannesburg.

A seemingly innocent photo of a patch of green grass is going viral after a snake catcher pointed out that there is a serpent hiding in plain sight on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.