Some 26.2million Britons have now received their first dose - or half the country's adult population of 52million. 528,260 first doses were administered on Thursday, and 132,016 second doses.

The Met Office said tomorrow and Sunday would be 'very different' to last weekend, with high pressure nearby meaning most of the country will have a drier but cloudy couple of days.

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen issued the warning this week amid the shambolic distribution of jabs on the continent.

Police are keen to track down the organiser of the party at Bolehills, near Crookes in Sheffield, so they can be slapped with a £10,000 fine.

A committee of MSPs said the First Minister's 'inaccurate' evidence to them amounted to a 'potential breach of the ministerial code', which is generally considered a resignation offence.

Giving evidence to the official inquiry into how he secured the historic interview, the BBC's religious affairs editor has denied inventing preposterous lies about the royals.

When pictures of Shamima Begum emerged this week, they were bound to cause consternation. Many would struggle to recognise the 21-year-old with her dyed hair and casual clothes.

The Duke of Sussex left his wife Meghan and son Archie at their £10million LA mansion and hit the road on an expensive electric bike followed by a security team in a car.

Tory chiefs are being quizzed by election watchdogs over a secret £60,000 payment that was paid by the Conservative Party for the makeover of Boris Johnson's flat last summer.

President Joe Biden took a tumble up the steps of Air Force One on Friday shortly before taking off for Atlanta to meet Asian community leaders in the wake of Tuesday's shooting.

ALISON BOSHOFF: It seems the split between Hollywood stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has entered a bitter 'endgame' phase.

The Prime Minister, 56, gave a triumphant thumbs up after having his inoculation at St Thomas' in central London - the same hospital he was admitted to when struck down with Covid last year.

EXCLUSIVE: The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) is looking at 'centralising' the process for managing constituency bases.

The social tools, all owned by Facebook, were down for about one hour on Friday, starting at around 5.30pm. Facebook said the outage was caused by a 'technical issue'.

Trains heading west to Brittany and south to Lyon were fully booked on Friday with platforms packed at the Gare Montparnasse as 12million people in the Paris region brace for new rules.

The Queen's official birthday parade Trooping the Colour has been cancelled in London this year - but could still take place at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace revealed today.

Travel corridors were introduced on July 4 last year and allowed people coming to England from nations which ministers deemed safe to enter untested and avoid quarantine.

Rickie Newell, who filmed the incident said the footage was shot on the M6 southbound between Junctions 11 and 10 outside Wolverhampton.

The Queen, who is patron of the Royal Voluntary Service, held a video call from Windsor with the Duchess of Cornwall, the organisation's president, at Clarence House, and RVS volunteers.

Hammersmith and Fulham Council has drawn up the 'radical plans' to make the bridge operational after almost two years out of action.

EXCLUSIVE: Statistics from the MHRA vaccines regulator show that the UK started off using Pfizer for over three quarters of new patients but this is reducing as demand for second doses grows.

France today resumed its use of AstraZeneca jabs after regulators ruled they are safe, but restricted their use to over-55s - a U-turn on their previous position that only under-65s should get them.

Hussain Ahmed Chaudhry (pictured), 18, was killed outside his home in Leyton, London, on Wednesday night in an altercation that saw his mother and brother's hands slashed.

Vivian Meneses Figueiredo said she was appalled at the sight of officers arresting women at a candlelit vigil in memory of marketing executive Sarah Everard in Clapham, South London.

The expensive parking bay in Hyde Park Gardens, London is within walking distance of Hyde Park, Oxford Street and the West End.

The National Police Aviation Service (NPAS) decided to replace helicopters with four Vulcanair P68 aircraft costing £2.5million each.

Lesbian parents Lucy, 21 and Leanne, 22, say their eight-week-old baby named Hope is 'lucky to be alive' after a rock was thrown through a window in their home in Padiham, Lancs.

EXCLUSIVE: NHS England figures show 79 per cent of over-55s in the country had at least one dose of the vaccine by March 14, but London is significantly lagging behind in uptake.

The MV Gainsborough Trader took part in Operation Dynamo, ferrying troops from the beaches of Dunkirk under heavy fire in May 1940.

The Lords EU committee is expected to highlight the delays in the bloc ratifying the trade agreement struck by Boris Johnson in a report next week.

The former prime minister allegedly intervened on behalf of Greensill Capital, a company he became an adviser of back in 2018.

The drawing has appeared on Reading Bridge, which crosses the River Thames between Reading and Caversham.

The State Emergency Service at 11pm told those on low-lying properties in Kempsey, north of Port Macquarie on the mid-north coast, to 'evacuate the high danger area' by midnight.

Office for National Statistics data showed the UK's mortality rate was 6.7 per cent above average up to the week ending June 26. It was followed by Spain (5.9 per cent) and Belgium (3.5 per cent).

Major General Nick Welch is on trial at Bulford Military Court accused of one charge of falsely claiming £48,000 to pay for his children's boarding schools.

Internal documents from oil and gas companies as far back as the 1960s linked their industry to air pollution and warned of the health dangers, before the firms publicly downplayed the risks.

Matthew Webb, 38, was fined £400 for fly-tipping by Dartford Borough Council after dropping off a bag of unwanted clothes next to a charity donation bin. CCTV showed him leaving bag.

Bosses at British Airways said home-working was one of the 'very few positive aspects' of the pandemic, and it is looking at options for its Waterside complex, which currently houses 2,000 employees.

A survey conducted by Savanta ComRes suggests Mr Johnson and Sir Keir are heading in different directions in terms of how they are seen by voters.

Simon Edwards made the incredible discovery about his relationship with Sheridan (pictured with Mike Tyson) after tracking down extended family in Galway, Ireland.

Soldier Mitchell Matthews, 24, hanged himself after being told to 'man up' when requesting time off to look after his daughter, four, during lockdown, Wiltshire and Swindon coroner's court told.

Germans are facing the prospect of going back into lockdown in the coming weeks as Covid cases rise 'exponentially' without enough vaccine available to stop them, Health Minister Jens Spahn said.

'Beloved' nurse and mother of three Bethany Clark, 33, was found dead by her husband as their children slept, following a 'fun night' with her family, an inquest heard. She drank alone later on.

Good Morning Britain's rating war continued yesterday as it recorded 840,000 viewers, having lost almost 40 per cent of its audience on Wednesday since Piers Morgan walked out.

The increase in commuting to work and the sharp drop in working from home coincides with schools re-opening in England on March 8.

Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden today waded into confusion around Britain's vaccine supply shortage, saying India was not 'withholding vaccines' and that the Serum Institute had 'some supply issues'.

Analysis of the virus' spread and its 'molecular clock' revealed the virus was most likely already well-established in Wuhan in December.

The married police constable was jailed for 10-and-a-half years in September last year after being convicted of causing the death of Claire Parry in a pub car park in West Parley, Dorset, in May.

EXCLUSIVE: St John Ambulance volunteers claim vaccinator roles across Yorkshire are largely being filled by registered GPs and nurses.

Corporal Dean Corbett, 32, of Urmston, Greater Manchester, had been best friends with Fusilier Rigby, 25, who was killed in 2013 and struggled with mental health issues due to his PTSD.

The SAGE adviser said the troubling strain was accounting for five to 10 per cent of cases in Europe. It is feared the variant is able to dodge vaccine-induced immunity.

A pensioner was given a police warning after she had a socially distanced cup of tea with her neighbours in their communal garden.

Nordic countries dominated the the 2021 World Happiness Report, with Finland, Iceland and Denmark taking the top three spots while Sweden was sixth and Norway eighth.

The move, which campaigners say is the first step towards making misogyny a specific hate crime, comes in the wake of an outpouring of anger about the death of Sarah Everard, 33.

Janice Dinsdale, now 72, was told she was 'no longer required' in her job as a clerk at the High Commission of India in Aldwych, London, after returning from a break a day after her 65th birthday.

Donald McPherson, 47, was cleared of killing Paula Leeson despite 17 separate pieces of circumstantial evidence which created 'clear and obvious suspicion against the defendant'.

Ian Lloyd who is a former member of the Royal press corps, has penned 100 chapters to mark Prince Philip's 100th birthday in June. The Duke was born into the Greek royal family in 1921.

Sales of the Penguin edition of Miss Austen's Pride and Prejudice shot up by 22 per cent last year, according to analysts Nielsen BookScan.

Building large numbers of turbines will require concrete foundations to be laid in the seabed and cables to connect them to the mainland. It will affect species like porpoises.

Leslie Thorley, 42, punched politician Robert Largan, and threw a brick towards him after the pair became involved in a tussle over his £1,200 smart phone while on a train to Manchester.

To wildlife, nettles are paradise - and presenter Alan Titchmarsh, 71, says we should be setting aside a plot for a clump in our gardens.

It represents the largest drop in life expectancy since 1939-40, with experts blaming the surge in deaths caused by the virus.

The three white stags, whose loss of pigmentation is caused by a genetic condition called leucism, were seen grazing with a number of does in the fields of Hertfordshire.

Georgina Ashby, 27, had been attending Saturday night's vigil on Clapham Common, held in memory of the murdered 33-year-old when she was flashed by a man while walking home.

The 55-year-old TV presenter told his 7.8million Twitter followers today: 'Reports of my ITV demise have been greatly exaggerated.... I'm back already. @NolanColeen.'

Paul Robson, 50, carried out a vicious attack on Caroline Kayll, 47, and her teen lover after he 'snooped' outside her home in Linton, Northumberland a Newcastle court heard.

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People in northern NSW and greater Sydney have been advised against non-essential travel as the road closures due to flooding begin to mount up with heavy rainfall continuing to batter NSW.

The boat jetty and parkland on either side of the major river were no longer visible on Saturday after Parramatta River spilled over between Charles Street weir and the ferry wharf.

Jade Beer, the former editor of Condé Naste's Brides magazine, moved out of London in 2014 after growing tired of the 'sheer mass of people' and the 'daily commute'.

The British vaccine triumph is a pulsating story with more twists than a Michael Crichton sci-fi thriller - one that can be told in full for the first time, having spoken to many key players.

A 'potentially life-threatening' downpour that has flooded rivers and triggered evacuations along the NSW coast has made its way to Sydney, delaying phase 1b of the vaccine rollout.

More than 60 MPs joined campaign groups Big Brother Watch and Liberty in writing to the UK Home Secretary (pictured) to say it is a human right to demonstrate.

Jennifer Weisselberg, who was married to Allen Weisselberg's son Barry from 2004 to 2018, told Chris Cuomo on Friday that her former father-in-law will flip on Trump to protect his own kids.

The Australian postal service has found 108 parcels with illegal drugs including marijuana, cocaine, LSD, steroids and GHB plus wads of cash in a two-day border drug bust in Victoria.

Sean Hannity concluded his show on Friday by making a point about hypocrisy in the current White House regarding marijuana usage, which resulted in some recent firings.

The NSW premier staged an emergency press conference on Saturday afternoon to beg families to stay at home, warning the rain wouldn't stop until Thursday or Friday.

Mayor de Blasio was heckled on Friday night by protesters at a New York vigil. The event was being held in Union Square vigil to decry anti-Asian racism and mourn the victims of the Georgia massacre.

Media manager Kate Fotheringham is stuck and unable to get over the flooded Dingo creek to Wingham on the mid north coast of New South Wales on Saturday.

Up to 9,000 more pubs will be able to open on April 12, Whitehall sources say, as pubs will be allowed to build marquees in gardens and have tables in the street across England.

Columnist Des Houghton argues the Prime Minister would have been abused and heckled in front of a 'weaponised' crowd at the recent March 4 Justice protests.

UK communities secretary will announce move to allow pubs to build marquees as part of a £56 million 'Welcome Back' initiative designed to help towns and businesses.

A 'potentially life-threatening' downpour that has flooded rivers and triggered evacuations along the NSW coast has made its way to Sydney.

A group of locals and their dog were seen standing in the now flooded Telegraph Point Club on the mid-north coast, with a tragic tale behind the image.

Rand Paul told Tucker Carlson on Fox News on Friday night that he believes the nation's top infectious disease expert had been lying about the need to wear a mask once vaccinated.

The numbers of people being infected have leveled off to around 55,000 a day. Cases are on the increase in some East Coast states and also in Michigan.

The country Victorian town of Moe has languished through a stigma set to raise its ugly head once again after more than  20 years. 

New South Wales police have intercepted a shirtless kayaker who was paddling on a flooded highway at the Pacific Highway between Taree and Coopernook on the mid-north coast.

Sydney's rain deluge has forced the postponement of A-League and W-League games between Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory.

The Parramatta River, one of Sydney's most important rivers, has broken its banks after wild flooding, leaving weekend commuters stranded.

The caller allegedly threatened the victim, a recently retired nurse, before then transferring the call to a man, who claimed to be a police officer.

One man has died in hospital and another has been arrested by NSW police after a suspicious house fire in Adelaide on Wednesday.

Chris Cuomo (left) used to be CNN's most highly-viewed show in 2020. Now, ratings are flagging after a ban on covering his brother, Andrew Cuomo (right) amid his myriad of scandals.

President Joe Biden went after Donald Trump - though not by name - in remarks delivered after meeting with members of the Asian-American community in Atlanta Friday.

Rachel Dolezal will appear in a documentary about black beauty in which she claims people who criticize her are 'white supremacy folks' and blames her black ex-husband for 'repressing' her.

A mystery Powerball winner from Sydney's east is $50million richer - but is yet to claim their life changing prize following Thursday's draw.

The home, which is located in Mount Morris, was built in 1965 and sometimes takes on the moniker of the 'School House,' for obvious reasons.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the situation is 'under control' at the border, and said the new policy is 'values based,' as the administration copes with an influx of migrants.

Outbreaks of the South African variant in countries throughout the continent is causing particular concern, sparking calls for tougher travel restrictions.

Alexi McCammond McCammond, 27, wrote several anti-Asian tweets in 2011. She deleted them in 2019 and this year was named as editor of Teen Vogue.

The thievery took place on March 13 in Dallas, where a couple was enjoying a 'staycation' at their home before the white dog decided to swipe a package of makeup items from their porch.

Miss Munchetty was 'reminded of her responsibilities' after liking a series of anti-Tory tweets after she and co-host Charlie Stayt ridiculed Robert Jenrick for having a Union flag in his office.

A trampoline has ended up on the side of a house as a storm in the west of Sydney damaged over 30 homes, battered roofs, broken fences, upturned trees, and snapped trunks.

Britain's most senior officer has been put on notice after widespread condemnation of how the Clapham Common memorial was policed last weekend.

French was joined on screen at the start of the fundraiser by Gogglebox star Kate Bottley, dancing around the old living room of sitcom favourite Geraldine Granger.

The Army is to form a new elite unit which will be sent to conflict zones to train and fight alongside the troops and which could be thrust into battle against Islamic State and Russian proxy groups in Africa.

A policeman who attacked a woman on a dark street and put her in a headlock as been spared jail or a community sentence after a judge was told it would be "difficult" for him to work with criminals

The super-rich made 'obscene' claims for taxpayers' cash for staff who were sent home after their businesses, which include the Ritz Hotel and Harrods, were closed under lockdown.

Nick Candy slammed London mayor Sadiq Khan's 'disgraceful' attempts to tackle crime as he backed his Conservative rival Shaun Bailey for the top job for the election in May.

Stephen Follows, a film statistician, released a study on his website that analyzed 10,499 movies released between 2000 and 2019 in an inquiry to the differences in how fans and critics perceive them.

It has been dubbed the 'greatest show on earth' whose cancellation marked another blow for the beleaguered events industry. But all is not lost for Glastonbury Festival.

The Duke of Cambridge highlighted how some of the huge sums raised would be spent on the nation's mental health to ensure 'help is at hand when things become too much for people'.

Nesar, 30, who served alongside UK troops in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, is the first translator to be allowed sanctuary in Britain from outside his homeland.

Football Index fell into administration last week in what is believed to be the biggest failure of a gambling business in British history.

KIRSTIE ALLSOPP: As a family, wherever we are in the world, we don't leave the house without taking a bag to collect litter. Sadly, there is never a dearth of items to pick up.

Alyssa McGrath said the governor ogled her body, called her and her co-worker 'mingle mamas' and asked about her lack of a wedding ring, according to The New York Times.

Their courtroom battle ended in disaster when the family home in London was found to be fitted with cladding outlawed because of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 - meaning it was worthless.

Hundreds of terrified residents across NSW could lose their homes as flash flooding pummels houses, with emergency experts warning people to stay indoors or evacuate.

A 29-year-old man who took advantage of Wales reopening its barbers was arrested for drug driving on Wednesday, after officers recorded a speed of 122mph on the M5 in Glastonbury.

The Church of England is set to introduce a 30% for ethnic minority clergy members and carry out anti-racism training. Currently only one of the 42 diocesan bishops come from BAME backgrounds.

The Prime Minister and the entire Cabinet have kept payments and other interests worth millions of pounds secret for nine months, after they failed to replace anti-sleaze mandarin Sir Alex Allan.

RICHARD COLES: It is the worst moment, the opposite of that feeling of immense relief when you wake from a nightmare, then remember it is not real. This is the nightmare you wake into.

Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer for Donald Trump, met for the eighth time with top officials in the Manhattan District Attorney's office on Friday.

The BBC has insisted it is 'proud to be British' after presenters Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty ​were accused of mocking the Union Jack during an interview with communities secretary Robert Jenrick.

New Community Chest cards will have Monopoly players pay money for acts such as failing to recycle the trash or winning money for running a non-profit organization's social media account.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was asked about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo allegedly putting his face on a dart board. The mayor responded with a barb of one of his own.

Lives and homes are being threatened in low-lying regions on the New South Wales coast by heavy rainfall and unprecedented flooding which is expected to end on Wednesday.

Boris Johnson has praised the 'extraordinary achievement' of Daily Mail readers, as Mail Force surpassed all conceivable expectations as donations topped £25million in cash and equipment.

BBC director-general Tim Davie has confirmed that those over the age of 75 will not be threatened with legal action over non-payment of the TV licence fee.

A cache of previously top-secret files uncovered by the Mail show how award-winning photographer Peter Elinskas was recruited by Czech intelligence officers at the height of the Cold War.

Jenny Farrrell was filming the torrential rain outside her home in Lansdowne on the state's mid-north coast on Friday when she suddenly spotted the animal jumping into the water.

Remarkable footage has emerged showing a wharf floating out to sea on the mid-north coast of NSW as flash floods hammer the region.

Dubbed 'Stewie Rah Rah, the No 1 King of All Fun', the former owner of pharmaceutical wholesaler Kinray made headlines when he bought the private 25-acre property for $45 million in 2004.

Sarm Heslop, 41, vanished while on board the Siren Song on March 7. The 47ft yacht, which belonged to her boyfriend, Captain Ryan Bane, was moored in the US Virgin Islands at the time.

Bankrupt tennis ace Boris Becker, 53, squirreled money away by sending it to his wives following a bankruptcy order, to avoid paying his creditors, Southwark Crown Court has heard.

Sean Michael Lannon, 47, was arrested eight days ago after being wanted for questioning in a South Jersey slaying and four deaths in New Mexico, including that of his ex-wife.

The German Chancellor is among several European leaders to have resumed AstraZeneca inoculations after suspending them for fear they caused blood clots.

Alexi McCammond quit as the online editor for Teen Vogue after a backlash over allegedly racist and homophobic tweets from when she was a teenager.

ALEX BRUMMER: The disclosure that David Cameron personally lobbied the Treasury on behalf is a huge embarrassment to the Tories.

Lindsey Boylan, the first woman to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment,said she spotted the childish game in the pool house at the governor's mansion in Albany.

A bombshell study reveals that offenders who went through the programme posed a greater risk than those who had not - and they went on to commit more crimes after their sentences ended.

Emergency services were called out to an address in North Parramatta, in Sydney's west, just after 6.30pm on Friday night following reports a man had been stabbed.

President Biden's stumbles as he climbed the stairs to board Air Force One on Friday was given the meme treatment by the eldest son of his predecessor, Donald Trump.

Jonathan Swan (left), the Axios journalist who worked alongside Alexi McCammond (right) for four years, said on Friday she should be allowed to work as editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue.

British Government officials are in talks with the Palace about a new financial settlement for the Royal Family, insiders claim.

Gregg Shore, 49, a top prosecutor from Bucks County, who earned $130,000 was caught making DoorDash deliveries.

Officers were called to a property in Haringey, north London, at around 7.30pm on Thursday, where they found a man who appeared to be unwell and distressed.

Seasonal workers from Vanuatu have arrived in Hobart and started quarantining under an agreement struck between Tasmania and Victoria.

As of Friday afternoon, the homepages of MSNBC, CBS News, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and New York Times had no mention of Biden's stumbling incident earlier in the day.

NY AG Letitia James is investigating the actions of some of Cuomo's top aides with accusers saying they have been questioned about whether they believe they enabled his behavior.