Boris Johnson tried to strike a bullish tone saying the country's hard work is 'paying off' as he held an Easter Monday press briefing in Downing Street, confirming that shops can open on April 12.

As the UK returns to work after the Easter break, the day started with the mercury at just -2C (29F) in the South of England and -5C (23F) in the North, while isolated parts of Scotland were even colder.

Piers Morgan on Monday asserted that 17 claims made by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in their bombshell Oprah interview have since been proved to be false, exaggerated or are unverifiable.

Brian Chin, CEO of the Swiss lender's investment bank, and Lara Warner, chief risk and compliance officer, both announced they would step down, while its dividend and staff bonuses will also be cut.

Collapsed fashion chain Peacocks has been bought out of administration by a senior executive, saving 200 stores and 2,000 jobs, it has been announced. 

As a newly qualified NHS hospital doctor, Joshua Wolrich - weighing 17st - became obsessed with the idea that a good doctor shouldn't be overweight.

Conservative candidate Jill Mortimer is set to win with 49 per cent of the vote at Labour stronghold Hartlepool in next month's by-election, a Survation poll has revealed.

Thousands of pictures have emerged on social media in the past few days of piles of rubbish filling the streets of Paris under the hashtag 'SaccageParis' - meaning 'trash Paris'.

Piers Morgan sat down for his own tell-all with Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired Monday, where he vowed to reveal 'MY truth' about the controversy surrounding his criticism of Meghan and Harry.

UK firms will be able to access loans of between £25,000 and £10million to get back on track as part of a Recovery Loan.

The UK's MHRA vaccine regulator could stop younger people from having AstraZeneca 's coronavirus jab as soon as today over concerns about rare cases of blood clots.

Piers Morgan on Monday told Tucker Carlson he felt Prince Harry's mother would be incredibly sad to learn of the froideur between her two sons, saying it would have left her 'horrified'.

This fiendishly difficult general knowledge quiz from US-based trivia platform Quizly is so hard that only 10 percent of people can pass - do you have what it takes to get a perfect score?

The Prime Minister has confirmed plans for a 'traffic light' system for foreign holidays but stopped short of confirming it would come in to effect on May 17 and replace the travel ban.

Theresa Cheung, a UK-based best-selling author in the realms of spirituality, dreams and the paranormal, believes the day a person was born can reveal details about who they truly are.

Social media users from across the globe have been sharing 'stuff that should not exist' in a Twitter thread - including carpeted bathrooms, a Nicholas Cage sequin pillow and car eyelashes.

HENRY DEEDES: On skipped the Prime Minister, with that mild jauntiness of his that has happily returned in recent weeks, confirming our long winter imprisonment is finally coming to an end.

Morgan paid £2,600 for the cigar, left behind by Churchill on his voyage aboard HMS Duke of York in 1941 to meet US President Franklin D Roosevelt, at a Shropshire auction back in May 2018.

Investigators have pieced together the chaotic scenes and accounts of Saturday evening's disorder at the Hoe, Plymouth. It is believed locals and Navy personnel were involved.

Piers Morgan on Monday said he stands by his criticism of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry . which say him lose his job last month - and that he refuses to believe the royal family are racist.

Girl A, the main victim of the Rochdale grooming gang, said it was a disgrace the Government had failed to deport ringleader Abdul Rauf and called for an explanation from the Home Secretary.

The Mayor of London, who is fighting off competition for City Hall from Shaun Bailey and actor Laurence Fox, believes there is widespread public support for a relaxed approach to decriminalisation.

Police reportedly uncovered two years' worth of 'offensive' messages and pictures sent on a secret WhatsApp group after an unrelated investigation which cleared the medics.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Mass vaccination was supposed to be our get-out-of-jail-free card but we're not so much getting out of jail free as being released on licence, wearing an electronic tag.

Sage predict that there could be a third wave of coronavirus if restrictions are lifted in summer, even with the vaccination programme.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he is looking forward to a pint of beer and a haircut next week as he last night confirmed the next stage in his roadmap for easing restrictions.

Piers Morgan railed against the 'woke cancel culture mob' that saw an editor of Teen Vogue lose her job before she had even begun. Alexi McCammond, 27, wrote several anti-Asian tweets.

Prisoners at HMP Hindley, a category C jail near Wigan which holds just under 600 inmates, can book sessions with the animals to help 'escape' stress.

Charity CPRE enlisted the help of 8,000 citizen star counters and found that 49 per cent could spot more than 10 starts in the Orion constellation - up from 39 per cent before the pandemic.

Officials hope the multi-billion-pound scheme, under which everyone in England will be invited to take two free tests a week, will help to ease the country out of lockdown safely.

Fiserv, a major payments firm, is reviewing its relationship with the former UK prime minister David Cameron following revelations about his work for the collapsed lender Greensill.

The body was discovered by Essex Police officers on Monday afternoon, 13 days after the 19-year-old went missing.

DR JOHN LEE The Government's announcement yesterday of twice-weekly testing for everybody in the country who wants it could hardly be more perverse.

Princess Eugenie, 31, marked the end of Easter weekend with a new family portrait where proud dad Jack Brooksbank is holding baby August, almost two-months-old, at Frogmore Cottage.

Andrew Morton said the Queen told Meghan Markle she could forge ahead with her Hollywood acting career if she did not want to 'embrace royal duties full time'.

Waitrose has stopped selling shoe polish - after the shift to home-working led to a fall in demand for shiny office shoes, as well as alarm clocks, ironing boards, lunchboxes and lipstick.

In total three women and a man have been charged with assaulting an emergency worker while two others have been charged with obstructing a constable during the clash in London on Saturday.

In his first sit-down interview since leaving GMB, Morgan, the Editor-at-Large of DailyMail.com, on Monday slammed the 'illiberal mob' that increasingly controls public discourse.

There will be 26 specialist mental health hubs to support new, expectant and bereaved mothers suffering PTSD with the first 10 opening in months. The other 16 are set to be opened by April 2022

ROSS CLARK: UK Homeowners will have to cover required re-modification boiler costs of up to £18,000 themselves - after ministers scrapped grant schemes.

Captain Sir Tom Moore's personal effects, such as his wheeled walker, clothes and medals could go on show in a museum, his family has revealed ahead of the anniversary of his first walk today.

Sven Badzak, 22, was allegedly stabbed as he went to buy a bagel in Kilburn, London, on February 6. His mother Jasna Badzak, 49, uncovered a clip of his death on Twitter.

Harvey Weinstein has filed an appeal on his rape and sex crimes conviction, claiming he didn't receive a fair trial. 

California-based Innova Medical Group and the sole UK distributor Disruptive Nanotechnology are in line for a huge pay day as the Government is set to launch a mass testing drive.

Withering put-downs. Outrageous gossip. And a ringside seat on the maelstrom of the May years... yes, it’s another serving of ex-minister Alan Duncan’s rollicking memoir. 

Actress Sheila Hancock, 88, recently revealed that she has been warned that the treatment she receives for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may affect the efficacy of her Covid-19 vaccine.

The ex-prime minister's frustration burst out on the eve of Mr Johnson's successful campaign to replace Theresa May in Downing Street.

Alberto 'Wey' Zapata, 23, fell off his bike after losing control in Sunday's event. His fellow competitors were unable to avoid him and ended up riding over his body. Tributes have rushed in for Zapata.

Hamid Alhendi, from Barnet, falsified the paperwork of almost 300 speeding drivers caught by cameras so they were never identified by the police. He has been jailed for five years.

The July 1 constitutional vote included a provision that reset Putin's previous terms, allowing him to run for president two more times.

Of the around 20,000 people arriving in the country every day, around 40 percent - or 8,000 - are tourists, figures compiled by British Border Force staff revealed.

Nine events will be used for a month-long trial, including an FA Cup semi-final and the final in front of 21,000 fans at Wembley and a nightclub in Liverpool which would host 3,000 indoors.

Bright blue sunny skies were seen across the UK just hours after the country was battered by arctic winds which led to thousands of Brits waking up to heavy snow.

Headmaster Gareth Doodes has now launched a safeguarding investigation after the claims surfaced on the whistleblowing website Everyone's Invited.

Critics of the controversial kits - which offer results in just 15 minutes - called the scheme 'reckless' and a 'scandalous' waste of taxpayers' cash. The tests will be rolled out in England.

Caroline Rennie, 21, is thought to have got into difficulty while working with farm machinery on Saturday afternoon in a field near her home town of Turriff, Aberdeenshire.

The evidentiary phase of the trial was beginning as Israel's political parties were meeting the country's president to weigh in on whether Netanyahu should form the next government after close elections.

Women outnumber men for the first time at a British police force. Wiltshire Police has 1,140 female officers and staff compared to 1,101 male employees, a report revealed.

The SAGE adviser warned while the strain had failed to take root in the UK it was behind up to 20 per cent of infections in some countries on the continent. The variant may be able to dodge immunity from jabs.

The unidentified 24-year-old, from the Philippines, suffered testicular torsion from repeatedly pushing her testicles back into her stomach four times a week in an effort to hide her genitals.

Lisa Fouweather, 19, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, initially hoped to improve her running personal bests and excel at her club but quickly became obsessed and plummeted to 5st 13lb.

Dozens of innocent people were killed when Islamist insurgents launched a raid the northern town of Palma on March 24, including Briton Philip Mawer.

British company, Now Wireless, developed the technology so that councils can programme the lights to immediately stop traffic when a certain number of people are waiting to cross.

The government has announced a huge expansion of testing with free rapid kits made available to everyone in England from this Friday.

The NASUWT, which has 314,000 members in both private and state schools, said many women staff have reported sex assaults and harassment by male pupils.

Sabine tragically passed away at a hospital in Trier, Germany , on March 17 aged 51 following a three-year battle with cancer.

ANDREW PIERCE: What a shame David Lammy's arguments against vaccine passports are so similar to the concerns raised after Tony Blair which he supported.

Moscow has furiously claimed a boy named Vladik died when an unmanned aerial vehicle struck a village in rebel held eastern Ukraine known as Donbass.

Tourism chiefs say demand for camp sites and holiday homes for this summer has boomed - with Britons cautious about trips abroad due to the possibility Covid travel restrictions.

Rachel Allen has discussed for the first time how her fame affected her son Joshua, 21, who was given a 30-month prison sentence for drugs charges.

EXCLUSIVE: Nic Seal, founder of Environet, a British company which specialises in tackling invasive plants, believes the public should be made aware of the risk bamboo poses.

Primrose Hill - known for its awe-inspiring view across central London - was one of the green spaces to fall victim to the scourge despite repeated calls for people to take home their mess.

During the latest instalment of the hit police drama, many viewers took to Twitter to share their thoughts after noticing the very telling detail.

First-time buyers are saving up to £800 per year compared to the average renter across the UK, according to figures released by Halifax.

The mother of missing 19-year-old Richard Okorogheye, Evidence Joel, has said her life is a 'complete nightmare' in the wake of his disappearance two-weeks ago. Searches continue in Epping Forest.

Colchester United owner and chairman Robbie Cowling claimed he was attacked by Mark Harris, who worked for the club's 'Football in the Community' charity, after a dismissal appeal meeting in 2019.

Bahaa Kadum, 26, broke into the property of Shannon Griffiths in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, and held her hostage at knifepoint on October 20 last year.

EXCLUSIVE: Carole Baskin, 59, from Texas, speaks to FEMAIL as she prepares to 'set the record straight' on a Louis Theroux BBC2 documentary airing tonight.

DOMINIC LAWSON Yesterday Sir Keir Starmer chalked up a year since becoming leader of the Labour Party

Boris Johnson last night faced calls to sack Government adviser and Tory peer Helena Morrissey for denying existence of the pandemic and blaming China for spreading fear.

Lizzy Evans, 27, from Bagillt was diagnosed with cervical cancer but was given the all clear. Her cancer returned after medics brushed off her symptoms as pain brought on by menopause.

The body was discovered in a bin behind Stockland Burleigh Heads Shopping Centre, on West Burleigh Road, at 7am on Monday.

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Sally Cheshire, ex-chairman of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, said price limits for fertility treatments need to be set as 'vulnerable' patients are being taken advantage of.

A man who claimed to have been drugged, sexually assaulted and forcibly covered in bizarre tattoos while in jail has been caught out boasting about his new ink on camera and in phone calls.

NYPD precinct commander Denis Mullaney reportedly shot himself to death in Queens inside his police vehicle Monday, sources said.

Ceon Broughton, from Enfield, north London, who supplied girlfriend Louella Fletcher-Michie the drugs that killed her, appeared in a clip on a rap gang's Instagram.

Police handed out more than 4700 infringement notices, over half of them for speeding, during a crazy Easter long weekend on Queensland roads.

King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, a friend of the British Royal Family, purchased Glympton Park in February from Prince Bandar bin Sultan, 72, a former Saudi intelligence chief.

The CCTV footage, which was recorded in Murmansk, Russia, showed one family's narrow escape after the lump of ice shattered their windscreen.

Lt. Col. Brandon Westling, a US Air Force military aide to Joe Biden, had quite the holiday weekend, with a dueling set of duties that kept him hopping.

New Zealand and Australia, which have closed borders to the rest of the world in efforts to eradicate Covid-19, will also allow people to travel from one country to the other without Covid tests.

Hunter Biden said Burisma viewed his name as 'gold' when it hired him for a reported $50,000-a-month salary in 2014, because his father is synonymous with 'democracy and transparency.'

NZ conservation and emergency management minister Kiri Allan has opened up about her heartbreaking diagnosis and the warning signs she missed during last year's election campaign.

The Maldives were visited by over 5,000 Britons who jetted away in lockdown to the popular holiday resort location

A man has died from Covid-19 in a Queensland hospital, health officials confirmed on Tuesday afternoon.

For a bloke who loves a beer, fast food, has a sweet tooth and works regular night shifts, the prospect of a diet would usually be dismissed quicker than talk of signing up for a marathon.

A woman was cut free from an escalator after she reportedly slipped inside a building on Ferny Avenue in Surfers Paradise at about 11.44am on Tuesday.

Darren Penaredondo, 28, was arrested on April 1 in the Philippines for going out after 6pm to buy water in violation of curfew rules, with cops allegedly forcing him to do 300 squat jumps as punishment.

Brent Simpson from the Gold Coast overcame childhood abuse, thoughts of suicide, gang life and time in prison to start a successful podcast that tells the stories of those like him: survivors.

The mediation talks with Prince Hamzah, announced by Jordan's palace on Tuesday, successfully de-escalated one of the most serious political crises in the kingdom in decades.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon praised her 'happy day' as she made the most of the easing of restrictions in Scotland by visiting a salon in Edinburgh for her first haircut of 2021.

Boris Johnson's plans for domestic vaccine passports are in jeopardy after it was claimed Sir Keir Starmer and Labour will oppose the rollout of the documents.

At least 18,44 prisoners escaped after gunmen blasted their way in the Nigerian jail's administrative block in the early hours of Monday. Six inmates have returned and a further 35 never left.

A man accused of murdering a young woman during a meth-fuelled 'puff and play' session before callously dumping her body in a Sydney suburban park has killed himself in prison.

Boris Johnson set himself up for a potentially-volcanic clash with his own backbenchers after hinting he might try to get the passport scheme into law without a vote.

The Gothic-style regional church in Rokewood, western Victoria was put on the market last month by its owners the Uniting Church in Australia after saying goodbye to its final worshippers in 2020.

The New South Wales Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has indicated it is looking at a rare legal move which could send the Burgess intimidation case back to court.

Malik Fard Muhammed, 24, has been arrested in Indianapolis relating to multiple firebomb attacks on police officers last year during Black Lives Matter protests in Portland.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has acknowledged it has concerns about 'rising housing prices'. More than one million borrowers have never dealt with an interest rate rise.

Australian UFC champion Alex Volkanovski has detailed his terrifying coronavirus ordeal which saw him hospitalised twice, heart rate plumment to 35 beats-per-minute and coughing up blood.

The journey to becoming a fully qualified surgeon was long and tedious. It took 16 years, months on end without a day off and a permanent move to Melbourne.

Brylie Stratton, 22, targeted Gumtree sellers in Melbourne posing as a potential buyer before speeding off with their designer goods - two men who tried to stop her ended up in hospital.

Yong Choy Chee admits recklessly causing serious injury to 29-year-old Hardeep Singh at a Springvale boarding house in November 2016.

Sunday's episode of the once-venerable CBS News program revealed that weeks before Publix landed the lucrative contract, the chain donated $100,000 to DeSantis' PAC.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced Australians will not need to quarantine when they travel across the ditch from April 19.

Dr. Bradford Langenfeld, left, was the medic at the Hennepin County Medical Center who pronounced Floyd dead. Judge Peter Cahill granted the defense a partial victory ahead of today's proceedings.

Vandals in Scotland who sprayed anti-police slogans on a war memorial to those who gave their lives in the Second Boer War have been condemned by a local group.

Farhan Towhid, 19 (pictured), and his 21-year-old brother allegedly carried out a murder-suicide that killed their sister, parents and grandmother in Texas over the weekend.

A bystander captured video of the 20-year-old man climbing up a drain pipe while attempting to enter The Palace on Hindley Street in Adelaide over the Easter Long Weekend.

Members of Ghislaine Maxwell's family may fly to New York for her arraignment on April 23 The court date has been delayed by a week possibly to allow family to attend.

Australians who received either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine reported developing one of more symptoms, and a quarter took time off work.

Locals and winemakers in and around the couple's new hometown believe Harry and Meghan should launch their own Brangelina-style wine label in Montecito.

Residents on the Coffs Coast in NSW have spotted a hot pink ibis making its way through the town for the past month.

James Woolsey, CIA director under Bill Clinton, on Friday said that he had a new 'openness' to the possibility of alien life, and told how a source he respected said his plane was stopped at 40,000ft.

Two girls, ages 13 and 15, who were charged with the murder and carjacking of a Pakistani immigrant killed last month while working at his job delivering food in DC, have 'reached a plea deal' with prosecutors.

Terrified families attending the Royal Easter Show in Sydney looked on in horror as the young men chased each other through the busy crowds and began to throw punches.

Baylor (28-2) upset Gonzaga (31-1) to win the school's first national championship in men's basketball while spoiling the Bulldogs' quest for the first unbeaten season since Indiana in 1976.

LaPierre's use of the 108-foot yacht owned by a Hollywood producer pal was disclosed in a deposition unsealed on Monday during NRA bankruptcy proceedings in a Texas court.

Former President Donald Trump has been pictured at his new office at Mar-a-Lago that features a statue of himself and a picture of Mt. Rushmore.

Sitting down for his own tell-all with Fox News US TV host Tucker Carlson aired Monday, Piers Morgan said Alex Beresford's comments last month were part of a 'premeditated attack'.

Biosecurity officers in Sydney have intercepted plants that were hosting a deadly plant pest. The pest known as Xylella fastidiosa kills plants through a process called leaf scorching.

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Some 10,000 pictures were whittled down to make up the Societies of Photographers' Photo of the Year award category winners. One was the image of an Italian wedding.

A Portland, Oregon high school has postponed changing its logo to an evergreen tree after a committee member raised concerns about possible connotations to lynching.

The writings of the 18th-century Venetian adventurer who claimed to have slept with more than 130 lovers have long been devoured for their accounts of his sexual conquests.

A woman who was slammed by an e-scooter after getting off a bus in Auckland has called for riders to be more cautious. Shocking new video shows the moment she is knocked unconscious.

Locals believe the fatalities on Cobden-Stonyford road in south-west Victoria have been caused by the poor condition of the narrow 20km stretch and a surge in traffic directed there by Google Maps.

A surprising number of Australians would struggle to cope with a broken hot water system, a broken car or a medical emergency. Millions of workers are also set to miss out on a pay rise.

Morgan, the Editor-at-Large of DailyMail.com, spoke out on Monday in his first sit-down interview since leaving GMB, calling Osbourne's ouster 'even more disconcerting' than his own.

Nicholas Baxter was found guilty of manslaughter over the death of son Matthew in Townsville in 2017. The conviction was quashed on appeal and Mr Baxter found not guilty on Tuesday.

Glady Berejiklian has been mobbed by admiring supporters requesting selfies with the popular politician at Sydney's Royal Easter Show.

Perth mining magnate Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest celebrated Easter with the highly-anticipated arrival of his Bombardier Global Express 7500, which can fly around the world without stopping.

Asian-Australian women have called out anti-racist attacks and discrimination after finding an offensive slur engraved in concrete in an inner city suburb of Sydney.

Piers Morgan sat down for a tell-all interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson which aired Monday. Morgan said he believed the couple were cashing in on their royal titles to secure deals and income.

Uber Eats generated almost 60,000 jobs during the coronavirus pandemic last year, with the average Australian delivery driver earning more than $20 an hour after costs.

MLB hasn't officially announced the move yet, and the commissioner's office was expected to declare Tuesday that the Colorado Rockies will host the game.

At least 200 eagle rays swam off the coast of Nelsons Beach, in Jervis Bay on the NSW South Coast, initially forming a near-perfect square shape before morphing into the Australian mainland.

South Korean soldiers were forced into a ceasefire at Puckapunyal Military Area. The soldiers were practising at the 450m firing range before they were interrupted.

A man accused of drugging and raping three teenage girls in Brisbane last year has been released from custody.