The tapestries are among the oldest surviving in Britain and have hung at Hardwick Hall, in Derbyshire, since 1592. The artwork has been restored as part of a project beginning in 2001.

Chancellor Angela Merkel made the announcement on Thursday but stressed that vaccination would not be compulsory and would have no bearing on whether children can attend school.

The median age stood at 29 for the week ending May 19 - down from 35 at the start of April and 41 at the beginning of the year. Pictured: Queues for vaccines in Bolton.

The 28-year-old midfielder had just played the West Ham Premier League defeat to Everton on May 9 at London Stadium in Stratford, when he noticed his watch was missing from the dressing room.

Kate, 39, met Mila Sneddon, of Falkirk, at Holyrood House, whom she'd previously spoken to on the phone, and made good on her promise to wear a pink dress for their meeting.

Leading academics at the prestigious university had slammed a website set up to report professors' supposed wrongdoings, which could have included raising an eyebrow or turning their back.

Monika, 29, and Edyta Gorska, 35, flew 49 compatriots into the UK in just 14 months to claim £297,161 in benefits. The sisters used fake IDs to set up bank accounts and claim Universal Credit.

The incredible motor has been specially commissioned by a wealthy and 'flamboyant' couple with a love of chilled champagne and alfresco dining. A total of three will be produced.

England rugby player Henry Slade, 28, who has Type 1 diabetes, was offered a Covid jab as part of the sixth priority group. But he said he does not trust the Government's recommendation.

Some experts predict 130,000 or more will be killed by 2026, after government officials gave the go-ahead to expand operations in ten areas.

Agita Geslere, 61, was found with stab wounds in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, shortly after 12.30am on Tuesday. Her 31-year-old son has been charged with her murder and will appear at court today.

Bashar al-Assad's government says the election on Wednesday shows Syria is functioning normally despite the decade-old conflict, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people.

Prince Harry has appeared in a mental health campaign video for PeakState, promoting 'the good management of mental health', as the Royal Family brace for more 'truth bombs'.

Video footage shows a number of different skirmishes by the Douro river and supporters are said to have locked horns with the local police after the bars closed at 10:30pm.

Tory former international trade secretary Liam Fox said a 'carbon border tax' would push states with lax environmental rules to emit less, while improving domestic support for decarbonisation.

Boris Johnson dismissed Dominic Cummings as a fantasist yesterday, as he denied that complacency and indecision over the pandemic had cost tens of thousands of lives.

The Pandemic Sciences Centre at Oxford University will produce research to help governments respond better to outbreaks like Covid-19.

The Mail can reveal there were two occasions last October when the corporation was offered shocking details of Bashir's lies to land his famous interview in 1995.

An eccentric 'Treasure Island' inspired home built by the late media mogul Felix Dennis has gone on the market for £4million - with the entire house centring around a pirate-themed swimming pool.

Gina Ingles, 34, died shielding her son Milo, four, from the flames after Jake Barnard, 31, and his enforcer Andrew Milne, 42, poured petrol through the letterbox at their home in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

The discovery of a Victorian cane gun helped unlock what detectives described as a 'spider's web of gun crime' in London.

Former accountant Bridget Kelly retired to the village of Rosgill in the Lake District with her partner Richard Wozniak six years ago and claims they own a small triangular patch of land outside their home.

Doctors say they have been set an 'undoable' task by ministers. The numbers visiting GPs increased by 20 per cent last month, according to analysis of NHS England.

New figures from the ONS show that last week the UK's eateries were operating at 132 per cent of the number of customers they were enjoying at the same time in 2019.

Former private schoolboy Hugo Yaxley, the son of Homeland star Lewis's sister Amanda Yaxley, was just 20 years old when he died following the accident on the A30 by Sutton Mandeville in Wiltshire.

Harry Summersgill, 24, ploughed into Noah Herring, six, with his Mercedes Benz while travelling at double the 30mph speed limit, in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, February 28.

The course was led by a firm called White Men as Full Diversity Partners last June, at the height of the BLM movement. The Lockheed execs took part in it over three days in June 2020.

Tory MP for Peterborough Paul Bristow, 42, said he has 'asked to be temporarily disqualified from driving' after being caught speeding on several occasions.

Developed by Aurrigo, the three Auto-Shuttles will run a two-mile route from Madingley Road Park and Ride around the University of Cambridge's West Campus.

The Prince of Wales, 72, and the Duchess of Cornwall, 73, toured the south London high street to mark the retail sector finally resuming business after Britain's lockdowns.

Heritage England are upset with the TV star's plans to knock down a conservatory (left) and replace it with a new kitchen and sunroom at his country pad near Ross on Wye, Herefordshire.

The Duchess of Cambridge, 39, wore the delicate chain by British jewellery designer Daniella Draper, priced at £495, during her and Prince William's final day of engagements in Scotland.

Excavation work at a café where a TV documentary had suggested to police Fred West may have buried Mary Bastholm have found no trace of the missing girl.

Social workers in Devon say Olivia has an 'amazing smiley face' and is 'a real people person' who likes music, toys, teddies and having a bath.

Leslie Winnister, 68, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter by diminished responsibility of 66-year-old Suzanne Winnister in Bexley on the evening of September 8 last year.

The crossings will be altered with 'green person authority' technology which detects approaching cars before the end of June. The 18 lights will be areas including Richmond and Tower Hamlets.

The first of around four vessels carrying 50 migrants were intercepted at around 9am today and were brought into Dover Marina, Kent by Border Force.

Two police officers who shared photos of the dead bodies of two sisters after they were killed in a park today said they were 'sorry beyond measure for the pain they have caused' as they admitted misconduct.

The 15-year-old girl was dropped off at her home following the attack in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the early hours of Sunday before the man drove away.

The alleged incident took place in October off the coast of Crimea but has only been made public now. It reportedly involved the Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer HMS Dragon, according to the FSB.

The three-bedroom fully furnished home was abandoned five years ago in the Hillsborough suburb of Sheffield and is described by auctioneers as 'in need of refurbishment'.

The court found Chetham's School of Music had 'facilitated' the abuse by violin teacher Wen Zhou Li, who was previously cleared of raping a pupil in 2016.

Katie Ivens, The Vice Chairman for the Campaign for Real Education, appeared on GMB today and was branded 'out of touch' as she criticised teaching standards in the UK.

Kirsty Hext, 25, from Havant in Hampshire, has suffered 14 anaphylactic shocks since having her second dose of the Pfizer jab and even had to be put into an induced coma.

London barrister Henry Hendron, 40, said his life became an 'utter mess' during a three-year suspension from the bar after he admitted dealing chemsex pills that killed his teenage boyfriend.

The Duke of Edinburgh is thought to have rewarded his private secretary Brigadier Archie Miller-Bakewell and pages William Henderson and Stephen Niedojadlo in his will.

The destruction of the swathes of blooms in the wood at Ulcombe, Kent, has been likened to 'shooting Bambi' and there have been calls for the landowner to be prosecuted.

National chairman Tim Parker left just 24 hours after members launched a bid to depose him. Now, campaign group Restore Trust say director-general Hilary McGrady 'really needs to go' next.

Johnboy Price, from near Wigan, had beaten up two girlfriends by the time he was 16 before subjecting a third victim, Leah Robinson, 18, and her mother, 38, to a two year ordeal of violence.

The Duke, 38, and Duchess of Cambridge, 39, who are enjoying a tour of Scotland this week, chatted with the leading actors ahead of a drive-in screening of the film for NHS staff on Wednesday.

Office for National Statistics numbers published this morning showed 6.6 per cent of all 16 to 24 year-olds identified as LGB in 2019.

Killer whales John Coe and Aquarius were spotted 550 miles from their Scottish Hebrides home in early May after they made a trip to Porthgwarra near Land's End at the tip of Cornwall.

Latest plans involve the introduction of digital visas which would allow Government departments to share real-time data and restrict access to benefits and services if someone's visa has expired.

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Public Health England analysis shows only 177 out of 5,599 people who caught the mutant strain and presented to A&E had already had both jabs. Almost 3,400 had not yet had their first dose.

Stephen Watson has become the first police chief in the country to commit publicly to sending an officer to every domestic break-in during his tenure at Greater Manchester Police.

On Friday, the Government's advisory panel approved a preliminary extension until June 20, just one month before the pandemic-postponed Olympics is set to kick off on July 23.

A Covid-infected person visited Preston City Hall on Gower St to receive a flu jab on May 22 between 9.30am and 11am.

A copy of the draft letter was leaked to the Mail after Dominic Cummings told MPs on Wednesday that Carrie Symonds went 'completely crackers' over a news report about Dilyn.

Freddy (right), Jane (middle) and Rod Burton (left) were a popular hit on TV screens in the 1970s and 1990s as they made catch tunes for children.

Matt Hancock has been desperately trying to fend off allegations from Dominic Cummings that he 'lied' about whether care home residents would be screened on leaving hospital.

The mishap happened while she was being photographed with members of her motorcade as she was being escorted to Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport.

The British luxury marque said the car had been designed for a wealthy and 'flamboyant' duo with a love of chilled champagne and alfresco meals.

America's baffling but lethal love affair with guns goes from strength to strength. New figures show 2020 was the deadliest gun violence year in decades.

Speaking with Oprah, the Prince stated that he now feels better equipped with how to respond to someone who tells him they are thinking about ending their own life.

NATO chief Jens Stotlenberg said it is 'hard to believe' that Belarus took the decision to hijack a Ryanair plane and arrest a dissident journalist without any input from Moscow.

Harry and Oprah reunited for a bonus town hall episode following the conclusion of their Apple+ TV series, The Me You Can't See.

Seven million Victorians are being ordered to stay at home in a 'circuit-breaker' lockdown that started on Friday morning as an outbreak in Melbourne grows to 30 cases.

An email from the State Department's own Agency for International Development was sent to more than 3,000 accounts, many of them focused on human rights or humanitarian aid.

More than 37.1 million Americans are expected to travel this weekend - a 60 percent increase from the only 23.1 million people who ventured more than 50 miles from home for the holiday in 2020.

Michelle Beaumont, 33, a trainee midwife, was allegedly pushed into a bush, kicked and punched after she confronted a litter lout driver for throwing rubbish out of her car window.

Gaetz and Taylor Greene were in Georgia on Thursday night as their America First tour continued, with Gaetz telling the crowd they should put the Second Amendment to use.

The Duke of Sussex warned that mental health and climate change are 'the two most pressing issues' society is facing, as he spoke in 'The Me You Can't See: A Path Forward' on Apple TV+.

On Thursday, the backlash to the mayor's decree hit a new level, with a white reporter from the Daily Caller suing Lori Lightfoot in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Australian scientists have developed a saliva test that can detect COVID-19 in five minutes using infrared light to detect the virus.

A visibly frustrated Lisa Wilkinson told The Project panel Victorians had the right to be angry after the state was plunged into a seven-day lockdown on Thursday - the fourth in just 12 months.

Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey started collaborating on their mental health docu series for Apple TV+ before the British royal and his wife, Meghan Markle, quit Buckingham Palace.

The former Royal made the remark on a bonus episode of his Apple+ TV series, The Me You Don't See, released on Thursday.

Emergency services were called to near Turnpike Lane station in north London at 1.21am after locals heard gunshots.

New Zealand will ask Australian travellers - including PM Scott Morrison - to produce a negative test for COVID-19 if they have recently been to Victoria.

In a video uploaded to YouTube last week Kat Bais, from the Sunshine Coast, shows several of the boards which have significant damage to their thick maple plywood.

Gaming regulators didn't investigate allegations of money laundering against Crown after the company's "persuasive" former legal boss told them it was a media beat-up, a royal commission has been told.

A copy of the draft letter was leaked to the Daily Mail after Dominic Cummings told MPs on Wednesday that Miss Symonds went 'completely crackers' over a news report about Dilyn.

Cashed-up Chinese buyers are returning to drive Australia's housing prices up with an influx of enquiries for property coming from the Asian superpower.

The cumulative impact of successive lockdowns cannot be understated. Since the start of the pandemic, Melburnians have spent 160 days confined to home quarters.

Morgan Kahmann appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight after he leaked internal documents exposing the tech giant's 'vaccine hesitancy' censorship campaign.

Clay Travis, who with Buck Sexton is taking over the late Rush Limbaugh's three-hour radio slot, spoke about his excitement for the role.

Christine Hammontree, pictured, was last seen on surveillance footage from the McDonald's in Times Square getting into a vehicle just after 2am on Monday.

Ronnie Marshall, 20, and D'Angelo Strand, 19, have each been charged with two counts of second-degree murder for allegedly killing a military couple outside their home.

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates may add an outside board of directors to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as the couple divorces, it has been reported.

A video of a brawl between several students at a north western NSW school has been described as "nasty" by the education department.

The young Sydney mum's massive Powerball jackpot win was predicted by a psychic earlier this year and now she plans to share it with the rest of her family and buy a big new house.

The 31-year-old allegedly stole the Toyota Landcruiser and was spotted by police driving erratically in Condingup, near Esperance in Western Australia on Tuesday afternoon.

Furious mothers have staged a breastfeeding sit-in protest at the Gold Coast shopping centre that tried to stop a mum suckling her son in front of high-end designer shops.

Glenn Close told Prince Harry (inset) she carried 'shame' when she learned that her sister, Jessie, was having suicidal thoughts after decades in which her career kept her apart from her family.

More than 50 passengers were offloaded from the historic cross-country The Ghan train in South Australia and Northern Territory.

Ex-State Department official David Asher, a member of the Trump administration, said his team's probe into Wuhan lab (inset) found no evidence coronavirus originated in animals.

Video (right) showing UFO splashing into Pacific Ocean off coast of San Diego two years ago appears to have been corroborated by military radar (left) - footage of which was released.

Bogus au pair Samantha Azzopardi gets two years in jail after refusing to accept a community based order. 

Douglas Macgregor (right), a retired Army colonel, was appointed by Trump to the board of West Point in December. He has since been repeating anti-Biden conspiracy theories.

The former aide to the Prime Minister uploaded an image on Twitter which he says was taken in Boris Johnson's study on March 14, 2020, before Britain's first lockdown.

Three Monkeys bar in Prahran, the Palace hotel in Melbourne 's CBD, The Sunweb in Prahran, The Local in Port Melbourne and Sporting Globe in Mordialloc have been added to the high alert list.

Sydney is on high alert with 40,500 people potentially exposed to coronavirus after fragments were found in sewer readings.

Two people died and 10 others are missing in the Atlantic Ocean after a boat they were on overturned 16 miles off Key West on Thursday afternoon.

Engine 29 with the Philadelphia Fire Department was rushing to a house fire near Front and Diamond streets around 4pm with its lights and sirens active.

A Queensland dad and earthmover became a social media legend after he rescued a koala from the roadside - then shared a moment with the reluctant animal.

Don't get caught out by the complex Australian tax laws on cryptocurrency with our expert guide to making the most of the Bitcoin boom without busting your tax return.

Lachlan Carter, 23, from Brisbane, spends around 30 hours in the pool each week as he prepares to trial for the Tokyo Games. He's since taken to using skincare to help his face recover from the chlorine.

On Friday staff banded together in support of a minimum wage increase, with employees taking to the front of Harvey Norman stores armed with signs and megaphones.

The family of a boy who drowned on school camp has not been granted an exemption from Victoria's lockdown rules so more people can attend his funeral.

A Manhattan hotel which closed its doors in 2018 (left) will be turned into a homeless shelter after a court in New York ruled against fire safety objections.

Ms McKay has previously vowed to hang on to the leadership, following the resignation of popular frontbencher Chris Minns, who is the transport spokesman.

Giovani Buitrago Aguilar, 55, and Wilmar Buitrago Aguilar, 52, pleaded guilty for attempting to import 60 bricks of cocaine with a wholesale value of up to $6million.

Acting Premier James Merlino on Friday confirmed the new cases were linked to the City of Whittlesea cluster, which has grown to 30 since the start of the week.

Two men have been charged with murder after a man was fatally stabbed outside a Darwin shopping centre late at night.

The dedicated mum of an autistic and intellectually-disabled boy struggled to fight off tears as members of The Wiggles helped calm and comfort her son when he had a seizure on meeting them.

As many as 10 convicted sexual offenders were apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol agents along a 245-mile stretch of the United States-Mexico border region in Texas last week.

Victorians on Friday woke up to the start of their fourth coronavirus lockdown as cases spread across the city and flights from Covid-ravaged India continue to land in Melbourne.

It comes after a Citizen spokeswoman last week confirmed the pilot program to DailyMail.com, saying that it was testing private security responses with its own employees in Los Angeles.

A new analysis of CDC data indicates that the actual death toll from the historic Texas winter storm in February that left much of the state without power may have been five times higher than the official tally

Aiden Fucci, the 14-year-old boy charged with the murder of Florida teenager Tristyn Bailey, 13, has been charged as an adult with first degree murder. Horrific new details of the killing have been shared.  

Rep. Matt Gaetz is open to running for president if former President Donald Trump does not, despite concerns his tax collector 'wingman' Joel Greenberg will flip on him in sex trafficking probe.

Jack Harrison Vincent Sadler has been sentenced to 32 years' jail for the calculated murder of friend Jake Anderson-Brettner in northern Tasmania in 2018.

Since the middle of last year, Australian superannuation balances have surged by 14.7 per cent. Growth almost double the long-term average is expected for 2020-21.

A new safe injecting room in Melbourne's CBD will be a 'catastrophic' honeypot for heroin and meth junkies, fear local business owners after the city council gave it the green light.

Hundreds of non-essential businesses have been barred from trading since midnight and will not be allowed to reopen until restrictions are lifted on Thursday.

Police say the students are with officers at Victor Harbor and have been isolated ahead of having a coronavirus test.

NSW Labor leader Jodi McKay is set to quit the party's leadership on Friday - despite previous pledges to dig in.

Estrella the 21-year-old tortoise will fly from Germany to her new home at the Australian Reptile Park in Somersby on the New South Wales Central Coast.

A judge has blow up over leaks which saw a sports reporter publish a story about charges being dropped 20 minutes after the DPP notified de Belin's lawyers on Thursday.

Alleged fake au pair Samantha Azzopardi could remain behind bars even longer after refusing to accept a community based order. 

The Australian driver took to TikTok to share his parking tip after a woman motorist asked for advice on the social media page.

The Doherty Institute's Professor Sharon Lewin said the fact thousands of Victorians are in isolation should mean health officials can get on top of the virus' spread during the seven-day lockdown.

The number of patrons checking into venues with the Service NSW has dropped dramatically, with just 48.3 million check-ins in April, down from 66 million in January.

Woolworths brand products have been spotted mysteriously on sale in a supermarket chain in the Philippines.

A mother living near Port Macquarie has been charged with high-range drink driving and had her license suspended after being caught driving with her seven-year-old child in the car.

Financial comparison group Finder has revealed why most home and content insurance policies don't cover house fires caused by mice chewing through electrical wiring.

'When you said Boris was like a wonky shopping trolley, Dom...'

With some scientists sounding the alarm over the rise of the Indian variant, business leaders, hospitality chiefs and senior MPs told the UK Prime Minister to stick to his Covid roadmap.

Matt Hancock finally addressed the issue directly as he was repeatedly grilled on the allegations from the maverick former No10 chief at a Downing Street briefing this evening.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been charged with smuggling migrants across the United States-Mexico international borderline, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday. 

An agreement from the G7 group of nations - which also includes the US, Japan and Germany - could be reached as early as next Friday when finance ministers meet in London.

Local staff have been told they can apply to come to the UK with their families in a process that has already begun in some cases. The policy is seen as a 'lifeline' for those at risk from the Taliban.

Australia's largest airline said they would look at giving perks to Australians who get the Covid vaccine in an effort to get international borders re-opened.

SA Health released the findings of a report on Wednesday suggesting there were no protocol failures or high-risk events that could have caused the outbreak of cases in Victoria.

AMP charged life insurance premiums and advice fees to thousands of customers between 2011 and 2019 despite being told they were dead.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is the work of the great Eric Carle, who died this week, aged 91. The book's appeal has been universal ever since publication in 1969.

The man who led the State Department's task force probing the origins of coronavirus revealed his colleagues 'deliberately' downplayed links of the virus' inception to China's Wuhan lab.

The Chinese Embassy in Washington accused unnamed political forces of being fixated on a blame game while ignoring the urgent need to combat the pandemic.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told a House committee Thursday that businesses are struggling to find workers because Americans don't want to work right now.