More than 700 branch managers were prosecuted of crimes including fraud and theft when money went 'missing' from their UK Post Office accounts.

Emergency services were called to Formby Beach in Sefton, Merseyside at around 7.10pm yesterday, police said in a statement. The three men have been taken to hospital by air ambulance for treatment.

The couple tied the knot in secret at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday before celebrating with a small group of family and friends at a summer festival-themed party in the Downing Street garden.

In a significant victory for the Daily Mail's Betrayal of the Brave campaign, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announced the fast-tracking of Afghan translators' applications to come to the UK.

When Christopher Jones lost his £190,000 Rolex watch after crashing in the snow while skiing, he sought a payout from his insurers. But he won't get a penny now

The NHS is racing to give millions of over-50s their second Covid vaccine shot by June 21 to allow England to open up on 'Freedom Day' as hoped, with ministers setting a deadline for the first time.

Girls as young as 14 were targeted by those attempting to take a sexual image of them without consent. Offences were reported in places such as supermarkets, parks and on public transport

The Arena series The Princess and Panorama, aired in 2005, disclosed how Diana, Princess of Wales, told Buckingham Palace about the interview just before BBC bosses briefed their newsroom.

Michelle Heaton, 41, has frankly discussed the drug and alcohol addiction that led to her recent stint in The Priory.

As if coping with midnight feeds and 3am nappy changes wasn't hard enough, scientists now say that sleepless nights can age new mothers by up to seven years.

The giants squirrels have been known to scientists for almost 130 years - but was previously thought to be a single very rare species living mostly in remote valleys in Pakistan.

The city centres of Leeds and Newcastle were particularly bustling with people enjoying one of their first proper nights out this year.

The National Trust is branching out by experimenting with sustainable methods of shielding saplings such as 'crates' made from diseased trees, protecting them with shrubs.

Britons going on staycations risk overburdening local hospitals this summer. Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, warned they're already at 'full stretch'.

A member of David Cameron's family and a multi-millionaire Tory party donor are linked to firms which are yet to strip Grenfell-style cladding from high-rise buildings.

The Queen will have a 'plus one' for her official birthday parade in Windsor next month as the Royal Family continues to rally round the bereaved Monarch, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Travis Perkins, Britain's biggest builders' merchant said Britons faced 'considerable' cost rises following a boom in extensions, conversions and landscape gardening projects in lockdown.

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove told MPs last week the costs and benefits of introducing them were 'finely balanced', as he suggested they may not be needed.

Shocking figures show that some people in the UK have been left waiting two years for vital operations. And there has been a 21,000 per cent increase in the number waiting at least a year.

Several businesses across the UK say they cannot get the staff needed to kickstart their recovery while millions remain on furlough and there are fears some people will lose their will to work.

Cases brought by employees who said they had suffered at work or lost jobs or promotions because of their ages in the UK rose by 74 per cent last year - from 2,112 in 2019 to 3,668.

The new system will stop an estimated £1.2billion being paid out by banning the settlement of whiplash claims in the UK without a doctor's report.

Two Otterhound puppies named Ronnie and Reggie need to be tough like their Kray twin namesakes because they are vital to the survival of the native breed - the most vulnerable in Britain.

The 130-year-old St John's Roman Catholic seminary in Wonersh, near Guildford, Surrey, is closing this summer after running out of trainee priests, with the class of 2021 numbering only five.

In a five minute phone call Diana's former butler Paul Burrell claims Martin Bashir brashly pushed him for information on which 'boyfriends' she'd met with - as she secretly listened in 'gobsmacked'.

Samantha de Forges, who was appointed in the new role in February, is leading a review into military titles to be used in the UK's armed forces which will happen next year.

The graffiti, which read 'Chelsea', 'CFC' and '1905' - the year in which the London football club was founded - was daubed on the base of the monument to the British wartime premier in Westminster.

The Government was told about the variant's presence in Britain on April 1 but no statement was made until April 15. Pictured: Makeshift funeral pyres for coronavirus victims in India.

Officers arrived at the scene on Romsey Close in Cramlington, Northumberland, just after 1am on Saturday.

Home Secretary Priti Patel will make electronic ankle tags a condition of their release from prison, and has ordered enough GPS kits for 4,5000 offenders by the end of next year

With exams cancelled due to coronavirus, teachers are assessing grades, leaving some parents worrying about bias or whether special needs or disabilities will be taken into account.

Samantha Jenkins, aged 19, from Felinfoel, south Wales died suddenly in June 2011. A coroner ruled that chewing gum could have played a part in her death.

A friend told The Mail on Sunday that Britain's Prince William was disappointed and 'greatly concerned' after Prince Harry's latest fusillade.

The youth was reportedly filmed saying: 'We'll find some Jews here ... We want the Zionists, we want their blood!'

Richmond Council is taking legal action against the group after they parked up a number of caravans on Kew Green, in Richmond, on Thursday evening.

The boy, now eight, was snatched and thrown from the viewing platform by Jonty Bravery, aged 17 at the time of the attack on August 4 2019.

The mediation session, called Walk in the Park, asks prison and probation staff to close their eyes and imagine walking through a park where they encounter different people.

The tour comes amid international uproar over the hijacking of a Ryanair flight to detain a dissident journalist.

Lance Corporal Andy Francis, 30, died in Scotland on May 23, becoming the eleventh veteran who served with or was attached to 2nd Battalion the Rifles to take their own life.

The TV presenter, 45, and his fiancée, 43, are said to be keen for a simple nuptials with just their loved ones present, it was reported on Saturday.

The victim, aged in his 50s, has been named as flower seller Tony Eastlake. He was found on Essex Road in Islington with stab wounds around 5.30pm today.

The former chief adviser to the Prime Minister boasted that would 'definitely' have led to the vaccines rollout starting in September - three months before it actually did.

It comes after years of criticism about the way technology companies have channelled profits through tax havens to minimise the amount they pay on their vast revenues.

A foreign criminal desperate to leave Britain has been kept in detention for eight months because the Home Office cannot get him on a plane home - and he is now suing the Government.

Ian Lavery, the party chairman when Mr Corbyn was leader, faced claims of plotting to boost the hard Left's grip on Labour's grassroots membership, who will play a vital role in picking a new leader.

The Newcastle United owner's Dassault Falcon 7X clocked up 145,000 miles in just 12 months, landing at 34 destinations in 15 countries since June 1, 2020.

The music industry lobby group headed by former Labour Deputy Leader Tom Watson was last night accused of failing to publicly stand up for victims of sexual harassment.

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Environment Secretary George Eustice today warned the Government 'couldn't rule anything out' when asked whether June 21 'freedom day' could be delayed due to rising Covid infections.

A rugby-themed mass Covid vaccination set in the Twickenham Stadium home of the sport will jab as many as 15,000 people today.

Jasmine Hartin, the daughter-in-law of British billionaire Lord Michael Ashcroft, is set to be charged over the death of Belize Superintendent Henry Jemmott according to the slain cop's family.

The woman, from Altona Meadows in Melbourne's south-west, immediately checked her ticket after the call and realised she held one of the seven division one winners in Saturday's TattsLotto draw.

Qured is on the government's list of private test providers, and promises customers a 'fit-to-fly' certificate within an hour of receiving a negative test on a video call.

Missing Lucy Morris, 17, from Harrogate, has not been seen since May 15 and has not contacted anyone via text or social media since May 22 sparking an urgent police appeal for information.

Miss Truss is said to be pushing for departments to join the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and Acas in dropping the Diversity Champions scheme.

In its most recent forecasts, the CDC predicted that there will be a total of 596,000 to 606,000 COVID-19 deaths in the United States by June 19.

Mainstream media reporters and pundits admitted over the weekend they were wrong to dismiss the Wuhan lab leak theory just because it was espoused by former President Donald Trump.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CBS News on Sunday that the likelihood COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab is growing while the odds that the coronavirus was transmitted from animals to humans grow longer.

Police escorted high school principal Ben Nakamura off campus in Stockton, California, after a graduation speech he made on Thursday in which he criticized the school administration.

Rescue workers have found human remains after the plane crash of diet guru Gwen Shamblin Lara and her husband and Joe Lara at at Percy Priest Lake in Smyrna, 25 miles southeast of Nashville

Roberto Silva Jr., the man accused of killing two Sonic employees in Omaha in November is now facing additional charges for allegedly stabbing another inmate while in Sarpy County Jail.

The Johnsons surprise Saturday wedding at Westminister Cathedral capped a roller-coaster week for the couple in which they were both mauled by the PM's ex-chief aide.

The fight at the Blue Bell Inn pub in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, saw police tackle two people to the ground with up to ten officers on the scene who could be heard shouting 'stay down' and 'get back'.

Above the crooked rooftops, timbered gables, colourful hanging baskets, upmarket restaurants and cobbled streets of Henley-on-Thames, the sky swirls with enormous red kites in ominous flocks.

The mercury could reach 77F (25C) today - making it the hottest day of the year so far and giving Britons the chance to enjoy a sunny Bank Holiday Monday.

Naomi Osaka was fined $15,000 by Grand Slam organizers for boycotting a news conference following her first-round win in Paris. Fox Sports Radio host Rob Parker suggested she should have stayed home.

Footage shows panic in the Russian city of Barnaul as the giant inflatable tore off its moorings and hurled the two small children, aged three and four, 25ft in the air, over a metal fence, and onto tram tracks.

The Government banned bailiff-enforced evictions last March due to the pandemic but the ban will be lifted tomorrow sparking concern about a spike in homelessness from housing campaigners

A six-month-old baby girl has been rushed to hospital after contracting and invasive strain of meningococcal.

A new poll suggests a third of Americans believe sending troops to fight in World War II was a mistake. Economist / YouGov poll looked at various conflicts spanning over the last 100 years.

Cedric Charles Moore Jr of Cape Girardeau, Missouri pleaded guilty to second-degree assault on May 10. Moore was filmed sucker-punching Ethan Hagler, 12, last July as he danced on a sidewalk.

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former President Donald Trump's former national adviser backed the idea of a military coup similar to Myanmar's happening in the U.S. at a QAnon conference in Dallas.

Sophie Hartman, 31, claimed that the little girl suffered from a rare neurological disease, Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood, but doctors now say the child is perfectly healthy.

The Liberal-National Opposition has pointed to several failures that have contributed to the latest shutdown, including the lack of a uniform QR system until Friday.

Just after midnight three people armed with assault rifles and handguns pulled up to the El Mula Banquet Hall in Northwest Miami-Dade in a white SUV and began shooting.

The broadcaster said in a statement: 'All parties have agreed to not pursue the matter any further. No damages will be paid.'

Angelica Green said she received a call from her 24-year-old son early Sunday morning informing her and her husband that he had been shot at a concert and was going to a local hospital.

The Australian Taxation Office will be using a special software program to catch out professionals or tradies who get a little too creative with their annual returns.

Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton hinted the state's seven-day lockdown could be extended beyond Thursday as the number of primary contacts exposed to the virus reached 4,200.

Retailer Harvey Norman is the subject of a boycott campaign after its official Twitter account responded with a face palm emoji to a user who claimed to have become suicidal after working for the company.

Walter Hussman, a megadoner to the University of Northern California Chapel Hill voiced opposition to its hiring of New York Times Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, emails reveal.

Qantas would be nationalised and owned by the Australian taxpayers again if a key trade union in the Labor Party had its way. The flying kangaroo airline was sold off in 1992.

Australians in the Northern Territory will now have to be re-tested for COVID-19 after they leave the facility, amid fears the new Indian variant of the virus could be spread by returned travellers

Cheering, eating, high-fives and drinking alcohol would also be banned under controls now being considered, a Japanese newspaper said.

Coleman Thomas Blevins, 28, has been arrested after authorities said he had plans to carry out a mass shooting at a Walmart in Texas. Blevins made a specific threat which led to his arrest.

Real-life Freddo the frogs have been found hiding in the dense, crocodile-infested jungles of New Guinea - and they're dead ringers for the Cadbury's chocolate treat.

Queensland man Luke Mobbs was fishing on the Calliope River near Gladstone on Sunday when he spotted a white-breasted eagle drop a wounded echidna into the water.

Yvonne Mary Hall, 69, co-founded a charity that claimed to sell bricks to establish a memorial at the Pozieres battlefield in France - yet used the money for shopping and gambling.

A pair of frustrated tradies have set the internet alight when they tried to avoid getting caught dancing for joy after spending hours repairing a broken air conditioner.

A young Sydney Swans AFL fan who held on tightly to the match ball when it found her in the stands on Sunday was identified after an online search and is expected to receive her own ball.

The worst nightmares of the families of thousands of Melburnians housed in aged care facilities have been realised as authorities scramble to contain a COVID-19 outbreak. 

The cold spell began smashing records over the weekend with Melbourne shivering through 1.7C on Sunday - the coldest May morning in 70 years.

A Florida punk rock show is charging $999.99 per ticket for unvaccinated concert goers. The policy has angered fan Brittney Wigen, (left) who has so far been unable to get vaccinated.

Energy Minister Angus Taylor said emissions were 20 per cent below 2005 levels with gas emissions from transport, Australia's third largest source of pollution, falling by 12 per cent.

Reserve Bank of Australia credit figures show total housing loans rose by a further 0.5 per cent in April for an annual pace of 4.4 per cent, the highest since January 2019.

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors called for an end to Israel, which she called an 'imperialist project', at a 2015 panel discussion at Harvard Law School.

Qantas Alan Joyce expects the airline to eventually return to full capacity following the snap seven-day lockdown which is due to end on Thursday.

Twenty people from Tassal's Strathblane facility near Dover were taken to the Royal Hobart Hospital for assessment, with six remaining overnight in a stable condition.

A resident at the Arcare facility in Maidstone, Melbourne caught the virus after a staffer worked while infectious, with another worker also testing positive on Monday.

Jeff Bezos, 57, said he was the victim of an unsuccessful extortion attempt by the National Enquirer after it published intimate texts between him and girlfriend Lauren Sanchez in 2019.

Melbourne man Scott Racevskis, 22, had ordered the Subway sandwich after a night out with friends when he discovered a sharp green blade was nestled inside the tuna roll.

Westpac chief executive Peter King said vaccinations were critical to getting lives back to normal and warned closing borders and relying on lockdowns was unsustainable.

Sydney's median house price is already expensive enough. Now the experts are expecting real estate values in Australia's biggest cities to surge by 21 per cent in 2021 to more than $1.2million.

A horrified Coles shopper was shocked to discover black marks on her prosciutto meat which she feared was mould - but some deli experts said there was a very simple explanation.

The PM was baptised as a Catholic but was confirmed as an Anglican as a teenager but his previous marriages were not considered valid as they were not Catholic ceremonies.

Mr Daley, who led Labor to its 2019 NSW election defeat, has thrown his hat in the ring to become party leader again after Jodi McKay's resignation on Friday.

The father of missing Belgian backpacker Théo Hayez took the COVID-19 vaccine so he could return to Australia this year for the Coroner's hearing into the disappearance of his son two years ago.

Intelligence operatives are investigating the possibility that a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese research facility, sparked the global crisis which has sparked more than 3.5 million deaths.

Animal rescue worker Brittany Weston asked that Port Kennedy residents kept their distance from the fox, explaining the wild animal would bite curious onlookers as a fear response if approached.

A pair of young Australian sisters have escaped from hotel quarantine in the Northern Territory after climbing over a fence into a waiting getaway car.

The video was uploaded to the social media site by thatjeremytoh after he made the discovery while shopping at a Woolworths on Sunday.

Thunderstorms bringing rain and hail will hit much of the southern Plains on Monday, with downfalls of more than three inches possible from south-central Oklahoma to north-central Texas.

Koch criticised the delivery of the vaccine after Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack made the comment on Sunday amid rising demand for the jab in lockdown-stricken Victoria.

Biden paid tribute to his son Beau on the sixth anniversary of his death during Memorial Day remarks in Delaware on Sunday where he vowed to confront Putin on human rights abuses.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says the border will stay open with Victoria despite her concern about the escalating COVID crisis there.

It's called a zipper merge but who has right of way has divided the internet after NSW Police posed the tricky highway code question on Facebook.

Melbourne-based blogger Adele Barbaro captured the heartwarming gesture as it unfolded outside of her local Woolworths on Sunday night.

Tick and Kate Everett know the pain of losing a child all too well, following the death of 14-year-old Dolly in 2018 after a campaign of relentless bullying at her boarding school.

Kirsten Gillibrand said she opposed all three of Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominees because she was afraid they would overturn Roe v. Wade and threaten women's rights to an abortion.

Roger Stone, left, believes criminal charges against Donald Trump, right, are a certainty, but investigations by the New York attorney general and Manhattan district attorney were 'witch hunts'.

David Warner was released from hotel quarantine early Monday morning, 14 days after he landed in Sydney from the Maldives after feeing India where he was playing T20 cricket.

Authorities have launched an investigation into the alleged gathering at Moda Kitchen and Bar in inner-city Melbourne amid claims the ringleaders of an anti-lockdown protest attended the venue.

Coronavirus fragments have been found in a rural Queensland town of 14,000 people, despite it being 800km from Brisbane.

Ashanta Eve Tolley who studies music in Boston, is regularly bombarded with uneducated remarks from Americans who hold misconceptions about Australia.

Police say the vandals damaged the bayonet of the statue at Martin Place, in Sydney's CBD, just before 3.10am on Saturday.

Police refuse to confirm reports a second ski has been found in the search for Jordan Kelly, 26, who disappeared while paddling around North Stradbroke Island on Saturday.

Scott Morrison is in New Zealand to hold talks with its leader Jacinda Ardern, with an extension of the bubble on the cards in exciting news for holiday-starved Aussies.

Two aged care residents may have tested positive to coronavirus in Melbourne after an infected staffer worked while infectious, according to the home's local MP Bill Shorten.

Wildlife authorities are investigating after a wedge-tail eagle was found riddled with shotgun pellets in Birchs Bay, southern Tasmania.

Bill Shorten acknowledged Emma Husar was treated poorly by some people within the party as she threatens legal action over sexual harassment claims.

Police hold grave fears for 26-year-old Jordan Kelly who became separated from his mate Jack McDonald while they were paddling their surf skis around North Stradbroke Island on Saturday.

A Kmart worker has been slammed for instructing a mother who found mysterious insects in a bucket of magic sand to throw it away, as others warn the bugs could be a biosecurity threat.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the new hospital will be built in partnership with private firm Mater Health in Springfield, a former satellite city of Ipswich.

Ben Roberts-Smith has won a court victory with a judge ruling he will be the first witness at his defamation trial against media giant Nine over war crimes claims.

The Great British Spring Clean kicked off over the weekend as thousands rolled up their sleeves to tidy up their communities. The target of cleaning one million miles of the UK was within touching distance.

Not long before he acquired a sizeable stake in Debenhams, the former bankruptcy lawyer turned private equity baron David Bonderman decided to do some celebrating.

CEO Alan Joyce said he hopes the plan, which will see ten huge prizes offered to anyone who gets the jab, will bolster the effort and see Australians travelling.

Former Bandidos bikie charged after police said they found a loaded handgun, steroids, $300K worth of vintage cars and jet skis and steroids in a hidden laboratory in Sydney's west.

Australia is yet to sign off on the deal which would allow many of the 240 asylum seekers currently held in offshore detention to start new lives in New Zealand.

A popular Big W store, a discount shopping centre outlet and seven Melbourne bus routes have been exposed to Covid-19 - as the list of infected venues across Victoria reaches 279.

Kiwi leader Jacinda Ardern will throw her support behind Australia's barley battle with China, as New Zealand takes a firmer stand on the authoritarian state.

Melbourne businessman Chris Lucas on Monday morning called $250million in state financial aid 'a kick in the guts' - before tearing into the state government over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Kate Savage was on her way home from an appointment with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service when she tried to take her own life on Albany Highway in Perth on July 22.

Industry experts have noted that products from China are priced so low that it will be almost impossible for domestic companies to compete and many have already begun laying off workers.

Edwin Poots stepped up his attack as he pointed out that once grace periods end more checks will be carried out on goods from Britain than take place in Rotterdam.

Victoria is bracing for an extended lockdown with 40 infected, more than 180 exposure sites, and another looming aged care disaster after an employee at the Arcare facility in Maidstone tested positive.

Pictures show Boris and Carrie's relationship from first snaps together in 2018. Carrie shared their engagement news and birth of their son Wilfred in April 2020 on her private Instagram account.

Suge Knight (top right) allegedly paid a hitman to kill Notorious B.I.G. in LA in 1997 as revenge for Tupac Shakur's (bottom right) murder even though the intended target was Sean 'Diddy' Combs.

Kamala Harris paid tribute to fallen American service members on Sunday after getting excoriated for posting 'enjoy the long weekend' on Twitter without mentioning Memorial Day.

American Airlines halted the sale of alcohol in March 2020 to limit interactions between passengers and flight attendants. The airline now says the ban will remain in place until September 13.