Judges awarding the accolades - the Oscars of British journalism - heaped praise on agenda-setting stories and fearless commentary.

In glorious July sunshine, the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, 40 years ago this month, provided Britain with a rare blast of celebration during a difficult summer.

But this morning No10 said Mr Johnson would take advantage of a pilot scheme not widely available tot he public to avoid going into isolation.

Britney Spears unleashed another furious expletive-laden Instagram post on Friday that called out her father Jamie Spears and her younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears.

The Duchess of Sussex is teaming up with David Furnish to work on the Netflix project which follows a '12-year-old heroine who finds inspiration in influential women from history'.

The Scottish Airbnb hosts phoned in police after discovering the 'drugs' in a package sent to the holiday home in Prestwick, East Ayrshire. They claim the crystalised substance was crystal meth.

GRAHAM BRADY: How far tomorrow looks like a real Freedom Day will be up to all of us and our determination to return to normal life. It is time for us all now to start using our own judgment.

Facebook on Saturday defended itself against President Biden's assertion social media platform is 'killing people' by allowing misinformation on covid vaccines.

The esteemed director, 64, took to the stage on Saturday to announce the award winners and misunderstood the host when she asked him to read 'which prize is the first prize'.

The Mail on Sunday has learned that growing numbers of youngsters are being kept at home to avoid the risk of being 'pinged' or told to self-isolate.

PETER HITCHENS: People ask angrily: 'Where were they?' They were where they almost always are when we want them. Elsewhere.

Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak are at loggerheads over plans for a new £10 billion-a-year 'health tax' to clear the NHS Covid backlog and fund reforms to care for the elderly.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was planning to give a Churchillian speech at an iconic location associated with the wartime leader to celebrate the ending of Covid restrictions.

A separate UEFA source has told The Mail on Sunday that the estimate of ticketless fans is 'in four figures,' with FA chiefs due to provide answers to Parliament this week over the incident.

Amy Winehouse's last partner has married actress and model Zita Teby, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

I gather Harry has gone full LA-lifestyle by making use of an ultra-exclusive and lavish private airport service called The Private Suite.

DAN HODGES: At the decisive hour, the man who said he aspired to be the mayor from Jaws - because 'he kept the beaches open' - has lost his nerve.

The sex ban has been alluded to by the organisers in several ways. The latest Playbook says attendees must 'avoid physical contact, including hugs and handshakes', and 'keep physical interactions with others to a minimum'.

A dozen horses, 13,000 rounds of ammunition, 132 sofas, 40,000 tea bags and a red telephone box barely scrape the surface of the inventory that the BOA have shipped to Japan.

The plan is being pushed by influential No 10 advisers - led by Jonathan Van-Tam, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England - who fear the South African, or Beta, variant.

John Bercow, pictured right, decided to accept his pension after stepping down as speaker after discussing the matter with his wife, Sally, left. He was entitled to the £35,000-a-year payment after retiring.

Sajid Javid had fallen victim to a political assassination in February 2020 by Dominic Cummings, who at the time was still unchallenged as Boris Johnson's pugilistic No 10 adviser.

Officers in Bedfordshire recorded the incident as a non-crime hate incident, which will remain on file for six years and could be disclosed to prospective employers.

Jade Jagger, 49, the daughter of Rolling Stones legend Sir Mick Jagger has split from Adrian Fillary, her DJ husband and - as this picture shows - she has removed her wedding ring.

Police in Germany have waned that photography drones are hindering their own aircraft searching for survivors while a Belgian mayor said visitors' cars are blocking emergency vehicles.

The Mail on Sunday understands that veteran performer Steven Berkoff, who was to play Polonius, and rising star Emmanuella Cole, have both left the show.

Many predicted COVID would destroy the cruise industry, but it already appears to be bouncing back.

From tomorrow, after more than a year of being legally required to wear one in many public spaces, Britons will finally be free to ditch their face masks for good.

The Cystic Fibrosis Trust, Blood Cancer UK and Kidney Care UK, among others, have called for specific guidance for the most vulnerable after tomorrow's so-called Freedom Day.

Up to one in four of the population suffers a diagnosable skin condition, and many of these are linked to sun exposure.

Campaigners say about 1.6 million hospitality workers are being left out of pocket as up to two-thirds of unscrupulous restaurant bosses in the sector take a share of customer gratuities.

The actress, 63, oozed elegance as she led the stars alongside Rosmund Pike and Gemma Chan for the premiere of OSS 117: From Africa With Love on Saturday night.

The BBC's highest-paid star made nine 404-mile round trips between his London home and a studio in Salford, Greater Manchester, to front live coverage of matches.

Online retailers are believed to charge more to customers if they are buying goods online using expensive computers such as Apple MacBooks. Now the government is planning to outlaw the practice.

PROFESSOR EDWIN CONNER: I would argue the novel shows us, as Atticus teaches Scout, that there is power in language. And it often reveals who people are in a way they do not intend.

MOS COMMENT: The current 'pingdemic' in which huge numbers of people are being told to self-isolate by the NHS app on their phones, is beginning to look like a lockdown by the back door

Prince Charles has explained that he will only be wearing a face covering after 'Freedom Day' on Monday, July 19 when the Government advice tells him to, the Mail on Sunday can reveal.

The University of East Anglia - which boasts Nobel Prize laureate Kazuo - has branded English as a 'coloniser' language and will scrap teaching Shakespeare.

The Reverend Charlie Boyle, 52, accused Church authorities of 'bullying' and 'intimidating' him, and pursuing a string of petty complaints to force him out of his job at All Saints Church in Poole, Dorset.

In Sainsbury's a 300g packet of smoked bacon back rashers costs £2.05 - the same as £6.83 per kilo. Yet a smaller 200g packet costs £1.80, or £9 per kilo, making it 32 per cent more expensive.

Dragons' Den presenter Evan Davis, 59, took to Twitter on Tuesday to reveal he had been forced to not go ahead with his Radio 4 show after testing positive.

Mount, Shaw, Walker and Rice all started the tournament showpiece at Wembley, with Shaw scoring after just two minutes, but Leonardo Bonucci equalised before the dreaded spot-kicks.

Sebastian Eubank, who was the third eldest of Chris Eubank's five children and a light-heavyweight boxer, is believed to have drowned off a beach in Dubai while swimming.

Chants of 'Black Lives Matter' rang out in London as the demonstrators raised their fists and held anti-racism placards aloft, and heard from speakers including Labour politician Diane Abbott.

Northern Ireland saw its highest temperature on record today with County Down getting to 88.2F (31.2C) at 3.40pm, beating the previous high of 87.4F (30.8C) reached in both 1983 and 1976.

Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Iceland and the Co-op are among companies saying they are willing to sign up to proposed rules to tackle the UK's obesity epidemic.

Prince Albert II of Monaco, 63, appeared without Princess Charlene again as he attended the Red Cross Summer concert in Monte Carlo, Monaco on Friday.

Thousands of holidaymakers hoping for a prompt getaway ahead of the expected 88F heatwave this weekend were met with misery as traffic came to a standstill near Swindon on Friday.

Department of Health bosses posted another 54,674 cases today - increasing 68 per cent on last Saturday's 32,367 - breaching the 50,000 mark for only the second time since January.

The incident happened around 4am on the A380 outside Newton Abbot. A witness said the ambulance was badly damaged after it struck the pedestrian who was on the carriageway.

The seven-time and current world champion took to Instagram yesterday to ask fans attending the race weekend to cover their faces to 'keep others around us healthy'.

Welcome to Tokyo, home of the postponed 2020 Olympics - the Games that nobody seems to want to take place apart from the revenue-hungry IOC and a Japanese prime minister in need of votes.

Saudi Arabia is considering a joint-bid for the 2030 World Cup with Italy, who won Euro 2020 but is based over 2,000 miles away from the Gulf country, according to reports.

EXCLUSIVE: Analysis of Department of Health data shows that Covid infection rates in South Tyneside, and County Durham are already beginning to fall. Growth rates are falling in eight areas

Metropolitan Police has said the men, both 18, are suspected of taking items and sharing them with others to allow them to get into Wembley to see England face off against Italy in the final.

The UK economy is expected to be hit by £4billion in losses after it reopens fully on Monday because workers are being forced to stay at home and self-isolate by the NHS Covid app.

Renee Zellweger seems to have found love at last with the unlikeliest of suitors - Ant Anstead, a twice-divorced, British father of three - a former policeman turned TV star.

The council was initially unhappy with the couple's plans to build a wildlife corridor to allow birds, bats and bugs to flourish, but have now come back and given their approval - with specific conditions

EXCLUSIVE: The proportion of over-80s dying from the coronavirus in England and Wales has dropped in recent months following the success of the vaccine rollout.

Team GB's Shauna Coxsey, 28, pictured, is Britain's most successful climber and will represent the country in the Tokyo Olympics after the sport was included in the games for the first time.

Petra Wenham (right) sits neatly in a pretty white blouse, denim skirt and perfect mauve nails. She has youthful skin and smooth, bare legs. She is 74 years old - but could pass for 15 years younger.

Harry Kane, 27, looked in high spirits yesterday as he joined Peter Crouch, 40, and friends at Beaverbrook Golf Club in Leatherhead, Surrey.

Companies are being hit by huge staff shortages, with UKHospitality reporting 20 per cent of staff in its industry have been pinged - equating to 400,000 employees.

Naomi, 23, will represent Japan at the Olympics. She was born in in Chūō-ku, Osaka to a Japanese mother and Haitian father and was raised in the US, but has always played for Japan.

The Guardian on Thursday published an explosive report based on purported Kremlin documents, but nearly all US outlets have refrained from coverage, aside from commentary expressing doubts.

President Joe Biden said he is considering ways to restore internet access to the people of Cuba after its government blocked it to stop news and images from the protests from getting out.  

The unnamed woman took to Mumsnet to explain the 'harsh' restrictions upon her arrival in Australia, where she will quarantine at former workers' village Manigurr-ma in Howard Springs, Darwin.

The teen stepped out with dad Daniel Moder for the premiere of Flag Day at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.

The activists used bamboo structures to block trucks from leaving the Newsprinters printing works in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, on September 4.

The move would make family reunions and leisure trips to the UK much easier for the 5.5millon British citizens living abroad.

The Verknipt Outdoor Festival in Utrecht was attended by over 20,000 people over two days earlier this month. Health officials said 1,050 have since tested positive, with numbers expected to rise.

The new Memoji options are due to make their official debut with the release of iOS 15 in the Autumn of this year, but can be seen now in the system's public beta preview .

Ex-Speaker John Bercow is set to join an expert panel on a new online reality TV show called Unicorn Hunters, which allows viewers the opportunity to invest in the next $1billion enterprise.

Shaun Drewery, who lives in North Ferriby, Yorkshire, made the sickening comment about a picture of the England Under 17s football team alongside an image of their senior 1966 World Cup counterparts.

The former ITV News journalist, 69, shared the news with his followers on Twitter on Friday morning, saying: 'I fear it'll be a while but I'll be back!'

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arranged for a range of Pampers products for different age groups to be delivered to Los Angeles-based group Harvest Home.

Isobel Morrey, 18, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, was at her largest in January 2020 when she was a size 14 and creeping up to a size 16, but started a diet in March 2020/

A chartered quantity surveyor lost his job after telling colleagues their company had HIV and he had been 'brought in to stop it before it became full blown AIDS', a tribunal heard.

Several England stars, including Mason Mount, Jack Grealish and Kalvin Phillips, have all ventured out to Mykonos for their post-Euro 2020 holidays - where Harry Maguire was arrested last summer.

Port Macquarie student, Matilda, has shared her freak jet ski accident on TikTok. The 21-year-old student shared how the jet of the jet ski 'shot up her bum' and perforated her internal organs.

Richard Gnodde, the boss of Goldman Sachs International, said coverings will be mandatory in the London office despite people not being legally required to wear masks from Monday.

A Brisbane electrician moonlighting as a surgeon despite having no qualifications has fronted court to face charges. The man offered services on a eunuch website, removing two men's genitalia.

NHS England figures revealed 35.1million Britons have now received both Covid jabs, or 66.6 per cent of the country. Boris Johnson heralded the achievement as 'extraordinary' today.

The passes should only be issued to those who have received both doses of the vaccine, recovered from the virus or tested negative. But a loophole in the system means anyone can get a pass.

This Morning GP Dr Nighat Arif, from Buckinghamshire, has revealed she plans to delete the NHS Track and Trace app because she is continually pinged and told to go into self-isolation.

The fast food chain is giving staff money off their meals for the rest of the year as a 'small token of thanks' for their services during the last 15 months, and the offer will be available through its app.

Video released by the NYPD shows the moment a 57-year-old man is hit with a liquid while walking in Midtown Manhattan on July 5, causing second-degree burns as violent crimes increase.

Dressed in head-to-toe green threads, Justin was seen throwing his hands in the air while walking through the casino with his wife of two years.

It may take three years to clear the backlog of patients waiting for routine care, says departing NHS boss Sir Simon Stevens.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach accidentally called Japanese people 'Chinese' in a meeting with the hosts of the Tokyo 2020 Games in the latest blow for the sporting event.

Professor Anthony Harnden, deputy chairman of the JCVI, said ministers' proposal to drop the waiting time between jabs amid surging cases could lead to weaker immunity in younger people.

Zerail Rivera, who went by the name Indian Red Boy, was murdered in Hawthorne on July 8 at about 4.10pm while speaking to a friend on Instagram from inside his car.

Janice, who married the software entrepreneur in 2013, said she did not believe John was behind the note and that the handwriting was not a match.

Three nasal sprays claiming to offer protection against the coronavirus have amended their advertising or stopped being sold in the UK.

Dozens of migrants were dramatically rescued off the French coast on Monday - including 37 who were trapped on a sandbank and had to be airlifted to safety in a race against the rising tide.

Nikki Moustaki, from New York City, bought a new electric kettle to make tea. However, she took to TikTok to accuse it of having a 'major flaw' as the kettle overflows when it boils.

The Department of Justice has brought federal trespassing and disorderly conduct charges against Kristi Munn, Tom Munn, Dawn Munn, Josh Munn, and Kayli Munn of Borger, Texas.

A Chinese surveillance vessel called 'Tianwangxing' is being closely monitored by the Australian Military as it approaches Queensland waters for the Talisman Sabre 2021 war games.

Moderna will soon begin trials to find whether their vaccine is safe for pregnant women. Currently, the CDC does not have advice for pregnant women and the vaccine.

Chloe Wiegand's grandfather accidentally dropped the 18-month-old through an open window of the ship docked in San Juan in July 2019. Her parents sued the cruise line.

Guidance released by the Government last night warned that it will consider making the system 'mandatory' in future if steps to limit the spread of Covid are not taken by firms.

The report prepared by Marine Lt. Gen. Robert Schmidle and Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, both retired, came in response to recent Naval disasters, including a fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard.

Four exoplanets that orbit stars TOI 2076 and TOI 1807 were discovered and all are in their 'teenage' years, which could help shed new light on the early days of Earth, researchers said.

'An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination', by journalists Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang, gives an inside look into the rise and fall of Facebook.

The US-based Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who welcomed their second child Lilibet Diana on 4 June, could take home a gong for their two-hour tell-all, which aired in March.

Shocking video that purports to have been taken in the town of Dawlat Abad, northern Afghanistan, on June 16 shows a group of soldiers with their arms raised being shot to death.

Exclusive DailyMail.com photos show Bill Cosby smiling and looking healthy as he celebrated his 84th birthday Monday.

The two workers were standing underneath an overturned crane when the cable of another crane supporting it snapped in a terrifying incident in Germany.

Nine contestants took part in the proactive project. Artists spent 129 hours painting the women, earning a Guinness Book record for 'most hours in body painting for a sporting event.'

In footage shared online by four US holidaymakers, the mammoth crocodile can be seen walking calmly past a putting hole at the Dreams Playa Mujeres resort golf course near Cancun.

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced last week that the use of 'bubbles' in schools and colleges in England will come to an end as the country moves towards easing restrictions.

Coca-Cola is changing the recipe of Coke Zero Sugar for the second time in four years, but fans of the drink are lashing out at the revision just as they did after taste changes in 2017.

Imperial College London experts claimed it was possible admissions this autumn are up to five times higher than levels seen during the second wave, despite the hugely successful vaccine rollout.

A spokesperson for The Prince Of Egypt said it is 'impossible to perform' at London's Dominion Theatre while all the infected person's close contacts self isolate.

NASA's Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids that orbit Jupiter will bring a plaque that will act as a 'time-capsule,' including quotes from Carl Sagan, Albert Einstein, The Beatles and more.

EXCLUSIVE: Britain's rapid rise in Covid cases means it now beats almost all of the countries on its red Covid travel list in terms of daily infections: Mongolia, the Seychelles, Tunisia and Namibia.

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Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar claims Boris Johnson's decision to avoid imposing a circuit-breaker lockdown back in September was 'catastrophic' as warns of 'Freedom Day' easing.

Some 530,126 alerts telling people across the UK to self-isolate were sent out in the week to July 7 - a 46 per cent rise on the week before.

The Prime Minister found himself under attack from all sides of the political spectrum amid surging virus cases and hundreds of thousands being forced to self-isolate by the NHS Covid app.

A source who attended the nine-hour virtual meeting of the powerful National Executive Committee (NEC) said: 'An NEC member directly asked the leader to consider stepping aside.'

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says his back has 'fully healed' but his ribs still haven't after he fell down slippery stairs at a property in Sorrento, southeast of Melbourne on March 9.

Recently-resigned Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley claimed the highly-contagious strain wasn't as infectious as it was made out to be because so few of those tested were positive.

Demonstrations took place across Sydney on Saturday following Premier Gladys Berejiklian's announcement restrictions would be tightened to stem the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant.

Sydney is suffering through its biggest Covid outbreak of the entire pandemic with 1,242 cases in the past month - more than the 1,233 in the entire first wave in February to May 2020.

AFL club St Kilda have condemned racist abuse after Indigenous wingman Bradley Hill became the latest player targeted on social media.

A medical team was dispatched around midday on Sunday after reports a teenage boy had become impaled on a tree branch at a home in Albion Park in Wollongong, on the NSW South Coast.

Jessica Radcliffe, 31, from Anagh Coar, the Isle of Man, was jailed for eight months after she and Leanna Louise Bradley, 33, forced their way into a woman's home and assaulted her.

The the BP truck stop in Raglan, outside Bathurst west of the Blue Mountains, was visited by a positive case four nights in a row last week on Tuesday to Friday.

Guto Harri was publicly reprimanded by GB News executives and forced out after taking the knee in solidarity with black England football stars who received racist abuse after the Euros final.

Henry Dimbleby's National Food Strategy has recommended that all food businesses with more than 250 employees be legally required to publish food waste figures.

The Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down over eastern Ukraine on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in July 2014, killing all 298 on board, including 38 Australian residents.

David Turner disappeared and is feared to have drowned after his car was found abandoned at Uriarra Crossing, 30km west of Canberra, on Thursday, five years after the Dreamworld disaster.

The three removalists who allegedly knew they were infected with coronavirus before they drove out of south-west Sydney and all over regional NSW could be jailed for six months and fined $11,000 each.

Candy Crush was the top game among 2,000 old folk in a study, followed by Tetris. Other top choices were Grand Theft Auto (pictured) and Fortnite.

M&S boss Steve Rowe warned the number of people in Covid isolation is increasing exponentially and could affect one in five supermarket workers by mid-August, forcing him to reduce store hours.

Horticulturists say plants have become accustomed to the extra warmth of people moving around their homes and the additional carbon dioxide produced by their breathing.

Hundreds of people left Florida on buses Friday night headed to Washington D.C. to protest on the steps of the White House and Cuban embassy on Saturday.

A federal court voted to stay a judge's decision ruling that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cannot enforce COVID-19 cruise ship rules after July 18.

Three people were shot outside of the third base gate of Washington Nationals stadium while a game was in progress Saturday night. The Nationals were in the sixth inning against the Padres.

The Texas House Democratic Caucus leadership made the announcement on Saturday - five days after the left-wing lawmakers jetted out of the state.

Adam Neumann, 42, the former chief executive of the office sharing company, was said to have enjoyed smoking cannabis together with senior execs onboard forcing the crew to wear oxygen masks.

The moment a Jewish man on his way to synagogue in New York City on Friday was viciously attacked by two men was caught on alarming video footage.

Los Angeles police arrested dozens of people during a transgender rights protest and fired non-lethal projectiles to disperse the unruly mob that turned violent.

A chemical leak at Six Flags' Splashtown waterpark near Houston left 26 people transported to the hospital and dozens more reportedly injured Saturday.

Daniel Andrews has warned the next 48 hours are 'critical' in determining if Victoria will end its five-day lockdown on time - as the state recorded 17 new cases.

Lucinda Hoffman froze in her seat when the therapist queried: 'Have you ever been abused?' It was a question no-one had ever thought to ask.

Among the latest NSW cases was a truck driver who delivered pet food on July 14, 15 and 16 to depots in Parkes and Blayney in the state's central-west.

Daniel Andrews has taken another swipe at New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian over the Covid outbreak that has spread from Sydney and infected dozens of Victorians.  

New South Wales has recorded 105 cases of Covid overnight, with 27 out in the community for their entire infectious period.