This week Bel advises a 73-year-old reader who's considering leaving his wife for a 37-year-old  masseuse from Thailand.

The proposed scheme will monitor UK supermarket spending and reward those who reduce their calorie intake and buy more fruit and vegetables (file photo).

The Met Office is predicting as much as 4in (100mm) of rain in parts of southern England, the Midlands and Wales for this weekend - while up to 2.3million drivers are set to hit the roads.

I'm not yawning… YOU'RE yawning. Be honest, we were all bloody falling asleep during that endlessly downbeat and dreary opening ceremony for the Tokyo Olympics.

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Did your life change much on Freedom Day this week? No, nor did mine. Since Monday, we have been able to mingle without masks or go into a packed pub.

Because the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit agreement places the border between the UK and Ireland, in effect in the Irish Sea, businesses such as M&S face a nightmare of red tape.

The fire broke out in a three-storey property in south-east London during a joint teenagers' birthday party in January 1981.

The British author, 55, said she was a 'bit paranoid' using her full name 'Joanne Rowling', so opted for her initials following her 'difficult marriage' to Jorge Arantes.

Fans of Harry Maguire, 28, and tourists in the North Devon area were quick to notice the towering 6ft4' England defender and he was all smiles as he posed for photographs and signed autographs.

Covid hospital patients are typically younger, less sick and being discharged faster than in previous waves, as the elderly reap the benefits of getting their jabs sooner.

Footage shows the female employee grappling with a girl before the costumed man lands a kick and a punch - knocking her straight to the floor of the supermarket branch in Clapham, south London.

PATRICK JEPHSON: Prince Harry's book is coming, and so is a wave of potential damage to members of the British royal family and quite possibly the institution of monarchy itself.

Amy was equally well aware that 'J' still had male genitalia because she often intimidated her and fellow female prisoners at HMP Bronzefield in Ashford, Middlesex, by exposing them.

A mountain runner raised the alarm around 2pm on Friday after discovering what he believed could be the remains of a body near the spot where missing hiker Esther Dingley went missing late last year.

In news sure to alarm Buckingham Palace, industry insiders said the 'tell-all' tome unveiled as part of a four-book deal by Prince Harry earlier this week is only the 'tip of the iceberg'.

Gareth Southgate has urged young people to have the jab 'so we can crack on with our lives'. In the UK, more than 46 million people have now had a first Covid-19 vaccine dose.

In agreeing to take down the banners, South Korea's committee claimed the IOC promised displaying the Japanese 'rising sun' flag would also be banned at stadiums and other Olympic venues.

It is the Conservative's smallest lead since mid-February, when the UK was in the midst of its third lockdown, and gave Boris Johnson's government only 38 per cent support, down from 44 per cent.

PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Emily Maitlis is stylish, frighteningly intel-ligent and so sexy that, as one of my friends observed, she could eat your husband for breakfast.

The new website, ViewRabbit, will send a link to prospective buyers and tenants where they can pay the £30 fee to guarantee the viewing (file photo).

Just about everything that could go wrong had gone wrong in the run-up to last night's benighted Tokyo Olympic opening ceremony.

No, not a plan to unseat Sir Keir Starmer - but the race to succeed 'Red Len' McCluskey as leader of Unite, the 1.4-million strong trade union that McCluskey has controlled since 2010.

Ed Jackson was 28 when he dove into a pool and hit his head on the tiles, breaking his neck, and his heart stopped three times in the ambulance on the journey to hospital in Bath.

Summoning selected women to his lavishly appointed home in Sheffield, the Reverend Chris Brain wanted help with what became known as 'putting him to bed'.

Communist agents drew up detailed plans for a disinformation campaign using threats to kill MPs in an attempt to blame the CIA for Earl Mountbatten's murder.

There's nothing like sibling rivarly. Imagine then, what it must have been like over the years for a group of parents whose offspring are gearing up for the Tokyo Olympics.

The charity Age UK analysed official statistics which showed that 1.4million requests for care from older people have been turned down since he became PM.

People in care who spend a night in an NHS hospital must quarantine for longer than a traveller flying back from a red-list country. Campaigners say it is 'discriminatory and unlawful'.

Despite crime levels plunging as the UK was confined to homes, one in seven crimes reported to police last year were dropped within 24 hours. Pictured: Giles Coren.

A few hours after 15-year-old Lynda had left, slamming the door following a petty, sisterly squabble in Leicestershire, she was raped and strangled by Colin Pitchfork.

Millions of families are set to embark on holidays in the UK this weekend, but the wave of closures threatens to throw their plans into chaos (pictured: Sennen Cove, Cornwall).

Nearly 50 top bosses representing and employing millions of UK hospitality, retail, food supplies, manufacturing and transport workers have now joined the campaign.

The Public Health England research Boris Johnson cited was six months old and carried out before the vast majority of the public had been vaccinated against Covid.

Jonathan Dimbleby said it was a 'great shame' that the couple went ahead with the broadcast earlier this year while speaking at the Buxton International Festival in Derbyshire this week.

Latitude Festivalgoers enjoyed sets by Mabel and headliner Wolf Alice on Friday evening with no masks or social distancing as tightly packed crowds of people dancing along to the upbeat music.

Women drinking the daily tipple were almost 20 per cent less likely than teetotallers to experience early menopause, US researchers found.

Autumn Phillips, 43, whose divorce from Princess Anne's 43-year-old son was finalised last month, has apparently known Irish property tycoon Donal Mulryan for more than 15 years.

Once you actually made it in to Latitude Festival in Suffolk yesterday, it was: 'Pandemic? What pandemic?' Pictured: Simon Walters.

There are now 11 banks and building societies in the UK offering a total of 33 home loans priced below 1 per cent.

The arboretum outside the village of Alrewas in Staffordshire is the place of remembrance for all our services and the home of the National Armed Forces Memorial.

Richard Hammond is selling eight of his vehicles to fund his new business, The Smallest Cog. The collection, including cars and motorcycles, will be auctioned at the Classic at Silverstone on August 1.

EXCLUSIVE: The findings, revealed in a Public Health England report last night, provide the first official look at how well the jab rollout is protecting the NHS amid the third wave.

Chas Bayfield (left) and Dave Jenner, in their fifties and creative directors at JWT, were axed from the leading ad agency because bosses 'urgently' wanted to address its poor gender pay gap.

Speaking in Meghan at 40: The Climb to Power, which airs on Channel 5 on Saturday, US-born Viscountess Hinchingbrooke said Meghan 'couldn't switch off the American dream'.

Sarah Lewis, 62, from Weymouth, Dorset was stuck and killed on November 16, 2020 during her first trip out in public since entering lockdown in March.

The space at Westfield London, hosted by Ocean Outdoor, was formally opened today at noon to coincide with the opening ceremony in Japan which was carried out in front of just 950 guests.

Government data shows that 14 per cent fewer tests were carried out compared to last week, which may be partly behind the fall.

Sixteen cases of a version of Covid variant that is thought to have originated in Colombia and contains 'mutations of concern' have been spotted in the UK, Public Health England revealed today.

EXCLUSIVE: Hannah Gregory, 38, from Lancaster, waived her right to anonymity after her attacker was jailed for three years today in a bid to encourage other victims to come forward.

The Queen, 95, is likely to remain at the 50,000-acre estate until early October and will be joined by family members including the Cambridges, the Wessexes during her stay.

Nearly one-third of Britons believe life will not return to normal until at least a year from now, according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

Research led by the University of Oxford showed longer waits between Pfizer jabs improves the number of coronavirus-fighting antibodies and T-cells produced by the body.

Environment Secretary George Eustice today suggested the stricter rules could be scrapped when No10 next reviews the list at the start of August.

A Coast Guard crew was flying changed course to avoid some clouds on their way to Nome, Alaska on Friday when they spotted a man waving both arms in distress, and suffering from a leg injury.

Researchers used information from government websites, news reports and transport associations to produce infographics showing the deadliest roads around the world.

On July 22, 2011, right wing extremist Anders Breivik set off a bomb in the capital, Oslo, killing eight people, before heading to tiny Utoya island where he stalked and shot dead 69 people.

Susanna Ohlen, 39, reportedly muddied herself to pretend she had lent a hand with the clean up effort in Bad Munstereifel following heavy flooding last week that claimed at least 128 lives in Germany.

An article headlined 'Wales BANS English holidaymakers: First Minister Mark Drakeford lifts tourism ban on March 27 - but insists only Welsh people can stay in holiday lets' published on...

A Cape Town magistrates court heard Warrant Officer Ricardo Snyman and Sergeant Sibuyiselo Bentso were caught out as the arrested man looking nothing like the suspect.

The 29-year-old actress made the revelation in an interview with Time on Thursday, saying: 'For a year now, I have been privately identifying and living as a woman - a trans woman.'

Icelandic former electrician Felix Gretarsson, 49, lost both of his arms in an electrical accident in 1998, which saw the limbs set alight after he was shocked while trying to fix a powerline.

Danai Makmek, 26, died on Tuesday in Thailand's central Chonburi province while attempting to fix his sprawling cryptocurrency mining machine, worried out the loss of income of it being out of commission.

The protests are a response to harsh Covid lockdowns in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, with more than half the country's 25million people ordered to stay at home over the outbreak.

The shocking moment a thug threw his left fist at a police horse's face was captured by a photographer during Saturday's violent anti-lockdown protests in Sydney.

Fifty-seven people have been arrested during the protests in Sydney which saw tens of thousands of maskless residents storm the streets demanding an end to lockdown.

The recent heatwave has made way for a deluge of torrential rain (inset), with many areas of the UK battered overnight.

Frontline workers paralysed by Pingdemic chaos will get access to 200 new testing sites from Monday - but there is still confusion as to who will use them and why the government took so long.

Mannat Mann (pictured left, on CCTV, right) was last seen near her home in Wanstead Park in Redbridge at 13.45pm on Thursday, July 22.

The explosive, which is set to be safely detonated by experts later today, was uncovered by construction workers at The Greenways housing development in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire.

The estimated figure is triple the 8,000 that made the crossing from France to the UK in 2020, and considerably higher than the 2019 figure of 1,000.

TikTok comedian Jon-Bernard Kairouz joined thousands of protestors in Saturday's anti-lockdown demonstration in Sydney - and was later criticised by his own social media followers.

Pictures taken at the stroke of midnight showed thousands of young revellers queuing for hours to get into the popular nightclubs and bars in Newcastle and Portsmouth.

Victoria has recorded 12 new Covid cases on Saturday all linked to the Delta strain outbreak.

Anti-lockdown marches have erupted across Sydney and Melbourne with thousands of protesters refusing to wear masks prompting fears they could be super-spreading events. 

The recent heatwave has made way for a deluge of torrential rain (inset), with many areas of the UK battered overnight.

'They're heroes,' Gary Lincenberg said of the LA neighbors he's representing on the first day of Hadid's civil trial which could cost him millions if he loses.

Resident in NSW will be given a supply of 50,000 extra Pfizer doses from the national stockpile to help curb the state's escalating Covid-19 outbreak.

Joe Biden on Friday night spoke to a crowd in Arlington, Virginia in his first campaign event. The president stumped for Terry McAuliffe, running for governor, and touted his successes in six months.

The outfits were showcased in the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony Friday where the summer games kicked off.

Missouri, where only 40 per cent of people are fully vaccinated, is seeing a surge in COVID cases, causing the city of St Louis to reimpose a mask mandate. The town of Branson is refusing.

An Australian doctor has urged younger Australians to consider the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, saying the risk from an adverse reaction to peanuts is higher. 

A woman and her rescue dog died on Friday after she jumped from the roof of her luxury building in New York City while carrying her pet, police said.

A Massachusetts driver who crashed into the ancestral cottage of Abraham Lincoln claims she swerved to avoid a squirrel.

One child and four adults, including two Boston police officers, were taken to the hospital on Friday after a brawl broke out among students on a school bus.

The mayor of New York City on Friday said that private employers should enforce COVID vaccination, saying: 'Private enterprise rights are different than for a public entity.'

Dr. Anthony Fauci has refused to be drawn on 'inflammatory statements' made about him. During an interview on Fox News Fauci discussed U.S. funded NIH 'bat research' in China.

James McGonagle, 24, pleaded not guilty on Friday afternoon before a judge in Queens to charges of attempted kidnapping. He is accused of grabbing a child from the street on July 15.

First lady Jill Biden held an Olympics watch party Saturday for embassy staff at the Tokyo ambassador's residence as a thank you, of sorts, for helping set up her trip.

Gentry Burns, 27, was found guilty of having sex with multiple women without telling them he was HIV-positive, which is illegal under Florida law. Burns pleaded no contest.

Miami-Dade County fire and rescue department on Friday declared an end to its search for human remains in the rubble of a Florida condominium. The tower collapsed on June 24, killing at least 97.

A 25-year-old woman is under arrest and facing charges for allegedly assaulting four Asian victims. Maricia Bell was taken into custody on Thursday charged with four counts of assault

Many of the Duke's belongings, including framed pictures, have been boxed up and left at the nearby castle, amid speculation the couple will never return to the cottage.

The incident unfolded as dozens of anti-maskers gathered outside the Cedars-Sinai Breast Health Services building in West Hollywood Thursday afternoon.

Two sources told The Record that a review found the agency did not target the Fox News host's communications like he had claimed.

Fears are mounting Sydney's Covid outbreak could explode after fed up residents from the southwest stormed the CBD in huge numbers on Saturday from 12pm.

Jill C. Tyson 'engaged in a romantic relationship with a subordinate and failed to timely report the relationship', a report released Thursday found.

US stocks rallied before the closing bell Friday, with all three indexes roaring back from a huge selloff at the start of the week to close on record highs.

There are two prevalent theories for consciousness - monism and dualism. In monism, generally preferred by scientists, consciousness is believed to be entirely a construct of the physical brain.

Disturbing vision uploaded to the Only in Guildford Facebook page shows maskless anti-lockdown protesters hurling bottles and pot plants at Police mounted officers who were just trying to do their job.

Sydney mother Rebecca Strum was rushed to hospital shivering 'severe chest pains' and returned five negative Covid tests - before finally recording a positive reading.

Gold Coast student Rylee Stuart has been rewarded $20,000 by Doritos after finding the 'rare fluffy chip' which sent eBay into an auction frenzy.

A defiant truck driver from Sydney's western suburbs has been fined for beeping his horn while stuck in gridlocked traffic during anti-lockdown protests.

President Joe Biden joked Friday night that the Japanese prime minister 'made it real clear' that he wanted first lady Jill Biden - and not the US president - in Tokyo for the Olympics' opening ceremony.

Sydney recorded 163 new coronavirus cases on Saturday with 45 infectious in the community as Sydney struggles to come to grips with its latest outbreak. 

Brad Hazzard expressed his 'disappointment' that the Victorian Premier and his counterparts were 'casting aside' the relationship they have with NSW as the state battles its ongoing crisis.

His teenage naughty streak got him expelled when he gave his teachers cornflake cakes spiked with laxatives. Owen Evans has been appointed a chief inspector of schools in Wales.

Kind-hearted Melbourne-based Sikh Volunteers Australia have delivered tens of thousands of hearty meals to those in need since the Covid-19 pandemic started last year.

So how much crunch do you really get for your upper-crust crisps? TANITH CAREY takes a bite...

Queensland police have issued an urgent alert for a 12-year-old Mount Louisa boy who went missing on Wednesday morning at around 5.30am.

Staff at hundreds of lorry depots, police and fire stations in England will be able to have daily tests as an alternative to isolating if they get pinged.

PAUL THOMAS: 'Social distancing has reduced the excitement of the track events somewhat.'

Three Sydney removalists infected with Covid-19 are unlikely to be charged after delivering furniture to a Maribyrong apartment sparking an outbreak that plunged Victoria into its 5th lockdown.

Sohail Pardis is reported to have been beheaded by extremists after he was attacked outside Kabul. He applied to be relocated to the US but was rejected.

Richard Jessee says he was riding his ATV with a trailer attached to it to it in Nome last week when he says the bear 'came out of nowhere', picked it up like 'a toy' and tossed it.

Makenzy Beard, 14, of Oxwich, Swansea, has become an international sensation and already has art dealers knocking after getting her work into the prestigious Royal Academy in London.

Arriving in Britain, Fardin and his family are now quarantining in a hotel in Manchester, and the gleeful happiness of the former interpreter and his daughter Faryal, five, is palpable.

UK departure lounges were packed as thousands of travellers jetted off abroad Friday, with the likes of Malta, Madeira, Malaga, Lisbon and Faro in Portugal and Greece being the most popular.

Amber Hill, the No 1 in the world in her sport of skeet shooting, had been working with a sports psychologist, as well as her regular coaches, in preparation for the Tokyo Olympics.

A flight attendant infected with the Delta strain of Covid flew on six crowded planes across the state and visited restaurants and a theme park after experiencing symptoms. 

Sydney is to be given tens of thousands of extra vaccines doses from Scott Morrison's 'emergency stockpile'. It follows 136 cases on Friday, which the NSW Premier labelled a 'national emergency.'

Washington D.C. police chief Robert Contee spoke on rising crime in the city saying 'You cannot coddle violent criminals.' His comments come after a shooting in a popular dining area Thursday.

On Friday, the restraining order was extended until a full hearing on August 2 that is scheduled to last for two to three day.

The study was led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine with the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and OXON Epidemiology.

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the settlement on Friday following a four-year investigation into the alleged culture of rampant sexual harassment at the restaurants.

Canadian commentators have awkwardly mistaken Australian NBA star and Olympic flag bearer Patty Mills for a woman during the Tokyo Games opening ceremony.

A lionhearted Yorkshire terrier fought off a coyote to protect her 10-year-old owner Lucy Kwan in attack while they were walking in their Toronto, Canada neighborhood on Tuesday.  

Dashcam video from a Texas trooper chasing a human smuggler's vehicle shows nearly a dozen illegal immigrants pouring out of the car.in the border town of Del Rio on Wednesday.

In a White House press conference Friday, Jen Psaki refused to say how many staffers tested positive despite being vaccinated after a tense exchange with a reporter over 'transparency.'

NSW Health released two huge lists of Covid exposure sites on Friday which made the feared spread into regional NSW a reality, and included an extraordinary 12 separate Woolworths supermarkets.

A family battling to move forward after their beloved daughter Alyssa Postle's death in a freak car crash north of Brisbane last August are trying to forgive but also feel justice hasn't been served.

Sydneysiders hit out at Victorian Premier Dan Andrews' call for Sydney to be forced into a 'ring of steel' lockdown similar to the one which subjected Melbourne residents to a curfew last year.

The families of NRL stars serving two weeks in hotel quarantine before linking up with the footy players in their respective bubbles have had their balcony rights stripped from them.

The figures gathered in surveys by the Office for National Statistics indicate high levels of disappointment after Boris Johnson's caution on 'freedom day' (file photo).

Justo Smoker has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the 2020 death of an 18-year-old Amish girl saying 'I know Linda was a light. Because of me, the world is dimmer. All I can say is I'm sorry.'

A naked homeless man was seen brazenly holding his penis while smoking a cigarette in broad daylight on Venice Beach in a disturbing video highlighting the city's growing crisis.  

LeAnn Rimes, Eddie Cibrian and his ex-wife Brandi Glanville reunited as one big happy, modern family this week as they accompanied the actor and reality star's son at his college orientation.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin, 47, was spotted enjoying a vacation with his wife, Nicole Shanahan, 35, and friends at Lake Como in while his fellow co-founder Larry Page has become a recluse.

The BLS data show that the nation's three largest cities have unemployment rates dramatically higher than the national average of 5.9 percent in June, with Los Angeles and New York at 10.6%.

Team USA had several noticeable absence during the Opening Ceremony at Tokyo's Olympic Stadium, including Simon Biles, the US gymnastics team, and US Soccer captain Megan Rapinoe.

Bradley Aldrich has been accused in two separate lawsuits of sexually assaulting two Blackhawks players back in 2010, well as a former student who he was convicted of assaulting in 2013.

Mother says advertised 'truly special celebrity-owned penthouse' which she booked on Airbnb in Fulham, south west London, turned out to be 'filthy'.

Rep. Ilhan Omar demands explanation for first U.S. airstrike on Somalia since Biden took office and warns that drones cannot rid the war-torn country of terrorists.

Jen Psaki said it is not the role of the White House to 'place blame' after the governor of Alabama called out Americans who have refused to get vaccinated for the rising COVID rates in the U.S.   

Thomas Barrack reached a deal with prosecutors on Friday that will see him released from custody while he awaits trial on charges of illegal lobbying.

The White House on Friday said it will continue fighting COVID misinformation even after the president was pulled up for saying 'You're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.'

Kennedy would be the second in her famous family to be picked to represent Biden overseas. If nominated and confirmed she is expected to reside in Australia's capital of Canberra.

Ian Gray, 38, was taken into custody in the town of Fishers on Thursday and is facing charges of child molestation, child seduction and sexual misconduct with a minor.

A 100-pound piece of plane landing gear landed on a Maine golf course on Tuesday evening. No one was injured on the course and the pilot executed a safe crash landing turning around to New York.

Martin Yankey, 37, seduced the youngster after plying her with vodka and cocaine when she ran away from a children's home in Wigan in early 2018.

At least 147 unaccompanied minors were caught illegally crossing the United States-Mexico border into southern Arizona, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.