The Office for National Statistics claimed 722,300 people were infected on in the seven-day spell ending July 31. Professor Neil Ferguson said the Uk can handle the pandemic with vaccines.

There was a distinct party atmosphere as teenager Millie Taplin celebrated the end of lockdown restrictions with four school friends - and her first ever night on the town.

ANDREW NEIL: For in the unlikely event that a referendum is forthcoming, it is by no means certain the separatists would fare any better than they did last time.

The One Show's Alex Jones broke down live on air during Friday night's episode after people came together to say 'one big thank you' to her as she goes on maternity leave.

It has been reported that Holly Willoughby and Amanda Holden are among the stars that will be attending the 'simple and beautiful' nuptials between Ant McPartlin's and Anne-Marie Corbett.

Labour MP Rosena Allin-Khan has received three large donations from Henley Homes since January last year - including £5,000 for her failed bid to be deputy leader of the party.

Faye Winter, 26, ended her romance with Teddy Soares, also 26, during Friday's episode of Love Island.

Of all the 9/11 survivors' stories, none seemed more astonishing than Tania Head's, but some of her fellow survivors wondered about elements of Tania's story. She had not been in the WTC.

Barbara Jadrych, 39, is believed to have entered a relationship with former Southampton chairman Leon Crouch in 2011, while she was working for him. The pair reportedly had a daughter, eight.

Team GB's Laura Kenny broke down in tears on Friday after winning her fifth Olympic gold medal, saying she hoped her three-year-old son Albie would be proud of her.

Taylor Swift relieved anxious fans with a reassuring Instagram post on Friday that included a full track list to her next release, Red (Taylor's Version).

DAN WOOTTON: Ant McPartlin was facing a life-or-death decision in 2017. Stay in an unhappy marriage and allow his addiction to further spiral out of control. Or follow his heart by breaking free.

Charlotte Dujardin flashes the million-watt smile that endeared her to all of us at the 2012 London Olympics where she emerged as a poster girl for equestrian sports after winning two gold medals.

It comes after insiders told The Sun: 'Neither of them want the razzmatazz of a showbiz wedding', and insisted the day will be 'simple and beautiful'.

Steve Rodhouse, the police chief who led the calamitous VIP abuse inquiry is spearheading the battle against people smugglers in the Channel, the Daily Mail can reveal today.

RICHARD KAY: it is surely no coincidence that he wears the same No.7 shirt worn by Beckham. At just 25, England's most expensive footballer could yet come to dwarf the celebrity lifestyle of Becks.

A controversial film scheme David Beckham, Gary Lineker and Jeremy Paxman invested in has won an appeal against the UK HMRC over bills estimated to be worth around £64million in total.

Sophie Bichener, 29, received her bill on Thursday, which stated that of the total £14.8million repair costs, she would be expected to pay £208,000 through her annual service charge.

Police officers and another person were called to an address on Noel Park Road, near Wood Green, at around 7.20pm on Friday. A man wielding a knife assaulted the officers and a 61-year-old man.

UK Government spy chiefs have warned against complicated passwords. Instead they recommend choosing three random words to make your internet accounts secure.

Military officials are to review the rejected relocation bid of an Afghan translator after the Daily Mail provided crucial documents in his favour.

In an exclusive interview, Ben Wallace confirmed that ex-Special Forces translators trapped in so-called 'third countries' were cleared to come here.

JOHN HUMPHRYS: Alok Sharma has been able to leap on and off planes over the past seven months never fearing for a moment that he might have to quarantine when he gets home.

The Most Rev Stephen Cottrell called for 'an expansive vision of what it means to be English' and for the country to recover a sense of 'national unity'.

Britons hoping to make the most of their weekend may be met with a washout after The Met Office issued yellow weather warnings for rain and thunderstorms for the north of England and Scotland.

ROBERT HARDMAN: These were the Games that no one really wanted. Yet, they have turned out to be just the tonic we all needed.

More than 80,000 have signed a petition to save Geronimo the alpaca after his owner Helen MacDonald lost a court battle to stop his death. Helen has now asked Carrie Johnson for help.

Alok Sharma was accused of hypocrisy when it was revealed he was exempted from self-isolation after visiting 'red-list' countries. He will be allowed to return to his home when he gets back from Brazil.

AMANDA PLATELL: The evidence that the vaccines work is now crystal clear: just look at how the numbers of deaths and hospital admissions have plummeted here in Britain during the third wave.

The undercover police officer whose 'honeytrap' sting led to Colin Stagg being wrongly accused of the murder of young mother Rachel Nickell has started a new life in secrecy, we can reveal.

The 1839 gold 'Victoria Una and the Lion' five pound coin shows the 20-year-old monarch, who ascended to the throne two years earlier, leading a lion that represents the British Empire.

Team GB men's 4x100 relay team agonisingly missed out on a gold medal by 0.01 seconds as Italy came from behind to overtake them on the line in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium on Friday night.

Belarus has been accused of using migrants as 'living weapons' by sending them to Poland as revenge for it giving refuge to an Olympic sprinter.

Princess Charlene, 43, has not been seen in the principality since January and has spent the last few months holed up in her native South Africa while she receives treatment for a 'serious sinus infection'.

Beyonce put on a very sizzling display as she rocked one sexy look after another to promote her new Adidas x Ivy Park Rodeo collection. The superstar released a new promo video for the line.

A Diary article on 1 Aug reported that Pete Czernin was still married to his wife. In fact, their divorce was finalised in June. We are happy to clarify, and apologise for the error.

Mr Johnson flew to Scotland on Wednesday and a member of his team reportedly tested positive while there, forcing them to isolate along with their close contacts.

EXCLUSIVE: Police were called to the flight from London's Gatwick airport to Malaga after it returned to the gate following an altercation between the passengers and crew on its taxi to the runway.

Dundee medic Kiyo Adya, 33, pretended to be eight different people in order to claim child benefit - completing applications and filling out doctor's statements in support of them in 2015.

While Ant was preparing to tie the knot in a sleepy Hampshire village, the make-up artist, 44, was living it up with her electrician boyfriend James Green at the idyllic hotel

'All monetary amounts expressed in national currency will be divided by one million,' the bank of President Nicolas Maduro's beleaguered leftist government said.

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: The rodeo, took place in Puruándiro, , Mexico on Sunday. Moments after the rider was thrown from the bull's back it had jumped over a fence towards spectators.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison sent around 300 soldiers to parts of Sydney with higher migrant populations as well as southwestern areas yesterday to enforce the Covid lockdown.

Rejection rates for the richest students topped 5.5 per cent compared to 2.5 per cent for applicants from poorer backgrounds, a study has shown as pupils prepare to get their grades next week.

Andrew Bogut was sensationally taken off the commentary team for Channel 7's broadcast of Australia's bronze medal match in the men's basketball - only for him to be reinstated hours later.

Shady Kanj, 22, was struck by a bullet while a passenger in a car driving on Boundary Rd, Chester Hill in Western Sydney about 11pm on Friday night.

The staffer attended a police college event with the PM and travelled on the same flight to Aberdeen before testing positive, forcing them to isolate along with their close contacts.

A Sydney Commonwealth bank, a physiotherapy clinic and a regional train line have been listed as Covid exposure sites after a record number of cases were reported in New South Wales.

WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart has slammed Apple's plan to roll out new Child Safety features that scan users photos to find offending images. Cathcart outlined his opposition in a series of tweets.

Quinn - who goes by a single name and uses the pronouns 'they' and 'their' - won the women's gold-medal match 3-2 on penalties alongside their team mates on Friday.

FOX News host Tucker Carlson tore into CNN for firing three unvaccinated employees in his episode on Friday, demanding to know how CNN found out about their vaccination status.

A grandmother has been forced to cancel her holiday after a computer glitch meant her vaccine certificates from a clinic in West Yorkshire couldn't be uploaded onto her NHS Scotland record

Kevin Durant led Team USA's victory over France in the men's basketball final in Tokyo on Saturday, avenging a first-round loss and claiming a 16th gold for the country in the sport.

Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, 50, has blasted Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, after he tweeted that he wished his show didn't air on the Fox network..

Police have shot and wounded an armed 13-year-old suspect in San Bernardino, California. The confrontation happened on Thursday afternoon at Pioneer Memorial Cemetery.

New South Wales has recorded 319 new Covid cases following the announcement Armidale, 500km away from Sydney's Covid epicentre, would go into a snap lockdown.  

Larry Page, who co-founded Google in the 1990s with Sergey Brin, has taken up New Zealand residency, it emerged on Thursday. Page has been staying in Fiji and travelled to the country with his son.

Senior advisers to New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, have said they were kept in the dark about the scale of the allegations against him and now feel betrayed by their boss.

Qld police have located a missing 24-year-old woman who fled a Gold Coast quarantine hotel on August 3, after arriving from a NSW hotspot.

Donald Trump will run for president in 2024, according to his former press secretary Sean Spicer. The apparent confirmation comes after Trump has previously teased another campaign.

Daniel Petrocelli suggested that Disney would not bow to 'public pressure' and said the actress demands compensation far beyond that of her contract with the studio.

Andrew Cuomo and Time's Up, an organization that raises money for sexual harassment victims, have both hired the attorneys at Arnold and Porter to represent them, financial disclosure forms show.

Australia's wealthiest woman, Gina Rinehart, has quietly helped fund many Australian Olympians in Tokyo so they can chase their dreams on the highest stage.

Arango pulled out his dead 7-year-old daughter from the Surfside collapse is suing the condo board responsible for the property, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed on Tuesday.

Stars also began rolling into Martha's Vineyard Friday afternoon, with the island's airport abuzz with private jets and helicopters flying in ahead of the party expected to take place Saturday.

Indigenous beach volleyballer, Taliqua Clancy has revealed a video sent to her by Cathy Freeman inspired her and partner Mariafe Artacho del Solar's Tokyo 2020 silver medal performance.

A 24-year-old woman has fled a Gold Coast quarantine hotel on August 3, after being stopped by border patrol and declaring she had been in a NSW hotspot on July 31, before isolating.

Jamie Spears filed documents today in Los Angeles court opposing the motion to be removed as Britney's conservator, a position he's held for 13 years.

New audio emerges of the moments after the fatal 2019 boating crashing in South Carolina involving Paul Murdaugh, the son of a legal family dynasty. He and his mom (pictured) were shot dead in June

Soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe's political activism has angered Subway customers, who are now calling on the chain to ditch her as a 'face' of their brand.

Sarath Mounh tells DailyMail.com that he couldn't be more proud of the way Maddox has turned out as he turned 20 this week.

Delia Johnson's family say they know the woman who shot and killed her Wednesday night in Brooklyn, calling the assailant a 'family friend' who slept at their house and ate their food.

DeSantis then listed what Biden had 'forgotten' in including the southern border, the Cuba crisis and the 'constitution itself' during a press conference in Tampa on Friday.

Shocking video shows the moment a female assassin walks up to mom-of-one Delia Johnson in Brooklyn Tuesday at 9.04pm and shoots her dead at point blank range, before casually walking away.

Five teenagers, including one girl, arrested over the brutal assault of a 16-year-old boy on Wednesday have been charged with murder after their victim died in Westmead Hospital on Saturday.

Chris Cuomo announced he will be taking a weeklong 'vacation' from CNN for his birthday amid the sex-pest scandals of his brother, Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Victoria has recorded 29 new local coronavirus cases as authorities continue to warn of the growing number of exposure sites across the state.

Christine Chandler, 39, known as Chris Chan on YouTube, stomped her feet and demanded to be taken home during a hearing at the Green County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court in Virginia.

A Newsweek Magazine article claimed the Delta variant has 'shattered' optimism that vaccines would help the pandemic end and warned of a possible 'doomsday variant.'

Tony Baker's 21-year-old son, Cerain Baker of Pasadena, and two other passengers were killed on August 3 along with two others passengers of a car

A Melbourne mother of two young boys has provided inspiration for countless Aussies after finishing in the top 10 of the women's marathon at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday morning.

Attorneys Paul Fishman, Mitra Hormozi - who represent the Office of the Governor - and Rita Glavin - who represents Cuomo personally - spoke at a press conference on Friday.

Spirit Airlines is expected to cancel more than 400 flights for a sixth day in a row following a 'perfect storm' of operational issues that will lead to more cancellations over the weekend.

The NSW town of Armidale will go into a snap lockdown 500km away from Sydney's Covid epicentre as the region records a positive case.

A state trooper aged in her late 20s was requested by Andrew Cuomo for his security detail after they met at a November 2017 ceremony, and he found her 'impressive' and 'assertive'.

Media Watch host Paul Barry has broken his hand and pelvis after being hit by a car while riding his bike to work.

A 53-year-old father has crashed with his two children in the car on Big River Way in Swan Creek. He suffered severe head and chest injuries and was airlifted to Gold Coast University hospital.

Australia's most successful Olympic sailor Mat Belcher will carry the nation's flag at the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Games tomorrow at 8pm in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium.

The former music superstar is set to begin his federal trial in New York for sexual abuse charges on August 9, when jury selection in the federal trial is scheduled to begin.

The son of an ex premier whose drunken car crash cost his father's job and left his mate 'covered in blood' has opened up about the accident and his selfish behaviour as a young man.

Photos reveal disgusting conditions at Texas holding facility where more than 10,000 migrants who tested positive for Covid-19 are being held while tents have been set up in nearby McAllen, Texas.

Brian Boyd, 26, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court for the deadly accident - which happened in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan on June 4.

The Santa Clara Public Health Department reports that there were 64 cases of the Delta-plus variant detected in the county as of August 5.

Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo, 23, was seen entering the governor's mansion in Albany on Friday, just a few days after the attorney general found her father sexually harassed 11 women.

Ed Balls' new book 'Appetite', in which he talks of his lifelong love of cooking, is serialised in the Daily Mail's Weekend magazine starting today

Queensland has recorded 13 new cases of Covid-19 as the state's south-east anxiously wait to hear if the lockdown will be extended past Sunday.

One man is dead with another wounded following two shootings allegedly linked to the Hamzy and Alameddine gang war.

Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of jailed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe appealed to the UN last night in a bid to see them work with both the UK and Iran to have his wife freed from prison.

Treasury officials are examining the case for extending the National Insurance system beyond the state pension age of 66 where it currently stops.

Newly-wed Major General Alastair Bruce, 61, speaks with Jenny Johnston to reveal how his 20-year relationship to husband Stephen Knott was conducted partly in the shadows.

Marta Krawiec, 41, was on her way to see her patients when she collided with a lorry in the morning rush hour. She died at the scene, becoming the seventh person killed near the gyratory since 2008.

HARRY WALLOP: Could Arthur and I pull off the art heist of the year and persuade someone to hand over money for his digital doodles? It seemed highly unlikely.

The Nathusius' pipistrelle, which made the 1,254-mile journey from London to west Russia, weighed a third of an ounce (8g) and was the size of a human thumb when she set off.

Experts predict British potato crop will be in short supply. Christmas dinners may have to change as a result and frozen chips are likely to be particularly affected

Two swimmers are lucky to be alive after being attacked by a crocodile near the Lockhart River in Far North Queensland. A man in his 20s was bitten on the head and body and his mate swam to help.

A home on Martley Way in Cranebrook was found on fire at about 9pm on August 6, and six kittens and two cats were found deceased inside the unoccupied house.

Almost half of A-level pupils could be awarded at least two A grades next week after record-breaking grade inflation, universities say.

British cat owners racked up £14,000 bills for the transfusion procedure that can cost £2,500 a time and only buys a cat 24 hours because it is from a canine.

The new deal from Halifax, which will be available to buyers with a 40 per cent deposit from Monday, is the lowest two-year deal ever seen.

The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally will bring hundreds of thousands to the small South Dakota town for the next 10 days at a time when COVID cases are on the rise.

The state was thrown into its sixth lockdown at 8pm on Thursday following an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19.

After being told they are able to claim the costs of Covid travel tests on expenses, MP's were warned last night that doing so 'doesn't look good' when families are paying for the swabs.

The White House is requiring guests to sign a form attesting to their vaccination status, and is requiring those who have not been vaccinated to pay for coronavirus testing.

President Joe Biden warned on Friday that the number of coronavirus cases would go up before it came down but insisted America could beat the Delta surge.

The White House continued its attacks on Ron DeSantis on Friday when press secretary Jen Psaki slammed the Florida governor for fundraising off his defiance of COVID requirements. 

Echoing Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka, US swimmer Simone Manuel is demanding an end to athlete interviews immediately following defeats.

1,800 family members and those affected by the 9/11 attacks wrote President Biden opposing his participation in memorial events until he releases documents on any Saudi role.

A record number of migrants were encountered at the southern border in July as more unaccompanied children and migrants with COVID enter the US under Biden's watch.

On Fairfax Community Public Schools' (FCPS) website, they listed Woke Kindergarten's audiobook Safe as a summer resource for second graders ahead of the 2021-2022 school year.

Richard Murgatroyd, 51, who works at Bacchus Marsh Grammar, about an hour north-west of Melbourne, caught the virus after he went to a footy game at the MCG with a mate.

The Biden administration announced on Friday it was giving people with federal student loans until the end of January before they would have to resume repayments.

Elba María Centeno Briones, a 37-year-old Nicaraguan national, died Wednesday from COVID-19 while she was awaiting to be deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The Central Park Conservancy group confirmed the death of a barred owl, saying he had been flying low to the ground, probably hunting, when he made contact with one of their vehicles.

Makalah McKay died of injuries to her chest at the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital. The loaded gun had been left unattended by a man who visited the home.

Neutral observers believe the negative perception of the Oxford-AZ programme has been caused by cynical politcking in the USA and led by the EU's Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel.

The airline has cut the prices of two flights landing at London Gatwick at 12.35am and 3.05am on Sunday, from around £1,000 to just £257 before tax amid the rush for Britons to return home.

Lorna Farmer, 28, from Northamptonshire, left the Hilton Garden Inn at Birmingham airport last week after she claimed she was sexually harassed by a security guard while she was quarantining.

Woman says migrant smugglers scammed families after being paid to ferry their loved ones after smuggling them over the U.S.-Mexico border after Texas van crash killed 11 and injured 20.

Eric Brown, a black realtor showing an army vet and his 15-year-old son, who were also black, a house in Michigan had the police show up and handcuff them while having guns drawn on them.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki, aiming at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, said public health officials, not politicians, should make decisions about school mask mandates.

The Florida Department of Education approved an emergency rule Friday allowing parents to request private school vouchers to take their children out of public schools that have enforced mask mandates.

A law firm has set up a special service to help pupils challenge teacher-assessed GCSE and A-level grades.

PAUL THOMAS on ... Geronimo the condemned Alpaca.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday expressed confidence Democrats would keep control of the House in the 2022 election.

Rep. Bob Gibbs of Ohio sent a letter to fellow House Republicans Friday accusing Joe Biden of executive overreach and failing to protect Americans amid the border crisis.

An urgent recall has been sent out for a plant - also known as 'devil's berries' - following the Largo and Newburn Horticultural Society fair in Fife.

To be hit by 2050, the net-zero carbon target is the centrepiece of Boris Johnson's presidency of the UN climate change conference in Glasgow in November.

A total of 158 local authorities have signed a letter to the Sentencing Council - who make the rules on fines - urging them to enact a minimum fine of £400 for fly-tippers.

Dramatic news chopper video shows the moment a silver sedan fleeing LA police at speeds reaching nearly 100mph struck a utility pole, breaking it, and overturned, leaving three people injured.

Financial advisor Eileen Cure was fired for allegedly saying she didn't want to interview black applicants for a job and is accused of saying, 'I specifically said no blacks.'

The FAA has initiated a crackdown with airlines encountering a rising number of violent and disruptive passengers as more Americans start flying again.

The photos revealed more than 10,000 immigrants shoved under a bridge in Anzalduas Park, all facing 100-degree heat and disgusting bathroom facilities with overflowing waste.

The pair of RAF Typhoon jets scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth in Moray, north east Scotland, early Friday afternoon to intercept an unidentified aircraft entering an 'area of UK interest'.

Arizona State Senator Tony Navarrete, 35, has been arrested on charges of sexual conduct with a minor related to a 2019 incident. Just days prior, Navarrete revealed his COVID-19 diagnosis.

Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy on charges of murder, manslaughter and criminal weapons possession in connection with the July 11 killing of 13-year-old Jaryan Elliot (pictured) in The Bronx.

A Miami radio host posted video of himself being forcibly removed from a press conference after asking a question to Rep. Kevin McCarthy about why he opposes a Jan. 6th Commission.

Firefighters attempting to put out the massive Dixie Fire are having to deal with uncooperative residents who they say have gone so far as to pull guns out on them because they refuse to evacuate.

The White House on Friday urged the Taliban to focus on peace talks hours after insurgents murdered the head of the Afghan government's media center and captured their first provincial capital.

Joshua Etchells cycled behind his victims on his mountain bike to get to and from work, then grabbed or slapped their backsides as he went past before pedaling off at speed.

Covid jabs are 'less effective' against the new Colombia strain, official documents published by Public Health England warned today.