Phillipa Copleston-Warren, 46, told the sobbing girlfriend to leave her ex-boyfriend's Lincolnshire home through the voice-controlled Alexa device and flashed his house lights off and on.

A Whitehall source said the app should only ever 'pinged' close contacts of an infected person two days before they tested positive, but instead was 'pinging' people from five days earlier.

BBC news presenter Geeta Guru-Murthy and husband Philip Collins had to abandon their burning villa and their car as they escaped the raging fires bringing horror to holidaymakers in France,

The 20 demonstrators were dispersed after spending hours in the Scottish hill fort claiming they were 'taking our power back' and 'overthrowing the Queen'.

The five-day Boardmasters Festival in Cornwall finished on Sunday and any impact is likely to become clear in the coming days.

The passengers touched down in Oxfordshire as troops try to repatriate at least 6,000 British personnel and translators from the Middle Eastern country.

Tory MP for Dover Natalie Elphicke, 50, argued that money should be spent on trying to stop arrivals from crossing the Channel, rather than on a £2million permanent facility to process the migrants.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge found that there were on average 1.4 fewer GPs per 10,000 patients in areas of high deprivation - though the inequality was even starker in some areas.

The new Afghan Citizens' Resettlement Scheme will focus on women and girls who fear their rights will be trampled under the 'Islamic Emirate' declared by the Taliban.

A new study from researchers in China, the UK and Canada found that more than 38 species of wild live animals were sold for food and as pets at a market in Wuhan linked to early COVID-19 cases.

Campaigners warned UK bars owned by the larger chains are the worst affected due to them being tied to certain brands. Pictured: The Fox and Hounds in Essex.

In 2010, Biden reportedly told Richard Holbrooke, Obama's special advisor on Afghanistan and Pakistan, that the US had to leave Afghanistan regardless of the cost for the Afghan people.

The 26-year-old fell to her death from the flats in International Way, Stratford, shortly before 4.30pm on Tuesday.

Geronimo the alpaca who was set to be executed after he tested positive twice for bovine tuberculosis (TB) has been granted a 24-hour reprieve by an emergency High Court hearing.

Unite has spent the vast sum building the accommodation and conference centre - which has been dubbed 'Red Len's Folly' by critics - in Birmingham.

Lamarti's Ice Cream vans can no longer service from a street in Lowestoft, Suffolk, after a member of the public reported its jingle played for more than 20 seconds. The statutory limit is 12 seconds.

There are concerns that UK customers using apps that allow them to order from their phone at pubs and restaurants are unaware that their data may be shared with third parties.

Rishi Sunak risks a political backlash as he prepares to break a manifesto pledge to increase the state pension in line with the higher of wage growth, inflation or 2.5 per cent.

Ministers are consulting on plans to make sure new boilers run on hydrogen, which does not produce carbon dioxide when burned and which they hope will supply a third of UK energy by 2050.

Ryalla Duffy, 61, passed away on March 10 following a sudden illness, and her 21-year-old son Absolom died in a car crash on July 8. A joint service was held inside Lincoln Cathedral today.

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Footage released by police at the request of Noah Herring's parents shows the moments after the child was hit by a car in County Durham.

The profile for the Duchess of Sussex, 40, who now lives in her $14 million mansion in California with her two children and Prince Harry , 36, wasn't updated when Lili was born this summer.

Matt Gould scored seven points for the slur - used to insult homosexual people - on Monday's episode after Rachel Riley placed the letters, A, O, O, E, D, R, P, F, T, on the board.

The former Health Secretary, 42, was filmed wearing a facemask in an encounter on a District Line train at around 9pm on Saturday, during which his hat was pinched twice by women on a night out.

Scott McCluskey, 43, from Runcorn will appear at Warrington Magistrates' Court next month charged with sending an offensive/abusive message by a public communication network.

University of Birmingham experts claim they have developed a test that gives an on-the-spot result in as little as three minutes. It comes amid controversy about the expense of tests required to travel abroad.

The strips will be completely gone by 2033, but strip-less cards will be available in many regions, including Europe, from 2024.

Donald Trump tore into Joe Biden again for the chaos unfolding in Afghanistan, saying it made the fall of Saigon 'look like child's play.'

GRAPHIC CONTENT: Rob and husband Patrick, from Bicester, Oxon, were celebrating a friend's birthday in Birmingham when they were attacked by a gang of homophobic men in a black SUV.

Kiwis made a late-night dash to the supermarket as parents - including essential workers - scrambled to make childcare arrangements after the nationwide lockdown was announced.

Police have released a picture of James Bullock, 28, who is believed to the driver of the car which hit the 63-year-old man and his dog in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, on Sunday.

Steven Arnold, 51, repeatedly stabbed Michael Fletcher, 66, and stole his bank card to fund his night of drinking, the Old Bailey (pictured) was told today.

Miles Routledge, 21, shared footage of him sitting alongside hundreds of other people fleeing the militant group as the aircraft touched down in the UAE.

Corporal Thomas Biggs, 30, allegedly 'pressurised' the 18-year-old trainee into performing oral sex on him after getting her out of bed at the Army Training Regiment in Winchester, Hampshire.

Nathalie Maillet, 51, was found dead alongside her lover Ann Lawrence Durviaux, 53, at her home in Gouvy, Belgium, on Sunday. The pair were allegedly shot dead by Maillet's husband.

Eileen Barrott, 50, was pronounced dead at the scene after emergency services rushed to a property in Leeds, West Yorkshire and discovered she had suffered 'serious injuries' on Sunday.

Department of Health statistics show today's death count was 16.4 per cent up on last week's count and was the most registered in a day since March 12 (175).

Shamima Begum's lawyer - who is under investigation for declaring 'The boys are back in town' about the Taliban today insisted it referred to a little-known story told by Thin Lizzy's singer in 1977

Dean O'Neil unknowingly told an undercover police officer he agreed to pay £200 in cash and buy a Burger King meal in exchange for being allowed to abuse a child at a Travelodge in Swanick

Footage shows the aircraft had right-side engine trouble before suddenly tilting and falling onto a forest almost one mile from the runway at Kubinka airport, Moscow, on Tuesday.

The threat was underlined today after official figures showed total pay including bonuses rose by 8.8 per cent in the three months to June, while regular pay was up 7.4 per cent.

The 18ins by 12ins oil on canvas work depicts the famous Dogna da Mar building from the San Marco basin in Venice - but it has been 'lost' for more than 100 years.

The US has so far flown at least two C-17 cargo jets out of Kabul and more flights are expected throughout Monday night and later this week despite chaos on the ground on Monday.

The US media blasted Joe Biden for his 'blame shifting' over the crisis in Afghanistan after he criticised Afghan leaders and military for refusing to fight while defending his decision to withdraw.

Andrew Frost, from Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, had enjoyed three weeks with mates in Thailand in 2019 when he became blighted by a constant itching all over his body.

Available posts spiked to a high of 953,000 in the three months to July, and the jobless rate dropped 0.2 percentage points to 4.7 per cent between April and June.

Nikki O'Donoghue whipped Emma Clay after spinning her leash like a lasso while their pets watched on in Cricketers Park, Liverpool.

Marshal Brunt (pictured), 19, from Hampstead, north London, believes under cooked burgers and chicken at the five-star Jaz Aquamarine Resort in Egypt made him ill.

Boris Johnson was photographed taking part in the 11am minute's silence for the Plymouth shooting victims yesterday morning but his watch suggests time was actually 11.14am.

Liam Mountford, 34, of Leigh, Greater Manchester, beat up, bullied and isolated his girlfriend Ella Crowe, 19, during their ten-month relationship.

The UK Education Secretary announced in June that he wanted to bring in a ban on phones in schools and launched a consultation on the plans.

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Armed Forces chief General Sir Nick Carter said the next 24 hours were 'critical', with fears of fresh chaos if crowds of desperate people attempt to rush the runway at

Noel Rogers woke up to find his wife Porsche Louise Rogers dead at the Berwyn Arms in Glyndyfrdwy, Corwen, on October 29, 2019 - the day they were due to leave, an inquest in Ruthin heard.

As the desperate evacuation effort continues in Kabul, the PM addressed the House of Commons to defend the handling of the crisis.

Women begged US troops for help - screaming 'the Taliban are coming' - through iron bars in footage that appeared to have been filmed at Kabul airport today as chaos reigned once again.

Footage shows an alleged car thief with his face covered in black tar and strapped up to the back of a truck, with his hands tied behind his back as people gather around to gawp in central Kabul.

USAF is now investigating the incident which saw dozens of desperate Afghan civilians attempt to cling to the C-17 Globemaster III as it took off from Hamid Karzai International Airport

Johan Cronje, 47, had been in Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park, which straddles the border between South Africa and Botswana, when he spotted the leopardess.

Almost all surgeries in New South Wales will come to a halt in private hospitals, after the state reported a record high 633 Covid cases on Wednesday.

General Sir Nick Carter dismissed the president's claim that the Afghan army had lacked the stomach for battle, insisting they 'fought very bravely' until the West effectively walked out.

The London-based Institute for Fiscal Studies said there will be a 'further jump' in A-level pupils this year, following a three percentage point leap in 2020.

Five 'health hotels' have been setup in Sydney where family members can isolate safely after figures revealed 70 oer cent of Sydney's Covid cases have caught the virus from someone in their house.

Alexa Leary was training in Pomona, near Noosa on the Sunshine Coast, when she was thrown off her bike at more than 65km/h after clipping the wheel of the bike in front of her On July 17.

Vegan activists have tried to scare Melburnians off meat by sticking a fake QR check in at the front of Bell's Quality Meat on the Mornington Peninsula that redirects to their propaganda.

Experts have issued a list of unusual items potential homebuyers or renters should take on property inspections - and it could save you thousands of dollars in repairs.

Vaccinated Australians are already eligible for more than $17,000 in discounts as companies join forces with the government to encourage jabs, with Qantas offering unlimited flights for a year.

LATIF HOTTAK: At each gate to the airport I had asked for the British. I had spent six years working with them as their interpreter, but the unsmiling Turkish guards would let no one through.

Townsville Mayor Jenny Hill could not have predicted Daryl Andrew Lynch would accelerate into a red light which caused his death after colliding with her vehicle, a court found.

New Zealand is avoiding Sydney's 'light and long' lockdown tactics in their fresh battle against the deadly Delta variant of Covid after case numbers went from one to five in 24 hours

Scenes of police blockades and military officials are in stark contrast to other areas of Sydney, where daily case numbers are substantially lower and there is less community transmission.

In a round of interviews as the desperate evacuation effort continues in Kabul, Home Secretary Priti Patel dismissed criticism of the new resettlement scheme.

Ryan Baker, 35, claims his shop Spear & Fish Downunder in Newcastle is allowed to open for click and collect because it sells essential goods, and local cops regularly harass him. Police tell another story.

Trump on Tuesday claimed he threatened to launch strikes against the chief Taliban negotiator's home village if insurgents failed to observe the terms of a peace deal.

The footage purports to show Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar returning to cheering crowds in Afghanistan following 20 years of exile amid the Western effort to eliminate the Taliban threat.

GUY ADAMS: A senior Taliban commander named Abdul Ghani Baradar gave an interview to Newsweek in 2009 and was asked what the future of his homeland might hold.

Paul 'Pen' Farthing, 52, said Boris Johnson would be 'personally responsible' if anyone harmed his Norwegian partner Kaisa after she was reduced to wandering the streets in Afghanistan.

Scott Morrison has given a shout-out to an Australian Indigenous elder during a national press conference hours after the man complained of being turned away from a vaccine hub. 

The 90s Home and Away heartthrob, 45, took his own life three weeks ago at his parents' Glenhaven home, in Sydney's north west.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid on Tuesday hit back at questions whether his Islamist government would respect freedom of speech, pointing out that Facebook censors many.

With only a week left in the Governor's Mansion, Cuomo on Tuesday pardoned five people and commuted the sentences of five others - three of them serving sentences in murder cases.

ESPN's First Take commentator Stephen A. Smith defended Cincinatti enquirer sports columnist Paul Daugherty after he was accused of 'bullying' Naomi Osaka during a press conference

A desperate father who worked as a security guard at the Australian embassy in Kabul is hiding inside his house with his family in fear of being executed by the Taliban.

Jesse Tovey, 26, is accused of stabbing his older brother Joshua Tovey, 29, to death in Hastings on the Mornington Peninsula in January.

Elise Pham and her partner cuddled up with their beloved five-year-old dog Atlas at a Sydney police station after she was recovered three days after being allegedly stolen from their front yard.

The RAAF flight from Kabul to an Australian airbase in the UAE included Australian citizens, Afghan nationals with visas and one foreign official

Schoolboy Lachlan McLaren died after he was hit by a white ute laden with furniture on Melbourne's Nepean Highway on Sunday afternoon.

The US evacuated 1,100 of its citizens and permanent residents from Kabul on Tuesday on 13 flights, as Washington works to fly up to 40,000 people back to the United States.

Finder co-founder Fred Schebesta is offering $100million worth of Bitcoin to Australians who still need to get a Covid vaccine. The man with a $214million fortune said it was a 'crazy idea'.

Malala Yousafzai, 24, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012, opened up about the Afghanistan crisis in a New York Times essay published Tuesday.

A Facebook post created by a mother in Annandale on Tuesday showed images of the Where's Wally character painted on rocks, stuck on walls and drawn in chalk on a footpath.

Victorian health authorities are yet to back up claims Delta spread to children in playgrounds amid widespread outcry over their closure.

A Sydney resident is a multi millionaire - but doesn't know it - following Tuesday night's Oz Lotto draw. The winning ticket was purchased at a newsagent in Sydney's south.

Charlotte Bellis, a reporter for Al Jazeera in Afghanistan, has shocked the world after she asked the Taliban if they would respect the rights of thousands of terrified Afghan women.

Australian paramedics say hospitals backed up with Covid cases mean they are x-raying patients in parking bays, while they wait five hours for the toilet as working conditions sink to the worst in 30 years.

Police were tipped off about workers from Sydney staying in Kiama, on NSW's South Coast, to work on a large block of units for seniors this week.

The RAAF flight from Kabul to an airbase in the UAE included Australian citizens, Afghan nationals with visas and one foreign official working in an international agency.

TikTok user @geoffrey_snowball posted the video feeding uncooked sausages to the saltwater crocodile, believed to be taken in the East Arnhem region of the Northern Territory.

Timothy Weeks was kidnapped just 33 days after arriving in July 2016 to teach high-level English at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, alongside American academic Kevin King.

The partner of a slain Chicago cop was recently photographed in the hospital as he faces a 'potentially lifelong disability' after being shot in the line of duty while performing a traffic stop.

'The American government exists to help American citizens, not to help vulnerable populations, whatever that is,' Carlson said on his Fox News show Tuesday night.

The headline figure for last month eased to 2 per cent from 2.5 per cent in June - a sharper fall than analysts had pencilled in.

Daytona Beach Police officer Jason Raynor, 26, died on Tuesday following complications from a gunshot wound to the head after he was shot during a traffic stop in June.

AstraZeneca is to be rebranded in Australia under a new name after widespread fears circulated about its very rare side-effects.

The attack unfolded at a Chase Bank in the Financial District on Sunday. Surveillance video shows the unnamed 51-year-old victim standing at an ATM when the assailant walks in behind him.

Wallabies great Toutai Kefu is recovering well after he was stabbed by a gang of youths. The Tongan rugby coach was spotted enjoying some KFC in an image shared on social media.

Chemist Natalie Isaac has put more than 100 jabs in arms in just a week at her pharmacy at Edmondson Park in south-west Sydney, as younger people seek out AstraZeneca.

A man diving at Montague Island off the NSW south coast has made a harrowing escape after an aggressive fur seal charged at him to defend its colony.

Around 200 Australians who live in Bali are headed home on a special government flight, but 800 more who've registered remain stranded on the island as Indonesia battles a huge Covid outbreak.

The Taliban on Tuesday used whips and sharp objects to beat back women and children desperate to enter Kabul airport, forcing crowds to run away in terror.

Employees at a Queensland business are being offered a $500 bonus if they put off getting a Covid vaccine until there's more research on them.  

Authorities in New Zealand have confirmed the latest Covid outbreak can be traced to the Delta variant that has seen NSW in lockdown for the past eight weeks.

New South Wales is a divided state with Byron Bay and Lakemba in south-west Sydney having lower-than-average Covid vaccination rates as daily case numbers surge to a new record high of 633.

The annual financial disclosures for two 'cancel rent' advocates reveal they made thousands of dollars in rental income last year, despite publicly advocating to cancel rent during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Sydney man who collided with a kangaroo while driving through country NSW has been fined $1,000 after he was busted by police and told them he was 'sick of Covid'.

Queensland recorded zero cases of Covid on Wednesday as the state further secured its border with NSW against spread of the Delta variant.

A South Australian mother who claims to have completed 24 days in home quarantine has been fined by police after refusing to show evidence of her tests.

The Florida lawmaker questioned Biden's mental competency in a tweet on Monday, writing: 'After the disastrous events in Afghanistan, we must confront a serious question.'

Canberra has recorded 22 new coronavirus cases, taking the ACT's outbreak to 67.

Victoria has recorded 24 new locally-acquired cases of coronavirus as health authorities grow increasingly concerned over a cluster of mystery cases in Melbourne's inner south-east.

Trinity Bennett used her spare hand to scramble down the incline where she could see the wrecked car on its roof and her mother Shannon's feet sticking out a window in October 2017

Beverly Dawson raised 19-year-old Kayla Dawson who along with five others aged between 13 and 15 has been charged with the boy's murder after an alleged bashing in Doonside, Sydney.

Gladys Berejiklian has launched into a reporter for insisting she send the entirety of New South Wales into a more radical lockdown, saying: 'it's not your press conference'. 

One of the cases found in a woman understood to be a sex worker is now under investigation as authorities try to determine if she had been in contact with other St Kilda mystery infections.

CCTV shows a woman strolling up to a counter in a bottle shop to buy five bottles of wine to drown her lockdown sorrows in the city's north-west, but staff refuse to serve her without a mask.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott released a Twitter video on Tuesday evening and said the fact that he is fully vaccinated 'may be one reason I'm really not feeling any symptoms right now'.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has hinted at the freedoms Sydneysiders could soon enjoy if vaccination rates continue to increase, despite Wednesday's record number of cases.

Sydney's Covid-19 outbreak has exploded yet again as NSW recorded another 633 new cases overnight.

Twitter said it'll 'continue to proactively enforce our rules and review content that may violate Twitter rules, specifically policies against glorification of violence, platform manipulation and spam.'

GRAPHIC CONTENT: New footage has revealed a dozen men clinging to the side of a US C-17 jet as it took off from Kabul on Monday, with more video showing a man's body crushed in the wheels.

Retired US Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill fired off a series of tweets slamming the Biden administration after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was questioned Tuesday about a former Guantanamo detainee who has become a force in the Taliban and helped plot the fall of Kabul.

Elliot Carter, the operator of an obscure DC tunnel website said he was so concerned when he saw a huge spike of traffic in the days before the January 6 Capitol riots that he contacted the FBI.

The calculator took food, health care, housing, transportations, clothing and other necessities in to account, but a recent update now includes cell phone and Wi-Fi expenses as well.

White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke to the 'human toll' in Afghanistan, as he said President Biden hadn't spoke to any world leaders since the Taliban takeover.

Biden's approval plunged to 46 percent on Tuesday, as voters said his handling of the Afghan war was worse even than President George W. Bush.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki would not say if the US would continue helping up to 40,000 Americans out of Afghanistan if they were still there at the end of the month.

The woman who has accused Trevor Bauer of sexual assault had earlier flings with two members of the rival San Diego Padres, shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. and pitcher Michael Clevinger.

The federal government has reached an agreement with Western Australia for a new quarantine hub as Australia will soon build four dedicated hubs for returning travellers next year.

EastSide Charter School in Wilmington said it was forced to offer the incentive to parents for the upcoming school year after struggling to find adequate staffing across the board.

A Pentagon watchdog on Tuesday reported that the Taliban was offering 'safe haven' to Al Qaeda, just a day after President Biden said the war to rid Afghanistan of the terrorist group had succeeded.

President Joe Biden phoned British Prime Minister Boris Johnson about the situation in Afghanistan Tuesday, Biden's first foreign leader call since the fall of Kabul.

Qantas has announced plans to make Covid vaccinations mandatory for all employees and has given staff three months to roll up their sleeves.

Miguel Ángel Roldán disappeared from Miami International Airport on July 24 after American Airlines allegedly did not allow him to board a flight to Colombia without a negative COVID-19 test.

Vaccination clinics in rural New South Wales are turning away Indigenous people desperate to get jabbed because they are unable to book online through the digital-only system.

Merely one week before his resignation takes effect over sexual harassment allegations, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has filed for retirement papers to receive a $50,000 annual lifetime pension.

In a poll for the Daily Mail, the British public condemned US President Joe Biden for the crisis in Afghanistan as they expressed fears the turmoil could lead to fresh terror attacks here.

The buck stops there

Security sources said that Afghans who apply for UK visas are vetted for Islamist sympathies. Other checks include any involvement in sex crimes or violent offences.

Police confirmed the body of a newborn baby was brought to Visy Recycling Centre in Onehunga, in a garbage truck on Monday night, with a desperate search for the mother underway.