UK schools closed, hospitals nearing their capacity, people stuck at home and thousands sadly dying each day. This was the shocking reality of the global Covid pandemic we faced in 2020.

When UK TV star Julia Bradbury walked the red carpet at the National Television Awards earlier this month, she chose a silver off-the-shoulder jumpsuit cut dramatically across her chest.

Meat producers have warned Britain could be facing a shortage in as little as two weeks - as gas supplies claim Christmas dinner is under threat amid a gas crisis.

The UK regiment has been led by former public schoolboys whose privileged education is said to instil the leadership skills and poise required. Pictured: General Mark Carleton-Smith.

PETER HITCHENS: How very sad that people travelling on the London Underground are tumbling down escalators in greater numbers because they are afraid to grasp the handrail. 

Mr Steel launched Alan Steel Asset Management in his hometown of Linlithgow in West Lothian in 1975. He had often retweeted anti-vaccine views since the start of the pandemic.

Bashir, who tricked Princess Diana into the interview that made his name, got the clothing from the grieving mother of nine-year-old Babes In The Wood murder victim Karen Hadaway.

Shamima Begum has allegedly told her friends that she will never name other Brits who joined ISIS - despite recently claiming during an interview she wanted to help fight terrorism.

In a stunning break with the United States' oldest ally, France has recalled its ambassador to the US after a blowup over a new pact between the US, Great Britain, and Australia.

Mrs Pears is concerned for her daughter and fears silver-tongued Elphicke - whom she calls Charles - could use this opportunity to wheedle his way back into the Dover MP's affections.

Insurers estimated rebuilding the ravaged interior would cost £38 million - and that was before further water damage to the Dorset property was found and two more ceilings fell in.

Lauren Dickason, 40, a doctor from South Africa, was charged with the murder of her two-year-old twins, Maya and Karla, and their six-year-old sister Liane at a home in New Zealand on Thursday.

The Met Office said there will be sunny spells across the UK today before mercury rises tomorrow beyond even the 71F expected in Faro in Portugal, the 66F due in Madrid, and 73F in Nice.

Legislation to bring about the biggest shake-up of housebuilding rules for more than 70 years was due to be published next week. But Mr Gove yesterday shelved the proposals.

The Labour-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research think tank said the move would lead to a fall in house prices of 3 per cent in London and other well-off places in the south.

Dave and Krys Humphrey, owners of The Meadow Holiday Park at Holywell Bay, Cornwall, said the filming of The Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon has been a nightmare due to noise.

Police chiefs should treat violence against women as seriously as terrorism and stop ditching an 'eye-water- ing' number of crimes, a watchdog has said.

Health chiefs want companies of all sizes and in all industries to train managers so they are able to spot signs of stress and help affected workers and 'foster good relationships' with employees.

The media regulator says the 'public value' of the step justifies the small impact it will have on youth-focused commercial rivals such as Channel 4.

Anne-Marie Trevelyan, who replaced Liz Truss as the UK's new International Trade Secretary, was accused of rejecting the science behind climate change after a series of old tweets came to light.

A belief that handrails are not clean is one of the two biggest risks facing the Tube network, Transport for London said yesterday. Twelve serious injuries were reported in the Tube in April, May and June.

Richard Walton, who was head of Counterterrorism at the Metropolitan Police between 2011 and 2016, said Thursday that Shamima Begum must be treated 'like the terrorist she is'.

Digital driving licences could be introduced from next year - raising the prospect that traditional physical documents could be phased out.

England has the highest university tuition fees in the world but might struggle to justify these rates if courses stay online, an expert warned yesterday.

Five cladding systems failed fire tests as early as 2004, including one similar to that used on the Grenfell tower block which has since been blamed for the spread of the blaze in 2017.

The huge trees have been a permanent fixture at John Rose's detached property for decades. Neighbours say they block their light but Mr Rose says they are needed to soak up water in the area.

National Grid has warned that the blaze in Sellindge, Kent, damaged a major power cable which will remain totally offline until September 25 and partly offline until next March.

EXCLUSIVE: The Ministry of Defence could be forced to pay the staggering bills if troops can prove they have lost out on lengthy careers in the British Army.

Nadine Dorries, who took over from Oliver Dowden in this week's Cabinet reshuffle, once described state-run television as 'more in keeping with a Soviet-style country'.

The White House said France had a head's up on the new US-UK-Australia defense pact as the French foreign minister blasted President Joe Biden for following in the footsteps of Donald Trump.

Dashcam footage shared on Twitter shows two men carrying a machete and a hammer setting upon a third man and swinging their weapons at him in Birmingham at around 4.20pm on Saturday.

Ben Murphy, 22, who had embarked on a journey to discover his biological family, was found hanged in the garage of his adopted parents' home, a coroner heard.

Shops could soon be allowed to sell fruit and vegetables in pounds and ounces as part of a Government plan to hold a bonfire of EU red tape.

Department of Health bosses posted another 22,949 infections today, down 15 per cent on the same time last week. It was the eighth day in a row that infections fell week-on-week.

Mariely Chacon, 40, sacrificed her own life to save those of her six-year-old son and two-year-old daughter by trying to stave off dehydration so they had a fighting chance of surviving the shipwreck.

Declan Webster, 32, and brothers Robert and Michael Bowyer, 33 and 27, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving following the incident in Chesterfield, Derbyshire on August 5, 2020.

The bin lorry was on its round on Wednesday morning in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, when it rolled down hill out of control before destroying a garden wall and hitting two cars.

Ady Short was on a ride last month with his wife and six members of the Swindon Wheelers bike club when he was punched in the face by a man during a road rage incident.

The Prime Minister told the Commons today that the new security partnership between London, Washington and Canberra - dubbed 'AUKUS' - is expected to deliver a much-needed jobs boost.

Police believe Benjamin Green, 41, stabbed his 22-year-old girlfriend Maddie Durdant-Hollamby to death at his Kettering home before turning the blade on himself in a gruesome murder-suicide.

The corporation has been accused of creating a new non-job for Ms Brammar, who has deleted all her tweets including ones critics said showed she had 'biased' left-wing views.

Public Health England said the 'very high level' of additional fatalities in 2020 caused life expectancy for men to drop by 1.3 years to 78.7 years, while women dropped 0.9 years to 82.7 years.

Tommy Gallagher, 77, embroiled in a legal dispute over the fate of his semi-detached home in Burnage, where the Wonderwall hitmakers grew up. Judge ruled he was the victim of 'fraud'.

The Office for National Statistics, which carried out blood tests on youngsters across the UK's four nations, found between 87 and 89 per cent of them had Covid-fighting antibodies.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Nick the bottlenose dolphin has been found dead after being hit by a boat in Ireland. He had delighted swimmers in August after approaching them.

Juliet Johnson now plans to sue Sussex Police after she was arrested, questioned and strip-searched over not wearing a face covering while shopping in Waitrose in Chichester, West Sussex.

A guided-missile cruiser, guided-missile destroyer, general intelligence vessel, and an auxiliary vessel were spotted off the coast of Alaska's Aleutian Islands during surveillance operations.

Paul Chadwick, 51, of Churchwood, Pontypool, appeared at Newport Magistrates Court charged with two counts of misconduct in public office amounting to an abuse of public trust.

Darren Colly, 37, is accused of randomly grabbing a girl and running down the street in October last year. Westminster Magistrates Court heard he then put her down and fled the scene.

Scartho Junior Academy in Grimsby has already seen a few 'near misses' due to drivers' 'selfish' parking. Stacey Revell, who walks her children to school, claimed she saw 'two near misses' in just one week.

Piers Morgan shared an article on Twitter reporting on his former boss's comments last night, asking her: 'So why did I have to leave?', next to a laughing emoji.

Ian 'Catmando' lives with more than 70 cats at his home in Lincolnshire and estimates he has cared for more than 5,000 since 1992 but insists he is doing nothing wrong and they are well looked after

The bodies of Elizaveta Tsarevskaya, 32, and her baby girl, one, were found with stab wounds in a 'black magic' ritual killing in an apartment in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

Boris Johnson stamped his authority on the Cabinet yesterday with a brutal reshuffle designed to secure him a second term in power.

In a speech to the Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention, junior minister John Whittingdale said that the government wanted to ensure British content wasn't 'watered down'.

The Islamist group had descended into bitter in-fighting with so-called 'moderates' thought to be at war with terrorist hardliners as both vie for power in the vacuum left by America's retreat.

US President Joe Biden appeared to forget Scott Morrison's name while announcing a new partnership to help Australia build nuclear submarines.

Trinidad's health chief Dr Terrence Deyalsingh (pictured) blasted the rapper, saying he and his team had 'wasted so much time running down this false claim'.

A headline published on February 7 reported that scientists had released anthrax on the Northern Line. In fact, it was B globigii, a different bacterium from the same family.

Zemari Ahmadi was killed in the US drone strike and his surviving family said the Americans responsible for the tragic mistake need to be taken to court. They also requested 'peace and comfort' from America.

House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has condemned threats made to a Labour MP after she was forced to pull out from her party conference amid threats from trans rights activists.

The Cop26 president said ministers 'don't see any risks going into the winter' from a spike in global gas prices that prompted the closure of two industrial sites vital to the food and drink industry.

The head of Victoria's Police Association has said his officers showed as 'much restraint as they could' in the face of violent anti-lockdown riots.

Shocking footage and images have emerged of an elderly female protester caught up in the violent clashes as demonstrators charged towards police officers in Melbourne.

Between the ages of three and 11, Tara Eastwell was repeatedly raped by her grandfather. She felt it was wrong, but kept silent until her teenage years after he threatened to kill her if she ever spoke out.

Guinness World Records has released its 2022 edition, the 67th book since the records first started in 1955. An enduring favourite of kids, the book is an old-world distraction from devices.

Christian Porter has resigned from cabinet over revelations he used money from a blind trust to pay for his lawsuit against the ABC.

The Druidstone Hotel, perched on an isolated Pembrokeshire clifftop, is a favourite for visiting holidaymakers in search of sundown drinks and selfies on the terrace.

Famous World Heritage Area Fraser Island is set to be renamed to K'gari, the native Aboriginal people's name for the area which means 'paradise'. The Butchulla people have welcomed the change.

The Duke of York could be set to leave Balmoral to see his heavily pregnant daughter Beatrice within days after the Queen's granddaughter was apparently admitted to a London hospital on Friday.

Residents in Covid-19 hotspots will enjoy the same restrictions as the rest of Sydney as New South Wales recorded 1083 Covid cases.

Just 87 were seized in England in 2019, 582 last year and a whopping 3,002 in the first six months of this year.

Thunderstorms are set to batter Britain today, with 12 hours of downpours in eastern areas of the country from Newcastle down to Brighton and up to two inches of rainfall as the Indian summer fades.

Lisa-Marie Cunningham, 47, from Adelaide, and US-born husband Germayne, 42, are accused of neglecting and abusing the child and face the death penalty if convicted.

A man's SUV was sucked into a drainage ditch in Tuscaloosa, Alabama Saturday afternoon, and neither resurfaced. First responders located the truck but the driver is still unaccounted for.

Violent footage has since surfaced of a man being tackled to the ground following a wild police chase on foot during the anti-lockdown protests in Melbourne's inner-city Richmond.

The Australian Medical Association has given cautious support for the national re-opening plan when the country hits 70 and 80 per cent adult double-dose vaccination.

BBC director-general Tim Davie (left) will sit before a powerful Commons select committee on Tuesday, where he will face fierce questions about Bashir losing the clothes of a murdered schoolgirl.

After a week-long search NYPD arrested Bradley Hill, 32, who was caught on surveillance footage kicking a woman down the escalator of a Brooklyn subway station following an argument.

The Lancet has agreed to publish an alternative commentary which discusses the possibility that Chinese laboratory research might have played a role in the emergence of the virus.

Former Premier League footballer Danny Murphy, pictured on holiday, has revealed he has contracted Covid-19, but feels he is lucky that he would be suffering worse if he had not been jabbed.

British giants like John Lewis have chartered extra ships in a bid to secure more products while high street favourites like Waterstones have ordered more stock than usual to get ahead of the crunch.

Sam Pybus, 32, had drunk 24 bottles of beer before strangling Sophie Moss during what was described at Teesside Crown Court earlier this month as 'consensual rough sex'.

Three Texas women who were seen in a video allegedly attacking a NYC restaurant hostess after their vaccination cards were questioned said they were racially profiled and called the n-word.

Steve Jobs' widow, Laurene, was spotted shopping alongside her daughter while in Rome Saturday, before stepping out for dinner after the 23-year-old finished competing at horse trails.

Interest in the jewellery continues to overshadow the Duchess of Sussex's appearance on the cover of Time magazine earlier this week.

Border Patrol has begun removing 14,800 migrants from a squalid camp set up underneath a Texas frontier bridge with the help of hundreds of cops and soldiers.

The Fairfax School Board in Virginia is is facing calls to ditch board member Abrar Omeish after she claimed a moment of silence to mark anniversary of the 9/11 attacks 'causes harm.'

Aurora James, 37, said the dress she designed for AOC sent a 'powerful message' but her own delinquent tax bills show she didn't take it to heart and has three open tax warrants and unpaid rent.

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, 62, dubbed the 'father' of Iran's illegal atomic program, was ambushed November 27 while driving to his home in Absard, near Tehran.

Erin Garcia, 44, got into her car drunk and her daughter followed, concerned that her mother was too inebriated to drive. She grabbed the passenger's door handle and was dragged 300 feet.

More than 50 law enforcement officers using bloodhounds, drones and 4x4 vehicles are searching for Brian Laundrie, who is feared to be armed, in a vast and swampy Florida woodland reserve.

No 10 has been told that 'such is the nature' of the more transmissible variant that it is 'almost inevitable' it will eventually infect anyone who has not received both jabs.

Arch Manning - son of Cooper Manning and nephew of legendary NFL quarterbacks Peyton and Eli - throws for 238 yards and three touchdowns as a high junior in season opener.

Zachary Randazzo, 18, took a picture that showed a bald, clean-shaven man walking down the sidewalk in flip-flops with headphones in, which cops said looks a 'heck' of a lot like Laundrie.

A judge ruled that 52-year-old Guramrit Hanspal, a Long Island man who has not paid mortgage on his home for 23 years, does not qualify for pandemic housing protections and will be evicted.

A judge ruled that 52-year-old Guramrit Hanspal, a Long Island man who has not paid mortgage on his home for 23 years, does not qualify for pandemic housing protections and will be evicted.

Premier Daniel Andrews has finally unveiled his roadmap out of lockdown as Victoria records 507 new cases of Covid-19 and one death on Sunday. 

Officers Joseph Casey and Eduardo Matute caught a one month-old baby after a man threw him off a second-floor balcony. The man was 'dangling a baby over a balcony' on Rose Avenue in Jersey City.

Angered New Yorkers also protested to impeach Biden, calling him a 'killer, pervert (and) traitor' while some were spotted in Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats and sporting red white and blue clothes.

Restrictions in Geelong, Surf Coast Shire and Mitchell Shire will be the same as those in Ballarat and metropolitan Melbourne, excluding the curfew, following a worrying rise in cases.

Laura Loomer has contracted COVID-19 and said it feels like 'getting hit by a bus' and is asking for prayers from her fans on Gettr, a conservative social media app.

Hundreds of U.S. Capitol Police and federal law enforcement lined up around the Capitol building Saturday morning ahead of a rally being held as a show of support for the January 6 rioters.

The former Geelong star, 54, has been a mainstay on the show but n 2015, split with wife Nicky after 18 years of marriage, only to find out a year later she was in a relationship with show co-host Garry Lyon.

A sparsely attended 'Justice for J6' rally featured more police officers and press than protesters as a few hundred demonstrators gathered in the shadow of the Capitol building.

Sarah Palin, 57, revealed that she has not received the COVID vaccine explaining on a Fox News talk show, 'I believe in the science and I have not taken the shot,' claiming she has natural immunity.

New book Peril shared an alleged conversation between former President Barack Obama and Donald Trump on the way to the Capitol in 2017.

Defence minister Peter Dutton confirmed Australia will consider consider leasing nuclear submarines from US in the interim while waiting for new ones to be built.

For months, Facebook's researches warned that comments on the vaccine-related posts that the platform was promoting were filled with antivaccine rhetoric that hindered Zuckerberg's goal.

Curtis Smith has been accused of assisting prominent lawyer Alex Murdaugh in his suicide attempt in South Carolina. He denied the claims and said Murdaugh better not mess with him again.

A woman has been found dead in a cabin deep in an isolated forest on the NSW Mid North Coast.

The sons of a housekeeper who died after a fall while working at Murdaugh's home say they are 'scared' to learn that the prominent South Carolina lawyer is out of jail on a $20,000 bond.

Victoria has recorded 507 new Covid-19 cases as Dan Andrews is set to announce what freedoms will come into effect once 70 per cent of the population in Victoria is double vaccinated.

Rep. Elise Stefanik - a Trump loyalist - paid for Facebook ads pushing 'great replacement theory,' which claims white people are replaced by migrant. She was ripped by her hometown paper.

At an online discussion Wednesday Petra Lange explained how she got around Iowa's HF-802 law, which established requirements related to racism and sexism in schools.

Jonathan Munro was on the interview panel when Bashir was taken back on, then as UK Religious Affairs correspondent, in September 2016.

Graham Dickason who found his daughters dead at home - as his wife, Lauren, 40, is accused of murdering them - planned their relocation from South Africa for two years, according to friends.

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said a new drug showed a 72 per cent reduction in the risk of disease progression or death in women with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer.

Parliament's joint committee on the national security strategy cited the fall of Afghanistan as proof that the system of dealing with risks was already 'inadequate to the task'.

An internal memo from GB News channel chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos shows that its board was ready to 'terminate Andrew Neil's position' - branding it 'untenable'.

Shocking pictures from the scene showed a raging fire ripping through the large coach at around 2pm on Saturday near to Tibshelf Services, Nottinghamshire, as emergency services darted to the scene.

Thousands of anti-vaxxers descended on London on Saturday holding signs reading 'stay away from our kids' and a boy held a card with 'I'm a child, I can't consent'.

Liz Truss, pictured arriving in Downing Street is the Tory Party's first female Foreign Secretary, wants to use her role to mould her vision of post-Brexit Britain, writes GLEN OWEN.

Sir Keir Starmer was condemned for 'putting politics above people' by not backing a bid to rescue the Talacre Sports Centre in his North London constituency.

Stewart Tomlinson, 45, was ordered to pay £4,500 in compensation for snapping the head off The Footie Imp, a statue sponsored for charity by Lincoln City Football Club.

MICHAEL COCKERELL: As a TV interviewee, Johnson differs from all the other politicians I have encountered on camera.

Tests are to be carried out on a former landfill site close to the home of a schoolboy who died from inhaling toxic fumes during heavy flooding in Chertsey, Surrey.

The former President of the UK's Supreme Court Baroness Hale says she had no regrets and reveals that the spider brooch she wore to deliver the bombshell ruling cost just £12.

The Old Forge Inn at Knoydart on the Highlands' west coast has seen nearby residents scramble to join a community purchase fundraiser to keep mainland Britain's most remote pub thriving.

Homeowners are footing the cost of steep parking fee rises and 'green' motoring charges that can land builders, plumbers and electricians with bills of up to £139.50 a day in one area of London.

JANE SMITH: Working in a London hospital, you get used to dealing with the after-effects of gang fights. But you don't expect to see them. 

When the Duke of Edinburgh died, it was perhaps Harry who captured his grandfather's character best when he recalled him as 'the master of the barbecue and legend of banter.

The Uzbek national had just landed in Delhi, India, on a flight from Dubai when officials caught him allegedly trying to smuggle the 95 grams of gold moulded into a giant set of dentures.

The hold-ups were blamed on factory shutdowns in China due to hot weather and public holidays to celebrate the centenary of Communism earlier this year.

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: The shortage of HGV drivers may be threatening supply chains but equally pressing, for some of us, is the shortage of beauty therapists - certainly in London.

Psychologists from Amsterdam and Crete universities have discovered that dark horizontal lines are actually more slimming than other clothing designs.

Two American law firms with London offices in the City - Debevoise & Plimpton and Morrison & Foerster - are demanding staff be fully-jabbed before returning to the workplace.

Pictures show Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey clocking 12-hour work days at the bank - leaving his home in South London shortly after 6am and returning more than 12 hours later.

A businessman who was offered help to secure a knighthood and British citizenship for donations to Prince Charles's charities was awarded the Freedom of the City of London.

Alongside an appeal for information, Mr Wang's face looms from what is effectively a wanted poster accusing him of money laundering and being a fugitive from justice.

UK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is expected to announce plans this week to stop businesses from keeping the service charge when customers pay it on bank cards.

The report, No More Tick Boxes, was written by workforce culture consultant Roger Kline, who is based at Middlesex University for NHS East of England.

The Prime Minister will host a meeting on climate change at the United Nations tomorrow and address the UN General Assembly in the US.

Three explosions rocked the eastern provincial capital Jalalabad on Saturday in attacks targeting Taliban vehicles, though most of the victims were civilians according to local media.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced on Friday that the traffic light system is to be replaced from October 4 by a single, reduced, 'red list' of destinations.

Empty tequila bottles were found inside the under-construction jumbo jet that will be the next Air Force One - currently being built in Boeing's San Antonio factory (pictured) - which sparked an internal probe.

Visitors immersed themselves in a day of 1940's-themed action during a spectacular display of historic planes at an RAF site that served a key role in Britain's finest hour - The Battle of Britain.

Department of Health bosses posted 30,144 new cases today, up two per cent on the 29,547 recorded last Saturday. The number of people dying also increased 5.1 per cent to 164.

The singer is lobbying for the relaxation of rules which do not guarantee visa-free travel for musicians in the EU.

The Mail on Sunday can reveal that Dame Donna Kinnair faced an investigation over claims that she had accepted hospitality from financier George Farha while on holiday in Morocco.