Speaking to MailOnline today, Neville Astley, one of the show's creators, said: 'We don't get involved in politics. Peppa is apolitical', adding: 'I'm quite proud that he called us geniuses though'.

Darrell Brooks Jr, 39, appeared in court in Wisconsin on Tuesday for his bail hearing. Bail was set at $5 million in cash, which the judge described as 'extraordinary' but appropriate.

Police investigating the disappearance of 18-year-old Bobbi-Anne McLeod (pictured) in Plymouth on Saturday have launched a murder investigation after finding a woman's body

Killing a police officer or 999 worker is to be punished with a mandatory life sentence, it was announced last night, a major victory for the widow of hero PC Andrew Harper, Lissie Harper (pictured).

Farringtons School in Kent made facemasks mandatory for students amid concern over rising Covid-19 cases but said pupils who are exempt would have to wear an identifying yellow badge.

Max Halliwell was being treated in intensive care at Watford General Hospital after falling ill at home in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, before he passed away last week.

Sheffield United midfielder John Fleck has been rushed to hospital after collapsing on the pitch during his side's Championship fixture with Reading.

Bus driver Monica Sulley, 58, reportedly became a guiding Commissioner in July this year, overseeing Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers in Southwell, Nottinghamshire.

David Lewis (pictured) had been employed at Benriach Distillery in Newbridge, Edinburgh, for 23 years before he was sacked earlier this year for breaking lockdown rules.

Wintry showers and hill snow will hit the UK later this week as temperatures plunge and gales reach up to 80mph in Scotland and northeastern areas.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct launched a probe into a group of Police Federation officials after it emerged they had discussed the Met officer's legal defence in a private messaging service.

The Sherlock star made the comments while advertising his latest film, Power of the Dog, an adaptation of a novel by Thomas Savage.

The Archbishop of Canterbury (pictured) has said he struggles to watch TV vicars as they are portrayed as 'rogues' or 'idiots'.

The fast-track 'global talent' scheme was touted by Home Secretary Priti Patel as an example of her post-Brexit points-based immigration system. But figures show it has so far flopped.

St Mary's Church of England Primary in Hereford and Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio in Lancashire have become the first schools to completely close this term in a Covid 'circuit breaker'.

Despite becoming the highest grossing Hollywood film this year, No Time To Die could reportedly lose up to $100million (£75million).

The IOPC said eight officers had cases to answer for misconduct and six for gross misconduct. Five received sanctions up to a final warning, which one campaigner deemed 'a slap on the hand'.

The distressing footage was shown at Coventry Crown Court on Tuesday, where Thomas Hughes, 29, and Emma Tustin, 32, are accused of killing Arthur at their home in Solihull last June.

Ministers may have 'acted in bad faith' when they cancelled a deal for 100million Covid vaccines made by a French firm, the former head of the vaccine taskforce Kate Bingham (pictured) said.

Boris Johnson shared a table with two property tycoons at a Tory fundraiser hours before it was announced thousands of civil servants were moving to offices the pair developed.

All the companies surveyed performed badly, with Hermes coming last in the rankings. While Amazon topped the table, all five major delivery firms failed to achieve more than three stars.

Naval personnel reported seeing the cheap rain cover floating in the sea nearby Britain's flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth after the accident in the Mediterranean on Sunday.

RAF bases will start becoming 'carbon neutral' within four years as part of a world-beating plan for the Armed Forces to go green, it emerged last night.

The Queen has united with Prince Charles and Prince William in a threat to boycott the BBC over a documentary alleging vicious briefing wars between members of the Royal Family.

Angela Levin said it was telling that the corporation's final interview of last night's show was with the Duchess of Sussex's British lawyer, Jenny Afia (pictured).

The Christmas carol concert, hosted at by Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey, will be aired by ITV instead of the BBC amid Royal anger at the broadcaster's The Princes and The Press show.

Officers from the Met's counter terrorism command arrested a 52-year-old man on suspicion of collecting information 'likely to be useful to a person preparing an act of terrorism'.

NASA 's DART mission is just a few hours away. At 1:20am ET, SpaceX is set to launch its Falcon 9 rocket to deliver a box-shaped space probe into space that will deliberately crash into an asteroid.

Detectives want motorists whose lives were disrupted by Insulate Britain in Essex to come forward and help them build a criminal case against members of the eco-mob.

Elizabeth Cottage, at Crookham Common, near Newbury, Berkshire, was sold in a live stream auction by Brighton-based Auction House Sussex this afternoon for £140,000 above the starting price.

British travellers heading to the EU on holiday next year are likely to face 'sustained delays and disruption' at the border because of new travel checks, peers have warned Priti Patel.

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries today blasted her 'left-wing' and 'snowflake' critics as she criticised the Brit Awards for scrapping male and female categories at next year's show.

Boris Johnson has gathered his Cabinet as simmering Tory unrest threatens to boil over, after 19 MPs fired another warning shot by voting against watering down the cap on care costs.

Police are on the hunt for Manray Woolfall (pictured), 23, absconded from Wormwood Scrubs while being transferred to a west London mental health facility.

Leading the schedule is the return of Mrs Browns Boys, which will once again hit screens with two festive specials, and Doctor Who, which will kick off 2022 with a star-studded New Year's Day special.

Louise Haigh said that if her party was in Government it should remain 'neutral' in any referendum on Irish reunification instead of campaigning on behalf of unionists.

Some 42,484 infections were recorded across the UK in the last 24 hours, up 14.1 per cent on the 37,243 positive tests registered last Tuesday.

Matthew Dibble, 40, suffered a 'catastrophic' episode just two days after he self-presented at St Thomas' Hospital in central London complaining of a headache on May 8.

Patients at the Millbrae Care Home in Lanarkshire were given a shot of saline solution instead of their first Covid vaccine dose on December 16 last year. NHS Lanarkshire apologised on Saturday.

Samuel Shirley, a postman in the Glasgow area for 26 years, said he had a 'long-standing' deal with the householder to leave her deliveries in the bin if she was out.

The couple, named locally as Stephen and Jenny Chapple, were found at their property in the Somerset village of Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton, on Sunday night.

The family of Natabay Tinsiew said he died peacefully on Monday in his remote village of Azefa in Eritrea at the age of 127. They claim village records prove his age.

Extinction Rebellion says it wants to recruit 3.5 per cent of the UK population - or 2.3million people - to its cause as part of a comeback next year after activity slowed during the pandemic.

Rebel carpenter Oliver Rock was jailed for four months for being one of nine campaigners from the Extinction Rebellion offshoot group who took part in a protest on the M25 on October 8.

The Queen's British granddaughter, 31, joined her fellow co-founder of The Anti-Slavery Collective, Julia de Boinville, to speak with students about their initiative.

In the message to the Requiem Mass at Westminster Cathedral, Pope Francis called for mourners to 'combat evil with good' as he paid tribute to Sir David Amess.

The single parking space is located in the heart of Shaldon, South Devon, and is expected to sell this week. The space in a garage measures 4.5m by 2.8m and comes with security lighting.

Timothy Lively, 62, from Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, was shown 'mercy' by a judge at Warwick Crown Court on Monday after they heard he is in a wheelchair from driving his car into a tree.

Natasha Dawn, 43, from Nottinghamshire, subjected Eastenders' Actress Danniella Westbrook to a barrage of insults and racism on Twitter and Instagram.

Welsh motorist Keith Crute, 33, has been convicted of a race crime after he erupted in fury when he found an £80 parking ticket on his silver Vauxhall during a day trip to Llanberis in Snowdonia.

The UK is heading for interest rate rises after the private sector saw cost inflation hit another record high this month amid rocketing wage, fuel and energy costs for firms.

Susanna Reid called out Brian May for having a gas fire despite being a climate change campaigner during Tuesday's Good Morning Britain.

According to the Sanger Institute, the largest variant surveillance centre in the country, AY.4.2 was responsible for 16 per cent of new cases in England in the fortnight up to November 13.

Boris Johnson has been warned that peers will scrutinise his proposals watering down the cap on costs 'very, very carefully'.

The Brexit Minister said the private sector 'isn't just a source of taxes' and cannot be treated 'as just a convenient way of keeping the public sector running'.

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Daniel Andrews' government has been rocked by a mass exodus that has seen three key MPs throw in the towel for the 2022 election.

Amid rising Tory unrest, Treasury sources have hit out at Boris Johnson for 'blowing' announcements including a huge £96billion rail upgrade.

A North Korean man who brought a copy of squid game back into the country from China is to be executed by firing squad.

When serving as Mayor of London ahead of the London Olympics in 2012, Mr Johnson wrote to a Greek official to say that 'in an ideal world' the marbles should never have come to Britain.

St Mary's Church of England Primary in Hereford and Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio, a secondary school in Lancashire, have closed for at least a week amid a surge in Covid cases.

The group, which was founded out of the 2017 march and organizes the annual event, sent out an email with the subject line '$14.92.'

Lisa Saint, from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, got into the infinity pool at RockFig Safari Lodge, in Hoedspruit, South Africa, when she saw a herd of elephants standing at the side of it.

Joe and Jill Biden arrived on Nantucket for Thanksgiving after the White House defended their stay at billionaire David Rubenstein's private compound with Hunter and gaggle of grandkids.

Snow will fall in Scotland from today before moving south to the north of England, East Anglia and Wales later in the week - as the Met Office issued yellow weather warnings for Friday and Saturday.

The Cyberspace Administration of China announced new rules yesterday which banned its celebrities from showing off their wealth on social media.

Kim Cattrall's character Samantha Jones has been moved overseas in the Sex and the City reboot titled And Just Like That.

Rosamund PIke is appearing in a dramatic 3D advertisement for her new Amazon Prime Video show The Wheel of Time. The anamorphic promotion is running in London, New York, Madrid and Tokyo.

A video posted on TikTok shows a carpark showdown unfolding outside Bell Post Hill shopping centre, in Geelong, on Tuesday night in front of shocked bystanders.

The family of conwoman Melissa Caddick have been informed her exotic cars, luxury properties and expensive jewellery will be sold off for victims.

Anne Clarke, an Assembly Member for the London Borough Barnet and the London Borough of Camden, was chairing the event on Tuesday evening.

'Wait a second Peppa - Sooty's trying to say something'

UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid (pictured) is understood to have ordered NHS health chiefs to come up with proposals to ease the backlog.

On the evening of August 10, Epstein was assisted in making a phone call. The unit manager said Epstein told him he called his mother. It was instead his girlfriend, 30-year-old Katyna Shuliak.

Robin Appleby, the headteacher of Britain's most expensive day school has resigned following a row over a new 'woke' agenda at the £32,650-a-year American School in London (ASL).

The heavily-tattooed male companion of an Instagram model who crashed her car while three-times the legal limit was smoking a cigarette when he climbed from the wreckage.

President Joe Biden was being compared to Anchorman's Ron Burgundy - known for reading the teleprompter verbatim - when he said 'end of quote' in a speech Tuesday.

The BoM has warned Australians that the miserable conditions will hang around for the rest of the week with almost every state but Western Australia to be drenched in rain.

Concern about the No 10 operation crystallised on Monday night when a 'senior Downing Street source' gave a brutal briefing to the BBC calling the Prime Minister's CBI speech 'shambolic'.

A neighbor's doorbell camera captured the terrifying moment a house in Flint, Michigan exploded killing two people, a four-year-old girl and 70-year-old, and leaving the girl's father in critical condition.

The first, all-new Ford Ranger in a decade will be available with a V6 option to cater for Australians who want to tow a boat or caravan. A big six hasn't topped sales charts since the Holden Commodore.

Emmanuel Macron's government last night pledged its security forces would be in action 'day and night' on the coast. The French also revealed how they spent Brits money on borders.

Social media users are mocking cancel culture in wake of the nominations, alleging it does not really exist. However, some are arguing the Grammy Awards are 'terrible' and honoring 'terrible people'.

'I used to be a fan of prosecutors [but] not anymore,' Kyle Rittenhouse (left) told Tucker Carlson when asked about Kenosha Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger (inset).

A Jetstar pilot arrested over the mysterious disappearance of two elderly campers had travelled the globe with his glamorous wife and three children. 

Suspects in Tamaulipas, Mexico, were surprised over the weekend when they were busted in the middle of robberies and had their faces painted as the Joke by vigilantes.

The All England Club wants to build 39 grass courts, including an 8,000-seat stadium, on the 73 acres currently occupied by Wimbledon Park golf course. A legal covenant could scupper plans.

Annastacia Palaszczuk has claimed her state is being singled out by the Morrison government amid a spat over $145-a-pop Covid tests to enter Queensland.

Anyone coming into SA must be double vaccinated and use a new online border entry process.

Three removalists who travelled to central western NSW from Sydney after testing positive to COVID-19 have been convicted, fined and sentenced to a one-year community corrections order.

Those interviewed, including a professor of criminal justice and ex-cop, think the steals should be referred to as 'organized smash and grabs.'

Nick Kyrgios has confessed that his 'sexual frustration' left him too 'horny' to play tennis when the game took him away from his first girlfriend.

The highly-anticipated heavyweight fight between Paul Gallen and NRL star Josh Aloiai has been cancelled after the Manly Sea Eagles front-rower tested positive to Covid.

Josh Aloiai has reportedly become the first NRL player to contract COVID-19. His boxing bout against Paul Gallen has been cancelled.

Rashelle Baird's devastated father Stephen said she was 'not an anti-vaxxer' and 'just put her kids first'. Ms Baird died at Dundee's Ninewells Hospital.

Universities will be more responsible for thier graduate's outcomes and could be fined for putting on Mickey Mouse courses which lead to no job prospects under the new 'levelling up' plans.

An Australian lollipop lady has revealed a consistent wage in the industry is a myth - before declaring other women employed controlling traffic at construction sites are offering 'false hope' online.

There is much more sexual activity going on in Australia's women's prisons than in men's. Having a prison partner is accepted as par for the course in female jails.

ASIC chair Joe Longo has warned Australians they are 'on their own' when it comes to protecting their investments during a speech at AFR's Super & Wealth Summit.

Lisa Van Kula Donovan from Queensland shared a clip of a huntsman spider she had been raising since a baby to compare the nearly fully grown spider in size.

Comical footage has emerged of a 'dead' Schoolies party that saw outraged teenagers pay $50 to splash around on inflatable flamingoes and meet contestants from the 2021 Love Island cast.

In a vision of celestial wonder, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus aligned (pictured) above Stonehenge in Wiltshire after ten eight-second exposures were merged into this striking image.

Elisah Spencer, 24, of Red Hook, Brooklyn, released a bizarre video in which he identified himself as the fan who jumped over a guard rail at Monday Night Raw and tackled Seth Rollins to the ground.

The Northern Territory has detected 11 new Covid-19 infections as an outbreak in the Top End's Indigenous community continues to grow. Fear as communities stay in extreme lockdown.

RICHARD EDEN: Boris Johnson's wife Carrie, who is head of communications for the Aspinall Foundation, is planning to take no maternity leave after she gives birth to her second child.

A furious truck driver has taken to TikTok after allegedly being fined for parking illegally in Nelson Bay, NSW, after cops stopped in a loading zone.

Liberals are calling to quash 'excessive bail' and abolish federal prisons a day after Darell Brooks, 39, drove his SUV into a parade in Waukesha and his bail was set at $5million.

Kyle Rittenhouse says that he did not know he was posing with members of the far-right group Proud Boys at a Wisconsin bar in January as he blamed former attorney John Pierce for the mishap.

Police believe a fake vaccination certificate scam was the motive behind a brazen kidnapping on a suburban street in western Sydney.

The Kyle Rittenhouse interview on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight was by far the most watched cable news program between 8pm and 8pm Eastern time on Monday night.

Sky Global sold an encrypted-messaging software to criminals that used it to operate a huge cocaine trafficking ring in Europe, according to an indictment from the U.S. Department of Justice.

The suspect accused of plowing into a parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin and killing six on Sunday had shared social media posts promoting violence towards white people.

Donald Trump on Tuesday night spoke to Fox News's Sean Hannity for an hour-long interview. He revealed he had met Kyle Rittenhouse at Mar-a-Lago and said he should have never been prosecuted.

A reporter for A Current Affair has been involved in a scuffle with a supporter of a cosmetic surgeon.

Torrential rainfall won't destroy mouse populations but create ideal conditions for another plague experts say. Farmers now not only have to prepare for flooding but second mouse plague.

A suspended learner driver who killed a delivery driver and injured another man while high on drugs behind the wheel has been jailed for 11 and a half years in a Melbourne Court on Wednesday.

It could have been a scene from a TV comedy about incompetent politicians, but it really happened - a Government Minister took down dangerous cladding, but when the media left, tradies put it back up.

Rosa Raso, the wife of Austworld plumbing group head Sam Raso, has made $1million from the sale of her mega mansion in Mudgeeraba's Jabiru Estate.

Patricia Hadjia, 27, had been pictured on social media at a wedding with a glass of champagne in her hand just hours before the accident in October.

Drivers in NSW can be fined $464 and three demerit points is they don't wash their car properly and the number plates can't be read from 20 metres away. Similar fines apply in other states and territories.

At least 600 Google employees have signed a manifesto calling on the tech company to retract its COVID-19 vaccine mandate requiring employees to be fully vaccinated by January 10.

A toddler is in a coma in Queensland Children's Hospital after being hit by a ute when he 'walked onto the roadway' west of the Gold Coast.

Covid rules banning more than one person from being in Sydney Trains cabins at a time meant about 230 trainees were only able to learn theory from home since early July.

President Joe Biden said he was thankful for the 'people who I'm standing next to' as he prepared Thanksgiving meals alongside Jill Biden, Kamala Harris, and Doug Emhoff.

Anna Bligh, the head of the Australian Banking Association, admitted many people preferred to keep a thousand dollars in a jar than in the bank despite many shops no longer accepting cash.

San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin says his office has filed criminal charges against nine people involved in Friday's brazen organized theft of a Louis Vuitton store.

Blayne Clegg, a junior at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC, said he discovered the painting 'a few weeks ago' and that it has been met with a 'universally negative' reaction.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended President Joe Biden's Thanksgiving on Nantucket, saying food prices weren't that high and everyone should spend holiday with family.

A man has been arrested at his home in Tamworth, north-eastern NSW and charged with encouraging terrorism after allegedly threatening multiple Australian political leaders.

Police executed a search warrant at the man's Buderim, Queensland, home on Tuesday, where officers allegedly found child abuse material distributed from a Kik social media account.

After a night of drinking in 2018, Jamie Cust told NSW detectives he 'freaked out' when work colleague Jesus Bebita touched his penis. Mr Cust then stabbed his mate 49 times.

A team of police divers have returned to William Tyrrell's foster grandmother's home in Kendall on NSW's mid-north coast to inspect a rainwater tank.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott filed to run for re-election on Tuesday in preparation for the 2022 gubernatorial election in the state, vowing to secure the border, support police and create jobs.

Sulafa Ageeb Ageeb, 21, was convicted and fined $4,000 after sparking a Covid-19 lockdown in regional NSW following a week of partying and shopping.

A hang-glider has avoided serious injury after he crashed near a popular lookout spot near Bateau Bay on the NSW Central Coast.

School students staying at the Licola wilderness village, about 250km east of Melbourne, captured the moment cops descended on Jetstar pilot Gregory Lynn, 55, on Monday night.

A face-tattooed thug based on the Gold Coast has been jailed after kidnapping a man who he believed was holding half a kilogram of cocaine - which turned out to be lollies.

The Federal Court has dismissed a Sydney woman's appeal against being extradited to Chile where she's accused of being involved in kidnapping seven people.

A driver sparked confusion online after sharing a photo of cars parked in several different directions on the same street in Melbourne, and asked social media what was going on.

New Zealand is reopening the international border to fully vaccinated citizens from January 17 next year and will allow non-citizens to enter the country from April 30.

A new poll has found a majority of Australians want the country to accept less migrants than before the Covid-19 pandemic, as 200,000 are set to arrive in coming months.

The exclusive Haileybury College in Melbourne pleaded guilty to two charges over the man's death, each of which carries a maximum penalty of a $1.4million fine.

The Jetstar pilot arrested over the mysterious disappearance of two elderly campers had been living the Australian dream when police arrested him in the pristine Victorian wilderness. 

Vaccine sceptic senator Gerard Rennick has secured a change to the jab injury compensation scheme. The threshold for access to the scheme will be reduced from $5,000 to $1,000.

A proposal by NSW health bureaucrats to extend the mask wearing rule for millions of shoppers beyond the pre-Christmas rush has sparked furious backlash. 

Experts have slammed Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews' plan to exclude unvaccinated people from public venues throughout next year.

RICHARD KAY: The response from three royal households was a blink-and-you-miss-it moment at the end of the BBC's much hyped documentary about the royals.

Colin Clarke died from cancer at 45 after unknowingly being exposed to asbestos on a Perth construction site. His wife Lizzie is working to educate people on the dangerous substance.

The latest victim was a man fatally shot at a gas station in the 4700 block of S. Capitol Street, Southeast Washington shortly after 10 pm on Monday, police said.

A six-word tweet that 'deeply offended' Peter Dutton unjustly defamed him, a court has ruled.