BORIS JOHNSON'S call for an agreement to returning migrants crossing the Channel has been rejected by the French Government.

SNOW has blanketed parts of the UK over the weekend as temperatures dropped to icy levels. Now schools across affected areas have been forced to close, move teaching online or open late due to the snow. Here's a full list of schools affected.

A MAN who refused to take a Covid vaccine because it had been tested on animals has died of the disease.

BBC RADIO 4 broadcast dead air on Monday morning during a report on Ghislaine Maxwell with avid listeners taking to social media mocking the broadcaster and wondering what happened following an alarm being set off in the studio.

The World Health Organisation has stated that the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 poses a 'very high' global risk of infection surges which could have 'serious consequences'.

COVID FINES of £200 will be given out to Brits who refuse to wear face masks on public transport and in shops.

SIR BILLY CONNOLLY once branded political correctness the "language of cowardice" and insisted that people would be liberated by telling "it like it is".

THE Omicron variant has sparked global concern over the last few days, with the Government now backing new restrictions as officials identify cases in the UK. When is Sajid Javid making today's Covid announcement?

BREXIT tensions between the EU and UK have sparked fears of a trade war, but economics professor Jonathan Portes told Express.co.uk that this could see Brussels hit Britain with measures that would be "very damaging" to businesses.

A SERIOUS collision has closed two lanes on the westbound M20 between junctions eight and nine for Ashford in Kent.