Louise Rees, 60, tendered her resignation to Solihull Council chiefs shortly after the six-year-old's death sent shockwaves around the children's services department, sources said.

Papers released by SAGE and subgroup Nervtag warned the highly evolved Omicron super mutant strain could cause a surge in cases 'similar or even larger' than previous waves.

BEL MOONEY: His pitiful cries of 'Nobody loves me' and 'No one is going to feed me' will haunt us all. Lockdown put countless individuals in greater danger. What chance did that tragic child have?

Putting an end to the Queen's 55-year-long role as its head of state, Barbados this week became a republic. But more significantly, the West Indian island gained an emperor, President Xi.

AMANDA PLATELL: I was lucky enough to be invited to a magical pre-Christmas celebration in the surroundings of 17th century Kenwood House in Hampstead Heath, North London.

Kate Middleton, 39, was said to have been left in tears after she 'lost control' during a row with her future sister-in-law, which stemmed over claims Meghan had been rude to Palace staff.

Legendary England and Yorkshire cricketer Ray Illingworth (pictured) was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer a year ago and intends to end his remarkable life.

Pictures show the youngster, from Solihull beaming as he enjoys time with Olivia Labinjo-Halcrow, 29.

The charity Many Tears, based near Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, South Wales, and run by Mrs Van Atta and her husband Bill, recently took in 172 adult dogs and puppies from across Britain.

All pet cats will have to be microchipped by 2023 under new laws aimed at reuniting lost and stolen animals with their owners. Refusal by owners to get a chip would be a criminal offence.

DEBBIE HAYTON: On the surface, the Bill has the laudable intention of outlawing abhorrent practices sometimes used in the past in an attempt to 'cure' people of being LGBT.

Richard Lynton-Jones, who is of Indian heritage, alleges Mone racially abused him and called his partner a 'nut case bird' and 'mental loony' after a day of partying on the French Riviera in 2019.

Ghislaine Maxwell's trial heard Friday how schoolgirl outfits were found at Jeffrey Epstein's New York mansion when the FBI raided the property in 2019.

Emma Tustin, 32, cowered in her cell in the court building rather than face justice for murdering defenseless Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.

Despite a life replete with theatrical acclaim, a knighthood and a string of famous friends, Antony Sher struggled with crippling anxiety and overwhelming feelings of inadequacy.

ANDREW NEIL: French President Emmanuel Macron just can't stop bashing the Brits. This week it was reported he'd called Boris Johnson a 'clown' and a 'knucklehead'.

The Labour leader accused Boris Johnson's government of failing businesses and hiking the cost of living as he said his latest cabinet reshuffle got his 'strongest team on the pitch'.

Cambridge University's celebrated student newspaper Varsity was once so fearless that some of its stories resulted in the editor being challenged to a duel.

Among those whose recollections have been included in a new book are Nelson Mandela, portrait painter Michael Noakes, Lord (Denis) Healey and US harmonica player Larry Adler.

A 58-page staff handbook, which was used at Jeffrey Epstein's mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, has been shown in court. It was designed to give staff 'proper guidance to perform your duties'.

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: I recently had to tell a friend, who has chosen not to get vaccinated, that he is no longer welcome to a small social gathering I've organised next week.

Parwana Malik was sold for the equivalent of £1,600  in land, sheep and cash to a stranger named Qorban so her father Abdul Malik could pay for food in the Taliban-ruled nation.

Ministers are considering changing the law to protect free speech after the Appeal Court ruled in favour of the Duchess of Sussex in a privacy dispute against The MoS.

One ten-year-old has spoken at a string of anti-vax rallies - sometimes as the warm-up act for Jeremy Corbyn's brother Piers - where she is hailed as a 'child advocate' and 'future female warrior'.

Prince Albert, 63, marked the first weekend of December by taking his six-year-old twins Jacques and Gabriella to inaugurate Monaco's annual Christmas village.

Infections in the country are near record highs since early November, even though 91 per cent of eligible people over the age of 12 are fully vaccinated.

Palle Huld (pictured in Moscow) had won a competition held by a Danish newspaper to celebrate 100 years since the birth of Around the World in 80 days author Jules Verne.

Official data shows that the proportion of positive Covid tests with a mutation synonymous with the highly-evolved strain is on the rise in England. It suggests Omicron could be behind 0.3% of cases.

Chelsea Leary, 20, Emma Daly, 25, and Valerie Daly, 21, (pictured, left to right) were called 'a pack of wild animals around their prey' as they were sentenced for a brutal attack on a lone woman in Manchester.

Vigilante cyclist Mike Van Erp, 49, claims he spotted the Chelsea legend chatting on his mobile phone while at the wheel of his Mercedes in South Kensington. Lampard, 43, denies the offence.

DAN WOOTTON: The dark march towards mandating the Covid vaccine across Europe is the biggest threat to human rights in a generation.

The country's National Institute for Communicable Diseases recorded another 16,055 Covid cases in the last 24 hours - with the vast majority in epicentre Gauteng province.

The blonde grabbed the other traveller's handbag and shoved her out the way on the Docklands Light Railway to London City Airport.

Government figures show another 50,584 positive tests were recorded in the past 24 hours. This marked the second day in a row cases had broken through 50,000.

Boris Johnson's decision to keep the economy open despite concerns over Omicron could be worth £1.1billion to the Christmas markets and winter wonderland industry.

Ghislaine Maxwell's sister Isabel, 71, has been supporting her during the trial, and has been spotted attending court each day in New York alongside her brother Ian.

Anne Longfield today warned that measures had not yet been put in place to deal with a 'lack of co-ordination and lack of data-sharing' among agencies dealing with child protection in England.

Corporal Jonathan Bayliss, 41, died when the Hawk T1 jet crashed into the runway at RAF Valley in Anglesey, North Wales, on March 20 2018.

Laylisha Gardner's black Honda could be seen wedged beneath the semi-truck as it drove along the Interstate 294, just outside Chicago, on Tuesday - pulling the sedan along with it.

An Arctic blast is set to send temperatures plummeting to -5C this weekend and blanket parts of Britain in snow while thousands of homes remain without heating a week after Storm Arwen.

All seven migrants were reportedly 'fine and well' after they were discovered aboard a refrigerated lorry trailer on the M1 near Leicester on Thursday evening.

Jilted South Wales Police officer Emma Bewick, 21, ignored warnings to stop harassing former boyfriend Gavin Burrows after following him in her car and on foot.

The Prime Minister and his staff at No10 are accused of breaking Covid rules by hosting three festive gatherings in 2020.

Judo trainer Alain Schmitt accused Olympic champion Margaux Pinot of lying about domestic abuse, as the two held separate press conferences to put forward their version of events.

Medics called for specialist support after the man presented in the Accident and Emergency unit of Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in Gloucester when he could not remove the 57mm shell.

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC's Amol Rajan also previously condemned Prince Charles for 'not being bright enough' and said Prince Philip 'for all his faults, is also c**p at doing a tie knot'.

Meghan, 40, sued Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), also the publisher of MailOnline, over five articles that reproduced parts of her letter to Thomas Markle, 77, in August 2018.

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Amelie Osborn-Smith, 18 and from Hampshire, was taking a break between rafting sessions on the Zambezi River, below Victoria Falls in Zambia, when she was attacked by the reptile.

Ambitious devolution plans could see local governors 'empowered' into leadership which would 'allow communities to take back control' as part of Michael Gove's Levelling Up project.

Shau Ying Luk had happily lived in her Eastwood home in Sydney's north-west for more than 20 years until her new neighbour replaced the home next door with a huge mansion and fence.

Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes can be seen tucking into ice creams at her Solihull home in West Midlands, last year while doomed six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes starves in the hallway.

Around 100 migrants including babies and small children were this morning rescued from rough Channel seas by an RNLI lifeboat vessel.

The total dropped to 597,760 for the year to March 2021, the lowest figure since records began in 2013. By contrast, the total for 2018-19, before the pandemic, was 650,930.

Earlier this year, the Government launched a consultation in a bid to privatise Channel 4 in an effort to address the network's poor financial performance.

Sydney based financial expert Phil King has outlined the popular stock investors should avoid post lockdown as borders finally begin to reopen across Australia and overseas.

Chris Bryant, MP for Rhondda, claimed minority groups have been targeted and compared Downing Street's tactics to those seen in America under former Republican President Donald Trump.

A number of Daily Mail Australia readers have been left stunned after discovering a dog training company is raking in almost $200,000 annually to keep seagulls away from diners in Sydney.

In scenes reminiscent of pre-Covid times Britons took to the streets of the country's towns and cities including Leeds and London to celebrate the run up to Christmas.

Federal Minister Greg Hunt has said the medical regulator should make the call on if Pifzer Covid-19 shots for children will get the go ahead before Christmas.

Joe Biden on Friday night said he would not accept Vladimir Putin's 'red line' of Ukraine joining NATO, as U.S. intelligence documents showed Russian plans for an invasion of Ukraine.

Just after 11.50am on Saturday, officers were called to a property at Moomin Road, Rowena - about 138km west of Moree - following reports a light plane had crashed.

The front passenger door of the car understood to belong to Hollie Nasser, 36, has now been covered up in tape after it was vandalised this week.

Popular Aussie liquor store Dan Murphy's has already had to limit shoppers buying French champagne to 12 bottles per person.

EXCLUSIVE: Moderna's CEO Stephane Bancel pocketed a cool £623million ($824million) in share growth alone - and sold 10,000 of his own stocks for $319 each on November 26.

Delfina Pan, 29, refused to date Agustin Lucas Mariani, 20, so he allegedly fatally stabbed her to death before stabbing himself on Monday night.

Shelley Ross, who told in September how Chris Cuomo groped her behind in a bar in 2005, said on Friday that CNN needed to launch a full independent investigation into his help for his brother Andrew.

Nick Martin came to blows with Dayne Brajkovich at The Sandbar in Scarborough, Perth, in November 2020.

The homeowner had used coals as a heat source to smoke the snakes out, causing their Maryland home to catch on fire in the process, doing $1 million in damages, according to investigators.

Semmie Williams, 39, is accused of randomly and fatally stabbed Ryan Rogers, 14, when the two crossed paths on November 15 had a bizarre and unsettling YouTube channel.

Vincent Pinkney, 25, was escorted into NPYD Central Booking on Friday night, as hundreds gathered on the South Lawn of Columbia in a vigil for Davide Giri, a PhD candidate.

Mick Fuller said the team running the investigation had spent too much time pursuing people who 'clearly' weren't involved in William's disappearance.

The Covid-19 pandemic has hit the Bali property market hard and sent house prices tumbling to historic lows.

Gilead Sciences Inc. is recalling 55,000 vials of the COVID-19 drug remdesivir in the US after after a complaint about glass particles was confirmed by a company investigation.

Tristan Thompson has been made a father for the third time after his personal trainer Maralee Nichols, 31, of Houston, Texas, gave birth on Thursday.

Dewayne Rodgers, a 16-year veteran of Denver police, was fired on November 22 after he was found not to have given medical assistance to an 18-year-old as he lay dying in September 2020.

A family travelling with their newborn baby has been doused in pepper spray during a vicious road rage incident in the NSW Riverina region on Friday.

Democratic Senator Joe Manchin is backing a GOP effort to scrap President Biden's vaccine mandate for larger businesses. A vote is expected to take place in the Senate next week.

Thousands of protesters have gathered in Melbourne CBD to rally for 'freedom of choice'.

The court in Josh Duggar's trial heard that child porn found on his computer was protected by the same password used for his family's Instagram account.

New South Wales has recorded 325 cases and one new death as more Omicron infections are discovered in the state.

Jonathan Gerrish, 45, Ellen Chung, 31, and their 1-year-old daughter, Miju all died in the 100F California heat, the investigation found two months after the incident occurred August 15.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban now the owns the town of Mustang, Texas. It's located on Interstate 45 near Corsicana about an hour south of Dallas. Cuban bought it for $2million.

Brisbane man Shane Ah-San had allegedly been communicating on messaging app Wickr with the undercover cop who went by the name of Joshua Su'a.

Sweet Hope and Peppa are being paid $200,000 a year by the NSW government to chase seagulls away from diners at the Sydney Opera House.

Boots (pictured in 1924 in Hartlepool) is set to be put up for sale by its American owner. A feature on high streets for 172 years, the pharmacy chain could fetch more than £10billion.

Far-Right extremist Richard Hesketh (left), from Middleton, Manchester, posted videos that celebrated neo-Nazi terrorism and supported violence against Jewish people.

In a twin-track approach, resources will also be made available to help wean addicts off heroin, crack and other hard drugs.

A study has revealed how you can avoid family squabbles that arise when one of you misses out on your favourite chocolates from selection tubs.

The energy giant said it would no longer support the Cambo field - which could produce up to 170million barrels of oil over 25 years.

Online learning must not be used by vice chancellors as a cost-saving measure or 'for convenience', Universities Minister Michelle Donelan (pictured) said yesterday.

Checking pulses may be a quick and easy way to identify potential sufferers early, the authors of the study suggest. In the UK, around 850,000 people are living with the condition.

Hanging baskets and flowers planted in perfect formation are being shunned in favour of messy grassland and untamed hedges by the Royal Horticultural Society.

The tussle over his huge fortune - which includes the £12million Surrey mansion he shared with girlfriend Brigita Morina, 41 (pictured above)- has now reached London's High Court

The study was based on 2016 research that found weekly visits to outdoor green spaces of at least 30 minutes can reduce the prevalence of depression in the population by 7 per cent.

Wine firm Vagabond has designed an AI sommelier to deliver drinkers their perfect bottle, a service it hopes will become the industry's Spotify equivalent.

The Law Commission is set to call for the criminalisation of public sexual harassment such as cat-calling and making lewd comments, it was reported last night.

The warning from the National Weather Service is in effect from 6pm Friday to 6am Sunday. More than 12 inches of snow could be coming to the mountainous regions on the big island.

Emily Garland creates scaled-down models of some of the world's most beautiful buildings, complete with doric columns, domed roofs and window after window piped with royal icing.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The defenceless child endured a campaign of unimaginable barbarity at the hands of his evil stepmother Emma Tustin and cruel, cowardly father Thomas Hughes.

Brittany Wise, 24, the girlfriend of late jockey Chris Caserta has made a series of heart-wrenching tributes after he drowned during a late-night swim.

Rishi Sunak, 41, is reportedly planning to cut income tax over the next three years, ahead of the next general election in 2024 as he hopes to end his reputation as a 'high-tax' chancellor.

Research by analysts Assosia for The Grocer found 40 per cent of the 113 fresh or frozen turkey products cost more this year than they did in the run up to Christmas last year.

Hilaria Baldwin on Friday night raised eyebrows with a gushing 450-word account of her trauma, and feeling forced to stay silent, following her husband Alec's shooting on-set of a camerawoman.

The Lake Orion High School junior, 15, was arrested on Thursday and charged with making terroristic threats after police said he 'would shoot up the school of he could get a gun.'

Relatives of missing migrants say they fear organised crime has played a role in the tragic circumstances which led to the death of 27 people in the Channel last week.

An inquest heard how Archie Powell was treated for a bowel condition while actually suffering from a group B streptococcus infection at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Kent.

An emergecy meeting was held with South Australian leaders on Saturday to discuss the risk of the mutant variant Omicron.

Leicester East MP Claudia Webbe was convicted of harassment last month and is facing a recall election if she fails in her appeal to overturn the conviction.

One of the Nigerian brothers whom Jussie Smollett had claimed was homophobic has testified in court at the actor's trial. Ola Osundairo, 30, was asked about his alleged use of homophobic slurs.

Elon Musk sold his Silicon Valley estate for $30 million, the last of his seven California homes, fulfilling the pledge he made last year to 'own no home.'

Hunter Biden was close friends with Tucker Carlson, wrote a recommendation for his son's Georgetown application, and even got Carlson to intervene in a story about him.

An emergecy meeting was held with South Australian leaders on Saturday to discuss the risk of the mutant variant.

Former President Donald Trump blasted his successor as a 'one trick pony,' after the Biden administration said employers had added just 210,000 jobs in November.

Jen Psaki gave a snarky reply Friday morning when Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski pointed out that Americans care more about economic issues than social ones.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said the charges against the parents of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley were 'unprecedented' but 'absolutely called for.'

The state continues to manage almost 14,400 active coronavirus cases. There are 288 virus patients in Victorian hospitals, 44 of them in intensive care and 20 requiring ventilation.

Vice President Kamala Harris' staff are leaving because they're burned out, there are better opportunities elsewhere and they don't want to be permanently branded a 'Harris person.'

Dr. Anthony Fauci said he does not 'have an easy answer' to testing migrants who enter at the southern border, many of whom are infected with Covid-19.

Stephen Lara, 39, a former Marine, was on his way to visit his daughters in North California on February 19 when he took his entire life savings out of the bank because he 'doesn't trust banks.'

President Joe Biden signed legislation funding the federal government until mid-February, the White House said on Friday, giving Congress another 11 weeks to come up with a longer solution.

Photographer Craig Cisco Dietz spent over a year documenting the 'sheer insanity' at Flipper's where everyone was welcomed at a moment when Los Angeles was inclusive.

Dr. Anthony Fauci called the first strain of COVID the 'Wuhan strain' during Fox News appearance drawing comparisons to backlash former president Trump faced when he called it the 'China Virus'

South African comedian Trevor Noah, 37, suggested on his talk show the Daily Show that the Moderna CEO was concerned over the vaccine's effectiveness for financial gain on Thursday.

Lawyer and Trump advisor John Eastman 'asserts his Fifth Amendment right not to be a witness against himself,' his lawyer said in a letter to the House select Jan. 6th Committee.

Tristan Thompson insisted his personal trainer lover get an abortion and offered her $75,000 in hush money after she became pregnant with his child while he was dating Khloe, court filings claim. 

Jorge Fabián Cárdenas Sosa, who is set to be sworn in a mayor of the Mexican city of Lerdo de Tejeda on January 1, 2022, was taken into custody on kidnapping charges Thursday.

I, like everyone else, have been horrified by the accidental shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by actor Alec Baldwin on the set of the movie 'Rust' ever since I heard the news in October.

DeSantis pitched the unit - which would be called the Florida State Guard - as a way to give support to the Florida unit of the National Guard during hurricanes, the pandemic and other emergencies.

Soros, the most prolific Democratic donor, is most known for giving to Presidents Clinton and Obama but he has also been pumping money into a far-left effort to overhaul the criminal justice system.

Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider slammed Alec Baldwin's teary ABC interview as ''bullsh**' and casted doubts the star's claim that the 'gun went off by itself.'

Martin Motta, 74, has been charged with the December 1976 death of George Clarence Seitz, who disappeared on his way to the barbershop in Queens, New York, when he was

Federal law enforcement agencies are working with local officials to crack down on a wave of smash-and-grab raids, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced on Friday.

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore announced the arrests of 14 suspects in connection with 11 recent flash mob-style retail heists, but said all of the accused bailed out or met no-bail criteria.

One of the attorneys representing Jussie Smollett called for a mistrial Thursday, claiming the judge presiding over the case 'lunged' at her during Illinois court proceedings.

This would be a first requirement directly related to CRT for the school, which gets an endowment of $912.5billion and serves over 18,000 students.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy indicated Friday that he wouldn't be taking any action against Rep. Lauren Boebert for making suicide bomb jokes about Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Jen Psaki insisted that President Biden was following proper Covid-19 protocols in forging ahead with his public appearances, despite having come down with a cold.

The sheriff in Oakland County, where the shooting took place, said that authorities anticipated a 'flurry of false threats' after Ethan Crumbley killed four of his classmates Tuesday.

In a statement, Ava's father Robert Martin said: 'We would like to say thank you to everybody for their ongoing support.' Ava died after being stabbed in Liverpool city centre last Thursday.

Texas megachurch pastor Joel Osteen was questioned by police after 'bags and bags' of cash and checks were found in a bathroom wall by a plumber working at Lakewood Church.

Mexico deploys elite force of nearly 1,500 troops to secure resorts. The national guardsmen are permanently station in Cancún and neighboring resort towns to ward off rival gangs.

A Columbia University student was stabbed to death near the Manhattan campus on Thursday by a gang member who was arrested after stabbing a 27-year-old tourist 15 minutes later, police said.

Dina, 59, was sentenced at Nassau County Court, in Mineola, Long Island, on Friday. In January last year, Dina crashed her Mercedes into a Honda in the parking lot of Outback Steakhouse in Merrick.

Michelle Mone allegedly sent the racist message to financial consultant Richard Lynton-Jones (pictured) in June 2019 after a yacht crash near Monaco which killed one team member.

One of the creators of Critical Race Theory said he and his wife, who co-authored a book on the controversial academic theory, have been inundated with death threats in recent months.

European leaders have slammed the handbrake on the continent's Covid recovery in recent days, with lockdown measures, work from home orders, and vaccine mandates rolled out as cases rise.

Jenny Milne, 44, who lives near Inverurie, around 30 miles from Aberdeen, told MailOnline: 'It's power poverty. This is a society in breakdown - why aren't we getting the help we need? It's been a week.'

President Joe Biden on Friday said he was putting together plans aimed at making it difficult for Russian President Vladimir Putin to move on Ukraine.

Mercedes-AMG Petronas announced an agreement with Kingspan which has been widely condemned by survivors from the inferno and politicians.