SCOTLAND is facing additional coronavirus restrictions, with the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon making a statement this afternoon. What will be announced?

LONDON's Leicester Square has been closed off by police due to a suspected gas leak.

COVID-19 lateral flow tests have run out for the second day running, as Omicron cases surge in the UK.

MOTORISTS face severe delays this morning on the M62 due to a horror crash.

THREE vehicles crashed on the M25 this morning sparking miles of tailbacks.

NEW YEAR'S EVE parties are in grave doubt but Christmas should be able to go ahead as planned, according to a leaked Plan C Covid memo.

A FIRE has broken out this evening at a large building in Cheshire.

Nicola Sturgeon's dream of Scottish independence could cost Scotland huge amounts as an economist claimed the nation gains £10billion from being part of the UK public finances.

BORIS JOHNSON has been delivered a worrying election warning ahead of the crunch North Shropshire by-election vote on Thursday.

CHRIS WHITTY has warned the NHS faces a double threat from the Omicron Covid variant, as the health service expects to see mass staff absences before a "significant wave of patients very rapidly enters into the NHS".