Senior Conservatives vented fury at the PM after a stunning turnaround saw the Lib Dems seize North Shropshire, a true-blue stronghold for nearly two centuries, by a margin of 6,000.

The study claimed that Omicron's 'extensive' mutations can 'greatly compromise' all major COVID-19 vaccines - Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca.

As many as 745,183 third jabs were dished out yesterday, Department of Health figures showed. This was up 88,000 on yesterday's record, or a 13.5 per cent jump in just 24 hours.

No10 confirmed that Boris Johnson 'briefly' joined an 'outdoor meeting' with then-health secretary Matt Hancock and a number of staff after a press conference on May 15.

Sarah Milburn, 33, formed inappropriate relationships with convicts Dean Fleming, Jawan Sakhil and Jay Bell while working as a prison officer at HMP The Mount in Hemel Hempstead (pictured).

HENRY DEEDES: Omicron has got MPs dropping like guardsmen on a hot August afternoon. Yet the Chancellor Boy Wonder was nowhere to be seen.

The Duke of Cambridge, 39, sat down with the Royal Marsden Hospital's radio station and answered questions from young patients treated at the hospital in an interview broadcast today.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak will return earlier than planned from a work trip to California to hold crunch talks with hospitality chiefs amid mounting warnings over the impact of Omicron on the nation's economy.

ALEX BRUMMER: During emergencies, as we saw at the start of the Covid crisis last year, it is the job of the Government and the Bank to do all in their power to prevent scarring to the economy.

Marilyn Cole, now 72,  from Portsmouth, became the first ever model to appear full frontal in the magazine in 1972 - when she was 21.

Records released to the National Archives show the extent to which those seized during the Gulf War by the Saddam Hussein's (pictured) forces - mostly civilians - were murdered, tortured and raped.

Today's count marks a 74 per cent rise compared to last Thursday and is 12 per cent higher than the 78,000 yesterday, as Omicron begins to engulf the nation.

Allegations against the 67-year-old American actor were detailed in a new article from The Hollywood Reporter published on Thursday.

Peter Dodt, 12, was celebrating his last day at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport on Thursday morning when a freak gust of wind lifted the bouncing house off the ground.

The headline of an article published on 4 June which reported on a book by the political advisor Ed Husain was amended following publication to remove the suggestion that more than one town visited by...

JANE FRYER: The Lion King and Cabaret - the new (up to) £310-a-ticket extravaganza - have both been closed for several performances this week due to 'Covid-enforced absences'.

The Spice Girl looked stunning in a plunging cream gown with a complimentary matching shawl while posing for photos alongside the Red Bull British Team principal.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: No one doubts Professor Whitty's scientific expertise. In recent days, however, he has morphed from adviser to policy maker - with disastrous effect.

F1 champion Verstappen expects Lewis Hamilton to be back next season to battle for a record eighth title despite the Briton's disappointment at being beaten this year on the last lap of the last race.

Alleged child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell argued that three witnesses lined up to speak in her favour might pull out unless they were granted the same right to secrecy as her alleged victims.

Police are investigating claims that Kayleigh Smee, 37, threw her partner Ryan Doe's chihuahua out from a 30ft-high window during an argument at a property in Rochester.

In the last five years the percentage of old shows on the BBC's three main channels increased from 49 per cent to 56 per cent as the corporation continues to strive for a £1bn-a-year savings target

JAN MOIR: Katie Price says she is remorseful about her drink-driving offence, but if that were true, surely she would be begging the authorities to lock her up?

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The reason Boris presses the panic button over and over again is because he is terrified of being remembered as the PM who killed the NHS.

EXCLUSIVE: Court papers served by Coleen Rooney's legal team appear to demand that Rebekah Vardy and her agent Caroline Watt reveal details of their private communications.

The deal, agreed in principle in June by Lis Truss, was signed during a virtual ceremony last night by her successor as International Trade Secretary, Anne-Marie Trevelyan.

The NHS and Department for Health refuse to give any details about the victim who died from Omicron in a Northampton hospital on Monday, four days after the death was announced.

Sir Nick Clegg (right), 54, said he would never have made it in public life if social media had been around to record his 'numerous very, very bad misdemeanours' in his teens.

Sherrilyn Speid, 34, will appear in court in January accused of dangerous driving and assault after she was filmed driving into Insulate Britain activists on the M25 stopping her taking her son to school.

Data showed 24,785 cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, up on last Thursday but slightly below yesterday's record high for the country of 26,389 infections.

A 17-year-old girl and woman, 45, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in custody after a newborn baby boy was found dead at a home in Doncaster.

The free tests are a key part of the Government's Plan B strategy, with double-jabbed close contacts of positive cases told to use them daily for a week instead of isolating.

EXCLUSIVE: Department of Health data shows London is now seeing just as many cases as last January, when it was battered by the Alpha variant. Cases are rising in elderly people now too.

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock apologised after he was seen without a face covering on the Tube as he went to watch Capital's Jingle Bell Ball at the O2 Arena in Greenwich.

Lindsey McFarlane took to Facebook to share a photo of the 'raw chicken burger' served to children at Bulwell Academy in Nottinghamshire. She claimed her daughter became ill after eating it.

Maxine Lane-Badenhop, 56, had planned a £4,000 luxury ski trip in France before Emmanuel Macron scuppered her festive trip when he closed the country's borders to Brits over Omicron fears.

England's chief medical officer said he expects a universal jab to be ready at some point in mid-2023. But he admitted that in the meantime, ministers will have to rely on a mix of social curbs and boosters.

Downing Street said there are no plans for Boris Johnson to have a call with Nicola Sturgeon despite her 'urgent' demand to speak to him.

The head of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital trust in London - which looks after two of the largest hospitals in the country - this morning said 10 per cent of staff are currently off due to Covid.

UK homeowners should prepare for steep rises in future if top economists rack the rates even higher over the next two years, the brokers said.

Able Seaman William Stewart, 26, took advantage of the woman after going on a night out in the North East with other sailors while their ship was undergoing maintenance.

Pictures from Leeds, London and Newcastle showed just a smattering of revellers enjoying festive nights out yesterday, just a day before Black Eye Friday.

Thousands of eager party-goers keen to let their hair down were spotted in Sydney's CBD and Darling Harbour on Friday - despite record Covid numbers announced hours earlier by NSW Health.

England on Friday had no lateral flow tests available for home delivery as punters flocked to pharmacies to get checked before heading out for end of year parties.

Three-year-old Jessie the German Shepherd wouldn't take no for an answer as she wrestled with a low-hanging branch in Altai Republic, southern Russia.

Australia will not further shorten the gap between the second and third doses of the Covid vaccine despite health officials admitting the country's latest coronavirus crisis is 'evolving rapidly'.

The policewoman had been called to a disturbance in which a group of men had been fighting outside the Revolution bar in Wilmslow at 3.15am on July 31.

The painting, Wild and Free, was bought on Monday hours after it came up for sale by a German buyer named Peter Esser.

For the first time petrol forecourt margins have surged past a record 20p a litre. And some motorway services are charging £10 over the national average to fill the typical 55-litre tank in a family car.

Researchers from a human right's group heard testimonies of 27 state-sanctioned executions in North Korea in the decade since Kim Jong-un took power.

NSW and Victoria will both lift the 72-hour isolation rules for international arrivals from December 21 - less than a month after authorities first imposed the rule.

A Facebook video shows the moment an Australia Post delivery driver accidentally destroys his own van while reversing out of a driveway.

Miss America was criticised on social media by unimpressed viewers who claimed it was a 'dumpster fire' in terms of productions, saying it felt like they were watching a 'botched rehearsal'.

The uncle of Summer Grant, a British seven-year-old who died after a jumping castle she was in blew away, is calling for a ban on the dangerous inflatables after the Tasmania tragedy.

The childhood photos of Star Hobson's mother Frankie Smith were taken by Star's step-great-grandfather David Fawcett. Smith was jailed for eight years this week for letting 16-month-old Star die.

The overhaul, coming into force on January 29 subject to parliamentary approval, means motorists will have to give way to cyclists and pedestrians at junctions.

Bodmin and Wenford Railway had been supplied by Ffos-y-Fran, an opencast mine less than 200 miles away in South Wales, for the last four years.

Schools and entire districts in California, Missouri, Texas and Minnesota have cancelled classes for the day, while others who will remain open have announced that they will add extra police officers.

Under the changes contact tracers will focus on household contacts and locations where there are people at high risk.

Zane Mellor, Peter Dodt, Jye Sheehan and Jalailah Jayne-Maree Jones, all aged 12, and Addison Stewart, 11, were killed in the tragedy on the Australian island of Tasmania on Thursday.

British former McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook agreed to return the sum in the form of cash and equity awards after he was sued for allegedly lying about consensual affairs with three other workers.

The sudden cancellation was due to a 'late in the day positive test result in the company,' a spokesperson at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre said. Fans who were already seated left disappointed.

Kim Jong Un took over rule of North Korea upon his father Kim Jong Il's death on December 17, 2011, and has spent the 10 years since then cementing himself as supreme authority.

More than 100 Mayfield Consumer Products employees are suing the company after eight died and several were injured after a tornado ripped factory building to shreds.

G7 health ministers on Thursday declared Omicron the 'biggest threat to global health', as Biden warned of a 'winter of severe illness and death' for the unvaccinated.

Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, was pictured on a flight from Dulles Airport, in Virginia, to Los Angeles International without her mask on and allegedly took a nap maskless.

A federal judge overturned an estimated $4.5 billion settlement that legally shielded members of the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma who stand accused of helping fuel the opioid epidemic in the U.S.

Booster doses will not be brought forward further, despite a growing number of COVID-19 cases in Australia driven by the Omicron variant.

Sanders' comments came as President Biden admitted that it's unlikely that Democrats will reach their end-of-the year-goal of passing the $1.75 trillion social spending bill.

Billionaire Sir Leonard Blavatnik, 64, donated half of the £15million needed to buy the Honresfield Library Collection - which contains valuable manuscripts from some of the country's greatest writers.

The 49-year-old actor, talking to Howard Stern on Tuesday, claimed he was 'trapped' in an unhappy marriage to Garner, which pushed him to drink excessively.

Los Angeles Chargers tight end Donald Parham, 24, had the ball in his hands following a touchdown pass from Justin Herbert on fourth and goal when his helmet snapped back and he fell.

NSW is considering bringing back mandatory mask mandates to stem the spread of its latest Covid crisis, the state's Deputy Premier Paul Toole has said.

Actress Zoe Lister-Jones, 39, left, claimed in her Instagram story that Chris Noth, right, was 'sexually inappropriate' to a coworker at a Manhattan nightclub in 2005.

Darnell Jackson (pictured), 23, rushed to the home in Doncaster, South Yorkshire at around midday yesterday after his partner Carol Hirst, 28, told him she had seen a dead baby there.

The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences announced the cause on Thursday. The department had to wait several weeks after the tragedy for additional test results.

Elon Musk on Thursday described MSNBC host Joy Reid as a lobbyist for Elizabeth Warren - a day after Reid accused Musk of 'misappropriating black vernacular for misogynistic purposes'.

Minnesota Instacart driver Tara Plum, 36, could be facing a 90 day sentence after she had been cited for running over an elderly couple's groceries when she saw a pro-police sign in their yard

A Newcastle woman has revealed on TikTok how a last minute decision to head home, saved her Christmas from being ruined from a super-spreader event at The Argyle House.

Ex-President Trump sat down for an interview with ex-Arkansas Gov. Mick Huckabee for Huckabee's Newsmax Christmas special and boasted that he saved 'Merry Christmas' from the 'woke.'

Two 'serial killers' were sentenced by the NSW Supreme Court on Friday morning, a judge describing them as having a 'depraved gratification for killing'.

Harrods is kicking off its famous Boxing Day sale 10 days early as the rapid spread of Omicron forces shoppers to stay at home.

Alec Baldwin returned to Twitter to DENY claims he requested a larger gun before the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust as New Mexican police ask to search his iPhone.

Missing toddler William Tyrrell's foster parents have pleaded not guilty to assaulting a child on Sydney's north shore and the foster mother will apply to be heard under the Mental Health Act.

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has revealed 45 per cent of default MySuper accounts have delivered poor returns during the past seven years. How does your retirement fund rate?

Harvard will no longer require applicants to submit standardized until 2027 due to the challenge of finding testing sites. The school said it will look at other accomplishments when considering.

Mischievous five-year-old orangutan Berani was enjoying a nap at Belgium's Pairi Daiza Zoo when mum Sari decided to wake him up and take him home.

Former prime minister John Howard, 82, and his cabinet ministers Brendan Nelson, 63, and Philip Ruddock, 78, mingled in a crowded room in Sydney with no face masks despite an Omicron surge.

Tasmania Police released the names and photos of each child who died in the jumping castle tragedy at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport, Tasmania, on Thursday.

The Queensland government is expecting its coal royalties to double this financial year despite a series of trade sanctions from China. Commodity prices have hit record highs but that won't last.

Zane Mellor's life was cut short on Thursday at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport when the bouncing house was picked up by a 'mini-tornado' and flew 10 metres in the air.

Most Americans should be given the Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccines instead of the Johnson & Johnson shot, U.S. health advisers recommended Thursday.

Jumping castles had been safely erected in schools just down the road of the deadly Hillcrest Primary disaster. 

An off-duty security guard remained behind at the site of a horrific jumping castle tragedy that left five children dead to console grieving families in Tasmania.

President Biden on Thursday awarded the Medal of Honor to three U.S. soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan: Sgt Alwyn C. Cashe, Sgt Christopher A. Celiz and Sgt Earl D. Plumlee.

ABC reporter Patricia Karvelas who gasped 'oh my god' live on air during the Devonport jumping castle tragedy on Thursday had also lost loved ones in the 2016 Dreamworld disaster.

Mobile speed camera warning signs are returning to New South Wales from February in a government backflip following a public backlash as speeding fines skyrocketed.

Mark McGowan has locked out Queenslanders from Western Australia just one week before Christmas.

The FDA permanently lifted a restriction on abortion pills that prevented prescribers from sending the pills through the mail in a decision on Thursday.

Robert Durst, 78, was convicted in September of murdering his best friend Susan Berman in 2000 to prevent her from telling police what she knew about his wife's Kathie's 1982 disappearance.

Four rewards, each set at $5 million, are being offered by the U.S. for the arrest of El Chapo's four sons, who share control of the cartel as he serves a life sentence.

Police veteran Keechant Sewell (left), 49, made history Wednesday after being named the NYPD's first woman commissioner by incoming mayor Eric Adams (right). She'll assume the role in January

Callan Double, a 22-year-old from Brisbane known on TikTok as That Uber Driver , has shared a series of videos detailing his earnings while encouraging others to give rideshare driving a shot.

The NIH's outgoing director Dr. Frances Collins (shown) said he was under pressure from former president Donald Trump (inset) to endorse a malaria drug as a COVID treatment

Speaking at a factory in western Sydney, the Prime Minister urged state premiers to remain calm and stick to the national re-opening plan.

Ray Hadley has slammed premier Dominic Perrottet for easing restrictions despite the growing outbreak of the Omicron variant in NSW.

Berkshire HR worker Ranjit Panesar said she was 'looked down on' by members of her team for being away from the office while having treatment and that she often received demeaning comments.

President Joe Biden admitted that his end-of-the-year goal to pass his $1.75 trillion Build Back Better bill in Congress will be unlikely, saying it will take the next couple of 'days or weeks' to do so.

Severe heatwave conditions are expected for parts of Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland on Friday. Sydneysiders are also in for a treat with the mercury expected to remain high.

South Australia has recorded 64 new cases of coronavirus, the highest daily increase it has recorded since the start of the pandemic.

The 'less lethal' weapons were discharged 3,323 times across England and Wales in the year to the end of this March. This is a slight rise on the previous 12 months, a Home Office report showed.

The petition for clemency for a truck driver who killed four people on a Colorado interstate, sentenced Monday to 110 years in prison, has reached 1.65 million signatures as of Thursday.

Britain may experience its first widespread White Christmas for over a decade with a prediction of possible snow late next week.

A five-year-old boy in Ontario, Canada, hijacked his parents' car and took it out for a spin before crashing it into a hayfield after wanting to drive himself to the store to get a toy for his little sister.

Dina Lohan, the mother of actress Lindsay Lohan, was spotted running errands in her hometown on Long Island following her release from prison for drunkenly crashing into an Outback Steakhouse.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has reintroduced a mask mandate in the state as new Covid cases grow after border restrictions eased last Monday.

Queensland announced 20 new Covid cases on Friday, including five people with the Omicron variant, as the premier reintroduced a mask mandate and warned case numbers will rise.

Vice President Kamala Harris claimed she does not thinking about whether President Biden will run again in 2024 and that they do not discuss reelection, in an interview published Thursday.

Anna Davis lost her son Alby after he choked on a bouncy ball he was gifted for his fourth birthday at his home in Wynyard, Tasmania, in 2018.

Rashaun Weaver (right), 16, on Thursday pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the brutal killing of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors (left) in Manhattan in December 2019.

The commemorative towel was produced to mark the end of the Hillcrest Primary School year which was being celebrated when the tragedy unfolded - but has become a gut-wrenching reminder of it.

The Christmas tree has long been the centre-piece of civic festive celebrations, but many have not only failed to meet expectations but seemingly banished holiday magic altogether.

Tradie and star footballer Bailey Quaife, who tragically died after falling from a ute tray, had just celebrated his 21st birthday.

A flock of chickens joined Santa Claus and a woman from bed during an outrageous court hearing for Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews.  

Hundreds of thousands of leaseholders face bills of up to £150,000 to rectify fire safety defects identified in the wake of the Grenfell fire (pictured), which claimed 72 lives in 2017.

Disgraced Australian MP Adem Somyurek launched an extraordinary personal attack on Dan Andrews as an 'ego-driven... mad king', claiming his Cabinet meetings were weekly 'measuring contests'.

One of Australia's top doctors has unleashed on some medical commentators he claims are 'increasing fear' about the recent outbreak of Omicron.

Next year the scythe is expected to become one of the must-have items for Britain's gardeners, according to the Royal Horticultural Society's annual gardening trends.

California is seeing a decrease in newcomers moving to the state, research shows, particularly in San Francisco, which is grappling with crime and smash and grabs (shown)

Trade Minister Tehan signed the deal in a virtual ceremony in Adelaide with UK Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan on Friday morning.

The ACLU told DailyMail.com that it was 'going back to court' to fight for migrant families who were separated and accused Joe Biden of going back on his campaign promises.

NSW has reported a record 2,213 new Covid-19 cases and one death while Victoria has recorded 1,510 a week before Christmas.

Maria DiLorenzo said she worked on the day of her ear surgery but the company in a 2020 do-or-die bankruptcy, but they refused to fully accommodate her affliction.

Yale University (left) is carrying forward with in-person exams despite detecting the Omicron variant in the community. Cases at Harvard University (right) have nearly doubled

Mark Finocchiaro was one of 40 speakers at a meeting held at Glastonbury High School to protest the changing of the Connecticut school's mascot from Tomahawks to Guardians.

Devonport Mayor Annette Rockcliff has described the terrible 'ripple effect' the Hillcrest Primary School jumping castle tragedy will have. 'Everyone knows somebody,' she told Sunrise.

Two years ago this Christmas, Daniel Payne died at home in his wife Jade's arms, aged just 35, after a 13-year-battle with incurable brain cancer.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Arizona lawman Richard Kastigar, 66, sued the German auto manufacturer for $15M and is going public to warn others of the dangers of the lux car door feature.

The premier is adamant he won't go back to the lockdowns and restrictions that dominated before NSW reached its high vaccination rate - currently 93.3 per cent.

The victims include two large families, the Browns and the Besics, all of whom lived on Moss Creek Avenue. Their homes were left completely destroyed by Friday's EF-3 storm.

High streets and roads were deserted as shoppers and office workers heeded scientists' dire warnings about the new wave of Covid cases caused by the fast-spreading Omicron variant

Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie has broken down in an emotional interview about the bouncy castle tragedy that claimed the lives of five children.

Brandon Bochat, 20 (left), and Hagan Warner, 19 (right), have been charged with felony vandalism and reckless driving under the enhancement of a hate crime, accused of defacing a BLM mural in California.

Former Wallabies captain David Pocock will run for the Senate at the next federal election, citing a 'crisis of trust' in Australian politicians.

The National Football League, the Metropolitan Opera and universities like Georgetown and NYU became the first to mandate booster jabs as cases jumped by a third overnight in the US.

California's Alan Lowenthal became the 20th House Democrat to announce he would not be seeking reelection in 2022 on Thursday.

Segregation seems to be returning to the USA - but not from the direction that consumers of modern mainstream media might expect.

The NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force is looking for a suspect accused of drawing and spray-painting swastikas all over Lower Manhattan within the past two weeks, including on landmarks.

Katie Price flipped her BMW X5 into a hedge close to her £1.5million West Sussex mansion in September after drinking and taking cocaine.

Florida doctor Jozsef Piri, 49, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder after he allegedly shot delivery driver Roberto Fonseca-Rivera, 44, in Vermont in November 2019