Officials are drawing up plans for a two-week circuit breaker lockdown after Christmas which would include a ban on indoor mixing, according to reports.

The rules on face masks, working from home and self-isolation have been tightened across the UK in response to the Omicron variant.

Rock star Sir Rod Stewart and his son have pleaded guilty to battery in an assault case following a New Year's Eve incident with a security guard at an exclusive Florida hotel.

The father of two sets of twin boys who died in a house fire has spoken of the "devastating" impact of the incident on his family.

Zana Mamand Mohammad will never forget where he was when the smuggler called. Although hours had passed with no contact, the young policeman wasn't unduly worried - his brother had warned it might take a few days for him to get in touch.

A 22-year-old has been jailed for two serious crashes which left one man dead and another paralysed.

A police officer has been dismissed after regulators investigating the sharing of photographs of the murder scene of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman found him to have used a racial slur on WhatsApp.

The top civil servant will no longer lead a Whitehall investigation into alleged Christmas parties in Number 10 after he was revealed to have been aware of a separate party in his own office in December last year.

British tourists have been banned from France amid concern over the "extremely rapid" rise in Omicron COVID cases in the UK.

Ukraine faces "a dozen tonnes" of pro-Russian disinformation aimed at justifying Moscow's false claims to the territory and to soften the ground ahead of a possible new invasion, the Ukrainian information minister has said.