David Harding has given party £475,000 since Boris Johnson became prime minister

As PM promises to ‘maximise benefits of Brexit’, majority of voters say Boris Johnson lied about EU withdrawal

The 27-year-old diver and gay rights campaigner said he felt ‘a responsibility’ to create greater acceptance of marginalised communities.

Johnny Depp and John Lydon were involved in court cases while celebrities also rolled their arms up to get Covid-19 jabs.

The double Olympic gold medallist has been honoured for services to swimming.

Partygoers enjoy warmest new year’s eve on record as revellers travel across border to celebrate

The screen veteran died on New Year’s Eve, aged 99.

The New Year Honours lead many of the papers on the first day of 2022.

The cleric used his message at the start of the year to remind people ‘important steps were taken at the Cop26 summit’.

Before her death the veteran US actress joked about both Ryan Reynolds and Robert Redford’s affection for her.

The woman in her 30s is being held under the Mental Health Act, police have said.

The award-winning actress, best known for starring as Rose in 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls, has died less than a month before her 100th birthday.

Pub bosses have encouraged customers to continue supporting venues even if they are cutting out alcohol for the first month of the year.

The Golden Girls star has died less than a month before her 100th birthday.

The pop superstar was given the accolade in the New Year Honours for services to charitable causes and vulnerable women.

The mercury which began to climb on Friday is expected to continue rising as the first day of 2022 begins.

Scots and visitors to Scotland made the most of restricted celebrations and assembled where they could to see in the New Year.

Reports suggested Queen delayed knighthood for ex-PM over response to Diana death

The Health Secretary said the country must learn to ‘live alongside’ the virus as Omicron infections continue to soar.

‘She broke several glass ceilings and as such was a real trailblazer and pioneer in the law remembered to this day,’ Hilary Heilbron QC tells Maya Oppenheim

New Year’s Eve saw record-breaking temperatures following a mild December.

Around one in five on list have helped tackle pandemic

Figen Murray has campaigned for a law in her son’s name to increase public protection at large venues

Knighthood comes 14 years after former Labour leader left 10 Downing Street

Professor Peter Openshaw has been made a CBE for services to medicine and immunology in the New Year Honours.

Whitehall is undertaking a review of all retained EU law to check whether some regulations should be binned or reformed.

Baroness Valerie Amos, 67, a Labour member of the House of Lords, will be the first black person appointed Lady Companion of the Order.

Henry Lewis started out in magic after finding a magic book in a pile of rubbish.

The former prime minister said being made a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter was ‘an immense honour’.

Fiona Mackenzie, the founder of We Can’t Consent To This, has been included in the New Year Honours.

The appointment of Royal Knights and Ladies of the Order of the Garter is in the gift of the Queen who acts independently of Number 10.

The award-winning US actress, best known for starring as Rose in 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls, died less than a month before her 100th birthday.

Man arrested as evidence of officers’ conduct examined

Crews ‘showed very best of selflessness’, says area lifesaving manager

Bathers swam within metres of a rancid slosh containing faeces that was washed into the outdoor swimming pool this week

Figures from NHS England, published on Friday, show there were 2,370 Covid-19 hospital admissions in England on December 29.

30 teenagers killed in capital this year

‘Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes grossly abused their position and subjected an innocent child to emotional and physical abuse,’ says attorney general

The record-breaking temperatures on New Year’s Eve followed a ‘much milder’ December than usual.

Authorities are looking at further measures after equipment was vandalised and stolen by a mob calling staff ‘traitors’

‘Are we to assume that all high profile, well connected sex offenders will now be allowed to use a high profile BBC platform to attack witnesses post conviction?’

About nine in 10 local areas have recorded a week-on-week rise in rates.

Duke of York infamously suggested he could not have met Virginia Giuffre in 2001 because her recollection he was sweaty could not be accurate

Exclusive: Liberal Democrats urge ministers to make housing children a priority for 2022

Saboteurs claim one of them was assaulted during scuffle over animal’s body

Thousands of volunteers who make up the crews of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution worked throughout the festive period to rescue people.

Another driver and passenger fled the scene in Aberdeen on Thursday evening.

On Friday, a further 7,215 positive cases were notified by the Department of Health.

Brittany Ferries, which operates from Portsmouth, Plymouth and Poole, said several haulage customers have already switched journeys to the Kent port.

Hospitals ban visits to try to limit surging infections

A boy has been arrested over the Croydon incident after the victims, aged 15 and 16, were stabbed in separate parts of London on Thursday evening.

A number of people entered a Test and Trace site in Milton Keynes on Wednesday.

Exclusive: Following the man’s release from immigration detention and medical tests, a specialist nurse confirmed that the virus has replicated due to the lack of treatment therein.

Maria Covaci, 29, from Armagh, was denied bail.

But statistics show that the number of patients with coronavirus who are primarily being treated for something else has risen.

Alex Ferguson turned 80 on December 31.

Imposition of controls was delayed 12 months to allow businesses time to get ready

Just under 77% of eligible adults have now had their third jab.

The UKHSA said research confirms there was no effect against symptomatic infection with Omicron from 20 weeks after the second dose of AstraZeneca.

‘Thugs who commit such thoughtless acts insult the memory of all those who fought for the freedoms they enjoy,’ says Northern Ireland secretary

Interest in the damages case against the Duke of York has intensified following the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell.

Patients in London, Yorkshire and Essex are among those who will no longer be able to receive visitors.

The Attorney General said she believes the sentences handed down to Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes earlier this month were ‘too low’.

A 48 year old man has been arrested, Police Scotland said.

The Public Health Agency said it had issued new protocols to help ensure ‘the continued and targeted delivery of the service’.

Recovery workers have been unable to remove the body due to safety fears.

The Health Secretary said 2.75 million courses of Paxlovid have been secured.

At least eight operators have either already reduced frequencies on many routes or will do so in the coming days.

Twenty-four mandarins compiled key transport report - and 18 of them were based in south

Around one in 15 people in London are estimated to have had coronavirus last week.

Prime minister ends turbulent year in shaky position

A high of 15.3C was recorded in Coningsby, Lincolnshire

On January 1 a new series of rules come into place for goods shipped to the UK as part of the post-Brexit trade agreement.

Separate figures show the number of coronavirus patients in hospital in England has climbed to the highest level since February 26.

Treatment cuts hospitalisations and deaths by 89 per cent when taken within three days of the start of symptoms

Absences at NHS hospitals in the capital rose from 1,174 at the start of December to 4,580 by Boxing Day.

Two of the UK’s biggest mobile networks are reintroducing roaming charges in January, with another bringing them back in May.

Two boys, aged 15 and 16, were killed within an hour in London on Thursday.

The PSNI has named the three young men who were killed in the collision in the Omagh Road area of Garvaghy on Monday.

The deer can be seen trying to escape the dogs

‘Parents we work with tell us that they’re having to choose between heating their homes and buying clothes for their children,’ Dan Paskins, Save the Children

This year has been the deadliest for teenage homicides in London in more than a decade

Boris Johnson said the vaccine rollout was the reason the country had been able to stay as open as it had.

Surge hubs are being built at hospitals as the health service readies itself for a possible emergency.

Paul Howard collaborated with fitness guru Joe Wicks on his first children’s book.

Brigid O’Neill will release her new EP in January with songs inspired by buildings such as the old Armagh jail and Austins department store.