The Tories are in meltdown as ministers round on a group of newly-elected MPs over a coup attempt branded the 'Pork Pie Plot'.

Nationalists in Gwynedd Council's cabinet in north-west Wales voted to shut its buildings and wind down its services on March 1 to give up to 5,000 people the day off to toast the patron saint.

The medals will be awarded to mark the Queen's 70 years on the throne and while the list of recipients has not yet been finalised, all members of the Royal Family are expected to be given one.

Alicia McHale, from Gorton, east Manchester, said she was shocked when two officers were sent round looking for Donnan (pictured).

The 44-year-old terrorist from Blackburn was shot dead in Texas on Saturday night after taking four people and a Rabbi hostage in a 10-hour siege.

The rate of Consumer Price Index inflation increased to 5.4 per cent in December from 5.1 per cent in November, the Office for National Statistics said today.

Incredible video footage shows an e-scooter rider hurtling along the outside lane of the A406, North Circular in London as the driver filming them, going at around 50mph, struggles to keep up.

The South Pacific archipelago was rocked by the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai underwater volcano on Saturday, with a tsunami following minutes later.

World's oldest man and Father-of-eight Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia passed away at his home in northern Spain on Tuesday. He would have turned 113 on February 8.

Conservative Bob Seely called for a debate on scientific modelling during the pandemic in which he accused forecasters of wildly inaccurate predictions leading to lockdowns.

Downing Street last night said the Prime Minister had summoned a special meeting of the Cabinet this morning to decide whether the measures put in place to halt the variant's spread can be lifted.

Britain's Ministry of Defence chiefs are worried about a much larger Russian incursion into Ukraine, raising fears of warfare engulfing cities and high civilian death tolls

Charlotte Leslie contacted police claiming she had a 'sinister' phone call with Tory donor Carl Hunter in which she was told to consider whether she could 'walk the dog at night and sleep well'.

Amanda Knox, 34, (pictured) has said massive public interest in Ghislaine Maxwell, 60, is partly because of an 'opportunity to vilify a woman for sex crimes'.

The Commons public accounts committee said it was doubtful Project Gigabit would meet downgraded targets. A report accused the DCMS of making 'little tangible progress'.

Lieutenant Commander Ben Costley-White has been temporarily stood down from command of HMS Tyne based in Portsmouth.

Women throughout the country have been finding Apple AirTag tracking devices hidden in their cars, bags, coats and other items allowing unknown people to follow them home.

Meghan's longtime lawyer and business manager have incorporated 11 companies and a trust for the couple since April 2020, state filings reveal.

The number of patients waiting too long has quadrupled in just two months, from 5,280 in September to 23,704 in November, the latest month with available data.

In ITV's documentary 'Ghislaine, Prince Andrew and the Paedophile' which aired on Tuesday night, Lady Victoria described former US president Bill Clinton as being 'very close' to Jeffrey Epstein.'

The country revealed 464,769 cases over the previous 24 hours. French officials have issued a series of diktats in a desperate bid to curb the rising case numbers.

Oxford University Press researchers say the fact that 'anxiety' is children's word of the year reveals the social impact Covid-19 and lockdowns have had on youngsters.

Former Cabinet minister Liam Byrne told a Commons debate yesterday that Leonid Bogdan was the 'most concerning' of a number of Russians that Mr Amersi was 'connected to'.

Police were called around 4.25pm on Tuesday to the Moor Lane area of Roeburndale, Lancashire, after a Polaris Ranger vehicle carrying a trailer fell into a river when a bridge collapsed.

All frontline workers must have had two doses of the vaccine by April 1, meaning the first must have been administered by February 3.

Winchester College has apologised for a 'cult'-like Christian club which allowed powerful barrister John Smyth QC to groom and abuse its pupils in the 1970s.

From June, any conservatory in Britain intended as part of a new development will need to show it will not create 'unwanted solar gain'.

As households brace for eye-watering energy bill hikes this Spring, it emerged that wage growth was outstripped by inflation in November for the first time since July 2020.

A parody video (pictured) of Boris Johnson being interviewed about Partygate by anti-corruption police during an episode of Line of Duty was released online today.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the jobless rate fell to 4.1 per cent between September and November. That left unemployment just a fraction above the 4 per cent seen before Covid hit.

A new study from UK and German experts found commonly used lateral flow devices only find 64 per cent of Covid cases in children casting doubt on the ability of testing to curb Covid in schools.

Layla Somani, five, from Leicester gained thousands of fans on Facebook after her parents filmed her explaining that 'naughty' Boris Johnson needs to apologise and resign.

The Home Secretary said opposition peers were not on the side of the 'law-abiding majority' and had backed groups which 'bring our country to a standstill'.

The Grenadier Guards greeted the news that Prince Andrew, 61, (pictured) had lost his honorary role as their colonel with 'three cheers' for the Queen.

Carwyn Roberts, 29, from Gwynedd, Wales, met his victim, who has not been identified, through dating website Plenty of Fish in 2018 before beginning his deception.

Patryk Milner, from Sandbach, Cheshire collapsed just as his first lesson day was finishing at Offley Primary Academy around 9.50am on September 30, 2020.

Fox Goulding, aged 10 months, was being cared for at the £1,300-a-month Bright Horizons Nursery in Corstorphine in July 2019 when the incident happened.

Humberside police officer Christopher Lings, 35, was overheard whispering he was 'going to rape' his colleague before attempting to sexually assault her at home.

Kane Faulkner-Wild, 23 had his hand on Sophia Khan's leg just seconds before the tragic crash, which killed her and Max Halcrow, 21, at around 2am in Loughton, Essex on August, 24 2019.

EXCLUSIVE: Malik Faisal Akram was held by officers where he lived in a quiet cul-de-sac in Blackburn because he wouldn't let bailiffs into the property where he lived with his wife and six children.

Boris Johnson became a panellist in a spoof video (pictured) of Would I Lie To You as memes mocking the PM's denial that he broke his own lockdown laws flooded online.

Ola Scholz has been accused of creating rifts within the EU, NATO and even his own fledgling coalition government by taking a soft stance on Russia despite Putin's threats to invade Ukraine.

Boris Johnson is drawing up plans to ditch all Covid laws from as early as March as the under-fire PM tries to win over his backbenchers, a senior Government source claimed today.

David Cageao was head of English at Cheam School, pictured, where the Prince of Wales attended in the late 1950s. Cageao, 47, took his own life after he was questioned by police.

From next Monday, January 24, bars and restaurants will no longer only be able to serve customers seated at tables, while social distancing will also be removed.

Ian Stewart, 61, was jailed for life in 2017 for murdering his fiancée, who had been drugged with sleeping medication and suffocated at their £3.3million Royston mansion.

Vicki Bevan (pictured), 37, of St Helens, Merseyside, repeatedly sexually assaulted the child and on some occasions did so alongside Paul Rafferty, 62, and a second man, 42-year-old Tony Hutton.

A court martial heard that Corporal Edward Gadd, of Army Training Centre Pirbright in Woking, Surrey put his penis on a female soldier's shoulder when she refused his sexual advances.

Conservative MP Julian Knight left executives from YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and Twitter sitting in silence as he condemned their refusal to share information on scam artists with each other.

The Office for National Statistics found 210 people died 'with' the virus rather than from it in England and Wales over the first week of January, compared to 128 the previous week.

Jennette Arnold OBE, 72, has revealed that her hilarious shuffle with the Conservative leader was part of a long-running attempt to bring London Assembly members from all sides together.

Keith Waters (pictured), who is a minister at an evangelical church in Ely, Cambridgeshire, claims he was forced out of his job as a caretaker at a secular primary school after making the tweet in 2019.

Barbara Stange-Alvarez (pictured) destroyed wine, spirits and beer when she went on the rampage in Aldi, St Albans Magistrates' Court was told.

Raab's marginal Surrey seat is the first target for the party's new ad campaign that will highlight backing for the PM over illegal gatherings in Downing Street during Covid lockdowns.

Footage of the prime minister boogying with a lightsabre-wielding London Assembly member when he was mayor emerged last week amid the ongoing 'partygate' scandal.

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Hundreds of devastated mourners gathered outside the Tweed Heads Public School on the Gold Coast on Wednesday night to hold an emotional candlelit vigil for nine-year-old schoolgirl Charlise Mutten.

Six boats were intercepted or rescued by Border Force officials and brought to the Port of Dover across yesterday, according to the Home Office. It brings the figure to almost 1,000 people already this year.

The Prime Minister is meeting with his Cabinet this morning to finalise his decision, with work from home guidance and Covid passes due to be axed from January 26.

Australian Open player Ugo Humbert has tested positive to Covid just hours after competing in Melbourne.

Dinesh Sivakumar Padmavathi, 24, and his fiancée Janaganandhini Ramaswamy, 23, will hold the online ceremony on February 6 with thousands expected to attend.

46-year-old Feras Antoon's dream $16million Montreal manor, which backed onto 'Mafia Row', was reduced to ashes in April last year after a suspected arson attack on the property.

James Heappey told LBC the UK had managed to bring 'about 2,800' people out of Afghanistan since the end of Operation Pitting - the extraction of British nationals and eligible Afghans.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams said: 'This individual just was placed on probation for possession of a gun in December. January, he's back in possession of a gun. Something is wrong with that.'

Tom Newberry and Callum Coldwell-Story, travelled to Mount Brento, Italy where they jumped together from the 3,280ft cliff into a valley covered by cloud while being carried by a single parachute.

The Golden Fleece, based in York, North Yorkshire, launched an appeal this month after the skull of prisoner Elizabeth Johnson was stolen at around 1am on New Year's Day.

Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children's Commissioner for England, said pupils disappearing from the school roll - estimated at between 80,000 and 100,000 - was a 'red flag'.

Seven water companies in England and Wales have regularly broken the law by discharging untreated sewage into Britain's waterways over the past four years, a report by the BBC alleges.

A father-of-two's body has been found after two days of searching. Hoi Yu Chan, 32, disappeared under the surface of the Hawkesbury River in Laughtondale, north Sydney, around 6.10pm on Monday.

Kefir, named after the fermented milk drink, is an oversized Maine Coon belonging to Yulia Minina in Stary Oskol. She bought Kefir nearly two years ago as a kitten and says the pet is still growing.

A 31-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene of a crash near Pegglesworth on Monday morning, and a 24-year-old woman died from her injuries in hospital later that night.

A popular dairy brand has had seven of its high-selling butter and butter-blend products removed from shelves by Food Standards Australia over a 'potential microbial contamination.'

EXCLUSIVE: Kyle Saunders set up the fundraising page in the memory of Matthew Parke, Corey Owen, Ryan Nelson and Jordan Rawlings, who were killed in a crash on the A4 in August 2020.

A Queensland woman has been ordered to smoke inside her home instead of on her balcony by a body corporate after her upstairs neighbour complained - and it could set a serious precedent.

The nine-year-old's body was found on Tuesday night in scrub near the Colo River - an hour from where she disappeared on a private property in Mount Wilson, in the NSW Blue Mountains.

Italian senators and a Nobel Prize winning physicist hoping to attend a Zoom conference on government transparency were instead confronted by a porn clip after their Zoom was hijacked.

Malik Faisal Akram, 44, had stayed at Dallas-area homeless shelters for about two weeks before taking four people and a rabbi hostage in a 10-hour siege on Saturday, ending in his death.

Vika Z (pictured with her mother) was found with frostbite hugging the 'fluffy' abandoned dog following a frantic search by police, officials and volunteers in in Uglegorsk on Russia's largest island, Sakhalin.

Betty Cottle suffered decades of the veteran circus impresario's sexual infidelities, relentless womanising and cocaine addiction before splitting with him in 2001.

Letitia James, the New York attorney general, on Tuesday announced she was asking a court to subpoena Trump, Don Jr and Ivanka as part of her tax fraud inquiry into the Trump Organization.

Spice DAO took to social media to announce that they had bought a rare copy of Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1974 adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel Dune.

Boris Johnson was last night battling to put down a coup attempt by Red Wall MPs. Ministers rounded on the group of newly-elected Tories after details emerged of their 'Pork Pie Plot' to unseat the PM.

More than 15,000 people were evacuated from Afghanistan in August 2021 by personnel from across the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force, during the effort.

The family of Lauren Smith Fields, 23, is demanding justice after they claim Bridgeport police mishandled the investigation into her death. They plan to sue the city over the incident.

The United States has warned its citizens to not travel to Australia, declaring the risk of contracting Covid-19 is too 'severe'.

Emergency services were called to the Gibraltar Spur Track in Hawkhurst, in Victoria's northeast, shortly after 10am on Wednesday after reports a man had fallen down a mine shaft.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has warned a change in the definition of 'fully vaccinated' is close, warning booster shots are not an 'optional extra'.

Daily Mail Australia can reveal shocking new detail about the nine-year-old girl's alleged murder as a 31-year-old man prepares to face a Sydney court on Wednesday morning.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison choked up when informed remains of the nine-year-old girl missing from the Blue Mountains had been found, after earlier hoping she would be found alive.

The nine-year-old's body was found on Tuesday night in scrub near the Colo River - an hour from where she disappeared on a private property in Mount Wilson, in the NSW Blue Mountains.

The N95s will be sourced from the 737 million N95 masks in the government's Strategic National Stockpile. Biden will officially unveil the mask giveaway plan during a press briefing Wednesday.

Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, on Tuesday night attended a vigil for Michelle Alyssa Go, a 40-year-old Deloitte worker pushed on to the subway tracks in Times Square on Saturday morning.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday night he would put forward a 'talking filibuster' proposal after an expected vote on a voting rights bill fails Wednesday.

Shawn Laval Smith, 31, was named by LAPD on Tuesday night as the suspected captured on video in chilling footage as he calmly purchased a vape pen 30 minutes after the cold-blooded murder.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: To cast Cook as a villain is sheer historical illiteracy. As Professor Robert Tombs, one of our most eminent historians, has observed, Cook embodied the Age of Enlightenment.

Clive Palmer's is attempting to run in federal politics announcing he will lead the United Australia Party in the upcoming election.

Fashion icon Andre Leon Talley has passed away at the age of 73. His cause of death is unknown. Talley is remembered as 'incredible' and recognized as one of the driving forces in Vogue's success.

Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Malik McDowell was released from Broward County Jail after paying his $27,000 bail on Tuesday night after being arrested for public exposure and assault.

Real estate agent Josh Tesolin from Western Sydney sold 350 properties in 2021, raking in $7million in commission amid the housing market boom.

Dr Norman Swan said cloth masks were outdated thanks to Omicron and Australians needed to upgrade to more heavy-duty protection.

Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena is the most likely venue but there's speculation the second round clash could be at the smaller John Cain Arena, which is the Aussie star's favourite court.

Justin Stein, 31, was apprehended by police inside a block of apartments in Surry Hills, in the city's west, after Charlise Mutten's remains were found by the side of the Colo River on Tuesday.

Despite dramatically surging numbers as the highly virulent Omicron strain of Covid spreads through the population, the death rate from the disease has dropped to a record low.

McDonald's has taken down signs banning unvaccinated customers from several of its restaurants in Australia and says they were posted in error.

A deer in India was captured leaping through the air as it crossed a road, in a viral video shared on January 15. The clip, shared by an eco foundation, has more than 129, 000 views.

Police's Facebook post urging the public to help locate a NSW Central Coast woman didn't go to plan when commenters focused on the alleged domestic violence offender's looks.

Harris will attend the January 27th inauguration of President-elect Xiomara Castro. The pair is expected to 'work together to advance economic growth and combat corruption and migration'.

A seemingly ordinary picture of a car parked on the side of the road has left thousands of Aussies furious. Here's why.

Gas prices will likely rise from March above $4 a gallon, a fuel expert has claimed - a significant leap from the current nationwide average of $3.314. California is the most expensive.

A Sydney mum and dad are desperately trying to get access to a life-changing gene therapy cure for their 15-month-old daughter who has been diagnosed with the rare Angelman Syndrome.

Shifty McGrath claimed to police in 2003 while he was trying to cut a deal that the huge bounty was offered to make Mick Gatto the next to die, not long before Lewis Moran was shot dead.

Workers should not have to do rapid antigen tests daily before they begin work the Prime Minister has said. He said this is not a public health requirement and would 'frustrate' kit supplies.

The postponement means Australia will have a summer without a single men's home ODI in for the first time in more than 40 years.

University of New South Wales health and maths expert James Wood believes a dramatic drop in reports of coughs and fever is key in the latest fight against Covid.

The LAPD on Tuesday released surveillance video and still images showing the suspect in the murder of UCLA student Brianna Kupfer walking into a 7-Eleven and buying a vape pen.

An Australian needs to be earning more than $42.50 an hour to be considered above average. With 35 hours a week considered full-time, new official data has revealed what you need to earn a year.

The man shared a touching tribute on Wednesday, hours after learning his daughter's body was found a week after she vanished from a property in Mount Wilson in the Blue Mountains.

The Russian player came around the net to the other side of the court to help his injured rival to his feet moments after bowing up of the first round of the Australian Open in Melbourne.

The Aussie icon - famous for its crescendo chuckling-call - grabbed the baby duckling and flew to a perch in a Caringbah back garden in Sydney where it was caught on camera.

Incredible dashcam footage shot on New Zealand's North Island shows two surfboards flying off the roof of a Range Rover nearly smashing the car behind.

Eric Adams admitted on Tuesday that he did not feel safe on the subway - abruptly reversing his statements on Sunday, when he said the problem was merely 'the perception of fear'.

Rashid Iqbal, who qualified as a medical practitioner in Nigeria in 2001 before moving to Australia, was found to have offered the 19-year-old $200 for sex after she rebuffed his advances in January 2018.

Media industry news site Mumbrella has decided to come clean on drug-taking after its Christmas party last December, with two staff members resigning including one of its most senior members.

Five members of the New York Police Department were being treated at a local hospital for smoke inhalation from the apparent gas explosion and its subsequent two-alarm fire .

The White House on Tuesday said it believed a Russian invasion of Ukraine could come at any time, as Press Secretary Jen Psaki warned of an 'extremely dangerous situation' at the border.

An attempt to trademark an Indigenous rallying cry for use on boxer shorts and polo shirts could be blocked as a community group that currently uses the phrase calls the attempt 'shameful'.

The girl's remains were found in a barrel in scrub alongside the Colo River late on Tuesday night, about an hour from where she vanished from last week in NSW's Blue Mountains.

A four-cylinder Czech-made wagon is replacing Holden Commodores as police highway patrol cars in Australia. With cars no longer made locally, the cops are turning to Europe to catch speeding drivers.

Isolation was dropped to seven days in December, but could be reduced as Australia weighs up 'a difficult balancing act' of health and the economy, and new medical evidence emerges.

The Aussie tennis sensation blitzed past Italy's Lucia Bronzetti with a 6-1, 6-1 victory in straight sets at Melbourne Park.

Queensland has recorded 19,932 new cases and 11 deaths, down from a record 16 deaths yesterday. Premier Palaszczuk said vaccinated travellers no longer need to quarantine.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet and Victorian leader Daniel Andrews have reduced the booster wait time from four to three months on Wednesday as the states look to reduce the strain on hospitals.

A Melbourne driver was slapped with a parking fine in the mail but never got the original ticket. They did some sleuthing and found CCTV which shows the parking inspector removing the ticket after writing it up.

More than 19,000 cannabis plants - worth almost $67 million - have been seized from a rural property in western NSW, in what police believe is Australia's biggest weed bust.

Victoria's desperate request for support from the Australian Defence Force to help ease the pressure on ambulance and hospital services due to Covid case numbers has been officially granted.

Collingwood star Jordan De Goey could be offered a plea deal in his United States assault case that could see him avoid a stint in jail.

Victoria Police has confirmed many officers are isolating because it hasn't been able to 'source a consistent and reliable supply' of Rapid Antigen Tests.

Workers in high-risk settings such as healthcare workers, police and ambulance officers are being paid not to work as they await exemptions from Covid vaccination in Queensland.

A further 32 people died with Covid in New South Wales on Wednesday in the state's second deadliest day on record - but Australia's overall deaths fell from Tuesday's record high.

Exhausted nurses in Victoria have called for the military to work in hospitals as the health system continues to struggle with the Omicron strain of Covid-19 case numbers.

The state government is working to devise an economic support package to help industries suffering amid the Covid pandemic and ease pressure off supply chains.

A man has been charged with murder after a nine-year-old girl disappeared in the NSW Blue Mountains.

An exasperated Anthony Fauci last week called Senator Roger Marshall a 'moron', thinking the microphone was off during a Congressional hearing. On Tuesday, Republicans said he should apologize.

IAN BIRRELL: The mood in Kiev is growing worried with a majority of Ukraine's 44million population believing an attack seems likely and citizen militias preparing for guerrilla warfare.

If they are following the seven-day mandatory isolation period, the car, parked near the University of Melbourne in the city centre, will need to draw a lot of sympathy from parking officers.

Despite being cleared to leave the country by Fijian authorities, a Melbourne woman is still there with her nephew after other family members were allowed to fly to Australia.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Boris Johnson got the key Covid decisions right. But what is leading the news bulletins instead? The mutinous actions of some wet-behind-the-ears Tory backbenchers.

A Philadelphia man with a license to carry shot and killed a man allegedly attempting to steal his car Tuesday morning. Philadelphia has recorded nearly 100 carjackings in the few weeks of 2022.

Listeners called in expressing fears for the radio broadcaster's health after he appeared to sound under the weather on-air on Wednesday and hassince been assured he only has a cold..

An awareness campaign with a heavy focus on sugar levels in soft drinks has been launched by the Australian Medical Association in a bid to reduce obesity numbers nationwide.