Use of the tube has fluctuated massively during the pandemic, with experts and politicians warning it was a breeding ground for the virus.

The Captain Tom Foundation, set up by the family of the war veteran in the wake of his incredible fundraising efforts, paid out more than £162,000 in management costs in its first year.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has pressed Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng to fast-track the licences for their construction despite Boris Johnson's drive to cut fossil-fuel emissions.

The Prime Minister had attempted to move on after he was heavily criticised for claiming that Sir Keir Starmer had failed to prosecute paedophile Jimmy Savile. But Sir Keir was then himself targeted.

The West Ham defender, 27, is heard laughing as he chases the Bengal cat around his £2million London home in a Snapchat video on Sunday - 24 hours after appearing for the club in the FA Cup.

The monarch, 95, who has since returned to Windsor Castle to resume her duties, is hoping to attend the thanksgiving service for the Duke of Edinburgh on March 29 at Westminster Abbey.

Prince William was not part of the decision-making process, the Daily Mail understands, but is 'respectful' of the logic of his grandmother's decision.

A court ordered Michael and Sandra Blakemore of Bradford Barn near Tiverton, Devon, to pull down a fence restricting the access of neighbours Andrew and Anja Fields (pictured).

Prince Andrew may become a witness in a High Court case between a businessman and a private investigation firm.

Dramatic footage showed the Labour leader being shouted at on Monday as he walked in Westminster while surrounded by police officers

The Royal Shakespeare Company has warned cancelling Shakespeare over issues that trouble politically correct modern audiences is 'the worst thing we can do'.

Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have claimed a group of Polish 'mercenary terrorists' trained by the UK have been spotted fighting alongside Ukrainian government forces.

Tim Parker, 66 - said to be worth £247million before the pandemic - will quit in the autumn and a search for his successor is now under way.

Almost a third of young Britons think Salman Rushdie is a fish dish and not a prize-winning author, a survey found, as 29 per cent of 25 to 34-year-olds insisted they have tucked into the writer.

The extravagant 68,000ft mega mansion will come with more than 80 rooms and the equivalent floor space of over 60 average family homes on the edge of the village of Ramsden in Oxfordshire.

Officers were called to Ayley Croft in Enfield, North London, earlier this evening to reports of a stabbing. An 18-year-old man was found with stab wounds. He died at the scene.

Teachers are being trained to intervene when parents bicker too much over fears that it could damage children's mental health. They will be told how to spot signs of 'parental conflict'.

Under draft internet laws, users will have to pass verification checks to prove they are at least 18 - and Ofcom is being handed the power to fine or block websites that fail to comply.

The TV presenter (pictured), who lives in Devon, told a newspaper over the weekend youngsters would be able to afford their own place if they cut out the subscriptions.

Ireland's RTÉ is 'in talks' with Neighbours' production company Fremantle Australia about the future of the Australian soap.

The beleaguered American star was spotted with shamed BBC reporter Martin Bashir at Mifta's Indian restaurant in Alton, Hampshire. Baldwin is in the town shooting film 97 minutes.

In a news report about supply chain issues published on October 9, it was initially suggested that senior Tories had been seen 'panic buying'. This was amended on the day of publication, and we...

An article published on 16th September 2021 headlined 'Lack of face-to-face GP appointments 'caused stillbirths to spike 88%' in England during pandemic, damning report finds' claimed that a...

Boris Johnson's new policy chief Andrew Griffith (pictured) yesterday took an apparent swipe at the BBC and pledged to rapidly return to tax cutting so families can 'keep more of their money'.

Nottinghamshire Police said Cameron Toner, 19, of Leicester, has been charged with three counts of common assault and a separate offence of going onto a playing area at a football match.

The under-fire streaming service Netflix faces a 13,000-strong petition set up by traveller campaign groups calling for it to take action over a joke be comedian Jimmy Carr.

Colour Sergeant Alex Street had been missing since attending a dinner at Sandhurst on Friday evening. After extensive searches , his body was recovered from a lake on Sunday.

Guto Harri, 54, a Remainer and former BBC reporter who served as an aide to Mr Johnson while he was Mayor of London, takes on the role in a move the PM said would 'strengthen (his) Cabinet'.

The Yorkshire Ripper speaks candidly from beyond the grave in never-before-heard conversations that will air on Channel 5's The Ripper Speaks: The Lost Tapes.

Gracie-Ann Wheaton (pictured), from Tredegar, southeast Wales, died in hospital after the car she was travelling in was hit by a van on the westbound carriageway at around 1.45pm on Saturday.

Melissa Tweedie is alleged to have partied with pupils at SWG3 nightclub in Glasgow, drinking shots before going back with them to a Premier Hotel in June 2017, when she was 23.

Ross Spittal, 32, (pictured) from West Lothian, admitted having a sexual affair with a schoolgirl, 18, but asked to be allowed back in the classroom, despite being in a relationship with his pupil.

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Nicolette Baker, 36, from Truro, Cornwall, has shrunk to just three stone and is currently receiving palliative care.

Leading Hand Davonne Bethel, 35, was handed 12 months detainment at the Military Corrective Training Centre in Colchester, Essex following a sexual assault in which he licked a male trainee's nipple.

Mason Greenwood, 20, was arrested on suspicion of rape and assault of an 18-year-old student last week. A spokesperson for Nike today said: 'Mason Greenwood is no longer a Nike athlete'.

For its March issue, the British society bible delved into the international jet-setting families landing in Britain - such as Princess Diana's twin nieces Lady Amelia and Eliza Spencer.

Phillip Carey (pictured), 48, admitted attacking his victim at the care home where he worked in Blackpool, Lancashire.

A man and his young wife were 'savagely' murdered in their own home by a friend - after he learned they planned to shop him for a £28,000 burglary, a court heard.

ITV producer Teresa McMahon (pictured), 43, was found dead at her flat in Little Hulton, Salford, on August 3 last year. Her aunt told a pre-inquest she was physically abused in the days before her death.

Sajid Javid said he was '100 per cent' backing Mr Johnson and predicted there will not be a leadership contest, despite months of rising unrest in the Conservative ranks.

Halifax initially refused to allow G Sabini-Roberts to use their preferred title of Mx, despite accepting their system was outdated but the couple persuaded the bank to override their computer system.

The Church is reportedly considering a major shake-up in how it operates with changes which could also see the ecclesiastical map redrawn to merge some dioceses

The monarch had stayed in Prince Philips's beloved Wood Farm cottage for the 70th anniversary of her father's death, which also marked her Accession Day, on February 6.

Boris Johnson insisted they were 'working together in harmony' and he had 'absolutely' no doubts about Rishi Sunak's loyalty on a visit to a cancer centre in Kent.

Connor Burke, 19, a London university student shared the manual, which contained information on how to create improvised explosive devices (IEDs), on Telegram to a group of around 12,000 users.

EXCLUSIVE: A group of GPs tested placing staff outside A&E at Northwick Park Hospital, London. Patients needing urgent care were redirected while others were offered GP appointments.

Sir John Bell said EU leaders had blood on their hands. Mr Macron initially trashed the AstraZeneca jab as 'quasi-ineffective' for old people and claimed the UK rushed its approval.

Ed Stafford spent 60 days with Romani gypsies and Irish travellers across the UK for a new Channel 4 documentary, admitting he initially considered the  community 'unlawful'.

There is currently no law which directly addresses cyber-flashing in England and Wales, despite the act being made illegal in Scotland around 12 years ago (file photo).

Little Goldies nursery, at the contemporary orthodox Golders Green Synagogue in north west London, was shut down on January 13 this year - three days after Ofsted inspected the establishment.

The analyst claimed the woman 'touched his inner thigh' at a bar then 'firmly' grabbed his bottom and invited him back to her hotel room in London. Pictured: The firm's main office.

Youngsters in the 112-year-old group are now being asked to define their gender - instead of their biological sex - in an annual census of its members.

Thaher Tarahneh, 12, was praying with friends when he says they were interrupted by a teacher. The 12-year-old claims he was grabbed by the staff member and told it was an 'act of defiance'.

The card was made by the Italian company during the 2002-03 season when the fledgling star, now 37, made his footballing debut for Sporting Lisbon and is the earliest playing card for the legendary striker.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng leapt to the defence of the PM's wife Carrie Johnson (pictured) yesterday after a new bombshell biography accused her of wielding too much power.

Lord Ashcroft's book gives a vivid insider story of in-fighting over Mrs Johnson's influence, and the rows over the appointment of Allegra Stratton to lead No 10 press conferences.

Scientists are on the cusp of the 'biggest ever' breakthrough in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.

Ellie Smith said her four-year-old daughter was told a lie before she was snatched from the tent at the Blowholes campsite near Carnarvon, in Western Australia, on October 16.

The annual report said there was 'a marked acceleration' of Pyongyang's testing and demonstration of new short-range and possibly medium-range missiles in January.

Bogus footage, suspected to be the work of Kremlin plotters, shows a sinister 'Ukrainian terrorist' in black gloves calmly assembling the dustbin-sized device to kill thousands of civilians.

Mother-of-one Alex Wright, 22, ordered a McDonald's to her home in Chesterfield, Derbs, but was shocked when she saw footage of the delivery driver repeatedly touching his crotch.

Boris Johnson is refusing to apologise following the dramatic scenes of Sir Keir being surrounded and abused at as he walked in Westminster after leaving New Scotland Yard.

Eileen Gu amassed an army of cynics when she spurned Team USA to represent China at the Beijing Games - but she told critics after her win: 'I'm just as American as I am Chinese'.

Guto Harri, hired this week by the Prime Minister as part of his shake-up in Downing Street, made the request to former chief of staff  Sir Eddie Lister in 2020, leaked documents show.

Nurse Natasha Hubble, 36, was banned from driving for six months at Tameside Magistrates' Court. She tried to argue she needed her car to bring her five children to school.

The TV presenter (pictured), 50, rejected claims she was too privileged to understand the struggle for first-time buyers just because her father is a British peer.

Footage captured in Tucumán, Argentina, shows Mara the dog settle down in front of the screen to watch an episode of the animated children's show Paw Patrol.

State TV broadcast images of Dinigeer Yilamujiang's family cheering as she carried the Olympic torch during Beijing's opening ceremony, sparking questions from viewers.

A mother and daughter have been dragged out of their own Italian restaurant in handcuffs for failing to comply with Western Australia's Covid vaccination rules.

A bumbling criminal fired several shots into the house of Haysam Ayoubi, 24, in Karuah St, Greenacre in Sydney's south-west. Then he set himself alight while trying to torch the getaway car.

Government sources confirmed the planned publication of the long-awaited National Recovery Plan for the NHS had been delayed because of a row over the demand of 'tough targets'.

A baby boy in Motherwell has died after swallowing a button battery feared to be from his singing teddy.

In a harrowing four-page statement, convicted serial killer Levi Bellfield (pictured) has formally confessed to the murders of Lin and Megan Russell, providing chilling details of the attack.

Prince Charles will move into Buckingham Palace when he becomes king - with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge potentially taking over Windsor Castle.

RICHARD KAY: Having secured one key element of his future - his mother's blessing for Camilla to be Queen at his side - Prince Charles is ready to settle another, and it is no less weighty an issue.

Putin said after talks in Moscow yesterday that he wanted to 'stress one more time' that 'if Ukraine joins NATO... the European countries will be automatically pulled into a war conflict with Russia'.

Premier Mark McGowan has vowed to keep Omicron at bay in Western Australia after the state detected a record 65 new infections on Tuesday after easing border restrictions for interstate travellers.

Mother of one Abbie Heaney, 31, was stopped in September 2020 and again in May 2021 after police suspected her vehicle was being used for drug dealing.

Fontana, who was born in 1552 and died in 1614, is widely recognised as the first woman to become a professional painter in Europe.

Melbourne AFL premiership winning coach Simon Goodwin needed to be chaperoned to Las Vegas by a do gooder colleague out of fears he would run wild in the party capital. 

She's the latest Democrat to be caught in the compromising position after Stacey Abrams sparked outrage over the weekend for appearing to flaunt COVID mask rules in a school.

Commanding officer Jeffrey Lengkeek (left), executive officer Michael Jarosz (right), and Master Chief Matthew Turner (center) were relieved of their duties last week and reassigned

Aaron Christopher Kelly, 39, has been taken to custody by Washington Police after he was detained on Interstate 90 between Sprague and Spokane following the killing of Justin Krumbah.

The former US President's book, Our Journey Together, includes pithy comments on world leaders and praised Mr Johnson as a 'one of a kind and a fantastic leader of the United Kingdom'.

American skier Nina O'Brien, 24, said she was 'giving it everything [she] had' when she crashed, and fractured her left leg during the women's giant slalom at the Beijing Olympics on Monday.

Republican candidate Steve Pulliam, 40, is still running after his previous life as a swinger surfaced - and says that his past sexual activity is consistent with the values around which he's built his campaign.

The NSW Auditor-General Margaret Crawford said ex-Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her deputy leader John Barilaro chose most of the projects which benefited from the $252million fund.

Police have swarmed West Australian Premier Mark McGowan's office after a suspicious white powder and a handwritten death threat were discovered at the building.

Boris Johnson had hoped to unveil the multi-billion pound catch-up plan in England today as he scrambles to get his premiership back on track following a spate of scandals.

US Olympic figure skater Vincent Zhou, 21, has withdrawn from the men's singles competition in a heartbreaking Instagram video after he tested positive for COVID-19.

Facebook users have been left divided about Aldi supermarket checkout etiquette after one shopper at a NSW store vented about how the cashier let customers with less items go ahead fo her.

A Melbourne eshay was caught on camera aboard a tram threatening guards after refusing to buy a ticket - saying they 'dont want to meet' his brother and that he'd 'knock them out'.

Cheerleaders from Sachem North and Sachem East high schools on Long Island banded together with fellow cheerleaders across the state to demand the venue change.

The man, now aged 42, was caught with $545,000 in bundles of cash while at Perth Airport in 2019. It comes as police seized $2,745,000 in Western Australia in three separate investigations.

Former President Donald Trump said Joe Rogan, who has apologized for using the N-word, shouldn't apologize anymore. Trump said Rogan should 'stop apologizing'.

Malcolm Turnbull said federal Liberals are acting like 'terrorists' on climate policy. He said the climate wars began when Tony Abbott became Liberal leader in 2009 and 'it's been crazy ever since'.

Hannah Harris (pictured), 23, had sex with the schoolboy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in a supermarket car park after contacting his parents claiming her name was Olivia.

The prime minister and deputy prime minister had to face each other in public for the first time on Tuesday after Barnaby Joyce's text messages calling Scott Morrison a liar were revealed.

Jasmine York, 26, was filmed leading a crowd in chants of 'ACAB', which stands for 'all cops are b******s', and 'f*** the police', as violence erupted in the city on March 21 last year.

A woman is fighting for life in hospital after a 7-Eleven customer poured hot coffee over her and assaulted her at a convenience store in Melbourne's south-east.

The mother of 'beautiful' Arnima Hayat, 19, allegedly murdered and her body dumped in acid is overcome with grief as she farewells her remains at the gut-wrenching funeral on Tuesday.

President Joe Biden confirmed on Monday that there will be no Nord Stream 2 pipeline if Russia invades the Ukraine although he did not detail how that would be accomplished.

Ben Fordham says most Australians have had enough of being told what to do by the government, and that it was finally time to end Covid restrictions across NSW.

While plenty of former greats have torched Cricket Australia in recent days, former Test captain Ian Chappell (pictured left) has called out what he perceives as the 'Justin Langer PR Machine'.

Omega Ruston, 32, was shot dead on the Gold Coast Highway on January 26, 2009, after he got out of his car to confront another driver who cut him off in traffic, and was shot from a third car.

A very common Australian greeting has left one British TikTok user baffled but commenters said there was an equally confusing saying common in the UK.

Erin Burnett, who hosts the network's 7pm hour, said she and her colleagues were 'grieving' and demanded more information about Zucker's departure.

Premier Dominic Perrottet on Monday said the time-honoured 9am to 3pm school day could soon be replaced with a series of alternatives in NSW to give busy working families more flexibility.

Australia's sixth gold medallist at a Winter Olympics had to wait to receive her medal in Beijing as ceremonies are separated from competition events.

Heartbroken couple Kayden Holmes and Chelsey Orr pleaded with the thief of their white Holden Colorado to return Mr Holmes' mother's ashes that were inside the vehicle.

Congressional leaders gathered on the Capitol steps Monday evening to pay tribute to the more than 900,000 Americans who have perished from COVID-19 since the advent of the pandemic.

Police in Richland, Washington, are looking for a man (pictured), who is accused of opening fire inside a local Fred Meyer supermarket on Monday, leaving at least one person dead and another hurt..

Police have charged Sydney man who allegedly drove from his Campbelltown home to sexually assault a Newcastle girl after they met on Snapchat.

A Newshub-Reid Research poll has revealed 47.9 per cent of Kiwis would back a return to lockdown if declared by Jacinda Ardern's government.

A NSW Central Coast man is accused of murdering his former girlfriend after she told people she was pregnant to him and repeatedly contacted his new partner.

Chris Huvane, a talent manager at Management 360 and a former magazine editor, died by suicide Sunday night after years of battling depression. He was 47 years old.

Brian Gregg, a long-haul driver for almost 30 years, drove up from his home in the Indianapolis area to Ottawa to support his fellow 'brother and sister Canadian truck drivers'.

Overseas travellers arriving into Victoria may need to be triple vaccinated in order to move freely around the state and attend venues, Premier Daniel Andrews has warned.

Vaccinated Californians will no longer be required to wear masks in most public spaces beginning February 15, Governor Gavin Newsom said Monday amid a drastic drop in Covid cases

Khawaja said he was saddened for Justin Langer 'the person' following his decision last Saturday to walk away from the role despite leading Australia to an Ashes win.

Commuter Ryan Wheeler shared a video on Sunday that revealed just how dirty Sydney train seats are. In the video he repeatedly hit a Sydney train seat with a hammer, creating a large cloud of brown-grey dust.

Grace Tame has blasted Scott Morrison after he apologised to female staffers for sexual misconduct in parliament.

The woman, 43, was talking on the phone and waiting for the C train at the West 163rd Street station in Washington Heights at around 6.10pm when a man approached her.

The Australian prime minister was caught out after being asked to recall the price of bread, milk, petrol and a rapid antigen test after his address to the National Press Club last week.

An official from Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia, has sent an email to principals explaining how to go about obtaining a warrant should a student refuse to mask in a step-by-step email.

Billionaire businessman Clive Palmer has launched a scathing attack on 'nonsense' criminal fraud charges against him, claiming they're a bid to 'do him slowly' with no real prospect of conviction.

Ian Thorpe launched a stinging attack on the PM's religious discrimination bill at a media conference on Tuesday: 'We want to see it disappear,' he said.

Peter and Mahan, 10, were fishing on a rock face at Little Bay, in Sydney's southeast, on January 31 when they were dragged into the water by a freak wave.

Hanny Papanicolaou, 38, has given evidence for the second day in the NSW Supreme Court saying she can't remember killing Marjorie Welsh in her Ashbury home on January 2, 2019.

Queensland woman Krishna Chopra's final movements may hold clues about her suspicious death last week.

Recordings show the arrest of the Long Island bodybuilder Dino Tomassetti Jr after he shot his parents on Christmas. Police slowed the car with satellite technology

South Australia has reported another 1,296 COVID-19 cases along with four more deaths.

The Northern Territory has reported another 1,092 COVID-19 infections, with most picked up through rapid antigen tests.

A UK scientist who worked on the AstraZeneca vaccine has accused scientists and politicians of damaging the reputation of the Covid-19 jab.

A 20-year-old man has been charged with murder after allegedly shooting his housemate at their property south of Perth.

Better acne treatments may be on the horizon after Australian researchers discovered genes that appear to increase the risk of the skin disorder.

Hundreds of supporters of Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' and New York City workers who are facing termination if not vaccinated by the end of the week marched the Brooklyn Bridge Monday.

Jason Gillespie says he doesn't want to coach Australia's cricket team while describing Justin Langer's messy exit from the job as "heartbreaking".

An 'elevated mortality' event at a salmon farm in northern Tasmania is being blamed on higher water temperatures.

A woke ABC panellist left countless viewers on The Drum baffled recently after slamming Prime Minister Scott Morrison (pictured left) for 'admitting' he often eats white bread.

Crime Scene Cleaners NZ's Instagram page shows the 'before' images of crime scenes, including murders and suicides, including graphic photos of blood splattered across the floor.

While it's way too early to call an end to the pandemic, Australian experts and health authorities are becoming more and more confident they can handle whatever Covid-19 throws at them.

The family of serial killer Levi Bellfield, 53, (pictured) say they are 'convinced' he murdered Lin and Megan Russell with a hammer 26 years ago in the picturesque village of Chillenden, Kent.

Cabinet minister Linda Reynolds has tested positive to COVID-19 and won't be attending the first parliamentary sitting of the year.

Kaleb Franks, 27 (left), one of six men who allegedly conspired to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, has testified against his co-conspirators in a plea agreement.

An acknowledgement of the bullying and harassment experienced by parliamentary staff in Canberra will be delivered when federal parliament resumes for the year on Tuesday.

Alyssa Lambert, 25, was in the bedroom of her Sydney home on January 24 when she spotted a Huntsman loitering on the ceiling.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The Government's Covid strategy has delivered some admirable successes during this pandemic. Value for money has not been one of them.

Costeen Hatzi has left her followers on social media wanting more after opening up in an Instagram Q+A about life in the spotlight with her boyfriend - tennis superstar Nick Kyrgios.

Large numbers of anti-vaccination protesters have gathered on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra ahead of mass demonstrations.