Almost 48,400 cars in 2021 were recorded as stolen, up from 46,800 in the previous year, according to DVLA stats. We reveal the top 10 cars most commonly pinched.

This is the first picture of the senior Metropolitan Police officer who told Des O'Connor's daughter that she was 'amazingly hot' after she was the victim of an attempted mugging.

Dramatic footage showed police officers shielding the Labour leader (pictured) towards a marked car as protesters shouted baseless allegations about him 'protecting paedophiles'.

Newspapers RBC and Kommersant said 15-year-old Kamila Valieva had tested positive for Trimetazidine, that is listed as a prohibited substance by the world anti-doping body.

Karen Niven, from Aldershot, was forced to go to court to challenge 22 parking fines imposed by one private firm after leaving her car outside her home - something she is legally entitled to do.

Kyle Raisis (pictured), 18, Ethan Strickland, 19, and Joseph Jeremy, 17, were snapped in photos holding huge blades including machetes.

The Church of England's legislative body has been asked to consider a ban on floral foam, which provides both water and support to cut flower arrangements, in favour of more eco-friendly options.

Families are facing the prospect of paying premium prices on their energy bills when using power at peak times under new plans backed by three of Britain's biggest suppliers.

Government sources last night said there were 'no plans' to end the release of daily figures on case numbers, hospitalisations and Covid-related deaths, despite controversy over the picture they paint.

Labour council leaders have backed a primary school which has been accused of indoctrinating pupils by encouraging them to write letters criticising the Prime Minister.

More than 1,500 staff will walk out and set up pickets at school gates in the move organised by the National Education Union.

Interest rates will rise again this year but the increases must be 'measured', according to Huw Pill, the chief economist at the Bank of England.

Operators have reported a rush of bookings after Greece and Portugal (pictured) dropped entry tests for the double-vaccinated this week and France has pledged to follow suit.

Downing Street climbed down on waiting list targets after the NHS forecast they will hit 10million, it emerged last night. Leaked models show that by March 2024, waiting lists will stand at 9.2million.

Rifleman Sujan Gurung has denied three counts of sexual assault at world famous Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst where it is alleged he impersonated a fellow Gurkha to trick the woman

The Home Secretary attended a British Asian Trust event in central London along with Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall, Chancellor Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy.

Denmark's Queen Margrethe, 81, has mild COVID-19 symptoms and has isolated herself in the Copenhagen palace where she lives, the palace said.

The latest round of the costly legal row between the two WAGS is currently being played out in the High Court over claims the Ms Vardy leaked stories about Ms Rooney in the media.

Salah Abdeslam, 32, is facing multiple life sentences for charges including murder, attempted murder and hostage taking. He insisted he was now being 'made an example of'.

Concerns were raised after an online BBC article told how 'successful' trader Hanad Hassan (pictured), 20, had managed to turn an initial £37 investment into nearly £6million within a year.

Scientists in Hungary found traces of a unique variant of coronavirus while examining DNA from soil from Antarctica that had been sent to the firm Sangon Biotech in Shanghai.

Professor Robert Dingwall, a former UK Government Covid adviser, today told MailOnline ministers should look to scrap daily Covid statistics from the end of the month

Louise Woodward, whose case made headlines around the world in 1997, wore a warm coat and gym leggings as she walked towards her car in new photos, taken near her Shropshire home.

The cats kicked by disgraced West Ham footballer Kurt Zouma have been seized by the RSPCA as they investigate a video of him

Szymon (pictured), whose surname has not been released, was struck by a white Mercedes Sprinter near the entrance to Northfleet Technology College, Kent, at around 8.25am on February 2.

Michael Black (pictured), 52, was driving a tipper lorry while working on converting the M23 into a 'smart motorway' when he smashed into the 1903 Knox Model C shortly after 10am.

Max Thurnell-Read, 15, was vilified online and bombarded with 'toxic' and 'vile' messages from pupils at The Arnewood School in New Milton, Hampshire, an inquest heard.

The 33-year-old British singer-songwriter appeared to take aim at the ultra-woke 'genderless' Brit Awards in London last night as she unapologetically declared: 'I love being a woman.'

Government dashboard figures showed there were 68,214 new positive tests over the last 24 hours, down 22.6 per cent on the 88,085 figure last week. It was the eighth day in a row cases have fallen.

From 2018, Iqra Malik, 44, from Islington, north London, conducted a 'malicious' targeting of grandmother Ms Anne-Marie Cole, who at the time was her neighbour.

Findings of a recent archaeological dig at a site in Oswestry, Shropshire, have revealed how Nazi inmates captured during the war lived in 'comfortable conditions'.

The Home Secretary Priti Patel warned against complacency after the decision by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre.

Bartosz Wyrzykowski, 21, known locally as Bartek, was ambushed by men who poured out of a car in Eltham in the capital yesterday evening.

Glenn Cowie, 58, accused engineering firm Vesuvius of having an 'institutional and deep prejudice against older employees', a London employment tribunal heard.

Stephen Williams, 58, and his wife Christine, 51, became fed-up with chip shop customers waiting outside their home in Northumberland, so they put up a fence. They are now selling the house.

Families whose loved ones were abused in mortuaries by necrophiliac David Fuller are taking the government to court.

The Pensions Secretary took aim at Neil Coyle over his own conduct after they clashed over benefit payments.

Farmer Christopher Paul Sharp, 50, was also jailed for 12 weeks, suspended for a year, after 20 of his cattle mowed down retired teacher David Tinniswood MBE on May 30, 2020.

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were guests on board a yacht belonging to Greek millionaire Nicholas Zographos, a professional gambler who made his money in the casinos of the South of France.

A serial conman who swindled £100,000 by stealing people's identities across Nottinghamshire by intercepting their post has been jailed.

David Nicholls today revealed that he drove to a Premier Inn in Glasgow to try and find Melissa Tweedie, 23 at the time, who allegedly had sex with a pupil, then 18, after prom.

Edward Argar said the queues were a 'reflection of the measures taken during the pandemic', including halting elective care during lockdowns.

The former Countdown star, 61, swapped her luxury £2.6million Bristol home for a £40k campervan as she embarks on a new project to transform vehicle.

Nicholas Hutchins, 55, stabbed his ex-wife while she was going to work in Sutton and later told medics he had intended to kill her and take his own life but he was detained by neighbours.

Chris Hartland, 31, was suspended from his role at Greenfield Special School, in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, after he was accused of using the c-word against a pupil in February 2020.

Reckless fossil hunters in Lyme Regis have been told they risk becoming extinct themselves if they continue climbing up the scene of a fresh coastal landslide.

US citizen Joseph Huang Kang (pictured), 25, admitted trespassing in the Royal Mews on December 10 last year and was today fined £200 and told to pay £85 costs and a £34 victim surcharge.

Imogen Tothill, from Holmes Chapel, was reported missing after she failed to return home. A body was discovered in a wooded area near to Ravenscroft earlier today.

Scientists at Semmelweis University in Hungary and Queen Mary University of London examined the health records of nearly half a million Britons in their fifties.

Alaw Haf, 24, from Mold, Wales, says she has been repeatedly banned from the apps and believes it's because she is so attractive that people report her profile as being fake.

The Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG) of backbenchers has warning his plans to slash the UK's carbon output by 2050 are misplaced at a time when so many face a struggle with their energy bills.

In a groundbreaking new self-help guide,  author Maddy Anholt describes how she has dated psychopaths and narcissists, and warns how to identify them, leave them, and avoid them.

Cory Slade, 29, from Newport, Wales, uploaded the compromising images after the victim ended their fling and also spat in the face of two police officers during his arrest, heard Cardiff Crown Court.

Mared Foulkes, 21, was devastated when an email arrived to say she had failed the exam - and would not be able to move onto the third year of her pharmacy degree at Cardiff University.

The 'Countering Colston' group - which campaigns to cleanse Bristol of his legacy - were branded 'heartless bastards' for urging drinkers to abandon Thatchers Cider.

Catherine Morgan, 19, was three times over the limit when she crashed a VW van into a Swansea home on Christmas Eve, causing £10,000 in damage to the house and the owner's belongings.

A 12-year-old pupil at St John Fisher Catholic High School in Wigan, Greater Manchester, said her class acted out the crush which resulted in 97 Liverpool supporters being unlawfully killed in 1989.

Robert Van Den Bergh, 37, allegedly slipped his hand beneath a blanket to deliberately stroke the passenger's thigh as he sat next to her in economy class on the United Airlines flight.

Ministers face having to bang the drum for Britain on the world stage while travelling in a French-built passenger jet after the Ministry of Defence opted to overhaul its VIP aircraft fleet.

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ABC veteran Leigh Sales has shocked viewers by announcing she's quitting her news show 7.30 after 12 years.

British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warned that the Kremlin's actions were heading in the wrong direction despite efforts to find a diplomatic solution, with the exercises expected within weeks.

Dr Zoe Davies, chief executive of the National Pigs Association, says that 'quite simply not enough' butchers were brought in to the UK by the Government's visa plan.

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has exposed the appalling way anti-vaxxers threatened his wife and children after his family received death threats in the post.

Australians will no longer be classed as 'up to date' on their Covid vaccinations if they haven't had a booster six months after their first two doses.

Three Toyota factories in Ontario have ground to a halt for a week as the Canadian truckers' protests against COVID mandates continue, putting 8,000 workers in the plants on pause.

Bodycam footage, released on Tuesday, showed the 22-year-old rookie getting pulled over by an officer on the 215 Beltway, near Decatur Boulevard, at around 11.30am on January 16.

WARNING: Graphic content. Daniel Brighton, 33, has been found guilty of animal torture after he stabbed a bull terrier with a pitchfork, strung it up from a tree while 'laughing and joking.'

A government agency has apologised for misspelling Skegness as 'Skegross' on a map used to demonstrate the latest project stage of a proposed 'high level' radioactive waste dump.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told counterpart Sergei Lavrov that Kiev must not be 'bullied' and there would be 'massive consequences'.

The Foreign Secretary will use talks in Moscow to warn Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov his country will face 'massive consequences' for any incursion into its neighbour.

Team USA secured two gold medals on Wednesday as women's snowboarder Chloe Kim and men's figure skater Nathan Chen took first prize at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

The extraordinary footage allegedly shows teacher and mother-of-three Lauren Russell accused of selling drugs to her students after school hours inhaling a substance from a makeshift bong.

One of Sydney's most exclusive hairdressers has lifted the lid on the messy war between three rival salons - as well as debuting his glamorous new girlfriend, who is nine years his junior.

Homicide detectives will investigate after a woman's body was discovered inside a home in Melbourne's southeast after midday on Thursday.

Carlson doubled down on his claims that the Biden administration was distributing free crack pipes to drug addicts and said they were and promoting drug addiction in the U.S.

Tracy Ferriter, 46, and Timothy Ferriter, 46 of Florida were accused of child abuse for allegedly forcing their 14-year-old adopted son to live in an 8 ft by 8 ft locked structure for five years.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will not require those attending this year's Oscar ceremony to be vaccinated. Only a recent negative Covid test will be required for entry.

Eighth graders at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Enfield, Connecticut received a 'Pizza and Consent' assignment asking them to use pizza toppings as a metaphor for sexual acts.

Seven-year-old Connor Landers of Azule, Texas is in recovery after being attacked by a dog last month when getting off the school bus and requiring more than three hours of surgery

Police are still searching for a suspect who shot a student and a security guard after school hours at McKinley High School in Buffalo, leaving about 100 teachers and students who had been inside.

Virtual Gaming Worlds founder Laurence Escalante touched down in Western Australia on February 5, when the state government had initially planned to reopen its borders. 

Videographer Jamie Hudson shared the magical moment two paddle-boarders spotted pair of whales beneath them caught in Esperance, 706km south-east of Perth, last week.

A switched on Australian millennial with a huge following on social media has outlined in a short clip just how important work life balance is so people's level of positivity doesn't dwindle.

Staff from the wildlife protection organisation Freeland spotted the animal on video recorded by a camera trap in Kanchanaburi province's Khao Laem National Park on the Myanmar border.

Aussies hoping to spoil their loved ones on Valentine's Day may be forced to pay a premium as disruptions to international freight sees the price of roses to soar.

Extraordinary details of an cabinet meeting argument on Monday night have been leaked to journalist Peter van Onselen, the same reporter who ambushed the PM on live TV last week.

A Gold Coast resident who occasionally sleeps in his registered vehicle has questioned with the City Council is seemingly targeting people choosing to live the 'van life.'

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NSW Police shared a photo of an officer riding cattle at the Nowra Show in the regional town on the state's south coast on Sunday, with the bull or steer draped with high-vis police livery and a saddle.

South Australia has reported another 1,639 COVID-19 infections along with seven more deaths as it moves to further ease some local restrictions.

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has announced a $77million package to support businesses struggling on account of his indefinite border closure.

The Venice Stakeholders Association sent a letter to several city offices last week warning that LA could face a number of expensive lawsuits if they fail to protect the safety of nearby residents.

The Sydney radio broadcaster unleashed an extraordinary attack on Covid-19 'alarmists' in Australia who are 'scaring the living daylights out of people'.

Video from inside the plane shows several male passengers trying to restrain the man. 'You can't do this!' he screamed. 'Oh my god.'

A wicked mum who left her child in a hot car for five hours while she gambled at the pub has been jailed for a minimum of just 12 months. 

Dave Chappelle has voiced his strong opposition to a new housing development in the small Ohio town where he lives, threatening to pull his investments in the area if the project proceeds.

The City of Colorado Springs will pay a settlement of nearly $3 million with the family of De'Von Bailey, a 19-year-old black man who was fatally shot by two police in August of 2019.

Denyse Holt was at home in the Lincolnwood district of Chicago on the night of February 5 when a mentally ill naked man broke into her house and held her hostage for 17 hours.

Heather Morgan, 31, who calls herself the 'Crocodile of Wall Street' also spends time creating low-budget rap videos. During the pandemic she also took the time to stage a quirky photoshoot.

Australian tour guide Sid Hewison claims wallabies and sheep are deliberately getting high by raiding opium poppies, then stomping bizarre crop circles and falling asleep in farmers' fields.

A disgraced former NRL star has been accused of using homosexual sex hotline to discuss child abuse.

Four men with the Georgia-based Dixie Mafia have been identified as murder suspects in the slaying of a family of three in Boone, North Carolina in 1972

The body of Sara Celeste Otero, 28, was found Tuesday night at the bottom of a cliff at Camp Pendleton, a Marine Corps base in Oceanside, California, 11 days after she went missing.

Suffolk County police say David Olivari, 37, posed as a cop and pulled female drivers over to solicit nude photos from them. He is employed by the State Corrections System, but has been placed on leave.

Kareem 'Napoleon' Mitchell, 38, left, and Sharice Mitchell, 51, right, were charged Wednesday with sex trafficking, promoting prostitution and conspiracy for running a sex trafficking ring.

Hughes, 73, sexually touched children as young as seven, exposed himself on set, and after forcing one victim to perform a sex act gave her a teddy bear and called her a 'good girl'.

Ex-MLB player Jeremy Giambi, 47, who played for the Kansas City Royals Royals,  Philadelphia Phillies, Oakland Athletics and Boston Red Sox, died on Wednesday in Southern California.

The Met Police today confirmed it will not be investigating allegations that No 10 had 'blackmailed' rebel MPs who were said to be plotting to remove Boris Johnson from office.

In an headline-grabbing appearance at the National Press Club, 2021 Australian of the Year Grace Tame said she would not be going into politics but gave a glimpse of what's ahead.

The Covid-19 vaccine booster deadline for key workers in Victoria has been extended by one month. The state recorded 16 Covid-19 deaths on Thursday, along with 9,391 new cases.

Maribel Espitia fell to her death from a California parking garage after she flipped over her handlebars while learning motorbike stunts on Monday, her friends said.

Disgraced former CNN host Chris Cuomo, 51, was spotted out driving his truck in the Hamptons on Wednesday and trying to maintain a low-profile while donning a pair of sunglasses and a grey cap

The two-part plan calls for 300 officers to be reassigned daily to the 4pm to 12am shift. It also calls for individual precincts to move four officers into the streets every day.

Surveillance footage captured the moment Brooklyn man Ilya Basin, 37, was hog-tied in his apartment by two thieves who stole two expensive designer watches

As temperatures in the NSW capital soar to 32C, the Bureau of Meteorology has warned a southerly change will bring an end to the good weather around southern parts of the state's coast.

A Gold Coast man who killed his former mate and left him to die in a dog park after a fight over a pair of stolen shoes will be eligible for parole in September.

The Project host was one of many journalists wanting to pose questions to Grace Tame and former Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins after their controversial speeches but passed up her chance.

Jenny Morrison and the Prime Minister both laughed and said 'too soon' when the 60 Minutes presenter cheekily suggested they go back to Hawaii if Mr Morrison didn't win the next election.

Lauren Russell, 42, who teaches physics at Lucas Heights Community School, has been charged with the supply of a prohibited drug.

Gold Coast police said two men involved in a suspicious house fire on the northern Gold Coast overnight, which left one of them dead, were well known to each other and possibly in a relationship.

Jemima, 14, and her sister were riding their bikes on the remote Victorian property this week when she collided with the marsupial and had to be airlifted to hospital.

Victoria will give key workers another four weeks to get their third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, after the state's chief health officer extended the deadline.

The Tasmanian senator is furious that Scott Morrison's Religious Discrimination Bill, which passed the lower house early on Thursday, will override existing state laws.

The Prime Minister fired up in Question Time in Parliament on Thursday after Labor leader Anthony Albanese accused him of betraying Australians by failing to establish an integrity commission.

Matt Martin shared the creepy moment he, his girlfriend, and her roommates discovered a disturbing 'stalker shrine' in the roof of their rental home. They have informed their landlord and police.

A satirical YouTube account compiled several of the premier's speeches into one long message where he appears to inform residents they will be shut out from the rest of the world 'forever'.

Mostafa Baluch, 34, from Sydney's northern beaches is now facing an additional charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice, police said on Thursday.

Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins claim that former coach Justin Langer's resignation signals a new direction for the team has also attracted criticism that the players are in control.

Amanda Stoker accused Labor MP Stephen Jones's media advisor of insulting her as he chatted to his boss in the Sky News studio in Parliament House on Thursday morning.

The London Mayor delivered a brutal ultimatum to the beleaguered Metropolitan Police commissioner, warning that she has just 'days or weeks' to save her job.

A man's body has been found and another man is in hospital after he suffered burns to his face and limbs following a suspicious house fire on the northern Gold Coast.

Prosecutors accuse Burwood practitioner Yun Sen Luo, 56 this month, of unlawfully killing a 56-year-old woman who'd approached him about a skin condition in 2018.

The creator of Crab.e.cam Andy Burnell shared the inspiration behind his videos depicting the feisty marine wildlife off metro Adelaide's coast. Videos show wildlife fighting to over a bait pot.

Aged care workers have lashed out at conditions in the sector as it deals with a surge of COVID-19 conditions, labelling it as a 'factory', as Labor intensifies pressure on the minister to resign.

Two men charged with murder over an Australia Day road rage shooting that left a Gold Coast father of two dead have been mentioned in a Queensland court.

Another eight people have died with COVID-19 in Queensland as the state records 5,854 new virus cases and hospital admissions continue to drop.

Tasmania has recorded an additional coronavirus death, with the state's daily case figure rising to 637.

Zouma was hit with the maximum fine of two weeks' wages by his club - £250,000, which will be donated to animal welfare charities - after a video showed him kicking and slapping the cat.

Stewart, 61, killed the 51-year-old children's book author in 2016 and dumped her body in the cesspit of the £1.5 million home they shared in Royston in Hertfordshire.

Not one person has been given the $1,000 fine for failing to report a positive rapid antigen test in NSW one month after Premier Dominic Perrottet announced the penalty.

The fired employees were attempting to unionize and held an interview with WMCA News 5 inside the shop, after business hours, which Starbucks says broke company safety policies.

Marjorie Taylor Greene accidentally used the word 'gazpacho' - which is a cold Spanish soup - when meaning to accuse Pelosi of using Capitol Police as Nazi 'gestapos' to spy on GOP lawmakers.

An umpire stormed off the pitch, got into his car and drove away after an altercation broke out during a Victorian club cricket match on the weekend.

Starbucks and a number of other restaurants are struggling to keep up with drink orders due to a shortage of take-away cups being caused by the ongoing supply chain crisis and a worker shortage

The ACT has recorded 500 new cases of COVID-19, as the territory government extended low-level COVID-19 restrictions for a further two weeks.

A social media campaign to free a woman known as 'Lady Al Qaeda', Aafia Siddiqui, spiked before Malik Akram attacked the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.

House panel investigating January 6 riot subpoenas Trump-era trade adviser Peter Navarro for claims he made in his own book about the plan to delay and overturn the 2020 election results.

Parler also powers Trump's new blockchain technology platform MelaniaTrump.com, which she unveiled in December for the purpose of selling non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.

Shocking new footage shows Australian F1 Race Director Michael Masi being pushed by Red Bull officials prior to his controversial decision that cost Lewis Hamilton the championship.