ROBERT HARDMAN: During the peak of construction work, this new East-West monster tunnel was the largest engineering project across the continent.

Celebrations for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee weekend will kick off with Trooping the Colour watched by the Royal Family from the Buckingham Palace balcony.

RICHARD KAY: Piece by piece, the true story of Sir Keir Starmer and Beergate is being dragged out into the public gaze.

Anna Zaitseva was one of 70 people holed up in the bunker beneath Azovstal steelworks. Her plight was made more traumatic by the need to care for her six-month-old son.

TOM HARRIS: Keir Starmer has suffered not one blow to his chances of becoming prime minister, but two.

ANDREW NEIL: The economy is on a knife-edge and it would take only one more shock - say a further rise in energy prices as a result of an oil and gas embargo on Russia - to tilt us into recession.

The Conservatives were last night on course to lose about 300 seats in local elections in England - far fewer than had been feared as Tory high command were relieved at Labour's lacklustre results.

The Home Secretary's team is ready for legal challenges, while Boris Johnson lashed out at 'liberal lawyers' for delaying his plan to send thousands of migrants from the UK to Rwanda.

The abbreviation POA - price on application - often used by estate agents to generate intrigue and tempt home buyers is to be outlawed.

The Bank of England expects the Ofgem energy cap to rise by an average of £788 from £1,971 in April to £2,759 in October, making it the biggest factor in rampant inflation.

Neuroscientist Dr Dean Burnett said such questions alienate teenagers and he has urged parents to try to see things from their youngsters' point of view (file photo).

The Gruffalo has been named the nation's best-loved bedtime story by parents. Selling 13million copies, the acclaimed children's book is about a mouse who invents a monster to dupe predators

Researchers at the University of Cambridge discovered a 'shock' to cells can reverse the abnormal build-up of proteins called amyloid beta in the brain.

After it was announced that Her Majesty miss the four Buckingham Palace Garden Parties held this summer, FEMAIL reveals how Queen Elizabeth put her stamp on the historic royal events.

Cherie Blair is embroiled in a £40million battle between a tycoon and the residents of a Croatian island where he wants to build a 320-bed hotel. She has reportedly been 'very aggressive' in her pursuit.

Sir Trevor Phillips has attacked the BBC for censoring the N-word in Bob Dylan's anti-racism protest song Hurricane about a boxer who was unjustly jailed for life for murder.

Health chiefs claim a 'high' number of the sickened children in the UK, who are aged 10 and under, come from families which own dogs or have had 'dog exposures'.

PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Unbelievably, Connelly is set to be released again within the next few weeks following another Parole Board decision.

RICHARD KAY: According to his publishers, Harry's book promises to be the definitive account of 'the experiences, adventures, losses and life lessons that have helped shape him'.

Homes Under The Hammer's Martin Roberts says he's grateful to be alive after a terrifying health scare left him 'hours from death' as his body started to shut down.

This week, Laura and Philip Borrell, of Weston, Herts - along with her mother, Frances Noble - admitted pulling off one of the most lucrative stings ever perpetrated against a local authority.

Two-thirds of lunches contained too much sugar, only half had a piece of fruit and only a fifth included a vegetable, research by Leeds University found.

The jobs numbers were released with Biden heading to Cincinnati, Ohio, to announce manufacturing boost.

One left school aged 11 to work on the roads, the other is the son of the former editor of the London times, yet as ALISON BOSHOFF describes, each man is remarkably similar.

An England player was embroiled in a £30,000 blackmail plot after sleeping with a transgender escort during lockdown, according to reports.

All of which tends to undermine the modern image the glamorous mother-of-two, with her carefully dyed hair and painted nails, seeks to portray.

The Mail tracked a group of migrants as they set off from Calais to a four-star, £100-a-night West London hotel room within less than 24 hours. More than 7,000 migrants have arrived in England by boat this year.

EXCLUSIVE: The claim was made even though Prince Harry's Sentebale charity boasted an income of £3.1 million in the 12 months to last August, an increase of £736,000 from the previous year.

Labour leader Keir Starmer's hopes of electoral breakthrough fell flat as he failed to make significant gains in the Red Wall, the party's former heartlands in the North and Midlands.

This week Bel advises a reader who is worried his sister will receive all of his brother's estate after he was cut out of the will.

From the London hotel that's offering a free night if you bring your corgi to royal fancy-dress competitions and firework displays, here is our Platinum Jubilee travel lowdown.

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: The rules target foods that are high in calories, saturated fat, sugar and salt (HFSS), banning them from high-profile locations such as aisle ends.

RUSSELL FOSTER: What do the words 'body clock' mean to you? Something you associate with jet lag and feeling out of sorts after a long-haul flight? 

Sources close to the couple claimed they are worried that details of hitherto unreported scandals involving Rooney allegedly drinking and womanising may emerge in court.

BA passengers could face a summer of travel chaos with the news the airline is cancelling 16,000 flights - and staff after threatening a strike over pay. Around 60 flights per day were struck off till autumn.

Set to Ed Sheeran's Little Bird, the heartwarming video showed the mum-of-two, 32, hugging her daughter Aurelia, 2, and her 19-month old son Bodhi.

The restaurant manager who was subjected to hours of mocking and abuse by posh customers said they reduced her to tears. Lily O'Connor, 22, was handed their entire £1,000 spend by boss Lee

The Conservative vote share across Scotland has dropped, with a number of wards seeing a fall of more than 10 per cent when compared to 2017.

Sophie Leigh, who stars in Mega Mansion Hunters, was heard saying 'so fun' while hitting dangerously high speeds on videos which she posted on Instagram.

Nigel Robinson-Wright, 42, of Blackpool, Lancs, posed for photos next to naked corpses and offered to supply a man with crystal meth to facilitate sexual activity in the chapel of rest, a court heard.

A British mountain biker has died in northern Italy after falling more than 60ft. The unidentified man was with a group of friends when the accident happened earlier today. A helicopter picked him up.

The monarch's decision to only include royals carrying out official public duties such as Harry's father and brother was taken 'after careful consideration', Buckingham Palace said.

PCSO Edward Oniba is alleged to have hugged and kissed the female police officer on the neck after she refused to give him her phone number at the Kilburn Police Station gym, in north-west London.

Nazir Afzal, the former chief prosecutor for the north of England, has suggested Girl A should be recognised in the Queen's Platinum Honours' List.

Despite a campaign dominated by Partygate, Labour piled up votes and seized Tory council strongholds in the capital - but struggled to make a dent in Red Wall areas.

Durham Police had said they were sure the Labour leader had not breached coronavirus rules when he and party aides had beers and a takeaway April in 2021.

The Queen has announced that only working royals will appear on the Buckingham Palace balcony, shunning some of her closes relatives, including Princess Beatrice.

EXCLUSIVE: Data obtained by the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) shows Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, in Merseyside, alone spent more than £586,000 on 63 gender-neutral lavatories.

The socialite, 40, spent 'astonishing' sums while married to Petra Ecclestone and turned to a criminal enterprise when the 'river of money was running dry with the break-up of their marriage.

The Queen's decision to ban Prince Andrew from appearing on the Buckingham Palace balcony is a symbolic snub that proves 'there is no way back' for him, royal experts said today.

A 70-piece collection of Gandhi's possessions - including a hand-made loincloth - are expected to sell for £500,000, according to seller East Bristol Auctions.

Colin Blanchard, 51, was handed an indeterminate sentence in 2011 for sex abuse charges and told he would serve a minimum of nine years after recruiting Vanessa George to abuse 64 babies in her care.

Princess Beatrice, 33, was spotted arriving at The WICT Network event held at a restaurant in Chelsea on Thursday, which aims to suppor women in media, entertainment and technology.

A Boxer dog named Ben was rushed into surgery in Runcorn, Cheshire, after the cluster of 4cm wide balls were found lodged in his stomach.

Jennifer Mbazira, pictured, 50, from London claimed the man had used her as a 'human toilet' and told a trial the money was owed to her through a verbal agreement.

Rotterdam police said the suspect has been arrested and the firearm has been seized' following the shootings at Molensingel, on the outskirts of Alblasserdam.

Amanda Clutterbuck, 64, and Ian Paton, 53, claimed Sara Al-Amoudi passed herself off as the daughter of a Saudi billionaire while conning them out of a £14m property portfolio of six London flats.

Heard said she thought she was going to die when Depp headbutted and tried to suffocate her in December 2015, the night before her appearance on the James Corden show.

Admiral Sir Ben Key, the First Sea Lord, said it is key for NATO nations to 'contain' the war in Ukraine so that it does not 'accelerate away from us'.

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An intense fire broke out in part of the remains of Balmain Leagues Club on Saturday afternoon, shrouding the nearby busy roads in acrid smoke and blotting out the sun.

Sir James Anderton was one of the country's most well-known crime fighters after leading Greater Manchester Police (GMP) between 1975 and 1991.

A modern T-90M tank, the most formidable in the Russian army, was caught on camera being hit and destroyed by a rocket in the north-eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv Oblast.

Ghislaine Maxwell (pictured with Jeffery Epstein) has been removed from solitary confinement in prison after two years of what her family claimed was 'torture'.

Keir Starmer's leadership of the Labour party was in crisis last night as he failed to win back the Red Wall and faces a new police probe into his notorious 'Beergate' drinks on April 30, 2021

Fred Savage has been removed from his roles as executive producer and director of ABC's revived The Wonder Years.

A morning trip to hit the surf turned into a desperate battle to save his life for Lockie Wilson when a stranger knifed him in a frenzied attack next to a Gold Coast beach.

Simon Allport, 44, was driving 'at speed and aggressively' in his new BMW M4 coupe when he smashed into Amie Linton's Nissan Qashqai while driving on Tanton Road, Stokesley in 2020.

Ukrainian Asda sales assistant Svitlana Henderson has won £63,000 for race harassment who faced a five-month campaign of abuse at her workplace of 15 years in Accrington.

The father of a young man killed after he was hit by an unmarked cop car has demanded justice and heartbreakingly asked: 'Why did the police kill my boy?' Arthur Holscher, 27, died last weekend.

Laura was left fearing for her son's life after he joined an eshay gang on the Gold Coast six weeks ago. He has already stolen cars, sped down highways and been caught carrying drugs.

Australia's most wanted man Masood Zakaria vanished in December after he was wanted for the attempted hit on rival crimelord Ibrahem Hamze - but his next getaway may be by bus

German prosecutors investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann are looking into a theory she was killed after being sold to a child trafficking gang.

One lucky winner could see themselves become richer than Adele and Marcus Rashford combined with a staggering £184million in the bank after Friday's jackpot rolled over.

The Animals Abroad Bill was set to include a ban on the import and sale of foie gras and fur but reports suggest senior Tory ministers have warned the ban would be 'unconservative'.

Ministers conceded it had been 'tough' for the ruling party, particularly in the south of England where it lost ground to Labour in London and the Liberal Democrats in its 'blue wall' heartlands.

Rolex Rippers struck again when two Eastern European-acccented women pretending to be cleaners (one pictured) stole a valuable watch from a resident's wrist after knocking on the front door.

Foreign minister Marise Payne met with Solomon Islands' Jeremiah Manele after the nation in Oceania signed a security pact with China.

NRL legend and Immortal Andrew 'Joey' Johns has roasted deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce in a hilarious video message funded by polarising YouTube star FriendlyJordies.

The baby formula shortage has intensified in recent weeks with at least 12 states facing 40 percent or higher out of stock rates as parents desperate to get their hands on formula face price gouging.

Visy truckers and facility staff will this week object to a 'low' pay rise offering from the company in unorthodox industrial action involving pink hi-vis and the phrase 'nanu nanu'.

Clare Thomas was driving her car when the vehicle broke down in the middle of a one-way street in Clovelly, in Sydney's eastern suburbs, on a Friday night.

Launceston officers are desperately trying to find a man who rode a dirt-bike with a child between himself and the handlebars through suburban streets.

An unvaccinated Victorian woman in her 90s has been the first death linked to the illness in Australia, after she caught the flu and coronavirus at the same time.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Today, Sir Keir finds himself hoisted by his own petard. Police have announced a criminal probe into Beergate.

Explosive new documents from the William Tyrrell case reveal details about the toddler's life with his foster family, his violent behaviour and an accident days before he vanished.

A young investor, who owned 12 properties worth $8.5million before he was 32, has offered advice for first home buyers, key factors when buying propeties and the best opportunities in Australia.

Lockheed Martin CEO James Taiclet confirmed that Skunk Works worked with the producers of the upcoming Top Gun: Maverick movie starring Tom Cruise.

Glenice Maxwell had gone to the emergency department at the Shoalhaven Hospital, an hour south of Wollongong, on March 17 for a more accurate check of her blood pressure.

The desperate search continues for two-year-old Adelynn's mother Tahnee Shanks, 32, who was reported missing with the child's father Jorge Aguirre Astudillo.

Norrie May-Welby, who won a legal fight to be gender non-specific, is calling for a debate on the term Mother's Day to reflect how transgender men are classified as giving birth.

Jean Nassif, 54, was arrested on Tuesday night at his multi-million dollar mansion in Chiswick, in Sydney's inner west, and charged with common assault.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was reportedly 'miffed' about the last week's White House Correspondents' Dinner as the coronavirus pandemic continues with thousands gathering for the maskless event.

Speaking at an event hosted by the Chatham House think tank, Volodymyr Zelensky said arrangements were needed for discussions to 'stop the killing'.

Comedian Dave Chappelle is said to be unhappy the man who was arrested for running on stage and attacking him during his Hollywood show was charged with misdemeanors.

Police said they were 'back to square one' Friday in their search for Casey and Vicky, after finding the pair's abandoned escape vehicle.

Elon Musk plans to quintuple Twitter's revenue to $26.4 billion by 2028. In a pitch deck Musk claimed he would increase Twitter's annual revenue to $26.4 billion by 2028, up from $5 billion last year

The Opposition leader was put on the spot on Saturday as he was asked to give his thoughts on a tweet made by Labor member for Lyons Brian Mitchell.

GRAPHIC CONTENT: Kalgoorlie man Chad Graham Hart has been found not guilty of sexual penetration without consent following a wild buck's party in Western Australia.

Jon Franzin, the principal of St Virgil's College in Hobart's north, said the strict school policy regarding no mullets is in place to prepare the young men for 'life beyond the college gate'.

Arlana Miller, 19, from Texas died on Wednesday after posting a heartbreaking note suggesting that she was planning to take her own life.

Charles Abernathy, 37, described White - on the run with prison guard and lover Vicky White - as 'hunter-like' and believes he can do whatever it takes to stay free.

The son of a mother who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her toddler had his harrowing witness statement read to the NSW Supreme Court on Friday.

Trump said at a rally Friday one of the highest priorities in getting Republicans elected to Congress is to now dissolve Joe Biden's new Disinformation Governance Board.

Women with a history of breast cancer are regularly told hormone replacement therapy is not an option because it will increase the chances of the disease returning.

Brisbane mother Lena Soulsby, 34, spent days crying and struggling to walk as she suffered agonising pain from stage four cervical cancer.

Police have sealed off Carlton Cemetery, in Barnsley, South Yorkshire after a grave was found 'partially dug up' by a member of the public. Forensic teams have also been at the scene.

Sofia Sapega, 24, was detained alongside her Belarusian opposition activist boyfriend Roman Protasevich in May last year when their flight from Greece to Lithuania.

On April 28 officers from the Gloucester City Police Department were called to the Freedom Pier where a woman's car had plunged off, ending up almost entirely submerged in the Delaware River

Isaiah Lee, 23, appeared in court on Friday and pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges for attack comedian Dave Chappelle at the Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday night.

The convenience store chain, which employs 16,000 staff and has 1,100 shops, fell into administration over debts of £97million that it could not afford to service.

Fed up Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has taken the extraordinary step of hiring a team of security guards to protect his election billboards from vandals at night in Melbourne's inner-east at Kooyong.

Dr. Mehmet Oz came on stage at Trump's PA rally guns blazing to tell supporters that lawmakers need to use their 'fists metaphorically' instead of index cards in the culture war against Democrats.

Financial experts predict annual growth on the Retail Prices Index (RPI) - the measure used by the UK Government to set train ticket price increases - could hit 11.8 per cent in July.

Victorian Labor took to its social media page on Friday to post a photo of Opposition leader Anthony Albanese posing in front of a group of women MPs.

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: I desperately miss having - and being - a sister. It's impossible to recreate that relationship. But now, the memory of what it was like has come alive.

The vehicle was found in a tow lot in Williamson County, two hours north of the Lauderdale County Jail, which she sprang Casey from last Friday.

Zelensky praised Britain and Boris Johnson for helping to 'defend European freedom' as he gave his nightly address to both Ukraine and a London charity dinner.

President Joe Biden called for a return to bipartisanship in the Senate as he praised retiring Sen. Rob Portman and recalled lunching with segregationists.

Andrey Turchak, a senior Russian politician, warned on Friday there will be 'no return to the past' for Ukrainians during a visit to the Moscow-controlled city of Kherson.

A powerful explosion has damaged a five-star hotel in Cuban capital Havana. The beachside Hotel Saratoga was hit by the blast on Friday, government media reported.

An Independent candidate and recent widow vying for the seat of Hume was targeted as part of a volley of attacks on independents across the state

DAY: As the Democratic party, by all indications, faces crushing losses in the 2022 midterms and potentially beyond, pro-life Democrats are asking: Is this really the time to be shrinking the tent again?

Madison Robertson, 16  had cannabis in her system when she failed to yield to an oncoming truck on March 22, killing her and her five schoolfriends who rode along, NTSB reported.

President Joe Biden often eschews the Oval Office for press events, instead using a nearby auditorium that is equipped with a teleprompter.

Three parents say that the Scottsdale Unified School District board and its old president Jann-Michael Greenburg, claiming he and the school board targeted them in 2020.

An off-duty cop was robbed and killed, and multiple vehicles were set on fire over the last 24 hours as part of the Gulf Clan's seeks revenge for the U.S. extradition of its leader.

Tesla has joined the ranks of major American companies offering travel compensation for employees seeking to get an abortion

A nurse who served in World War II taking care of wounded soldiers celebrates her 100th birthday in the most daring of ways by skydiving for the first time.

A Cessna 421C Golden Eagle (pictured) took off from the Hobby Airport in Houston around 2.15pm, minutes before it crashed into a backyard.

DailyMail.com visited the dusty coastal enclave outside Brownsville, Texas last week to locate Elon Musk's supposedly Spartan digs and figure out if the Tesla mogul - actually lives there.

Scientists have been left puzzled over what is causing the illness - with the usual hepatitis A, B, C, D and E viruses excluded from laboratory test results.

The blast destroyed the luxury Hotel Saratoga in Havana as it blew walls out and reportedly left people trapped on the top floor.

A dramatic statement at 3pm said the couple - as well as the Duke of York - would not be invited onto the balcony for Trooping the Colour, the spectacular start of her long weekend of commemorations.

First Lady Jill Biden called the leaked draft that suggests the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade 'shocking,' but said it should be a call to action for young women.

First Lady Jill Biden traveled to Romania Friday carrying five gallons of ketchup on board Executive One Foxtrot after hearing that the military base she was visiting was running out.

Phil Mickelson racked up $40 million in gambling losses from 2010 to 2014 and flaunted his betting habit in front of an astonished reporter, according to the PGA star's biographer. 

Wall Street's main indexes opened lower on Friday as stronger-than-expected jobs data amplified investor concerns that rising wages will continue to fuel inflation and push faster rate hikes.

Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden 'believes in peaceful protest' when asked Friday if activists should try and influence conservative Supreme Court justices into not overturning Roe v. Wade.

Police were called to the Residence Buckhead Atlanta, an upscale apartment complex, after a 911 caller - later identified as Ortensia Alcantara, 32 - reported a 'person injured.'

Dave Chappelle hosted a secret show at LA's Comedy Club's Belly Room on Thursday night, with guests reportedly paying $160 to attend.

Ukraine's ambassador said her own home is 'miraculously' okay, although her father-in-law's home near Bucha was destroyed.

Meatless burger maker Impossible Foods has sued competitor Motif Foodworks, accusing the startup of copying its technology for imitating the taste of real meat.

Michael Chamberlain, Director of ethics watchdog Protect the Public's Trust, has urged the White House to prove it will be the 'most transparent in history'.

The US Marshals service has released new photos of killer Casey White shirtless and Vicky White, the corrections officer, with brown hair. They escaped from an Alabama jail last week.

A Colorado teen who has undergone four brain surgeries to treat seizures becomes a national chess master, a remarkable feat, just one year after his last surgery.

Oleksiy Goncharenko, head of the Odesa council where Ukraine's largest naval base is situated, said that the Russian frigate Admiral Makarov was 'in trouble' in the Black Sea today.

A search in underway in Quintana Roo for Australian mother Tahnee Shanks and Jorge Aguirre, the father of the former couple's two-year-old daughter who was found Sunday near a church.

Dashboard footage reveals the moment billionaire Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, 79, slams into a car at high speed at a Dallas intersection before limping out of the car.

Elon Musk denied claims that he was 'quietly encouraged' by former president Donald Trump to buy Twitter after Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes said he and Trump pushed for the deal.