Blue Monday should be renamed Brew Monday - when friends and family can chat with a cuppa and show they care about each other, say mental health campaigners.

All of England and Wales have been put on alert for disruption caused by up to 8in (200mm) of rain falling on already saturated ground, with the Met Office warning the conditions pose a 'danger to life'.

In a major milestone for the vaccination programme, letters will start being sent to those in England aged over 70 and people classed as 'clinically extremely vulnerable'.

A group of five people were seen enjoying a sit-down picnic in Greenwich Park, London, next to a series of bicycles leaning against a tree.

Big building firms face a multi-billion-pound levy to help families pay to repair homes with dangerous cladding in the wake of the Grenfell fire.

De Clare Gardens in Caerphilly, south Wales, has been named after Gilbert De Clare, an Englishman who built a castle in the town to keep the Welsh under his control.

Donald Trump is reportedly planning to leave the White House at 8am on Wednesday - the morning of Joe Biden's inauguration.

An antique jeweller named Peter escalated his complaint to the BBC's highest complaints department after an episode of Bargain hunt claimed he had provided an incorrect hallmark date.

Testing could be used to move the worst-hit areas of the UK down the tiers, which could be implemented as the third national shutdown comes to an end in March.

An academic debate about Winston Churchill's views on empire and race is to be hosted at the Churchill College Cambridge. Controversial speakers are lined-up for the 'reassessment' event.

Research by Leicester University found that out of 47,780 people discharged from hospital in the first wave, 29.4 per cent returned to hospital within 140 days.

A major search and rescue operation in Hove, West Sussex, for missing 69-year-old Gareth Jones and his dog has been called off amid fears they were swept out to sea.

Elizabeth Emanuel, 67, is being sued by her ex-husband David, 68, after putting up for auction sketches of several of their designs for Diana, including her wedding gown she wore in1981.

Ophelia Froud, a former BBC TV producer, and her husband Jolyon submitted plans to build a pool on the boundary with their neighbours' gardens at their home in Dorset.

Graeme Perks, 65, is still fighting for his life after allegedly being knifed in the chest and stomach by an intruder at his detached property in the village of Halam, Nottinghamshire.

Eurostar could go bust within months without a rescue package, MPs and business leaders warn. Passengers have fallen 95 per cent since last March and it now operates two services a day.

Jonathan Sumption, who sat on the Supreme Court until 2018, made the comments while appearing on the BBC's The Big Questions this morning.

Vauxhall motorists could receive thousands of pounds in compensation after the firm was accused of cheating emissions tests. Follows 'dieselgate' claims against Volkswagen and Mercedes.

Sales of preserves and spreads soared by £120million - a rise of 22 per cent - during lockdown, figures have revealed.

Thomas Markle, 76 is to make a documentary about his life, with unseen home videos and photos of The Duchess of Sussex, 39. He has not seen Meghan since her wedding to Prince Harry.

The driver - who had only a provisional licence - travelled from Preston, Lancashire, to Sheffield to pick up a friend before the pair set off to Liverpool. They were spotted going 88mph on the M62.

The Government has announced a further 671 deaths from Covid-19 today, representing the highest figure for a Sunday since the pandemic began, with a further 38,598 new cases also confirmed.

Treasury officials have modelled a plan to scrap council tax and stamp duty and replace them with a property tax based on a percentage of a home's value.

The maker of a 'female Viagra' launched before the first lockdown has told how sales have soared as women look to add a spark to their relationships during the pandemic.

Maro Itoje is tackling a controversial injustice off the pitch - the 'digital divide', in which poorer pupils struggle to learn at home in lockdown.

At first she seemed nervous, looking doubtfully at those around her. But Dolly the seal screwed up her courage and waddled into the sea at Farlight beach in East Sussex.

Music producer Phil Spector has died from COVID-19 related complications at the age of 81 it has been revealed.

More than 25,000 patients have caught coronavirus in hospital since the second wave of the pandemic began in September, according to official figures.

Ealing Police broke up a massive street fight involving 40 men brandishing swords and bottles in west London this morning and arrested two men in St John's Road, Southall after melee.

Officers in Romford fined 49 drivers after they were found breaching coronavirus restrictions during a car meet. Police reported those in attendance were not social distancing.

Police Scotland launched a hunt for 16-year-old Santino Hogan, known to his friends and family as 'Sonny', after he left his home in Glenfarg, Perth and Kinross at around 6pm on Friday.

The University and College Union has warned lecturers could strike if asked to resume 'unsafe' in-person teaching. They say online learning should remain to protect staff, students and communities.

The William Gladstone Church Of England Academy, in Jenrick's Constituency of Newark, Nottinghamshire, is now known as The King's Church of England Primary Academy.

Dominic Raab today said the Government is hoping to be able to begin lifting coronavirus lockdown rules in March as he suggested England will then be moved back into tiered system.

The Chancellor has pledged to emulate the dynamic Asian country by ripping up the red tape imposed by Brussels and 'raising our eyes to look to the future'.

A group of protestors holding Black Lives Matter signs were dispersed from Parliament Square by masked officers yesterday afternoon and five people were arrested for breaking Covid rules.

Nilsen murdered at least 15 men at his flat in North London, between 1978 and 1983, before human remains were discovered in a blocked drain at his flat and he was arrested.

Scientists at the Wuhan lab admitted being bitten while collecting samples in a cave which is home to coronavirus-infected bats. One researcher said one animal's fangs went through his rubber gloves.

EXCLUSIVE: The Health Secretary was pictured carrying a rugby ball through Queen's Park in North London this afternoon, with a witness describing him as 'covered head to toe in mud'.

In a video call with five people across the UK who are helping to get the vaccine into arms, the Prince said he was proud of his grandparents for having the jab at Windsor Castle earlier this month.

Tory MP Caroline Nokes said that check-up cancellations and women's fears of attending GP clinics in the pandemic could mean up to 600,000 women miss out on getting a smear test.

An aide of the Duke is alleged to have discussed with ex-teen beauty queen Molly Skye Brown, 42, the possibility of making a fake Twitter account to ensnare a woman they suspected of doctoring the photo.

A police officer wrecked a pricey drone by pressing the wrong buttons on its operating tablet, sending it plummeting 70ft to its destruction in Crawley, West Sussex. Craft had cost £64,000

Boris Johnson said on Friday that from 4am on Monday all travel corridors will be suspended and anyone coming to the UK must have proof of a negative test in the previous 72 hours.

Some 20 of 138 acute NHS trusts recorded a dip in beds occupied by Covid-19 patients in the seven days to January 12 compared to the previous week.

Medical groups have written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock asking for new legislation protecting them from investigations should they need to withdraw life support to treat other patients.

The UK recorded another 1,295 coronavirus deaths on Saturday - a 25 percent increase on last week's figure - taking Britain's grim toll to 88,590.

The actor and political activist, 42, who has repeatedly challenged lockdown restrictions, shared the photo on Twitter on Friday beneath an apparently mocking post.

Piers Corbyn has established himself as a fervent anti-lockdown campaigner in the UK and 'anti-vaxxer' who has described the vaccine as a 'satanic death shot'.

A spokesperson for US-based company Pfizer said Britain's supplies would be affected in late January and early February but the move would speed up production afterwards.

JOHN NAISH: The mutant strain of the Covid-19 virus that has emerged from the depths of the Amazon rainforest in north-west Brazil - and may already be in Britain - is alarming many scientists.

Ex- footballer Gary Neville, who owns two luxury hotels in Manchester with Ryan Giggs, is one tens of thousands of business owners in line for a £1.2billion windfall.

An analysis of loose leaves from four Spanish beaches found plastic pellets, cosmetic microbeads and polyester fibres from clothes entangled in half of them.

The UK population may have shrunk by 1.3million amid the coronavirus pandemic - a fall which would be the largest recorded since the Second World War.

Mark Andrews, 49, the Deputy Chief Officer at West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service, is being investigated for regularly visiting the home of his former secretary Anna Colwell, 34, in Worthing.

Two police officers, one attending an incident in Bournemouth and another in Cambridgeshire, tested positive for Covid-19 after being spat at in two separate attacks on January 6.

Some 27 of 140 major NHS hospitals had no space on critical care wards last Sunday and 12 didn't have a single bed free all week, averaging 100 per cent occupancy.

JANET STREET-PORTER: If you're loaded or homeless, you've got more chance of getting a jab in the next couple of weeks than most pensioners (me included).

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Footage shows the unnamed shopper arguing with Kent Police officers and claiming they could not ask her to show proof of her 'disability'.

The Richmond Park deer had to be put down due to injuries after it was chased and attacked by Irish setter Alfie who was off the lead. Owner Franck Hiribarne, from Kingston, was fined £602 at court.

The Saudi government's Human Rights Commission announced today it recorded 27 executions in the Kingdom last year, compared to an all-time high of 184 in 2019.

Shocking video footage taken at West Ham Underground station showed commuters piling onto a Jubilee line train, with concerns mounting over passengers being unable to socially distance.

Vince Matteson, from Portland, Oregon, had been taking down his Christmas lights when he realised his two-year-old golden retriever Ace had scaled the ladder to join him on the roof.

Another five million people will be invited to receive a jab from today, with some in Whitehall suggesting the rollout is going so well that the wider population could be covered by June rather than September.

Dr Christina Pagel, a health and mathematics researcher at University College London, said she 'can't imagine anything worse' than vaccinating everyone only for a resistant strain to emerge.

Carla Wiles, 36, from Cheadle Hulme, jumped into her car after being told about the fight and ambushed the student on the street when she spotted the girl walking along a pavement.

Hannah Holland, 23, from Sheffield, was left in tears after she was barred from the American Airlines (AA) service from Philadelphia via Chicago's O'Hare airport due to land at London Heathrow today.

The Chancellor is said to want to scrap the increase which was put in place last year to help families through the coronavirus pandemic and is due to expire in April.

Djokovic's reported list of demands included a shorter quarantine period, permission for players to visit their coaches, and access to courts where they could train for the tournament in Melbourne.

John Darwin, who faked his own death in a canoe accident off the coast of Durham as part of a £679,000 insurance scam with his ex-wife has settled into a new life with a new partner in the Philippines.

Jonathan Brooks will appear at Nottingham Magistrates' Court this morning after being charged with attempted murder following the attack of Graeme Perks at his home in Halam.

A barrister acting for Hong Kong authorities to prosecute pro-democracy campaigners has been branded 'pretty mercenary' by Dominic Raab.

Vanessa Sierra has offered an inside glimpse into her Melbourne hotel quarantine stint with tennis star boyfriend Bernard Tomic, where they play video games to pass the time when not training.

Parachute Regiment veteran Colonel Ron Back, 84, from New Milton, Hants, was shocked to see his own obituary published in an Army newsletter after two people had accidentally confirmed it.

Aditya Singh, 36, was arrested on Saturday after living for three months in a secure section of Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Police said he was too scared to fly because of COVID-19.

Riley June Williams, 22, of Harrisburg, was charged Sunday with entering a restricted building and disorderly conduct after she was videoed rioting inside the Capitol last week.

New South Wales Health said anyone who went to the Village Tavern in Auburn in Sydney's west on six days in December and January must self-isolate until they receive a negative test result.

The Reserve Bank of Australia is expecting house prices to surge by 30 per cent in three years with interest rates set to stay at a record low of 0.1 per cent until at least 2023.

UK ministers have asked officials to prepare for the creation of quarantine hotels, where arrivals into the country would self-isolate before being allowed out in a bid to keep Brazilian Covid out.

Lativa Taulia appeared happy and carefree in a series of social media videos posted on Sunday night from a restaurant on Church Street in Paramatta, in Sydney's west.

A naked man who shoved a New Yorker off a subway platform on Saturday died after he jumped onto the tracks and electrocuted himself when he made contact with the third rail.

Sophie Cachia, the ex-wife of retired Carlton star Jaryd Cachia, said she lost priceless family jewellery including her mother's wedding rings in the daylight robbery of her Melbourne home.

Companies helping to achieve Britain's ambitious vaccination programme have told ministers that getting pensioners to vaccination centres in the middle of the night is not 'physically feasible'.

China's demand for Australian goods fell last year - but the decline was far less dramatic than the plunge in demand for English and Canadian imports. Growth is also at a two-year high.

Tropical cyclone Kimi bearing down the north Queensland coast has intensified to Category 2 on Monday as emergency preparations begin ahead of the storm's landfall. 

Little Evie Smith, six, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at birth, but her condition deteriorated in late 2019.

On Sunday night, Giuliani said: 'Because I gave an earlier speech [at the January 6 Trump rally], I am a witness and therefore unable to participate in court or Senate.'

An ex-U.S. Army soldier, Daniel Alan Baker, 33, has been arrested after allegedly threatening to kidnap and attack Trump supporters during demos planned at the Florida state Capitol.

Data from a number of providers shows between five per cent and 21 per cent of staff in the UK offered a vaccine have declined it.

Data shows there were 186,000 new cases reported Sunday, 124,387 people currently hospitalized with with the virus, and 2,044 additional deaths.

An 'ordinance' shop owner that promotes the sale of Nazi collectables is refusing to halt the sale of what Jewish leaders have described 'tools of the devil'. 

DR SANJAY GUPTA: When I began working as a neurosurgeon more than 25 years ago, the idea of improving your brain seemed a rather misguided one.

President-elect Biden is to consult with intelligence advisers on whether to provide President Trump with daily intelligence briefings. Every former president has normally benefited from the perk.

A distressed single mum who filmed a fiery confrontation with officers over her failure to wear a mask to the shops has a history with police - as they warn 'further action' may be taken against her.

Jahade Chancey, 23, was shot and killed at his Staten Island recording studio on Saturday night. Two killers were caught on camera, one carrying a  rifle and the other a handgun.

Lee Joyce Dunbar, 67, is accused of sexually assaulting a female student, then aged between 15 and 17 on Sydney's northern beaches between 1978 and 1980.

The body of a man, 29, was found on Melbourne's Mornington Peninsula on Monday morning. Police have launched an investigation, with the man suffering a number of suspected stab wounds.

Tafari Walton, 22, was shot after telling police, 'Come on, f***ing shoot me', then charging with a knife towards a detective at a Glendale home north of Sydney in March 2019.

While much of the world is still living under strict lockdowns, Beijing claims to have largely brought the virus under control within its own borders following the initial outbreak in Wuhan a year ago.

A mansion owned by Chinese property billionaire Riyu Li is poised to smash the buying record on the Gold Coast after it was recently placed on the market for a jaw dropping $50million.

The US, EU, several European governments, Canada and a senior aide to US President-elect Joe Biden immediately called for Navalny's release, with some urging new sanctions against Moscow.

The couple were travelling home in a rideshare Kia Carnival when it slammed head-on into a ute west of Muswellbrook, in the NSW Hunter region, at 9.30pm on Sunday.

A homicide investigation is underway after the man's body was discovered in Queen Street, Hastings on the Mornington Peninsula, about 7am on Monday.

Carbis Bay in Britain's most southerly county has a population of just over 3,000 and is set to host the G7 meeting in June. Joe Biden is set to attend.

Callum Watts scored a permanent job as an engineer after doing an eight-month work placement during his final year at university. Youth unemployment now stands at 15.6 per cent.

Shocking new video taken inside the Capitol during the January 6 riot shows the moment a MAGA mob rifled through paperwork in the Senate chamber and erecting gallows outside the building.

The eastern state of Saxony in Germany has confirmed plans to hold quarantine-flouters in a fenced-off section of a refugee camp set to be build next week.

There is a frantic search for a teenager reported missing from Parramatta, amid concerns for the woman's welfare. Lavita Taulia ran away after eating with friends at a Sydney restaurant.

The license plate, which was simply the single number 1, was on a car stopped at a set of traffic lights in Victoria.

CFMEU national political organiser Elizabeth Doidge has demanded a leadership change after union polling put Labor on track to lose two New South Wales Hunter Valley seats.

President-elect Joe Biden lost his wife Neilia and infant daughter Naomi in a car accident a week before Christmas 1972. The father then went on to lose his son, who survived the crash, to cancer in 2015.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who has been nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to be the next head of the CDC, made the comments during a Sunday interview on CBS' 'Face the Nation'.

A woman who has been dubbed 'Karen Covid marshal' has been mercilessly trolled for telling people to practice social distancing in the queue of a water park ride.

An internal audit found that 600 kilograms of salmon went unaccounted for every day at the Ingleburn plant, in south-west Sydney, between June and December 2020.

Indecent assault claims against Collingwood forward Jordan De Goey have been further delayed by a farcical court decision. 

'Hello world, is this thing on?' CEO John Matze wrote in a message, dated January 16, accompanied with an image of an egg-timer and a 'technical difficulties' banner, pledging to return 'soon'.

Unable to practice for the upcoming Australian Open tennis tournament stir-crazy players have been getting creative during their 14-day quarantine.

Veteran war correspondent, Luke Mogelson, captured the video on the day hundreds of rioters, including 'QAnon Shaman' Jake Angeli, stormed the US Capitol on January 6.

Fears for Diana McKinstry's safety were heightened on Sunday after the Bureau of Meteorology declared the formation of tropical Cyclone Kimi.

About 1,200 players and support staff arrived in Melbourne and Adelaide over the weekend to quarantine for two weeks ahead of the tournament which starts on February 8.

New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has revealed she is considering implementing regulations that would prohibited residents who have not vaccinated from entering certain venues

Tennis fans have blasted Novak Djokovic's list of demands for Australian Open tennis players, saying he's the 'last person in the world I'd be taking advice on COVID protocols'.

A Southern Highlands hairdresser has pleaded guilty to dealing drugs after police accused her of selling MDMA pills shaped like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and hiding cocaine in Kinder Surprise eggs.

A mother has died in a school holiday beach tragedy on the New South Wales south coast after getting caught in a rip while swimming with a child. 

The Victorian border will finally been opened to thousands of Sydneysiders from Monday night. But ten areas across Sydney will remain red zones.

The actor, 62, tweeted Friday: 'I had a dream Trump was on trial for sedition'. 'Outside the courthouse, a noose was hung from a makeshift scaffold,' he added.

'The media are trying to have it both ways,' Gidley told Fox News on Sunday, referring to calls for Trump to criticize the violent siege while he is banned from using Twitter.

Rudy Giuliani has said $2 million could buy people pardons from Trump, a new report revealed Sunday as concerns grow the president could use his last days to issue a slew of clemencies.

QAnon-supporting Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been suspended from her Twitter account for 12 hours, her staff announced Sunday.

The number of players confined to their rooms on Sunday evening swelled to 72 after it emerged an infected passenger had arrived into a Qatar Airways flight from Doha on Saturday morning.

New South Wales reported zero locally-acquired cases of coronavirus on Monday. Eight new cases were reported in overseas travellers in hotel quarantine in the previous 24 hours.

Trump is refusing to meet Biden before leaving the White House. Instead the incoming president will hold a memorial to the dead and go to mass before being sworn in.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have released an upbeat Inauguration playlist for at-home watching parties ahead of the swearing-in ceremony this week.

Under some of the strictest rules in the world, Australians have been banned from leaving the country since March and anyone returning must quarantine in a hotel.

Police arrested Hamed Yarmohammadi, 30, and Niusha Ojaghfaghihi, 26, in Sydney on January 8 and 9.

Maurice Kervin, 25, was snowboarding down a Colorado mountain near Denver. Cracks appeared in the snow and within moments he was caught up in an avalanche.

The 'St Kilda Schoolgirl' who caused an enormous AFL scandal when she leaked nude photos of her with players online has spoken out about her cancer battle and her long-distance relationship.  

Sydney residents were shocked to see what looked like a police officer dressed up as tradie talking to drivers in pictures posted on Thursday.

Author Sally Coulthard has delved into the surprising and frankly saucy habits of the world's worms, and what she discovered will change the way we think about their subterranean antics.

Footage of a Holden Commodore driver who parked in a disabled spot at a service station in Adelaide has gone viral online for his peculiar choice of footwear.

French tennis player Alize Cornet has admitted she should have 'shut her mouth' instead of complaining about 'insane' quarantine protocols ahead of the Australian open.

Josephus Davis was arrested during a traffic stop in Kensington, Philadelphia, on Wednesday, wearing clothing that matched the description of one of the suspects.

OnlyFans adult entertainer Vanessa Sierra, who went public with her relationship with Tomic last November, joined her man in Doha last week where Tomic qualified for the Australian Open.

Shayleen Frail, 34, lost her two sons when a red Holden allegedly driven by 25-year-old Jacob Steven Donn mounted the gutter and hit them in Wellington, central west NSW , last Tuesday.

Renae Lawrence first met Agus Erna Wijayanti at Kerobokan jail, in Indonesia, in 2012 before the pair became inmates at Bangli jail in 2014.

Giuliani (left) was seen at the White House on Saturday, but hours later the Trump campaign issued a statement denying his claims that he is on Trump's legal team for impeachement.

The Health Secretary made the announcement on Twitter the morning after saying the UK is 'nearly on the home strait' out of the pandemic.

Patti Graham bought an unframed, unsigned and undated painting from a clearance sale in the NSW Hunter Valley in 1973 and spent years proving was the work of the legendary artist Tom Roberts.

Highly-paid university chiefs enjoyed more than half a million pounds towards their grace-and-favour homes as students unable to return to their halls during lockdown are still paying rent.