Prince Louis appeared in high spirits as he posed for a photo with his bike ahead of his first day at the Willcocks Nursery School in Kensington.

The broadcaster, 64, who has had several guest stints on the show in the past, will reportedly have a trial run on the panel in June after Piers quit last month.

Higher mushroom consumption is associated with a lower risk of cancer, according to a new study from researchers at Penn State University.

The former UK PM also texted the Treasury's top civil servant as part of a 'persistent' campaign by the finance firm, for which he was an adviser, to get access to huge Covid loans, it was revealed.

Britain's coronavirus death rate could be close to zero because a portion of the tiny number of people dying from the disease would've passed away from natural causes anyway, experts claimed.

A real-world study by Oxford University estimated that one dose of either Pfizer or AstraZeneca's vaccine would stop 65 per cent of all infections, including those without symptoms.

JAN MOIR: Events following the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral suggest that Princes William and Harry will never be able to repair their broken fraternal bond. How can they?

Another 314,835 infections were reported in India on Thursday, the world record for a daily cases figure, while the health ministry said there were 2,074 fatalities, a conspicuously low figure.

Jeremy Fleming, the director of GCHQ, will call for the UK to evolve like an animal in a changing habitat as the 'global digital environment' comes under threat from foreign adversaries like China.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Fingers on buzzers. Here is your starter for ten. What's the significance of today, Friday, April 23? No conferring. I'm going to have to hurry you. Anybody? Sorry, time's up.

Two U.S. officials told the Washington Post that the vaccine will likely now carry a warning about rare, but potentially life-threatening blood clots, similar to one used in the EU.

Officers were called to an M&S car park on Church Street in Walton-on-Thames at 2.15pm this afternoon after 999 was called because of an 'altercation between a group of men'.

To the fury of campaigners and MPs, the Government last night rebuffed calls to review the funeral limit.

Countries such as Israel, Iceland and some Caribbean islands could be included on the green list meaning passengers do not have to quarantine upon their return to Britain.

JANE FRYER: BOOM - a newly launched station aimed at Baby Boomers - and its veteran presenters are drawing listeners in droves, with 40,000 online each week and more than 100,000 on DAB.

Three in five schools plan to rely heavily on tests when deciding pupils' GCSE and A-level grades this summer even though the official exams have been cancelled.

The Inge Kosan bulk ship came from Papua New Guinea and arrived in Sydney on March 31 before leaving for Vanuatu - where 12 of the 13 workers on board tested positive.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Samantha Phillips is once more centre-stage in an extraordinary tale involving a £20 million Titian and a Turkish lover.

The announcement is apparently calling an end to a buildup of over 100,000 soldiers on the Russian-Ukrainian border in the last few weeks that had alarmed the West and Ukraine.

British ministers launched a review into the sport last night following the collapse of controversial plans for a breakaway 'super league'.

Cabinet Secretary Simon Case has reportedly intervened in the claims that the Tory Party secretly paid £58,000 towards the bill - and then tried to cover it up.

A 'tidal wave' of fly-tipping has engulfed England after the environmental menace soared almost 20 per cent in a decade. The fly-tipping blight has left cities, towns and villages coping with an influx of rubbish.

TOM LEONARD: Aristotle Onassis 'tortured' Maria Callas emotionally and physically during their relationship before cruelly and infamously dumping her for Jackie Kennedy whom he married in 1968.

The Prime Minister made the remarks as he addressed Joe Biden's virtual gathering of world leaders, at which the president vowed to halve US emissions by 2030.

The MHRA published its weekly report taking the total number of people with the clots to 168 out of 21million who had been given the Oxford vaccine by April 14.

Under the British Government's traffic light system to facilitate overseas travel, countries will be split into three categories with varying degrees of restrictions.

Several undergraduates at Jesus College received an email this week asking them to remove all posters, flags or banners displayed inside or outside the college by the end of today.

Black Lives Matter protests have sparked calls for sculptures and plaques, made for royalty in west Africa and seized by British forces in 1897, to be repatriated.

Mr Mercer was sacked earlier this week after expressing frustration at a lack of progress over legislation to protect British veterans who served during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Andrew Steele, 35, argues in his new book, Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old, that people have control over their aging process.

India's health infrastructure has been brought to its knees by a second wave which is three times higher than the first, with medics pointing to a new variant believed to be more infectious.

Sir Tom Scholar said the former PM contacted him repeatedly in March and April last year as the financial firm pushed to be part of a government loan scheme.

Officers were pursuing the vehicle through Westminster until the collision on Buckingham Gate at around 10.45am this morning.

Matthew Boshell told Warwick Crown Court how he had to turn off the life support of daughter Isabelle, and watched her 'lips turn blue and her hands go cold' after the crash in Coventry.

In the distressing video a Staffie-type dog can be seen with its jaws clamped around the throat of two-year-old pug Gucci while 'tossing it around like a rag doll' as strangers try to help in Wolverhampton.

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has continued his war path against those who masterminded the Super League, including Andrea Agnelli, Ed Woodward and Florentino Perez.

The Duke of Sussex recorded the voice-over for the African Parks charity he has been President of since 2017.

After stopping short of ordering an investigation yesterday, the PM's spokesman said the Cabinet Office will now be looking into how the messages were made public.

Andrew Hall, 43, from Huddersfield, was rushed to hospital in September 2016 when he collapsed at home after drinking large amounts of brandy and taking prescription medication.

The acknowledgement by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission comes after an inquiry found Commonwealth casualties were remembered unequally in official cemeteries.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng today said he may adopt a vegan diet to play his part in efforts to tackle climate change.

Office for National Statistics data shows Covid was only the third biggest killer in England and Wales in March, accounting for 4,387 out of total 48,551 deaths (9 per cent).

Shafiul Islam suffered 'devastating brain injuries' after being battered by Euan Peters with an empty bottle at his Newport flat. Peters was working as an enforcer over a drug debt and has been jailed for life.

Rebekah Vardy is making a fresh bid to weaken rival Coleen Rooney's case before their so-called Wagatha Christie case reaches its dramatic conclusion.

YouGov research found 53 per cent wanted to stay in the UK and 47 per cent wanted to go it alone, with the lead for the union up four points on last month.

Romeo Nguase was found dead at his home in east Yorkshire on April 16 and Humberside Police launched an appeal to locate his next of kin.

Nev Kemp, 48 - a deputy chief constable at Surrey Police - organised a hotel meet-up with Sergeant Rachael Johnson, 38, over the phone, but their conversation was picked up by the camera.

A horrified truck driver captured the moment a female driver got out of her car and spat at the motorist waiting behind her at a temporary traffic light in Bootle, Merseyside on Monday.

Steven Clark was 23 when he went missing in Saltburn, Cleveland, North Yorkshire, in December 1992, after his parents said he failed to emerge from public toilets during a family walk.

Perez, who is also the president of the Super League, has come out swinging just 24 hours after the project collapsed after the Premier League's 'Big Six' withdrew from £4.6bn scheme.

Speaking to The Mirror, a source claimed that one of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's main issues was their '[inability to understand how things worked.'

Liverpool brothers John and Alan Tobin sold vast amounts of cocaine, heroin, cannabis and ketamine to notorious gangs backed by their 'enforcer', ex-cage fighter Robbie Broughton.

EXCLUSIVE: Pauline Boyd claimed she is selling her £450,000 Blair Drummond home after another house was built so close that she could see her neighbour showering from her kitchen.

The collapsed chain has confirmed the dates when it will shutter shops up and down the country for good. The website is expected to re-launch by May after the High Street stalwart was bought by Boohoo.

Dorset chef James Larby, 37, sent Rachel Neillings, 35, abusive messages and threatened to throw hot coffee over her and spit in her face during the pandemic if he ever saw her again, a court heard.

Lee Cain, who was a senior adviser to the PM for four years and left Downing Street last November, said 'class-based bias' still exists at the heart of government.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, first-team coaches Michael Carrick and Darren Fletcher and midfielder Nemanja Matic spoke with the fans who were demanding the Glazer family sells the club.

The men were caught red-handed as they emptied the debris and materials down a quiet country lane on the Ugbrooke estate by a neighbour who was putting her chickens away.

A majority of Brits believe professional football clubs in England should be owned by their fans, according to a new poll in the wake of the European Super League debacle.

EXCLUSIVE: There have been no reports of vaccine packaging being stolen from inoculation hubs, but there have been cases of vials - which contain the jabs before they are put in syringes - being stolen.

Theatre graduate Jodi Walsham, 23, from Northumberland, took her own life on January 15 after suffering with mental health when two job offers withdrawn in successive Covid lockdowns.

Four airlines asked the west London airport for a total of eight extra flights to arrive at the hub before the Friday deadline so that returning UK travellers can avoid the gruelling 10-day hotel quarantine.

The Duchess of Sussex, 39, also spoke with her husband before his grandfather was laid to rest, and 'knows the trip to England has been difficult for him', the source added.

The 'Big Six' were forced to ditch their lucrative plan for a new midweek European competition following a public outcry this week. However, the clubs remain committed to a reform of the Premier League. 

The virtual talks have been called by President Joe Biden, who is expected to pledge to at least halve America's greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Johnny Mercer left the Government yesterday after expressing frustration at a lack of progress over legislation to protect British veterans who served during the Troubles.

Residents whose homes are teetering on the edge of a crumbling seaside cliff in Nefyn, on the west coast of Gwynedd, north Wales, have been advised to relocate 'until further notice'.

HENRY DEEDES: This week it was texts from vacuum tycoon Sir James Dyson, whose employees' tax affairs the PM promised to 'fix' in return for help building ventilators during the pandemic.

Boris Johnson last night rejected pleas to change his phone number over concerns that he was constantly being approached for help and brushed aside allegations of 'sleaze'.

Boris Johnson has been criticised for pledging to reduce the UK's carbon emissions by nearly 80 per cent by 2035. Jenni Murray shares experience of upgrading her home to the necessary standard.

STEPHEN GLOVER: Prime Minister Boris Johnson, pictured, is at risk of being mired in a major sleaze scandal, much to the delight of the BBC, left wing media and the Labour Party.

Ghislaine Maxwell has claimed that the case against her is prejudiced because Jeffrey Epstein is dead - and he would have cleared her of wrongdoing if he was alive.

The unnamed 27-year-old woman said she was captured while travelling home to her children. She was kept for 11 days before soldiers abandoned her in a bush. Villagers took her to hospital.

Nioola Zingaretti, President of Lazio, has joined forces with activists in Rome and pledged €500,000 to help save pine trees in the capital from pine tortoise scale insects which plague the trees.

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Serial dater Takashi Miyagawa, 39, has been arrested in Japan after seeing 35 different people at the same time and receiving gifts and cards from all of them.

Patrizia Reggiani, 72, who will be played by Lady Gaga in an upcoming film about her life, was jailed for 18 years in 1998 for ordering the assassination of Maurizio Gucci.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's doctors urged him to 'immediately' end his hunger strike. The Russian opposition leader started striking on March 31 over his poor treatment in prison.

The teenager, who had been wearing his full school uniform, went missing as he made his way to The Ark Globe Academy in Southwark, London, on Tuesday at around 8am.

Millions of Western Australians have been plunged into a three-day lockdown after one local case of coronavirus.   

All that remains of RAF Binbrook, in Lincolnshire, is a series of gutted buildings seen in photos taken by an urban explorer who runs Facebook page Lost Places and Forgotten Faces.

Angela Moore said two of her former foster children came to Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday for her birthday when the argument between the youngsters broke out.

The tax office now has new ways of cracking down on Australians who buy cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. Surging share and property markets are set to keep auditors very busy this year.

The Asian nation is now recording a global record of 315,000 cases per day as a virulent variant of coronavirus sweeps the subcontinent, while the health ministry said there were 2,074 daily fatalities.

A former Virginia Tech soccer player is suing her old coach for allegedly launching a 'campaign of abuse and retaliation' against her over her refusal to kneel in protest of racism.

A man and woman have been found dead in an apartment on the Gold Coast.

Three police officers turned up at Kaela Charalampous's home in Mandria, Cyprus, to take her to a police station on charges of slander and insulting name calling.

Iryna Durham wrote to an inmate at HMP Moorland in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, for five months before their affair was discovered, a court heard.

Over 120 people were injured including 21 people who were hospitalised after clashes in Jerusalem on Thursday night. Ultranationalist Jewish group Lehava organised the protest.

Incredible footage shows the moment three brave curlew birds puffed up their feathers to protect their baby from a giant python, filmed in the Northern Territory.

Whitehall ministries, including the business department, will not be covered by the new clampdown on cash flowing to Beijing despite a promise to slash funding to the global superpower.

Paul Minchella, 57, and his wife Dawn bought the brand-new build- at Dale View, Longwood , near Longwood Brook, for £173,000 from the Leeds-based Britannia Developments in 2007.

Two cats have disappeared from Tango's Cat Boarding Facility in Canberra after a man was seen breaking in. The owner has admitted they might never see their beloved pets again.

Kent Fire and Rescue Service were called to reports of a goods train alight near Dunton Green train station,in the Sevenoaks area, at around 5.15am today, it said in a statement.

Black trans lives matter protesters and cops came to blows Thursday night after the protesters apparently sprayed a statue near Central Park with anti-cop graffiti and red paint.

Royal mourning in memory of the Duke of Edinburgh will end for the monarchy and their households today.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby agreed it was wrong to 'help out your chums or lobby inappropriately'. But he insisted moral standards are much higher than they used to be.

Hairdressers and beauticians will reopen in Northern Ireland today in another lockdown easing as Wales confirms pubs and restaurants will be able to serve customers indoors from May 17.

Two men have been charged with allegedly sending 'racially charged' messages via social media to South Sydney NRL star Latrell Mitchell.

Three of the most polluting industries - agriculture, mining, and manufacturing - account for 13.5 per cent of all jobs in the country.

Donald Trump on Thursday evening issued a statement attacking a familiar foe - LeBron James. James had tweeted, then deleted, a photo of the officer who shot Ma'Khia Bryant.

The disastrous outbreak, which has pushed hospitals to breaking point and required the mass burning of bodies in the streets, is already affecting Australia with a huge spike in cases among travellers.

A study by the University of Glasgow pinpointed two confirmed cases of human-to-cat Covid transmission in the UK, which led to one cat suffering critical lung damage.

A total of 53 female Marines look to become the first women to graduate from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego after they completed a grueling, three-day final exercise.

'Obsessed is a word that lazy people use to describe the dedicated.' 

Richard Glenn, 55, had been a teacher at £9,800-a-term Longridge Towers independent school near Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, for 12 years.

Australian parents are being challenged as to how well they remember their school English and maths lessons and if they would pass a standard test for students aged 8 to 14. 

A couple accused of holding a woman captive as a slave for eight years can finally be revealed to be husband and wife Kandasamy and Kumuthini Kannan. 

Data published by the Office for National Statistics this morning showed that net borrowing during the last financial year is estimated to have been £303.1billion.

The flightless bird named Bert took the earring from mother-of-two Ashna Ali during a trip to Sydney Zoo in the city's west - with attempts to retrieve it from the emu's droppings proving fruitless.

Speaking at the launch of his campaign bus today, Tory London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey attacked Sadiq Khan's financial raid on Londoners that he estimates will cost each household £1,339

The coronavirus pandemic is driving Australians to drink more, with new data showing 67 per cent of Australians regularly consume alcohol - a figure up 0.8 per cent on last year.

The Prime Minister has offered an 'unreserved apology' to the families of black and Asian soldiers who died fighting for the British Empire but were denied gravestones.

Oliver Bel, 24, faces up to 15 years in prison for having the Anarchist Cookbook at his home in Salford in November 2019. He admitted to owning the book but said it was for academic interest.

Melbourne's 'worst' hotel notorious for shady customers, cockroaches and syringes in bedrooms has hit the market with a $4.5million price tag after closing down in 2019.

Kunal Sawhney, founder and CEO of market analytics group Kalkine, said Australia was on the verge of the 'biggest ever' property boom that would turn bad.

The Westminster Police officer has been placed on administrative leave while an internal affairs investigation takes place over Wednesday's incident.

A mother and her young son are fighting for their lives in induced comes after suffering from horrific burns as a fire tore through their home in the inner southern Sydney suburb of Waterloo.

A young boy has been so horrifically burned in a fire that broke up in his bedroom in his family's home in Waterloo, Sydney, that he is fighting for life in an induced coma.

Australians are set to miss out on a decent pay rise until 2024 unless they take up a trade. Job vacancies from tradies for builders to hairdressers are tripling and even quadrupling.

The Today show host reacted strongly after Miss Universe Australia Maria Thattil, 27, told him all those competing in the international final in Miami in May 'deserve to be there'.

Mark Daniel Ferguson, 23, left Pamela Frances Corless, 73, to die near the front door of her Cranbrook home in Townsville after he smashed the back of her head with a 1.5m piece of timber back in 2018.

April 25 falls on a Sunday this year which means only people from the ACT, WA, SA, NT, and Queensland will get Monday off work, but big retailer have still adjusted their hours nationwide.

'Much-loved' and experienced car racer Shane Navin, 68, has died in a crash at a popular rally event in Tasmania amid heavy rain - the third death at the meet in the space of a few years.

Lucas 'Big Daddy' Browne, who was humiliated inside two minutes has offered vague excuses for his poor showing against NRL legend Paul Gallen in Wednesday's controversial boxing mismatch.

Chinese drug lords are investing in Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative to launder tens of millions of dollars made from cocaine, meth and heroin trafficking in Australia.

Heidi Slyker was forced to quit the New England Philharmonic Orchestra after losing the instrument, because the only replacement she could afford sounded so inferior.

Mother-of-two Angela Williams, 42, died after falling from the eighth- floor balcony of The Standard hotel near King's Cross, London, in December last year.

Protesters in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, took to the streets on Thursday for the second night in a row, demanding answers following the shooting by police of Andrew Brown on Wednesday morning.

Rock continues to slowly crumble into the sea in Nefyn, north Wales, where homeowners whose properties sit close to the drop have been advised to relocate 'until further notice'.

Joe Biden announced the goal to cut emissions by 2030, compared with 2005 levels, at the start of a two-day climate summit on Thursday.

An online battle about the origins of the beloved chicken parmigiana has erupted on Wikipedia as editors debate whether the dish is truly an Australian classic.

Officers with the New York Police Department discovered the six-week-old twins, a boy and a girl, inside the Woodside Houses on 51st Street and 32nd Avenue in Queens.

Several Republican lawmakers are planning to snub President Joe Biden's first address to Congress on Wednesday as the joint session is limited to 200 attendees in the midst of the pandemic.

Police officers in Albany, New York, clashed with demonstrators on Thursday as they ejected them from a makeshift street encampment outside a police station.

Queensland LNP MP George Christensen won't re-contest his seat at the next federal election, partly basing his decision on concerns about the state of politics.

Paula Bryant, whose 16-year-old daughter Ma'Khia was shot and killed by police in Ohio on Tuesday during a knife fight, told CNN she wanted the killing to stop.

TikTok user Linnealuvsu shared her tattoo regret with the app this week, as part of the latest trend to the tune Hope by Twista.

Data shows thousands of people had their information recorded in a police database - despite doing nothing illegal.

ABC's Q&A host Hamish Macdonald has been accused of staying silent while a male panellist 'mocked' and 'patronised' Greens senator Sarah Hanson- Young at a show in Sydney.

The former fiance of a geography teacher who admitted to sex with a 14-year-old student while they were engaged has issued a stunning statement of support for his ex-lover.

The judge's order on Tuesday requires Los Angeles to offer housing to the homeless population of Skid Row by October 18 if the city wants to enforce tent bans.

Kelly Wilkinson, 27, visited police weeks before her American husband Brian Earl Johnston, 34, allegedly set her on fire in the back yard of her Arundel home, in the Gold Coast , on Tuesday.

A record-breaking number of kids have been hospitalized with COVID-19 in Michigan, data shows. Statewide, 70 children had either confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19.

Keith Wille was hired by a family to find a cash box rumored to have hidden so the family could sell the home. It was found obscured by a false bottom underneath the floorboards.

The sprawling, gated estate in the Beverly Park area was listed on Friday by an LLC managed by an attorney acting as co-trustee for the Sumner M. Redstone 2003 Trust.

U.S. ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan is returning to Washington for consultations amid a diplomatic standoff between the U.S. and Russia.

Alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is suing the publishers of a new book that portrays her as 'already guilty'. Vice Island appeared on bookshelves in France last week.

Senate Republicans revealed their counter offer to President Joe Biden's infrastructure package, presenting a $568 billion plan that focuses on roads, transit systems, and broadband internet.

'Even if we get to net zero, we still need to get carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere,' said President Biden's climate envoy John Kerry at the White House climate summit Thursday.