SOPHY RIDGE grilled SAGE member Sir Mark Walport after he recommended for Britons to "hug cautiously" in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus.

GB NEWS, which is set to rival the BBC, will start broadcasting "within weeks", and commentators have been quick to react to the prospect of the Beeb having another competitor.

MATT HANCOCK rejected suggestions from Sky News' host Sophy Ridge' that the Government would "row back" on its lockdown easing plan, insisting that the Government has a "strategy" in place to avoid an explosion of Indian variant cases.

A YOUNG child has died and four people have been injured following a gas explosion in Lancashire.

FORMER Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed thousands of protesters outside the Israeli embassy in London yesterday.

A LEADING member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has warned BBC Breakfast viewers to be "very cautious" about mixing in at least the next two weeks amid concerns over the Indian variant.

HI-TECH warfare broke out last week as Russia tried to shut-down communications between UK and US paratroopers mounting the largest air assault into the Baltic states for two decades.

THE INDIAN Covid variant has been reported in several areas of the UK in recent weeks, with concerns raised that the strain could be more transmissible than others. So as well as potentially causing delays to the easing of this lockdown, could the In...

THERESA MAY undermined Nicola Sturgeon's bid to take Scotland back into the EU, by refusing to join the European Economic Area , according to a detailed report.

LOCKDOWN rules affecting hospitality and indoor gatherings are due to change from May 17, but a number of things will still be banned until lockdown finally ends. Here are the things you still cannot do from May 17.