The proportion of cases blamed on the mutant strain has spiralled more than eight-fold in two weeks. It made up more than 27 per cent of new infections by May 8, the latest available.

The Home Secretary said enforcement was being stepped up to make sure travellers who visit amber-list countries such as France, Spain and Italy obey the ten-day quarantine rule.

Lakhvir Singh, 34, and his friend Sumit Sehdevi - both Sikhs originally from India - will be deported over immigration offences in Edinburgh, having lived in the UK without leave to remain for ten years.

Sasha Baron Cohen's Ali G character, pictured, was renowned at the turn of the century for his controversial spoof interviews where he fooled high profile celebrities into talking to him.

Great British Railways (GBR) will replace Network Rail to operate 20,000 miles of track, signals and tunnels. Grant Shapps said passengers had been failed by 'years of fragmentation'.

Lord Hall of Birkenhead, 70, was identified in 60 pages of secret documents as being a 'key figure' who helped protect Matin Bashir following his explosive 1995 interview with Princess Diana.

The Social Mobility Commission revealed nearly three-quarters of senior civil servants come from privileged backgrounds. A quarter of those in top jobs attended independent schools.

Professor Jonathan Van Tam, the deputy chief medical officer, said the rate of transmissibility of the Indian variant was the 'million-dollar question' as he expressed cautious optimism.

Records unearthed by Professor Devoney Looser, reveal that Pride and Prejudice author Jane Austen's brother Henry was publicly involved in anti-slavery activism.

Villagers in Cirencester have launched a furious tirade against Countess Bathurst after she described plans to charge tourists to enter listed parkland.

Researchers from the University of Waterloo in Canada found that students who gave most convincing performance in a bluffing activity also performed highly on an intelligence test.

A Tory MP is facing accusations that he sexually assaulted a victim in 2008 before he was elected to the House of Commons.

Author John le Carré, who worked for both MI5 and MI6, died from pneumonia in December and only left one full-length work unpublished. The book, called Silverview, will be published in October.

The details were released in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' Trees Action Plan 2021-2024 - part of a raft of measures launched this week by Environment Secretary George Eustice.

Lord Geidt was appointed independent adviser on ministers' interests last month and is already investigating who paid for Boris Johnson's redecoration of the Downing Street flat.

Andrés Mendoza, 72, was arrested Saturday night in Atizapan, Mexico, for the murder of his 34-year-old girlfriend, Reyna González. The bodies of eight other victims were found at the home.

Riley Hadley, 12, from Sidmouth, Devon, was home schooled following the bullying and had been upset when his mother talked to him about returning to school, an inquest heard today.

The victim was stabbed once with a 12-inch blade at 5.10pm outside M&S in the Sunbury Cross shopping centre in Surrey. Police are searching for a group of youths aged between 14 and 19.

The chopped up body of Babak Khorramdin, 47, was found in rubbish bags and a suitcase in the town of Ekbatan, western Tehran, on Sunday.

Expectant mother Princess Beatrice, 32, appeared in high spirits as she was seen for the first time since announcing her pregnancy, alongside her husband Edo Mapelli Mozzi, 36, in London.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was 'determined' to continue the operation in Gaza, shrugging off President Joe Biden's demand to de-escalate hostilities.

Simon French, chief inspector of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) told the inquest the Croydon tram would not be able to remain upright after hitting the corner at 45mph.

EXCLUSIVE:A Russian billionaire's ex-wife battling for a £453million divorce payout has hired former SBS operatives to seize the £225million super yacht at the centre of the row.

Sir Keir Starmer today attacked Boris Johnson over the Government's 'amber list' travel chaos as he claimed ministers have 'lost control' of the situation.

Elaine Clarke, 49, appeared at Preston Crown Court today and entered a not guilty plea to the unlawful killing of Debbie Leitch in Blackpool, Lancashire.

Transgender woman Jessica Brennan, from Harrogate, North Yorkshire, groomed then sexually assaulted four young girls - one of whom was just four - over a 17-year period, a court heard.

Peter Lawwell and his family were asleep in the south Glasgow property when the blaze was sparked by an accelerant thrown at his car parked in the driveway.

Footage from Kensington, west London, captures the rally as it marches down the high street, with demonstrators clutching Palestinian flags over their shoulders.

Fraudster Dana Twidale, 44, fleeced brides-and-grooms-to-be out of their wedding savings before vanishing without a trace. She has now pleaded guilty to 26 counts of fraud.

Sinead O'Connor, 54, made the bombshell allegation in her forthcoming memoir which was previewed in a New York Times profile on Tuesday - four years after Prince's death.

An Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report claims people in the UK drink roughly 4.4 pints of beer or 2.3 bottles of wine on average each week.

The men, aged 52 and 28, were held on suspicion of conspiring to facilitate illegal immigration during a National Crime Agency (NCA) swoop in Woodford Green and Bushwood, east London, today.

Organisers were forced to cancel plans for the long-awaited five-day festival in June due to the Covid pandemic, which also saw the 2020 event axed.

British Army staff sergeant Kareen Thomas (pictured) said the woman asked him to book a hotel room in Ayia Napa, Cyprus, so they could spend the night together but when he declined she felt 'insulted'.

Schoolgirl Jessica Cooper, then 16, of Milton Keynes, Bucks, decided to keep her pregnancy secret after conceiving with then 17-year-old boyfriend Sebastian Bowerman.

The twisted ex-lover of the Babes in the Wood killer was asked 'Was it worth it?' by one of his victims' mothers today as she was jailed for six years for the lies that kept him free.

The Labour leader was censured by Sir David Norgrove, the chairman of the UK Statistics Authority, for claiming that violent offences have been going up under the Conservatives.

GRAPHIC CONTENT: Philip Oakley, 58, and Olivia Yip, 38, from Hastings, East Sussex, took on an old fruit and veg warehouse as a workshop for their lighting design and fashion work.

Kevin Guthrie, 33, was jailed for three years last week after being found guilty of molesting a 29-year-old woman inside a flat in Glasgow between September 30 and October 1, 2017.

An investigation by Autocar says a loophole in the database used by the motor insurance industry is allowing some write-off cars to return to the road, putting unsuspecting customers at risk.

A top grammar school investigated over a 'toxic male culture' currently has two pupils on its roll who are accused of raping other students.

Mark Farrier said he felt compelled to help the 'old fella', 79, after watching him sitting alone at an empty table at the pub in Cardiff on Monday.

Anglers reported seeing the Granville-based Alize 3 on marine-tracker websites working in a bream-spawning ground off the north coast.

The Prime Minister poignantly named all 10 victims of the 1971 bloodshed perpetrated by British soldiers in Northern Ireland ahead of Prime Minister's Questions.

The iceberg, dubbed A-76, was spotted in images captured by the ESA Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission on May 14, and is now floating in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.

The unnamed interviewee was on Good Morning Britain as they discussed the strain ripping across Bolton.

PC Charlie Harrison attacked Carl Abrahams, 47, as he made his way home from a cemetery in east London on December 31, 2018.

Simon Constantine was astounded when he and his children went off exploring the grounds of Carey House near Wareham and found the 'lost' walled garden behind a padlocked gate.

Louis Spencer, 27, is the youngest child and only son of Princess Diana's brother Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, and his first wife, Victoria. He will inherit Althorp House, in Northamptonshire.

Lindsay Nelson, manager and safeguarding lead at the Jack and Jill nursery in Torquay, Devon, said she immediately suspended Jayden McCarthy in July 2019.

The unnamed officer was recorded endorsing the protest outside the Israeli embassy in Kensingston, London, shortly before it turned violent and her police colleagues came under attack.

Tim Burnham, 72, said his style of gardening was deemed 'not in keeping' with the 'snobby' private facility in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, and is now considering legal action against his evictors.

The money-saving expert from Manchester appeared on Lorraine today and claimed the 'absolute epidemic of scams in the UK', particularly post-Covid, is a 'major problem'.

Bailiffs and 'civil enforcers' have begun moving on the travellers in Glastonbury, just over a year after they were encouraged to stop and settle to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Graduate police recruits won't commit to working unsociable hours and are unwilling to face the violence that the job entails, Nick Adderley of Northamptonshire Constabulary says.

Police today confirmed the gang were linked to the alleged attack on a Jewish man's car in Salford at 1.35am on Sunday.

Pregnant Alice Thompson claimed she was left 'isolated' by alll the drinking on the company trip to New York, which boss Paul Sellar forked out £25,000 on for his employees.

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Rail union leaders and politicians today attacked the reform plans, accusing the Government of merely 'papering over the cracks', while Labour said it raised more questions than answers.

AOC reportedly parked a Tesla illegally outside a Whole Foods in Washington DC. She has railed against Tesla owner Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, CEO of Whole Foods' owner Amazon.

The Duke of Cambridge tweeted: 'On Tuesday I received my first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. To all those working on the vaccine rollout - thank you for everything you've done and continue to do.'

The purple figure is the only one which has a specific gender and - with a beehive wig - represents 'the fabulous drag queens out there,' according to the designer, Matthew Ashton.

Queensland will not set up a mass vaccination hub to administer the Astra Zeneca vaccine to over 50s, the state government has announced.

Emergency services were called about 4pm on Thursday to reports of a concern for welfare at a house in Seaborn Avenue, Oran Park.

Lord Dyson, the former master of the rolls and head of civil justice, was appointed to look into the circumstances surrounding the explosive 1995 sit-down, where Diana opened up about Charles.

Appearing on CNN's Cuomo Prime Time , the Biden administration's chief medical adviser was asked why the Federal government doesn't mandate vaccine passports.

Adam Dimmerman, 47, appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court on May 19. He is charged with the murder of Youssef Mahboubian, an 1-02-year-old grandfather found hacked to death in LA.

Ministers have been sounding out development agencies to locate sites for a major production plant after the world's third-richest man made a secret trip to England last week.

Clive Porter, 63, was killed while he worked on the Grand Union Canal near Broughton in Aylesbury on Monday 26 April. Police investigating his murder are appealing for a dog walker to come forward.

A Melbourne court has been told the truckie behind a quadruple police fatality was driving with 'a good witch' the day before the crash.

Katy Smith said she spoke to 18-year-old Ruben Ferrol and told him 'how proud' the family were of him. But the Hull teenager, who had battled mental health issues, took his own life soon after.

Dillon Fung was a teenager when he broke his back after falling on his head while attempting the ski jump during a school trip to Austria in March 2016.

The Israeli Defence Forces released a map of the Hamas 'Metro' as their bombing campaign continued - revealing that they have destroyed 60 miles of the vast tunnel network since last Monday.

Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night weighed in on the mayor of Chicago's decision to only grant interviews to journalists of color. Carlson likened her to a Nazi and a monster.

Laura Bardsley, from Reddish, near Stockport, slept with the teen on several occasions after getting close to his family when her relationship with her long term partner began to crumble.

University researchers have found through a survey of 7,325 heterosexual users of dating websites aged 18 to 65 that both sexes look for the same qualities but prioritise them differently.

Macaulay, 27, suited up for her heat in the Rip Curl Rottnest Search on Thursday in Rottnest Island, in Western Australia.

EXCLUSIVE: The London Community Gospel Choir has seen funding plummet after stage concerts dried up amid the Covid pandemic, leaving them 'desperate for funds'.

The Health and Community Services Union argue the huge profits made by criminals could instead go to the Victorian government if they legalise, tax and license cannabis.

Nearly 20 buildings in Philadelphia are taking part in the Lights Out Philly program to prevent birds from crashing into skyscrapers on their semiannual migration.

The Met Office has issued a 27-hour weather warning for southern England and South Wales from 6pm tonight until 9pm tomorrow as the 'unusually deep area of low pressure for the time of year' arrives.

A group of researchers at Cornell University found that psychedelics like LSD can break down the barriers of the brain that shape the way we perceive reality.

The home of Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, 43, right, was raided by New York State Police and her husband Timothy Granison, left, was taken into custody Wednesday.

Mariah Kennedy Cuomo and her boyfriend received priority tests before visiting the governor for Easter, the New York Times revealed. The tests are supposed to be used for urgent cases,

Gerald Rivera, right, and Dan Bongino, left, renewed their on-screen enmity during a wild screaming match on Hannity while discussing the Israeli-Palestine conflict Wednesday.

Minister for defence personnel and veterans Leo Docherty (pictured) said Britain needed to evolve quickly to catch up with foreign nations.

Joe Biden, left, 78, borrowed a line from Ronald Reagan, right, while cracking a joke about the Navy during his commencement speech to Coast Guard in Connecticut Wednesday.

Financial Services Minister Jane Hume sounded a note of caution as the Bitcoin freefall continued on Thursday. China has banned cryptocurrency transactions and Elon Musk is now anti-Bitcoin.

One construction worker was killed and another critically injured after a freight elevator in plunged four stories while they were loading it around 8.15am on Wednesday.

An Australian woman who was teased as a child because of her rare condition received a touching message from one of her bullies more than 30 years later.

President Biden has been in office less than a year but now, in the midst of the pandemic and with a wealth of other issues on his plate, he is facing perhaps the biggest question: are we alone?

Year nine students from St Rita's College in Brisbane have been left outraged after they were banned from eating lunch at their favourite spot, a group of benches under a large tree.

Members of the group had already tried and failed to gain native title rights over a massive area of land extending for more than 100km between Hornsby and Newcastle in New South Wales.

Thanyaras Siriphanuruk, 41, met her Perth online lover on the website Thai Cupid in 2016 but waged a campaign of threats and extortion against him when his divorce still wasn't finalised two years later.

A mother has been hailed a hero after she captured and released a snake back into the wild after discovering it curled up inside her son's toy kitchen. 

Michael Cohen told MSNBC host Joy Reid on Wednesday he expects Donald Trump would turn on his family amid ongoing criminal investigations into the Trump Organization.

Customers using Domain's real estate listings portal have been warned their details may have used as part of a con after the website was compromised by hackers.

The eel was filmed in the gutter on Mill Street near Chinatown, in Adelaide on Monday morning after it seemingly got loose from a restaurant on Gouger Street.

Bertram Jaquez was driving children on April 12 in Fremont County when pupils began challenging a 10-year-old girl about her face mask. Jaquez intervened and slapped her.

Former President Donald Trump, left, announced on Wednesday that he has taken a $1.2 billion loan against his Bank of America skyscraper in San Francisco, right, his most valuable asset.

James Murdoch, right, has reportedly begun a whispering campaign against brother Lachlan, 48, left, to undermine him within Fox News, bottom right, founded by Rupert Murdoch, center.

Australian dads Glenn Robertson, Ryan McMurray and Adam Watts met in primary school and have stayed in each other's lives ever since.

The ex- Australian captain and former NSW Waratahs player Matthew Dixon allegedly planned to force Alexander Goldberg out from his own business, PTP Fitness, which he founded in 2010.

Shane John Snellman, 39, died in October, 2002 after he broke into the home of Bruce Roberts, then 46, in Greenwich in Sydney's north shore, it was heard at the NSW Coroner's Court on Thursday.

A respected doctor believes Australia will have to close its international border for 'decades' to completely eradicate the threat of Covid.

A three-metre python that weighs 80 kilograms and has a hundred teeth has been found in the kitchen roof of a suburban home in the north-west of Brisbane, Queensland.

The Victorian Pride Lobby want to ban police in uniform from taking part in Melbourne's Midsumma Pride March, claiming other gay and lesbian attendees 'feel unsafe'.

Barbara Eckersley, 69, will avoid jail for unlawfully killing her elderly mother Mary White, 92, in 2018, instead receiving a two-year corrections order which requires treatment for mental health issues.

NSW firefighters discovered what appeared to be the remains of a mouse or rat's nest underneath the bonnet of a car that caught fire on Argyle Street in Moss Vale on Wednesday.

Ex-St George Illawarra player Tristan Sailor, 22, was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault inflicting actual bodily harm in October last year over the alleged incident.

A jury last month found the 69-year-old unlawfully killed Mary White, her non-verbal, frail mother by lacing her food with a drug known as 'green dream'.

A federal court judge has been slammed by two of her professional colleagues for her 'deplorable' seven-year delay in determining a child custody case.

Two and a half thousand designer goods -like handbags, watches and jewellery -will be auctioned off from $10. The products from luxury brands Lancel and Montblanc are worth over $2million collectively.

Vice President Kamala Harris may be breaching her own finance ethics promise, according to her latest financial disclosure that shows she keeps assets hidden in a tax-advantaged trust.

A South Australian man has been rushed to hospital with life-threatening blood costs weeks after receiving the controversial AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

Dr Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday told Congress that COVID-19 could have possibly come from a Chinese lab.

New South Wales Deputy Premier John Barilaro has called the former prime minister 'treacherous' and a 'disgrace' after he threw his support behind anti-coal farmer Kirsty O'Connell.

Najee Brantley, now 28, was arrested in July 2018 in Paterson, New Jersey, at the home of Bahjane Reels - his 'friend with benefits'. A judge has ruled he was entitled to protection in her home.

AOC and Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian in Congress, are preparing a resolution to block Biden's $735 million sale of bombs to Israel in the midst of the Jewish state's growing conflict with Palestinians.

A driver was travelling along the Arnhem Highway in the Northern Territory when the kangaroo leapt in front of his car. After a quick maneuver to avoid the animal, he wound up in croc-infested waters.

Jewish community groups are outraged after a pro-Palestinian protester was seen with a mock Israeli flag donning a swastika - but police say their hands are tied and there's nothing they can do.

Jo Murray, from The Oaks in Sydney's south-west, thought she was suffering from a simple sore throat, until she noticed a lump.

Daily Mail Australia takes a closer look at the family of former NRL bad boy John Hopoate and the wildly different life paths many of his11 kids have taken.

Legendary folk singer Bob Dylan who turns 80 next Monday, was seen in exclusive photos obtained by DailyMail.com running errands around Santa Monica in typically low-key fashion last Thursday.

The potential site of a second Melbourne drug injecting room opposite Flinders Street Station has angered locals, with the facility permitting addicts to use methamphetamine.

The Australian tax office is warning it will be looking closely at certain types of claims this financial year. ATO assistant commissioner Tim Loh (inset) says office happy to hand out audits.

Australia's unemployment rate has fallen to 5.5 per cent with 13million people now in work. These figures are the first since the end of JobKeeper wage subsidies.

The roughly $140,000 family SUV was inconsiderately parked across two spaces in the Chatswood Chase car park. The public has lambasted the 'ridiculous' park.

A grieving family is demanding answers after their beloved father died in a Queensland hospital following a 26 hour wait in emergency where he suffered several minor heart attacks.

Sam Letchford moved into the home in Marcoola in Queensland's Sunshine Coast in March and was doing some landscaping last weekend when he suddenly found the edges of an underground pool.

A Tasmanian drug dealer dubbed the 'Wheelie-bin killer' was inspired to murder his mate and crime partner after listening to the lyrics of a rap song.

Steven Hoyos had been at Currumbin Beach on the Gold Coast with friends when he suddenly felt his foot step on something strange.

Tourists flock to Venice to see tarot card readers, tattooists, wannabe rappers and artists trying to make a buck by selling their work, but the buzzing beach town is now overrun by the homeless.

Sheila Murray took the pictures on the south coast of Western Australia after the creature 'landed on her hat' before rearing its tail and running away.

NRL player Jamil Hopoate, 26, is accused of being part of a trio charged over the haul of cocaine allegedly imported from the UK and intercepted by police at Sydney Airport on Saturday.

Farmers NSW and animals rights group PETA have both slammed the government for not acting sooner over mice plague - with the animals resorting to eating each other as food runs out.

Ms Palaszczuk has had her plans to build a Covid-19 quarantine facility that would host up to 1,000 travellers near Toowoomba in south-east Queensland rejected by the prime minister.

The gang is alleged to have fraudulently purchased six luxury vehicles across Sydney, each valued at more than $80,000.

Nathan Sharp sold two cannabis-laced brownies to a family of four during a visit to his Perth café.

Matt Sigel, 71, stormed off his show Matty in the Morning Show on KISS 108 on Wednesday after joking about Demi Lovato, 28,inset, coming out as non-binary.

The government assumes the vaccine rollout will be complete by the end of the year, but the borders will not open until mid-2022. But Qantas wants international travel from December.

The NY State Attorney-General's office has opened a criminal investigation into a key lieutenant of Donald Trump, Allen Weisselberg, the longtime CFO at The Trump Organization.

Venice Beach, California, is known as a tourist hotspot with an iconic boardwalk filled with tarot card readers, tattooists, wannabe rappers and the artists trying to make a buck by selling their work.

'It's amber - you can prepare to go, but the Government would much prefer you didn't'

Collingwood supporter Jeff 'Joffa' Corfe was arrested in Abbotsford, inner-city Melbourne, on Thursday May 6 and charged with two counts of sexual penetration of a minor under 16.

Democrats killed a resolution put forth by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy that would end mask-wearing in the House of Representatives.

Sydney dropped to 8.6C at 7am on Thursday morning which marked the end of a five-day stretch of mornings below 9C.

The Prime Minister said families should visit medium-risk destinations - such as France, Spain and Italy - only in 'extreme circumstances' and not for holidays.

A homeowner tries desperately to shake a huge spider loose from his bedroom curtain but the eight-legged creature seems to have settled in to its cosy new perch and appears unfazed.

Gloucester County Sheriff's Deputy Jon Holt, left, rescued the woman, right, when she had been trapped under the sunroof of the car after it wrecked on May 7.