Backing for the Tories among voters has fallen to its lowest level since the 2019 General Election after MPs lined up to support Boris Johnson's manifesto-busting £12billion tax raid.

Vanessa Stevenson, who is charged with failing to comply with a condition imposed by the Met, was among thousands of XR activists who descended on Parliament Square last September.

Defence minister Jeremy Quin told MPs he could not promise the Ajax would ever be used because troops have suffered hearing loss, back spasms and joint pains.

Sara Cassidy, 33, lived in the house in East Kilbride, Scotland with her young two sons until Monday night when their property was rammed by an Eddie Stobart.

The move aims to drastically increase the rate at which charge points are being built so the Government can hit its 2030 target for banning sales of new petrol and diesel cars.

Kate Garraway delivered an emotional speech as she picked up the National Television Award for Authored Documentary on Thursday night at the O2 Arena in London for Finding Derek.

Another 50 migrants including women and young children have been intercepted trying to cross the Channel today after the French branded Home Secretary Priti Patel a 'clown'.

The 30-year-old Londoner (pictured) was rushed to hospital on Tuesday following the horror crash, her twin sister Megan revealed on Instagram on Thursday.

A container ship became stuck around 54km into the canal today, forcing a brief suspension of traffic, the Suez Canal authority said.. It was later refloated and traffic was able to resume.

Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert said current levels of immunity were holding up well and it would be better to send Britain's third doses to countries where a small proportion has been jabbed.

An investigation said a type of aluminium used under some of the trains may have been vulnerable to being damaged by 'salt-containing' substances. The cracks caused weeks of travel chaos.

Cat Davison, a critical thinking teacher at Sevenoaks School in Kent and David Swanston, a teacher of the visually impaired at St Vincent's School in Liverpool, made the top 50 shortlist.

The former Top Gear host, 61, called the meeting at the Memorial Hall in Chadlington, Oxfordshire to quash neighbours' fears about the growing popularity of his beloved Diddly Squat farm shop.

MIKE DICKSON IN NEW YORK: The 18-year-old is the first ever qualifier into a Slam final after another display of extraordinary poise saw her defeat seventeenth seed Maria Sakkari.

In CCTV footage from a school in Liverpool, Christopher Cruise, 57, can be seen threatening to kick the 10-year-old as he curls up on the floor in terror before attempting to crawl through a door.

School headmaster Duggie Speight, 44, was jailed for 12 years at Bradford Crown Court after admitting sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy and filming youngsters naked in a changing room.

Sport and exercise scientist Katrina McDonald, who coaches judo at Anglia Ruskin University, said the technique of falling safely, known as 'ukemi', could help older people.

The deep divisions were laid bare in the latest poll on whether Scots want to break up the UK.

PC David Warwick is facing a misconduct hearing for allegedly saying 'maybe I should start eating curry' when he learned of an Asian man who lived to the age of 105.

The beloved children's classic - which debuted on TV in 1984 with Ringo Starr's iconic narration - has been given a cartoon makeover for new film Race For The Sodor Cup out next Friday.

Arlo Parks, 21, was announced as the overall winner of the Hyundai Mercury Prize Awards on Thursday, scooping the Album Of The Year gong for her debut, Collapsed in Sunbeams.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said that privileging wealthy pensioners over the poorest young people posed 'a very serious moral question'.

Liam Connell, 58, waited four months for his new DFS sofa to be delivered to his home in Alfreton, Derbyshire, only for it to arrive in two parts - both left-hand halves.

England's Polish counterparts have strenuously insisted that any assertions that their players made racially motivated comments or gestures to the England players are false.

In an explosive interview with the corporation's Victoria Derbyshire, Paul Gambaccini accused his employer of being 'on the side of the wrongdoers' in its reporting of alleged VIP abuse cases.

The celebrity chef's restaurants were forced to close their doors for months on end, as well as facing social distancing restrictions. Gordon Ramsay Restaurants has 25 sites in the UK.

Currently, the ice sheets on Greenland are melting 'rapidly' and at a rate which is constantly accelerating, which could have catastrophic consequences for Britain.

Treading the boards in feathers, gems and (very) little else, this was the moment dancers staged their return to the Moulin Rouge. They rehearsed in full costume ahead of the re-opening tonight.

Julie Morris, 44, from Hindley, Wigan pictured, has been charged with aiding and abetting the rape of a girl under the age of 13 and inciting sexual activity with a child.

The Air Force spotted the jet crossing the border with Bolivia on Tuesday approximately at 9pm local time and instructed him to land his Cessna in the west-central state of Mato Grosso.

NHS England data showed the NHS waiting list had spiralled to a record high for the twelfth time in as many months. Medics say the NHS is already 'running on empty' after summer pressures.

Doncaster Racecourse was a sea of floral frocks and brightly coloured outfits today as revellers flocked for its annual St Leger Ladies Day event - cancelled last year due to Covid.

Downham Town Council in Norfolk descended into an online shouting match similar to the Zoom meeting at Handforth Parish Council in Cheshire.

EXCLUSIVE: Lib Dem leader Ed Davey is among those calling for Dame Cressida to be ousted. She is expected to be handed a two-year contract extension when it comes up for renewal.

Department of Health bosses posted 38,013 new infections today, down 0.4 per cent on last week. It was the first time Britain has recorded a week-on-week fall in cases since last Thursday.

Phil Collins sparked concern during an appearance on BBC Breakfast on Thursday morning, when he confessed to no longer being able to play the drums

The 30mph speed camera in Maybray King Way, Southampton, caught 51,049 motorists driving over the limit between 2015 and 2017, triggering more than 320 times a week at its peak.

Helen Whately (pictured) later said she thinks it is 'highly unlikely' the UK education secretary is a racist following his mix up of the black footballer and rugby star.

Supermarket giant Morrisons has warned of spiralling food prices amid a HGV driver shortage, as leading economists slammed Boris Johnson's planned £12bn National Insurance tax raid.

Café Van Gogh, in Brixton, south London, received the seething TripAdvisor review yesterday from an anonymous customer who criticised its lack of 'normal milk' despite being a vegan cafe.

More than half of UK office staff want to be working with no more than three days at their company's headquarters following the pandemic as stations remain quiet (Birmingham pictured today).

Bristol mayor Marvin Rees has told officers to rewrite events contracts after being informed about a campaign by the RSPCA to prohibit 'pets as prizes.'

Working from home makes employees 'more siloed in how they communicate' and forces them to engage in fewer real-time conversations, say a team at the Redmond, Washington-based firm.

Figures from Public Health England show cases in children aged 10 to 19 spiked by 42 per cent in a week from 478.3 per 100,000 to 681.4 per 100,000 in the week ending September 5.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said that the two brands were 'safe and effective' when administered months after the two injections.

Admiral Nelson, who was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, is believed to have used the historic weapon in battles against the French during the Napoleonic Wars.

Numbers had dipped by 340,000 by the end of July - the first month that employers had to pay 10 per cent of the salaries of their furloughed workers.

Built in 1934, Mercury served passenger routes on the Firth of Clyde, Scotland, for five years before being requisitioned by the Admiralty as a minesweeper .

In The Murder Of Grace Millane: A Faking It Special, on discovery+, British linguistic expert Dawn Archer highlights 21 examples where Jesse Kempson tries to shift the blame.

Robert Lewandowski, 33, risked the fury of his own fans after pointing to the 'Respect' symbol as his supporters booed the Three Lions during England's 1-1 draw with Poland in Warsaw.

Prince Andrew yesterday bolted back to Balmoral just days before the civil case brought against him by one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims is due to be heard in court for the first time.

Some 114 Covid patients were admitted to hospital in Scotland the week up to September 1, compared to a seven-day rolling average of 76 on August 24.

Players boarded a replacement aircraft following problems with a backup generator on their Klasjet flight from Reykjavik to Frankfurt.

Philip Wilkinson claimed transgender women are 'biological men' who should be banned from women's prisons or toilets over security fears weeks after he was made PCC for Swindon and Wiltshire.

Critics slammed the creation of 42 chief executives of integrated care boards in England, whose job will be to 'deliver joined-up services' across the NHS and social care.

The hearing in Scotland was told Catherine Henderson began working as a trainee accountant for AccountsNet Ltd in Livingston, West Lothian, in October 2019.

The broadcaster and former British tennis player said the 18-year-old is an 'absolute dream commercially' while appearing on Good Morning Britain from his Surrey home today.

The actor, 64, shared with fans that he was preparing to say goodbye to his wife of 35 years, six days after announcing her death, writing: 'The depth of our sorrow is mirrored by the magnitude of our love.'

Next up is world No 18 Maria Sakkari and Emma Raducanu will face one of the most powerful players on the women's tour - and it's not often they have an entire government in their corner, either.

Boris Johnson's dramatic move to bail out the NHS and overhaul social care with an eye-watering hike in national insurance sailed through the Commons by 319 to 248.

A headline published on February 7 reported that scientists had released anthrax on the Northern Line. In fact, it was B globigii, a different bacterium from the same family.

Sanya Nadeem, 24, sent little Elliott Bramhall flying 'quite some distance' when she ran a red light and struck him with her car on a pedestrian crossing in Bolton on November 9 last year, fracturing his pelvis.

In an interview with Afghanistan outlet TOLO News, spokesman Sayed Zekrullah Hashimi declared that the Taliban 'do not consider women to be half of the society' and that they 'should give birth'

Travellers shared wearily-familiar pictures of snaking lines of passengers at immigration this morning, with the airport blaming the delays on Border Force carrying out 'additional spot checks'.

The new parents submitted their request to name the boy after the Russian president to the tax agency, as is required by Swedish law.

Amy Hall, 17 (pictured) was reported missing from her home in Derbyshire on Thursday. Police said they are increasingly concerned for her welfare and officers are searching for her.

Christian company Mighty Hand Construction fired Logan Dorn after the video of him harassing teenage girls over their bikinis at a Colorado beach went viral. They stated he violated company values.

Court sketches of QAnon obsessed killer Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, have been released detailing his Thursday hearing in Los Angeles after he stabbed his two children to death with a spear gun in Mexico

Australia's daily cases topped 1,900 for the first time in the pandemic on Friday as the outbreak - fuelled by the highly infectious Delta variant - continued to gain ground despite lockdowns.

Joseph Brockhouse, 11, caught a fish 26ins longer and 2.5st heavier than him while on a fishing trip on a private 10 acre lake near Manchester last month.

Anthony Paris says a stranger with a truck helped him, his wife, Kyra, and his infant son, Daschiel, escape their debris-stricken apartment on 9/11. The driver rescued several residents.

The former NSW Premier said she will move 44km from her $1.8million home on Scotland Island on Sydney's Northern Beaches to live in the Fowler electorate.

Republican lawmakers and governors nationwide lambasted President Biden on Thursday after he announced the measure, with some vowing to challenge it in courts and in the halls of Congress.

Buoyant Western Australian premier Mark McGowan mocked his NSW counterpart Gladys Berejiklian in a Covid press conference and joked about how his state is bailing out NSW.

Russia and Belarus formally opened vast joint military drills on Thursday, a week-long exercise across the territory of both countries and in the Baltic Sea that has alarmed some NATO countries.

President Joe Biden will announce an aggressive new plan to get 100 million employees across the federal government and private sector vaccinated against COVID.

Former president Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump (pictured) called his September 11 plans 'disgraceful.'

NRL supercoach Wayne Bennett has ripped into the Penrith over what he claims are illegal tactics used to protect star player Nathan Cleary, and the NRL for leaking his complaints to the media.

A senior doctor accused of bullying a nurse on a busy Birmingham A&E unit has been cleared after tribunal accepted he was just being 'assertive' whilst giving out orders.

Premier Mark McGowan says Western Australia's hard border closures have been vindicated after banking a whopping $5.6 billion, iron ore-fuelled budget surplus.

The Atlantic revealed that Shelley Lynn Thornton, 51, is the youngest daughter of 'Jane Roe' Norma McCorvey in an excerpt from Joshua Prager's new book 'The Family Roe: An American Story'.

Dame Cressida Dick is poised to receive a two-year contract extension despite presiding over a string of scandals with critics accusing her tenure of damaging confidence in UK's largest force.

A senior Tory said: 'The time is right to get a new commissioner. But we don't want to replace her with ''commander woke''.'

The final measure to be dropped was vaccine passports in nightclubs, which were introduced in March 2021 when Copenhagen began to slowly ease restrictions.

The 18-year-old from Kent is the first ever qualifier into a Grand Slam final after another performance of extraordinary poise saw her defeat seventeenth seed Maria Sakkari 6-1, 6-4 in just 84 minutes.

Emma Raducanu is still to drop a set in the tournament and she has become the first qualifier in men's or women's history to reach the final of a Grand Slam and she has been showered in praise.

Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the actions of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust were 'quite extraordinary'

Former White House adviser Kellyanne Conway slammed President Joe Biden's move ordering her and 17 other Trump appointees to step down from non-partisan military boards as 'low class.'

Over 12,000 foreign-born front line workers were granted French citizenship after a special scheme allowed them to apply after two years, instead of five, the governmernt said on Thursday.

Tim Nye, 58, took matters into his own hands as he felt 'exasperated by the lack of police action' after officers failed to arrest a crook who was targeting his Sheffield city centre eatery.

The former POTUS made the crass claim as he spoke about his social media ban in an interview with Greg Gutfeld on Fox News Thursday night.

Official figures showed that despite restriction easing in England GDP barely expanded amid the 'Pingdemic' and supply chain issues.

Unvaccinated Florida TikToker Alexandra Blankenbiller posted her final video from a hospital bed on August 15, in which she begged others to get the shot. Days later she died of Covid-19.

Joe Williams died at the scene after becoming trapped under the forklift in the rural town of Middlemount, three hours west of Rockhampton in central Queensland.

Peggy's human mum, Juliette Wells, found and rescued Molly after she was abandoned by her parents in September last year, coming close to death.

Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley ripped into Ben Simmons who requested a trade just a year after signing a massive contract extension with Philadelphia.

Bar and nightclub owners normally rely on beer-swilling Aussies to make a living in Kuta, but the federal government's overseas travel ban means business in the town has almost dried up.

Nykiah Morgan, the daughter of 9/11 victim Dorothy Morgan, spoke about her mother in a CNN interview after she was one of two victims identified through DNA testing 20 years later

Students at a Queensland school have been ordered home for the day after a 13-year-old at St Thomas More School in Sunnybank, Brisbane tested positive.

Tasmanians attending events for 1,000 or more people will have to wear masks, indoors and outdoors, from September 18. The mandate comes despite no active Covid cases in the state.

HSC exams are set to kick off from November 9 for Year 12 students in Sydney with results expected to be issued to students by January 24.

L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is calling California governor hopeful Larry Elder a victim of a hate crime after a woman wearing a gorilla mask hurled an egg at him.

Sagar Bhattarai, now 25, had been drinking when he swerved his car to miss a kangaroo.. Two of his passengers and childhood friends died when the Mazda 6 rolled multiple times.

The 54-year-old was attacked at a home in Pheasants Nest, south of Sydney on Friday morning.

Murdaugh, 53, was shot in the head while changing his car tire by the side of a road in Hampton County, South Carolina on Saturday.

Disturbing footage shows the man appear to have a medical episode while three police officers handcuff him at Bass Hill Plaza in Sydney's west on Thursday.

The RSPCA attended a home in Mill Park in Melbourne's north-east in December 2017 to find the four-year-old dog had been abandoned in the backyard.

Michel Barnier was branded a hypocrite last night after calling for France to take back control of its sovereignty from the EU's courts.

Peter Boghossian was a full-time assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University for 10 years until resigning this week, and says the school is a 'dogma factory' that bars free inquiry.

Andrew Yang is planning to leave the Democratic party and launch his own third party next month to coincide with the October 5 release of his new book.

Kerry Chant's comment about contact tracing continuing after the end of lockdowns has triggered a legion of conspiracy theorists. The NSW Chief Health Officer had used a three-word phrase.

President Joe Biden has been accused of flip-flopping after retreating from his earlier vows that the federal government would not mandate COVID-19 vaccines for the general public.

Huge hubs at Olympic Park are taking bookings for this weekend and beyond without restriction and other clinics around Sydney are even advertising for walk-ins.

Six people, including a child, were shot in East St. Louis Thursday night, with the suspected gunman's car carrying crashing into a passing train as they tried to flee, according to police.

Australians kept away from the office because of lockdown can get an extra $1,100 back on tax, on average, if they manually add up their electricity bills and measure their working-from-home area.

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A suspected gunman is on the run in Caboolture as Queensland police search dense bushland near the D'Aguilar Highway.

StarTrack delivery workers voted to strike over a pay dispute meaning Australians could be waiting longer periods for their online shopping due to Covid lockdowns.

A Lexus driver has narrowly avoided a major traffic collision in Sydney's south-west after attempting to merge lanes.

Police said investigators 'believe a tree fell onto a vehicle' as it was driving in Cockatoo, east of Melbourne, about 10.30am on Friday.

A 15-year-old girl alleged to have stabbed her younger cousin to death on a country property has asked to plead guilty to manslaughter rather than murder.

Gladys Berejiklian has announced she will ditch her daily Covid-19 press conferences as a sign that it is time to normalise living alongside the virus.  

The state also suffered nine Covid-19 deaths but some small freedoms will be restored to millions of Sydneysiders as planned on Monday.

Vice President Kamala Harris slammed the new Texas abortion law which banned women from getting an abortion after six weeks claiming that the rights of their bodies was 'not negotiable'

California governor hopeful Larry Elder says his security detail was 'physically assaulted, shot with a pellet gun and hit with projectiles' during a campaign stop in Los Angeles on Wednesday

The border bubble between Queensland and NSW will be reinstated to allow students and essential workers to move freely between the two states.

Doctors missed important details in telephone appointments that may have been spotted if they were seen in person, senior coroner for Greater Manchester Alison Mutch warned.

Victoria's sixth coronavirus outbreak has claimed its fourth victim with one patient dying on Thursday as another case record is broken.

Read President Joe Biden's speech about new COVID-19 vaccine mandates delivered Thursday from the State Dining Room.

Chapel Street Precinct in Prahran, Melbourne has proposed using a traffic-light style system to ensure only those who have received both Covid-19 vaccine doses can enter shops in the area.

Los Angeles County school officials voted unanimously on Thursday to order COVID-19 inoculations for all students aged 12 and over, the largest school district to take the step.

The National Australia Bank will officially be rebranded as JAB from Friday. The name change is an attempt by the bank to encourage more Australians to get the jab.

Police are searching for an armed thief who stole $875 in cash and $100,000 in merchandise from Prince Street Jewelers in Downtown Brooklyn on Tuesday.

Sabah Hafiz, 23, was found dead in her Wentworthville, western Sydney home on October 14 last year. Police alleged at the time she had been seriously assaulted and no weapon had been used.

Bill Bowtell, professor of strategic health policy at the University of NSW, claimed Australia could have had 40 million doses of Pfizer by January, a month before the first doses landed in February.

Popular TikToker Denise Bradley believes she has identified the woman in a racist cotton-picking video from the moles on her right hand. She says the hand belongs to artist Savanna Gustafson.

Cory Ray Brannan, who authorities say took part in the January 6 Capitol siege while wearing a Three Percenters patch, has been charged for his role in the riot after the FBI tracked his phone.

Florida police busted two men in the city of Palm Coast who possessed enough fentanyl to kill nearly half a million people, said the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.

The text messages between Holmes and Ramesh 'Sunny' Balwani offer a window into their scramble to combat fraud allegations, and may undermine her defense.

The NSW premier on Thursday said she would re-open pubs, cafes, gyms and hairdressers for the fully vaccinated once 70 per cent of the population have received both Covid-19 jabs.

Having not donned the green and gold since 2017, the 33-year-old will start at No.10 in the match against the 2019 world champion Springboks due to kick off on Sunday afternoon.

Boise Mayor Lauren McLean claimed her name appeared on a national resolution that supported teaching Critical Race Theory in schools because of a 'staff error.'

NSW could be nearing its 'vaccine ceiling' with an alarming 15.8 per cent drop in the jab rate in the past week, which could throw the state's mid-October reopening plans into turmoil.

President Joe Biden told people who clash with flight attendants and defy mask mandates to 'show some respect,' as he announced a new policy to double fines against rule-breakers.

A set of 107 NFTs representing images of cartoon apes sold for $24.4 million in an online sale at Sotheby's auction house on Thursday as overall sales volume hit $3.4 billion in August

Gabriel Garcia, 40, a former U.S. Army captain, filed a motion arguing that the ankle monitor is interfering with his roofing business, Supreme Aluminum Florida, in Miami.

Police in Brunswick, Georgia, repeatedly tased an unarmed black man who has non-verbal autism because they thought he had a weapon on September 4.

Jen Psaki said Thursday that Dr. Anthony Fauci's job is safe - despite Republican Sen. Rand Paul pointing to a new report from The Intercept that he says proves Fauci is a liar.

Millions of double-dosed Australians will be released from lockdown in Covid-addled states in a matter of weeks, but vaccine sceptics have pledged to forgo their freedoms to stay jab-free.

A Texas woman angry about COVID-19 mask mandates has filmed herself verbally abusing a judge grocery shopping, calling him a traitor, communist, and a supporter of the devil.