A consultation document from the university's race equality taskforce reportedly states the importance of embedding EDI - equality, diversity and inclusion - into 'all recruitment'.

Martin Thomas, 58, a friend of Boris Johnson, stepped down from his new job after it emerged he had resigned from a previous post after being found guilty of 'inappropriate' conduct.

Simon Case is expected to recuse himself from the investigation after the latest extraordinary revelations - which emerged as he was due to deliver his conclusions.

Anne, 66, turned from the kitchen sink to see her son Thomas, 35 - with a 'wild' and 'determined' look in his eyes - holding a 20cm knife from a block on the island, with which he stabbed her moments later

ALISON BOSHOFF: Author J.K. Rowling walked the red carpet with 'her' Harry - actor Daniel Radcliffe - and noticed that the 12-year-old was trembling.

PIERS MORGAN: As I prepare to focus on my new global daily TV show launching in 2022, I'm packing up my gossipy quill and giving celebs and public figures a break from my beady eye.

Clement Beaune, one of President Emmanuel Macron's most trusted aides, called on the EU to start legal action as he accused the UK of refusing to grant enough fishing boat access.

The 34.1 per cent swing from the Tories to the Lib Dems in North Shropshire gave newly-elected Helen Morgan a majority of nearly 6,000.

If Boris Johnson was up with a baby bottle when the North Shropshire by-election came in just after 4am he might be forgiven for thinking it was a nightmare.

The turnaround triggered a bitter day of recriminations and fresh questions over the Prime Minister's authority yesterday, with Tory MPs telling him to urgently 'get a grip' of the No 10 operation.

The guidance update comes four months after self-isolation for vaccinated close contacts was dropped in England. It has raised questions over why it took so long to make the update.

Next week, Rasuili Zubaidullah, 23, will face a London extradition hearing when Austria demands his return to Vienna for questioning about what court papers state is Leonie Walner's 'murder'.

Adrenaline junkies are going to need seriously deep pockets for the latest extreme getaway - it costs £15.3million - and polar survival training to cope with -34C temperatures on the trip.

JASON GROVES: The scale of the Shropshire by-election defeat is dire for the Tories, even by the standards of governments suffering mid-term blues.

The meeting will raise fears that more curbs could be imposed before Christmas - despite the opposition of Tory MPs and Downing Street's apparent determination to get through without them.

The NHS is 'pulling out all the stops' to make it as easy as possible to get a booster jab, said the NHS's medical director Professor Stephen Powis.

The Bank of England's decision to increase the base rate from a record low 0.1 per cent to 0.25 per cent yesterday will add an extra £144 a year to the cost of a typical home loan.

It has resurfaced that model Beverly Johnson, Chris Noth's girlfriend from 1988 until 1993, had taken out a restraining order against him in 1995. She reportedly accused him of beating her and more.

ANDREW NEIL: North Shropshire wasn't a normal by-election. It was a referendum on Boris Johnson. A referendum the Prime Minister lost. Catastrophically.

Homeowners the length and breadth of Britain are reporting an unprecedented outbreak of 'porch piracy' - a term given to the theft of deliveries left outside homes.

Health experts and business chiefs warned the ten-day isolation rule was 'lockdown by stealth' - keeping people at home even when their symptoms and infectiousness had eased.

The UK Health Security Agency had assumed infections were doubling every 1.9 days but it now says this has become 'less valid' due to 'behaviour change'.

Ghislaine Maxwell's second day of defense got off to a rocky start Friday.

Blackburn council has launched a formal review into the deaths of two children after their father Jordan Monaghan was today jailed after being found guilty of murdering them, and his girlfriend.

A robin redbreast hopping around a frosty garden is one of our most beloved sights over the festive period.. But sightings may be confined to Christmas cards this year, a charity report has found.

Forces are funded by a combination of direct grants from the Home Office and money raised through council tax.

Matt Hancock claims he stopped Covid from causing 'a tsunami of death and deprivation' that would have destroyed the NHS, according to a synopsis of his planned political memoir.

The Queen is still keen to go to her beloved 20,000-acre estate at Sandringham, where she normally stays until early February. She is spending her first Christmas without her husband of 73 years.

Rishi Sunak was pictured arriving at London Heathrow on Friday evening as the Chancellor faces renewed criticism over his 'long-planned' Government trip to meet tech bosses in California.

Kevin Moran, 81, pulls the pints at The Nag's Head pub in London's exclusive Belgravia district which is located opposite to the home where Ghislaine Maxwell used to live.

EXCLUSIVE: MailOnline analysis of NHS England statistics shows eight of London's worst hit hospitals have seen their number of Covid admissions double over the past week.

In an explosive interview Kieran, 34, said Katie, 43, needed to be behind bars and that a custodial sentence would send a clear message to their two kids.

The UK Health Security Agency said Omicron, which today officially became dominant in the UK, has a 'transmission advantage' on its predecessor.

Health minister Joe Phaahla said 1.7 per cent of cases were hospitalised during the second week of the current wave. For comparison, he said it was 19 per cent in the second week of Delta.

The UK has only ordered 250,000 courses of 'game changing' new anti-Covid pill that slashes the risk of serious disease by up to 90%, less than half of the doses ordered by smaller countries like Australia.

A study by Columbia University found Omicron's extensive mutations make it 'markedly resistant' to antibodies from a previous infection and vaccines, including boosters.

The announcement sent the company's shares down by $173 to $168 at opening bell on Monday - a drop of 2.8 percent. J&J's one-shot vaccine was popular in March and April.

Lancashire County Council posted the controversial post on Thursday morning highlighting Government rules around face coverings and warning of a £100 fine for non-conformity.

England on Friday had no lateral flow tests available for home delivery as punters flocked to pharmacies to get checked before heading out for end of year parties.

Cameron Cheshire, 18, fatally wounded his former school friend Jack Barry, 19, in the Hamstead area of Birmingham on March 7.

Louis Wain became famous for the thousands of sketches and paintings of cats which he produced in his lifetime. Often seen with large eyes or human-like smiles, the depictions proved hugely popular.

Taking to the British parenting forum Mumsnet, a woman revealed she's 'fuming' at her mother, who is triple vaccinated but 'technically' clinically vulnerable - for the change of plans.

The overhaul, coming into force on January 29 subject to parliamentary approval, means motorists will have to give way to cyclists and pedestrians at junctions.

Kim Jong Il ruled North Korea for 17 years, from 1994 until his death in December 2011, passing on power to his son Kim Jong Un, who watched over the ceremony on Friday.

The calculator, by Brussels-based Sortlist, asks you to enter your daily screen time, before calculating how much that equates to over the course of the year.

Peter Dodt, 12, was celebrating his last day at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport on Thursday morning when a freak gust of wind lifted the bouncing house off the ground.

F1 champion Verstappen expects Lewis Hamilton to be back next season to battle for a record eighth title despite the Briton's disappointment at being beaten this year on the last lap of the last race.

Alleged child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell argued that three witnesses lined up to speak in her favour might pull out unless they were granted the same right to secrecy as her alleged victims.

Sherrilyn Speid, 34, will appear in court in January accused of dangerous driving and assault after she was filmed driving into Insulate Britain activists on the M25 stopping her taking her son to school.

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Zane Mellor, 12, was one of five children who lost their lives when a jumping castle was blown 10 metres into the air by a freak wind gust at Hillcrest school in Devonport, Tasmania, on Thursday.

Health experts and business chiefs warned the ten-day isolation rule was 'lockdown by stealth' - keeping people at home even when their symptoms and infectiousness had eased.

The Swiss Freedom Movement (MLS) association collected 125,000 signatures, 25,000 more than required, to trigger the vote.

The British epidemiologist said having two vaccinations or Covid previously offers 85-90 percent protection from serious illness, he added.

The 95-year-old monarch reportedly returned to London last week in what is thought to be the first time she left Windsor since spending a night in hospital in October.

Sandra Lougheed refused to cut her long fingernails unless it was done by a beautician unless the procedure was conducted by a professional beautician, a hearing in south London has heard.

Pictures taken in Leeds, London , Birmingham and Newcastle showed busy nightlife venues filled with thousands of partygoers enjoying festive nights out.

Boris Johnson spoke to Nicola Sturgeon this afternoon to take stock of the situation - despite initially knocking back her request for a phone call.

Police divers in Sydney's south-west have recovered a body from the Chipping Norton lake. The boy slipped into the lake around 3pm. His three mates watched on in horror from the shore.

Revellers were out in force on Friday night in London, Leeds, Birmingham and Newcastle as partygoers quashed hospitality bosses fears amid Britain's record-breaking surge in Omicron cases.

Having served one year in jail, the former Government whip still owes £35,000 worth of prosecution costs that he was ordered to pay after his initial trial.

How on earth the bankrupt 43-year-old could afford the £15,000 worth of procedures, given that she owes her creditors £3.2 million, is quite a puzzle. Presumably, someone else is footing the bill.

A fundraiser set up to help the families of the children lost in the Tasmania jumping castle tragedy has reached more than $1 million across 13,000 donors - including a donation of $45,000.

A leading academic dying from asbestos-related cancer has pleaded for Australians to 'wake up' to the dangers hidden in the home renovations craze which has taken off during the pandemic.

Melanie Davies, 51, moved into her £175,000 terraced property in Quinton, Birmingham, last April and broke down in tears when she saw unsightly tree stumps had replaced the conifers.

Mitchell Goodwin, 36, was diving when disaster struck 15 nautical miles off the coast of Mandurah, Western Australia, on November 15.

South Australia recorded an all-time-high new daily case number. The state is in the midst of an outbreak that sees them breaking records almost daily. Australia also broke most recorded daily cases.

Kamala Harris on Friday night spoke to Charlamagne Tha God for his Comedy Central show, in an interview which became increasingly tense as he questioned who was really in control.

Kamala Harris on Friday spoke to The Los Angeles Times and claimed that the government should be forgiven for not being better prepared for Omicron and Delta.

A TikTok shows a Sydney woman unleashed a series of blows into a vending machine during a late night out clubbing, after an escalator ruined her expensive pair of high heels.

A TikToker has spoken out about the biggest culture shocks she has experienced since moving to Sydney from America eight months ago.

Two ministers under Dominic Perrottet have resigned, 'legendary' arts minister Don Darwin and local government minister Shelley Hancock, who called Gladys Berejiklian's exit a 'personal loss'.

Sun and fun-starved Sydneysiders were in no mood to stay home despite rising Omicron-led Covid case numbers, flooding the beaches and cafes as the mercury soared into the 30s on Saturday.

Hundreds of anti-vaxx protesters have gathered in Melbourne to fight vaccine mandates and the pandemic bill. 

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 532.20 points, about 1.5 percent, at closing Friday. It fell at total of 1.7 percent at the end of the week that has been marred by worries over COVID-19.

Muriel McKay was kidnapped from her Wimbledon home on December 29, 1969 after she was mistaken for Anna Murdoch, the 25-year-old wife of media tycoon Richard, and later died.

The world-famous Rockettes were forced to cancel the remainder of their shows this season after production crew were hit with COVID-19 as cases continue to climb in New York City.

President Joe Biden, 79, faces backlash toward new Jonas Brothers' TikTok collaboration, where the trio helps him promote getting the COVID-19 booster.

Mayor Bill De Blasio, like Governor Kathy Hochul, was insisting on Friday that vaccination and precaution is the best way to combat the city's COVID-19 surge.

As the Omicron variant of Covid-19 continues to become more dominant across America, lines and dwindling testing resources were seen in several areas.

The unnamed 30-year-old Canadian tech executive claimed Noth, then-55, repeatedly groped her while she was working as a hostess at the Da Marino restaurant in Midtown when she was 18.

Young social media influencer and OnlyFans model Mikaela Testa has taken to TikTok to complain she was stopped by Sydney casino staff about her 'inappropriate' dress.

Queensland police have issued an urgent callout to find a nine-year-old girl who vanished before 7am from an Ipswich suburb on Saturday morning while still in her night gown.

Leaked video footage captured the moment a jet bound for Florida crash-landed and exploded in the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, killing three crew members and an American family-of-six.

The Richmond superstar is currently in mourning after his father Shane, 54, died on Friday. New Zealand's strict quarantine rules could affect Martin being able to travel to the country.

The couple broke down as they left flowers outside Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport on Saturday.

Avalinn Rackley, 7, aided by a walker and a neck brace, began a slow and steady stroll across her hospital room after a successful round of surgery on Wednesday.

Greens leader Adam Bandt had made the tweet to congratulate Year 12 students for completing their end of year exams after a difficult year.

Australia's Covid-19 crisis continues to worsen with more than 4,000 new infections and eight deaths recorded across the east coast on Saturday - with just a week to go until Christmas.

A wild brawl erupted at a screening of Spider Man: No Way Home at the HOYTS cinema in Karrinyup Shopping Centre in Perth on Thursday evening.

AFL star Dustin Martin is in mourning after his father Shane passed away in New Zealand.

Queensland has recorded 24 new Covid-19 cases as face mask mandates are reintroduced.

The Dally M Award winner was convicted on Friday of assaulting Adrian Currie at an East Mackay home, in Queensland, on December 1.

NSW has reported a record 2,482 new Covid-19 cases and one death while Victoria has recorded 1,504 new infections and seven deaths.

Jason Jones, 29, who appeared intoxicated, was Tasered by officers at the Catskill Village Department during a confrontation in early November. Jones was declared dead on Wednesday.

Former Jefferson County Judge Nikita Blocton, 44, (pictured) named called several judges and an employee (inset) and was ruled to have 'a pattern of abuse.'

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday that fully vaccinated people 'could still enjoy a social gathering generally in a home,' but advised people to be careful in large indoor public spaces.

President Joe Biden condemned attacks on voter rights as 'unAmerican' on Friday as he delivered a commencement speech at South Carolina State University.

New York Giants legend Lawrence Taylor was arraigned at the Broward County Sherriff's Office, in Florida, and charged on two sex offender violations after failing to tell police he changed addresses.

Jurors at the Kim Potter trial have heard testimony from an expert witness who told them Potter's catastrophic mistake of drawing her gun instead of her taser was an 'action error'.

Roger Stone said that he met briefly with the House committee investigating Jan. 6 and informed lawmakers he would invoke his Fifth Amendment right.

Dozens of residents from all ages have dropped off flowers, toys and messages of support outside the Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport after Thursday's tragedy.

Forbes editor Randall Lane says he spoke to a grand jury for 20 minutes before a grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump and his business finances.

Donald Trump's Energy Secretary Rick Perry was revealed to be the person who texted Mark Meadows with an 'aggressive' plan to have GOP-controlled state legislatures overturn Joe Biden's election victory.

Prominent anti-vaxxer Robert F Kennedy Jr held a holiday party at his California home last week, with the invitation urging guests to be vaccinated or get tested for COVID before coming over.

Robert Palmer, 54, of Largo, Florida, reportedly threw a fire extinguisher, wooden boards, and a pole at Metropolitan police during the January 6 riot.

Mark Zuckerberg has transformed his original $7million Palo Alto home purchased in 2011 into a massive estate after buying the four surrounding properties worth a combined $30M.

Sen. Joe Manchin offered a frosty response on Friday to President Biden's statement that the Democratic holdout broadly backed his bill and its $1.8 trillion price tag.

Leaked minutes of a meeting of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) warn that restrictions are needed 'very soon' to avoid hospitalisations rising to 3,000 a day.

CCTV footage shows Harry Barnhouse, 22, fly into a rage after Swansea council staff told him he couldn't get an immediate refund on a waste collection he'd paid for which hadn't taken place.

EXCLUSIVE: The UK group warned new novels should be read alongside classics rather than replace them so youngsters learn about history, sociology and language.

Ex-PC Wayne Couzens was handed a whole-life term in September after kidnapping, raping and murdering the 33-year-old marketing executive.

The ban will remain in place while an investigation is underway into the tragedy at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport on Thursday, where five children were killed.

The Restorative Enhanced Diversion for Youth (REDY) program was launched as a pilot basis last month, and Gascón is expanding it to cover a range of felony charges, according to a memo.

Experts at Which? whittled down the 4,500 gadgets they have assessed during the year to a top 50 of the most impressive. The surprise overall winner aws the Morphy Richards Clarity soup maker.

Researchers said make-up may serve as a form of 'intrasexual competition' in highly attractive women, but performs a different social function among plainer women.

Billy Petherick, 33, went absent without leave in 2009, starting a new life in France, marrying a local woman and buying and restoring the 40-room 18th century mansion in Pays de la Loire.

Ministers are also considering the softer options of a 'peat tax' in the UK to increase the price of products such as grow-bags, or labels on them warning peat is bad for the planet.

The Silurian Border Morrismen have voted to stop dancing with blacked up faces - and switch to green paint instead, ditching a tradition which dates back more than 500 years.

Paul Keating used the 30th anniversary of his rise to the Prime Ministership to unload on current PM Scott Morrison, especially over his handling of the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal with the US.

Professor Ferguson - the UK Government adviser whose modelling has spooked No10 into lockdowns before -  said tighter curbs were needed before New Year to stop a massive hospital surge.

More than $1million has been raised for the families grieving the deaths of five children killed in a jumping castle accident at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport, Tasmania.

Eben Scrooge rested for a few more moments before got out of bed. The same four-poster that had been occupied by his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Ebenezer, almost 200 years ago.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina quizzed 552 male and female college students in their teens and 20s and found 85 per cent of young men still picked up the tab.

Thousands of unskilled jobs paying up to $120,000 a year are about to become available - but the catch is a high failure rate for people unprepared for the gruelling lifestyle.

Experts said they hope the results allay fears that the devices are less sensitive to Omicron after scores of Britons have complained about testing negative on the rapid devices only to then get a positive PCR.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called January 6 'horrendous' and said the House's select committee on the Capitol attack needs to find out who was responsible.

It has been more than two years since Sue Radford, the woman at the helm of Britain's biggest family last fell pregnant, with her 22nd child, and she confides that she hasn't felt broody at all since.

CBP officials encountered nearly 10,000 more border crossing attempts in November than October, up 140% over last November, according to newly released statistics.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Boris Johnson feared the voters of North Shropshire might give him a bloody nose. What he got was more like a punishment beating.

Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty to doctoring government email supporting a wiretap of a Trump campaign official, but can still practice law through a deal with local officials

Forty years ago, the Penlee lifeboat Solomon Browne was launched into high winds that had whipped up 50ft waves off the treacherous Cornish coast to reach a stricken coaster, the Union Star.

An would-be thief was left battered and bruised after a Queensland couple chased him off their property wielding a wooden plank as a weapon.

San Francisco has seen a 32 per cent increase in car break-ins in December compared to last year, leading some car owners to keep their trunks open in a bid to avoid having their windows smashed.

Video captured the moment two teen siblings escaped out the fourth- floor window of their NYC apartment as flames engulfed the building leaving one dead and one in critical condition.

A new dire poll shows that President Joe Biden's approval rating stands at 27 per cent among Americans under 30, which is the lowest level of support among any age group in the survey.

We are continuing to make children's lives smaller, sadder, more circumscribed. Our pandemic normal will just become our new normal, and children will be worse off for it.

Trent Kellee Freeman, 38, has been arrested for fraudulently claiming $3,700 from Gilchrist County Sheriff's Office in the form of paid sick leave that her co-workers donated to her.

Naomi Johnson, 23, and her partner, former army reservist Benjamin O'Shea, 26, were arrested after the sudden death of their eight-week-old daughter Amina on 26 April 2019.

Hasan Dervish, 62, was given a unique send off, with a number of ice cream trucks seen following behind the main funeral car near a cemetery in Camberwell, London, earlier today.

From September 29 to  December 14, DEA agents seized 1,500 pounds of fentanyl, over 8 million fake pills and arrested 776 traffickers. Drug sales were promoted via social media networks.

Ex-New Orleans Saints player Glenn Foster Jr. died with reported signs of 'neck compressions and strangulation' while in Alabama police custody earlier this month and now his family wants answers.

Gerry Anderson Jr has waded into the campaign started by his sister Dee to get their mother Sylvia properly recognised for her work as co-creator of the Thunderbirds classic TV series, made in the 1950s

Biden administration officials considered teacher contract negotiations as they planned new guidance on school reopenings, according to emails published on Friday.

Ivanka Trump slammed a government report that charged her billion dollar Farmers-to-Families Food Box Program with wasting taxpayer dollars and delivering rotten food as a distraction from Biden.

The Dutch authority on nuclear safety and radiation yesterday issued a statement warning people against wearing jewellery and accessories which are advertised to protect from 5G.

A health expert and business leader suggested pressures could be eased by revisiting rules that require everyone who tests positive to isolate for 10 days.

Former President Trump claimed that Jews in America 'no longer love Israel,' and that evangelical Christians love it more.

James Pica, 58, from New Jersey, has been charged with murder for allegedly beating to death his mother-in-law, Barbara Bezzone, 84, despite his husband's desperate pleas to stop the attack.

Don't be fooled by a new ruling on Thursday from the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James which is stalling the process. Sooner or later, Cuomo will have to cough it up.