Nicola Sturgeon will address MSPs in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday afternoon.

Boris Johnson’s team divided over whether restrictions should come in after Christmas

‘An event cancelled is better than a life cancelled,’ says organisation’s head

No 10 insists controversial event was business meeting: follow updates below

Gordon Jamieson’s jumper selection has been praised on social media.

A number of firms are running reduced timetables due to workers being off sick or isolating.

New Covid variant is highly transmissible

Audience members hold signs mocking cheese and wine gathering at No 10

The WHO estimates the pandemic could be ended in 2022 if 70% of the population of every country has been vaccinated by the middle of next year.

Abuse survivors will be penalised due to criminal acts they have been forced to carry out, says committee

Spread of Omicron variant inspires booster jab rush as further social restrictions feared ahead of Christmas

Harvey Parker was last seen just after midnight on Friday as he left nightclub in Westminster alone

Northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland appear to have best chance, according to latest forecast

Public sector borrowing stood at £17.4 billion in November, dropping by £4.9 billion from the same month a year earlier.

The video has been viewed more than two million times and condemned online by celebrities

Jim Dornan, a prominent obstetrician and gynaecologist, died during a routine knee operation after testing positive for Covid-19.

PM pictured with wine and cheese at ‘most challenging time’ for hospitals

Tributes flowed throughout the year following the deaths of trailblazers from all walks of life.

New restrictions are unlikely to stop Christmas celebrations this week but measures are slowly being introduced across the UK from Boxing Day.

Ali Harbi Ali is charged with murdering the Conservative MP for Southend West during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex in October.

The front pages feature uncertainty over Covid restrictions as ministers defy the recommendations of scientists.

Boris Johnson did not impose new restrictions on Monday, but he said the Government will ‘reserve the possibility’ of taking further action.

Current process ‘unfair and overly-medicalised’, says cross-party committee

Work to electrify the Midland Mainline between Kettering, Northamptonshire and Market Harborough, Leicestershire will begin on Thursday.

Omicron is now dominant variant in London

London mayor Sadiq Khan said the move is needed as ‘we must take the right steps to reduce the spread of the virus’.

The family of Lily Sullivan said she would be deeply missed by everyone.

Details have been published of how the £12.5 billion in Scottish Government funding for 2022/23 will be distributed to local authorities.

The decision was a personal one, a royal source said

PM said further action may be needed to curb spread of the Omicron variant but there were still ‘uncertainties’ about the new strain.

Christopher Bates sent 20 images from MPS intelligence and crime reporting systems for non-policing related purpose

Government insists no rules were broken: live updates below

Liverpool drug dealer was sentenced after lengthy investigation

Boris Johnson has delayed the introduction of new Covid restrictions in England, despite warnings from scientific advisers of a coming wave of infection threatening to overwhelm the NHS.

Judge who saw video footage of the assault calls officers’ actions ‘shocking’

Numerous productions have had to close due to surging Covid cases in the run-up to Christmas, one of the busiest periods of the year for the sector.

Greg Parmley, chief executive of Live federation, said firms are being left to ‘buckle under the weight of the latest Covid wave’.

PM asked: ‘Do you normally have wine and cheese at a work meeting?’

Derbyshire Roads Policing Unit confirmed there were no injuries “but lots and lots of damage”

A royal source said the head of state has made the decision not to go to Sandringham as a ‘precautionary’ measure.

Paul Marsh inflicted fatal head injuries on Jessica Dalgleish at her home near Folkestone, Kent, in December 2019.

Thomas Schreiber paralysed his mother in knife attack

The four boys, Kyson and Bryson, 4, and Leyton and Logan, 3, were pulled from their burning home in Sutton

Scottish Water engineers have fixed an 18in trunk main which burst leaving 2,000 homes without supply and forced a school and nursery to close

Despite having both vaccines and his booster jag, Stuart Kane described having Covid as ‘like being hit by a truck’.

The PM said ministers were monitoring the data ‘hour by hour’ but indicated new measures were unlikely before Christmas.

The university made the decision as a ‘precautionary measure’ having reviewed the ‘developing public health situation and taken some clinical advice’.

Leaving EU would leave Britain worse off, foreign secretary said in 2016 as she campaigned for Remain

The test positivity rate was 15.2% on Monday, up from 13.9% the day before.

Government will not hesitate to tighten restrictions if data shows it necessary, says PM

The journalist will move to a senior presenting and reporting role for television, radio and online

US Quidditch says it will undergo a major rebranding exercise

Northern Ireland’s economic performance shows the post-Brexit agreement has been ‘a success’, Ireland’s deputy PM has said.

Seventy-seven-year-old Vic Emery died when the BMW X3 he was driving left the A74(M) southbound at Ecclefechan on Saturday.

Assessments published on Information Commissioner’s orders after government claimed secrecy was ‘in the public interest’

The Welsh singer sang the vocals for Christmas Isn’t Just Another Day which was created by Paul Harvey and his son, Nick.

Costs have risen for McVitie’s, and many staff have been off ill during the pandemic.

Thomas Schreiber was convicted following a three-week trial at Winchester Crown Court.

Sir Michael Wilshaw has said schools must be kept open in January ‘at all costs’.

Rhian Graham, who is accused of toppling the memorial of the slave trader, said there have been campaigns to have the statue removed since the 1920s.

This is the second highest daily figure since the start of the pandemic

We want to know how you feel about your Christmas plans as Omicron cases soar and if you would want any extra restrictions in place

Junior Young was just 18 when he and an accomplice fatally attacked Hilda Lockert.

The ‘Countdown’ presenter sued Laura Murray over a tweet posted more than two years ago after Jeremy Corbyn was hit with an egg while visiting a mosque.

Thomas Schreiber was convicted following of killing Sir Richard Sutton.

Keir Starmer accuses prime minister of being ‘absent’ at time of crisis

Audit Scotland said there was a lack of transparency at the office of the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland.

Gardene De Carvalho had been working 15 hours a day in the month leading to the incident

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab refused to rule out the need for additional controls before Christmas.

The Treasury announced extra funding for the UK regions at the weekend amid the Omicron surge.

PM’s wine and cheese with staff during lockdown ‘quite an obvious social gathering’, says barrister

The latest forecast for Christmas Day suggests there is a possibility of snow for northern parts of the UK.

British public ‘braced for another Christmas of disruptions and restrictions’, says pollster

John Grover, 62, was from the village of New Pitsligo, near Fraserburgh.

The sport was influenced by the Harry Potter series and is the only full-contact, mixed-gender sport in the world.

One of the men, known as YZ, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, while Alan O’Brien was given 25 years and Darren Redmond was jailed for 18 years.

Former officer Harry Miller brought a Court of Appeal challenge against College of Policing guidance.

The 24-year-old right-back has been banned from driving for six months and fined more than £30,000.

Customers had complained that not all kinds of drinks were available at every store as part of their five-drinks-a-week deal.

Ministers still ‘monitoring’ ‘latest data – despite chorus of calls from scientists for a crackdown now

‘We’ve got to hammer to death those scum’ he says

The renowned London attraction has made the ‘difficult decision’ to shut from Tuesday.

The anti-lockdown activist appeared to call for the attacks in a video circulated on social media

The UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US have urged China to ‘act in accordance with its international obligations’.

The Scottish Government aims to increase penalties for illegal evictions, give tenants greater flexibility and create a private sector regulator.

The boys – aged 15, 16 and 17 – appeared before Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court accused of killing Ramarni Crosby in Gloucester.

Levi Ernest-Morrison was fatally stabbed on the evening of April 10.

Firefighter called to cut woman with serious injuries out of car

A judge said the TV presenter was ‘entitled’ to ‘vindication’ – but said there had been a ‘clear element of provocation’ in a tweet she had posted.

The NHS said there are enough doses of the vaccine for all eligible people in London.

PM pictured enjoying wine and cheese with colleagues on 15 May 2020, when public could only meet one friend outside at a distance of two-metres

Mr Justice Scoffield declined to make any order mandating DUP ministers to set a date and agenda for the next meeting of the NSMC.

The study also found no evidence of Omicron having lower severity than Delta.