A LACK of availability of COVID-19 tests could lead to people mixing on New Year's Eve without being able to tell whether they are infectious, a leading scientist has warned.

ANIMAL charities are calling for New Year's celebrations involving fireworks to be scrapped due to the issues they can cause for pets.

A MEMORIAL dedicated to Covid hero Captain Sir Tom Moore has been vandalised by "mindless idiots".

THE NAVY has been deployed to a sunken warship on the River Thames, containing 1,400 tonnes of explosives.

AN astonishing "92 convicted terrorists", including the Bluewater shopping centre bomb plotter could be unleashed onto Britain's streets unless urgent changes are made, Conservative MPs have warned.

A SOLDIER has been filmed appearing to collide with a small child during ceremonial duties at the Tower of London.

BORIS JOHNSON has left a "large stone unturned" in the fight to end people smuggling, the CEO of a charity delivering emergency aid to refugees has said.

BORIS JOHNSON has encouraged New Year's Eve parties to go on despite the concerning shortages of lateral flow tests.

POLICE are appealing for information after a teenage was shot in the face outside a school in Birmingham.

TWO men in their 20s have been rushed to hospital after being stabbed in London.