Scotland Yard said it has told the Cabinet Office there should be 'minimal reference' to be made to lockdown breaches they are investigating as potentially criminal.

An analysis by the UK Health Security Agency found a booster gives 70 per cent protection against symptomatic infection from BA.2, compared to 63 per cent with the original Omicron.

Gavin Black, the director of Deutsche Bank's money markets and derivatives desk in London, and his New York-based colleague Matthew Connolly, were convicted in 2018.

Aviva chief executive Amanda Blanc said today that she feared that if women continue to stay at home it would mean they are 'not around when some of the conversations are being had'.

HM Revenue and Customs is said to be reviewing the scheme which allows anyone who has worked just one day at home in a year to claim an annual sum of up to £125 in tax relief.

Dr Nikki Kanani, medical director of primary care for NHS England, and colleagues have written to GPs telling them to resume business as usual because demand for the booster jab has waned.

Tottenham Hotspur's former record signing Chris Armstrong is facing jail after trashing his local Tesco store in Chelsea and punching a worker to the floor after he was told he could not buy cigarettes.

Defence minister James Heappey (pictured) hinted at a rethink on the tax rise as Boris Johnson's allies desperately mobilise to prevent angry Tory MPs mounting a coup bid.

Members of the Royal Family will urge the Duke of York to settle with Virginia Roberts Giuffre, which could cost him £10million.

Pastor Philip Brunker (pictured) wrote a letter to his flock after the church deacon, Ben Kinderman, 39, had been jailed for abusing two young girls to say he had known of the crimes back in 2009.

Shocked police pulled over an elderly motorist in Bulwell, Nottingham, who told them he'd been driving without a licence or insurance for 70 years and had somehow never been stopped by officers.

The actor, 65, who played Mickey in the BBC sitcom, admitted the 'woke thing' could destroy the series by banning the use of the show's most iconic catchphrases.

The case was dropped when the Home Office decided she was a victim of modern slavery after her lawyers claimed she had been sexually exploited and groomed online by a US extremist.

US authorities are concerned Britain's threats to levy sanctions against Putin are empty after years of allowing Russian elites to funnel billions of pounds into 'Londongrad' to buy influence.

Chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty is on the list with a salary of up to £210,000, while chief science officer Sir Patrick Vallance earns up to £185,000.

Attorney General Suella Braverman is reviewing whether to increase Chay Bowskill's jail sentence after he was convicted of violently kidnapping his girlfriend Angel Lynn and leaving her with injuries.

Harry and Meghan are under under pressure to cut ties with streaming giant Spotify after it embroiled in a row about its partnership with Joe Rogan over anti-vax content on his podcast

The funny man was a stalwart on BBC Radio 4's popular panel game 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue', first featuring as a host in 1972 and then as a panelist for almost 50 years.

Chairman of the digital, culture, media and sport committee Julian Knight said the process of appointing a new head at Ofcom had become a 'shambles'.

Former GP Noemie Lopian is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors. Writer and teacher Derek Niemann is the grandson of a Nazi war criminal and SS officer. Yet the two have forged a friendship.

Civil servant Sarah Healey (pictured) benefited from free tickets to concerts and football matches while working from home. She attended the Brit Awards, along with two England football matches

The model stable first appeared at a model village in Great Yarmouth last summer and was dubbed a 'life-saver' by business owners Frank and Frances Newsome at the time.

Boris Johnson today refused to guarantee that a National Insurance hike will go ahead as planned in April amid mounting pressure on the Prime Minister to ditch the tax rise.

The Duchess of Cambridge (pictured) will become the first member of the Royal Family to take on one of Prince Harry's patronages as the new figurehead of English rugby.

Joe Lycett sparked 'panic' among ministers today after he took to social media to share his own version of Sue Gray's report into alleged Downing Street gatherings.

Prince Andrew's formal legal response to allegations made by Virginia Roberts in her civil case against him has been described as 'defiant.'

Liz Truss is facing criticism after it emerged she used a Government private jet for a recent work trip to Australia at a cost to the taxpayer of 'at least £500,000'.

Data compiled by Transport for London revealed that the biggest week-on-week rises at its Tube stations have mostly been in locations where commuters tend to travel in from the outskirts.

Dr Steve James, who works as an anaesthetist at King's College Hospital, announced he is spearheading a judicial review, along with seven other professionals, in a bid to end the mandate.

An article published to MailOnline's wire feed by PA Media on 21 January about new research from Which? said that the dating app Tinder was charging young gay and lesbian users more than...

Former Cabinet minister Lord Frost has urged Boris Johnson to axe 'all the neo-socialists, green fanatics and pro-woke crowd' in Downing Street to reset his premiership after Partygate.

In London and the East of England, around a third of inpatients are mainly sick with the virus, with the rest primarily receiving care for other conditions, such as a broken leg or heart problems.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) bosses today logged 96,871 positive tests, down 9.8 per cent on last Thursday.

Researchers at Northwestern University, in Illinois, used an enhanced version of immunotherapy, a type of cancer treatment already available on the NHS.

Dramatic police dashcam footage shows Saif Ghalib, 22, from Blackburn, Lancashire, behind the wheel of a silver Vauxhall Zafira erratically driving away from officers after failing to stop.

Khuram Javed (pictured) died after being shot three times and stabbed in the back in an alleyway on April 10 last year. One of the gunshots tore through his heart and lungs before he died at the scene.

Teeside Magistrates' Court (pictured) heard the tyrant teenager, from Stockton, County Durham, targeted fellow students at school with physical attacks while also using the internet to bully others online.

A Chester university has given a content warning to students reading JK Rowling's first Harry Potter book over 'difficult conversations about gender, race, sexuality, class, and identity'.

Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey, pictured, will launch the Way to Work proposal which is seen as a 'red meat' policy designed to prop up the PM among Tory backbenchers.

Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show 53 per cent of women born in 1991 were childless by their 30th birthday last year. The proportion was the highest on record.

Six-year-old Rikki Neave's naked body was posed in a star shape in woods in Peterborough after he was strangled in November 1994,

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said there has been an increase in cases of Shigella sonnei, a gut infection that causes diarrhoea, stomach cramps and a fever.

King College London scientists estimate 159,486 Britons had symptomatic Covid on any given day in the two weeks to January 26, up 10.4 per cent in a week.

From January 31, those living in care homes can have unlimited visits from family and friends, while other Covid rules have also been eased.

There were 63,136 rapes recorded in the year to September, according to the Office for National Statistics. This graph shows figures for rapes and sexual assaults.

Father-of-two Dr Gary Jenkins, 54, was 'viciously attacked and tortured' in Bute Park. Witness Louis Williams described a teenage girl as 'laughing and swearing' during the attack.

A Derbyshire schoolgirl right-wing terror suspect charged over having a bomb-making manual has had he case dropped - after the Home Office said she had been groomed by a US extremist.

Conservationist David Hoyle had his skull smashed when a 65-foot cherry tree fell onto his car as he was travelling on the A287 near Odiham, Hampshire, in June 2017.

Amanda Selby, 15, died at the seaside caravan park in North Wales last summer. Her brother Matthew has denied her murder and is now additionally charged with manslaughter.

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Footage showed Mamello Herring dragging Angelina Lanera to her bed as she cried at a care home in West Yorkshire.

The boy, whose identity and school have not been revealed, is on the special educational needs register as he suffers from anxiety after witnessing domestic violence from the age of four.

Jennifer Swayne, 53, was arrested on Sunday afternoon and detained until the early hours of the morning, while police officers executed a search warrant on her property, confiscating a book.

The popstar (pictured), 30, put up the Heras mesh panels to try to keep amphibians out of the development at his £3.7million 'mini village' near Framlingham in Suffolk.

Shera Patrick, 29, was behind the wheel of a 153mph Audi A3 for a raid that saw a guard coshed by two masked men as he was making cash collections at a Lloyds TSB near Manchester.

Security experts warn the barrage of fake news, designed to harden opinion at home and spread confusion abroad, exceeds even the levels in 2014 before Moscow seized Crimea.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said the current proposals should be deferred until the completion of an independent review by Dr Hilary Cass.

Sir Thomas Hildebrand Preston, British Consul General in Kaunas, Lithuania issued hundreds of travel visas to Jewish people seeking to flee the Nazis despite the objection of Whitehall.

Pointalls Allotments Ltd in Finchley, north London, gave Elsie Price and her husband Wayne Armsby 12 months' notice and the eviction date is tomorrow.

Police who destroyed £750,000 worth of cannabis have been criticised on social media after comparing the haul to the weight of five police dogs.

Video footage showed a silver Mercedes carrying PM Jacinda Ardern being forced off the road in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, by anti-vaxxers who joked about being arrested for the stunt.

A 'corrupt' seven-year scheme on the Isle of Wight breached the 'integrity' of NHS doctors making honest recommendations about prescription drugs, a court was told.

According to a YouGov poll, 48 per cent of adults in the capital say Sadiq Khan is performing badly as Mayor, while more than a quarter of those surveyed said he was doing 'very badly.'

The antivaxx tennis star provided two documents to a federal court in Australia as evidence of his positive status in a bid to avoid rules banning unvaccinated people from entering.

One Australian state has moved to scrap mandatory QR code check-ins at retail shops raising awkward questions about why NSW's is still persisting with the technology.

EasyJet is informing passengers of the rule change when they try to book an all-inclusive breaks for certain resorts on the Spanish islands.

Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky shared a phone call last night during which the US President warned his Ukrainian counterpart that a full-scale Russian invasion could be just weeks away.

Barry Doughty, 57, has been jailed after breaking out of prison in 1999 and fleeing to Europe before returning to the UK in 2017 and running an illegal steroids empire from his Dover home.

Women's AFL star Haneen Zreika is facing a backlash after refusing to pull on Greater Western Sydney's rainbow jumper for the club's pride round clash on Friday.

Malaki Thorpe, of Tottenham, north London, will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court to face his charges, which also include one count of possession of an offensive weapon.

A pod of dolphins was captured in spectacular drone footage leaping out of the water like 'dancing fairies' near the coast at Port Minster, St Ives, Cornwall on January 21.

The 31-year-old said wheelchair tennis champions used to walk away with just a 'handshake' but are still receiving much lower prizes than their able-bodied counterparts.

Stormy Daniels, the porn star who Donald Trump paid hush money, has reinvented herself as a psychic and has been traveling the country with her haunted doll, Susan.

One person claimed a resident was racially abused by a motorist after the group refused to move a barricade they had created to prevent school-run parents from taking over their streets.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced 18 Covid-related deaths in the state, including an unvaccinated person aged in their 30s.

Matthew Reeves, 44, had claimed his 'intellectual disability' meant he did not understand he had accepted death by lethal injection. He was executed at 9.24pm at Holman Prison, Alabama.

Police announced Thursday that a potential sixth victim was tied to The Doodler after an investigative series in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2020.

Richard Jacobson, 21, fell 700 feet to his death after he slipped while trying to take a selfie with the city skyline in the background from the top of the Arizona mountain peak on Monday night.

Rules around contacts and isolation times will be changed once the Covid situation worsens, the WA Premier who has locked his state away from the rest of the country said on Friday afternoon.

Russian Ambassador to Australia Alexey Pavlovsky has said western support for Ukraine was risking a military conflict with Russia.

Home grown tennis star and Australian Open doubles finalist Matt Ebden (pictured right, with wife Kim Doig) is likely to miss the birth of his baby due to the strict lockdown in Western Australia.

Grace Tame had been invited to the Australian Open's Inspirational Series dinner on Thursday which highlighted women's achievements. She reportedly left the event after 15 minutes.

A strain of Omicron that is even more contagious than the original strain has been detected in Australia, authorities have confirmed.

A school in Georgia has removed an assignment asking students to write to President Andrew Jackson about benefits of removing the Cherokee from their land, and write from Cherokee perspective.

A confidential vaccine distribution list was developed under former President Trump. The Administration prepared a secret list detailing which nations would get the doses first.

Bassam Hamzy, one of Australia's most feared prisoners, targeted a young associate of the Alameddine clan as the young man was on a phone call at Silverwater jail.

The chief of police of Brookside, Alabama - population 1,300 - has resigned after AL.com began compiling years of stories of how locals were pulled over and fined for spurious reasons.

The family Nerissa Regnier, 45, who had MS and died of COVID is suing Kaiser Permanente after doctors refused to give her the vaccine despite asking for the jab multiple times.

New York Mayor Eric Adams is urging anyone who came into contact with Sarah Palin to get tested after she tested positive for coronavirus. Former Governor Palin was seen dining out in Manhattan.

NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant warned three specific groups to get a booster immediately to protect against Covid.

A South Australian woman has shared an incredible story of how she spent the night on her car roof after becoming stranded in the middle of a flooded creek.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Boris Johnson was nicknamed the 'greased piglet' by David Cameron for his ability to slip out of the trickiest corners.

Hannah Tubbs, formerly known as James, 26, pleaded guilty in 2020 to sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in a Denny's bathroom in 2014.

Officers driving a black BMW raced after a red Mini Cooper when it refused to stop on Waterloo Place, near Pall Mall, in Westminster.

The National Trust scheme aims to 'improve access to nature for those in urban areas who may feel disconnected from the countryside'.

A BP service station in Melbourne's southeast (left) was inundated with floodwater as the city was blasted by a 'mega-storm' and residents are warned to 'stay home'.

The 'non-crete' posts are designed to be an eco version of the traditional barriers, the manufacture of which produces large amounts of CO2. The new posts are made from sugar cane.

Citizens Advice said two post offices a week were closed in the past two years and means vulnerable people will be left without access to vital services like utility bills payment.

Robins, wrens and sparrows are hit hard by freezing temperatures but experts believe they will be seen in large numbers during the Big Garden Birdwatch.

Australia's 30 most expensive suburbs for renters are all in one city. Vaucluse on Sydney Harbour is twice as dear as the dearest postcodes in Melbourne and Perth.

Christian Trevino and Alejandro Trevino, 17 and 18, and Juan Eduardo Melendez, 18, were arrested on Saturday for the murder of Gabriel Quintanilla, 42.

A 15-year-old boy from Loudoun County, Virginia will not have to register as a sex offender after he was previously convicted for two sexual assault incidents

The 50-year-old, a former White Ribbon ambassador, was charged on Thursday over allegations he choked, punched and kicked a woman at his city centre bachelor pad.

The proportion of Australian workers quitting their job is in fact at the lowest level on record, despite labour shortages and the lowest unemployment in more than a decade.

Daniels walked into court wearing black heels, a black dress with a slit down her right shoulder and a flowing dark red cardigan.

Camrin Williams - aka C Blu - was locked up in Brooklyn on gun and assault charges for shooting Officer Kaseem Pennant, 27, just a week earlier in the Bronx.

There's concern Russia-friendly NATO nations - France, Germany, Turkey and Hungary - could block Biden's deployment of 8,500 U.S. troops as the world waits to see if Putin invades Ukraine.

Kevin Dugar, 44, (right) was released from Cook County Jail in Chicago on Wednesday after serving a 20-year sentence for a crime his twin brother (left) committed in 2003.

Australia's worst job has been revealed - but the huge money on offer will tempt many. A recent TikTok clip showed a worker called out to a sewage plant to fix a blockage - with his hands.

Officials along the East Coast begged drivers to stay off the roads in hopes of avoiding the traffic nightmare that befell motorists in Virginia after extreme weather hit earlier this month.

Defund the police advocate and Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush was laid into online Thursday after confirming her unoccupied car was hit by gunfire for the second time in two years

Jasmine Giancola shared a video after she was left in shock at a man seen lying across the arches of a McDonald's sign in Armadale, Perth.

Philadelphia teenager Christopher Braxton, 17, was shot in the chest on Wednesday afternoon after he walked out of Bartram High School on Wednesday afternoon

Jacinda Ardern's Kiwi government has acknowledged the rapid spread of Omicron overseas but pressed on regardless with a 'stamp it out' home isolation rule that confused thousands.

A wake is being held at the iconic St Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan for murdered NYPD officer Jason Rivera, 22, who was killed along with his partner, Wilbert Mora, in the line of duty.

The Bureau of Meteorology says central Victoria, including Melbourne, and the state's southwest will be inundated with heavy rain, damaging winds and large hail on Friday.

A serial sex offender who was warned by police not to have sex with a child will spend a minimum of just nine months behind bars for raping a teenager. 

Patrisse Cullors (left), one of three co-founders of BLM, left the organization in May 2021 - the last of the original trio to depart. Two women appointed to take over (right) never took up the job.

American tennis star Danielle Collins has defied all odds and hopes to because the latest surprise grand slam champion ahead of her match against Ash Barty on Saturday.

The terrifying moment happened on the South Eastern Freeway in South Australia on Thursday.

Whitehall sources said ethics chief Sue Gray was facing major hurdles in publishing her full report into the controversy following the Met decision to launch a criminal probe (pictured: Cressida Dick)

Each year, 39,000 tons of unwanted clothes are thought to be sent from rich countries, including the UK, to the Atacama Desert in Chile, such is our addiction to 'fast fashion'.

Fifty-thousand Canadian truck drivers are traveling in a 45-mile-long convoy to Ottawa in protest of vaccine mandates for truckers, with up to 20 percent of truckers in the country unvaccinated.

Channel Seven reporter Denham Hitchcock has tested positive to Covid about five months after famously having a reaction to the Pfizer jab.

Australia's typical capital city house price last year surged into the seven figures after interest rates were cut to a record lows. Some smaller cities are tipped for more strong growth in 2022.

John Beckwith Jr., 79, the director of Golden Gate Funeral Home, said he will fight the allegations of negligence and mishandling of loved ones' bodies in court.

Powerful 2GB radio host Ray Hadley has attacked fallen star Andrew O'Keefe as a 'low-life grub', recalling when O'Keefe attacked him on social media after Hadley briefly faced an AVO in 2014.

Treasury staff believe Boris Johnson may be about to scrap - or delay - the national insurance rise as he fights for the support of wavering Conservative MPs.

Indigenous mother Ngapera Williams has shared a series of videos of her 'nan' explaining life growing up during the Stolen Generations in the 1950s.

Carrie Bickmore has opened up on her fiery clash with Peter Van Onselen after he criticised Grace Tame and her icy reception of the prime minister on Tuesday.

DAN WOOTTON: Neil Young was a heroic musician whose back catalogue is a treasured, if commercially insignificant, part of any music streaming service's offering to subscribers.

The average parent spends 37 minutes a week helping their child with homework - with 61 per cent relying on the internet for answers. 47 per cent of parents find maths the toughest subject.

Electric scooters could be fitted with speakers that make a 'tuba-like' sound to warn pedestrians amid rising injuries, as researchers work with e-scooter rental firms in Government trials.

A man was stopped by two NYPD officers as he tried to shoplift from a Marshall's store in Queens, New York. Officers struggled with Franklin Nunez, 45, who was later arrested.

Christian Cabrera, 40, an unvaccinated comedian and father, tested positive for COVID-19 after Christmas, expressed his regret over not getting vaccinated a day before dying from the virus.

The University and College Union (UCU), which represents lecturers, said the strikes will be stopped if universities agree to a sector pay rise and to reverse pension scheme cuts.

Asked about a timeline, Kirby said: 'We have always said and said for quite some time, another incursion by Russia could be imminent -- and imminent means imminent.'

With almost six million people on its waiting list for routine treatments, the NHS is under pressure as never before.

Ben Williamson, a top aide to ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, spent between six and seven hours Tuesday speaking virtually to members of the January 6 committee.

Regina Kaye Arthurell, 75, was arrested on Friday by police in Campbelltown, Sydney after a man, 55, reported several incidents of sexual touching last week.

Brave Chloe (pictured) is fighting against a cruel cancer after her intuitive mum felt a tumour on her side during a cuddle.

Cocker spaniel Leo has learned how to perform life-saving CPR by jumping up and down on a resuscitation dummy's chest with his paws.

A cellphone camera captured the moment a pair of brazen thieves ambushed a Los Angeles driver (inset) and made off with his Rolex. The thieves remained on the loose Thursday

Beyond putting another liberal on the conservative-dominated court, Biden is also looking at his task of shaping the country's judicial branch as an opportunity to fulfill a campaign promise.

Phillip believed he was purchasing a packet of four lamb steaks when he visited the Woolworths supermarket. When he got home, he discovered something far less appetising.

Minister for Sport Richard Colbeck has been slammed for attending the Ashes rather than appear before a Covid-19 committee the Morrison government set up.

Joe Biden delivered remarks Thursday on the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer - and confirmed he would select a black woman to be Breyer's replacement.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard is frustrated that a fraction of the eligible population in the state have had the booster shot, despite plenty of boosters remaining available.

NSW has recorded 13,333 new Covid-19 cases and 35 deaths while Victoria has recorded 12,755 new infections and 39 deaths.

The Corporation's children's news programme interviewed schoolchildren about their takes on spate of revelations around parties in Downing Street during the pandemic.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen credited the country's high vaccination rate for allowing the removal of restrictions, saying the current level of protection would suffice for the mild Omicron variant.