Claire Paladino, 38, from Northamptonshire, was keen to build a two-storey extension when she hired a builder who did not complete work and whose construction did not pass building regulations.

Jodie Whittaker has reportedly quit Doctor Who.

Corbyn, 73, was among 17 people who were arrested at the demonstration at Speaker's Corner on January 2. A large group of people gathered to object to their rights of free speech being curtailed.

Zara Holland , 25, could be fined up to £18,000 and face a year in jail after she tried to flee Barbados with her boyfriend Elliott Love, 30, when he tested positive for Covid-19 this week.

The Prime Minister has warned that curbs were 'probably about to get tougher' as Government sources said more areas of England could be plunged into Tier Four in days.

Gerry Marsden was one of the pioneers of the Merseybeat sound and turned You'll Never Walk Alone into both a singalong for football fans and an anthem of hope.

Thousands of people will make history today as they receive the first doses of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine in a rollout that boosts Britain's hopes of escaping the pandemic.

Millie Denvers, from Steyning, West Sussex, started to feel unwell on the evening of Saturday December 12 after three pupils in her class had chicken pox.

The total number of inpatients suffering with coronavirus in England jumped from 17,701 to 23,557, up 33 per cent, between December 25 and January 2, NHS figures show.

The BBC aired the film version of the British classic with the warning that some viewers may find it 'offensive' prompting outraged fans to call for the corporation to 'stop making issues'.

The scheme was promised last month as the British government faced criticism by fisherman that it had compromised on important issues to finally secure a trade deal with the EU.

Four boys and a girl aged 13 and 14 were arrested this morning by police probing the murder of a 13-year-old schoolboy who died from stab wounds in a field near Reading yesterday afternoon.

Kamala Harris reacted to the leaked recording while speaking at a campaign event for Democratic Senate hopefuls Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in Savannah on Sunday.

The Metropolitan line had the cheapest average house price of any tube line, with homes in Uxbridge as low as £292,429 and in Hillingdon reaching an affordable £374,895.

NHS data shows that the number of patients waiting more than an hour to be handed to hospitals in England increased from 273 on December 13 to 591 on December 27.

The Prime Minister told families yesterday that children should return to school in all areas across the UK where they were due to open today and tomorrow.

Kirstie Allsopp (pictured) says stepmothers across the country are labelled as 'evil' thanks to films and books such as Cinderella. The presenter says the depiction makes people think they are 'evil.'

Delighted viewers of A Perfect Planet picked up on a scene which showed Kamchatkan bears leaving months of hibernation only to avoid each other while eating.

Cosmetic surgeries such as breast reductions and tummy tucks have seen a sharp rise in popularity thanks to Brits taking advantage of working from home to have the procedures in secret.

Oscar Saxelby-Lee, 6, who battled cancer will leave hospital after he fell ill last week. The six-year-old boy beat a rare leukaemia a year ago but was re-admitted on New Year's Eve.

New laws could give couples looking to tie the knot the option of getting married in locations such as castles and McDonald's. The Law Commission says people should have more choice.

The emotive portrayal of Winston Churchill's elderly years on the Netflix show has been driving sales of his artwork - 500 or more paintings, mostly gifted to friends, which are now selling for six figure sums.

Ofcom has expanded its definition of hate speech to include 'political opinion', raising fears over restrictions on freedom of speech in broadcasting. Other new grounds include disability and social origin.

The impact of 2020 has left mental health 'worsening across the spectrum,' Mind has warned, as Samaritans revealed it has taken more than a million calls since the start of the pandemic.

Rescue centres are being inundated with 'lockdown puppies' as owners are struggling to look after the animals months after buying them. Dozens of adverts for the dogs have appeared online.

Sajid Javid, 51, is set to make a Cabinet comeback in reshuffle later this year. The ex-Chancellor is in the running to replace the Business Secretary in a key role to help Britain's recovery from pandemic.

With more time spent at home and so much upsetting news to contend with in 2020, it's little wonder many of us turned to comfort food and alcohol for a little solace.

Freezing temperatures and 'constant' rain and hail forced the suspension of runway operations for the remainder of Sunday night  as Edinburgh Airport staff make it safe for the first wave of flights tomorrow.

A compilation video of the training, which was conducted in the period 2013-2018 and involved what has been described as a JI special force, has been released by Indonesian police.

Protesters gathered in Nottingham this afternoon urging people not to take a Covid-19 vaccine before branding the pandemic as a 'hoax'. The city was plunged into Tier 4 lockdown rules this week.

The scandal, which has left UK families stuck in fire traps facing repair bills of up to £115,000, threatens to wreck the housing market as a whole, with the flats becoming unsellable.

Dafina Malovska, 39, who lives in Surrey, told the Mirror she was forced to undergo a hysterectomy when doctors mistook her cancer for gluten intolerance.

The French defender last night apologised and accepted he had flouted lockdown restrictions by inviting two friends and a chef to his £5million Cheshire mansion to see in 2021.

Sweden-born Greta Thunberg said her global superstardom won't last forever so is trying to 'use her position' to get as much done as possible 'in this limited amount of time'.

STELLA MORIS: Julian is fighting a political extradition to the United States, where he risks being buried in the deepest, darkest corner of the US prison system for the rest of his life.

Donald Trump's Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger told politicians that even China's leaders now admit their previous claims the virus originated in a Wuhan market are false.

It is a year since the world learned of a deadly new respiratory disease stalking the Chinese city of Wuhan. Yet we still know little about how and why the virus spread, writes IAN BIRRELL.

The Home Secretary was dismayed last month when 23 people, including rapists, due to be deported to the Caribbean country, were instead removed at the 11th hour after legal challenges.

GPs have converted the spacious hall at Nevendon Community Centre in Wickford into a makeshift clinic, with doctors even up early to open the centre at 8am on New Year's Day.

Rebekah Vardy's lawyers claim a team of people read over Coleen Rooney's statement before it was published on her social media accounts. Mrs Vardy is Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy's wife.

Sylvia Young, 60, a couturier, was holding the meeting last Sunday in her garden in Greenwich, south-east London, when two burly uniformed Met Officers paid her a visit.

The first confirmed cases of the UK-originated mutant strain of COVID were found at a remote nursing home in a rural Colorado town, it has emerged. Victims were National Guard members.

Analysis found nearly one in four people in England live in a constituency with no hospital, GP practice or appropriate community building for giving coronavirus vaccines.

UK security services were handed a list of 6,287 terrorist suspects in 2019 - but just 147 are still part of Prevent. Of the 6,287 people 697 got help through Prevent at the time.

A party in a restaurant basement was shut down after a police raid in Haverstock Hill, northwest London. Twenty people were issued a fine of £200 each for breaking Covid lockdown rules.

The Truth About... Boosting Your Immune System, which airs on Wednesday, features six volunteers who undergo a six-week crash course designed to turn around their immune systems.

Neil Ferguson and colleagues at Imperial College London have been accused of jumping to the conclusion that lockdown was effective, then making assumptions to support their belief.

The Find Out Now poll found the younger you are, the more likely you are to be anti-vaccination. More than a quarter of 18-to- 34-year-old women said they would say no to the jab, citing fertility concerns.

Sportsmail understands that UEFA's TV deals will expire and have to be renegotiated if the tournament isn't played, so in reality the Premier League doesn't have room to pause.

A stowaway who clung to the undercarriage of a jumbo jet and survived an 11-hour, 5,639-mile flight from South Africa to London has spoken for the first time of his terrifying journey.

In a photo which is believed to have been posted by one of the footballer's friends on Instagram, the four players are pictured in one house with 11 other adults, two children and a baby.

Brecon Beacons authorities have expressly told people to follow 'stay at home' orders and not come to the site.

The recruitment process for former surgeons, nurses, GPs and physicians to assist in delivering the vaccine rollout has been faced with 'dispiriting layers of red tape.'

Harold Reed passed away on Christmas Eve aged 101 after battling the virus in a care home in Dover, Kent.

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Assange, 49, faces an 18-count indictment, alleging a plot to hack computers and a conspiracy to obtain and disclose confidential US national defence information.

Rachael Pace and her boyfriend Kyle Vella were taking a drive in Stroud on the New South Wales mid north coast last week when they unknowingly picked up an unexpected hitchhiker.

A 26-year-old woman reported being attacked by a man at the Morgan Avenue station in Williamsburg on Saturday after a string of attacks at the same stop since November.

Headteachers ordered to stay open have decided to shut anyway despite the PM's insistence that 'schools are safe' as all of Britain's teaching unions called for classroom teaching to be 'paused'.

EXCLUSIVE: Despite repeated lockdowns and Covid wreaking havoc on the market, the average home increased in value by £27.81 per day in 2020, up from £8.64 a day in 2019.

The memo, found in Sir Frank Whittle's archive at Cambridge University, shows the future turbojet inventor sharing his designs with the Air Ministry in 1938, but not receiving a reply.

Brian Pinker, a retired maintenance manager who describes himself as Oxford born and bred, said he was 'so pleased' to be getting the vaccine.

Luisa was allowed to enter the UK last year on a so-called 'spouse visa' but the document is no longer valid following her split from Neil in December.

The Australian airline has opened up bookings to the coronavirus-riddled United Kingdom and the United States, as well as Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.

EXCLUSIVE: The Attorney General's Office has confirmed that Shane May's sentence for the murder of Louise Smith in Havant, Hants, on VE Day last year, will be reviewed at the Court of Appeal.

A basketball player accused of murdering his girlfriend has denied being mentally impaired as a Perth magistrate ordered him to a secure mental healthcare facility.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock put the public on notice that stronger restrictions will be needed for months, despite the optimism sparked by the first AstraZeneca vaccine doses being administered.

Kristina Novitskaya, 30, was discovered at her apartment in the Bodrum resort on the Aegean coast on Saturday. She had died a few days earlier.

Elaine McCreadie, 50, from Lanarkshire, Scotland, is regularly greeted by the creature, which she named Sake, when she returns home after checking her horse.

The plush two-bedroom pad on the River Trent in Nottingham, which was also previously home to ex-Premier League star Nicklas Bendtner, is up for sale as part of a £4 raffle.

Shannon Bourke was enjoying a beer at an Australian pub when a currawong joined him and began drinking out of his schooner glass.

Local resident Amanda Bagley had been drinking at the bar atop Nashville's Grand Hyatt Hotel, on Broadway, when the two men made the daring jump at around 6:50pm on Friday night.

The new role at West Midlands police, which includes 28 days of leave a year plus bank holidays and a 'generous' pension, comes as the force continues to face a funding shortage.

Paradiso Receptions in Fairfield in Sydney's west was fined $5,000 for facilitating a wedding with double the COVID-safe capacity on Sunday night.

On Wednesday, a joint session of Congress will count the certified electoral votes to confirm Joe Biden as the new President. But a dozen Republican senators said they will stand in the way.

A severe thunderstorm has smashed Sydney and its surrounding regions, with large hailstones, damaging winds and heavy rain.

The Prime Minister has come under pressure to axe GCSEs and A-Levels because so many children have missed out on schooling since the pandemic began.

Helicopters spotted the body in the water next to the waterfall at Wattamolla in the Sutherland Shire in New South Wales on Monday. The site is a popular but dangerous cliff diving location..

Paul Fletcher, 30, who was known to friends as 'Dod', died at the property in the Essex town of Rayleigh after being discovered unresponsive in the early hours of January 1.

Officers arrested the man on suspicion of outraging public decency after receiving several reports of a naked pedestrian on Waldridge Fell in Durham.

The Kaliningrad-based station blamed a 'technical glitch' rather than a political protest for the embarrassing scandal. Only the lower half of Putin's head was visible as he spoke from the Kremlin.

Bernie the koala was ready for action - and he wanted every female within shouting distance around Adelaide Koala Rescue Clinic in Campbelltown, South Australia, to know it.

The op-ed was published in The Washington Post on Sunday, following calls from the Trump's allies to bring in the military in a bid to block Joe Biden from becoming the next Commander-in-chief.

Former managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby, Lyle Shelton, posted on Twitter about a 'sneaky run across the border and back' on Saturday night.

President Trump 's desperate attempts to pressure Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger into overturning Joe Biden 's victory were revealed in a leaked phone call Sunday.

AFL premiership winning coach Damien Hardwick's relationship with a young staffer allegedly developed while the pair were caged inside the Queensland hub. 

The St Vincent de Paul store in Westside Circle, Tasmania shared a horrific photo to Facebook showing just a quarter of the rubbish left outside the shop on December 29.

Former PM Tony Blair was one of the strongest opponents of leaving the bloc, having campaigned for another referendum to cancel the decision.

Fairmont Joseph Wiringi, member of the New Zealand street gang 'Mongrel Mob', is in a critical condition after suffering from double bullet wounds, in his arm and torso on Monday

A woman who refused to self-isolate twice has been busted by police swimming in a Byron Bay resort pool after she was ordered to get tested for Covid-19.

Premier Mark McGowan said the state government will not hesitate to act to protect local residents - including shutting the borders once again.

Phil Robertson was out foil boarding off Kawau Island, on New Zealand's North Island, when he came across the dolphin struggling to move through the water.

Fragments of the virus were detected at two treatment plants in the Liverpool and Glenfield areas of Sydney's west.

Seven Australian universities are at risk of losing their Top 100 World Rankings due to an 'over-reliance' on international students from China, who pay $7 billion a year to study here.

Chadstone Shopping Centre, in south-east Melbourne, released a statement on Monday that said the infected employee last worked between 6pm and 11pm on December 29.

New York state is now entering a deadly new phase in the pandemic, with deaths, new cases and the overall positivity rate increasing along with the number of hospitalizations.

An eagle-eyed customer spotted the error on the back of the label after buying the $4 Silicone Travel Bottle on Sunday.

A leaked recording captured President Donald Trump's extraordinary phone call with Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Saturday.

The former managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby group Lyle Shelton took to Twitter on Sunday and shared a selfie and images of other locations in NSW.

Western Sydney's BWS bottle shop cluster at Berala is on track to be worse than the Crossroads Hotel outbreak at Casula in July. This graph shows the frightening trajectory at the end of 2020.

A mother was shocked to find a 'nasty' note on her car that slammed her for using a pram-only spot despite having a one-year-old baby.  

The SCG will be reduced to 25 per cent crowd capacity for this week's cricket Test as acting NSW Premier John Barilaro urges regional NSW residents to reconsider attending the match.

The man in his 50s was pronounced dead at the scene after the oak tree collapsed 20ft down a steep embankment onto a houseboat at Sailors Creek, Flushing, Cornwall, last night.

Three Queensland men who lied on their border control forms to return home from Melbourne have been escaped serious punishment and instead received good behaviour bonds.  

Senior Constable Kelly Foster, 39, drowned while trying to save a woman, 24, from raging waters at the Wollongambe Canyon, on Mount Wilson, north-west of Sydney, on Saturday afternoon.

SA Police issued 1,038 fines worth more than $2.5 million in the past nine months, but only collected a fraction that that money with $800,000 left outstanding and being chased by debt collectors.

Covid broken out of Sydney's hotel quarantine system four times in the past month as a top health official warns of a worrying surge in sick travellers from overseas.

The government had been providing payments of $1200 a fortnight to eligible Australians working at least 20 hours a week but that has now decreased to $1000.

'Soho Karen', Miya Ponsetto was questioned by a reporter in California for the first time since her alleged attack in a New York City hotel on a 14-year-old black boy.

A viral video posted to TikTok has made an attempt to discover whether flashing headlights to warn drivers of nearby police isa global practice, which has now sparked a heated debate.

Tony Blair was absent again from the Queen's New Year's honours list. Reports say the Queen is reluctant to confer the honour over resentment at the handling of the death of Princess Diana.

Sweden-born Greta Thunberg sarcastically hit back at critics who claim parents secretly masterminded her rise to fame by saying she is 'free at last' now she has turned 18.

The West Coast Eagles speedster was at Gloucester Park race course with his family ringing in the new year when other revellers allegedly began taunting the group.

Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, said the African strain is more concerning than the Kent one as it has 'substantial changes in the structure of the protein'.

The Back to School 2020 Report revealed parents can expect to spend an average of $592 on school suppiers per child, compared to only $538 last year.

In October the prime minister said at a press briefing that he will last a 'full term' which would mean no election until May 2022. But MPs believe he'll call the poll early to take advantage.

The Conservatives could gain as many as ten seats when parliamentary constituency boundaries are redrawn. The review into the size of MPs' seats could boost traditional Tory heartlands.

The NSW Health Minister has come under fire after granting an exemption allowing yachtsmen to enter the locked down zone of the northern beaches to go sailing.

With half a million doses of the new Oxford Covid-19 vaccine set to be rolled out this week. Ahead of the rollout, we answer the key questions about the new vaccination.

House prices in regional areas of Australia surged by 6.9 per cent in 2020 - more than triple the two per cent increase recorded in capital cities. Working from home rules are set to intensify this trend.

Video captured on the weekend showed the man using the jet ski in a flooded creek between Broken Hill and Silverton in the state's far west.

The move paves the way for a huge inoculation program to stem the coronavirus pandemic in the world's second most populous country.

Emma was driving to a petrol station in Adelaide on Christmas Day when she first saw the spider while at a petrol station and removed it on the spot - but it had already laid hundreds of eggs.

Raistlin Ruther, 18, from Riverhead, Long Island in New York took to the waters on Saturday morning at around 8am. He was found dead by the end of the day after capsizing in his kayak.

Sen Ron Johnson of Wisconsin sought to defend the so-called Dirty Dozen's plan to challenge Joe Biden's Electoral College during an appearance on Meet the Press on Sunday.

Victoria has recorded three new coronavirus cases after thousands of shoppers were left exposed after a contact tracing bungle.

Kelly Loeffler wouldn't say if she will join the dozen GOP senators in blocking Congress from certifying the election for Biden on Jan. 6 - as Trump claims 40,000 Georgia votes weren't counted for him.

The man, dutifully wearing a mask and with a shopping bag in hand, walked to the BWS in Berala and appeared confused as to why the doors would not open.

The pair clashed on a pier in Sydney's inner west, with the woman accusing the man of killing the fish before throwing it back.

Jess came back to her car after shopping at an IGA in Noosa, Brisbane, to find a common tree snake slithering over her dashboard, and called a local snake catcher to retrieve it.

A venue operator in Sydney's west has been fined $5,000 for hosting a 700-person wedding reception.

Health bosses fear more cases will be recorded after thousands of people went to a BWS at Berala which was exposed to the virus from 22 December to 31 January.

New York City man, Bryan Thompson, 43, allegedly attacked multiple people on Saturday, leaving at least one unconscious and another with a broken arm before carjacking two vehicles.

The death of Pennsylvania House Rep. Mike Reese was first announced in a statement from Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff on Saturday night. He was 42.

Chudier Thowath Pal, 29, was arrested after his girlfriend Stephanie Lee was found dead in a home in Doubleview, northern Perth about 7.15am on Saturday.

Masks are now mandatory for shopping centres, on public transport, in places of worship, hair and beauty premises, entertainment venues such as cinemas and other indoor venues.

The vandals targeted the Warriewood site on three separate occasions, before doing burnouts in the nearby McDonald's car park.

Troy McAlister, 45, was released from a prison sentence for robbery in April and was not charged with new crimes by the District Attorney's office after being arrested in November and December.

Trusts in London and the south-east are preparing to transfer patients to hospitals in the south-west while patients in the east of England will be moved to the Midlands.

Officials said the deputies were working an extra job and were in full uniform when they responded to a fight in a parking lot outside Set Nightclub at 2.20am Sunday morning.

A Senate runoff race in Georgia has thrust the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the Rev Martin Luther King Jr once preached, into the spotlight as pastor, Rev Raphael Warnock, runs for office.

Three people are dead, including two young children, following a domestic dispute in Columbus, Ohio on Friday night. Alyse, 6, and Ava, 9, were shot dead by their father Aaron Williams, 32.

Sgt Jessica Mitchell, 30, was found dead in her car on New Year's Day after being shot multiple times. Police said she was killed on Interstate 10 in San Antonio.

QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green refused to wear a mask at the House of Representatives' swearing-in ceremony on Sunday, sparking a 'screaming match' on the House floor.

A severe weather warning was issued for far north Queensland on Sunday after a tropical low intensified.

SolarWinds cybersecurity expert Ian Thornton-Trump warned the company to improve its internal security to prevent a 'catastrophic' episode in 2017.

Research by Canstar showed that women in their 60s are the worst off when it comes to their superannuation, recording an average balance of $154,896 when $430,000 is needed.

Nose pressed against the nursery window, Sarah Jane Young's last sight of her young cavalryman father 38 years ago is scorched into her memory.

A leading family doctor has warned there is a 'real risk' that doses of the Pfizer vaccine could go to waste this week because of the Government's last-minute change on the second jab.

Hilaria Baldwin's sister-in-law singer Chynna Phillips defended her in a YouTube video Tuesday saying, 'She's a good woman and none of us are perfect' following backlash for faking her Spanish identity.