About 15,000 students at more than 40 universities including Bristol, Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield are pledging to withhold rent, according to the Rent Strike Now campaign.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists warned that the Covid-19 pandemic could create a 'lost' generation who will be affected by 'lifelong' mental illnesses.

Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned the boss of vaccine firm Pfizer 17 times in just days to secure more supplies of the Covid jab.

Marks and Spencer's Percy Pigs are among the first victims of Brexit red tape and tariffs. Exports of the sweets have been hit by new paperwork .

The Prime Minister faced a stark situation in a 'dashboard' meeting on Monday. A Downing Street insider said Mr Johnson was 'the last man standing when it came to schools'.

After criticism that the Department for Education's definition of key workers is too broad, parents have been urged by the department to 'honour the spirit' of England's lockdown.

The BBC has revealed its schedule for the first week of Lockdown Learning as the corporation steps in to help children who are stuck at home. Celebrity Supply Teacher will return as part of programming.

The nurse, who has been working for the Hywel Dda University Health Board area, said that she contracted Covid-19 while waiting for the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine.

British couple Andrew Luker and Julia Knightley decided to spice up their sex life while on holiday in Barbados by inviting Jamaican prostitute Mikaela Jacas back to their luxury hotel for sex.

President Donald Trump sent a message to his supporters on Friday night by using the official account of the President of the United States, managing to briefly beat his Twitter ban.

Jaguar halted production of the XJ Sentinel after demand fell during the pandemic. The Prime Minister's fleet of Jaguars has been depleted by crashes and breakdowns since 2010.

Britons who stop following lockdown rules after receiving their jabs risk sabotaging the vaccination programme, experts have warned.

Boris Johnson begged families to stay at home as he warned new infections were rising at an alarming rate. Meanwhile, the NHS has launched a campaign to urge people to stay at home

School pupils are carrying out Covid tests on themselves, despite fears over their effectiveness when self-administered.

Famed for her infectious laugh and baring all in the Carry On films, the east London-born actress universally known as 'Babs', boasted a 66-year career in showbiz.

Facewatch, based in the UK, operates in some Southern Co-op stores, Budgens, garden centres and petrol stations and plans to expand, despite criticisms from privacy campaigners.

House prices soared at a rate of £275 a week to hit a record high by the end of last year, despite the pandemic. Property values rose 6 per cent in 2020 to reach an average of £253,374.

Princess Diana's former lover Hasnat Khan said Martin Bashir 'filled her head with rubbish' until Prince William, then a teenager, warned her: 'Mummy, he's not a good person.'

In a statement he said: 'The number of cases in London has increased rapidly with more than a third more patients being treated in our hospitals now compared to the peak of the pandemic last April.

London hospitals overwhelmed with Covid patients have begun triaging patients, it has been claimed. Doctors say a critical lack of beds means they are using emergency guidelines.

The jar size of Nutella has been slashed from 400g to 350g despite the price remaining unchanged in a tactic known as shrinkflation. The company says rising product costs is behind the change

Hospitals across London must now open up more and more beds for patients, but shortages in staff still remain a major concern. Pictured: Daily coronavirus hospitalisations in the UK.

The West Ham midfielder has pledged to make a donation to an east London foodbank to make up for him breaking coronavirus restrictions over Christmas with three Tottenham players.

AMANDA PLATELL: Dressed in military fatigues, towering over the PM with a true-grit, can-do attitude . . . what a heartening presence of booming no-nonsense Brigadier Phil Prosser.

The NHS has confirmed patients given the Oxford vaccine will not be monitored for 15 minutes after getting the jab in case of allergic reaction. Experts say the risk was one in a million.

Meghan Markle was required to live in the UK for a minimum of three years before applying for citizenship and legally qualifying for a British passport.

Louise Kyle, a nursing leader in a large inner-city UK practice, gives an insight into the gargantuan effort required for just one vaccine 'hub' to play its part.

In the early hours the Met Office revised its forecast and spared only the South East and parts of western Scotland from the yellow weather warnings.

Apple Mobility Trends for London (pictured, the Tube this morning) shows driving down by 44 per cent, walking down by 62 per cent and transit down by 68 per cent.

Tommy and Maryanne Pilling were the trailblazing Down's Syndrome couple who defied sceptics to marry in 1995, in Essex. As Tommy sadly dies, his widow's family tells of her heartache after 25 years.

JOHN HUMPHRYS: We are the most spied upon, pried into, scrutinised, surveyed, secretly observed beings in the nation's history, and it's happening because knowledge is power.

The image is heart-rending. A mother and daughter struck down by Covid, side-by-side in their intensive care beds, holding hands for what would be their final photograph together.

Floyd Langridge (pictured), 44, was holding his cigarette as he walked home with supplies when he says he was approached by a Covid marshal in Tonbridge, Kent.

SAGE's reproduction rate, which shows how many people each infected person passes the virus to, has been given a wider range than the estimated 1.1 to 1.3 last week. They say outbreak is growing.

The crisis began between Christmas and New Year when Bonnie Saunders, a nurse at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen, Wales, developed coronavirus symptoms.

JANET STREET-PORTER: What I don't wish to encounter on my restorative stroll is a pompous member of the police force wasting their time (and mine).

The EU's drug regulator also revealed that it could approve the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine before the end of January - having previously said this was unlikely.

Mr Love, 30, wore tan chinos,a dark blue shirt and a blue surgical mask as he arrived at court in Barbados today where he was fined £3,000, £1,400 less than his Love Island star girlfriend was given.

A top SAGE expert said today there was 'no evidence' of widespread community transmission of the South African variant - called 501.V2 - in the UK.

Figures show that one in three schools in the UK had more than 20 per cent of pupils in on Wednesday. In March, only 1 in 100 schools registered as high a figure.

Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore were taking a stroll at Foremark Reservoir in Derbyshire when they were surrounded by officers, read their rights and fined £200 each.

The SAGE sub-group SPI-B said that as the UK scales up its vaccination programme it must be clear that people have to keep following the rules until there is a 'high degree of coverage'.

The Transport Secretary has said nobody will be able to depart to the UK by plane, train or ferry unless they present a 'recognised' test result on check-in along with a valid passport and visa if required.

Terence Glover, 52, has been detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act at Snaresbrook Crown Court for the hit-and-run killing of schoolboy Harley Watson, 12, in December 2019.

Some 97 per cent of those polled by the FDA union wanted the option to do their job from home sometime. Almost a third (32 per cent) said they wanted to only come into the office two days a week

Doctors can take brain-damaged Pippa Knight, five, off life support a judge has ruled after a trial in the Family Division of the High Court in London. Pippa had acute necrotising encephalopathy.

Jonathan Van Tam spent £21.77 on a meal at Pakhtoon Restaurant in London on March 16. Just hours earlier, Boris Johnson warned Londoners to avoid restaurants.

Mark Brandford, 49, is accused of sharing footage of him and Kayleigh Dunning, 32, having sex from a stolen phone of hers. She died in a 'brutal and ferocious' attack in Portsmouth.

John Lister, of Griston, Norfolk, who served as a gunner during the war in the 72nd Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery and later ran a pub, caught coronavirus in March alongside his wife Ella. 92.

Sue Addis, 69, died at her £1 million property in Withdean, Brighton yesterday with a 17-year-old arrested on suspicion of her murder.

Dozens of Britons were pictured queuing outside a vaccination centre in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, (left) in a sign the sluggish scheme may be accelerating after Boris brought in the Army.

The Chancellor is looking at proposals for a Directors Income Support Scheme that would pay sole directors up to 80 per cent of lost profits for three months, up to a ceiling of £7,500.

The Competition and Markets Authority has launched an antitrust probe after publishers said the tech giant's controversial 'sandbox' privacy project will 'distort' the market.

Photographs taken this morning showed ambulances lined up outside the ExCeL centre in Newham, East London, as lorries arrived ahead of NHS staff beginning to use the site from next week.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has approved Moderna's coronavirus vaccine, the Department for Health has announced.

Care home staff in the UK have been told to go into work despite testing positive for coronavirus, an alarming new report has revealed today.

Trump released a short video after being allowed back on Twitter where he blasted the 'heinous' attack and claimed that he had called in the National Guard - a claim disputed by Fox and other outlets.

Leanna Bishop went into the garden of her home as Wayne Seeley (pictured), 41, descended towards the local school playing field in Eastington, Gloucestershire, in June 2020.

Chauncey Taylor, 21, attempted to deal Class A drugs from a flat in Leckwith along with five other people. Taylor claimed he had been threatened and intimidated into dealing.

Katie Jones, 30, rang 999 twice, falsely claiming she had a gun and stabbed someone before claiming she had 'chopped up' two men at her home in Cheshire and 'put them in a stir fry.'

Food from Tom Kerridge's menu will be available on a 'buy before you fly' basis from a new 'Speedbird Café' service. The gourmet menu will include a posh Warm Steak & Ale Pie and a Soft Brie Ploughman's.

Two police officers knocked on a door in Aberdeen at 11.20pm on Wednesday after a member of the public reported a breach of coronavirus restrictions.

Britons across the nation stood outside their doorsteps in solidarity with the workers helping fight Covid-19 as the Clap for Carers campaign made its return under a new name.

Some 128,037 televisions were bought for UK prisoners at an average cost of £96 each between February 2017 and December 2020.

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson turned down an offer from the telecommunications operator BT to provide children from vulnerable families with Wi-Fi vouchers in June last year.

Katie Wilkinson, 26, from Winlaton, Gateshead, called the police after thinking she had discovered a human toe in a muddy field while walking her dog, Phoebe, on January 5.

The horrific killings took place in Bayramozu Village in the district of Kaman in the central Turkish city of Kirsehir where the young woman Vildan Ince, 24, was forced to marry her cousin

Incredible images have captured the indigenous tribes of Brazil who act as guardians of the quickly diminishing Amazon rainforest and fight off outsiders intent on destroying it.

EXCLUSIVE: Teachers were incensed by the tone of the message from the National Education Union to its 500,000 members at the decision which left nine million UK pupils locked out of schools.

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Yellow weather warnings are in place for ice across most of the UK, with only southern parts of Scotland escaping the freezing conditions which are set to last until Monday.

Amelia, 21, from Sussex, was found floating at sea in October 2019 and an inquest said she died of 'accidental drowning'. But a toxicology report has since sparked fears her drinks were spiked.

Ryan Hoyle (circled), 38, and seven friends flew to the United Arab Emirates city where they stayed at a five-star penthouse and drank £1,700 bottles of champagne.

Intensive care consultant Professor Rupert Pearse - who works at the Royal London Hospital - warned that he and his colleagues are 'extremely worried' that case totals will keep increasing.

Government sources say police should be getting stricter in cracking down on lockdown breaches, now nearly 10 months since the very first restrictions came into effect.

The revival of the man bun, which reached peak popularity in the 2010s as the 'hipster' haircut of the decade, has taken place largely out of necessity after national lockdowns forced men to skip cuts.

House Democrats unveiled the single article of impeachment they plan to use against Donald Trump on Friday, leading Lindsey Graham to go on Fox and beg Joe Biden to call off the plan.

From January 20 the Senate will be 50:50 Republicans-Democrats, with Kamala Harris breaking a tie. Murkowski is considering quitting the GOP, which would increase Democrat control.

There were 310,080 new COVID-19 cases reported in the United States on Friday, a new record, as California registered 50k cases alone and New Jersey reported 20k.

On his Friday night show, Fox News' Tucker Carlson accused CNN of attempting to censor its rivals as he revealed they had approached cable carriers about distributing Fox.

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Larry Rendall Brock Jr., 53, was among the violent mob of Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol Wednesday.

The footage showed Rep. Mike Nearman leaving the Oregon State Captiol building on December 21, 2020, while lawmakers were holding a special session and the building was closed to the public.

According to data from Public Health England, there were 503 reports of Covid-19 outbreaks in care homes in England in the week up to January 3, up from 304 the week before.

Police have confirmed an 11-year-old girl slipped and fell to her death at a popular climbing site on Friday.

Comedian Des O'Connor's wife Jodie Brooke Wilson, 51, couldn't accept what the doctors were saying when they told her two months ago that her brilliant and much-loved husband had died.

Fourteen people have been federally charged so far for their role in Wednesday's storming of the U.S. Capitol, and 55 are being pursued. More than 80 have been arrested.

A woman, 26, who flew from London to the Northern Territory on December 30 has tested positive for the UK strain of coronavirus.

Robert Clive was a notoriously wealthy military leader in the 18th century and attended Merchant Taylor's School for Boys in Hertfordshire for one year before being expelled for fighting.

Reuters' photographer Jim Bourg claimed in a tweet on Friday that he heard at least three Trump supporters speak about hanging VP Pence from a tree as a 'traitor' during Wednesday's Capitol riots.

The lawyer for 'Soho Karen' Miya Ponsetto has said her client 'needs help'. Sharen Ghatan, seen right, spoke out about 22-year-old Ponsetto, left, after a tense TV interview that took place in California.

The Microsoft boss's company Cascade Investment entered the bidding war for British private jet servicing company Signature Aviation Friday.

Villagers in Belton, Lincs, say their village was inundated with motorists looking for a festive event at nearby Belton House due to the National Trust property using the same postcode.

Limbaugh has not commented on the removal of his account but it comes amid a flurry of chatter from conservatives that they will stage an exodus from the platform.

One person has died after a collision between a recreational boat and a commercial barge off the coast of Fremantle, Western Australia. 

'Look what we found when we drained the swamp'

A Melbourne woman was saved from a deadly fate after strange hair began growing all over her face, prompting her to go to the doctor.

Melbourne Football Club coach Simon Goodwin has separated from his high-school sweetheart, ending a 15 years of marriage.

The woman had arrived in Melbourne from the UK on Boxing Day and tested positive to the virus during the first day of her stay in hotel quarantine.

On Friday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced the findings of a year-long investigation into a 'defect petition' filed last January, involving three models of Tesla cars.

West Virginia State House member Derrick Evans, 35, has been charged with entering a restricted public building and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

Ivanka Trump has said she is 'surprised and hurt' by tweets made by her sister-in-law Karlie Kloss in relation to the attack on Congress on Wednesday after she called the protesters 'patriots'.

The Federal Opposition Leader, 57, was involved in the two-car crash on Hill Street in Marrickville, in Sydney's inner-west, on Friday afternoon just before 5pm.

The four-bedroom, three-bathroom, 5,536-square-foot home in Los Angeles' Los Feliz neighborhood is where late Glee star Naya Rivera had lived with Josey prior to her tragic death in July 2020.

The YouTube account for Bannon's War Room podcast was taken down Friday for violating the platform's Terms of Service, according to the Washington Examiner.

A New York state employee has been identified as one the trespassers involved with Wednesday's Capitol riot. Metro North employee Will Pepe, 31, was recognized by staff from pictures.

Miya Ponsetto, 22, appeared in Ventura County court, California, via Zoom just after 2 p.m. local time Friday for her extradition hearing.

Legendary game show host Alex Trebek posthumously ended his historic 36-year run as Jeopardy! host on Friday with his final episode. The show aired more than two months after his death.

Sarah Matthews was three-months pregnant and had two young children when the 'inland tsunami' hit her family property in Spring Bluff, Queensland on January 10, 2011.

Footage shared to Twitter shows the kookaburra minding its own business on a car window in Hobart, Tasmania.

President-elect Joe Biden compared Sen. Ted Cruz to Nazi propagadist Joseph Goebbels, saying the Texas Republican is responsible for spreading the 'big lie,'

Police stopped a maroon Ford Falcon sedan on Jervis Street in Nowra on the NSW south coast about 8.20pm Friday.

Valerie Taylor survived polio at the age of 12 and went on to pioneer underwater filming and photography with her late husband, Ron Taylor. The Australian couple worked on the movie Jaws.

The surge in COVID-19 cases is so great that it could be due to a new, more infectious, strain of the virus, Dr Deborah Birx has speculated, in an analysis that was swiftly denied by the CDC.

President elect Joe Biden called on the Senate to start the process to confirm his top Cabinet nominees immediately, saying there should be no vacancies during the coronavirus pandemic.

Dr Charlie Teo's 'miracle girl' Milli Lucas will be laid to rest with a public service at Perth's Optus Stadium on Thursday, after the 14-year-old died from brain cancer.

The 11-year-old was on Holiday in southeast Tasmania with her family when she plunged about 10-meters from a rock ledge.

Cuomo backpedaled on his policy on Friday, after de Blasio complained that thousands of doses were going unused and some were even being tossed out after expiring.

Helena Duke, 18, of Massachusetts, on Thursday took to Twitter to out a woman she identified as her mother as a US Capitol rioter who was seen in a viral video getting punched.

Concierge doctors such as Dr Edward Goldberg have been receiving calls from patients asking to get the coronavirus vaccine ahead of others

The 16-year-old was in a Toyota ute with four others about 12.35am when the car suddenly left the road, rolled over and crashed in Mathoura, south of New South Wales.

The area around Gora Otdelnaya resort in Norilskwas was hit at around 8.30pm Moscow time, leaving five houses, including two children, snowed in, Russian media have reported.

The 47-year-old was riding the train near Parrmatta Station in the city's west around 1am on Thursday when police tried to arrest him.

Audio footage has emerged of prosecutor Rob Wood telling Lori Vallow's sister he planned to file conspiracy to commit murder charges against the cult mom and husband Chad Daybell.

Eleanor Wadsworth died at her home in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk last month. She joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) trainee pilot scheme after war broke out in 1939.

Kathy Jasmine Rado, 59, from Cairns, is now suing The Lott in a desperate attempt for them to hand over the money and reveal the details of the winning docket.

Joseph Chalouhi, Ricky Wharepouri and Steve Ker were out fishing at Batemans Bay on the NSW south coast on December 28 when they reeled in the strange looking sea creature.

New South Wales has reported on Saturday one new Covid-19 case linked to a western Sydney cluster.  

Arson investigators are probing a 'suspicious' fire that ripped through a two-storey home in Sydney's northwest during the early hours of the morning.

It's not quite the same as the real thing. But if you want to recreate the magic of an alpine getaway during lockdown, CLAIRE COLEMAN shows how…

The claims have been made by LGBT charity, the Peter Tatchell Foundation, which says a recent post on the BBC Persian website used a number of derogatory terms.

Black woman Berlinda Nibo, 25, was pulled to safety by a white Trump supporter after she was attacked by an angry mob of MAGA fans during a 'Stop the Steal' rally in LA on Wednesday.

P.D JAMES: By the time you read this I shall be dead. Dead for how long, of course, I cannot predict. I shall place this document in the strongroom of my bank with instructions.

Amber Heard vowed to divide her £5m divorce settlement between two charities. But Miss Heard has given just £74k to Children's Hospital Los Angeles and blames delay on recent court battle.

Channel Seven crime reporter Peter Fegan, 38, was allegedly busted with cocaine on the night of the network's Christmas party.

The Federal Opposition Leader, 57, was involved in the two-car crash on Hill Street in Marrickville, in Sydney's inner-west, on Friday afternoon just before 5pm.

Sen. Lindsey Graham made enemies with MAGA supporters this week, which he learned firsthand at Reagan Airport on Friday after earlier in the week he finally admitted Biden had won.

BARBARA DAVIES: The release of a new David Bowie biopic should be a matter of great excitement for the late singer's devoted army of fans. But the film is mired in controversy.

Saturday marks the third day in a row without any community transmission while one case was recorded in hotel quarantine.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed she spoke to the chair of the joint chiefs about 'restricting' President Trump's access to the nuclear codes.

Jodie Kidd's brother Jack, 47, is a leading figure in the British offshoot of QAnon, the far-right extremist group of Trump supporters who led the invasion of U.S. Congress this week

Queensland reported no new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday as greater Brisbane continues its three-day-long lockdown to combat the spread of a UK strain of the virus.  

Team GB athlete Bianca Williams was handcuffed alongside her partner Ricardo dos Santos and separated from their three-month-old son in Maida Vale, west London, last July.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is demanding President Donald Trump resign. 'If the President does not leave office imminently and willingly, the Congress will proceed with our action,' she said.

The writer and actress, 35, is reaping huge rewards eight years after creating Fleabag as a one-woman show for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It quickly won a second season.

A family of four that flew in to New South Wales from South Africa have tested positive for the highly infectious coronavirus super-strain.

BBC's Pooch Perfect follows contestants hoping to be named the nation's best dog groomer. Stanley was taken as part of a litter to Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in south-west London.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Friday convened a grand jury investigation into the August 2019 death of Elijah McClain, 23, in Aurora while in police custody.

First lady Melania Trump was conducting a photoshoot at the White House Wednesday when the MAGA mob violently took over the U.S. Capitol Building.

The model took to Twitter Thursday to lambaste Zuckerberg and Big Tech in a thread where she shared her worry and conspiracy theories about Capitol police.

The Morrison government launched the Tertiary Access Payment (TAP) to help regional and remote students looking to begin their tertiary study in a new area in 2021.