News anchor Tom Bradby shared details during an ITV interview due to air on Sunday. The presenter has known Harry since he was a teen and filmed documentary on the couple's tour of Africa

ANDREW NEIL: More than 20,000 National Guard troops will be deployed in Washington DC on Wednesday for the inauguration of Joe Biden as 46th President of the United States.

'We have never had as many patients as we have today. We are absolutely at the limit,' says Dr Mike Spiro of the Intensive Care Unit of London's Royal Free Hospital.

The US has seen a decrease in life expectancy of 1.13 years, on average, whereas in the UK the decrease in 0.9 years for women and 1.2 years for men.

Another week's delay would be a huge blow to fearful families who said they were living in terror after Covid outbreaks in UK care homes more than tripled in three weeks.

Rishi Sunak was presented with plans for a one-off levy on those with assets of more than £500,000, or £1million for a couple, including their family home and pension.

Wealthy locals living a stone's throw from Buckingham Palace have made a series of complaints over recent weeks, but the occupants continued to pile up waste on the grass.

Piers Corbyn has established himself as a fervent anti-lockdown campaigner in the UK and 'anti-vaxxer' who has described the vaccine as a 'satanic death shot'.

Three samples of locally produced ice cream were found to be contaminated in the Tianjin municipality, in the north east of the country.

The raw horror you are seeing in the photograph is the very last moment on earth of a Jewish family, teetering on the edge of a death pit as Nazi executioners with rifles fire from behind.

Archie Lyndhurst died his sleep after an intracerebral haemorrhage caused by acute lymphoblastic lymphoma/leukaemia at his family home in west London in September.

Healthcare services have 'collapsed' in the city of Manaus, where hundreds of patients are being airlifted to neighbouring states while others are evicted from their beds to make way.

In less than 24 hours, US scientists have reported three homegrown 'super-covid' variants - and experts say the world should brace for many more,

Exam watchdog published plans that determine how teachers should assess students in the wake of exams being cancelled and suggests boards make papers available for teachers to use.

Doctors have placed 61-year-old Celebrity Big Brother winner Paddy Doherty on oxygen to help him fight the infection after he was admitted to hospital this week.

People travelling in Britain today were warned to expect more 'tricky' conditions as ice and freezing fog brought further hazards one day after heavy snowfall caused major disruption.

A spokesperson for US-based company Pfizer said Britain's supplies would be affected in late January and early February but the move would speed up production afterwards.

Dog lovers have taken to testing their canine friends to fend off boredom during lockdown. The popular new trend sees owners put treats in front of their pets and see if they can wait five seconds to eat them.

JOHN HUMPHRYS: Ocado has warned that prepared carrots are out of stock. Tesco has issued a similar warning in relation to packs of cauliflower.

JAN MOIR: Ampleforth-educated Justin Maxwell Stuart, 47, had misgivings about appearing on Grand Design... and it wasn't just that his development was situated inside a West London cemetery.

Some 20 of 138 acute NHS trusts recorded a dip in beds occupied by Covid-19 patients in the seven days to January 12 compared to the previous week.

JOHN NAISH: The mutant strain of the Covid-19 virus that has emerged from the depths of the Amazon rainforest in north-west Brazil - and may already be in Britain - is alarming many scientists.

Modelling himself on Playboy's Hugh Hefner, Nygard kept a revolving harem of girlfriends, while his Caribbean parties tended to attract a better class of A-lister.

A U.S. court ruled last October that Bary should be released a few weeks early on 'compassionate' grounds because his morbid obesity and asthma made him vulnerable to Covid in jail.

Vice President Mike Pence and his family were taken into hiding one minute before the group chased a Capitol police officer, who was leading them away from the Senate, up the stairs.

Charlotte Darwent, 27, who cares for the prince's rare-breed sheep at his beloved Dumfries House in Ayrshire, told the Mail that she is delighted with her luxury pied-a-terre in the fields.

Ex- footballer Gary Neville, who owns two luxury hotels in Manchester with Ryan Giggs, is one tens of thousands of business owners in line for a £1.2billion windfall.

An analysis of loose leaves from four Spanish beaches found plastic pellets, cosmetic microbeads and polyester fibres from clothes entangled in half of them.

A man wearing an orange hi-viz jacket posed as a delivery driver and when the homeowner in Walthamstow, London, opened the door four other people appeared and stormed inside on Monday.

Johnson, 52, was pronounced dead at 11.34pm on Thursday following lethal injection with pentobarbital at the federal execution chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana .

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency would not sign off on the use of rapid 30-minute lateral flow tests for pupils, it was claimed last night.

SAGE said that the rate of spread of the virus appears to have started falling in regions of England that were pushed into Tier 4 before Christmas but it's still rising elsewhere.

The UK population may have shrunk by 1.3million amid the coronavirus pandemic - a fall which would be the largest recorded since the Second World War.

One of the six vans Universal Studios licensed for the A-team is up for auction. The 1979 black Chevrolet 2500 has been covered in GMC logos to match the vehicle used in the show.

Hilarious footage shows the worker in Akita, Japan, trying to nudge a massive pile of snow on a building's roof. But he quickly realised it was a bad idea when the snow came down like an avalanche.

The craze began when Scottish postman Nathan Evans' rendition of Leave her Johnny, which was often the last song sung at the end of a voyage by sailors, gathered 1.1 million views last year.

Commuters in London packed onto tube trains this morning - hours before Sadiq Khan announced they would be hit by fare rises on them and trains and buses in March

Anis Ali, 36, launched a claim for compensation after he discovered that the fake suspicious package planted to test security procedures had the Arabic words for 'Allah is Greater' on it.

Mark Andrews, 49, the Deputy Chief Officer at West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service, is being investigated for regularly visiting the home of his former secretary Anna Colwell, 34, in Worthing.

Professor Trevor Bedford warned that a higher number of severe infections would lead to more super-strains as it gives the virus additional chances to mutate to evade the immune system.

Date from Public Health England (PHE) reveals that in the week to January 14, there were 977 outbreaks of respiratory conditions in care homes with 739 confirmed as Covid.

The Duke, 36, and Duchess of Sussex, 39, surprised Kate Middleton with a 'thoughtful' card and gifts for her 39th birthday last weekend, an insider told US weekly.

Grant Shapps today suggested over-50s should think twice before booking a summer holiday despite rising optimism prompted by the roll-out of coronavirus vaccines.

Two police officers, one attending an incident in Bournemouth and another in Cambridgeshire, tested positive for Covid-19 after being spat at in two separate attacks on January 6.

An unfortunate egret, which weighs less than one pound, was downwind of a massive 2,500-pound black rhino in Kenya when it relieved itself, spraying pee all over the snowy white bird.

The idea of introducing vaccine passports has already been floated in Europe, with Greek ministers suggesting that EU countries adopt a 'standardised' passport.

Some 27 of 140 major NHS hospitals had no space on critical care wards last Sunday and 12 didn't have a single bed free all week, averaging 100 per cent occupancy.

No10 released a new Covid poster which shows masked people queuing outside while a caption urges people 'don't let a coffee cost lives' during England's shutdown.

An anonymous mother, from the UK, has taken to Mumsnet to question whether it's OK for a childminder to 'sometimes' give toddlers a 'movie afternoon' when they're in her care.

The campaign, launched last year, saw celebrities including Love Island stars Shaughna Phillips and Josh Denzel share messages of support for the NHS on platforms such as Instagram.

Barchester Healthcare boss Dr Pete Calveley's pay more than doubled to £2.02million in 2019 - around 120 times more than some of the care assistants who work for him.

More than 15,000 illegal migrants attempted to cross the Channel last year, police have revealed. Home Office figures show 8,500 migrants reached the UK in 2020.

In November 2019 there were 4.42million waiting for routine ops, and in November 2018 there were 4.45million waiting for further care, NHS England figures also show.

JANET STREET-PORTER: If you're loaded or homeless, you've got more chance of getting a jab in the next couple of weeks than most pensioners (me included).

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: All week, we have been publishing delicious and easy-to-prepare Fast 800 recipes developed by my wife, Clare - a GP who helps patients tackle their health problems via diet.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he is 'hugely concerned' that only a tenth of vaccines across the UK have been distrubuted in the capital. He said he will meet the government about it today.

Kenny Wilding, 42, from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, got the tattoo to raise money to help his friend Megan Smith, 25, to fly to the US for a clinical trial to treat her cancer.

Mother-of-two Stephanie Pase, from New South Wales, revealed how you can contain the clutter in every space of your house, from the wardrobes and kitchen to the bathroom and linen closet.

An amateur home cook has revealed how to make the perfect eggs with runny yolk.'There's really no other way to cook them! She said.

With camellia blooming alongside snowdrops, the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Wisley, Surrey, still offers plenty to see. It's open for those lucky enough to live within a short distance.

Marian Dragoi, 19, was facing jail for riding at 180mph across London and three counties, when he leapt from the dock and ran out of Wood Green Crown Court - before being caught near the entrance.

Residents in Saltburn, Yorkshire, and Surrey wore fairy lights, banged pans and decorated their balconies with flowers spelling 'NHS' during the second Clap for Heroes.

TOM UTLEY: From time to time I like to suggest modern contenders for the Kingsley Amis Prize, which I award to the phrase I currently judge to be the most depressing in the English language.

The man, identified only as 'RS', and 22 other Jamaican criminals due to be kicked out of the UK, submitted legal challenges which delayed their removal, to the fury of Home Secretary Priti Patel.

Hundreds of thousands of care home residents face heartbreak after visits were banned across England again, forbidding the 400,000 people in care homes from having close contact with family.

An Australian woman has take to social media pleading for tips to help her sleep better at night and has been flooded with all kinds of helpful suggestions from strangers.

The Court of Appeal of Bordeaux in France has ruled that the 40-year-old refugee, who has asthma, would be killed by pollution if he was deported to his native Bangladesh.

Waitrose beer sales were up 49% and wine sales by 27% over the week following the imposition of restrictions in England on January 6.

The Knightsbridge Circle is offering its £25,000-a-year members first-class travel to countries who administer the vaccines privately - namely India and the UAE. The service is offered to over 65s only.

King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway, both 83, have become the latest royals to announce they have received the Covid-19 vaccination. The Queen and Prince Philip recently had the jab.

Dr Kyl Myers, who is originally from Salt Lake City but now lives in Australia, told Mamamia that she's received letters from people who believe Zoomer should be taken away.

Rudy Giuliani claimed he was just quoting 'Game of Thrones' when he shouted to the crowd at the 'Save America' rally, 'Let's have trial by combat!' before members stormed the Capitol.

With Israel rolling out the world's fastest vaccination programme, studies of hundreds of thousands of people offer perhaps the most extensive real-world data on the vaccine's efficacy.

The third episode of the second series, which first aired on 7 Oct 1999, sees Ricky Tomlinson's disagreeable character watching an episode of Changing Rooms

The actress, 79, who has never minced her words when discussing the politician, admitted she fled the UK in May and doesn't wish to return home until the case numbers have improved.

EXCLUSIVE: The Specialist Pharmacy Service says partially used vials 'must not be onwardly transported'. But NHS advice says it is fine to move them between households.

Matt Hancock tweeted that he was 'delighted' with the news: 'We're accelerating the Covid vaccine roll-out across the UK.'

Gerald Frost, 61, from the Baddeley Green area of Stoke-on-Trent, who went missing in 2017, was discovered after a locksmith was called out to open the garage at his mother-in-law's home.

Casey Bellwood - who was better known to friends by his nickname Yogi Bear and described as an 'amazing human being' - was found dead by paramedics in a flat in West Yorkshire yesterday.

A survey conducted by Savanta ComRes showed Ms Sturgeon's personal ratings are up, with 76 per cent of voters believing her to be intelligent, an increase of three points.

Shopping levels are at just one third of where they were last year, furlough numbers are increasing and more than one in 10 UK firms fear they will not survive past March, according to new data.

EXCLUSIVE: Sportsmail understands that Murray, due to leave this week for Melbourne , returned the positive test several days ago but is believed to be only experiencing minor symptoms.

Pupils aged between nine and 11 at Ings Primary School in east Hull were sent the inappropriate parody video after the teacher uploaded the wrong clip to Google Classroom.

Data from Public Health England (PHE) comes from more than 20,000 healthcare workers at more than 100 sites across Britain to see how likely reinfection was.

If you follow our Fast 800 programme, we suggest you start with rapid weight-loss phase (800 calories a day, for at least the first few weeks).

Customers of some of Britain's biggest banks living in Belgium, Italy (pictured) and the Netherlands have either had their accounts closed or will see them shuttered in the next few weeks.

Tui, the UK's biggest package holiday company, said today that more than half of online bookings this week has been in that age group and many want a fortnight away instead of the usual seven nights.

The Scottish government spent more than £50,000 on preparing civil servants to give evidence about the investigation into former First Minister Alex Salmond, it has emerged.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Bad blood boiled over before Christmas at the Hurlingham Club, where Kate Middleton takes Prince George for tennis.

STEPHEN GLOVER At the turn of the 20th century, the question that most preoccupied British policymakers was: What do we do about Germany?

Circus legend Gerry Cottle, born in Carshalton, Surrey, died at a Bath hospital aged 75 after contracting Covid - just a week before he was due to be vaccinated.

An Australian mum has revealed how she softens her un-ripe avocados in just ten minutes - and her hack is so simple you can do it too.

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Drivers warned of 'horrendous' conditions on Britain's roads as the wintry weather hit the Home Counties and some villages are at risk of being 'cut off'.

The Australian Open has been thrown into further chaos after 23 players touched down in Melbourne on a charter flight with an infected passenger on board.

Jack Dunn, 24, planted a camera in the toilets of Denmead Junior School, Hampshire, for a week in 2019, capturing seven videos of children. Parents say they were 'physically sick' over his crimes.

On day one around 300,000 people across India, including medics, over-50s and those deemed high-risk, were given their first of two doses.

Campaigners handed in a petition with 86,000 signatures on Wednesday, well above the 50,000 required to trigger a nationwide vote under Switzerland's system of direct democracy.

Higgs, 48, was pronounced dead at 1.23am on Saturday after receiving a lethal injection of pentobarbital in the federal death chamber at the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana .

Queensland woman Maddie Gill, 22, went for a nap after work on December 5 last year and did not wake up again.

Visionary INXS manager Chris Murphy has died aged 66 after a short battle with cancer.

Local NHS leaders are said to have issued the instructions, despite Chris Whitty saying yesterday the UK's roll-out of vaccinations was being held back by delayed deliveries of the Pfizer jab.

The Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance, is investigating Trump for possible tax fraud, and bank and insurance fraud. Particular focus is being paid to Trump's Westchester estate.

The President-elect makes frequent reference to his Irish forebears, but there is now fervent interest in a speech he made back in 2013, in which he claimed he had familial connections in India.

PC David Owen also told the woman, a former victim of domestic violence, she was 'beautiful and deserved happiness' on social media after being deployed to her home.

Anti-terror police rushed hundreds of passengers and staff from the west London terminal and herded them into an adjacent car-park as fire engines arrived.

AMANDA PLATELL: What a refreshing change the next Chairman of the BBC, Richard Sharp, was when he was questioned by UK MPs this week.

Cases have dropped most significantly in the Midwest, with the region reporting the lowest number of infections in proportion to their population.

The former Special Counselor to the President told Maher Friday night that she believes her former boss pushed policies that positively impacted the country.

Donald Tober, 89, the CEO and co-owner of Sugar Foods, which manufactures artificial sweetener Sweet'N Low, is said to have committed suicide by jumping out the window of his apartment.

Tennis superstar Novak Djokovic has officially started his hotel quarantine in Adelaide ahead of the Australian Open next month at Melbourne Park.

The young teenager was with a 16-year-old boy at the time when they were struck by the car on the Old Hume Highway at Mittagong in NSW on Friday night.

The mining magnate, worth just shy of $30billion, discussed her Covid car conundrum while at an expensive lunch with five guests on the Sunshine Coast.

Graeme Perks, 65, was left fighting for his life after being knifed in the chest and stomach by an intruder at his detached property in the village of Halam, Nottinghamshire.

On Friday, Sullivan, 26, appeared via Zoom from a jail cell in Utah for his first court hearing.A judge granted Sullivan bail on strict conditions.

Daniel Hodges, 32, was filmed being squeezed between the doors at the West Terrace at the Capitol Building last week. Pictures of the suspect responsible have now been released.

Pompeo issued the public call on Friday night, one day after a WHO research team landed in Wuhan, where under strict Chinese oversight they are reportedly not investigating the lab.

A Capitol Police lieutenant was suspended for wearing a MAGA cap during riot. Lt. Tarik Khalid Johnson, 45, says he was trying to rescue his colleagues who were trapped inside the Capitol.

Graham (left) on Thursday released hundreds of pages of transcripts from the committee's inquiry into Crossfire Hurricane, and slammed former FBI Director Jim Comey (right) in a statement.

A Kindergarten teacher has described in a heart-warming note how last year she told the eldest victim of the Tullamarine tragedy, Claire, 7, that she would be teaching her younger sister.

Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, has been revealed as the biggest private owner of farmland in the US, after buying up 242,000 acres in 18-states.

President Trump met with My Pillow exec Mike Lindell, whose notes referenced 'martial law' - in a sign the president still refuses to accept the election results and court conspiracies.

Milan Loncar, 25, a recent graduate of Temple University, was walking his dachshund-chihuahua mix dog in Philadelphia on Wednesday at about 7pm when he was shot dead.

The Australian native bird was found jumping frantically inside a roof cavity on Friday to the surprise of workers.

A Sydney-based supporter of Islamic State is back behind bars after allegedly accessing material about beheadings and torture.

Amar Kettule was hit with a spray of bullets on a side lane near William Street in Fairfield in Sydney's southwest about 2.40am on Sunday.

Acting defense secretary Christopher Miller said he can't wait to leave his job. Miller made the remarks in a rambling briefing with reporters as he returned to Washington DC from a trip around the country.

Robert Bauer went to the Capitol rally alongside his cousin Edward Hemenway. An FBI affidavit reveals Bauer told the FBI an officer hugged him as he allowed him into the building.

The wedding video from the November 7 nuptials of murder suspects Kayleigh Lewis and Shawn McDonnell shows the pair exchanging vows in MAGA hats two weeks before the rampage.

Two people on a flight filled with tennis players from Los Angeles to Melbourne have tested positive for Covid - with the safety of the Australian Open now called into question.

A majority of Americans say President Donald Trump bears at least partial responsibility for last week's attack on Capitol Hill and that they don't want him to run for office again.

Acting foreign minister Simon Birmingham has confirmed 20 more repatriation flights will be organised for Australians stranded overseas.

Governor Andrew Cuomo said 74% of the state's 1.1 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been injected into arms and that he expected a boost in supply from the government instead of a decrease.

New book highlights the opulent entrances of New York City's most exclusive apartment buildings.Can you guess these posh buildings using out clues?

On Tuesday, HHS Secretary Alex Azar announced the federal government would be releasing its COVID-10 vaccine stockpile without revealing it had already been depleted.

Yvonne Farrell, 52, sued Hertfordshire Police for unlawful arrest after she staged a sit-in on her partner's car in Stevenage when tow-truck operators arrived to clamp it in 2018.

Mark Hill, 40, drowned after his canoe overturned on Amberswood Lake, in Wigan, last year. An inquest heard he was drunk at the time as a coroner ruled his death as an accident.

The family of Ethan Bourne, 12, have been left with 'so many questions' after the Arsenal fan was found dead in his bedroom in Waltham Forest, London on January 8.

Britain's vaccination programme is ahead of schedule after more than 300,000 jabs were delivered in a single day, with 3.2million doses now doled out.

Lyndsey Green, 30, was knocked down when driver Jason Lawlor 'lost concentration' and hit speeds of 50mph as he drove along a 30mph stretch of West Derby Road, Liverpool.

The gun rights advocacy group announced on Friday that it has filed bankruptcy petitions in US court as part of a restructuring plan in a bid to remove its ties to New York.

Biologists at the University of Antwerp in Belgium found that the woodpecker gets its beak stuck in tree trunks and then detaches itself by flicking its head at breakneck speeds.

Corinna Larsen claimed General Felix Sanz Roldan, the former head of Spain 's CNI intelligence services, made threats against her and her children as he tried to recover documents.

As security intensifies in Washington, the Secret Service has released its restricted access plan, which includes what the agency is calling a 'Green Zone' in the heart of DC.

Mothers with one baby had less interrupted sleep than those with more than one child. Researchers said this may be because they do not also have to care for older children.

Derek Fowlds, also known to TV viewers as private secretary Bernard Woolley in Yes, Minister and then Yes, Prime Minister, died aged 82 in hospital last January.

The media mogul, who will turn 90 in March, got the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine in recent days, sources told The Daily Beast.

The High Court heard that there was 'no power to extradite any individual' to an EU country if they were arrested under a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) before Brexit.

A doctor who specialises in hate speech believes fallen chef Pete Evans was targeted by neo-Nazi groups before posting his cartoon featuring the black sun last year.

Nesar, who worked for almost two years on the front lines in Helmand, said from the squalid Moria camp on Lesbos the news was 'a dream come true'.