Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke claimed the ice-skating competition is a 'family show' and so the actor, 54, should not be a part of it.

Boris Johnson will tell Britons to use their 'personal judgement' when it comes to hugging their loved ones from May 17.

DAN HODGES: I'm in Darlington, sitting in the sunshine outside The Boot & Shoe pub and we're discussing the local elections.

Andy Burnham, 51, marked his landslide re-election as Greater Manchester mayor last night by making it clear that he still had ambitions to be Labour leader.

Dr Anne Anderson was discussing the Sussexes' TV appearance with Oprah Winfrey when she made the comment about Meghan

The Queen's cousin, 78, was filmed in a Zoom meeting where undercover reporters posing as clients from South Korea were told he could be hired for £10,000 a day.

Dr Bernard Randall recalls that as others chanted he remained silent, deeply troubled by what he felt was the 'revolutionary Marxist' flavour of the language and the sentiments expressed.

The Labour incumbent will serve a truncated new three-year term after winning the election that was postponed from last year due to the pandemic.

Boris Johnson is to put the NHS at the centre of this week's Queen's Speech by introducing legislation to help repair the damage caused by the pandemic.

The dispute centres on whether there are enough transparent plastic screens in place to help protect Border Force staff from the threat of coronavirus.

The Ashton-under-Lyne MP appeared to pay the price for overseeing the election campaigns but was removed by the leadership the day after Sir Keir said he would take the blame.

Karzan Wali posted his appeal on the neighbourhood website Nextdoor after an incident on Hampstead Heath in North London in which he claims Robert Powell's dog bit him.

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: Women, and in particular older women, have never been more visible in our world. But surely the time has come to lay the 'invisible woman' to rest.

Pressure is mounting on UEFA to move the European final to Wembley, with talks this week amid fears over the potential 'catastrophic consequences' of holding the match in Istanbul.

New guidance from the Home Office states that police should stop describing people from China and South East Asia as 'Oriental' in race-hate crime reports.

Hitachi 800 trains used by London North East Railway (LNER), Great Western Railway and Hull Trains have been found with the issue. Services from London to Aberdeen have been cancelled.

SHARRON DAVIES has hit out at the decision to allow transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard to compete in the Olympics, describing it as 'another kick in the teeth for female athletes'.

Under plans which will be outlined in the Queen's speech, the prime minister will pledge to 'live local and prosper' in a bid to revive many areas which feel they have been left behind.

A win of Aberdeenshire West - the constituency that takes in Balmoral - would have given Nicola Sturgeon a firm moral mandate to hold a repeat of the 2014 independence referendum.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has rebuffed an approach by PM Boris Johnson unite under at Team UK banner to rebuild the country following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Britain yesterday passed another vaccine milestone with more than two-thirds of adults now given a Covid-19 jab. Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged everyone to have the jab when it's offered.

A poll of almost 17,000 Britons found younger people's attitudes to vaccination barely differ from those of the middle-aged, with at least 84 per cent looking forward to their jabs.

Billie Piper, 38, says on today's Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 her boozy nights with ex-husband Chris Evans helped her to overcome her teenage eating disorder.

The Reverend Dr Bernard Randall delivered a sermon defending the right of pupils at independent Trent College near Nottingham to question the school's introduction of new LGBT policies.

SARAH VINE:In recent years the face of bigotry has started to get a lot younger and, oddly, a lot more socially and politically liberal, including Remainers, cyclists and Corbynistas.

The Portuguese Water Dog, a gift from the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, was adopted by the First Family early in 2009 and joined them for both terms in the White House.

LORD ASHCROFT: For years, I have been deeply concerned about the plight of lions in South Africa. Specifically, I have lobbied for an end to the barbaric captive-bred lion industry.

Amanda K. Fletcher, 37, a teacher at NYC's Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science, and Engineering, was filmed by students committing an 'inappropriate sex act'.

At least 20 PCC results were announced out of a total of 39, with 16 victories for Tory candidates against four for Labour. Formerly safe Labour seats in northern England lost to Tories.

People still managed to enjoy a meal or drink outdoors at restaurants and pubs in Britain today despite the damp and windswept conditions, after a deep low pressure system swept in overnight.

The announcement comes two years after a landmark investigation by Lord Ashcroft exposed how up to 12,000 lions are held on commercial farms in South Africa as part of a repulsive industry.

Accounts show Toys and Little Gaby Ltd, their operating company, had 'retained earnings' of £1,529,658 at the end of April 2020, compared with £352,842 the previous year.

Agreed sales last month were up 57 per cent compared with April 2019, with many estate agents now immediately asking prospective buyers for their 'best and final offer' to ward off gazumping.

THE REVEREND DR BERNARD RANDALL: I want to say to everyone, but especially to those who have been troubled, that you are not obliged to accept someone else's ideology.

Matt Hancock was last night accused of sabotaging the nation's half-term holiday plans as the backlash over the Government's overseas travel blueprint intensified.

Bosses at Hammersmith and Fulham Council in West London insist that the weekly Bishops Park and Ravenscourt Park markets are a Covid-19 risk.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: A week ago the headline on our editorial said 'Almost everyone in this country has better things to worry about than Boris and Carrie's wallpaper'.

The Mail on Sunday has launched a new campaign demanding that NHS England changes its guidance so all GPs must prioritise seeing patients face-to-face again.

It is a major step forwards in the battle against the virus. And there is even evidence that vaccinating women now may have knock-on benefits for any children they have in the future, too.

JOE HAINES: The question that voters asked last week was this: 'What are your economics, Sir Keir?'

Terence Glover killed Harley Watson and injured nine other children and an adult when he ploughed his car into them outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex.

The seeds of Sir Keir Starmer's humiliation on Thursday were sown nine years ago on a cold February evening in a House of Commons bar, when Labour MP Eric Joyce punched two Tories.

PETER HITCHENS: The public were left entirely unprotected from this person. It could have been you whose life he wrecked without a second's warning.

Foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said he is planning on lifting quarantine restrictions for travellers from Britain, Israel and European countries in a bid to revive its flagging tourism industry.

Urgent measures to contain the variant are in the works in the town including surge testing and a strengthened vaccination campaign urging people to get the jab.

Police rushed to the property in New England, Peterborough, around 5am this morning following reports of a fight resulting in a stabbing. The victim is believed to be in his 20s.

Sacked Johnny Mercer was among hundreds of military veterans who protested in Central London today over the government's failure to protect troops accused of crimes in Northern Ireland.

On Friday the 29-year-old blasted two promotional images of athletes which had been shared by the Australian Olympic Committee ahead of the Tokyo Olympics later this year.

Journalist Tom Bradby said reporting on the royals 'used to be quite a straightforward thing' when Harry and William 'weren't arguing and life was simple'.

There were 2,047 positive tests across the country, the Department of Health announced, up 7.3 per cent on last Saturday's number (1,907). Officials also recorded just five lab-confirmed deaths.

ITN's Tom Bradby recalled a lunch with the now-Prime Minister at a London restaurant. It happened shortly before Mr Johnson revealed he would back the Leave campaign.

The dossier by People's Liberation Army scientists and health officials examined the manipulation of diseases to make weapons 'in a way never seen before'.

Amanda Jayne Sedgwick, 49, was found dead in her home in Askern, Doncaster, on May 19 2020 after a heated text message exchange with her husband.

The Prime Minister joined actors, broadcasters and thousands of fans in congratulating Sir David Attenborough on his 95th birthday today and celebrating his work as an environmentalist.

Alyssa Pallotti, from Texas, has been separated from her partner, Jacob Greenwood (both pictured above), who lives in Bracknell, Berkshire. She said the pair feel 'very forgotten'.

Scotland Yard detectives accepted parents have 'real concern and anxiety' about the spate of incidents which began when two boys were approached separately by a man in Bromley.

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Michael Gove said 'friendly contact' between people in different households is set to return when the latest stage of the roadmap is reached in a week's time.

The move has prompted the Safe Schools Alliance to  report Nonsuch High School in Cheam, Surrey to the Department of Education.

Diane Abbott lashed out at Keir Starmer as she insisted Jeremy Corbyn only led the party to its worst general election defeat since 1935 due to an 'extraordinary media attack'.

Lebanese businessman Omar Harfouch is helping French prosecutors who are investigating claims of rape and sexual abuse against former Elite agency boss Gérald Marie in the 1980s and 1990s.

An Australian vet dubbed the 'Jungle Doctor' has been working on the Thailand-Myanmar border, fitting prosthetic legs to elephants who have walked over landmines.

The rocket broke up upon reentry, which occurred at 10.14pm U.S. Eastern Time on Saturday and fell into the Ocean, according to Space Force's 18 Space Control Squadron.

Fed-up locals are rallying for volleyball to be banned on Bondi and Tamarama beaches amid concerns the game poses a danger to other beachgoers.

Keir Starmer was accused of making his deputy Angela Rayner the scapegoat for Labour's election meltdown last night, after he sacked her as party chairman and campaign co-ordinator.

Deborah Mattinson, a key adviser to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, has been appointed to a key role as Sir Keir Starmer tries to rebuild his shattered leadership.

The Mail has learned the government is planning to extend an effective ban on prosecutions on Troubles-related incidents to include IRA atrocities carried out in Britain, such as the 1974 Birmingham bombings.

The Duchess of Cornwall, a fully vaccinated grandmother-of-five, made the admission despite the state forbidding hugging until May 17 at the earliest.

The UK's climate change advisory committee insists that tree cover must rise to 20 per cent so that the country can hit its legal pledge to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

In her new book X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War Two, Leah Garrett claims German refugees were put at the at the centre of planning for the 1942 raid on Dieppe by Ian Fleming.

The Church of England is expected to issue guidance to its parishes and cathedrals this week instructing them to review their buildings and monuments for any links to contested heritage.

The VaxLive concert aired on US television on Saturday night, with Prince Harry taking to the stage to call for distribution of the vaccine across the globe.

Michael Gove said Nicola Sturgeon should think again about her 'priorities' in the wake of the Holyrood results, where the SNP saw a boost in support but failed to gain complete control.

Barry Glazer paid the exorbitant sum for Diana's bright blue 1970s Ladies Raleigh Traveller after it went up for sale through Burstow & Hewett auction house in the UK last month.

Todd Woodbridge said Liz Cambage had shown 'disrespect' towards the athletes featured in Australia's Olympics promotional photos after she blasted them for lacking diversity.

A new poll from The Economist/YouGov asked people opposed to getting the vaccine if anything could convince them to get the jab.

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, created a public profile with his online retail giant company with which he reviewed six products in the early 2000s.

Foreigners have come together to reveal the telltale signs that a tourist is from Down Under.

Any significant build-up on Kanton, located 1,864 miles southwest of Hawaii and U.S. military bases there, would offer a foothold to China deep into territory that had been firmly aligned to the U.S.

Emergency services were called to Dobu Place in Glenfield, in Sydney's southwest, just before 5:30pm on Saturday following reports of an assault.

The Victorian Government announced on Sunday it would be rolling out the 'CBD Dining Experiences Scheme' over the next few weeks.

NYPD officers responded to the shooting shortly before 5pm on Saturday near the intersection of West 44th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, in the heart of Times Square.

Gal Gadot confirmed that Joss Whedon threatened her career and said he would make 'it miserable' on the set of the Justice League after she tried to change her Wonder Woman character.

A Chinese Communist Party newspaper said Beijing should retaliate with 'long-range strikes' if Australia gets involved 'once a military conflict breaks out in the Taiwan Straits'.

KATIE HIND: Laura Whitmore, responded publicly to a polite email request from a showbiz reporter from the Irish Mail on Sunday about her baby daughter to her agent as 'vile'.

As the virus continues to wreak havoc on India, Europe and the United States, Australia's Prime Minister vowed to maintain his tough stance on borders.

Kitaen, who has battled substance abuse in the past, died in her home in Newport Beach Friday morning.

Footage surfaced of the six-year-old girl being spanked by Melissa Carter at Central Elementary in Clewiston on April 13 over $50 of computer damage.

Rosie Rees, who also founded Yoni Pleasure Palace, and her partner Ash MacDonald have been transparent about their desire to start a family on social media.

A new study by dating website eharmony has revealed the ages Australians want to meet major milestones, like meeting 'the one', tying the knot, and settling down.

Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar has revealed his top tips for students amid heightened anxiety about career prospects after leaving school - claiming 'nobody' will care about their final marks.

A photo shared to the club's Twitter page after the match sparked controversy when it became apparent the players were wearing an old school 'prison bar' guernsey.

The 33-year-old was released from custody in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Thursday, with photographs revealing that he was wearing the electronic device on his left leg.

Home Secretary Priti Patel has successfully stripped an Albanian gangster of his right to live in Britain after persuading a court that he is a serious threat to 'the UK's public security and safety'

The decision to tap the Tesla CEO and 'Technoking' to host the NBC sketch comedy show was seen as a risky gambit by creator Lorne Michaels to boost ratings and expand audience.

The White House granted waivers to two former union officials and has argued that the waivers were necessary and 'in the public interest' for them to carry out their job functions.

Bill and Melinda Gates were married for 27 years prior to their announcement, which was a shock to many regarding one of the world's richest couples.

Derrick Maurice Herlong, 38, is accused of spotting his victim shopping for high-end items at the Mall at Millennia in Orlando on February 19.

New details have emerged about the January 2020 strike in Iraq, revealing Mike Pompeo started discussions to take out the Iranian general when he became CIA director in January 2017.

The Aventura Police Department said shots rang out around 3.39pm after they believe a fight between two groups of people broke out inside the mall.

Search and rescue teams who were looking for her body found the 47-year-old woman alive last weekend, living in remote Diamond Ford Canyon, near the city of Spanish Fork.

Andrew Gutman, who pulled, his daughter from an elite Manhattan school over its anti-racism polices said he 'had no idea how pervasive and entrenched critical race theory had become in our schools,'

Officers were called to a were called to a Pyrmont unit on Wattle Crescent, in Sydney's inner-city, about 11pm Saturday after reports of a fight involving a number of youths.

The prime minister said Australians had come to accept local lockdowns as 'part of living with Covid-19' and that residents did not have 'an appetite' for change.

The Biden Administration is preparing as if the country will need vaccine boosters because health experts fear the current  vaccines may not be enough to fight off the virus' variants.

Photos exclusively taken by DailyMail.com show Sen. Lindsey Graham golfing with former Donald Trump in Florida a day after Graham said the GOP can't 'move forward' without Trump.

Mohamed Zuhbi, 30, arrived in Melbourne on a flight from Turkey about 4pm on Saturday and was arrested by counterterrorism authorities at the airport.

Richmond Tigers star Dustin Martin is set to help others to keep fit and improve their sporting performance with a range of videos and tutorials available via a new fitness app.

Covid restrictions in Sydney have been extended by a week as the state's health tracers struggle to find the source of a mystery case. 

The episode airing tonight at 11.30pm ET (0330 GMT on Sunday) will air live internationally on YouTube in more than 100 countries. The stream will not be available to U.S. viewers.

Overseas veterinarians are among the professions shortlisted to be granted a travel exemption into Australia as the country struggles with a shortage of workers.

Taylor Penrose, 27, visited a Melbourne clinic in 2018 to undergo cryolipolysis on her abdomen, a procedure which uses sub-zero temperatures to break down fat cells. 

Fourteen-year-old Dolly was at home on her family's cattle ranch near Katherine in the Northern Territory when she ended her life in January 2018.

Jerusalem has seen a second night of violent clashes as Israeli police fired a water cannon at Palestinian protesters and blocked busloads of Muslim pilgrims headed to the Al-Aqsa mosque.

Candidates need five per cent of first-preference votes to get back their deposits, which only three candidates surpassed: Sadiq Khan, Shaun Bailey and the Green's Sian Berry.

Tony 'T-Rex' Williams, who played with Jarryd Hayne at Parramatta in the NRL, was sacked by the New York Freedom over his extraordinary social media tirade after Hayne was jailed on Thursday.

The new regime has led to vast swathes of patients feeling all but abandoned by their family doctors. But enough is enough: we are calling for health chiefs to change their guidance.

Dental decay is already the biggest reason for UK youngsters aged between five and nine being admitted for surgery. Experts warn the situation is set to worsen.

Police were called to the machete fight scene in Romford just yards away from where Jodie Chesney was murdered two years ago, at 6.40pm on Friday.

The Tories held Aberdeenshire West by more than 3,000 votes to make it all-but impossible for the separatist party to wrestle overall control of the Scottish Parliament.

Text messages reveal the fear a student felt after a sixth grade girl at Rigby Middle School in Idaho pulled a gun from her backpack and opened fire.

The students, who have not been publicly identified at this point, attended the off-campus party in March, the same month a campus official threatened interim suspensions for students who gathered together.

The suspect, described as 'tall' and 'scruffy' fled after the attack on the boy who was walking with his brother on Peveril Road, Peterborough.

The discovery was made at the Guattari Cave in San Felice Circeo around 100 yards from the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

The Tesla CEO and 'Technoking' will host the NBC sketch comedy show at 11.30pm on Saturday, in what is seen as a risky gambit by creator Lorne Michaels to boost ratings and expand audience.

From the murder of Fanny Adams to an attempted assassination of the Prime Minister, these desperate, sometimes inexplicable crimes still shape the way we see deliberate killing.

Judges ordered the removal of a rock painted with a Confederate flag, left, from the New York home of a mother involved in the custody dispute of her child in Albany, right.

Olivia Longstaff arrived at her farmhouse rental in Oregon to find baby rats in her bed. The six little rodents had chewed their way through the comforter.

More than six weeks after fleeing his home following angry demonstrations outside Batley Grammar School in West Yorkshire, the teacher and his family are still being given police protection.

MICHAEL LEWIS: He'd grown up in a big, working-class family in Chicago where his toolmaker father had encouraged him to tackle problems with the same confidence that he shaped steel.

Australian researchers looked at 54 studies examining ten herbal remedies that involved a total of 4,331 overweight or obese adults.

As Liz Truss stands in Ian Fleming's old quarters in Whitehall, surveying the sweeping view across Horse Guards and Downing Street, her stance seems to say: The World Is Not Enough.

The 66-year-old was killed instantly after his plane plunged into the water soon after he took off from a small airdrome in Murcia in south-east Spain called Aeroclub Totana.

Taken almost a century ago, the unearthed picture shows the Queen's aunt as guest of honour at a garden party at Headingley in Leeds- alongside relatives of the future queen.

Claudia Arney, chairwoman of Deliveroo has been handed a key job at the Government department overseeing a crackdown on digital companies, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

The Taliban condemned the attack, which took place on Saturday in a majority Shiite district of west Kabul, and denied any responsibility.

Reporter Chris Rufo (right) broke the news about Disney's training modules that incorporate race theory into the company's guidelines and went on Tucker Carlon's show to talk about his report

EXCLUSIVE: The body of Maria Jane Rawlings, 45, who lived in Chelmsford, Essex, was found in shrubbery near Little Heath in Romford at around 2pm on Tuesday.

Investigators interviewed county officials about Cuomo's 'vaccine czar' calling them to assess their support for the embattled governor.

Timothy Price, 41, shot dead his wife Katherine Price, 36, on Tuesday morning. The Georgia couple who attended  Baptist Church had three children.

Jersey fishermen have started giving away their lobster hauls for free after France issued a legal notice to British fishermen that they are no longer welcome into French ports.

Halil Karagozlu was jailed for six and half years in May 2019 after it was found the WEZ gang - led by his brother Ahmet - had sold more than £400,000 of drugs.

Officers carried bagged-up items out of the new build in Aylesham, Kent, this morning, a mile away from where the 53-year-old mother of two was discovered in Snowdown on April 27.

Pop Smoke was shot at a Hollywood Hills home at about in February 2020. Four masked individuals including two men and two teens broke into the home he was renting and opened fire on the rapper.

Venice Beach residents say they are terrified of going out after dark due to increasing violence among the homeless community, who have set up a permanent camp on the their famous boardwalk.

A man aged 18 was killed when he fell 100ft on a mountain walk on Pen-Pych mountain in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales, with his friends to see a waterfall, police have said.

Scientists at Aarhus University in Denmark found children who had been exposed to fewer green surroundings in their early childhood were more likely to receive a diagnosis for ADHD.

Lying in the gutter, his bones in shards, Sam Newman's painful relationship with women would seem to have peaked. 

The White House has acknowledged that mysterious health incidents have been occurring in the U.S. and not just overseas. The illnesses are called 'Havana syndrome'.

Cricketer David Warner and commentator Michael Slater have emphatically denied they punched on at a bar in the Maldives after escaping from Covid plagued India.