Tory sources said the Prime Minister was warned by party whips that support had 'drained away' after Matt Hancock admitted breaking his own lockdown rules over his affair with a married aide.

Scientists say the global ban on toxic chemical UV-328, which is used in plastic packaging, would mark 'the beginning of end for plastics', which is being considered by the United Nations (stock photo).

The unarmed woman was filmed being beaten to the ground and then repeatedly kicked in the face, neck and back by the security guard outside the McDonald's at the Ramp in Birmingham.

Nicholas Hewlett, head of St Dunstan's College private school in southeast London, said staff were worried by a 'righteous generation' of children who were looking for their teachers to 'trip up'.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak was speaking at a football event with schoolchildren in west London and said that the delay was to allow for the progression of the vaccination rollout to protect the country.

When they spot their idols at Wimbledon, tennis fans love to grab a selfie with Serena Williams or an autograph from Novak Djokovic. But this year, in the age of Covid-19, that activity has been banned.

Experts have suggested undercounting could be due to insufficient testing, hospitals turning away Covid patients and the lack of access to healthcare in rural parts of the country.

In a rare intervention from a Cabinet minister, Robert Buckland said he shared readers' fury and understood why the Parole Board's decision to order Pitchfork's release had 'rocked public confidence'.

The couple, who never revealed Mary Elizabeth's pregnancy, had their baby news announced by Ewan's daughter Clara on Instagram on Sunday.

Angela Merkel, Germany's Chancellor, is planning the divisive move to designate Britain as a 'country of concern' because the high number of Delta variant cases.

Audi driver Leanne Webb, 36, of Wychall Lane, Birmingham, was jailed on Friday at Wolverhampton Crown Court for four years and four months.

Priti Patel is working on legislation which could see asylum seekers processed in an offshore centre. The UK is reportedly in talks with Denmark to opening a processing centre in Rwanda, Africa.

Analysis of official figures by the Centre for Social Justice has identified 93,514 pupils who were mostly absent between September and December - more than the capacity of Wembley stadium.

A report by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has accused the dating site Game Global, which was created by the author Kieren Brown, of normalising sexual violence against women.

The United States has launched what it says are defensive airstrikes against Iran-backed militias along the Iraq-Syria border. Those strikes targeted operations and weapons facilities.

Roof gardens could spring up across the country as ministers prepare to tear up regulations and let homeowners build terraces on top of their houses.

Families moving on to new estates built by the developer found the only internet network they can choose is FibreNest. Bill Esterson (pictured) said: 'This is predatory behaviour.'

Study shows 53 per cent of drivers with garages never park their cars in them. 68 per cent of them say it is because they use their garage to store other items.

Police have arrested more than 50 people after more than 2,000 are thought to have flocked to an illegal rave near Steyning, West Sussex last night as people continued to party in gazebos this morning.

Boris and Carrie Johnson's favourite grocer has become the latest company to fall victim to a cyber attack. Daylesford Organic was targeted by hackers last Wednesday.

Charalambos 'Babis' Anagnostopoulos suffocated his wife then staged a violent home invasion to cover up his crime. The 33-year-old pilot later admitting to killing her to police.

A top civil servant's widow, Suzanne Heywood, has hit out at accusations her late husband, Sir Jeremy, was to blame or bringing disgraced financier Lex Greensill into Downing Street.

In one particularly shocking killing, Jalan Woods-Bell, 15, was stabbed to death on his way to school in Hayes, west London, at 8.35am on June 11.

The case unfolded after Sir Richard was posted to the British embassy in Prague earlier in his career as a first secretary in communist Czechoslovakia in 1973 with his wife Rosalind.

Shocking footage shows the moment a masked anti-lockdown protestor strikes a police officer with a glass bottle during a demonstration. Thousands gathered outside of Downing Street, London.

The service on Monday, July 5, will celebrate the NHS's 73rd anniversary and will recognise the dedication of workers who helped fight the virus.

The Chief of Defence General Sir Nick Carter tested positive for Covid-19 after attending a summit of senior defence personnel on Thursday and close contacts must now self-isolate.

Restaurants, hairdressers and cafes could be forced to hand over all tips to staff Tory MP Dean Russell has proposed a Tips Bill to prohibit employers from keeping tips intended for their employees.

Roberta Wakeling, 11, was twice refused exemption last week, with the second rejection made on Friday. Roberta suffers from PANDAS, a neurological disorder caused by an infection.

Carly Zutic, from Dumfries, was just nine weeks old when her soldier father swam to safety with her 'baby grow in his teeth' from capsize tragedy which killed 193 people.

The BBC2 Newsnight presenter, 50, breached impartiality rules by re-sharing a 'controversial' tweet by Piers Morgan tweet in February.

The former Batley and Spen MP who is now the West Yorkshire mayor said campaigners were 'followed and verbally abused' before a group of young men physically assaulted them

Sunday's nationwide poll in France saw Macron's party experience a total wipe-out while Marine Le Pen's far-Right National Rally party failed to make a breakthrough in today's elections.

The Duke of Cambridge is expected to view the memorial with his family privately in Kensington Palace's Sunken Garden before joining his brother Prince Harry for the official event on Thursday.

Dr Jessi Tucker, 40, received her devastating skin cancer diagnosis on the first day of the Covid-19 lockdown last March.

Eliza, who is a Canadian living in St John's Wood, London, shared a video earlier this month showing mould growing on the hand brake and gearstick of the Porsche.

The Queen has invited Harry and Meghan to her Platinum Jubilee celebrations, but questions remain whether the couple will appear on the Palace balcony beside the Queen and other senior Royals.

Kemi Badenoch said there is a 'fairly toxic political debate' around the term 'white privilege' and it should be taught at schools unless its contentiousness is explained to children.

Department of health bosses posted another 14,876 cases today, increasing 60.2 per cent on last Sunday's figure of 9,284. Infections fell slightly on yesterday's four-month high of 18,270.

Shocking footage filmed by a witness at St James's Park in Westminster shows a woman being knocked to the ground after a fight erupted at around 6pm on June 26.

The national flagship has cost the government £200m, and will be used as a ship rather than a luxury yacht, but royal sources claim the Royal Family will not use the ship for private tours.

Officers were called to the scene at 9.40am on Saturday morning after reports of a serious incident in the quiet residential street in Denmead, Two Mile Ash, Milton Keynes.

The host made the admission this morning on his eponymous television programme and suggested he may have contracted it while covering the G7 summit in Cornwall earlier this month.

Its head half-submerged in the murky Mexican lagoon, the ten-foot long beast was staring silently at British backpacker Melissa Laurie from less than 50ft away.

The Radio 4 presenter, 43, from East London, who has worked at the Corporation since 2006, admits being so taken aback by the racist remark that she was left speechless.

Restaurateur Henry Dimbleby said that the levy on burgers, steaks, ham and sausages 'may be necessary' in the long term, in a draft report.

Matt Hancock was referred to Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Stone over his links to a family firm that has won NHS contracts.

In a 'surprise' casting, Netflix chiefs have revealed he will play the Tory Prime Minister, who was in charge of the country from November 1990 and May 1997

The woman who is 6ft 3in tall and weighs just over 15st took to Reddit asking for advice about her boyfriend not wanting to introduce her to his friends because he's 'scared of what they might think'.

The UK's population climbed above 67million for the first time ever last year, according to new data published by the Office for National Statistics.

Patel has become concerned about officers commenting on politics, and believes it is often unclear that the government, rather than the police, decides policy.

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As friends said the pair were a 'love match' and possibly looking at moving in together, Westminster sources said rumours have abounded about their closeness for more than a year.

Vaccination of aged care workers is expected to be made mandatory under a move endorsed by the national cabinet.

The cops were among 63 plunged into isolation on Sunday after being linked to an infected worker at a Brisbane City Watchhouse - with many having to leave Suncorp Stadium in the middle of the game.

The number of sites exposed to the virus across the city has swelled to more than 300, including a busy Sydney bank, a shopping centre and a JB Hi-Fi.

The highly contagious Delta variant first identified in India now represents at least 20 percent of COVID cases in the United States, where it is expected to become dominant in a matter of weeks.

The National Archives' task force on racism published a 100-plus page report on how its own Rotunda is an example of 'structural racism.'

Sajid Javid will today rule out easing the remaining coronavirus rules early on July 5 but he is bullish about the Government pressing ahead with 'freedom day' on July 19.

Olivia Humphreys, 26, had fled 220 miles from her former home in Scotland and moved to Salford, Greater Manchester, to be closer to her father but she was still anxious her ex-partner would turn up.

The Church of Scotland used the term leper in the June edition of its in-house Life and Work magazine as the answer to 2 Down - Outcast (5).

The Chumash tribe have invited Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to meet over fears the Sussexes are using holy water to irrigate the grounds of their California mansion in Montecito.

Caroline Crouch, a British woman murdered by her husband in Greece was scared of him and had been looking for somewhere to live months before he killed her, her counsellor has revealed.

A father who borrowed his son's e-scooter to get to a doctor's appointment has been fined £1,000 and had the gadget confiscated for illegally riding without insurance.

The primary school pupil, who comes from a Muslim family, was referred to anti-terror programme Prevent by his teacher after reportedly telling classmates he would 'give alms to the oppressed'.

India and China clashed in a high-mountain battle last year that left more than 20 soldiers dead in the bloodiest days between the two nuclear-armed sides since the Sino-Indian War of 1962.

Friends of the former health secretary insist that their adulterous relationship has only been going on a matter of weeks, after footage revealed them in a clinch in his office in May.

About 754 workers at Granites gold mine, north-west of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory were sent into isolation over the weekend after the miner tested positive on Saturday.

Australia's rollout started in late February, more than two months after the UK and the US, and was then derailed by supply issues and health advice.

Officials will scrutinise the business department's participation in the Diversity Champions programme, which offers training and produces a ranking of the 100 most LGBT-friendly employees.

Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said this morning that departmental offices must be a 'safe space' where ministers and officials can discuss sensitive material away from prying eyes.

Three-hour-long queues formed at RPA Hospital in Sydney's Inner West on Monday as people rushed to be vaccinated. Security had organised people into long lines in the basement of a car park.

Ramon Priess, 34, slapped the four-year-old boy with learning difficulties '10 to 20 times' at the Maximum Potential clinic in Devonshire Place, central London, in April 2019.

Matt Hancock finally decided to quit as health secretary after he was told that 80 Tory MPs had complained about his attempt to cling on, it was claimed today.

Daniel Petch, 28, was given just 300 hours of unpaid work after admitting causing the death of Shakeel Sheikh by dangerous driving in Manchester.

Revellers turned out in their thousands to party in protest against the ongoing closure of the UK's nightlife. Crowds blocked London's Regent Street during the FreedomToDance march.

The 56-year-old TV personality took to Twitter to share the story of a father who appeared to refuse to have the vaccination, who has now reportedly died.

The Manhattan district attorney's office has informed Donald Trump's lawyers they have until later on Monday to persuade prosecutors not to file charges.

Amelia Johnson, 39, Elizabeth Nichols, 21, and Tom St Hill, 27, flew in from country NSW under the radar to avoid the border closure and landed in Coober Pedy, South Australia.

Seven new venues have been added to New South Wales long list of Covid exposure sites, including a Domino's Pizza store, a popular pub and another Coffee shop.

Several people have been arrested in New York's Washington Square Park following Pride celebrations in the area. NYPD officers are said to have used pepper spray on Pride attendees.

Alex Dodds, a 25-year old fisherman was attacked by a four-metre long great white shark whilst spear-fishing with a mate just off the coast of Perth.

While the anthem played at the trials in Eugene, Oregon, Berry placed her left hand on her hip and shuffled her feet. She took a quarter turn, so she was facing the stands, not the flag.

The march - which celebrates lesbian pride - began at Bryant Park and finished at Washington Square Park, where couples splashed around in the fountain and embraced.

Chris Grayling's controversial 2014 probation reforms saw private companies take charge of the management of low-risk and medium-risk offenders.

Quadriplegic Afghanistan army veteran Joel Sardi says a restaurant in north-east Melbourne cancelled his booking because he was in a wheelchair.

Woolworth's reimpose buying restrictions on toilet paper after Sydney enters a two week lockdown. The limit includes two packs per customer in place for all stores in NSW, ACT, and NT.

There are mounting fears the nation is on the edge of a deadly new wave of infections. Daily Mail Australia has taken a look at each state and territory's new restrictions.

Ministers had promised to ease coronavirus restrictions which have devastated swathes of the British economy including hospitality on June 21, but chose to delay the final easing citing rising cases.

Music mogul Mark Spillane is set to become the third owner of Dunk Island off the coast of far north Queensland since Cyclone Yasi destroyed the holiday spot in 2011.

A fifth of young Americans aged between 20 and 24 - equivalent to 3.8 million people - are neither working nor studying. This signifies a 24 percent increase from the prior year.

New Mexico State Police identified the victims of Saturday's hot air balloon crash as Nicholas Meleski, 62, Susan Montoya, 65, John Montoya, 61, Mary Martinez, 59, and Martin Martinez, 62.

Spanian uploaded the shocking video to Instagram late on Sunday night and told his 176,000 followers that lockdown is 'fun as f***' because 'you can walk on the roads like they're footpaths'.

Officials from the security agency are set to hold discussions with the Cabinet Office this week.

A baby girl has died after being struck by the family car outside her home in Townsvillle.

Daniel Andrews has made a powerful statement that he is back in charge of Victoria.

James-Robert Davis was denied bail in the Supreme Court of New South Wales on Monday as he faces charges of slavery and reducing a woman to servitude.

Victorian State Coroner John Cain has handed down his findings into the horrifying 19-second attack by Hassan Khalif Shire Ali in Melbourne's Bourke Street almost three years ago.

Josh Addo-Carr scored the opening try for the NSW Blues during State of Origin Game II, but it was the reaction of one QLD spectator that fans won't stop talking about on TikTok.

A 'white supremacist' who considered himself an 'apex predator' 'executed' two innocent black bystanders in Winthrop, Massachusetts, prosecutors said Sunday.

Developers of the Miami tower that collapsed were previously accused by building rivals of paying off officials to get permits, according to a the Washington Post.

The Urban Development Institute of Australia wants pre-pandemic immigration levels revived in a bid to 'rev up apartment market construction'. Treasury is forecasting a big population slowdown.

Capped numbers on home gatherings, mask wearing in confined public spaces, and restricted numbers in public venues came into force in South Australia from today.

The flexible tickets, which can be used from this morning, will allow travel on any eight days in a 28-day period and have been launched in response to the decline in five-day commuting.

Ana Ortiz, 46, her disabled son Luis Bermudez, 26, Leon Oliwkowicz, 80, and his wife Christina, 74, were all formally identified as victims of Thursday's collapse on Sunday.

Darwin's Covid lockdown is extended until Friday after the Chief Minister announced a growing list of exposure venues and hundreds of close contacts forced into isolation.

The $8 billion worth of aeroplanes at the Asia Pacific Airline Storage facility in Alice Springs, Northern Territory range from giant Airbus A380s to brand new Boeing 737 Max models.

The Greater Sydney two-week lockdown will cover the entire NSW school holidays and is expected to cost Australia's struggling tourism industry more than $6 billion.

Six people, including a 15-year old boy, were injured in drive-by shooting in Chicago's South Side on Sunday night. None of the victims or shooter have yet been identified.

Natali Barr asked the Deputy Prime Minister and Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon about whether Sydney was locked down early enough, when the interview took an unexpected turn.

Samuel Poulin, 21, was shot in Times Square in broad daylight, on Sunday afternoon just outside the Marriott Hotel. Poulin was walking with his family at the time when he was struck at around 5:15pm.

A bearded protestor claiming to be God has crashed a Covid-19 press conference that was delivered by the New South Wales premier.

Matt Hancock, the disgraced former Health Secretary is claimed to have taken his mistress and aide Gina Coladangelo, 43, to a G7 health summit in Oxford.

Nicole Langsfeld's loved ones were heard screaming her name while visiting the rubble on Sunday, in the hopes the missing woman might reply.

Australians fed up with lockdowns are moving in droves from Sydney and Melbourne to a regional area. Noosa on Queensland's Sunshine Coast is particularly popular.

AccuWeather's team of expert forecasters are describing Northwest's heat wave as 'unprecedented', 'life-threatening' and 'historic.'

Owner Anthony Reale said on Monday that his staff have medical exemptions for not wearing masks, but was unable to provide the correct documentation to officers.

The Australian expert showed how microplastics, small pieces of plastic debris caused by the disposal and breakdown of consumer products, get lodged in fish.

Covid lockdowns and border closures are expected to change Australia and have effects that will still be felt in 2061. Treasury has outlined exactly how in its Intergenerational Report.

New study found heart failure patients may be more at risk of developing cancer as around 25% of patients went on to get cancer, compared to just 16% without the heart condition.

There are about 40,000 registered Australians overseas who have cannot get a flight due to arrival caps imposed to protect the hotel quarantine system.

Queensland recorded two Covid cases overnight. A woman from the Sunshine Coast tested positive to the Delta strain of the virus, resulting in the reintroduction of masks in south-east Queensland

Richard Davis, CEO and president of Make-a-Wish, said wishes involving air travel and large gatherings will resume on September 15 for those who are two weeks past full vaccination.

New South Wales has recorded 18 new locally transmitted Covid cases on the second day of Greater Sydney's two-week lockdown.

Victorian Premier Dan Andrews breaks his silence about what happened inside his holiday house moments before he fell and broke his back 

Two 'idiots' who got lost in the bush after being startled by a deer while sunbaking naked are among dozens fined by police for breaching coronavirus restrictions.

A convicted child sex offender as well as Opera Australia are being sued for the historical sexual abuse of a minor. The crimes were in the mid-1990s, with tenor David Lewis grooming the child.

The grandson of a couple still missing in Thursday's Miami condo collapse said he has received 16 phone calls from the landline of Arnie and Myriam Notkin's destroyed apartment.

Mortifying CCTV footage showed the truck in Adelaide approach a house before emptying the bin into a truck using the mechanical grabber - but everything went wrong from there.

Avi Yemini slammed a NSW Hunter Valley horse trial event attendee who 'snitched' on a family who breached coronavirus restrictions by travelling from Sydney against stay-at-home orders.

Australia has gone from a Covid safe haven to a nation battling multiple outbreaks, as millions are hit with lockdowns or increased restrictions to slow the spiraling number of cases.

The national broadcaster is expected to make the addition to '7.30' over the next few weeks in a bid to improve representation of the Indigenous community.

Epidemiologists say this outbreak is far more concerning than the Northern Beaches cluster which required a three-week lockdown from December 19 to January 9.

U.S. households added $13.5 trillion in wealth last year, according to Federal Reserve data reported by the Wall Street Journal, in the largest annual gain going back three decades.

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told a news conference Sunday afternoon that more bodies had been pulled from the wreckage, while one person died in hospital.

Dramatic footage has captured the moment a man was arrested after allegedly groping a seven-year-old while she was shopping with her father at a Coles in Karawara, Perth, on Friday.

In a bid to turbo charge the slow pace of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, unions are calling on the NSW and Commonwealth governments to provide a minimum half day of paid leave for workers to get the jab.  

The latest Newspoll period covered the Victorian lockdown, slow vaccine rollout frustrations, the start of the Sydney lockdown and state border closures to NSW.

There could be good news for millions of NSW residents who feared their Dine and Discover vouchers may go to waste due to the latest coronavirus lockdown.

The Ford Ranger Raptor, priced at close to $78,000, costs $20,000 more than the most common dual cab ute with the blue oval badge and is pricier than a European prestige car. But it has an X-factor.

Senior Constable David Masters, 53, was alleged hit and killed while trying to stop a Hyundai Kona SUV with tyre-deflating road spikes on the Bruce Highway, north of Brisbane, on Saturday.

Former ABC Radio host Jon Faine enraged millions of readers with a piece rejoicing at Sydney being sent into Covid lockdown for the first time in 14 months, in a column in a Melbourne newspaper.

Langdon on Monday morning took aim at Mr Andrews' video, branding it a conveniently timed election pitch.

A woman in New Zealand living with chronic nose pain for 37 years has finally discovered the cause of her irritating affliction - a plastic tiddlywink lodged up her nostril.

Martha Hancock, 44, was pictured wearing the ring this morning outside the pair's home in north London while on a walk with her dog and her son.

United States military interests are now extending into cislunar space, the region that surrounds the Moon, according to a recent Air Force report.

Ellidy Vlug, 29, has revealed she is pregnant with her late partner's baby, nearly a year after he tragically drowned during a spearfishing accident on the Gold Coast.

The new Health Secretary Sajid Javid raised hopes for an early return to freedom yesterday, saying he wanted to get back to normal 'as soon as possible'.

Joyce Carol Oates flagged the inclusion of the word 'picnic' on the list produced by Brandeis University in a retweet of a Dailymail.com article.

Premise has received at least $5 million since 2017 on military projects for the U.S. Army and Air Force, according to federal spending records reported by the Wall Street Journal.