Staff at the Department of Health and Social Care are said to have come up with a contingency plan for the next five winters.

Hospitalisations are still far lower than the last time the UK was recording more than 20,000 cases a day, when there were more than 2,600 admissions a day.

Workers must stay at home for up to ten days after coming into contact with a positive case even if they test negative for Covid under the NHS rules.

Sir Keir Starmer today claimed 'Labour is coming home' after the party's narrow victory in the Batley and Spen by-election delivered a massive boost to his struggling leadership.

The Three Lions have played all of their games at Wembley thus far but must travel to Italy to face Andriy Shevchenko's Ukraine in order to seal a return to the national stadium for the semi-final.

The Prime Minister posed with an enormous St George's Cross outside Number 10 as the Three Lions jetted off to Italy today.

Charles, Earl Spencer, 57, took to Twitter yesterday to share two photos of the event at the Sunken Garden, Kensington Palace, along with the simple caption: 'Today, in Kensington. A good day.'

She's had a busy week of engagements in Scotland, but nothing can keep the Queen away from the Royal Windsor Horse Show, said to be Her Majesty's favourite event of the year.

NASA has been working to fix the ageing observatory from a control centre in Greenbelt, Maryland, ever since a computer glitch caused it to shut down unexpectedly on June 13.

A female prisoner, known only as FDJ, brought a legal challenge against a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) policy which allows prisoners to be housed according to their gender identity.

The Duchess of Cambridge, 39, looked typically polished in a polka dot midi skirt, white top and navy blazer as she arrived at the All England Club this morning.

DAN WOOTTON: The moment warring brothers Prince William and Harry managed to put their differences aside to reveal the statue of Diana at her Kensington Palace home, my eyes welled up.

TalkRADIO DJ Kevin O'Sullivan compared the monument (pictured) to the classic Coronation Street character on his show last night.

Dr Mike Tildesley and his team predicted there could be 72,000 deaths from the virus before next winter despite the successful roll-out. But he admitted the UK was now in a 'better situation' than expected.

For those that got the Oxford University-developed jab as their first dose, Germany is recommending they switch to a mRNAshot for their second - either Pfizer or Moderna.

Angela Merkel today backed down in a row over travel rules as she said in the 'foreseeable future' fully-vaccinated Brits will be able to visit Germany without having to quarantine.

The eight-foot sculpture showing her with three ethnically diverse children was unveiled yesterday by her sons, Princes William and Harry, to commemorate her work around the world.

Mariah Rose, a Menstrual Health Coach living in Vermont, uses fruit to describe a range of healthy period blood from dark cherry red, to true red cranberry and pinkish raspberry.

An online petition demanding the Euro 2020 last-16 game between France and Switzerland be replayed has been signed by over a quarter of a million people.

The bronze sculptures of Britain's current monarch and her great-great grandmother were hauled down, daubed with red paint and strangled with flags in Winnipeg.

Covid could cause long-lasting symptoms by causing deforms to blood cells, scientists at the Max Planck Center for Physics and Medicine in Germany found.

Officers investigating the sharing of child pornography raided the home of Peter and Deborah McGuinness in Kingston-upon-Thames on July 29 last year.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: A man impersonating a bikie gang boss was sentenced to 10 years in prison after setting a would-be recruit alight with petrol and a blowtorch in 2019.

Carl Powell, 75, put up the 15ft billboard on an old grain dryer at his Stone Arrow Farm in the village of Peopleton, near Pershore, in February this year.

The England striker (pictured) said the national side would do their best for the rest of the Euros for supporters like Charlie Naughton.

Flora King, 39, from London, has revealed her tips for spotting first edition books, and other valuable items to look out for such as toya made by Marklin and Hull & Stafford from the late 1800s.

Stephen Bear, 31, will appear at magistrates in Colchester, Essex, this morning. He arrived in his distinctive black Mercedes before posing for waiting photographers gathered outside.

The newly-appointed head Natalie Teece sent her school rules to parents of pupils at John Ferneley College in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

Soldier F was being prosecuted for the murder of two men, during a civil rights demonstration in Londonderry on Bloody Sunday in 1972.

Rupert Grint, 32, had originally submitted an application to turn the storage barn near Kimpton, Hertfordshire, into six homes but he withdrew the plans.

Cancer patients taking aspirin as part of their treatment could cut their risk of death by 20 per cent, according to a new study led by researchers at Cardiff University.

A group of four boys were standing on a platform at Thorpe Park, Surrey, when a young girl, eight, and her parents walked below and were spat on because the girl had a shaved head.

Lewis Hughes, 23, and his friend Jonathan Chew, 24, filmed themselves grabbing Chris Whitty as he walked through St James' Park on Saturday.

Pressure group Restore Trust want a 'confirmatory vote' at the annual general meeting this autumn after the last boss Tim Parker (pictured) blacklisted almost 100 properties with links to slavery.

Dan Robson, 28, faced daily harassment about his sexuality during the six months he worked as a consultant at Northern Gas and Power (NGP), the employment tribunal hearing in Leeds was told.

Stephanie Gowland purchased the property in Northumberland in 2016 as a home for herself, husband Graeme, 35, and their two daughters Olivia, four, and Goldie, two.

Jefferson King was due to be sentenced in London alongside Simon Batson, 38, his girlfriend Donna Harman, 42, and Otis Noel, 45, after he admitted taking part in a drug-fuelled blackmail plot.

Father of two Benjamin Glynn, 39, was given three counts related to refusing to wear a mask, public nuisance and using threatening words. He could face six months in jail if found guilty.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the bill last night which bans the publication of material which draws parallels between the 'aims and decisions' of Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler.

Taking to her Instagram Stories late at night, while in her hospital bed and wearing an oxygen mask, Stephanie explained that she tested positive for coronavirus after being admitted to hospital

The US space agency has named its $10 billion (£7.3 billion) next generation space telescope after Webb, but some scientists say the legacy of his leadership is 'complicit with persecution'.

A murder investigation has been launched and a 25-year-old man is in police custody after a man, 60, was stabbed to death in an 'unprovoked' attack on Oxford Circus, London.

James Le Mesurier (pictured), 48, died after falling from a balcony in Turkey 20 minutes after talking to his wife, the inquest at Woking Coroners' Court heard.

The images show 119 nearly identical construction sites in China that analysts say mirror features seen at other existing launch facilities in the country.

Delivery driver Phillip Dodd, 63, was handed 78 points on his driving licence after he was caught on camera speeding 26 times in the space of three months near Warrington.

Sylvia Plath, who took her own life in 1963 aged 30, married British poet Ted Hughes in 1956, four months after the pair fell in love at first sight at a party in Cambridge.

Saskia Jones' uncles believe Dr Ruth Armstrong and Dr Amy Ludlow must not remain in charge of the Cambridge University Learning Together programme.

Musical icons Sir Elton John, Ed Sheeran and Stevie Wonder are being lined up for a star-studded concert in honour of Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee in 2022.

Paul Wynn, 57, from North Ayrshire, Scotland, collapsed at Saltcoats town hall last Friday just minutes before he was due to be wed to Alison Wynn, 36.

Lieutenant John Hamilton-Baillie (pictured) simply cut a hole in a wire gate at the castle, in Bavaria, south-east Germany, and spent 10 days on the run before being captured agonisingly close to the Swiss border.

The Prime Minister came under fire after claiming that schools needed the 'fire break' of the summer holidays before they implement new rules to replace the current bubble system.

Historian Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, 49, is fighting against fake history and uses the above image and others to demonstrate how even photograph evidence can be manufactured.

The law was passed in Norwegian parliament last month and will force any person or company making money off their posts to clearly label when a photo of someone's body has been retouched.

Pasta chips are the next big snack trend according to foodies and the good news is they can be made at home in 20 minutes.

With Boris' plan to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars at the end of this decade, the prospect of driving battery-powered models is not too far away. We reveal today's most dependable.

Princes William and Harry managed to put their bitter personal animosity to one side for just over an hour to honour their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace.

BBC Radio 4's official Twitter account reacted to a tweet from Neil Crombie which featured a picture of the bronze image of the Princess of Wales with the caption: 'I'm sorry but this is hideous.'

PIERS MORGAN: Diana lived for those boys and showered them in love and affection, and she'd have been devastated to see them shower each other in vitriol and hatred.

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A popular Woolworths, a Chemist Warehouse and a busy Sydney train line have been put on alert with hundreds urged to go into isolation immediately.

UK ministers want to introduce proposals to allow those with both jabs to carry on as normal without the need to self-isolate or take daily tests as soon as next month.

The COVIDSafe QR code check-in system in NSW is one of the major tools used to prevent lockdowns with the system being expanded and new changes being introduced this month. 

More than 300 residents of the Crestview Towers Condominium are being evacuated after a building inspection report turned in by the condo association outlined structural and electrical conditions.

Senior Labour ministers have urged Sir Keir to sack Angela Rayner and slammed her efforts to promote herself as the next Labour leader as an 'embarrassment' after the party's by-election victory.

Labour overcame the odds to hold the seat by just 323 votes, providing a desperately needed boost for Sir Keir Starmer's leadership. The result prompted an immediate blame game.

Tedi Fanta Hagos, 25, from Swansea, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court later today having been charged with the murder of the man in Oxford Circus on Thursday night.

The BBC has faced a furious backlash from environmentalists over an online GCSE revision guide that listed the 'positive impacts' of climate change - such as new shipping routes.

Boris Johnson is ready to ditch the 'work from home' guidance - but it will be left to employers and their staff to decide when workers go back to their desks when lockdown restrictions lift.

New South Wales is in a war against Covid - and the last thing the state needs is conspiracy theories derailing the campaign that will bring the lockdown to a swift end, says health minister.

An Australian GP has revealed her phone lines are inundated whenever a politician makes comments about Covid vaccines - which in the last week have often been contradictory. 

An invoice reveals Loudoun County School Public Schools paid out $34,167 to equity consulting firm The Equity Collaborative in June 2020.

The Three Lions will take on Andriy Shevchenko's Ukraine at the Stadio Olympico in Rome, but Italy remains on the UK's amber list and fans have been urged not to travel.

Dramatic footage showed bright orange flames raging on the sea just meters from a state-owned oil drilling platform west of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula around dawn Friday.

Columbus Academy sent a letter to two parents Andrea Gross and Amy Gonzalez informing them their three children will not be reenrolled at the school.

Washington Square Park was uncharacteristically quiet Friday night while July 4 celebrations got into swing across the Big Apple.

Before the Batley and Spen by-election, Sir Keir Starmer had insisted he would not quit if Labour had lost, but supporters of Angela Rayner were believed to be plotting a move against him.

Bessemer Trust's request to withdraw as co-conservator of Britney Spears' estate has been approved by Judge Brenda Penny.

Surging Covid case numbers won't stop Sydneysiders from soaking up the sun in city parks and beaches, despite the pleas of New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian.

The REvil gang, a major Russian ransomware syndicate, appears to be behind the attack which came despite President Biden's threat of 'retaliation.'

Those travelling to watch England play Ukraine in the Stadio Olimpico in Rome tonight are being quizzed by Italian authorities ahead of the crunch Euro 2020 quarter final match.

Eric Adams maintains a narrow lead over Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley in Democrat NYC mayoral primary. The candidates have demanded a manual recount if the results are razor thin.

A homeless man was filmed getting attacked in Venice Beach by two unidentified women who appeared to accuse him of touching their breasts.

Brooke Marsay had a whirlwind fairytale romance that raced from first date to dream wedding and falling pregnant on honeymoon - but cancer killed her days after the birth of her son.

The British Medical Association (BMA) said keeping some protective measures in place was 'crucial' to stop spiralling case numbers having a 'devastating impact' on people's health.

Three young Asian teenagers were set upon in a violent attack by a much larger group of youths outside a shopping centre in Inala in Queensland on June 27.

Offensive and tasteless tweets have resurfaced by Olympian Gwen Berry. The majority of those uncovered are more than ten years old when she was already competing for the US nationally.

The White House came under fire on Friday over a tweet suggesting Americans would be 16 cents better off over the ingredients for a July 4th barbecue.

A former correctional officer at the Fresno County Jail, Tina Gonzalez, 27, has been sentenced to seven months for a sexual relationship she had with an inmate.

One of the first under 40s in Australia to get the AstraZeneca vaccine after Prime Minister Scott Morrison gave the green light has detailed his experience five days on from the jab.

The bronze sculptures of Britain's current monarch and her great-great grandmother in Winnipeg were hauled down, daubed with red paint and even appeared to have been strangled.

Manhattan real estate prices are witnessing a sudden surge, as buyers return to the city and boost demand for extravagant and costly properties, a new report states .

Former President Trump is said to be enraged at this week's indictments against the Trump Organization and its CFO Allen Weisselberg according to New York Times WH reporter Maggie Haberman

New South Wales has reocrded 35 new cases on Saturday as the Bondi cluster grows to 261.

A total of 2.15 million people passed through US airport screening checkpoints Thursday, TSA data shows, dwarfing the 58,330 recorded on the same day in 2019.

The Fox News host took aim at the vice president on his show Friday night claiming she is 'posing as a competent adult' when she is really 'a joke'.

Vlada, 25, is married to Manchester City left-back Oleksandr Zinchenko, 24. She is a presenter for a Ukrainian TV football station and has been called the world's most beautiful WAG.

A Miami firefighter was present when the body of his seven-year-old daughter was recovered from the rubble of the Surfside condo catastrophe in Florida.

In a letter on Friday, her team of attorneys asked Judge Alison J. Nathan to dismiss the sex trafficking charges against her, claiming that she, like Cosby, was promised she wouldn't be charged.

Some Democrats are privately questioning whether VP Kamala Harris should be the heir apparent to President Biden after some missteps and reports of staff turmoil.

Bill Cosby, 83, sent out a series of defiant tweets on Thursday - a day after his surprise release from state prison - denying ever drugging women, or having non-consensual sex with anyone.

Vickie Hambrick, Daniel Hambrick's mom, was emotional in court on Friday and screamed, 'I hate you,' at former Nashville cop Andrew Delke, who pleaded guilty to killing her son.

Nearly 19% of all office space in Manhattan have no tenants, reaching a record high as companies break leases and adopt remote work, yet residential sales are up with prices on the increase

Queensland has recorded five new local cases of Covid overnight.

Ty Edwards, a retired Lt. Colonel in the Marines, was shot in the head in Afghanistan on Oct. 18, 2008 and was given a 'grim prognosis' of ever standing or walking again.

Police were called after the group of men were seen damaging environmentally protected areas at Glenmore, Scottish Highlands.

Ousted Teen Vogue editor Alexi McCammond has been re-hired by Axios months after she was fired by Conde Nast when anti-Asian tweets she wrote in 2011 caused backlash among staff.  

A Los Angeles policeman says an ultra-secret Police Department file names JFK's brother Bobby Kennedy as the killer of Marilyn Monroe.

Henry was fired by Fox in July 2020 after the network received a complaint that he had raped Jennifer Eckhart. She sued him afterwards, claiming he had 'violently raped' her.

Today we can exclusively reveal that Damian Hurley won't receive a penny of his family's fortune, after his grandfather cut him out. The money will go to his cousins who were born in wedlock.

The percentage of Americans who describe the crime problem as very serious has reached 59 per cent, with just 38 per cent approving of how President Biden is handling the issue.

The increase in Americans on nonfarm payrolls beat expectations of a rise of 706,000, but the unemployment rate was expected to fall to 5.7 percent

Once about a third of the Australian population is vaccinated for Covid lockdowns would no longer be needed, epidemiologist Professor Catherine Bennett said.

Khaled Awad, 24,who allegedly stabbed Rabbi Shlomo Noginksi outside Boston a synagogue and 'tried to kidnap him because he is Jewish' appeared in court

Brigadier Jo Butterfill, who won a Military Cross for leading his soldiers in battle against the Taliban in 2009, is under investigation for a suspected fraud.

Lord Herbert of South Downs claimed the PM doesn't want ministers to 'take a side in what some are seeing clearly as a culture war' and instead preached 'kindness, tolerance and openness'.

Emma Raducanu ranked 338th in the world but is the last Brit standing in the ladies' Wimbledon draw. But just weeks ago, the teenager was sweating over A-Level exams while studying at college.

The DoE has published guidance for teachers of pupils under 14, advising them to prioritise key knowledge and skills within individual subjects, such as practising to use scissors in art.

Face-to-face appointments with family doctors will never return to their pre-pandemic levels. Only half of GP appointments in the UK are now in person - the remainder via telephone or video.

Hours before a bombshell TV interview with cop killer Jasmine Hartin aired on Thursday night, a remarkable video emerged online.

Danish researchers have found people's sense of smell changes as they get older and managed to to pin down which aromas - coffee, bacon, and fried food - get less pungent over time.

Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba, 43, was given a suspended jail sentence for the manslaughter of Jack Adcock after a court heard she made a 'catalogue' of errors.

The shocking discovery was made by officers scouring a field near the M4 in Meadow Way, Swindon. Forensic specialists will now spend the coming weeks unravelling the full story.

Celebrating football fans risk drinking pubs and stores dry this weekend because of possible beer shortages.

The teenager was helping the couple after their BMW collided with the Toyota he was a passenger in on Mitchell Highway in Orange at 8:15pm on Friday night.

LA Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer has been placed on administrative leave as California police a MLB investigate allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in April and May.

The World Series champion LA Dodgers made a visit to the White House on Friday to meet with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

LA Dodgers star Trevor Bauer has been ordered to stay at least 100ft away from the woman he allegedly assaulted over the course of two sexual encounters, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Davina McCall said the bronze - which depicts the Princess of Wales in the 'final period of her life' - 'doesn't feel very Diana' on Twitter. She was replying to a comment made by Piers Morgan.

Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire will now be used to make electric vans, safeguarding over 1,000 jobs and thousands of other jobs along the supply chain which are reliant on the site.

A new study has found the average petrol pump prices surged for the eighth month in a row as forecourts across the UK were charging an average of 132.19p per litre for petrol last month

Royd Tolkien, one of the great-grandson's of the Lord of the Rings author has shared his journey completing a bucket list left for him by his late brother who died of motor neurone disease aged 39.

Leading orthopaedic surgeon, Prof David Barrett, is warning a record-breaking number of injuries could hit the NHS after watching sports stars such as Harry Kane and Andy Murray's heroics.

The three-time Grand Slam winner took on Canadian Shapovalov to raucous cheers from the crowd, who chanted 'come on Andy' as the British great took to the court.

Victoria's state of emergency has been extended again giving Dan Andrews and Brett Sutton overarching powers, despite zero new cases being recorded on Saturday.

A Boeing 737 cargo plane with two pilots on board went down Friday morning in the water off West Oahu after experiencing engine trouble. Both pilots survived and were rescued.

Merseyside Police have issued a public warning to parents and young people in the Wallasey area after at least four schoolboys tasted 'Cannaburst' and 'Chuckles' sweets laced with suspected cannabis.

Bombshell documents and recordings reveal efforts by Trump allies to get to county election officials in Arizona, and even a New Year's Eve call saying the president wanted to speak to one of them.

An investigation has revealed that people smugglers ferrying migrants across the channel have upped their game, using super-inflatables to bring record numbers to UK shores.

For the first time we can reveal the full story of the role Mr Montgomery and his neighbour Alan Levy played in helping the police catch the Brighton Car Killer.

Robin DiAngelo, an anti-racist author who wrote a NYT bestseller 'White Fragility,' makes an estimated $728,000 a year from speaking engagements, according to Reason.com.

Sheffield Lake, Ohio, Police Chief Anthony Campo, 61, resigned after being caught on video placing a KKK note on a coat arranged to look like a robe and hood resting on a black cop's desk.

The school's current Head of School, Ben Williams (pictured) said they are 'cooperating with an investigation by local law enforcement into alleged sexual misconduct.'

Landscape architect Sarah Ewbank believes iconic Salisbury monument Stonehenge once had a thatched roof and served as an all-purpose Neolithic temple similar to Shakespeare's Globe

Elisheva Cohen, 12, is missing her father and uncle who are lost in the rubble at the Champlain condo collapse site in Miami.

The old Etonian fraudster Darius Guppy has been accused of 'physically and verbally abusing' his wife Patricia 'over many years' in sensational divorce proceedings in South Africa.

A Texas mom says she won't let her kids play outside amid worsening border crisis, while MSNBC's Joy Reid calls the problem 'nonexistent' as National Guard is sent to the southern border.

President Joe Biden praised a nurse who was the first American to get the COVID vaccine for her dedication to her work on Friday at a naturalization ceremony at the White House.

It was the second time they have met within a few weeks, after  they were seen together at the G7 summit in Cornwall last month.

The official sponsor of Euro 2020 proposed introducing the rainbow advertising on LED boards around the edge of pitches being used in the tournament.

Puerto Rican chefs and others slammed his effort, saying pegao is not a dish itself but the word that's used for rice that sticks to the bottom of a pan and goes crispy.