In an exclusive interview with the Mail, Liverpool-born David Crouch, 78, a retired engineer, explains how his granddaughter provides the fragile thread that keeps him and Susan from despair.

Margaret Townley, 75, claims she has been the victim of a miscarriage of justice after being forced to walk away from the Spanish house which she has spent £257,347.

Welcome to Tokyo, home of the postponed 2020 Olympics - the Games that nobody seems to want to take place apart from the revenue-hungry IOC and a Japanese prime minister in need of votes.

The council was initially unhappy with the couple's plans to build a wildlife corridor to allow birds, bats and bugs to flourish, but have now come back and given their approval - with specific conditions

John Barrowman, who lives in California, is speaking exclusively to Weekend to give his side of the story after his behaviour on the set of Torchwood and Doctor Who came under scrutiny.

EXCLUSIVE: The proportion of over-80s dying from the coronavirus in England and Wales has dropped in recent months following the success of the vaccine rollout.

Team GB's Shauna Coxsey, 28, pictured, is Britain's most successful climber and will represent the country in the Tokyo Olympics after the sport was included in the games for the first time.

Public Health England surveillance found 36,800 of 37,256 cases checked for variants were the mutant Indian 'Delta' variant that sparked the third wave last week.

Self-isolation rules were in chaos last night after the meat industry claimed its workers had been excused from quarantining if they are 'pinged' by the NHS Covid-19 app.

Boris Johnson's office last night backed the freedom of the press after two homes were raided in a probe into the leak of CCTV footage that exposed Matt Hancock's affair.

Four and a half thousand people have been told to flee three villages in the Euskirchen region of Germany amid warnings a nearby dam could collapse at any moment following intense flooding.

Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Iceland and the Co-op are among companies saying they are willing to sign up to proposed rules to tackle the UK's obesity epidemic.

I hear that Prince Harry and Meghan want a royal christening for their baby, Lilibet, held in the presence of the Queen, writes RICHARD EDEN.

British holidaymakers were dealt yet another blow tonight after the Government announced travellers arriving from France will still have to quarantine - even if they have had both Covid jabs.

Petra Wenham (right) sits neatly in a pretty white blouse, denim skirt and perfect mauve nails. She has youthful skin and smooth, bare legs. She is 74 years old - but could pass for 15 years younger.

Harry Kane, 27, looked in high spirits yesterday as he joined Peter Crouch, 40, and friends at Beaverbrook Golf Club in Leatherhead, Surrey.

Companies are being hit by huge staff shortages, with UKHospitality reporting 20 per cent of staff in its industry have been pinged - equating to 400,000 employees.

BBC's Andrew Marr, 62, broadcast his show from the G7 summit in Cornwall in June however, when he returned to his home in Primrose Hill, north London, he fell seriously ill with Covid-19.

Britain's Olympians could be on a collision course with Games boss Thomas Bach after he declared athletes should not make 'political demonstrations' or express their private views on the podium.

The majority of the 52 Ghislaine Maxwell files that were unsealed overnight are related to a prior defamation lawsuit filed by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is 'weaker' against the Indian 'Delta' variant and provides 'significantly less' protection than health officials had hoped, a new report from Israel claims .

Learners, the elderly and those with medical conditions have been hit by the longest waits for documents from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.

Mohammadi is one of a dozen wives of ex-Afghan interpreters to have begun unprecedented legal action against the British Government to allow them to join their husbands in this country.

100 members of the Rainbow Family of Living Light set up an illegal camp near Blisland, Cornwall. Officers were accused of 'forfeiting authority' when they used a talking stick.

Renee Zellweger seems to have found love at last with the unlikeliest of suitors - Ant Anstead, a twice-divorced, British father of three - a former policeman turned TV star.

Naomi, 23, will represent Japan at the Olympics. She was born in in Chūō-ku, Osaka to a Japanese mother and Haitian father and was raised in the US, but has always played for Japan.

The Guardian on Thursday published an explosive report based on purported Kremlin documents, but nearly all US outlets have refrained from coverage, aside from commentary expressing doubts.

Ndrek Prenga, an Albanian gangster serving a six-year jail term for drugs offences received a phone call on his illegal handset warning him that if he did not return a stolen cocaine shipment, his brother would die.

GB News chairman Andrew Neil tonight issued a rallying cry amid a public row over one of its presenters taking the knee live on air.

President Joe Biden said he is considering ways to restore internet access to the people of Cuba after its government blocked it to stop news and images from the protests from getting out.  

Thousands of holidaymakers hoping for a prompt getaway ahead of the expected 88F heatwave this weekend were met with misery as traffic came to a standstill near Swindon on Friday.

The unnamed woman took to Mumsnet to explain the 'harsh' restrictions upon her arrival in Australia, where she will quarantine at former workers' village Manigurr-ma in Howard Springs, Darwin.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham cancelled all scheduled operations yesterday and today because it ran out of beds, signalling Covid pressures are beginning to hit.

Scotland Yard said that a misconduct hearing on Friday found that the actions of 48-year-old Couzens breached the standards of professional behaviour in respect of discreditable conduct.

With most legal limits on contact expected to come to an end come Monday, July 19, Wetherspoon has revealed mandatory mask wearing and limits on party numbers will end come 'Freedom Day'.

The seven-time and current world champion took to Instagram yesterday to ask fans attending the race weekend to cover their faces to 'keep others around us healthy'.

The teen stepped out with dad Daniel Moder for the premiere of Flag Day at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.

The activists used bamboo structures to block trucks from leaving the Newsprinters printing works in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, on September 4.

The TV presenter, 51, was left fuming yesterday when officers told him they were unable to search for his beloved Jaguar I-Pace, just 47 minutes after opening the inquiry.

The move would make family reunions and leisure trips to the UK much easier for the 5.5millon British citizens living abroad.

Banaras Hussain, 44, Talish Ahmed, 41, and Mohammed Akram, 44, subjected the child to a horrendous campaign of abuse in Huddersfield between 1995 and 1998.

The Verknipt Outdoor Festival in Utrecht was attended by over 20,000 people over two days earlier this month. Health officials said 1,050 have since tested positive, with numbers expected to rise.

Alistair Caton, 52, has been desperate to console his family over the death of 14-year-old Angus in June 2020. But he has not been allowed home to Cheltenham from his work base in Qatar.

Anxiety among older people around the world more than doubled during the first Covid lockdown, researchers in the UK and US have found.

The new Memoji options are due to make their official debut with the release of iOS 15 in the Autumn of this year, but can be seen now in the system's public beta preview .

Staff at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust - dealing with one of the highest infection rates in the country - are seeing hospital cases doubling week-on-week.

Ex-Speaker John Bercow is set to join an expert panel on a new online reality TV show called Unicorn Hunters, which allows viewers the opportunity to invest in the next $1billion enterprise.

The Scottish Airbnb hosts phoned in police after discovering the 'drugs' in a package sent to the holiday home in Prestwick, East Ayrshire. They claim the crystalised substance was crystal meth.

Passengers could be seen queueing at a clinic in San Antonio to get PCR tests and racing to Ibiza Airport today, after Grant Shapps announced Ibiza, Majorca and Menorca will be demoted to the amber list.

Saudi Arabia is considering a joint-bid for the 2030 World Cup with Italy, who won Euro 2020 but is based over 2,000 miles away from the Gulf country, according to reports.

Shaun Drewery, who lives in North Ferriby, Yorkshire, made the sickening comment about a picture of the England Under 17s football team alongside an image of their senior 1966 World Cup counterparts.

The former ITV News journalist, 69, shared the news with his followers on Twitter on Friday morning, saying: 'I fear it'll be a while but I'll be back!'

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arranged for a range of Pampers products for different age groups to be delivered to Los Angeles-based group Harvest Home.

Isobel Morrey, 18, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, was at her largest in January 2020 when she was a size 14 and creeping up to a size 16, but started a diet in March 2020/

The quadruple Olympic gold medallist says he too has been the victim of racist abuse online and social media companies need to do more to identify perpetrators so they can be identified and shamed.

EXCLUSIVE: NHS England data shows hospital admissions for coronavirus patients have jumped by as much as 400 per cent. Hospitalisations have doubled in 29 of the 123 NHS trusts

A chartered quantity surveyor lost his job after telling colleagues their company had HIV and he had been 'brought in to stop it before it became full blown AIDS', a tribunal heard.

Several England stars, including Mason Mount, Jack Grealish and Kalvin Phillips, have all ventured out to Mykonos for their post-Euro 2020 holidays - where Harry Maguire was arrested last summer.

Jake Naylor, 22, was 'fit and healthy' and played for several rugby league and union teams before his death from pneumonia and Covid-19 at his father Ash Naylor's house in Hull in February.

Port Macquarie student, Matilda, has shared her freak jet ski accident on TikTok. The 21-year-old student shared how the jet of the jet ski 'shot up her bum' and perforated her internal organs.

Darts legend Andy Fordham died of organ failure in hospital aged just 59 his spokesperson confirmed today as devoted wife Jenny said he would 'always be her champion'.

Richard Gnodde, the boss of Goldman Sachs International, said coverings will be mandatory in the London office despite people not being legally required to wear masks from Monday.

A Brisbane electrician moonlighting as a surgeon despite having no qualifications has fronted court to face charges. The man offered services on a eunuch website, removing two men's genitalia.

NHS England figures revealed 35.1million Britons have now received both Covid jabs, or 66.6 per cent of the country. Boris Johnson heralded the achievement as 'extraordinary' today.

The passes should only be issued to those who have received both doses of the vaccine, recovered from the virus or tested negative. But a loophole in the system means anyone can get a pass.

This Morning GP Dr Nighat Arif, from Buckinghamshire, has revealed she plans to delete the NHS Track and Trace app because she is continually pinged and told to go into self-isolation.

The fast food chain is giving staff money off their meals for the rest of the year as a 'small token of thanks' for their services during the last 15 months, and the offer will be available through its app.

Video released by the NYPD shows the moment a 57-year-old man is hit with a liquid while walking in Midtown Manhattan on July 5, causing second-degree burns as violent crimes increase.

Dressed in head-to-toe green threads, Justin was seen throwing his hands in the air while walking through the casino with his wife of two years.

It may take three years to clear the backlog of patients waiting for routine care, says departing NHS boss Sir Simon Stevens.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach accidentally called Japanese people 'Chinese' in a meeting with the hosts of the Tokyo 2020 Games in the latest blow for the sporting event.

Professor Anthony Harnden, deputy chairman of the JCVI, said ministers' proposal to drop the waiting time between jabs amid surging cases could lead to weaker immunity in younger people.

Zerail Rivera, who went by the name Indian Red Boy, was murdered in Hawthorne on July 8 at about 4.10pm while speaking to a friend on Instagram from inside his car.

Janice, who married the software entrepreneur in 2013, said she did not believe John was behind the note and that the handwriting was not a match.

Three nasal sprays claiming to offer protection against the coronavirus have amended their advertising or stopped being sold in the UK.

Dozens of migrants were dramatically rescued off the French coast on Monday - including 37 who were trapped on a sandbank and had to be airlifted to safety in a race against the rising tide.

Nikki Moustaki, from New York City, bought a new electric kettle to make tea. However, she took to TikTok to accuse it of having a 'major flaw' as the kettle overflows when it boils.

The Department of Justice has brought federal trespassing and disorderly conduct charges against Kristi Munn, Tom Munn, Dawn Munn, Josh Munn, and Kayli Munn of Borger, Texas.

A Chinese surveillance vessel called 'Tianwangxing' is being closely monitored by the Australian Military as it approaches Queensland waters for the Talisman Sabre 2021 war games.

Moderna will soon begin trials to find whether their vaccine is safe for pregnant women. Currently, the CDC does not have advice for pregnant women and the vaccine.

Chloe Wiegand's grandfather accidentally dropped the 18-month-old through an open window of the ship docked in San Juan in July 2019. Her parents sued the cruise line.

Guidance released by the Government last night warned that it will consider making the system 'mandatory' in future if steps to limit the spread of Covid are not taken by firms.

The report prepared by Marine Lt. Gen. Robert Schmidle and Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, both retired, came in response to recent Naval disasters, including a fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard.

Four exoplanets that orbit stars TOI 2076 and TOI 1807 were discovered and all are in their 'teenage' years, which could help shed new light on the early days of Earth, researchers said.

'An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination', by journalists Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang, gives an inside look into the rise and fall of Facebook.

The US-based Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who welcomed their second child Lilibet Diana on 4 June, could take home a gong for their two-hour tell-all, which aired in March.

Shocking video that purports to have been taken in the town of Dawlat Abad, northern Afghanistan, on June 16 shows a group of soldiers with their arms raised being shot to death.

Exclusive DailyMail.com photos show Bill Cosby smiling and looking healthy as he celebrated his 84th birthday Monday.

The two workers were standing underneath an overturned crane when the cable of another crane supporting it snapped in a terrifying incident in Germany.

Nine contestants took part in the proactive project. Artists spent 129 hours painting the women, earning a Guinness Book record for 'most hours in body painting for a sporting event.'

In footage shared online by four US holidaymakers, the mammoth crocodile can be seen walking calmly past a putting hole at the Dreams Playa Mujeres resort golf course near Cancun.

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced last week that the use of 'bubbles' in schools and colleges in England will come to an end as the country moves towards easing restrictions.

Coca-Cola is changing the recipe of Coke Zero Sugar for the second time in four years, but fans of the drink are lashing out at the revision just as they did after taste changes in 2017.

Imperial College London experts claimed it was possible admissions this autumn are up to five times higher than levels seen during the second wave, despite the hugely successful vaccine rollout.

A spokesperson for The Prince Of Egypt said it is 'impossible to perform' at London's Dominion Theatre while all the infected person's close contacts self isolate.

NASA's Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids that orbit Jupiter will bring a plaque that will act as a 'time-capsule,' including quotes from Carl Sagan, Albert Einstein, The Beatles and more.

EXCLUSIVE: Britain's rapid rise in Covid cases means it now beats almost all of the countries on its red Covid travel list in terms of daily infections: Mongolia, the Seychelles, Tunisia and Namibia.

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A public health alert has been issued after a large number of new sites across Sydney were exposed to coronavirus - along with a busy truck stop in northern NSW.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said the flu programme which will begin in September will be the biggest in the UK's history as it will extend to secondary school students too.

Double-jabbed Britons will still have to quarantine from Monday after the dramatic u-turn was announced by the Government on Friday night.

The UK economy is expected to be hit by £4billion in losses after it reopens fully on Monday because workers are being forced to stay at home and self-isolate by the NHS Covid app.

Rescuers resumed the search for survivors with hundreds in the Ahrweiler region, south of Bonn, still missing on Saturday morning as desperate families released pictures of their loved ones.

Mark Redwine, 59, was convicted by a jury Friday and was found guilty on charges of second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in the 2012 death of his son Dylan.

Richmond AFL superstar midfielder Dustin Martin won't play again in 2021 due to a kidney injury. Scans confirmed the news, which will leave countless Tigers fans devastated.

Skeletal remains were found by cops who investigated reports of a woman allegedly being held against her will while cleaning up Venice Beach homeless camps.

Elijah Quamina, 20, allegedly shot at the biker around 12:40 a.m. near 7th Ave. and 41st St. in Midtown on Wednesday and was arrested on Thursday.

Bill Cosby's publicist said he will seek compensation for his prison time. The actor was freed after a court vacated his 2018 conviction for sexual assault.

The theory that the coronavirus escaped from the Wuhan lab is at least as credible as the possibility it jumped naturally from a bat to a human, senior Biden administration officials said

James McGonagle, 24, was charged with attempted kidnapping, reckless endangerment and acting in a manner injurious to a child.

A child was killed and five adults were injured in a shooting in Washington DC late on Friday night. The shooting happened just after 11pm near a Popeyes restaurant.

Washington Square Park partygoers blocked NYPD officers from entering the iconic New York City park and enforcing the midnight curfew as hundreds of people flooded the park Friday night.

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and her estranged husband, Timothy Granison are facing various weapons charges. Both are charged with criminal possession of a firearm among others.

Executives with Delta Air Lines are unhappy the latest coronavirus variant shares the same name as their company. Atlanta-based airline says despite the crossover, there has been no drop in bookings.

Gavin Jones, 21, who defense lawyers say allegedly confessed to killing Mollie Tibbetts, has been pictured for the first time as judge agrees to hear motion for a new murder trial.

Three removalists allegedly knew they were infected with coronavirus before they drove out of southwest Sydney, stopping at several towns on their way to Molong, in NSW's central west.

A Virginia activist riled up a crowd gathered outside a Fairfax County school board meeting referring to parents who oppose critical race theory to 'let them die'.

Seedy bachelors are offering cheap or free rental in exchange for sex by desperate women and gay me, with the dubious practice believed to be at record levels in Perth.

Stricter lockdown restrictions were imposed across Sydney and especially in the city's southwest as Covid cases jumped to 111.

The Bootleg Fire, the largest wildfire in the United States this year, has scorched more than 241,000 acres. The fire first started 10 days ago in south Oregon spreading around 24,000 acres/day,

Sir Jeremy Farrar, who is head of the Wellcome Trust, said England's chief medical officer had been 'much more cautious' about speeding up preparations for a pandemic early last year.

Tucker Carlson ripped 'idiot Republicans' for focusing on Cuba over the 'tyrannical' U.S. government as he defended spreading vaccine misinformation.

Dunedin home owners, Himanshu Dua and Renu Anand have been slugged with a $100,000 bill to fix a bulging retaining wall surrounding their Mosgiel property.

Scientists at the University of Queensland have found that the venom of the Fraser Island funnel-web spider can help prevent damage caused by heart attacks.

Four inmates who allegedly incited the Parklea Correctional Centre riot's have been charged. The riots saw wings set on fire, and inmates on the roof with weapons on July 12.

Police have seized $288 million worth of meth weighing hundreds of kilograms, leading to four men from the Central Coast and Sydney being charged with drug trafficking.

Livia Bowman, 29, from the Tweed region in far-northern New South Wales, spent five days in hospital after contracting Covid-19 after an overseas trip in March last year.

Sydney could be stuck in lockdown for months longer than expected because only 40 per cent of residents are actually staying home, expert modelling claims.    

Victoria appears likely to stay in lockdown much longer than five days after another 19 cases of coronavirus were recorded on Saturday, almost double the 10 diagnosed on Friday.

Sydney's numbers headed in the wrong direction again with 111 new Covid cases recorded on Saturday after three weeks of lockdown. Gladys Berejiklian's response was dramatic.

Michael Thomas Gargiulo, 44, was sentenced to death on Friday, almost two years after he was convicted of murder.

New mandates will see QR codes enforced at construction sites, manufacturing plants, warehouses, supermarkets and retail.

TikTok comedian Jon-Bernard Kairouz accurately predicted the 111 new Covid cases in NSW for the fourth day in a row, in a video more than 24 hours before it was announced.

Marlo Spaeth, a former longtime Walmart employee with Down syndrome, was awarded a $125million in a discrimination case after the retail giant fired from a Wisconsin Walmart.

Comedian Bill Burr called CNN 'f*****g morons' on his podcast for continuing to talk about Donald Trump and said, 'They want Darth Vader to come back' to save their vanishing ratings.

TikTok comedian Jon-Bernard Kairouz has claimed an NSW Health representative has asked him to stop making videos predicting daily Covid-19 case numbers.

A search of the home of Paul Flores in California was said to have yielded videos showing him allegedly raping a woman. Flores faces a charge of murder for the 1996 killing of Kristin Smart.

President Biden said social media platforms such as Facebook were 'killing people' as the White House doubled down on the danger of COVID-19 misinformation.

Opals star Liz Cambage has taken to social media to explain her reasons for withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympics. She is widely regarded as Australia's best female basketballer.

The ex-wife of Barry Weisselberg made the claims in a Zoom interview with investigators on June 25, according to The Daily Beast , and if true could implicate Trump in the ongoing tax fraud case.

Shamed PC Darren McIntyre, 47, was sentenced to 19 months behind bars after he assaulted an innocent man during a welfare check at a property in Ainsdale, Merseyside.

The Queensbury Tunnel is threatened by the same 'cultural vandals' at Highways England who have filled historic railway bridges with concrete.

The UK Ivory Act comprises a near-total ban on the import, export and dealing of items containing elephant ivory. Now it could include whales and walruses.

The release of a national stamp series has been marred by a huge error in one of the collectables. Australia Post's new series depicting our 'volcanic past' has set temperatures rising in the Tweed valley.

Leaders from across the province's political divide condemned the Government's plans, insisting families should be able to 'pursue justice for loved ones'.

The Large Tortoiseshell disappeared from UK woodlands in the 1960s due to the effects of the Dutch elm disease, climate change and parasitic flies.

Three Victorian schools and one university have become the latest outbreak hotspots with hundreds of staff and thousands of students exposed to the virus.   

Lorraine Graves commented on the Tulsa Police Department's Facebook post asking about her whereabouts. She was arrested a day later and charged with accessory to murder.

President Biden is planning to nominate his campaign donor Jane Hartley as ambassador to the UK after months of delays, according to reports on Friday.

The family's car was set on fire in their driveway in Welling on Wednesday. Neighbour Lisa said today they had received 95 takeaways in one day and prostitutes were sent to their door.