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The four nations of the UK need to work together “collectively and effectively” to tackle the threat posed by the new Omicron variant, Boris Johnson has been told. The first ministers of Scotland and Wales, Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford, joined forces to demand the Prime Minister convene an urgent Cobra meeting to discuss taking a four-nations approach to issues such as border restrictions. While the Scottish Government has followed […]

Stacey Solomon has said her newborn daughter Rose will be her last child. The TV star, who is also mother to son Rex with fiance Joe Swash, and sons Zachary, 13, and Leighton, nine, from previous relationships, gave birth to her youngest child on October 4, her 32nd birthday. The Loose Women panellist suffered a miscarriage before her most recent pregnancy and said she and Swash will not have any […]

Ellen White will attempt to match and then eclipse Kelly Smith’s “outrageous” England goalscoring record still not quite believing she is being mentioned in the same breath. The 32-year-old Manchester City striker marked her 100th cap with her 45th international goal on Saturday to hand Sarina Wiegman’s side a 1-0 World Cup qualifier victory over Austria, in the process taking her to within one of Smith’s tally. She will hope […]

A teenager has been named as the victim of a fatal stabbing in west London. The Metropolitan Police were called to Raleigh Road in Southall at just after 9pm on Wednesday, after reports of a stabbing following a fight involving a group of people. Officers attended along with paramedics from the London Ambulance Service (LAS) and found 16-year-old Rishmeet Singh, who was from the local area, with stab wounds. He […]

Police have arrested dozens of climate change protesters who caused blockades at Amazon warehouses across the country on Black Friday. Extinction Rebellion (XR) said its demonstration took place at sites in Doncaster, Darlington, Newcastle, Manchester, Peterborough, Derby, Coventry, Rugeley, Dartford, Bristol, Tilbury, Milton Keynes and Dunfermline. Activists arrived in the early hours of Friday to set up bamboo structures and “lock-ons”, and held banners urging Amazon to cut its emissions. […]

At least two people have been killed as Storm Arwen brought gusts of almost 100mph, causing road closures, train delays and power cuts across the UK. The Met Office had issued a red wind warning for parts of north-east England which expired early on Saturday, but the forecaster said amber and yellow warnings for wind remained in place across large swathes of the country. A few inches of snow also […]

Black Friday spending levels have surpassed the previous two years, provisional data has indicated. Figures from Barclaycard – showing credit card spending from midnight to 5pm on Friday – revealed sales volumes have increased by 2.4% compared with Black Friday in 2019, weeks before the first coronavirus case was detected. This also represented a 23.0% increase on volumes against 2020, Barclaycard said. Rob Cameron, chief executive officer of Barclaycard Payments, […]

The figures were compiled by Nationwide Building Society First-time buyers face stumping up five-and-a-half times typical annual earnings to get on the property ladder, according to a report. As house prices have surged, the average first-time buyer house price-to-gross earnings ratio in the third quarter of this year was 5.5, surpassing a previous high of 5.4 in 2007. The figures were compiled by Nationwide Building Society, which said a 20% […]

That's according to analysis by the Research Institute of Leumit Health Services in Israel Experts who have been tracking the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine have found that the risk of Covid infection increases the longer it is since people had a second dose. The study backs up the need for booster doses to prevent people suffering breakthrough infections as immunity wanes, according to the team, who published their findings […]