Officials are drawing up plans for a two-week circuit breaker lockdown after Christmas which would include a ban on indoor mixing, according to reports.

The top civil servant will no longer lead a Whitehall investigation into alleged Christmas parties in Number 10 after he was revealed to have been aware of a separate party in his own office in December last year.

The top civil servant will no longer lead a Whitehall investigation into alleged Christmas parties in Number 10 after he was revealed to have been aware of a separate party in his own office in December last year.

Pep Guardiola is free to take charge of Manchester City's Premier League trip to Newcastle on Sunday after returning a negative PCR test.

The Football Association (FA) is to launch an independent investigation into allegations against former leading referee David Elleray.

Hospitality venues across London are donating unused and wasted food and produce to charities and shelters amid festive party cancellation chaos.

A man has been charged with murder and arson after a fire left one person dead in Reading.

In Bristol, the last full working Friday before Christmas didn’t feel like it.

Ghislaine Maxwell has told her sex trafficking trial she will not testify in her own defence as she argued prosecutors had not proven their case beyond a reasonable doubt.

Last April, the government set a target of 100,000 PCR tests for COVID each day. At the time, it seemed incredibly ambitious.