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Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi today said AstraZeneca is 'confident' its jab prevents serious illness caused by the South African coronavirus variant after early data from a small study suggested the vaccine was less effective against the strain. Mr Zahawi said he had spoken to England's Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van Tam this morning about the study as he insisted the vaccine 'does protect against severe disease'. He said that through its own trials AstraZeneca is 'confident that it does effectively deal with serious illness, serious disease and hospitalisation'. Meanwhile, Mr Zahawi revealed that the UK's vaccine roll-out almost hit 1,000 jabs a minute yesterday as he said he believes the Government will have vaccinated all over-50s by May. A small trial of just 2,026 people in South Africa found the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab had 'limited efficacy' in protecting against mild and moderate disease caused by the mutant strain, which has been found in 11 people in the UK who have not recently travelled from abroad. However, nobody died or was hopitalised during the study by South Africa 's University of the Witwatersrand and Oxford University, which has not yet been published but has been seen by the Financial Times .

Ed Miliband says Labour's shadow attorney general Lord Falconer is 'very, very sorry' after he was caught on tape telling City lawyers the coronavirus crisis 'is a gift that keeps on giving' as Sir Keir Starmer faces furious backlash

Ed Miliband today insisted Labour's shadow attorney general Lord Falconer is 'very, very sorry' after he described the coronavirus pandemic as a 'gift that keeps on giving' for lawyers. The comments have left Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer facing a furious political backlash but Mr Miliband, the shadow business secretary, said this morning that Lord Falconer 'apologises for what he said'. He told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: 'He shouldn't have said it. He was talking in the context of lawyers and the way the law was changing. 'It was a very poor choice of words. I have spoken to Charlie this morning and he is very, very sorry and apologises for what he said. It shows that we have to be careful with our words, all politicians have to be very careful with our words.' Lord Falconer used the phrase during a briefing for a top City firm staffed by millionaire lawyers. The peer insists that he was referring to changes in the law triggered by the crisis, but a source close to the Labour grandee said that he regretted his choice of words.

The protesters, who make up 14 per cent of the UK's population of their age range, have ignored the flurry of reminders they have been given and are holding strong.

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In a new interview, the former Loose Women panellist, 50, revealed she was led to share her life update after receiving a 'disgusting message from a troll'.

This is the story of heartbreak. Of how my marriage collapsed and life as I knew it ended. 

DAN HODGES: Two weeks ago, a digger that had been working on a job on the British mainland arrived back in Northern Ireland.

NEW A sweeping review by Historic England linked rural communities to 'money made in transatlantic slavery' which 'permeated English society for centuries'.

Beast from the East II looms over UK: Snow hits parts of the South East as Storm Darcy

Heavy snow is set to bring disruption to parts of Britain today and tomorrow as Storm Darcy rolls in from Russia and Ukraine and brings bitterly cold winds to much of the nation. The Met Office has warned of 'significant disruptive snowfall' in London and the South East of England, especially parts of East Anglia and Kent as Britons experience power cuts and difficult driving conditions. Yellow warnings for snow and ice have been issued for parts of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Kent as up to 30cm of snow is expected to fall in areas, while the Environment Agency has put out 171 flood alerts and 52 warnings. Bitterly cold 50mph winds from Ukraine and the Black Sea will tear across Britain, with temperatures plummeting to -10C - though the chill is not expected to be as 'bitingly sharp' as it was with the 2018 Beast from the East.

TOBIAS ELLWOOD: Few people today have heard of Standard Oil, the giant petrochemical company that a century ago made its founder John Rockefeller wealthier than Mark Zuckerberg.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not allow the UK to be pushed around by the EU, according to the Attorney General. Suella Braverman says the Prime Minister is doing 'all he can.'

Research conducted by the Road Haulage Association found the volume of exports heading from British ports to the continent suffered a major dip last month.

Parish council Zoom wars spread across the UK: Chairman tells rival to 'wipe that smirk off your f***ing face, you f***ing piece of s***' in ANOTHER astonishing rant

Unbelievable footage shows yet another parish council zoom meeting in Cheshire descending into chaos as a councillor mutters, 'Wipe that smirk off your f***ing face' - not realising he is unmuted. The heated clip, involving members of Penketh Parish Council, has emerged just days after a chaotic Zoom meeting in Handforth (40 miles away) in December, which included the now-famous outburst, 'You have no authority here, Jackie Weaver!' In the latest video, from last October, the-then Penketh Parish Council chairman David Simm (second row, second from right), from Warrington, delivers a profanity-filled rant about a rival under his breath. After asking members if they were in agreement over starting a tendering process, Mr Simm - unaware that his mic is on - can be heard saying: 'Wipe that f***ing smirk of your face, you f***ing piece of s**t.' Another councillor, Dale Solan-Cooper, says: 'Who are you actually speaking to there?' - to which councillor Craig Lenihan (top row, second from left) answers: 'He's speaking to me.'

SARAH VINE: A fractious Zoom meeting between members of Handforth Parish Council in Cheshire went viral. For those who haven't seen it, it's definitely worth a detour.

MOS COMMENT: We are now at the stage where the liberation of the people from the fear of Covid is being carried on by individuals, those who give the jabs, and those who patiently wait for them.

Treasury officials are reportedly weighing up plans for an online sales tax on tech firms in the UK, while Downing Street's policy unit is looking into a Covid windfall tax scheme.

The average daily number of first vaccinations given over the past week is 440,896 - meaning the 15 million landmark could be hit inside a week.

Covid UK: Cases could fall to 1,000-a-day by mid-May IF they decrease by current rate of

NEW Hospital chiefs have warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson that there must be fewer than 1,000 coronavirus cases per day before the third national lockdown can be eased. NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson will urge Mr Johnson not to lift the restrictions or risk a potential fourth wave of infections - despite 22 per cent of all over-18s in Britain now having been vaccinated. His demands mean that daily cases of Covid-19 must fall by a staggering 95 per cent from their current number - 18,262 yesterday - to record fewer than 1,000 per day. At the current approximate reduction in cases of 20 per cent week-on-week, it would take 14 weeks to record fewer than 1,000 cases - meaning the brutal shutdown would last until at least May 15. SAGE modelling has also predicted a fourth wave of more than 1,000 deaths per day in Spring if restrictions are lifted completely or too quickly, with the rules set to be reviewed on March 8.

BEVERLEY TURNER: The upbeat acceptance of the coronavirus pandemic seems a world away from where we are now. Behind millions of closed doors, parents are depressed and exhausted.

NEW Dr David Nabarro, the WHO's special envoy on Covid-19, said 'the world should be accessing these vaccines in an equal way' as he called on politicians to do the 'right thing'.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has revealed that Professor Sarah Gilbert who led the team that developed the Oxford vaccine has become a huge 'kick-butt' role model to his two daughters.

Zero Covid is a mirage, says JONATHAN SUMPTION - the virus is here to stay

JONATHAN SUMPTION: Coronavirus has divided society. A chasm of mutual misunderstanding and resentment has opened up. On one side are people who want to be allowed to make their own judgments about risk, in the light of their own vulnerabilities and those of the people around them. On the other side are people who think their safety depends on coercing their fellow citizens into accepting the judgment of Government Ministers. Despite the optimism created by the vaccines, powerful voices are still exploiting public fears to keep us locked up for longer and impose distancing rules indefinitely in pursuit of the mirage of zero Covid.

A group of 140 GPs have written to Prof Chris Whitty asking that a runny nose should be included on the official list of symptoms as many Covid-19 patients are initially presenting with signs of a common cold.

Plans to deploy roving teams of vaccinators to workplaces across the UK were revealed to be under consideration in government.

Data collected on the first rollout of the Covid vaccine justifies the Government's decision to delay the second dose, according tothe deputy head of the JCVI.

SARAH SANDS: Jobs that are local and part-time, and so particularly attractive to women, are disappearing. Covid has also closed schools, creating a huge crisis in childcare.

Lily Collins caught in a race-hate storm with furious fans of snubbed Michaela Coel 

Emily In Paris star Lily Collins (right) has found herself at the centre of a race storm after she was nominated for a prestigious Golden Globe award ahead of a black actress. The 31-year-old was targeted by online trolls who felt Michaela Coel (left) had been unfairly overlooked for her role in the ground-breaking BBC drama I May Destroy You. In a barrage of social media posts, they claimed that Ms Collins was shortlisted because she is white, while Ms Coel missed out because she is black. Cyber-bullies also alleged that Ms Collins was nominated simply because she has a famous father - pop star Phil Collins (inset).

The former England football captain is believed to have been offered at least £10 million to be the country's ambassador, with a major role in promoting next year's World Cup there.

Thames Valley Police has launched a murder investigation after a man, 25, was found by police with multiple injuries and later died in Tilehurst, Reading, yesterday evening.

Last week, Norwich MP Clive Lewis went public with his concerns, criticising the party for 'little vision and even less analysis' of why Britain was suffering so badly from the Covid pandemic.

PETER HITCHENS: When film emerged last week of Sir Keir saying he 'often used to propose the abolition of the Monarchy', the main response (if there was any at all) was that it was a long time ago.

Billy Vunipola leads players who chose NOT to kneel against racism at Six Nations

Seven England rugby players including Billy Vunipola and the majority of the Scottish team chose not to kneel against racism before their clash at the Six Nations last night. The players chose to remain standing during the show of support for the anti-racism movement, which has proven controversial because many believe it amounts to a mandatory endorsement of the left-wing values promoted by many in the Black Lives Matter movement. Rugby Union also last year rejected an attempt by Black Lives Matter activists to ban popular England Fan song Swing Low, Sweet Chariot because it was written by a freed slave from 19th century Oklahoma. Seven England players stood up during the display, while just four Scotland stars took the knee and the rest remained standing (inset right). Billy Vunipola (pictured left, with his wife) remained standing during the display. Bottom row: Harry Williams, Jonny Hill, Courtney Lawes and Luke Cowan Dickie also chose not to kneel.

Scottish rugby fans were able to make up for their absence at Twickenham, London, tonight by posting memes on social media after a historic away win over England in the Six Nations.

Princess Anne shares a glimpse of her cosy living-room

NEW The Princess Royal sat down to watch the historic Six Nations match last night from her Gatcombe Park home. Royal fans delighted in the exclusive look at her home and trinkets. Pictured: 1.Picture of Zara's Christening; 2.Picture of Peter and Zara Phillips as children. 3. Horse-riding memorabilia, 4.Military picture, 5. Horse-riding picture, 6. Old built-in TV cabinet, 7.Dog bed, 8.Books on dogs and birds, 9.Matching sofa and armchair, 10.Seaside paintings, 11. Animal porcelain figurines, 12.Family pictures.

The Sussexes took part in a virtual hour-long meeting with the Democratic governor on October 19, according to a memo obtained by The Sun.

The WAG, 34, allegedly attempted to reach out to the wife of Leicester City star after another round of failed talks to avoid a costly legal battle.

Did Nicola Sturgeon conspire to frame her old SNP boss on false sex charges?

The toxic feud between First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (left) and her predecessor Alex Salmond (far left, right) is being watched closely by senior Government figures in London. They have become increasingly convinced that Mr Salmond has been stitched up by a 'jealous cabal' around Ms Sturgeon.

An extra, bizarre element has been added to the saga surrounding Alex Salmond's claims by the intervention of Craig Murray, the controversial former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan.

Activist Lazer Sandford has has been taken into police custody after leaving a network of secret tunnels below Euston Square Gardens, London. They are protesting the £98billion HS2 project.

Ex-MP NORMAN BAKER reveals the day anthrax was released in a tunnel on the Northern Line

On July 26, 1963, passengers boarded a Northern Line tube train at Morden in South London heading for the City. Their short journey to work, perhaps to London Bridge or Bank, seemed the same as any other day. But it was far from ordinary. What those passengers did not know - could not know - was they were an unwitting cast of extras in a secret experiment conducted by government scientists from Porton Down, headquarters for the country's military research since 1916. As the train wound northwards through the dark tunnels between Colliers Wood and Tooting Broadway, a window was opened and a scented powder puff was thrown out on to the tracks below. This particular powder puff contained not cosmetics but freeze-dried spores from the anthrax family, B globigii bacteria, which can cause eye infections, food poisoning and, more serious still, septicaemia, the cause of deadly sepsis.

Celebrities taking part in the latest series of Dancing On Ice have found the risk of suffering a bruised reputation is as high as breaking a bone following a spate of critical stories in the media.

Today, DR ELLIE CANNON advises a reader who is still in pain 12 months have undergoing significant open heart surgery to replace the five major blood vessels connected to the organ.

MI6 fears over more than a dozen UK universities' links with Beijing

More than a dozen British universities are under investigation over commercial relationships with the Chinese government that might break laws designed to protect national security and human rights, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Left: Chinese troops take part in marching drills ahead of an October 1 military parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at a camp on the outskirts of Beijing, China, in 2019. Lower right: Drones. Top right: A hypersonic missile launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, on March 19, 2020, in an image released by the US Navy.

TOM TUGENDHAT: China's ambassador to Britain, Liu Xiaoming, recently bade farewell to this country in characteristic style.

China is spending huge sums to create hypersonic missiles that will go so fast that military chiefs believe they will be invulnerable to any form of defence.

Ioan Gruffudd's wife Alice Evans says she and star remain friends while discussing legal

Ioan Gruffudd's wife Alice Evans insists she and the actor 'are still friends' as they press ahead with discussions over a 'legal separation'. Last week, the actress, 49, revealed the couple were breaking up in a shock Twitter statement and accused the Welsh actor, 47, of 'mentally torturing' and 'gaslighting' her as well as claiming 'he no longer loves me'.  And late Saturday night, she took to Instagram to give an update on their shock split as she also declared that she has already raised their two daughters 'alone' for 'half their lives'. 

Conservative MP Chris Skidmore has argued that essay writing services, which encourage students to cheat and put them at risk of being blackmailed, should be outlawed in the UK.

The girl was grabbed by an unknown man in Mary Datchelor Close, Camberwell, south London at about 5pm on October 22.

Pictured: Woman, 25, who was savaged to death by her rescue dog

The woman, named locally as Keira Ladlow, (left, inset) was alone at a house in the Kitts Green area of Birmingham (inset) when she was attacked by the dog suffering horrific injuries. Police and paramedics were called to the property at 2pm yesterday after a relative raised the alarm and Ms Ladlow was pronounced dead at the scene. West Midlands Police said no one else was in the property at the time and the Staffordshire cross dog (right, file image) was handed over to officers to be put down.

Has hobbling Emma Watson scooted off to get herself engaged?

Emma Watson was spotted embracing boyfriend Leo Robinton (inset) as they returned from a pre-Valentine's Day trip to Mexico. The 30-year-old actress wore a £19.99 T-shirt bearing the French slogan 'Femme Liberte' (right) but all eyes were on her jewellery collection and the ring (circled, left), albeit modest, on her wedding finger. But as well as the small band, she looked to be sporting an injury - as she had her right foot in a flip-flop and the left in a sock, and needed help to get about from a knee scooter.

The Sound Of UK Drill playlist, which is created using an algorithm that monitors the popularity of tracks, also included a song called The Things, by Lekan Akinsoji, known as 'CB'.

Elon Musk warmed his fans' hearts this weekend by tweeting a rare snap of his nine-month-old baby son X Æ A-XII. The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla shares his baby with his girlfriend Grimes.

The Old Vic theatre in London faced a backlash in 2019 when it made its toilets unisex, leaving women with 24 facilities and men 42.

The exodus, involving at least 40 women, follows the appointment in December of Kathryn Bristow (pictured), who was born a man but now identifies as a transwoman.

100 things you never knew about Prince Philip on the eve of his century

Millions of words may have been written about Prince Philip's jam-packed life, but a new book by veteran Royal-watcher IAN LLOYD unearths nuggets about the man who, with characteristic self-deprecation, has even invented a word for his famous habit of 'putting one's foot into one's mouth'. Left: The Duke of Edinburgh jumping off the water skis as he reaches the beach at Marmaris in Turkey during the Mediterranean Fleet's summer cruise - Prince Philip's last cruise in H.M.S. Magpie before he returned to the United Kingdom in 1951. Top right: Queen Elizabeth and Philip talking in the Royal Box at Olympia in London in 1952, the year before she was crowned. Bottom right: Prince Philip (left) in costume for a production of 'Macbeth' at his school Gordonstoun in Scotland in July 1935. Inset right: Philip at the Epsom Derby in 2009. Inset left: Philip enjoys a tumbler of Double Diamond beer at state banquets.

Actress Honor Blackman, who died last April aged 94, left a string of legacies to pals along with touching messages thanking them for their support and for bringing laughter into her life.

TALK OF THE TOWN: Charlie Bowman, the Duke of Roxburghe, pictured, has moved his fiancee Annie Green into his ancestral pile, Floors Castle, with the blessing of his ex Morvarid Sahfi.

Evan Rachel Wood 'filed a police report over Marilyn Manson's wife conspiring to release

Hollywood actor Wood, 33, (left) posted an Instagram story Saturday making the allegations against her ex-fiance's wife Lindsay Usich (right with Manson) and sharing a photo of the police report (inset). She shared screengrabs of an online chat where two users were discussing a person calles 'Lindsay' asking for 'pictures of Evan'. In the chat, one account says they have photos 'that would ruin [Wood's] career'. Wood shared what she said was one of the pictures Usich was seeking, showing Wood in Manson's stage hat and an Adolf Hitler-style mustache drawn on her face. Wood first broke her silence Monday to name Manson, 52, as her alleged abuser who she said 'horrifically abused me for years'. On Friday, she posted fresh claims that Manson hurled anti-Semitic abuse at her, has three Nazi tattoos and drew swastikas on her bedside table. She is one of at least 11 women who this week have accused Manson of abuse. Manson has denied all the allegations as 'distortions of reality'.

Estrella Catalan, 52, died on Friday after weeks in the critical care unit of Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, where she had worked since September 2002.

Rachel McCartney, 33, from Aldershot, told Femail she had to spend 10 days quarantined in a separate room at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey, and gave birth to her twin boys on day four.

Dr Nikki Kanani, 40, juggles her career as NHS England's medical director for primary care and GP at her local surgery in Welling, southeast London, with her home life and two children.

Staggering figures have revealed that Australia has spent twice as much supporting citizens through the coronavirus pandemic than countries like the UK, Canada, France, Italy and New Zealand.

Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at a hospital in Wuhan, tried to warn the world, but was reprimanded by police for 'spreading rumours.'

Last week Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi and London Mayor Sadiq Khan joined forces to urge ethnic minorities to get vaccinated.

On Friday night, as Super Bowl weekend kicked off, huge crowds gathered in Tampa's Ybor City nightlife district to party late into the night. The festivities were marred by a reported shooting incident.

The funny Valentines that prove there are two things the virus can't kill - romance and the British sense of humour.

Pro-marriage campaigners claim their study of 3,005 parents shows that an official commitment has helped couples to better weather the uncertainty of the past 11 months.

The Outer Hebrides were almost overrun with celebrity presenters last autumn after the Covid pandemic curtailed globetrotting.

Football fans begin to tailgate around Raymond James Stadium on the eve of the Super

As football fans crowded Tampa on Saturday with hours to go until Super Bowl LV, hundreds were without maks in areas where the mayor has issued a mandate to curb the spread of COVID-19. As night fell, bars and restaurants were crammed with maskless partygoers and a tailgating party began outside of Raymond James Stadium as fans began the celebrations with less than 24 hours until the game. RVs and trucks were seen setting up ahead of Super Bowl LV in footage posted to social media. Earlier in the night, a firework show with a pirate theme launched the party with hundreds crowded onto the riverwalk or on boats to watch.

Ahead of the Super Bowl, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and his teammate Rob Gronkowski appeared in a funny commercial for cellphone provider T-Mobile.

For Mahomes - and any quarterback - the legacy of Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jnr looms large. But if the Chiefs win, Mahomes will be the youngest quarterback to win two Super Bowls - and the first since Brady in 2005 to go back-to-back.

Officials labelled the US intelligence worker as a spouse of an Embassy employee when they sent the Foreign Office a note asserting her diplomatic immunity.

The Duke of Cambridge, 38, said he was 'hugely honoured' to meet the seven young activists and told them they could easily be in the mix for his £50million Earthshot Prize.

Tricky visual challenges YOU to name all of the popular movie characters based on their

NEW A tricky visual challenge (pictured), created by LeoVegas, challenges the nation to identify all six popular movie characters based on their silhouettes alone. From the survey of 500 participants, they found that only 4% can name all six movie characters. So, how will you get on?

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Myanmar's Hunger Games protests: Demonstrators raise their hands in three-finger salute in gesture of rebellion inspired by Hollywood film as thousands take to streets and crowds clash with armed police on second day of action against military coup 

Tens of thousands of anti-coup protesters have poured back onto the streets of Myanmar on Sunday, raising their hands in a three-fingered salute during the second day of mass demonstrations against the military takeover. The gesture is a symbol of resistance inspired by the Hunger Games film franchise, which takes place in a dystopian world whose characters live under a brutal totalitarian government that severely restricts their rights. The salute was first taken up by Thai protesters opposing a 2014 military coup and has been a noticeable feature of pro-democracy demonstrations in the country ever since, including mass rallies last year. Myanmarese protesters have now adopted the symbol of resistance at huge demonstrations against Monday's arrest of de-facto civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other top officials. Protests took place across Myanmar on Sunday following the first mass demonstrations a day earlier condemning the coup that brought a 10-year experiment with partial democracy to a crashing halt. This weekend's demonstrations are the biggest protests in the country since the 2007 Saffron Revolution that helped spur a transition to democracy. Aside from the Myawaddy incident, the protests have been peaceful. Backed by a din of car horns, tens of thousands of changing protesters in Yangon, the largest city, held up banners reading 'Justice for Myanmar' and 'We do not want military dictatorship', while others waved the signature red flags of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party. Many of those present wore red t-shirts and carried red balloons in support of the NLD, chanting: 'We don't want military dictatorship! We want democracy!'

British animal charity Miracle's Mission will give one-year-old stray Nero who was hit by a car in Romania a new lease of life by fitting him with a prosthetic leg when he flies over to the UK.

Two teenagers, aged 15 and 19, have been arrested in connection with blazes at three beach huts in Hengistbury Head, Dorset on Saturday morning.

Amanda Cooper, who lives in the US, was criticized by Gordon Ramsay in one of his TikTok videos after she shared a clip of the first lookalike cake - and faced a similar reception this time around.

The Prince of Wales, 72,  called for 'a willingness to do things differently' as the agricultural industry faces significant change.

The Masked Singer: Gabrielle is unmasked as Harlequin while Sue Perkins is revealed as Dragon in show's semi-final

Gabrielle and Sue Perkins were unmasked during Saturday night's episode of The Masked Singer.  The singer, 50, and former Great British Bake Off host, 51, revealed their identities after failing to impress the audience enough with their performances on the show. Gabrielle was unveiled as Harlequin after all the judges bar Davina McCall named her as their guess, while Sue was unmasked as Dragon after successfully hoodwinking all of them into thinking she was someone else. 

ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Phillippa Kaufmann QC and Starmer QC,could face off at the long-running public inquiry into misconduct by undercover police officers.

From quick-fire gag merchants to masters of the observational routine, Britain boasts a wealth of comedic talent. And now we know who makes us laugh the most - Jimmy Carr.

Press Secretary Jen Psaki poured cold water on what had appeared to be Biden taking the unprecedented step to deny Trump access to classified information.

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: George Clooney played a blinder when he revealed he was doing the laundry, the washing-up and even a spot of darning during lockdown.

The super fridge bought from the 40s that are still going strong

After The Mail on Sunday last week told of Edmund Garrod and the fridge that has been serving him faithfully for 56 years, readers have inundated us with stories of their own appliances that are going strong decades after they were manufactured. Fridges older than Boris Johnson, hair shears made during the Second World War and a tumble-dryer dating from the Swinging Sixties - the stories highlight how appliances were once built to last. From left clockwise: Harold Macmillan was in Downing Street when Susan Loftus's (pictured left with her 94-year-old mother, Brenda) father Frank brought his Prescold Packaway fridge in 1960; Elizabeth Broadbent brought her tumble dryer in 1969 - and even then it was second-hand; Nigel Shapiro bought his Panasonic Genius from the Army and Navy store in Victoria, Central London, in 1985; Tony Heap and his wife were given this hair dryer as a wedding present in 1968 and it is still in working order; Steve Catterall, from Blackburn, still has his mother's electric hair clippers, made by Forfex 80 years ago.

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Hookworms were once a common problem in the UK when drinking water was unclean, but were mostly eradicated in the 1900. Now researchers believe they could help fight disease.

The Ministry of Defence is considering changing the titles of certain ranks to make them more inclusive by replacing the suffix man with person. The RAF has already instituted such changes.

The investing frenzy reached fever pitch last month when thousands of novice investors piled on to share trading and investment platforms to get in on the action. It shows no signs of slowing down.

Never-before-seen footage of seven-year-old Dylan Farrow accusing father Woody Allen of sexual abuse to air in explosive documentary featuring Mia Farrow 

Investigative documentary 'Allen v. Farrow' explores the 1992 allegations made against the filmmaker by his daughter with then-wife Mia Farrow (right). The documentary also examines Mia and Allen's doomed relationship including custody battles, abuse allegations and Allen's marriage to Farrow's adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn (inset Mia, Woody and their children around 1990). It features exclusive interviews from Mia, Dylan and Ronan Farrow. HBO teased a trailer for the series Friday in which Mia describes how she 'couldn't believe' the abuse allegations when she first heard them. Allen and Previn did not take part in the documentary, nor did Moses Farrow. Allen has repeatedly denied all the allegations of sexually abusing Dylan.

The 23-year-old mother, who did not share her name, faced a deluge of criticism after revealing she never reprimands her five-year-old daughter or three-year-old son for anything they do.

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Entrepreneur reveals he runs a million dollar business after launching own company

Kevin Leyes (pictured), 20, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, released a jewelery line at the age of 17 when he was still at university, studying for a computer engineering degree. Within months, he dropped out and a year later, founding another company, a digital marketing agency dubbed Leyes Media.

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Joanna Lumley: 'Britain is not awful. We are good people'

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Duchess of Rutland embraces the spiritual to save her ancestral pile 

Even aristocrats are slaves to lockdown. And Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland (pictured left, in the middle), has been reduced to polishing muskets. Right now, her ancestral pile, Belvoir Castle (right), is undergoing a gruelling spring-clean in the hope that it may soon reopen to the public. With 356 rooms, that is not a task for the faint-hearted. But then, over the past ten centuries, since being founded by William the Conqueror's warlords after the Battle of Hastings, Belvoir is accustomed to the odd crisis. The castle was destroyed by Parliamentary troops in the Civil War, retribution for its Royalist sympathies. You need more than musket balls to overcome the adversaries facing Belvoir and many other stately homes across the nation, not least the collapse in visitor numbers and revenue during the pandemic. Even so, the battle plan drawn up by the current duchess would have some of her predecessors turning in their graves. Pictured inset: A 'Wellness Wagon' at the castle.

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A very Brrritish lockdown 

The whole country was brought to a standstill for months at the end of 1962 - but for very different reasons to now. Author Juliet Nicolson recalls an extraordinary winter    It was Boxing Day 1962 when the snowflakes began to fall. It was our first Christmas at our home, Sissinghurst Castle in Kent.

   

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Sahara plume colours the Alps ski resorts as sandstorm sweeps across the continent

The cross-country ski track at La Fouly in Val Ferret, Switzerland, (top) was scattered with sand from the Sahara today and left the sky an eerie shade of yellow. An orange hue was also seen in the Chamonix Mont-Blanc Valley (lower right) as the air was laden with sand dust from the Sahara and a warm glow was captured in Lyon, France. 'Seen from space (inset top): A low pressure system on the Iberian Peninsula organises a powerful southerly flow which brings up sand from the #Sahara as far as France.' 

Jennifer Lawrence was left injured after being hit in the eye with a shard of glass when a stunt went wrong on the set of her latest film.

The Mail on Sunday can reveal that telecoms giant BT is working with the NHS to develop the technology to 'tag' people and equipment in hospitals so their locations can be monitored at all times.

Looking for a salty snack? Horrifying moment a giant four-metre saltwater crocodile gulps down a SHARK just metres from the woman who reeled in the fish

Yvonne Palmer shared footage on Sunday of the moment a 'monster' saltwater crocodile devoured the shark in Cardwell in Far North Queensland. The crocodile appears at least four metres long and follows the shark along the shore after it got caught on the woman's fishing line. 'Check out this monster ... holy smackers,' she says in the video. 'I just caught a shark, which I couldn't get back into the water because this fella was coming and now he's going to come and eat it and I am going to sh*t myself.'

   

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