Alex Salmond will give evidence in private tomorrow or on Tuesday to a second Holyrood inquiry, set up to establish whether Ms Sturgeon has broken the Ministerial Code.

Deeply polarised views in the normally staid and uncontroversial world of epidemiology have led to the academic equivalent of a stand-off in recent weeks.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak today warned the coronavirus crisis has had an ‘enormous toll’ on the public finances as he appeared to pave the way for a series of tax rises at the Budget on March 3.

In a sign that attitudes towards expressing sexuality are shifting, a survey of 18 to 24 year-olds in Britain found just over 50 per cent are ‘only attracted to those of the opposite sex’.

Tonight’s supermoon is not as bright as 2020’s Snow Moon – but it still made for an illuminating sight across the UK when it shone at its brightest this evening. Fascinating pictures show the huge moon.