Professor Ferguson – the UK Government adviser whose modelling has spooked No10 into lockdowns before –  said tighter curbs were needed before New Year to stop a massive hospital surge.

The ‘less lethal’ weapons were discharged 3,323 times across England and Wales in the year to the end of this March. This is a slight rise on the previous 12 months, a Home Office report showed.

Nico Logan, 28, from Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, pictured, was arrested after police hacked into the encrypted phone system he was using to run his drugs business.

Fraud has surged since the Covid crisis, with crooks stealing £753.9m in the first half of this year alone, according to trade body UK Finance.

BEL MOONEY: His pitiful cries of ‘Nobody loves me’ and ‘No one is going to feed me’ will haunt us all. Lockdown put countless individuals in greater danger. What chance did that tragic child have?

Covid restrictions in England including travel bans, testing and facemasks will be necessary to fight the new Omicron variant, the Prime Minister announced at a Downing Street briefing.

Sulafa Ageeb Ageeb, 21, was convicted and fined $4,000 after sparking a Covid-19 lockdown in regional NSW following a week of partying and shopping.

Sage adviser Professor John Edmunds said the situation in Europe, where cases are spiking and riots against restrictions are taking place should serve as a warning to the UK where cases remain high

A Covid-19 conspiracy theorist has avoided a conviction for failing to hand over her driver’s licence or state her name and address to police during Melbourne lockdown in 2020.

Spending at hairdressers has more than doubled in both the city centre and the suburbs since Sydney’s crippling lockdown ended in October.