Petrol soars to a 20-month high and motorway services charge £1.50-a-litre

As lockdown measures eased this week and Britons can return to places of work, plan staycations and visit friends and family indoors for the first time in 2021, drivers are being met by 20-month-high fuel prices as the cost of petrol continues to surge. Analysis by the AA reveals that unleaded jumped by more than … Read more

Guess who! Popular TV presenter looks very different in high school photo

Guess who! She’s one of Australia’s most popular TV stars… but would you recognise this smiling teen from her high school photo? By Abi Moustafa For Daily Mail Australia Published: 06:10 BST, 19 May 2021 | Updated: 06:19 BST, 19 May 2021 She’s a veteran journalist and TV presenter. After beginning her career as a … Read more

Imogen Thomas dresses down in high slung jeans as she steps out for alfresco lunch date

She is known to put on a dazzling display. But despite cutting a more casual figure for an outing on Sunday, Imogen Thomas still managed to look glam.  The Big Brother beauty, 38, wowed in high-slung blue flared jeans as she headed to Bluebird in Chelsea for an alfresco lunch with friends.  Casual: Imogen Thomas, … Read more

Matt Hancock says there is a ‘high degree of confidence’ that Covid vaccines can beat Indian variant

Matt Hancock backed England’s vaccine roll-out to beat the new Indian Covid variant today, saying there was evidence existing jabs could deal with the highly contagious new strain and keep the move out of lockdown on track. The Health Secretary said that a new Oxford University investigation showed that the innoculations available were effective against … Read more

Ex-Jeremy Corbyn aide’s 2019 tweet caused ‘pile on’ for Countdown’s Rachel Riley, High Court hears

An ex-Jeremy Corbyn aide’s tweet to TV personality Rachel Riley caused ‘sleepless nights’ and resulted in calls for her sacking, the High Court heard. Ms Riley, 35, is suing Laura Murray, 32, whose 2019 tweet accused the Countdown star of suggesting the former Labour leader was a Nazi who ‘deserves to be violently attacked.’ The … Read more

Countdown star Rachel Riley was libelled by a former Jeremy Corbyn staffer, High Court hears

Rachel Riley claims she was libelled by a former Jeremy Corbyn staffer who ‘dog whistled’ her followers to cause a Twitter ‘pile on’, the High Court heard today.  The Countdown star told the court she believed the Corbyn-led Labour Party was ‘fostering antisemitism’ – and she felt ‘affronted’ at being called ‘dangerous and stupid’ following an online … Read more

Countdown star Rachel Riley was libelled by a former Jeremy Corbyn staffer, High Court hears

Rachel Riley claims she was libelled by a former Jeremy Corbyn staffer who ‘dog whistled’ her followers to cause a Twitter ‘pile on’, the High Court heard today.  The Countdown maths ace told the court her view is that the Corbyn-led Labour Party was ‘fostering antisemitism’ – and she felt ‘affronted’ at being called ‘dangerous and stupid’ … Read more

Police and council must pay Nation of Islam £90,000 damages after High Court judge ruling

Police were wrong to block preacher Louis Farrakhan who once called Jews ‘termites’ from giving speech at London park because they breached his human rights, High Court rules Nation of Islam was planning to hold an event in August 2017 in south London Organisers had arranged for Louis Farrakhan to make a broadcast from the … Read more

Police and council must pay Nation of Islam £90,000 damages after High Court judge ruling

Police were wrong to block preacher Louis Farrakhan who once called Jews ‘termites’ from giving speech at London park because they breached his human rights, High Court rules Nation of Islam was planning to hold an event in August 2017 in south London Organisers had arranged for Louis Farrakhan to make a broadcast from the … Read more