A former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas. Robert Rowland, 54, represented the South East of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until December 2020.

The figures come as some family doctors continue to express their frustration about the rollout of vaccines across the UK.

Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis has said the country’s empty shelves have nothing to do with Brexit.

Forces across the UK have broken up parties and meet-ups and fined people for visiting beauty spots despite lockdown rules

Budget airline Norwegian has axed its long-haul network, leading to the loss of 1,100 pilot and cabin crew jobs based at Gatwick Airport.

Three children have been rescued from the English Channel after their migrant boat got into difficulty. They were among 30 people picked up in French waters, after their boat was spotted by a ferry.

Some 170 bodies are being kept in the temporary mortuary at Headley Court in Leatherhead, which first opened in April to alleviate pressure during the first wave of the pandemic

Doctors can stop providing life-support treatment to a five-year-old girl who has suffered brain damage and is in a vegetative state, a High Court judge has ruled.

An 82-year-old retired maintenance manager has become the first person in the world to receive the Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine outside clinical trials.Dialysis patient Brian Pinker received the jab at 7.30am on Monday from nurse Sam ...

A murder investigation has been launched after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading. Police were called just before 4pm on Sunday following reports of a stabbing in Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene.

Some 530,000 doses of the vaccine will be available for rollout across the UK from Monday, with vulnerable groups already identified as the priority for immunisation.

Young drivers who are shown films demonstrating responsible behaviour are less likely to take risks than those subjected to scare tactics, according to a study in England.

Planet Earth has remained habitable for billions of years simply because of good luck, according to a new study. Scientists at the University of Southampton have carried out a mass simulation of climate evolution of 100,000 randomly generated planets.

Fears of huge queues failed to materialise

The first arrivals on the shuttle from France following the end of the Brexit transition period are expected at around 12.23am.

The last lorry drivers who were stuck in their vehicles over the Christmas period are preparing to cross from the UK to France, following a week of disruption at the English Channel border.

Fewer than two hundred lorry drivers are waiting to travel to France following a week of disruption at the English Channel border, the UK Department for Transport (DfT) has said.

Thousands more lorries have been allowed to cross the English Channel after being held at the border on Christmas Day, but hauliers have warned “it’s not over yet”.

Thousands of international lorry drivers will spend St Stephen's Day in their cabs after almost a week of disruption at the English Channel border.

Some 1,100 military personnel have been deployed in Kent as part of the repatriation operation, after French Covid-19 restrictions caused severe disruptions at the Port of Dover.

A further 800 military personnel have been sent to Kent to help thousands of lorry drivers waiting to cross into France on Christmas Day.

Thousands of international lorry drivers are braced to spend Christmas Day cooped up in their cabs at the English Channel border as slow progress was made to return hauliers home to their loved ones.

Ferries will run on Christmas Day and French firemen are in the UK to help test for coronavirus as thousands of lorry drivers wanting to cross the Channel remain stranded in Kent.

The UK Transport Secretary has called for “patience” from thousands of lorry drivers stranded outside the Port of Dover following the French travel ban.

Lorry drivers have clashed with police in Kent as they continue to be held up by the French travel ban. Footage shows a handful of police officers attempting to push back a small crowd of mostly men in Dover on Wednesday morning.

The travel ban was imposed in response to fears about the spread of the more infectious coronavirus strain, which is spreading in the UK.

More than 1,500 lorries are backed up in Kent, while the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel remain closed to traffic leaving the country, with drivers facing a third night sleeping in their cabs.

Stranded truck drivers are calling for immediate help from the UK government with thousands stuck while the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel remain closed to traffic leaving the country.

Travel from the UK to the European Union should be “discouraged” due to fears about the mutant variant of coronavirus but bans on movement should be lifted, Brussels has said.

Talks with France on reopening full trade and transport across the Channel are ongoing as the UK government’s chief scientific adviser said more restrictions may be needed at home because cases of a mutant strain of Covid were now appearing ...

Crisis talks are being held to prevent the UK being cut off from the continent over fears about the spread of the new coronavirus variant.

The Vietnamese migrants, aged between 15 and 44, were found dead in the back of a trailer in Essex in England on October 23 last year.

UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the ban on accompanied freight was “slightly surprising”.

Restrictions which forced millions of people across the UK to tear up their Christmas plans may have to remain for “the next couple of months”, British Health Secretary Matt Hancock has suggested.

Last month four in ten Irish people living in the UK said they planned to come home for Christmas, but those in London now face difficult choices.

Boris Johnson is holding emergency talks with Cabinet ministers as scientists confirmed that the new variant coronavirus was spreading more rapidly.

Christmas stockpiling and Brexit uncertainty have again caused huge queues of lorries to stack up in Kent, England. A long line of HGVs stretched up to five miles on the M20 as freight drivers headed for the Eurotunnel.

The M20 in Kent, England has seen long queues of lorries heading to the border, with tailbacks stretching many miles.

London will move into the highest tier of coronavirus restrictions from Wednesday as a result of soaring case rates.

A coronavirus screening test based on artificial intelligence (AI) is able to rule out a Covid-19 diagnosis within an hour, according to the scientists who developed the technology.

Scientists have found that size does matter when it comes to the “sexual frenzy” of the mating of shipworms.

Going for a Covid-19 test may now take you to an unexpected place – the crypt at England’s second oldest cathedral. Rochester Cathedral, on a site dating back to AD 604, has been set up as a testing centre with support from the military.

RAF planes took part in the operation

The numbers making the dangerous journey have been described as a “crisis” and several have died

The evolution of border security in and around the English Channel has been branded a “history of death” that has seen nearly 300 people lose their lives.

Lorry drivers were left queuing along the M20 in Kent as Brexit border control tests were carried out at the Channel Tunnel.

TV presenter Jeremy Kyle called tragic guest Steve Dymond a “serial liar” and said he “would not trust him with a chocolate button”, a coroner has revealed.

A mother who faked having cancer and raked in more than £45,000 (€50,376) through a GoFundMe page has been found guilty of fraud.

TV presenter Jeremy Kyle “may have caused or contributed” to the death of guest Steve Dymond who is suspected to have taken his own life after failing a lie detector test on his show, a pre-inquest review has heard.

Four Tory MPs and a peer who gave a disgraced former colleague character references for his court case have written to senior judges calling for them not to release the statements of others.