THE cold weather has triggered three amber health alerts for northern England. Tumbling temperatures and wintry showers mean the health and social care sector will be "significantly" impacted for the next seven days, officials warn. The Met Office and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said there is an "increased risk of mortality" across the population, particularly in vulnerable groups. […]

LIVID supermarket shoppers customers have vowed never to return to Asda over a feared increased the number of self-checkout. One said removing manned tills and increasing self-service checkouts at Asda will be a disaster in the run up to Christmas – one of the busiest times of the year. They added how a self-serve future is not what people at […]

NADINE DORRIES: So am I on the wrong side in the Fake v Fir Christmas tree debate? This year I won the Fake vs Fir battle of the Christmas trees – although my victory certainly required a degree of stealth. I blame my late husband for this annual battle of wills. When the girls were younger, he transformed into a […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The last thing Maria Pilar Leon thought she would be doing when she headed to a Brunswick pub with friends on a Sunday afternoon was singing in front of a 21-piece band. But when she saw the Melbourne Karaoke Big Band’s song list […]

The price to rent? $19.89, of course. Are you ready for it? Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour concert film is headed to home video … very, very soon. On Monday, Taylor announced that for her 34th birthday — December 13 — she’ll be celebrating the occasion by releasing the box office hit to digital platforms the same day. Unable to […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Disposable vapes won’t be allowed into Australia from New Year’s Day under the federal government’s bold plans to stop a new generation becoming addicted to nicotine. Australia’s ambition to become the first country to limit vaping to people with a prescription will be […]

ANDREW PIERCE: Is Lord Dave counting the cost of his new role? New Foreign Secretary David Cameron is no longer entitled to claim the Public Duty Costs Allowance available to former prime ministers. It is meant to help fund ‘necessary office costs and secretarial costs arising from their special position in ‘public life’. The annual allowance is £115,000 — and […]

Charles breaks cover: King appears in high spirits as he heads to church in Sandringham following claims he’s a ‘pampered’ monarch who ‘has his shoelaces ironed’ in Omid Scobie’s new book The King, 75, was spotted going to Sunday service as normal in Sandringham READ MORE: Omid Scobie’s book is understood to include of volley of withering criticisms of the […]

CrossFit, Reformer Pilates… even her kneecaps are lovely! Princess Kate shows off her toned legs as she wears a stunning red outfit to the state banquet at Buckingham Palace Ooh la la! It’s just an accidental flash of leg as a woman gets out of a car . . . but what a leg! Very pale, very slender, both fine-boned […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Labor is facing a new political storm over asylum seekers after a boatload of people from Indonesia arrived in Australia undetected, sparking calls for the government to explain how up to 12 people landed on a remote part of the West Australian coast. […]