UK news

• Digital 'Covid certificates' being considered by Boris Johnson in bid to open up bars and theatres

  23-02-2021 23:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister is examining proposals that would allow business, hospitals or schools to demand proof that someone has been vaccinated - or has tested negative for the virus.
  
  Read more

• Hollyoaks spoilers: Billy Price hints Sid Sumner is not dead in new video

  04-03-2021 20:02 via metro.co.uk
  
  (Picture: Lime pictures)Hollyoaks fans have been inconsolable since Sid Sumner met his tragic demise, but there could be a huge twist on the horizon, as actor Billy Price has hinted that the beloved character might not be dead after all.
  The actor, who portrayed Sid on the Channel 4 soap, suggested that there might be more to come for SidWhat Billy means remains to be seen. Could the character be set to return from the dead? Is there perhaps a twist coming?Who knows?!Sid was hellbent on taking d
  
  Read more

• This Morning’s Holly Willoughby praised for ‘powerful’ comments on dyslexia as it’s ‘still often misunderstood’

  04-03-2021 20:00 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5video
  Holly Willoughby has been praised for her ‘powerful’ comments about her experience with dyslexia on This Morning.The presenter and her co-star Phillip Schofield welcomed student William Carter onto the show, who couldn’t read or write by the age of 13 and was diagnosed with severe dyslexia by a specialist.She spoke about her own ‘turning point’ with dyslexia
  
  Read more

• BTS beat Billie Eilish, The Weeknd and Drake to be named global recording artist of 2020

  04-03-2021 19:57 via metro.co.uk
  
  BTA beat competition from Billie Eilish, The Weeknd and more for the accolade (Picture: Getty/Rex)BTS have notched up another huge achievement after beating some of the world’s biggest stars to be named global recording artist of 2020. The K-pop band beat competition from the likes of Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and more to the title, which was decided by IFPI, the organisation which represents the recorded music industry worldwide.BTS – which consists of Jungkook, Jimin, V
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Butcher who raped and murdered Libby Squire could see 27-year jail term rise

  04-03-2021 19:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Serial sex offender Pawel Relowicz, 26, was handed a life sentence with the minimum last month after he was found guilty of raping and killing the 21-year-old in Hull
  
  Read more

• At least 20 migrants die after smugglers throw them into sea on way to Yemen

  04-03-2021 19:49 via metro.co.uk
  
  At least 80 people were thrown overboard the boat (not pictured above), said the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) (Picture: Getty)At least 20 people have died after smugglers threw them overboard while making the sea crossing from East Africa to Yemen.Around 200 people, including children, set off from Djibouti on the overcrowded boat on Wednesday, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said.But smugglers ‘started shouting there were too many on board’ a
  
  Read more

• Mia Farrow accuses Woody Allen of telling 'horrible lies' in teaser of HBO docu series

  04-03-2021 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mia Farrow made the allegation in the third episode of the explosive HBO documentary series Allen v. Farrow, which airs this Sunday night at 9pm Eastern Time on the cable powerhouse.
  
  Read more

• Towie star Elliott Wright’s dad Eddie dies after eight-week Covid battle: ‘The ultimate family man’

  04-03-2021 19:47 via metro.co.uk
  
  Elliott Wright has paid tribute to his father Eddie (Picture: @elliottwright, Instagram)Elliott Wright has announced that his beloved dad and Mark Wright’s uncle, Eddie Wright, has died following a lengthy battle with coronavirus. The former The Only Way Is Essex star shared the news of Eddie’s death in a heartfelt Instagram post on Thursday, alongside photos of their happy memories together. Revealing that Eddie, 65, died on Tuesday, Elliott told his followers: ‘It i
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Serial sex killer who strangled 7 women meets ‘fitting’ end after being strangled to death in jail

  04-03-2021 19:45 via metro.co.uk
  
  Roger Kibbe (left) was found dead next to his cellmate Jason Budrow on Sunday, with the strangler serial killer’s cause of death since confirmed as strangling (Pictures: San Joaquin Sheriff’s Office)A serial killer who strangled seven women met a ‘fitting’ end after he was himself strangled in jail, a detective said. Retired San Joaquin Sheriff’s Office Detective Vito Bertocchini said Roger Kibbe’s murder at a prison in Sacramento on Sunday was ‘some fit
  
  Read more

• Mississippi passes bill limiting transgender student athletes

  04-03-2021 19:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The bill, which was voted on 81-28, was passed in Mississippi House on Wednesday and will be passed on to Republican Governor Tate Reeves to sign it into law.
  
  Read more

• Meghan ‘hissed at staff member and reduced her to tears’ in row on Fiji visit

  04-03-2021 19:41 via metro.co.uk
  
  Meghan Markle is said to have ‘reduced an employee to tears’ on a Royal tour in Fiji (Pictures: Getty)Meghan Markle is said to have reduced a staff member to tears after ‘turning and hissing at her’ during a row on a visit to Fiji.    The Duchess of Sussex, 39, was reportedly ‘incandescent with rage’ and ‘demanded to leave’ a market tour on the Pacific island in October 2018, reports claim.   Meghan, who was pregnant w
  
  Read more

• Tiger Woods' ex-mistress Rachel Uchitel launches a new career as a relationship guru

  04-03-2021 19:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rachel Uchitel, 45, tells DailyMail.com she is starting a new career as a relationship guru. She will use experiences she gained from being caught up in a string of sex scandals.
  
  Read more

• Hotel worker raped and sexually assaulted five women over 18 month period, court hears

  04-03-2021 19:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tom Wade-Allison, 25, from Martock, Somerset, made drinks for some of the victims which left them 'blank' and exhausted, a jury was told at Exeter Crown Court today.
  
  Read more

• Set For Life results live draw with winning lotto numbers on Thursday, March 4

  04-03-2021 19:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Results checker and live draw for the Set For Life lotto game with the National Lottery on Thursday, March 4 - get those tickets to hand for the life-changing jackpot
  
  Read more

• Dog crowned a 'super slimmer' piles the pounds back on while stuck in lockdown

  04-03-2021 19:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Oscar, a King Charles spaniel, had lost more than a stone after taking up swimming classes - but when they were cancelled during lockdown, the hard work quickly came undone
  
  Read more

• North Carolina murder suspect and her husband are still on the lam six weeks later

  04-03-2021 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Local authorities said that Tangela Parker is wanted for the first degree murder of Phelifia Michelle Marlow, 51, while Eric Parker is wanted for accessory after-the-fact to first degree murder.
  
  Read more

• SpaceX engineers staged a mutiny after being left without food while working on island in 2005

  04-03-2021 19:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The strike, which was staged in 2005, took place as SpaceX's rocket engineers were racing to construct a launch site on Omelek, in the Marshall Islands, for the company's Falcon 1 rocket.
  
  Read more

• Family of 5st man who starved to death after benefit cut lose case on Budget day

  04-03-2021 19:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Errol Graham is the human face of how disabled people are cast aside by the Tory government - the timing of the judgment was a coincidence but seems to sum up how disabled people have been treated since 2010
  
  Read more

• Woman, 35, 'disgusted and embarrassed' after ex posted revenge porn on Instagram

  04-03-2021 19:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kenny Davis, who pleaded guilty to two counts of disclosing private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress, took intimate photographs of Laura Alcock while she slept and posted them to his Instagram account
  
  Read more

• Nurses fury as ministers offer them 'pitiful' pay rise of just ONE PER CENT as Covid reward

  04-03-2021 19:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It came a day after health and social care were both notably absent from any increased funding in Rishi Sunak's coronavirus Budget.
  
  Read more

• Bodybuilder, 27, died after injecting steroids he bought illegally over the internet weeks

  04-03-2021 19:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bodybuilder Lex Darne, 27, begged a doctor for testosterone treatment but he was denied a prescription and instead turned to the internet to buy illegal body-enhancing drugs, an inquest heard.
  
  Read more

• EU blocks shipment of 250,000 Oxford vaccines in supply row

  04-03-2021 19:19 via metro.co.uk
  
  AstraZeneca vaccines arriving in Sydney on February 28 (Picture: Getty)A shipment of 250,000 vaccines due to go to Australia has been blocked from leaving the European Union.The Oxford AstraZeneca doses will now stay in the EU after the first use of an export control system instituted by the bloc more than a month ago.An unnamed EU official confirmed a report that first appeared in the Financial Times.Authorities in Italy refused to grant a licence for the doses, manufactured there, to be export
  
  Read more

• Mia Farrow accuses Woody Allen of telling 'horrible lies' about her being an 'unfit mother'

  04-03-2021 19:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mia Farrow made the allegation in the third episode of the explosive HBO documentary series Allen v. Farrow, which airs this Sunday night at 9pm Eastern Time on the cable powerhouse.
  
  Read more

• Zoe Ball ‘heartbroken’ as she pays tribute to Radio 1 colleague Simon Willlis who has died

  04-03-2021 19:11 via metro.co.uk
  
  Zoe Ball broke news of her colleague Simon Willis’ death (Picture: WireImage)Zoe Ball has led tributes for a BBC Radio 1 co-star who has died. Remembering Simon Willis, who reportedly battled a lengthy illness, the Strictly: It Takes Two host shared several photos of fun memories she had with her colleague and the wider BBC Radio team. Announcing his death in the Instagram post, Zoe wrote: ‘Heartbroken to hear our dear friend Willy, Simon Willis from our Radio 1 Breakfast S
  
  Read more

• Novichok poisoning policeman's 'very emotional' wife thanks NHS for 'miracle'

  04-03-2021 19:11 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The wife of Det Sgt Nick Bailey, Sarah, has marked the third anniversary of the Salisbury Novichock poisonings attack by paying tribute to the medical staff who saved her husband’s life
  
  Read more

• WandaVision finale: Paul Bettany confirms who big cameo tease was about and he’s been trolling us all along

  04-03-2021 19:09 via metro.co.uk
  
  To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5video
  WandaVision star Paul Bettany has revealed who he was talking about when he teased that there was a big cameo coming up on the Disney Plus show, and some fans are not happy about the news ahead of the finale.Warning: spoilers ahead if you’re not up to date with episode eight of WandaVision.During a recent interview, Paul, who plays Vision in the Marvel series, said that there was o
  
  Read more

• Grandmother 'terrified of giving family with Covid killed herself by stepping in front of train'

  04-03-2021 19:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rosalind Weaver was hit by an express passenger train in Gloucestershire last year. Her death came without any warning and she left no suicide message of any kind, the inquest was told.
  
  Read more

• Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith would ban CAKE from schools in bid to tackle obesity 

  04-03-2021 19:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Prue Leith has said she would ban cake in schools to educate children about healthy eating. The Bake Off judge, 81, said she would clamp down on pupils snacking throughout the day while in school.
  
  Read more

• Another new coronavirus variant found in UK as 16 cases spark investigation

  04-03-2021 19:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  We'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.
  
  Read more

• Ian Wright urges Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to give Donny van de Beek a chance after Crystal Palace stalemate

  04-03-2021 19:01 via metro.co.uk
  
  Van de Beek has found playing time hard to come by at United (Picture: Getty Images)Ian Wright has urged Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to give Donny van de Beek a chance in the side following their drab 0-0 draw with Crystal Palace on Wednesday.The Red Devils struggled to create clear-cut chances and produced just one shot on target as they dropped points at Selhurst Park.Solskjaer’s side have now stuttered to back-to-back goalless draws in the Premier League which has seen t
  
  Read more

Follow @newslock_uknews on Twitter!