Schools are flouting official guidance by requiring pupils to wear face masks when they return in September, The Mail on Sunday has learned. While most head teachers are following Government advice that masks are unnecessary and could actually increase transmission of Covid-19 through misuse, at least ten schools have broken …...Read More

Speed limits will be raised in sections of motorway affected by roadworks to cut journey times and ease the frustrations of drivers. Highways England said that typical 50mph restrictions where work was taking place would increase to 60mph. It made the decision after trials over the past 18 months found …...Read More

Amanda Holden is known as a dedicated follower of fashion – and especially, it seems, when it comes to Julia Roberts. The Britain’s Got Talent judge, 49, is fond of posting glamorous photographs on Instagram, on which she has amassed an impressive 1.5 million followers. And in many of them …...Read More

The blank, almost ghostly stare that Graham’s six-year-old daughter gave him was quite troubling enough. But what came next sent a sliver of ice through his heart. ‘You are not love, Daddy,’ she told him, quietly. ‘Serge is love.’ By themselves, the words made little sense. But to Graham, they …...Read More

Animal keepers at a safari park in Merseyside believe that some visitors are 'arming' baboons with tools such as knives, screwdrivers and a chainsaw to wreak havoc on parked cars. The baboons at Knowsley safari park have been known to rip off windscreen wipers and wing mirrors from the cars …...Read More

Supermarkets could help the battle against climate change by fitting doors on open chiller units, says a new report. The research, carried out by Imperial College London for Sainsbury's, said the move could cut energy use by a staggering 40 per cent. Large stores tend to favour open fridge cabinets …...Read More

A coroner was never provided with crucial footage that was reportedly taken moments before a young Australian Instagram model was found hanging from the back of a billionaire's superyacht in Greece. Sinead McNamara, 20, was ruled to have committed suicide after her body was found on the Mayan Queen IV, …...Read More

It is as much of a festive tradition as mince pies and the Queen’s message but children’s trips to see Santa will be very different for this year – if they happen at all. Shops and garden centres are revising their Christmas plans – or deciding not to set up …...Read More

PC Harper, 28, was tragically killed just four weeks after the couple got married The widow wrote the letter on what would have been their first anniversary The widow of Andrew Harper has told of her 'endless sprawling dark' since her hero PC husband was dragged to his death by …...Read More

As a young engineer, Stephen Lamonby was taken under the wing of an elderly colleague and given a piece of wisdom he has never forgotten – ‘Knowledge not passed on is knowledge wasted.’ Over the next half century, Mr Lamonby, now 73, designed Navy torpedoes, satellite-carrying rockets, oil rigs and …...Read More