All the countries considering tougher restrictions on UK over mutant Covid-19 variant

In Andy Serkis’s mind, Vladimir Putin and Gollum have a lot in common.

Mariska Hargitay is paying tribute to late “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” actor Ned Eisenberg.

Gemma Atkinson, 37, shares daughter Mia, with her Strictly Come Dancing fiance Gorka Marquez, 31.The actress took to Instagram to fume at Strictly Come Dancing pro Gorka as their daughter slept in on the day the dancer was home and on parent duty.Gemma took to her Instagram story this morning to tell her 1.7 million followers what happened.She said: "When Gorka's away and I'm on my own with Mia I have to be in the 5am club."I've got from 5 till 7 in the morning to train, eat, shower."The day when he's home, the one day when he's home, she lies in."She fumed: "On the day I don't need help, rushing around.

This Morning to chat about his upcoming show but also shared his thoughts on the late actress Helen McCrory.Joe and Helen both worked on the iconic series of Peaky Blinders together and looking back at his time on the show, he says she was a "rare gem".Harry Potter actress Helen died from cancer, age 52, in April 2021, which left a great hole in the acting community.Joe shared what it has been like working with big stars across his career, from past roles and current, in his new series The Ipcress File during a chat with This Morning hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.He said: "When you're working with great actors they bring something else out of you. It's a real job as you might have preconceptions about how you're going to do a scene, but when you get into a room with heavyweights like Tom Hollander, you're like that anyway but it brings different things out of your performance."He continued: "It happens a lot, up and down, small arts and big parts.

Prince William let slip an adorable remark about his wife Kate Middleton when the couple stepped out for a joint engagement in Wales this week.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge embarked on their first public walkabout in two years this Tuesday after the coronavirus pandemic prevented such engagements. They visited a goat farm in Llanvetherine near Abergavenny to mark St David's Day, and also chatted with crowds who braved the cold to come and see the royal couple.

Big Brother 2 contestant Narinder Kaur has confirmed that she no longer speaks to her former best friend - and Big Brother winner - Brian Dowling.While doing a cookery demonstration on Channel 4's Steph's Packed Lunch on Wednesday (March 2), Narinder was asked by Steph McGovern whether she's still in touch with any of her fellow housemates from the 2001 series.Narinder, 48, said she speaks to "loads of them" before adding: "I don't talk to Brian anymore. We had a big fall out."After some prodding from Steph, Narinder said: "It's too much to go into.

Festival in 2017.However, guitarist Wesley, 39, couldn't quite believe his luck during a chance encounter with the Fleetwood Mac star who he had grown up listening to.Speaking exclusively to Daily Star, Wesley said: "We played a bill that was us, Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty at Hyde Park."I met her a couple of times a couple of different times and got to speak with her."He went on to add: "The show itself was kind of everything you hoped for, normally you see these artists that are household names and you say 'I wish I would have seen them then', she's always had this mystical magnetic thing."She's always been beautiful, but she never led with that, there's something very, very powerful about someone choosing to not have that be the thing that defines them and I respected that, I admired that a lot."Speaking about his most memorable meeting, he continued: "She was a person of the year one year at a BMI awards thing and she gave this hour-plus speech."She was so funny, it was like you were talking to her at a bar, that's how she gave the speech, she was like 'Rule number five, don't date a married man', that was one of the openers."The lady is amazing, she's everything you kind of want in Stevie Nicks in your rock heroes, you know, she lives up to it."I remember feeling really embarrassed because our managers were like 'I'll introduce you' and I'm like 'This is so douchey'."Explaining how the meeting worked, he said: "This is how it works, you walk up and your manager goes, 'Stevie Nicks.

Ukraine.But the discussion turned to a fiery debate between the presenter asked the wrong guest to take a "chill pill".Video shared online sees Mr Shivshankar addressing Bohdan Nahaylo as "Mr McAdams" and throwing a series of insults going so far as to blame him and “his people” for colonising the East.He is heard shouting: "Mr McAdams, no hang on, hang on, if you are so concerned about Ukrainians get off the fence and put boots on the ground. "Don’t lecture us here in India ok? I am not going to hear your lecture."But the statement is intended for Mr Nahaylo, who has been talking non-stop the whole time, while Mr McAdams remains silent, looking confused.Want all the latest shocking news and views from all over the world straight into your inbox?We've got the best royal scoops, crime dramas and breaking stories - all delivered in that Daily Star style you love.Our great newsletters will give you all you need to know, from hard news to that bit of glamour you need every day. They'll drop straight into your inbox and you can unsubscribe whenever you like.You can sign up here - you won't regret it...Mr McAdams then cuts in and says: "I'm not talking! It's the other guy who has been talking, I haven't been able to say a word!"Dear host, I have not said a word yet.

After repeated demands for clarity on schools reopening, Boris ­Johnson sparked further confusion over the relaxing of restrictions.

Prime Minister is to use the example of the army and the UK-funding for a vaccine as arguments for the strength of the United Kingdom as he launches a hard response to Nicola Sturgeon’s latest independence demands.

One in nine people in England have been vaccinated, Matt Hancock confirmed today.

coronavirus.The government hasn't confirmed whether he will be making any new announcements.During England's national lockdown, the government is aiming to hold around three press conferences a week - down from seven in the first lockdown last Spring.It comes after Boris Johnson appeared to suggest lockdown measures may be relaxed before the middle of next month.The Prime Minister added his government will be "looking at the potential of relaxing some measures" before mid-February.But he couldn't give a guarantee schools would be back before Easter.Johnson went on: "I do think now this massive achievement has been made of rolling out this vaccination programme, I think people want to see us making sure we don't throw that away by having a

Four out of five Brits believe Boris Johnson left the country vulnerable by not shutting borders earlier during the pandemic, it has been reported.

Matt Hancock has warned the Government is a "long, long, long way" from being able to lift coronavirus lockdown restrictions. Mr Hancock said there was evidence that restrictions in place were having an impact while the vaccination programme was making "brilliant progress".

coronavirus cases being low enough to ease restrictions. In an interview this morning with Sophy Ridge on Sunday on Sky News, he said: "There is early evidence that the lockdown is starting to bring cases down."But we are a long, long, long way from that being low enough because the case rate was incredibly high."You can see the pressure on the NHS you can see it every day.

Matt Hancock has suggested further clampdown could be coming to the British border as he warned we "can't risk the progress we have made”.

The delayed 12-week waiting time for the coronavirus vaccine second dose has been criticised by medical experts who have urged the Government to slash it in half.

The Prime Minister's Press Secretary is in coronavirus self-isolation, it has been reported.

direct to your inboxThe Brazilian and South African coronavirus variants are of more concern than the UK strain, the UK's chief scientific advisor has warned.Sir Patrick Vallance said fears have been raised that those two variants may be 'less susceptible to vaccines'.Speaking at a Downing Street press conference on Friday afternoon, Sir Vallance said: "We know less about how much more transmissible they are."We are more concerned that they have certain features that they might be less susceptible to vaccines.“They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment, and we need to keep looking at it and studying it very carefully.”It comes after Health Secretary Matt Hancock said “there is evidence in the public domain”

Elderly residents in Matt Hancock’s own constituency had their jab appointments delayed due to vaccine supply issues, the Mirror has learned.

direct to your inbox Matt Hancock told MPs that there are 'early indications' the coronavirus vaccine works on the new variants of the virus, Speaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, the Health Secretary said that there are signs the Covid-19 vaccine deals with newer variants in the same way that it does the older variant of the virus.It comes after fears the variant, dubbed B.1.1.7, has mutations that may reduce the effectiveness of the vaccines designed to protect against the virus.Labour's Jonathan Ashworth asked Mr Hancock: "The new variants remind us we have to go further and faster on vaccination and work harder to break admission chains."Early analysis suggests the South African B-1351 variant brings a reinfection risk which