Govt refuses to rule out New Year lockdown as NI agrees six-week shutdown

weather warnings for flooding were in place for England today, with locations spanning from East Anglia deep into the Midlands, including Derbyshire.It comes after persistent rainfall over the course of the week and into the weekend left some river levels well above normal, according to the Environment AgencyIn rivers with significant tidal variations, such as River Thames at Trowlock Island, some light flooding of banks and low-lying land is anticipated to arrive with the morning high tide, although none of this is expected to damage buildings or pose any kind of danger to life. Elsewhere, Sunday is expected to strike something of a north-south divide in terms of the overall weather outlook, with the best conditions expected in the north.The Met Office forecast for Sunday reads: "A good deal of cloud across southern and some central areas with a few showers, particularly in the morning, elsewhere dry with sunny periods, best across northern areas."The national weather agency also expects a dry Monday for most areas with "brisk winds" on the south coast, though this quickly deteriorates into a wetter state of play as the week wears on.Western areas will be particularly affected by windy conditions, and these could also be combined with cloud and showers.

People living, working, and travelling in areas at risk of flooding in Ayrshire are being urged to sign up for free local flood warnings through Floodline.

the Queen know their decision was for good. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were given a period of 12 months to change their minds after announcing their departure from royal life in 2020.However, the monarch revealed that she never expected the couple to come back when a visitor asked her about it.

Heidi Klum and husband Tom Kaulitz are stepping out for the day!

Saturday Night Live is taking on Inventing Anna!

Aidy Bryant is getting the chance to embrace her sexuality. The longtime castmember introduced a new sketch over the weekend in which she had host Oscar Isaac throwing himself at her.«Oh, hi, I'm 's Aidy Bryant. You know, over my ten years on the show, I have played dozens of teachers, principals, mothers, women named Diane, Susan, and teachers.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe 26th Annual Art Director’s Guild Awards took place tonight as an in-person show at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, with “Nightmare Alley,” ” and “No Time to Die” and “Encanto” taking home top film honors.Hosted by Yvette Nicole Brown, the event celebrated outstanding production design in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, animated features and music videos.As previously announced, director Denis Villeneuve (“Dune”) was honored with the William Cameron Menzies award.Jane Campion “(The Power of the Dog”) was bestowed with the cinematic imagery award. The Oscar-nominated director was unable to accept her award in person due to having COVID.

Motherwell defender Stephen O'Donnell held his hands up for the error that gifted Dundee a Premiership point.

Liège-Bastogne-Liège, one of cycling’s most prestigious races, which takes competitors on a 164-mile loop around the cultural hub of Belgium’s Wallonia region, Frank Vandenbroucke named the exact point where he was going to make his winning move, down to the very house number. Even for the pre-race favourite, it seemed like pure madness: there are umpteen variable factors to confront in this sport, not least 150 rivals keen to stop him. Such a pronouncement was like specifying the minute in the cup final when the winning goal would be scored, or the actual punch and round when the boxing knockout would come.

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I do and I think many other people do.’ He added, ‘There is an appraisal going on as to whether sell-by or eat-by dates are over-conservative.’He’s not talking about an end to use-by dates, which the Food Standards Agency says are vital to protect us from food poisoning, but the confusing melee of other dates that litter the labels on everything from tins of beans to tubs of butter: the likes of ‘sell by’, ‘expires on’, ‘eat by’, ‘display until’. Marks & Spencer was the first to use such labels, introducing sell-by dates in the 1950s to help the shops rotate food, and although government guidance in 2011 recommended phasing them out, they’ve lingered on. ‘Use by’ and ‘best before’ are more significant.

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In this modern football age of xG, low blocks and a high press, Chris Wilder is a bit more old school.

Celtic’s Ange Postecoglou loves an underdog story.

Hamilton defender Mihai Popescu says his side made it difficult for themselves against Kilmarnock yesterday - and it's now harder for them to grab a play-off slot.

direct to your inbox Around a third of England's population will be placed into a new 'Tier 4' lockdowns, amid concern over a new strain of coronavirus. The restrictions were announced by Boris Johnson during a televised press conference this afternoon (December 19).

direct to your inboxProfessor Chris Whitty has issed a statement on the new new strain of coronavirus that has been detected in England - and says it can spread more quickly.The chief medical officer for England says the UK has now alerted the World Health Organisation (WHO).Work is currently being undertaken to see whether or not the new strain causes a higher mortality rate or affects vaccines and treatments.However Prof Whitty says there is no evidence at this stage to suggest this.He said in his statement: “As announced on Monday, the UK has identified a new variant of Covid-19 through Public Health England’s genomic surveillance.“As a result of the rapid spread of the new variant, preliminary modelling data and rapidly rising incidence

England's chief medical officer has confirmed that a new mutant Covid-19 strain spreads more rapidly - and urgent work is underway to see if it is more deadly.

Boris Johnson’s coronavirus chaos continued as he refused to ditch the Christmas amnesty, even as his chief medic warned it would cost lives.

coronavirus and say they have uncovered 17 alterations from the original strain of the killer disease, which they described as "a lot".Many of the changes have happened to the virus's spike protein, which it uses to latch onto human cells and cause illness.This is significant because most Covid-19 vaccines being developed, including the Pfizer jab that has already begun to be rolled out in the UK, are effective by targeting this protein.It is feared this could stop people becoming immune to coronavirus if they have been infected with a different strain than the vaccine can protect them against.Scientists including England's chief medical officer Chris Whitty have said there is "currently no evidence" that the new variant will stop the