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A private school has been closed today after the family of some of their pupils were put in isolation over fears they may have contracted coronavirus. St Mary’s Independent School in Southampton, Hampshire, which charges up to £10,500 a year, is currently on lockdown after they showed symptoms of the …

Desperate women are being charged up to four times the NHS price for HRT by online pharmacies, the Daily Mail can reveal. Doctors last night accused some chemists of cashing in on the nationwide shortage of the menopause treatment. Increasing numbers of patients are buying products privately online without seeing …

Like any where else in the country, the face of Kent is changing. Some changes are simple, like houses being built on a spare bit of land. But some are so strange they deserve some attention, here are a few that caught our eye. Watering holes There is a growing …

Storm Ciara is wreaking havoc across the country as homes are being evacuated after a hotel collapsed into raging flood waters while 93mph gales ripped down cranes, windmills and even a pub.   Tourists are stranded as hundreds of flights into and out of European airports were cancelled as Britain’s biggest …

Fourth coronavirus case in UK: New patient is treated in London after picking up virus in France Patient is being treated at the Royal Free Hospital in Camden, north London  They join two Chinese nationals quarantined in York and British man in Brighton   Brighton man infected in Singapore then flew …

The microbiologist who co-discovered Ebola and the presence of Aids in Africa warns that Britain is at risk of a ‘major’ coronavirus outbreak likely to become a pandemic.   Professor Peter Piot, an ex-under-secretary-general of the UN who championed the fight against Aids, said he was ‘increasingly alarmed’ by the speed at …

A rogue Thai soldier has been shot dead after killing at least 21 people in a gun rampage inside a shopping mall after becoming angry at a financial dispute.  Sergeant Major Jakrapanth Thomma, 32, hadbeen hiding out in the basement of Terminal 21 shopping mall in Nakhon Ratchasima, a city 155 miles …

Hundreds of flights into and out of European airports were cancelled as Britain’s biggest storm in seven years swept into Scotland and the rest of the UK was put on warning for 90mph winds today.  Storm Ciara first brought gusts of up to 70mph on the west coast of Scotland …

King George VI is said to have advised his daughter Elizabeth that when she became Queen, she should never forget that, although she would not remember them, everyone she ever met would remember whatever she said to them for their rest of their lives. Advice she seems to have taken …

Taxpayers face a bill of hundreds of thousands of pounds to cover security at Princess Beatrice’s wedding, it was claimed today.  Beatrice, 31, the eldest daughter of Prince Andrew and the Duchess of York, will marry her fiancé, Italian property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, 37, on May 29 at St …