Griff Rhys Jones needs to be on stage. 'I love, love, love being funny in front of an audience,' he says. 'I adore it.'

There may not be a better way to enjoy benefits of hotel living than with a luxury W residency, with the first being built in Portugal, on the Algarve.

With a Moroccan getaway in two days - booked after a very long lunch with four gay friends - Maria had nothing to wear. But would her bargains pass muster in glamorous Essaouira?

This summer I spent 24 hours in hiding with my three-year-old son Thomas*, terrified that his father Sebastian Swamy would come for us.

Have you had your blood pressure checked recently? If not you may be in for a shock.

Espionage, plot twists, who-dunnits, shocking endings… and that's before you even open the novel! Welcome to the rollercoster world of book groups

Believe it or not, it's a thing. But 'mermaiding' runs far deeper than simply dressing up in a silicone tail. So what's the big pull?

Memo to all writers of action thrillers, particularly ones who might just be putting the final touches to Bond 25 - I think we may already be at peak drone attack.

Single parent Beverley Cohen, 55, from Brighton, pictured with her seriously disabled daughter Liora, left, has felt abandoned by the care system since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak.

PETER HITCHENS: We will not escape from this misery until the Government has been forced to admit that it made a foolish mistake and over-reacted wildly to Covid-19.

Consultant anaesthetist Dr Paul Trafford, pictured with his wife and nieces, almost suffered a major heart attack after returning to his home in Glasgow following a shift in his hospital due to an undiagnosed issue.

One study found this virus spreads so fast that if officials had acted three weeks sooner, they would have reduced cases by 95 per cent. Even one week faster could have cut numbers by two-thirds.

Paedophile Jeffrey Epstein arranged for three young women to meet Prince Andrew at his notorious New York mansion, a former model involved in Epstein's inner circle claimed last night.

Kirstin Coutney, pictured with her daughter Tilly, contracted Covid-19.  The 49-year-old mother of two from Bath is still suffering crippling fatigue, six weeks after developing the virus.

ROBERT MUIR-WOOD: Containment - isolating those who are ill and infectious - is the oldest known response to mass infection, dating back thousands of years.

The landmark judgment - which risks throwing the Government's deportation policy into chaos - has already delayed the case of gang rapist Yaqub Ahmed, who was supposed to be deported.

Thousands of vital coronavirus 'contact tracers' are only now being recruited by the Government - two weeks after the Health Secretary first announced they would be hired.

Britain does not have the worst Covid-19 death toll in Europe. And the Government's critics know it. Unlike the UK, other nations' coronavirus statistics don't include deaths outside of hospital.

Deeply worried about Beijing's insatiable desire for land and the way its military has occupied areas by stealth, Washington has sent three warships to the region.

The London Metropolitan Police constable could become one of the UK's first officers to face misconduct proceedings over his use of the controversial video-sharing app.

Matt Hancock is living on 'borrowed time' as Health Secretary following clashes with the three most powerful members of the Government over the Covid crisis, The Mail on Sunday has been told.

An Australian mother has revealed what really happens to your washing machine if you clean your clothes with laundry powder instead of liquid detergent.

Alec Baldwin reprised his imitation of President Trump on the season finale of Saturday Night Live - this time with the Commander in Chief giving a commencement speech via Zoom.

The Mail on Sunday's Sarah Turner checked into The Retreat, which takes Iceland's most seminal experience - bathing in the milky waters of the Blue Lagoon - and raises it to new levels.

German publication Der Spiegel published the bombshell claims that come from their country's Federal Intelligence Service known as the 'Bundesnachrichtendienst', or BND.

Hazard is yet to make an appearance since joining Madrid from Chelsea this summer after suffering a thigh injury which kept him out of the club's opening three games and he could miss Saturday's clash.

DANIEL MATTHEWS: It seems the old Anfield sign still has some life in it yet. The last time Liverpool lost a Premier League game at home was back in April 2017.

According to Calcio Mercato , Parrott is in high demand having impressed Mauricio Pochettino during pre season games against Real Madrid, Inter and Juve.

Jan Vertonghen is ready to agree a new deal to remain at Tottenham beyond next summer, according to Football Insider.

West Ham United were able to see off interest from Bayern Munich to secure the club-record signing of Sebastien Haller from Eintracht Frankfurt for £45million this summer.

Tottenham will do everything they can to provide new signing Ryan Sessegnon with the platform he needs to flourish, says manager Mauricio Pochettino.

Steve Sidwell has revealed just how devastated his Chelsea team-mates were in September 2007 when Jose Mourinho told them he had been sacked. 

Steve Smith was completing a run when on 26, Jonny Bairstow spotted the chance for mischief. The wicket keeper moved to knock the bails with his gloves, forcing Smith to dive.

According to the Daily Record, the contract includes an optional fifth year and will see De Gea rake in a staggering £13.3million a season after tax, making him the club's best-paid player.

CHRIS FOY IN MIYAZAKI: The head coach is satisfied that his Red Rose squad have acclimatised quickly since arriving here in the far south of the country on Tuesday evening.

United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer revealed ahead of his side's game with Leicester City that the Spaniard's future remains up in the air as contract talks over a new £375,000-per-week deal.

PETE JENSON: A neutral evaluation of Jose Mourinho's career would probably conclude that his finest hour came in 2010 when he guided Inter Milan to their first European Cup in 45 years.

EXCLUSIVE BY NIK SIMON: Premiership clubs are working towards six different return-to-play scenarios and could cancel six rounds of fixtures to salvage the 2019-20 season.

A task force had been commissioned to consider a revamped three-division system following the cancellation of the 2019/20 season at Championship level and below, but was disbanded.

Racing returns in France on Monday and this might be seen as a positive for British officials hoping for encouraging news about their hopes to re-start the sport.

The YouTuber, 19, has explained why she didn't wear a poppy during her Salsa routine with pro partner AJ, 24, on Saturday's edition of the BBC series.

2. The facts, which led to filing of this appeal, in brief, are as under:

Admittedly, the 2nd Respondent is the HT consumer of electricity having Contract Demand of 3500 KVA with the Appellant. It entered into an agreement on 10.10.2011 with the Appellant-Discom for supply of power in terms of above Contract of Demand.

3. Apparently, consumer company made an application for energy drawl from open access through IEX and it was considered as short term open access (STOA) consumer. Admittedly, in terms of Regulation 26(vii) of the RERC (Terms and conditions for Open access) Regulations 2016 (for short "Regulations of 2016"), every short term open access consumer shall provide the injection/drawl schedule (block- wise maximum power) for inter-State transactions every day to SLDC, RDPPC and the Distribution Licensee before 10:00 am of the day 3 preceding the day of drawl/injection as per the open access capacity sanctioned.

There will be many changes for the worse when we finally creep out of lockdown and realise that the economy has gone into shrink mode.Cash will be a 'victim' of coronavirus.

It is a painful business being a hip replacement company in a pandemic, and Smith & Nephew, like the patients who are waiting for its products, has had little choice but to suffer in silence.

Midas tipped Mpac in July last year, when the shares stood at £2.03. It's been a bumpy ride since then, but the shares are already far above that level at £2.55.

This Tuesday, the Bitcoin is expected to undergo a 'halving'. Will it offer a new opportunity for investors to make a profit? Or as legendary investor Warren Buffett believes, is it no more than 'rat poison'?

Technology firm Accesso - whose clients include Thorpe Park and Alton Towers - is working on the roll-out of a system that will let customers book timeslots on rides via their mobile phones.

Anne Pitcher, the Selfridges managing director, replies bluntly when asked how it felt to turn the lights out and pull up the shutters on Oxford Street's most iconic store. 'Awful,' she says.

There's been plenty of head-scratching over at Omega Diagnostics, one of the biotech minnows whose share price has shot up on the back of its efforts to tackle the pandemic.

Almost two months ago, he took to Instagram pleading for help as his daughter was stuck in a remote part of the world while everything was shutting down due to the coronavirus pandemic.