Person pronounced dead at the scene after incident early on Tuesday morning

Nearly 100 children who were being targeted online by child abusers were saved by police in London during the first four weeks of the lockdown, Scotland Yard revealed today.

Draft proposals for how to return to work safely have been leaked and they paint a very different picture of the workplace post lockdown.​

Just 50,000 commuters could board every 15 minutes if they had to keep two metres apart - when rush-hour usually sees 320,000 on board

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An international basketball player who moved to London to escape Somalia's looming civil war has become one of the capital's latest victims of Covid-19.

Three doctors in Russia who raised concerns about the working conditions on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic have fallen out of hospital windows over the last two weeks, it has been reported.

Spain's strict coronavirus lockdown has sent the unemployment rate to a near four-year high.

Nike has donated tens of thousands of trainers to frontline healthcare workers fighting the pandemic around the world.

Half of those reading about coronavirus in the UK have come across false or misleading information, a watchdog has warned.

There were 5,890 coronavirus-related care home deaths involving Covid-19 registered up to April 24 in England and Wales, the Office for National Statistics said.

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China's ambassador to the UK has criticised MPs for "attacking" China over the coronavirus outbreak.

The coronavirus death toll in the UK has risen to more than 32,000 - and may now be the highest in Europe.

A man has been jailed after he viciously bit down on an officer's finger in a "sustained attack" to avoid being arrested.

Detectives were today investigating the death of a pensioner found slumped with a head injury on a tree-lined street in north London.

California's governor has announced that the six-week lockdown of America's most populous state will be relaxed within days as the daily coronavirus death toll across the United States fell to its lowest level in a month.

Antibody tests at 98 per cent accuracy would put up to a quarter of population at risk of infection, government advisers have warned.

The House of Commons echoed with peals of laughter today as Matt Hancock complimented a fellow Tory MP on his lockdown hairdo.

China has launched a newly designed spacecraft as part of its ambitious plan to build an orbiting space station.

Union bosses have written to Sadiq Khan to demand a reversal of Transport for London's "disgraceful" decision to deny free travel to London Underground's cleaners.

A police officer accused of murdering former Aston Villa star Dalian Atkinson is set to go ahead in September, despite the current uncertainty about court timetables due to coronavirus.

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British airline to make drastic cut to staffing and end operations at Gatwick amid financial fallout from coronavirus pandemic

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Boris Johnson's top scientist has defended the Government's battleplan against Covid-19 and said "you can't stop it".

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A hospital worker described as a "true gentleman" by colleagues has died after contracting coronavirus.

A new survey suggests people think the behaviour of drivers and cyclists has deteriorated since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Two 20-year-old men were arrested on suspicion of public order offences

A French hospital which has retested old samples from pneumonia patients discovered that it treated a man who had Covid-19 as early as December 27.

Coronavirus warning messages from celebrities including Jamie Redknapp are being broadcast from cars driving around the streets of east London to get people to respect the lockdown.

Out of millions of visitors coming into the UK from coronavirus hotspots, less than 300 were put into quarantine in the three months before lockdown.

Nearly a quarter of employees in Britain have been furloughed in just two weeks, officials have said.

The ONS total is 34% higher than the Department of Health total.

The number of people who have died across the UK after testing positive for coronavirus has increased by 693 to nearly 30,000.

Dominic Raab has said the UK must adjust to "a new normal" in the second phase of the coronavirus response, which he insisted "will not be easy".

A London war memorial has been vandalised in what police described as a "senseless" act.

Government's chief scientific advisor spells out danger of flouting two metre social distancing guidelines

Dominic Raab has said that criminal gangs are "actively targeting" both national and international organisations responding to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Reopening all schools in the UK at once would lead to a "very real risk" of the coronavirus infection rate rising and could cause a second peak, the Foreign Secretary has said.

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets for the funeral of a local doctor who "gave everything for the local community" and died after being infected with coronavirus.

A woman has been arrested for suspected murder after a reported stabbing outside a shop in South Wales left an elderly man dead and several others injured.

Italy has already taken its first steps towards easing lockdown restrictions and now the country has revealed how restaurants could look once they re-open.

A five-year-old child has been taken to hospital after falling out of a window in north London.

A man has been charged with aggravated burglary over an incident in which a young boy was shot in Upminster, east London.