The most popular baby names for 2021 have been predicted — and you might be surprised

direct to your inboxThe year 2020 saw scores of murderers, rapists, terrorists and abusers put behind bars in courts across the UK.Despite the coronavirus pandemic slowing the justice system down this year, hundreds of criminals faced justice remotely as judges delivered their verdicts via video links.The teenager who threw a six-year-old boy off a balcony at the Tate Modern gallery and sick serial rapist Reynhard Sinaga were just two of the notorious criminals locked up for their crimes this

UK health secretary Matt Hancock announced yesterday that the Oxford-AstraZeneca had been approved for use in the UK.The first of 100 million doses – enough to vaccinate 50 million people – are due to be administered on Monday.

direct to your inboxHealthcare workers at greater risk must be prioritised for Covid-19 vaccinations, a union boss has warned.The British Medical Association (BMA) has made repeated calls for the most vulnerable healthcare workers to be urgently given the jab.While the Royal College of Physicians says the pandemic is bringing the NHS “to its knees” and frontline NHS and care staff must be vaccinated in the next couple of weeks “as a priority”.BMA council chairman, Chaand Nagpaul, says it is

Michael Sheen is finally revealing why he returned his Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) give to him by Queen Elizabeth back in 2009.

direct to your inboxIt is no big secret that high street retailers battling to stay open have been facing significant pressures over the last decade. But today, amid a global pandemic caused by a virus that was barely on the public’s radar this time last year, the future of the UK high street has never looked more uncertain. On March 23, non-essential shops were forced to close their doors to customers in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus, which, by that time, had taken the lives of

“Ted Lasso,”) others have missed the mark. The world of reality TV provided some inspired and downright bizarre offerings. Here’s a rundown of some of this tumultuous year’s most outrageous unscripted shows. Can you say “bad idea?” In this British dating series, couples who have been together for years break up and date other people in order to determine if they should split for good or get back together, now doubly confident in their choices (since they’ve seen the other fish in the sea).

Boris Johnson, introduced Tier 4 restrictions for 17 million people in London and parts of the Home Counties from midnight on Saturday, which saw all but non-essential shops close and people being told not to travel for Christmas.Get the latest updates from across Greater Manchester direct to your inbox with the free MEN newsletterYou can sign up very simply by following the instructions hereThe French ports were shut after the Tier 4 measures were introduced as a new highly-transmissible

Friends star Courteney Cox and her fiancé Johnny McDaid have reunited after they were kept apart for after nine months due to coronavirus travel restrictions. Courtney, 56, was seen in video message alongside Johnny, 44, who is a singer with Snow Patrol, with UK countryside in the background suggesting she has crossed the Atlantic to be with Johnny.