Lockdown easing, 30,000 more deaths and the future - everything Professor Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance told MPs today

An SNP legend helped deprive the SNP of an overall majority at Holyrood by donating £2,000 to Scottish Labour.

New research by energy experts, Boiler Central, has discovered that electricity costs in the north of Scotland are the second highest in the whole of the UK, with the average annual bill of £795, some £66 a month.

Zendaya had a slight concern when she walked into the audition room with her “Dune” co-star Timothée Chalamet.

People in Renfrewshire will see their council tax and service charges go up by three per cent this year.This comes after the SNP administration's £466 million budget was passed unopposed earlier today.

Katie Price's children Junior and Princess Andre are said to be living in fearthat their mum will get married in secret without telling them.

A man has slammed a 'selfish' city resident who chained a wheelie bin to the road to prevent others from parking there.

Recently, it was announced that Daniel Radcliffe would portray Weird Al Yankovic in a rock biopic, “Weird,” about the artist. Then they released an official look at the actor in his makeup and it is glorious.

A reality TV success story! Danielle Ruhl and Nick Thompson walked down the aisle — and exchanged vows — after meeting on season 2 of Love Is Blind.

Shanna Moakler is going to be a mom — again. The Celebrity Big Brother alum is pregnant with her fourth baby amid her drama with on-again, off-again boyfriend Matthew Rondeau.

Dancing With The Stars professional dancer Maksim Chemerkovskiy has been reunited with his wife Peta Murgatroyd after a horrendous ordeal in his native Ukraine. Maksim, 42, was seen embracing his wife after making it through passport control at Los Angeles Airport. Before he made it through the airport, Peta, 35, was seen nervously awaiting her husband’s return.

Katherine Ryan was in happy spirits as she attended The National Comedy Awards at London's Roundhouse with her husband Bobby Kootstra on Wednesday. The couple – who share eight-month old son Fred together – were pictured beaming at the ceremony as they enjoyed a date night away from parenting duties. Katherine has plenty to celebrate too as she won the Outstanding Female Comedy Entertainment Performance award for her work on 8 Out Of 10 Cats.

Ex-Eastenders star Danniella Westbrook has revealed she’s preparing for yet more surgery on her face.The actress, 48, has suffered facial disfigurement from osteoporosis - a condition which caused her bones to crumble. During her upcoming procedure, part of her rib will be put in her cheek to rebuild her natural bone structure.The star has shared happy snaps of herself showing a full year’s worth of filler and Botox to restore her looks. She told fans on Instagram: “I’m ready for a full transformation physically.” Danniella’s surgery will be her most invasive yet - but she’s not the only one taking risks.

Nick Grimshaw and his niece Liv have become firm fan favourites on Celebrity Gogglebox. And now, the TV presenter, 37, who lives in a lavish London home with his dancer boyfriend, has revealed what it’s like filming the popular Channel 4 show – admitting producers like to keep things top secret. “I really love Celebrity Gogglebox,” he told OK! at the 2022 NME Awards.

I was sipping a takeaway coffee in the window of my new flat when a news alert popped up on my phone. Police were “increasingly concerned” for a missing woman’s welfare and were working “round the clock” to find her.The report said her phone signal was last picked up less than two miles from where I was sitting. It was March 6 2021, and I’d just picked up the keys to my new home in south London when the Metropolitan Police raised the alarm over Sarah Everard’s disappearance.Three days earlier, at around 9.30pm, the 33-year-old daughter, sister, friend and girlfriend, was walking home from a friend’s house when police officer Wayne Couzens arrested her under the pretence she’d breached Covid rules.

Former Peaky Blinders actor Joe Cole has opened up about his late co-star, Helen McCrory, describing her as a “rare gem.” The 33 year old star, who played John Shelby until series four of the show, appeared on This Morning alongside hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield to discuss his new spy thriller series, The Ipcress File. As he reflected on the impressive cast list for the ITV show, which includes Tom Hollander and Lucy Boynton, he admitted he had always had the pleasure of working with “phenomenal actors and actresses” - especially Cillian Murphy and Helen McCrory on the BBC crime drama, Peaky Blinders.

J. Cole has announced the 2022 lineup of his annual Dreamville Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Zack Sharf “Wheel of Fortune” had one of its most viral moments this week after three contestants failed to solve the painfully-obvious puzzle of “Another Feather in Your Cap.” One Twitter video of the group’s epic fail has earned over 3.3 million views and counting since being uploaded March 1. One of the contestants, Christopher Coleman, spoke to TMZ in the aftermath of the show’s airing to tell off the many social media trolls who are humiliating him for not solving the puzzle.“This idiom [‘Another feather in your cap,’] is something I learned when I was six or seven years old.

Naman Ramachandran U.K. broadcaster ITV has signed an agreement with WarnerMedia International Television Distribution to be the exclusive free-to-air home for several programs including Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble’s comedy series “The Sex Lives of College Girls.”The first series of “The Sex Live of College Girls” will premiere on ITV Hub and ITV2 in April, with the second series to follow later on ITV’s upcoming integrated AVOD/SVOD platform ITVX.The deal also includes series of “Hart of Dixie,” “The OC,” “One Tree Hill” and the first three seasons of “Veronica Mars” being made available on ITV and ITV Hub next month, with all four seasons of American sports drama television series “All American” available in May.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorRachel Brosnahan is set to star in and executive produce podcast drama series “Listening In,” in which she will play a woman whose home sound system inexplicably lets her eavesdrop on people living in her apartment building.Audio content studio QCode will finance and distribute the podcast, producing “Listening In” alongside Automatik and Brosnahan’s production banner, Scrap Paper Pictures. The eight-episode first season of the series is slated to debut this spring.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorASCAP Experience, the performing rights organizations annual conference for songwriters, composers and creators, returns virtually this month. It kicks off on Tuesday (March 8) with an International Women’s Day panel featuring three of the industry’s leading composers and songwriters.

Beginning March 14, a pass demonstrating full vaccination against Covid will no longer be required to access cinemas in France. Nor will it be obligatory for entry to theaters, bars, restaurants, amusement parks, gyms or other leisure venues. Prime Minister Jean Castex announced the upcoming changes Thursday afternoon local time.

Rachel Brosnahan is moving into scripted podcasts. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star is to lead and exec produce Listening In, an audio series for QCode.

Mark Wright has revealed that both he and his wife Michelle Keegan are temporarily living with his parents as he touched upon their family's recent baby joy.MORE: Mark Wright left embarrassed after exposing bizarre nickname for wife Michelle KeeganThe former TOWIE star, who is currently renovating his dream home in Essex, revealed how he heard the happy news that his brother Josh Wright and his wife Hollie had welcomed their son, who was one month premature.WATCH: Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan reveal their private bar at grand Essex mansion"The other night my brother Josh and his amazing wife Hollie gave birth to a son, a month early actually, quite premature but he's absolutely beautiful," he said on Heart FM.MORE: Michelle Keegan poses in rare family photo with husband MarkSEE: Michelle Keegan stuns in must-see behind-the-scenes snaps from Jess Wright's wedding"What an experience though, I don't know if you’ve been through it, been an uncle or an aunty for the first time, it's just overwhelming, quite surprising, shocking but in such a beautiful way."Of his living situation, Mark divulged: "Me and my wife actually are at my mum and dad's, we're staying there at the moment, whilst we're renovating our house."My mum was on her way to the hospital because we heard that Hollie was going into labour and me and my wife were in bed and my dad was in his bed upstairs.

Zendaya had a slight concern when she walked into the audition room with her “Dune” co-star Timothée Chalamet.

outdoor meetings could be announced by Nicola Sturgeon in her latest coronavirus update this afternoon.The First Minister is due to give a statement to MSPs in the Scottish Parliament around 2.20pm today.She has already indicated a change in the rules on outdoor meetings - which at the moment only allow for two people from two different households to get together - could be coming.On Friday, Sturgeon indicated "good progress" with the vaccination programme and the falling number of infections could mean that "greater normality is firmly on the horizon".She said then she was "hopeful" the Scottish Government may be able to make some "relatively minor, but I think important, changes in our ability to meet outdoors and also how young people

direct to your inbox Modelling data considered by the Sage scientific panel has suggested that at least a further 30,000 coronavirus deaths could occur, even under the most optimistic set of assumptions.Despite a successful vaccination programme so far, England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty warned that 'at some point' the country will have another surge in the virus amid easing lockdown - that would ultimately lead to hospital admissions and death.Prof Whitty told MPs that the modelling reflected the fact that Covid-19 was a common virus and “even if you have a relatively small proportion of people still remaining vulnerable, that still equates to a very large number of people overall”.Speaking at the Commons Health and