Purgatory News

Swimmers have headed to the coast for Christmas Day dips across the country..

UK authorities have brought in 67 people who were attempting to cross the English Channel on Christmas Day..

An armed man has been arrested after breaking into the grounds of Windsor Castle on Christmas Day..

Former England captain Ray Illingworth has died at the age of 89, Yorkshire have announced..

The Queen has poignantly reflected on a year of personal grief in a moving Christmas Day message, saying there was “one familiar laugh missing..

The daughter of Captain Sir Tom Moore has encouraged people to not grieve alone if they are missing a loved one over Christmas..

Hundreds of thousands of people in the Philippines, Asia’s largest Roman Catholic nation, have been marking Christmas without homes, adequate food and water, electricity and mobile connections following a powerful typhoon..

England have swung the axe for their must-win Boxing Day Test against Australia, making four changes to the team in Melbourne..

Thousands of people across England will receive a Christmas Day booster jab as the NHS vaccination effort continues in the face of record Covid-19 case rates..

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden brought some Christmas Eve cheer to hospitalised children who are not well enough to go home for the holidays..

He is expected to say that “the Christmas story shows us how we must treat those who are unlike us”.

They have surpassed music titans The Beatles and Spice Girls, who are the only other acts to score a consecutive hat-trick of festive number ones.

The Wanted singer Tom Parker has said he is “happy to be back” with his fellow bandmates and admits it is unusual to be in his position a year on from his cancer diagnosis..

Joe Root insists the whole England team is pulling in the same direction ahead of the Boxing Day Ashes Test, stressing that his captaincy is no “dictatorship”..

The UK, European Union, and the US have received more doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the last six weeks than African countries have all year, according to new analysis from the People’s Vaccine Alliance (PVA)..

Police figures suggest that on average 80 officers were assaulted each day this year in the UK..

People will be able to get a Covid booster vaccine on Christmas Day, NHS England has announced as part of increased efforts to top-up protection against the Omicron variant..

Britons are less likely to shake hands and hug people they do not live with following the pandemic, new polling has suggested..

The Duchess of Cornwall will read extracts of Charles Dickens’ festive classic A Christmas Carol in a series published on social media set to run over the 12 days of Christmas..

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have released the first picture of their daughter Lilibet, with Meghan holding her up in an image on their “family holiday” card..