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Former President Donald Trump hinted at a comeback as he cheered on being acquitted, for a second time, in an impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate. 'Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun,' Trump said. 'In the months ahead I have much to share with you, and I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness for all of our people.' 'We have so much work ahead of us, and soon we will emerge with a vision for a bright, radiant, and limitless American future,' he added. The former president sent out a statement within minutes of being acquitted Saturday by the Senate, in a vote that saw seven Republicans join with the Democrats, but 10 short of the total needed to convict Trump of inciting the January 6 insurrection. In his statement, Trump first thanked his 'dedicated lawyers,' as well as the Republican lawmakers who 'stood proudly for the Constitution we all revere and for the sacred legal principles at the heart of our country.' 

The Britain's Got Talent judge (right, yesterday) went to see her parents after she got a 'distressing phone call' from her father Leslie. The 49-year-old took a black Mercedes from Richmond to Bude to see the 75-year-old and her 71-year-old mother Judith (left, together) on Friday. Locals were up in arms at her arrival, said she was putting residents of the small hamlet at risk and reported her to the police.

A video of militant teachers boasting of using threats of strike action to keep classrooms closed has fuelled fears that hardline teaching unions will derail plans to reopen schools. The recording of three officials from the Left-wing National Education Union reveals how strike threats delayed the reopening of an academy in London last year and stopped staff at schools delivering remote lessons from their classrooms last month. Threats of industrial action were also said to have scuppered plans for the daily Covid testing of pupils and teachers in an area of the West Midlands and meant staff in nurseries and special schools could stay at home - a claim angrily denied by council chiefs.

It's the scene that millions of besotted Bridgerton fans didn't want to see - especially on Valentine's Day. The Mail on Sunday can reveal that Regé-Jean Page (left, inset), who plays the handsome Duke of Hastings in the hit Netflix drama, has a real-life girlfriend. Until now, the 31-year-old actor's steamy sex scenes with co-star Phoebe Dynevor, (inset) who portrays Daphne Bridgerton, have been given an extra frisson for smitten audiences by the actor's apparently single status. But he was last week spotted embracing writer and part-time footballer Emily Brown (left, right) in a street close to the £800,000 home they share in North London.

It's now well recognised that bars, restaurants and gyms - indoor spaces where strict social distancing isn't always possible - are ideal environments for the virus to transmit between people. But have the few places left for us to go during lockdown now become hubs for infection? (Pictured top right: a worker enforcing social distancing rules outside a Waitrose store in March last year). Even a year into the pandemic, finding a clear answer isn't as straightforward as you might think. When a person tests positive, Test and Trace questions them about places they've been over the past week. Public Health England collates this information, and then publishes it. In the latest report, for the week up to February 11, 53 per cent of people who tested positive reported having visited a supermarket (file photo, left) - either to work or shop, oddly, they make no distinction. But, while this shows where a person has been, it doesn't tell us when or where transmission occurred (bottom right: a shopper seen wearing a face mask in Sainsbury's in January this year).

The Chinese laboratory at the centre of suspicion over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic was awarded a patent for cages to hold live bats for testing months before the virus started spreading. The revelation comes after the World Health Organisation last week backed Beijing's line, saying that a leak from the institute was 'highly unlikely', while giving credence to theories that the virus had entered the country via frozen meat. However, The Mail on Sunday has established that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) filed an application in June 2018 to patent 'bat rearing cages' which would be 'capable of healthy growth and breeding under artificial conditions'. Pictured: Researchers handling bats with nitrile glove, left, Professor of medicine at Flinders University, Adelaide, and coronavirus vaccine developer Nikolai Petrovsky, top right, and microbiologist and author of papers examining possible genetic manipulation of the virus Rossana Segreto, bottom right.

There's a bitter north-easterly wind whipping the waves as Chris Ranger moors his ageing sailboat and steps off with a small net of oysters. 'This time last year, I'd be selling 1,500 of these for Valentine's Day,' he says. 'But Covid has closed the UK market and Brexit has ended EU exports. I'm down to a few web sales, perhaps 300 oysters. To be honest, I'm struggling.' His plight is shared by the handful of traditional oyster and scallop boat crews working Cornwall's River Fal. It's a difficult job and the season is restricted to six months between October and March, when the weather is at its most bitter.

Even by the standards of the Royal Family it has been a loyal servant, supporting first the Queen Mother and then Prince Charles for 67 years. Indeed, the Frigidaire fridge (pictured right and bottom inset), still going strong at the Castle of Mey in Scotland, may be the oldest in the realm. Edmund Garrod, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, was thought to be the owner of Britain's oldest fridge - a 1954 General Electric Company DE30 - but it appears that the Royal model is a few months older. The 5ft 8in tall Frigidaire has been in service at the castle in Caithness for nearly all of the Queen's reign - it was made the year after her 1953 Coronation - and it is even a feature of interest for tours. The fridge was bought by the late Queen Mother in 1954, two years after she purchased the Castle of Mey. It is put to most use when her grandson Prince Charles (left) visits every August.

Aston Merrygold was revealed as Robin on Saturday's episode of The Masked Singer UK final.  The JLS star, 33, removed his mask after finishing in third place with Badger and Sausage going through to the final round. Prior to the unveiling, judges Jonathan Ross, Mo Gilligan, Davina McCall and Rita Ora all guessed who the contestant could be.

PC Alexandra Dobbs was attacked as she tried to handcuff Adrian Popa, 40, after officers were called to Edgware, northwest London on August 16 last year. Romanian Popa, who was on bail at the time with conditions not to enter the address, was spotted lurking in the garden by neighbours who called the police. PC Dobbs was the first to arrive at the scene and found Popa snarling and refusing to stand still, the court heard. Officers tasered him but the Battersea Power Station safety supervisor managed to wrench free and charge at the policewoman yelling: 'I'm going to kill you.' Pictured: Popa during the incident.

There's little about a brown cardboard box to lift the spirits, not even when it's wrapped in wrinkled clingfilm.  Hard, then, to imagine that the package just handed over to us on the doorstep of a dishevelled terrace house in Street, Somerset, is one of the most sought-after items on the internet - a consignment of 'lost and missing post', purchased on eBay for £360. We've no idea what's in it. Neither does the young Filipina who has taken our money. But that's the point. A mountain of undelivered post at a sorting office in Bristol is seen left, while advertisements for 'undelivered mail' are seen right. Trader Jennifer Bailey is seen inset. Royal Mail lost a consignment of her shoes and found some of them on eBay.

Researcher Anthony Bragalia made the revelation on his blog UFO Explorations, sharing that he secured more than 150 pages from the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) after the agency responded to a three-year Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (inset) request he submitted. Included in the pages were the repeated mention of 'advanced technology reports' surrounding Nitinol, described as a shape recovery alloy that the Pentagon wanted to determine could be used to improve health. Bragalia shared that the Nitinol had similar properties to the 'memory metal' found near the Roswell, New Mexico, UFO crash site of 1947 (main).

Britain's wintry weather will still be around for the weekend, but temperatures will begin to rise towards double figures into next week, forecasters have predicted. It comes after seagulls perched on the surface of the River Thames at Teddington, south west London, on Friday when it iced over for the first time since Britain's Big Freeze in 1963. And even the waves on Aldingham beach in Cumbria ground to a halt as the mercury plummeted. Yellow weather warnings for snow and ice are in place across most of Scotland and parts of northern England and Wales on Saturday, and again on Sunday, as well as eastern parts of Northern Ireland. But the mercury with rise to a comparatively balmy 12C next week as the big thaw takes over the UK. Pictured left and bottom right, the sunset over Oxfordshire Saturday morning.

A wife has been branded 'The Queen of Petty' after gifting her husband a prints of all the women's photos he's like on Instagram for Valentine's Day. TikTok user Gloria, believed to be from America, has racked up more than 4.4million views for her 'hilarious' video.   'What did you gets get your man for Valentine's Day?' she captioned the video, followed by a grinning emoji.  Initially it isn't clear what Gloria has bought her husband, as she is seen wrapping up some protective packaging in red paper to create a parcel. 'Since everyone is sharing what they got their significant other for Valentine's Day, I thought I'd share mine,' she said.'I got my husband this cute little box and filled it with pictures of all the girls that he's been liking on Instagram. Hope he likes it!' she adds.

Charlene Leslie (inset, right with Dr Robert Graham Snr, chairman of Graham's The Family Dairy), 33, was filmed (left) pushing the massive Grahams milk lorry up a snow-covered street in Cowdenbeath, Fife, on Tuesday, during Storm Darcy. The supermarket worker was heading to the shops when she saw the Grahams lorry in trouble and asked a neighbour to watch her children as she rushed to help out.

Michail Pervolarakis (left with partner) tested positive for Covid-19 after travelling from Melbourne to South Africa putting Australian Open officials on high alert. The 24-year-old, ranked 463 in the world, did not participate in the Australian Open but he did play two ATP Cup matches for Team Greece alongside world No.6 Stefanos Tsitsipas at Melbourne Park last week. Tsitsipas is still competing in the Australian Open, where he is through to the fourth round raising concerns he and other players Pervolarakis came into contact with during his time in Melbourne could potentially be forced into isolation. But tennis officials remain confident the Australian Open is still coronavirus-free and at this stage the tournament will proceed as planned. Pervolarakis confirmed his positive test result on Saturday night in a series of social media posts (inset) uploaded from his tiny quarantine room (right), where he hit out at not having a TV and air-conditioning

Kate (pictured left), 39, who is based at her Norfolk home Anmer Hall with Prince William and their three children, highlighted the emotional as well as practical support mothers have received from London-based charity Little Village. The organisation provides clothes, toys and equipment for babies and children up to the age of five. During a video call chat with the charity's clients on Tuesday, three-year-old Isla upstaged her mother Vicky Jones (pictured right) by saying hello to the duchess and telling her 'I'm a princess today'.

SARAH SANDS: As Margaret Thatcher famously said: 'If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.' Away from the politics, the infighting and the competitive glory, women have been the quietly effective heroines of the pandemic. Prime among them is Dr Sarah Gilbert, who first cracked the Oxford vaccine. Typically, she seems totally uninterested in a lap of honour. Instead, she is now concentrating on adapting the vaccine to outwit mutant variants. Oxford's Professor of Vaccinology picks up the phone to me and says briskly that she can spare only a few minutes. I am not going to argue. No wonder Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said that Gilbert is the 'kick-butt' role model for his daughters. Others include Dr Mary Ramsay (bottom right), Kate Bingham (top right) and Dr Nikki Kanani (bottom centre).

She may be 86-years-old, but that didn't stop Shirley MacLaine from knocking back a classic Martini with lunch as she dined al fresco at Kristy's Village Cafe in Malibu on Friday (pictured left and right). While oozing Old Hollywood glamour with her drink of choice, the actress, who earned five Golden Globe Awards throughout her legendary career (inset), took her time sipping her cocktail as she spoke with her assistant. MacLaine's outing to the beachfront restaurant comes just weeks after Los Angeles reopened outdoor dining amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

STEVEN LOVATT: It's six in the morning and still dark. I'm awake early and, knowing the children will soon be up, make the decision to steal half an hour's solitude in the park. From the dense latticework of trees and shrubs that clothe the wooded slope comes a constant scuttling through dead leaves. The darkness is awake and vigilant; there's the warning tik-tik of an invisible robin from the bushes, and then the next second it appears on the path. Each individual movement of the bird, each wing-flick and pivot, is brisk and definite. It leaps round once more on the spot, then flits back into the darkness. From close by comes a blast of song from a wren. Its harsh trill is like coarse twine zipping over a flywheel. The air is cool, not cold, and smells deliciously of earth and moss. There's a sudden disturbance from the deeper shade, and a blackbird comes careering out with a mad clatter and rests, still alert, on the great arm of a beech tree. It's evidently agitated. It flicks about the bough, dipping then raising its wings, and tilting its head all the while in response to something I can't sense. Pictured left: the mellifluous song thrush, top right: the poetic starling and bottom right: the goldcrest.

Today saw four more stars dropping to the turf (pictured) than before last week's loss to Scotland - in a decision that divided both sets of players - while none of the Italian players took part, all remaining standing instead. Last Saturday, seven Englishmen remained standing while only four Scots took the knee during the pre-kick off moment to mark the Rugby Against Racism campaign. That players taking the knee before the match sparked a row, with fans both praising and blasting the action, which has become associated with the BLM movement and its left-wing leanings. Winger Anthony Watson (inset) insisted it was not a show of support for Black Lives Matter, whose views he branded 'a bit extreme'.

A tricky challenge, created by Hammonds Furniture, challenges the nation to name the fictional owner of each bookcase (pictured) using a series of fun clues - including books, ornaments and items. So, do you think you've got what it takes to beat the 68 second record?

Greater Manchester Police said around 20 men were involved in the Salford brawl. Weapons including a knife and a hammer have been seized and there were initial reports of shots being fired. But police have yet to find evidence to confirm that a firearm was used. Armed police responded to the scene and five men aged 44, 42, 40, 33 and 31 were arrested on suspicion of affray.

In a series of adorable snaps, pet owners have dug out old canine clothes and toys to see just how much their fur babies have changed since they first came home. Bored Panda has compiled a gallery of some of the cutest examples. Pictured: A dog who grew so much it made it difficult for his owner to hold him (top left and bottom left), a Golden Retriever who could only fit his jumper from when he was a puppy around his nose (second from top left, second from bottom left), a husky who sat on his owner's back (second from top right, second from bottom right) and an American Shepherd using a toilet to show the scale of his size change (top right and bottom right).

Rebecca Landrith, 47, (left and right) had become estranged from her family before dropping out of high society in New York City to travel the country under an alias, hitchhiking in her final months with the trucker accused of killing her. Truck driver Tracy Rollins, 28, (inset) was arrested and charged with her murder and abuse of a corpse, after a note in Landrith's pocket led investigators to him. While much remains mysterious about the events that led up to Landrith being shot 18 times, clues about her final years and months hint at a darker side behind the high-fashion lifestyle Landrith presented to the world.

In tomorrow's episode of the Channel 5 show Rich Holiday, Poor Holiday Julia and Katya, (pictured main, inset) from southwest London who both work in luxury lifestyle management ditched their 'private yachts and jets' for a twin hostel bedroom while on a volunteering holiday in Tenerife.The two wealthy friends exchanged holidays with the single mother and body artist Annie, from East Lothian, Scotland who can't afford to take all of her three children abroad, and opts for camping and caravan parks rather than glamorous getaways.While the Richardson family bagged an £11,788 all expenses paid trip to Altalia, Turkey, Julia and Katya embarked on a £422 trip to Tenerife, where they would be volunteering at a local animal sanctuary.

The garage has the potential to be developed into a three or four-bedroom family home, subject to the necessary planning permissions. Sandbanks is known for having some of the most expensive property in the world, with many properties only being bought to be knocked down and replaced with new buildings that make the most of every square inch of the plot.

The vehicle was discovered by auctioneer Charterhouse after it was instructed by the executor of a will to visit a cottage near Shaftesbury to identify valuable items, only to find the motor strewn in rubble in the garage. Having removed the MGA from beneath the piles of wood, plastic, cables and general household waste, the car is to be sold at auction in April with an estimated value - in its current condition - of between £8,000 and £15,000. Fully restored, it could be worth as much as £44,000, experts say.

CNN described the movie (pictured) as an 'extended perfume commercial or music video, possessing roughly as much substance' while the Hollywood Reporter said that 'to call this a vanity project is an insult to vanity projects'. NBC blasted it 'a knockoff Louis Vuitton bag of a movie' and ' perfect artifact of the Trump era'. The outlet also hit out at the timing of releasing a movie about the ultra rich at a time when the nation is crippled by mass unemployment. Deadline was somewhat kinder calling Linton's art 'a colorful but mindless confection' that is 'just too vapid to be memorable'. Vulture panned the movie as 'one overwritten, obnoxious, hyper-self-aware rant after another' with a 'Looney Tunes-style verve to the action'. Linton, 40, (inset with husband Mnuchin) wrote, produced, directed, starred in and financed the film where she plays a knife-wielding, sex-obsessed serial killer opposite Ed Westwick. But it was panned in reviews this week (inset).