Ministers have accepted that the coronavirus outbreak will spread in a “significant way’” within the UK, meaning many people are likely to need hospital treatment. So can the NHS cope with the increase in demand?

Food banks are starting to run out of basics such as pasta and cereal as people stockpile because of coronavirus fears.

Britain is preparing to move to the next phase of its response to the coronavirus outbreak – when people will be told self-isolate for even a minor cough or cold.

Ministers have accepted that the coronavirus outbreak will spread in a “significant way’” within the UK, meaning many people are likely to need hospital treatment.

A fifth person has died in the UK after contracting coronavirus.

Criminals on probation will face tougher restraints under new funding promised in the upcoming Budget.

A woman has told a court she felt “scared” and “humiliated” after Alex Salmond stripped and lay on top of her at his official residence while he was Scotland’s first minister.

The total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK is now 273, a rise of 67, the biggest in a 24-hour period.

Boris Johnson has been greeted with heckles of “traitor” as he visited a flood-hit area of Worcestershire.

Boris Johnson is expected to tell an emergency Cobra meeting on coronavirus that tackling the outbreak requires a “national and international effort”, following the UK’s third death linked to the illness.