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Scotland's chief medical officer has apologised live on live TV after she was given a police warning for ignoring her own advice, by twice visiting her family's retreat more than 40 miles from her main home. Doctor Catherine Calderwood (pictured left) said her actions were 'a mistake and human error' and that were 'no excuses'. It comes after she was photographed visiting her family's second home in Fife during the coronavirus pandemic, despite herself issuing advice to stay at home. The 51-year-old offered her resignation to Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, who declined, saying her advice had been 'invaluable'. Last week, Dr Calderwood tweeted a photo of her family from their main residence in Edinburgh (pictured top right) as they clapped for the front-line NHS staff working to stop the spread of Covid-19. Police Scotland, in a statement (pictured bottom right) said its officers had visited Dr Calderwood and warned her about her future conduct.

UPDATED Matt Hancock today blasted sunbathers for breaking coronavirus lockdown rules as he warned the government will ban 'all forms' of outdoor exercise if a 'small minority' refuse to stay at home. The Health Secretary said it was 'quite unbelievable' some people are still not following government guidance and stressed the plea not to go outside apart from in very specific circumstances was 'not a request, it is a requirement'. A number of other countries have banned outdoor exercise in a bid to slow the spread of the disease and Mr Hancock said the government is willing to take the same action if people do not comply with existing restrictions. He said: 'My message is really clear: If you don't want us to have to take the step to ban exercise of all forms outside of your own home, then you have got to follow the rules.' His intervention came after the UK death toll from the virus hit 4,313.Matt Hancock today blasted sunbathers for breaking coronavirus lockdown rules as he warned the government will ban 'all forms' of outdoor exercise if a 'small minority' refuse to stay at home. The Health Secretary said it was 'quite unbelievable' some people are still not following government guidance and stressed the plea not to go outside apart from in very specific circumstances was 'not a request, it is a requirement'. A number of other countries have banned outdoor exercise in a bid to slow the spread of the disease and Mr Hancock said the government is willing to take the same action if people do not comply with existing restrictions. He said: 'My message is really clear: If you don't want us to have to take the step to ban exercise of all forms outside of your own home, then you have got to follow the rules.' His intervention came after the UK death toll from the virus hit 4,313. 

Countries advising its people to wear face masks to stop the spread of coronavirus have had lower rates of infection, data shows. While other measures will affect results such as testing and social distancing, it is clear that many Asian countries where face masks have been widely worn are suffering fewer cases of Covid-19. Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and South Korea have all reported far fewer infections than countries in the West, despite being far closer to the source of the pandemic in China.

The president's, left, words during his daily briefing Saturday raises the prospect of reopening businesses soon. 'We have to get back to work. We don't want to be doing this for months and months and months', he said. Trump said that 'at a certain point some hard decisions are going to have to be made' in terms of lockdown, bottom right. He also reportedly told NFL commissioner Roger Goodell that the football season will still begin in September in a conference call on Saturday as the president claimed we 'have to open our country again'. But Dr Birx warned to avoid going to the grocery store or the pharmacy unless it is essential for two weeks. Cases of COVID-19 have increased by more than 100,000 in the past three days; the death toll tops 8,500, top right. 'This will be probably the toughest week. There will be a lot of death', Trump told reporters on Saturday.

The newly-elected Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has savaged Boris Johnson 's handling of the coronavirus crisis, accusing the Prime Minister of making 'serious mistakes'. Sir Keir yesterday formally replaced Jeremy Corbyn at the top of the party in a landslide leadership contest victory and he has wasted no time in attacking Mr Johnson. Sir Keir said he is willing to engage 'constructively' with the government during the outbreak of the deadly disease but blasted ministers for being too slow at explaining why the UK is 'so far behind' other countries when it comes to testing. Labour's new premier is widely expected to announce his shadow cabinet later today, with a raft of so-called 'soft left' MPs who served under Mr Corbyn tipped to be installed in key positions. But in a clear hint that Sir Keir will try to reunite the divided party, he suggested during an appearance on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show this morning that Blairite MPs could now return to the frontbench.

Sandbach Police in Cheshire received hundreds of complaints after they tweeted footage of four officers gyrating in front of three marked cars with their blue lights flashing (main). But the Saturday Night Fever rendition drew huge criticism online (inset).

The commotion kicked off at around 2pm in an Asda store in Dudley, near Birmingham, on Thursday. The footage shows two women tangled in a brawl as another woman tries to separate them. The video, filmed by another shopper, starts by showing the two women bent forwards as they pull at each other's hair. A third woman is seen trying to separate them before a middle-aged man, who had been standing next to the brawling pair alongside an Asda staff member, kicks out. He shouts, 'f***ing get off her!,' and another series of expletives as he pushes the women apart. A small child can be seen watching on as it sits in its father's arms while he stands nearby. Security staff are then seen storming into view to calm the man and the two women down, before the group walk away after finally ending the fight.

England and Manchester City defender hosted a sex party at his Cheshire home, then told his Instagram followers to 'stay at home,' hours later. Louise McNamara, one of two escorts sent to the footballer's flat last week, branded the footballer a 'hypocrite' and said he was 'putting people at risk'.

The airbase in Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, (main and bottom right) was home to the Bomber Command during the Second World War but closed in 1993 - it is now to become one of several temporary mortuaries for the bodies of coronavirus victims. Currently empty, the hangers, which could hold up to 600 corpses each, will only be used if regular systems are unable to cope with the number of dead. Another temporary mortuary (top right) is nearing completion in Upminster at South Essex Crematorium in the London Brough of Havering.

A man shot in broad daylight in Etna Drive, Belfast has been named locally as Robbie Lawlor, 35, who was a suspect in the brutal murder of Drogheda teenager Keane Mulready-Woods. Police are trying to establish whether a light coloured car, registration YLZ 7052, which was found burned out in nearby Kingston Court, was connected to the shooting. Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said the killing was 'an abhorrent and brutal crime, for which there is no excuse'.

Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert discusses losing the love of her life and rediscovering joy through writing her new book City Of Girls. It is important, she says, to always throw your whole self into life, despite the scars of loss and disappointment.

Basildon nurse Shirley Watts says the NHS is on its knees as staff work long hours to try and cope with the coronavirus pandemic. The operating theatre nurse is urging the public not to go outside and to help the NHS. Speaking after a shift she said: 'We're trying to save lives, we're all just doing what we can to save people's loved ones.'

Mother-of-two Fern Taylor, 26, from Somerset, revealed she spent six hours decorating her home using chalk and creating a 'rainbow house' in order to lift spirits during the coronavirus lockdown (pictured right). The couple also had help from their children - Arabella who is four and two-year-old Matilda who are pictured in matching striped dresses on the wall outside (inset and left) their pastel-coloured home. Left: Fern's partner Marco DeFazio, a 28-year-old Royal Marine, was determined to colour every brick.

There was barely any standing room on Brighton and Hove seafront in April 2019, but just a year later the same spot is largely abandoned, as the UK's lockdown over coronavirus continues.

FRANCI RABINEK EPSTEIN: It was late at night when we stopped at a platform with a big sign that read 'Auschwitz'. The name meant nothing to me. Outside, I could see, among the SS guards, a large number of strange creatures with shaved heads and dressed in striped blue-and-grey pyjamas.

Britains's most unlikely lothario is at it again - serial heartbreaker Lembit Opik has been dumped by his fiancee over his friendship with a glamorous Russian. The former Liberal Democrat MP - more famous for the mystifying spell he casts over women than anything he achieved at Westminster - has incurred the wrath of Sabina Vankova (left during her pregnancy) after she spotted pictures of him with Natalia Khomutinnkova (right) on what Mr Opik said were work trips to Paris and Nice. Following months of counselling to help the couple negotiate an amicable split, Ms Vankova, a Bulgarian lawyer, last week ordered Mr Opik to leave their home in Epsom, Surrey, and move back to his flat in South London.

A powerful new book has put more pressure on Prince Andrew to speak to the FBI over allegations that his friend Jeffrey Epstein paid a teenage girl to have sex with him. The Mail on Sunday has been summarising stories from the book, written by a lawyer who spent 11 years trying to bring the tycoon to justice. In our final instalment, we tell how Epstein set up a harem of underage sex slaves. Right: Epstein's Palm Beach home. Left: Epstein with a young companion who is not Courtney.

Private members' club playdates, bespoke designer wardrobes and a personal bodyguard... SADIE NICHOLS gets a peek into the rarefied life of a billionaire's child. :Left, Beyonce's daughter Blue Ivy, eight, seen here in 2018, sipping a non-alcoholic cocktail). Right, Kylie Jenner's daughter Stormi, two, seen here last month, gets about in a mini convertible Mercedes. Inset. Tilly Ramsay - who wore a £2,200 frock to her recent 18th birthday party - with father Gordon in 2016.

Damien Lee, a wealthy father-of-two and cancer survivor from Bournemouth (right), is shocked to find how hard it is to afford healthy food while on a tight budget on Rich House, Poor House. It makes him realise how hard skint mother-of-two Larissa Wood has to work to provide for her family (left).

Natalie Perry, 37, from Gloucestershire married the same Greek waiter, Fred Kasa, 36, she danced with on her first wedding day.in Crete in 2012 and insisted she's spent her 'entire life' waiting for him (top inset, Fred at her first wedding pouring drinks for guests). (Natalie is pictured left on her first wedding day in 2012, right on her second wedding last month and inset, with Fred).

Hairdresser Debbie Ellis, 52, from Preston, captured the moment a flock of lambs joyfully climbed aboard a roundabout in a deserted playground. The adorable creatures could be seen skipping and hopping around the roundabout.

TV's KATE HUMBLE and MARTYN COX: With most of us unable to go in to work, we suddenly have the time we so often crave to give attention to our gardens, balconies or window boxes, and we are relishing it. Old skills that have been lost are being found again. The delight of having mud under the fingernails is being rediscovered.

The Arts and Crafts movement has been around in Britain for 150 years and celebrates quality design and traditional workmanship. Back then, Arts and Crafters wanted to design everything from door knobs to drawers, often using flowers and plants as inspiration. Here are some of the best places in the UK to see their work.

On Tuesday, Britain will witness a rare phenomenon known as a pink supermoon. It happens when the first full moon of spring, traditionally called the pink moon, coincides with the moment the moon is at its closest point to Earth. As a result of being relatively near, the moon will appear 30 per cent brighter and 14 per cent bigger in the sky than when it's at its furthest point. An orange moon is pictured above Brighton Pier last April.