The whole silver fork could be seen floating in Dustin's stomach, after the five-month-old was rushed to the vets earlier this week.

Melbourne has suffered a bigger hit to house prices than any other capital city during the first full month of the coronavirus lockdowns, new real estate data from CoreLogic showed.

A self-confessed 'sugar addict' who was told to 'join a gym' by a teacher during high school has lost 70 kilos in the space of a year, dropping 10 dress sizes from a 28 to a svelte six.

 Michael Goonan returned home to Adelaide from Melbourne on Sunday. 

A huge mobile phone antenna smashed into the roof of a Coles supermarket overnight as parts of Australia battle wild weather from an Antarctic cold front. 

A thief who stole $340,000 from church collection plates to spend on lavish overseas holidays and Louis Vuitton shopping sprees has been jailed for five years. 

The fire was lit in a bin in the underground carpark of the medical headquarters in North Adelaide, South Australia, on Wednesday morning.

Clubs are planning to train in July before a competition return in August, though Football Federation Australia is yet to outline firm resumption dates.

Out of favour Arsenal midfielder Mohamed Elneny is set to complete a season-long loan move to Besiktas. The Egyptian will swap the Premier League for the Turkish Superlig in search of regular football.

Joe Allen believes Wales now have a better squad than the group that reached the semi-finals of Euro 2016. Wales have qualified for their second consecutive European Championships.

There will be plenty of quality on display at the Euro 2020 finals, with a chance for young talents to showcase their ability across Europe. Here are 10 youngsters you should look out for at the finals.

Bitter Turkish rivals Galatasaray and Besiktas pressed ahead with their Superlig fixture on Sunday, despite the vast majority of European football being cancelled at all levels due to the coronavirus spread.

Home buyers looking to get onto the housing ladder for the first time can now access a deal that will boost their deposit savings by £2,000.

House price inflation was up by 1.4% annually last month despite December typically being one of the slowest in the property market, figures from Nationwide Building Society show.

House prices in Britain are a much-talked about subject - and a borderline obsession for some. But after a rollercoaster ride in the past decade, what will happen next?

Halifax's house price index showed the average property climbed £9,136 last year to £238,963, but the bank said that it only expected 'modest' rises in the year ahead.

The number of five-year fixes on offer for those with a bigger deposit is now even greater than the number of two-year deals, which have traditionally been the most popular mortgage-type.

I watched President Trump's COVID-19 press briefing yesterday in which he stated with unequivocal confidence: 'It's something we have tremendous control of.' Really, Mr President?

President Trump wants to reopen America for business. Frustrated by the election-threatening collapse of the US economy, he is desperate to see his beloved stock and job numbers going up.

I've also been repulsed by some of the outrageous, offensive and occasionally downright obscene conduct of a minority of people who have tried to exploit the crisis for personal gain.

Why is the poptastic former Radio 1 DJ causing a headache for his employers; who had to move their conference after it clashed with the Scottish referendum and what will Boris do next.

How many times will Ed Miliband use the word ‘crisis’ in his keynote conference speech today to illustrate all that is wrong with Coalition Britain? Asks ANDREW PIERCE.

Betting magnate Stuart Wheeler believes Ukip will hold the balance of power in a hung Parliament after the next election but has put a sizeable wager on David Cameron winning an overall majority.

Lord Hill dismissed talk of a move to Brussels to be the UK's EU Commissioner but just a few weeks later, Hill has been named in that exact role, writes ANDREW PIERCE.

Bet365, which has donated more than £400,000 to Labour, risked embarrassing the party by announcing it is to relocate its international remote operations to the tax haven of Gibraltar.

David Rowland made the highest bid of the night at a small gathering of Tory supporters at Christie's auction house hosted by the Prime Minister and his wife Samantha.

How very unbrotherly Left-wing Labour can be. Not all of them have rallied to defend their bearded poster-boy Jeremy Corbyn against attacks from the likes of Tony Blair, writes ANDREW PIERCE.

Grant Shapps privately believed his key role in Road Trip 2015 – the campaigning operation aimed at winning votes in marginal seats – would catapult him to party leader.

The SNP MP was revealed last week to have the second largest haul of Parliamentary expenses - at £242,000 - which covers staff, travel and accommodation, writes ANDREW PIERCE.

DANIEL MATTHEWS AT MOLINEUX: At the end of a match which teetered this way and that, there was a sense for Brighton and Wolves that they had both left two more behind in the Premier League.

The Italian striker joined the Serie A club on an 18-month loan deal in January that will become permanent in the summer of 2021. Italy is one of the worst-hit countries for the COVID-19 virus.

EXCLUSIVE BY MIKE KEEGAN: Sportsmail can reveal that the entire top 10 - with the exception of City and Sheffield United - have submitted a joint application to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The electrifying form of Raul Jimenez at Wolves has reportedly caught the eye of Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane, who wants to partner him alongside Karim Benzema from next season.

Traore has enjoyed a breakthrough season which has seen the speedster score six goals and provide 10 assists to help keep Nuno Espirito Santo's side firing this campaign.

Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin has taken to social media to make his latest flamboyant fashion statement during the coronavirus pandemic. The caption reads: 'Quarantine garden fits.'

CHRIS WHEELER: The coronavirus crisis stirred something very close to home for Marcus Rashford. He thought of vulnerable children, much like himself at school, who may go hungry or suffer.

News of Jordan Cox's passing arrived on Thursday while he was at home but it has been described as 'non-suspicious' and not linked to the current global coronavirus pandemic.

DOMINIC KING - MERSEY BEAT: It is difficult to know what to get most angry about: the man who made the idea, the potential recipient or some clubs for contemplating it.

Paul takes over at the takeaway pizza group after leading the coffee chain through its growth spurt ahead of its £3.9bn sale to Coca-Cola by former owner Whitbread last year.

De La Rue predicted that adjusted operating profit for the 12 months ending March 27 would be between £20m and £25m, in line with earlier guidance. This is a major drop on the previous year.

AIM-listed business Science Group has become the latest firm to design a ventilator from scratch. It has signed an agreement to provide 10,000 of them if regulators approve.

A day which started with optimism due to a surge in a Chinese manufacturing index in March, suggesting there could be a sharp 'V' shaped recovery from global lockdowns, ended with more alarming data.

It follows through on a threat from Sir Stelios, 53, who is Easyjet's biggest shareholder, to sack a director every seven weeks if the firm does not move to cancel its order of 107 aircraft from Airbus.

The scheme also includes new hires the supermarket has made to help deal with added demand sparked by the coronavirus pandemic. Supermarkets dealt with record levels of demand in March.

Crude rose to $30 a barrel after trading at 18-year lows for several days. During a brief spike prices jumped by 47 per cent - the highest gain ever recorded. However, oil is still well down on the year.

Standard Life Aberdeen, MoneySupermarket and warehouse group Segro yesterday also kept their dividends intact. But they are vastly outnumbered by those cancelling the largesse.

The DVLA has released the list details of the personalised plate options it has removed from the market for being insulting, with the likes of M20 RON, A20 RSE and BS20 TRD all being pulled from sale.

Owners of cars will see their car tax costs rise in-line with the RPI index, usually adding £5 to bills. However, new vehicle buyers will be hit harder, as first-year VED rates are determined by a new test.

The typical home value was £240,384 in March, according to the Halifax index - meaning prices were at a standstill last month. It remains to been if they hold-up during the coronavirus outbreak.

Brendan O'Shea started Just Clear with just his wife and a van. Now his franchise is nationwide, and has been hired to decontaminate thousands of buildings of Covid-19