Michael Bowditch, from Ramsgate, Kent had denied murdering Becky Morgan, 17, after she was discovered dead in May last year. But he changed his plea to guilty to manslaughter before his trial was due to start at Maidstone Crown Court today. Becky was found dead in the sea near Ramsgate harbour last year
Your new job stinks, George! Worrying questions over links between Treasury and US finance giant that's hired Osborne on huge salary
- Ex-grammar school pupil, 21, is jailed for manslaughter after he did nothing to help a 17-year-old girl he watched drown in the sea
- Your new job stinks, George! Worrying questions over links between Treasury and US finance giant that’s hired Osborne on huge salary
- Cowardly Twitter troll, 30, is sacked after branding Katie Price's disabled son a 'c***' and a 'm***' and wishing he would CHOKE in a series of vile posts
- Groom is charged with carrying out four rapes on his wedding day after a woman, 24, was attacked in an east London park
- Mother, 41, who died with her husband and son, six, in a burning cottage ‘texted her sister-in-law Goodbye hours before the mysterious blaze’
- Clarifications and corrections
- 'I apologise to my wife': Rory McGrath admits harassing woman he threatened with revenge porn after the end of their five-year affair
- Abusive ex-husband beat up his wife after social workers twice gave him the address of her safe house
- Batch of Waitrose £1.90 Hearty Minestrone Soup containing pieces of blue plastic is recalled amid fears it poses a choking hazard to customers
- Singer Lily Allen is blasted online after posting an anti-Trump Tweet that called gay people ‘fags’
- New green scheme to turn disposable coffee cups into benches, pencils and plant pots could help rid Britain of the 2.5bn dumped in landfills every year
- Coca-Cola plot to kill off bottle deposits: Leaked documents reveal evidence of 'fight back' against plans to help protect its profits
- Next stop, Necker Island: Barack and Michelle Obama are all smiles as they arrive in the British Virgin Islands on Richard Branson's private jet and head straight for his lavish private island retreat
- Trump's migrant crackdown: The President will start building Mexico border wall TODAY -and is set to BAN people from Syria and six other 'dangerous' Muslim countries from entering America by signing executive orders
- '¡No, no puede!': New White House begins with English-only website as Team Trump breaks with Obama by nixing all Spanish-language content
- What happens when you wear a Trump hat in NYC? Controversial YouTube star films himself 'being harassed and SPAT on' while parading around Manhattan in a 'Make America Great Again' hat after women's march
- White House press secretary Sean Spicer waged a one-sided, five-year Twitter feud against Dippin' Dots
- PIERS MORGAN: Memo to anyone who voted for Trump or Brexit - pedophile-loving hypocrite Ewan McGregor holds you in utter contempt. So why on earth would you want to see any of his movies ever again?
- Chelsea Handler is accused of immigrant-shaming Melania for saying the First Lady - who is fluent in five languages - 'can barely speak English'
- EXCLUSIVE: Now it's Caribbean sunshine on Richard Branson's island for Obama: Michelle quits washout California for private jet flight to billionaire's paradise getaway
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- Sportscaster Erin Andrews reveals her secret battle with cervical cancer
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Clarifications and corrections
Following a Hardcastle item in Tuesday's paper which said that Theresa May had not been invited to Clarence House for a one-to-one meeting with the Prince of Wales since becoming Prime Minister, we have been asked to point out that Mrs May has had discussions with Prince Charles on several occasions.
TV comic Rory McGrath admits harassing woman he threatened with revenge porn after the end of their five-year affair
The court heard McGrath repeatedly approached the woman after their affair ended and she has had to see a psychiatrist and go on medication because of the stress she suffered. He also tried to get into the woman's workplace and phoned her husband at work calling him a 'laughing stock'. The 60-year-old comic had previously denied a charge of stalking but entered a guilty plea to the lesser offence of harassment on what was due to be the first day of his trial today. The judge handed him a ten-week sentence, suspended for 18 months.
Betrayal of a true English hero: A tiny man, he was a giant of our 1966 World Cup winning team. But the way Nobby Stiles has been treated by the sport he loves speaks volumes about the cesspit that is modern football
Former England midfielder Nobby Stiles (left), a mainstay in the 1966 World Cup winning side (right), is now suffering from Alzheimer's and vascular dementia that has left him only able to recognise close family. The ex-Manchester United player is often regarded as someone who 'exemplified all that was admirable about English football' but his family are demanding more from the FA to investigate the increasingly apparent correlation between football and degenerative brain disease. Stiles has even had to auction his medals (inset) off to ensure his family are provided for after his death, earning £400,000 from the sale.
WESTMINSTER TODAY
- The House of Commons is sending 650,000 coffee cups a YEAR to landfill and incinerators despite MPs slamming cafes for failing to recycle
- Big earner George Osborne is among MPs facing crackdown as Commons sleaze watchdog says there is 'consensus' over curbs on second jobs
- Tony Blair sweeps into Brussels and embraces his 'personal friend' Jean-Claude Juncker before PRIVATE talks on Brexit
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Two students almost died and had to spend days in intensive care on dialysis when they drank the caffeine equivalent of 300 cups of coffee at once during a sports experiment
Sports science students Alex Rossetto, not pictured, and Luke Parkin, left, consumed double the lethal limit after volunteering to take part in the test at Northumbria University which aimed to measure the effect of caffeine on exercise. After a calculation error, the second year students were given 100 times the correct dosage, causing violent side-effects and them being admitted to hospital with 'life- threatening reactions' in March 2015. Prosecutor Adam Farrer told Newcastle Crown Court they should have been given 0.3g of caffeine, but were in fact given 30g. He said there is 0.1g in the average cup of coffee.
Sales assistant is hit with '£2,000 worth of parking fines' by a private firm despite having a permit to leave his car outside his OWN HOME
Dan Horwood (above), 25, alleges he has been pursued by 'devious' parking inspectors since moving to his new home in Dartford, Kent, six months ago - after builders started taking the spaces that his permit applies to. He claims that the parking workers are trying to penalise drivers 24 hours a day and he has been given 20 tickets at £100 each - with one of them issued at about 2am. Mr Horwood said that each of the 100 residents in the block have visitor parking permits for 15 spaces on the private Phoenix Quarter site. And the parking scramble has got even worse with the housing association Hyde Housing recently having builders in, who have been using some of the spaces. This has forced the residents to park wherever they can on the estate - and they say they are impeding no one, even though they are not in a designated space. Also pictured (inset): A worker is spotted fining a driver on the private site.
Postman, 46, who was caught on video by 'Guardians of the North' paedophile hunters trying to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex is spared jail
Simon Smith (pictured inset outside court) travelled 170 miles from his home in Kilmarnock in Scotland to Gateshead in England to meet the teenager he thought he had been communicating with on Facebook messenger. But the fake profile had been set up by Guardians of the North who confronted the 46-year-old at the Metro Centre (pictured left). Jonathan Devlin, prosecuting, told Newcastle Crown Court how Smith contacted the fictitious profile before organising to meet the '14-year-old girl' on November 26 and take her Christmas shopping. He said the conversations began by him posting a false image on his profile. He added that Smith asked the person he communicated with her age and her response was '14' (pictured right).
Transgender woman, 23, and her boyfriend who murdered their flatmate, 20, for a 'sadistic' thrill after practising the torture on a Barbie doll are both jailed for life
Bethany Hill (left, inset) was found drenched in blood with stab wounds to her neck from a long knife (bottom right) and her hands bound with tape in the bathroom of a flat in Stratford-upon-Avon on February 3 last year. Her two flatmates Kayleigh Louise Woods, 23, and Jack Williams (both pictured, top right), 21, were today convicted of her murder at Warwick Crown Court, and were each jailed for a minimum of 26 years. Woods, who was born and raised as a boy called Kyle Lockwood, had been in a relationship with Williams at the time of the murder. A three-week trial was told that a knife (bottom right) was repeatedly used to cut Miss Hill's neck after her wrists were bound with duct tape. After the sentencing, police released an image of the haunting Barbie doll with its hands and mouth taped up and its hair even coloured in to resemble Miss Hill's (left), which Woods had given to her grandmother for storage weeks before the murder.
An extremely new witness for Sgt Blackman: A distinguished liberal voice backs the Mail's campaign to win justice for a fellow Royal Marine - with his own haunting account of killing two horribly wounded insurgents
Former Royal Marine Commando Neal Ascherson has joined the campaign to secure the release of Sgt Alexander Blackman who is serving eight years for killing a wounded Taliban terrorist. Ascherson, inset, was fighting in Malaya during the 1950s, right, when he shot dead two badly wounded insurgent fighters who would not survive their injuries. Ascherson said Sgt Blackman, right, should be released as 'the pressures that our soldiers are under in sustained combat can only be understood by those who have also served'.
Muslim taxi driver, 43, who refused to pick up a blind man because driving his guide dog was against his religion is fined for discrimination
Charles Bloch, 22, and his girlfriend Jessica Graham 21, booked a ride with Leicester cab firm ADT Taxis in July, last year. The pair, who were both born with a visual impairment and are registered blind, were accompanied by Mr Bloch's guide dog Carlo. But when their driver, Abandi Jamal Kassim (pictured centre), arrived to pick them up, he would not allow the dog into his cab. The driver told Mr Bloch 'For me, it is about my religion.' Mr Bloch told Kassim that refusing to allow the guide dog into the taxi was 'against the law'. Footage of the incident, which ended with Mr Kassim driving off and leaving the pair stranded at the roadside (pictured right), was filmed by Miss Graham on her mobile phone. Mr Kassim, 43, appeared before the city's magistrates today and admitted a breach of the Equality Act 2010. He was fined £340 and ordered to pay £50 compensation and the council's £200 court costs.
Stamped by Starman: Royal Mail honours musician David Bowie with a set of 10 special stamps
The Royal Mail will honour late musician David Bowie with a set of 10 stamps featuring iconic images from the pop star's career including album covers and famous pictures from his tours. The 10 stamps, including images of famous album covers Hunky Dory and Aladdin Sane, will go on sale on March 14. The Royal Mail said it wanted to celebrate Bowie being 'at the forefront of contemporary culture for five decades'. Pictured top row from left: Stamps bearing the Aladdin Sane, Blackstar and Let's Dance album covers; bottom row from left: The Stage Tour and the Heroes and Earthling album covers.
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Armed and dangerous! Did Donald Trump's bodyguard wear FAKE hands during inauguration so he could hold a gun under his coat?
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Social media is awash with claims one of the Secret Service agents protecting President Donald Trump had prosthetic arms, with his real hands on the trigger of a gun under his coat. The theory stems from analysis of video footage as President Trump, his wife Melania and son Barron went on an informal walkabout down Pennsylvania Avenue after Friday's inauguration. The bald agent's eyes move constantly, scanning the crowds for signs of a potential assassin, but his arms (circled) never move once. This sparked speculation that his real hand was resting on the trigger of his gun under his coat.
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