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Ramsgate man jailed for Becky Morgan manslaughter

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

Osborne met five times with bosses from BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, while he was Chancellor and now earns a six-figure salary as a part-time senior advisor there.

Mark Williams, 30, from Teesside, sent a series of tweets to the model about her child including one of a picture of a bag of Haribo Tangfastics changed to say 'Harveybo Tan*********'.

Derry Flynn McCann, 28, has been charged with four counts of rape and one of robbery after a 24-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in an East London park on his wedding day.

The victims have been named locally as Tiago and Adriana Nunes, and their son, also called Tiago, seven, who died as the fire ripped through the isolated property near Reigate, Surrey.

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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.

Rory McGrath avoids jail for harassing woman after 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.

The woman suffered horrendous abuse at the hands of her ex and was considered by police to be at high risk of being murdered. She appeared on the Victoria Derbyshire (pictured) Show.

The £1.90 tubs of Hearty Minestrone soup are sold in 600g plastic containers and have a use by date of January 29. Customers have been advised that no other Waitrose products are affected by the recall.

Lily Allen has been blasted on Twitter after using the slogan 'Fags hate trump', causing a backlash from the LGBT community who have complained about her 'labelling' them.

Some five million coffee cups are expected to be collected this year in a recycling initiative in the City of London and they will be turned into park benches and pencils.

Coca-Cola is allegedly trying to kill off the introduction of a refund scheme on plastic bottles and executives have held meetings with ministers in Westminster and Scotland to stress their opposition.

Almost half of hospitals are failing to meet Government health and nutrition standards for the food they serve according to a review conducted by the Department of Health.

The new condemnation of the standard of policing in Cumbria came just over four years after 13-month-old Poppi Worthington died a few hours after suffering a horrific sex attack at her home.

Official figures show that 11 per cent of new mothers report either being dismissed, made redundant or treated so poorly they felt they had to leave their job.

Amid a record number of 999 calls and a severe shortage of paramedics, a report also urges ambulance services to hire more call-centre handlers.

'easyJet wanted me arrested for drinking a mini vodka'

Lucy Yallop, from County Durham, fancied a tipple onboard an easyJet plane. The mother-of-three tried to sneak a measure of her own vodka into her juice. She says she was escorted off the plane. 'I never thought a mini bottle of vodka would cause so much trouble,' she said.

On her trip to the US, the Prime Minister will gift the President a Quaich, an ancient Scottish artefact given to clan leaders, and a hamper of British treats to the First Lady, including a Bakewell tart selection.

Theresa May has warned Remainer MPs that they won't block Brexit, even if they vote down her final deal with the EU. She said Britain could instead revert to tariffs based on World Trade Organisation rules.

Corbyn had a ghastly day and the MPs sitting behind looked so angry, hand-to-hand combat seemed more likely to erupt between themselves than with the Tories over Brexit, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

Lucy Yallop, from County Durham, fancied a tipple onboard an easyJet plane. The mother-of-three tried to sneak a measure of her own vodka into her juice. She says she was escorted off the plane.

Analysts believe the Office for National Statistics will reveal the UK economy grew by about 2 per cent in 2016 - faster than G7 rivals the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, France and Italy.

UCAS boss Mary Curnock Cook, said mixed-ability classes don't test the strongest pupils and a 'grammar stream' system at Britain's schools could allow young people to 'flourish'.

Camilla was speaking at an event to celebrate the British wine growing industry when she strayed into the thorny issue of climate change, one of the issues closest to Prince Charles' heart.

The number of people sleeping rough is now more than double the number there were in 2010 when it was estimated at 1,768.

Successful professionals who come from working class backgrounds face a pay gap of nearly £7,000 compared to their middle class colleagues, according to a study yesterday.

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling promised the biggest overhaul of airspace in more than half a century. But the plans are likely to be resisted by campaigners and communities.

Nobby Stiles: Betrayal of a true English hero

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.

US actress Mary Tyler Moore, who captured the hearts of millions on The Dick Van Dyke Show and her own eponymous programme, died yesterday after a long battle with illness.

Eighteen years ago, at the height of her fame, Gail Porter was - quite literally - one of the biggest stars in Britain. But in the latest in a long line of problems the 45-year-old has now been declared bankrupt.

She was up against the likes of Strictly's Len Goodman and The X Factor's Nicole Scherzinger for the best TV judge award. But Mary Berry beat them all to the accolade at the NTAs.

Up to one in 10 people in the UK will at some point battle anxiety or depression, which research for the first time shows raises the danger of death from bowel, prostate and pancreatic cancer.

Bulimia symptoms were significantly reduced by transcranial direct current stimulation, which lowered the urge to binge-eat by 31 per cent, King's College, London researchers found.

Students now pay fees of £9,000 a year, but many complain they cannot get a well-paid or fulfilling job. Research by University College London found that those who pursue a vocation are just as happy.

Margaret Thatcher's decision to literally take the wheel to help launch a new Rover in Downing Street provoked panic behind the scenes, her newly-released personal papers reveal

The Brexit Secretary issued the tough message as he defiantly vowed to push ahead with the timetable for leaving the EU despite the government being dealt an humiliating legal blow.

Nicola Sturgeon, pictured today, said today's judgement raised 'fundamental issues' for Scotland and said it is now 'ever clearer' that Scotland should decide on its own future in a referendum.

David Blunkett said he was a champion of representative democracy and encouraged politicians to bring their judgement to the process as well as following voters' instructions.

Two Northumbria University students consume '300 coffees'

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.

Stacy Richards said it sounded 'like a gun' when the screen shattered, sending shards into the air then raining down on her one-year-old daughter Elsieè-Maie at their home in Prestatyn, north Wales.

Eurion Dawe, 45, wrote to the 90-year-old monarch after becoming fed up with cars blocking him from leaving his house in Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales, through the front door (pictured).

Laurens Versluis claims his wife Marie got a back injury after washing dishes in the sink in their rented flat in Finsbury Park, north London - but he says they endured it because they had little choice.

Mandi Barker, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, was raped by Gary Thorne after she left him following an abusive relationship. Thorne then intimidated her after she went to police.

Jamie McLean, 22, was found unconscious by shocked workers at a Stirlingshire sawmill only minutes after he had been seen happily eating his lunch.

Maryam Kausar is from Islamabad in Pakistan but is in the UK studying a PhD in Advanced Software Engineering at Salford University.

Sales assistant is hit with £2,000 worth of parking fines

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.

Phil Lusted, who was born with the skeletal condition diastrophic dysplasia, got the inking inspired by his favourite movie character - and it caught the eye of fellow fan Kathleen Brogan, 27, from Seattle.

Dan Horwood, 25, alleges he has been pursued by 'devious' parking inspectors since moving to his new home at the private Phoenix Quarter site in Dartford, Kent, six months ago.

Avril Whitfield, 57, was last seen leaving her home in Caernarfon, North Wales, on April 1 2015, but she was identified using DNA when her foot washed up on the beach in Anglesey in September.

Pamela Whiting, a 62-year-old former nurse from Rhos-on-Sea in north Wales, reacted furiously to the snub, saying it had made her feel 'worthless' before adding: 'I am a person, not a vegetable'.

Grief-stricken Ian Freeman lost his first wife Maxine, 36, when she died in a car crash in Cambridgeshire in 2014. Tragedy struck again in September last year when his second wife Louise was paralysed.

Despite the label saying it was microwaveable, Natacha Flamand, from Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, claims it had only been in for a minute before exploding when she took it out.

Postman caught on video by paedophile hunters 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).

Aaron Gaiete (pictured) plunged a kitchen knife into the heart of Charlie Kutyauripo, 16, outside a sports centre in Woodford, east London before stabbing him in the arm as he struggled to his feet.

Brian Quail, 78, presented himself in Dumbarton Sheriff Court, West Dunbartonshire, earlier today charged with breach of the peace.

Matthew Sammon, 46, was a fugitive in the Costa Del Sol for nearly two years after collecting more than 34,000 indecent images and videos of children in November 2014.

Sam Broadhurst, 25, crept into his victim's first floor flat, tied a dressing gown around his shoulders and put on other female garments, Bolton Crown Court heard.

Lewis Stratford, of Oxford, caused the head-on smash in Berkshire last June which killed 28-year-old Gavin Roberts.

The driver was unable to stop in Bentley, Hampshire and only saw Mr Thomas at the last moment as he rounded a curve on the track.

The clip was filmed by another driver's dashboard camera on the A66 in Middlesbrough earlier this month.

Brigadier Charles Beardmore , 51, who earns more than £100,000 a year, pleaded guilty to negligently performing his duty at Merville Barracks in Colchester, Essex.

Bethany Hill was found drenched in blood with stab wounds to her neck and hands bound with tape in the bathroom of a flat in Stratford-upon-Avon on February 3 last year.

Transgender woman and boyfriend jailed for life for murder

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.

Manpreet Shergill (pictured), 33, who was attached to the Met Aviation Policing Command, allegedly helped to launder proceeds along with her husband, Hardial.

Ian Stewart's trial at St Albans Crown Court heard he told officers wanting to search his home in Royston, Hertfordshire, including the garage, they were better off probing the house itself.

A manhunt was launched after a 36-year-old man was killed on the number 11A service in Handsworth, Birmingham, at about 10.30pm on Monday.

Jade Williams (pictured) was celebrating her 27th birthday with boyfriend Dayfdd Williams, 27, at the Celtic Manor, near Newport, Gwent, but the day descended into chaos, Cardiff Crown Court heard.

Richard Pearson, of Sunderland, destabilised the market for the so-called 'pitman painter's' works by passing off 14 forgeries as originals.

Nicola Alcock, 40, from Lancashire, claimed child tax credits and housing benefit over a five year period after telling the authorities she was living alone with her two children.

Sgt Alexander Blackman receives major boost

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'.

Bedfordshire Police officers Robin Denton, Matthew Neild, Todd Mills and Deanna Waite were sacked after making 'disgusting comments' and laughing at rape victim's assault report.

Around 600 officers from the Met's Territorial Support Group in London - which regularly deals with gang members armed with knives and firearms - will receive the equipment.

There were 23 Category A - at serious risk of collision - drone-related incidents involving passenger jets in the UK last year - compared to the eight in 2015.

A distillery is set to be built in Princetown, which would be the largest in the UK, outside Scotland. But angry locals have told the architects to think again, saying 'Princetown is not Scotland'.

The blaze started under the driver's cab of a train at Kidbrooke station in South East London and witnesses described a sound like '50 fireworks' going off.

The shocking incident happened when a number of pupils from a school in Leeds, West Yorkshire, were taking part in a group chat via social media app live.ly earlier this week.

Muslim taxi driver refused to drive couple with guide dog

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.

Anne-Marie Clements, who also lost her job at St Mark's Primary in Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, in Scotland, has now consented to be struck off the teaching register.

The 400g loaves on sale at Sainsbury's stores in Britain have blackened crusts - and eyebrows have been raised among some consumers thinking the chain was trying to sell burnt bread.

The road in Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire. was finally re-opened three days after the mess (pictured) was reported when council workers pushed the rubbish to the side of the country lane.

Charles Carter, 33, was filmed telling the woman she is 'very pretty' before asking: 'Can I take you to bed please?' after being challenged by activists during a Middleton Hunt meet in North Yorkshire.

Scott King grabbed the photo as the Prince met shopkeepers along Britain's most multicultural street, Narborough Road, before he paid a visit to Leicester College.

Glen Briers, of Willenhall, West Midlands, built a £30million sports and street-wear empire from his family garage in the 1980s, starting his business with just £81 of his own money.

Royal Mail honours David Bowie with 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.

Russia's huge aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is passing through the English Channel on its way back from its bombing campaign in Syria.

The ape - called John Daniel (pictured) - played with children, went to classes, ate roses from gardens and even enjoyed cups of tea with residents in the quaint village of Uley, Gloucestershire.

The Scottish city recorded the highest mortality rates in the UK when figures were adjusted to account for the age of the local population - at 1,448 deaths per 100,000 people.

THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
 

Armed and dangerous! Did Donald Trump's bodyguard wear FAKE hands during inauguration so he could hold a gun under his coat?

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.

US President Donald Trump is expected to sign several executive orders restricting immigration from Syria and six other mostly Muslim countries and launching the process of building a border wall.

Denmark was named the least corrupt country on the planet, followed by New Zealand and Finland, according to Transparency International.

Footage shows the boy, no older than 14, climbing into an armour-clad vehicle before aerial shots shows him driving towards a target in war-torn Mosul, Iraq.

It is believed 13,000 euros has been recovered from the Montparnasse cemetery in the French capital, which is the final resting place of several famous names such as Serge Gainsbourg.

Newly released CIA files claim that former North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung demanded to eat dog meat for both his morning and evening meal everyday and that he would eat it stuffed with chicken.

Thae Yong Ho, North Korea's former deputy ambassador to London, defected to neighbouring South Korea last year and now claims Kim Jong-Un's days as dictator 'are numbered'.

French presidential candidate François Fillon said he would break with the Schengen open borders agreement which allows visitors to travel without passport checks.

The pair, both 13 and from Vietnam, were found in El Prat airport in Barcelona, Spain as they were trying to creep into the Schengen area of the terminal, where there are no border controls.

WORLD NEWS

       

About 200 officers searched a dozen homes in dawn raids in six states today, the chief prosecutor's office said, as part of an investigation into a far-right extremist group.

The SoldatenKaffe, named after a cafe in Paris that was popular with Nazi soldiers, was a busy tourist spot in the city of Bandung but has now closed for good and been replaced with a karaoke bar.

Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte ranted that priests are 'corrupt' and engage in 'sinful acts' and even claimed he was abused by a priest when he was a student at university.

COMMENT
 

What if Trump ran Britain? In the Book of Genesis, God creates the world in six days. What could The Donald do in a week if he were in Downing Street?

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: It is profoundly offensive - that George Osborne thinks it acceptable to waltz straight from the Treasury into a highly paid job at the world's largest investment fund manager.

On Sunday, Desert Island Discs celebrates its 75th anniversary. When I was a castaway, I wanted a subscription to Private Eye as my luxury item, writes Craig Brown. But Kirsty Young wouldn't let me.

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