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Jamie Johnson photographs Irish traveller families

These stunning black-and-white images offer a unique glimpse into the lives of traveller children. Photographer Jamie Johnson was given unprecedented access to the notoriously private Irish traveller commuity at the Ballinasloe Horse Fair and Festival in October. From a little girl smoking a fake cigarette to a young lad brandishing a machete to a couple of boys pointing plastic guns, her incredible images show the carefree traveller children at play.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Italy avalanche survivors describe horrific 58-hour ordeal

Giorgia Galassi, 22, and her boyfriend Vincenzo Forti, 25, have described the horrific ordeal of being trapped in the luxury Hotel Rigopiano, in the central Italian mountains, after it was hit by a massive wall of snow and rubble. The Italians (main), among nine pulled alive from the wreckage of the building, survived for nearly 58 hours in darkness and subzero temperatures by sucking on ice, praying and comforting each other and those nearby. Their harrowing account comes as it was revealed the final death toll from the devastating avalanche stands at 29 after the remaining bodies were pulled out of the rubble.

The judge, nicknamed Abu Hafsa, and the four other commanders ran away from the battle for eastern Mosul and were eventually captured before being shot by firing squad in front of a large crowd.

Fillon, who polls show is likely to reach the second round of May's French presidential election, is facing a probe into claims he handed wife Penelope a fictitious paid role as a parliamentary aide.

The attack came in August when the two young men took a tram from Cologne's Cathedral Square, the site of the New Year migrant sex attacks in 2015, and they were set upon by the gang of six men.

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The teenage extremist, identified only as Safia S. under German privacy regulations, launched the attack on the policewoman in Hanover's main train station last February.

The woman was thought to be in her first year of teaching at the primary school in the village of Lapeyrouse-Morney in the Drôme region when she became unable to control her pupils.

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.