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Nigerian woman racks up £500k bill on IVF quadruplets

A Nigerian woman who gave birth to IVF quadruplets after a stop-over flight to the UK will detail her journey in BBC2 documentary Hospital, tomorrow. The 43 year-old Lagos native, known as Priscilla (left), was filmed over several weeks at London's St Mary's Hospital while racking-up a £500,000 bill which remains unpaid. Her case exposes the crippling costs that health tourists place on taxpayers, with Whitehall research putting the cost to the NHS at anywhere between £200million and £2billion a year. Other examples include a Palestinian man who 'disappeared into the community' following a kidney stones procedure (bottom right) and a Filipino woman (top right) who had heart surgery after falling ill visiting the UK, only to return home unable to pay for the procedure.

Lord who slammed Trump visit works for firm hit by slash

Lord Ricketts, permanent secretary at the department from 2006-10 before becoming David Cameron's national security adviser, questioned whether the US leader was 'specially deserving of this exceptional honour'. He hit out at Theresa May's 'ill-judged' move, saying it had exposed the Queen to a furious row about Mr Trump's controversial travel ban on seven Muslim countries. The invitation had put the monarch in a 'very difficult position', he said. But it emerged that his intervention happened to coincide with President Trump announcing that a contract with US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin would be slashed. On Monday, the White House forced the company to cut its price for supplying 90 new F-35 stealth fighter jets by $600million (£478million). The full cost of delivering the tranche of state-of-the-art aircraft was $9billion (£7.2billion). Britain is set to buy 48 of the jets.

Lord Ricketts went on the Today programme to back Project Fear's claim that Brexit would lead to the French moving the Jungle migrant camp (which no longer even exists) from Calais to Kent.

Rail bosses vowed to cut out the 'red tape, jargon and complication' that mean some passengers pay high fares for long, connecting journeys when there are quicker and cheaper alternatives.

Local authorities in London, Birmingham, Nottingham, Derby, Leeds and Southampton are thought to be considering drastic measures to crack down on diesel to improve air quality.

The re-call of thousands of chocolate Easter bunnies has been announced by the Co-op after a small button battery was found inside one of the hollow figures in Nottingham.

British hospitals fail to identify overseas patients or never send them bills, MPs warn in a report. GPs were also found to be doing too little to flag up those who should be charged for care.

Sky viewers are to keep 12 TV channels including TLC, Eurosport and Animal Planet after the firm agreed a last-minute deal with US media giant Discovery Communications.

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A news story said about 250,000 people die in Britain each year from pulmonary embolism. In fact the figure, in 2012, was 2,300.

How we nailed the crooked HBOS bank boss who cost us £11m

This week six people, including two former HBOS bankers, were convicted of a huge fraud. One of them - Lynden Scourfield (pictured, circled) - frittered away customers' money on lavish cruises on superyachts, sex parties with porn stars like Suzie Best (right) and holidays to Barbados. Nikki Turner and her husband Paul (inset) have described the hell they went through at the hands of Lynden Scourfield, a senior director of HBOS, who faces jail when he is sentenced later this month along with pal David Mills (left).

Two companies have announced plans to run evening meetings on temporary tracks at a number of locations, including London, that will make up a list of venues for an international series.

Kate McCann - whose daughter Madeleine vanished 10 years ago in Portugal - is involved with a group that has been secretly auditioning for Britain's Got Talent.

Ryan Lock, 20, died while fighting against ISIS in Syria and an initial post-mortem suggests the chef may have 'shot himself' to avoid being captured by militants.

Despite a unanimous vote by MPs, the Whitehall panel which will decide whether to remove his honour has said it will not make a decision until investigations into BHS have concluded.

The 88-year-old Radio 2 host Brian Matthew was axed against his will whilst he was off work recovering from a fall, but now he'll return to Sounds of the 60s for a series of specials and a farewell episode.

The figures, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, show that HMRC issued 143,000 penalties last year to people who filed inaccurate information about their finances.

Those in London waste almost eight minutes searching for somewhere after each journey, compared with five minutes in the East of England and East Midlands.

Inspectors found the number of violent incidents at HMP Exeter (pictured) was far higher than at other local prisons and warned that the situation could get worse.

The boarding schools are being probed as part of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry into more than 60 establishments which have been identified as sites of alleged child abuse or neglect.

QUENTIN LETTS watches the Brexit process get under way 

QUENTIN LETTS was in the press gallery at the House of Commons to witness the start of the parliamentary process which will lead to Brexit. He said the chamber was packed (pictured) as Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer (top left) gave a speech which sounded like someone summoning mourners to a winter funeral. Theresa May and Boris Johnson sat side by side (top, centre) as David Davis introduced the Bill and listened as Ken Clarke (top right) burbled away for a full 17 minutes.

Dozens of Labour MPs, Scottish Nationalists and Liberal Democrats will spark fury by trying to block the Article 50 Bill giving Theresa May the power to trigger Brexit .

If and when Donald Trump visits the Queen he will be among more than 100 world leaders she has welcomed on state visits, and they have not all been judged well by the rest of the world.

Nigel Farage has accused London Mayor Sadiq Khan of hypocrisy after the latter spoke out against US President Donald Trump's immigration ban at a meeting of diplomats in London last night.

Dame Lowell Goddard, demanded that a favourite vase and other personal items be flown 11,400 miles across the world from her home in Wellington, New Zealand to Britain.

Mazin Younis (right) was also handed £500 by disgraced lawyer Phil Shiner for each Iraqi he persuaded to accuse soldiers of committing murder or torture, a tribunal in London heard.

Harriet Harman, Labour's former deputy leader and a prominent feminist, also said the new Doctor's assistant should be a man, so she could 'tell him what to do'.

Moira Stuart was forced to quit drinking because of health

Moira Stuart told listeners of Chris Evans' breakfast show on Radio 2 yesterday that she used to enjoy a tipple, especially at weddings. But she was forced to quit drinking after developing health problems. Evans was quizzing Miss Stuart, 67, about dry January, where drinkers abstain from alcohol for a month, and asked if she had never drunk. Miss Stuart became the first female African-Caribbean newsreader when she moved from radio to television news in 1981. Last year the Daily Mail revealed how BBC Radio 4 Today show presenter John Humphrys told Miss Stuart she was 'sensationally sexy' after a news bulletin.

Rock star John Wetton has died today aged 67 following a battle with colon cancer, according to his Asia bandmates. He is survived by his wife Lisa, son Dylan, brother Robert and mother Peggy.

Mr Barry, 61, who won in 2008 with The Secret Scripture, claimed the award for his novel Days Without End, which is set in 1850s America.

The BBC's security correspondent, who has been wheelchair-bound since being shot in 2004, had been filming a wildlife documentary in Papua New Guinea when he developed the sores.

Scientists have discovered that frogs - of which more than 4,000 species around the world have sticky tongues - have 'reversible' saliva.

Premier League footballer Fabrice Muamba (pictured) collapsed on the pitch in 2012. His heart stopped for 78 minutes and he was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

It turns out there is a simple, and seemingly foolproof, way to train youngsters to like their greens, and it even works for bitter superfoods such as kale.

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.

Father reunited with unknown daughter in Staffordshire

John Duncan, 52, of Staffordshire, had no idea he had another child until he received a letter last year from Fifi Giannitto, 30, claiming she was his daughter. He was convinced she had got the wrong man, but after agreeing to a DNA test he was shocked when it returned a 99.99 per cent match. John had been in a relationship with Fifi's mum in the early 1980s. When they split up Fifi's mum discovered she was pregnant but didn't tell John and went on to raise her on her own. Despite not knowing about the other, John and Fifi have been living just eight miles from each other for nearly 30 years.

Steve Bannon, a father of three of south west England, has been repeatedly forced to defend himself against online trolls who believe him to be Donald Trump's chief strategist.

The 78-year-old was in her house in the Whitchurch area of Cardiff, South Wales, at around 4.10pm on Sunday when two vehicles collided with the building in 'terrible' weather conditions.

Officers conducting a 120-mile wide search across Scotland said they were 'growing increasingly' concerned for 14-year-old Jodie Keys, who went missing from her home in London last Thursday.

The fire caused extensive damage to the house in Glenfield, Leicestershire, which resulted in Corisande Collins' move into the property being significantly delayed.

Nathan Wood became disorientated after taking the psychoactive drug 'N-bomb', before stripping naked and jumping into the River Dart near Totnes in Devon on August 5 last year.

Kevin Wilcox has taken daughter Amy out of school and vowed to dye her hair purple again in protest at Severn Vale School in Gloucester putting her in isolation.

Nursing regulator spent £240,000 covering up information

James Titcombe (left inset), whose son Joshua (centre) died aged nine days old from a treatable infection at a hospital in Cumbria, said the Nursing and Midwifery Council was 'spending money hiding information'. The NMC had followed Mr Titcombe's efforts to launch an investigation into the death of his son Joshua in 2008 on social media and in his public statements, but gave him reports that 'had all but 10 words removed'. It came after Mr Titcombe helped shed light on a maternity unit scandal at Furness General Hospital (right inset) in Cumbria which led to the deaths of 16 babies and three mothers since 2004. The NMC told Mr Titcombe his case was 'so complex' it required help from an external law firm (bottom inset).

Luke Bannister (pictured), 16, from Wiltshire, won the glitzy World Drone Prix in Dubai last March. He divides his time between practice, competitions, working on his drones - and homework.

Paul Freathy and his wife Gail own a photographic shop business in Devon where they live, but the Home Office say they have not earned enough money to support themselves.

Tom Owen, from Pontypridd, South Wales, was taken to hospital on Monday at 12.20pm after police and paramedics were called to Llanrumney where he had been carrying out utility works.

Trudy Marsden had consumed the fumigating liquid in the toilets of the nursery at St Anne's RC Primary School in Blackburn, Lancashire,

Louis Simpson was reported missing after the blaze at Fairhurst Hall in Parbold, Lancashire, on Sunday afternoon. His family have said they are 'truly devastated' after police found his body.

Kirsty Shepherd, from Wakefield, was told by an Arriva driver (not pictured) that she could not get on despite there being room. This came just days after the Supreme Court ruled wheelchairs have priority.

Shocking prison videos shot in British jails using smuggled phones show inmate decking another with a single punch and a man being TORTURED with a hose

The disturbing footage of one man being 'knocked out' (top and bottom left) and another 'tortured with a hose' (right) was allegedly filmed by prisoners in Britain on a phone 'smuggled' into a jail. The videos were then uploaded to a website in the US, with the hose stunt apparently a form of medieval torture. It is unknown exactly where the prison is and no one in the footage has been identified.

Robert Muir (pictured), 49, killed the duck last May in a 'callous act of cruelty' in a beauty spot in Richmond, south west London, and has now been convicted after being caught on CCTV.

Danyal Davies was jailed today after 30 chainlink bullets were found in his Wigan home and three smoke grenades, a parachute flare, 20 blank rounds and 28 spent shells in his Army room.

The capital has seen a spate of crime carried out on scooters in recent months, including smash and grabs on shops and bag snatches on pavements.

The pensioner, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is accused of sexually assaulting his step-daughter and putting his hand in her underwear during a drive home from a KFC restaurant in Slough.

Sheena Boll, a mother-of-one, (pictured) pretended to be a vulnerable teenager so that she could accuse a colleague of being a paedophile. She worked with the male teacher at a school in Newham.

Thomas Orchard (pictured), 32, suffered a cardiac arrest in his cell at Exeter's main police station in October 2012, after being held down and a large webbing belt put across his face.

Vasile-Viorel Grosu, 37, (pictured) was driving a lorry across Europe to England when he was approached in Poitiers in western France to hide three Albanians in his the back of his lorry.

Calum Adams, 25, from East Kilbride in Lanarkshire, Scotland, first met the girl when she was just four, before subjecting her to countless sexual assaults.

Zareena Shaid, 24, made racist remarks while on a Monarch flight from Manchester to Ibiza, and also made fun of another passenger, who had a speech impediment.

Party lover frogmarched off Ibiza flight for racist abuse

Zareena Shaid (pictured outside court, right, and with a friend, left), 24, made racist remarks while on a Monarch flight from Manchester to Ibiza, and also made fun of another passenger, who had a speech impediment. The mouthy party lover - who by her own admission was 'eight and a half to nine out of ten drunk' - had earlier been with three female friends knocking back alcohol in the executive lounge at Manchester Airport. Passengers were left 'shocked' and feeling 'physically sick' as all four were taken off the plane by police.

Emma Horseman, 24, was found not guilty of aiding and abetting GBH in relation to the shooting of 18-month-old Harry Studley at Bristol Crown Court this afternoon.

Richard de Wit (left) is accused of killing 24-year-old former public schoolgirl Sarah Groves in Kashmir in April 2013.

Ian Stewart was said to be in line to gain homes in Kent and Herfordshire, as well as pension and life insurance payments when he allegedly murdered his fiancee last year.

The raid, carried out over the 2015 Easter bank holiday weekend in the heart of London's diamond district, was the biggest burglary in English history.

Joshua Jeffrey (pictured), 21, from Bradford, crashed with taxi driver Liaqat Mahmood - killing him and injuring his own twin brother Ryan Jeffrey.

Sarfraz Khan (pictured) was stabbed to death and his three brothers seriously hurt when a row with cousins at the family ice cream business in Bradford escalated in April last year.

CCTV captures 'moment of madness' as driver causes a three-vehicle crash by stopping in the middle of a 70mph road just because another motorist flashed at him

Shocking CCTV footage from a bus captured the moment a 'moment of madness' saw a motorist stop in the middle of a 70mph road - causing a three-car pile-up. Lee Allwright, 29, was driving his Peugeot 308 when he went to join the A27 and aggressively overtook a BMW X3 as they both joined. The driver of the BMW flashed him and Allwright braked ahead of the motorist before stopping in the middle lane near Shoreham, West Sussex. His actions resulted in the Compass bus hitting the back of the BMW which then shunted into Allwright's vehicle during rush hour.

British Airways aircraft at Heathrow Airport (Steve Parsons/PA)

Members of Unite employed in the so-called Mixed Fleet will walk out from Sunday.

Nicola Urquhart, 48, blasted the 'surreal' claims by trolls that Darroch McKeague, 21, drove 400 from Scotland to Suffolk to target his 23-year-old brother, RAF gunner Corrie.

Earlier this year, a judge said the dispute between John Caudwell - who founded the mobile phone firm Phones4u - and Nathalie Dauriac-Stoebe cried out for resolution.

Hans Thomas Gross, an Austrian entrepreneur worth over £130million, was sued by former Guards officer Bruce MacInnes over commission from the sale of his business in 2012.

The group of squatters have been at the Grade II listed mansion owned by Andrey Goncharenko in Eaton Square, London, for the last eight days but today lost their battle to remain there.

The pardons, including for Oscar Wilde (pictured), come after Second World War code-breaker Alan Turing was given a posthumous royal pardon in 2013 over a conviction for gross indecency.

Hundreds of vikings arrive in Shetland for Up Helly Aa

Hundreds of people wearing winged helmets, sheepskins and carrying axes and shields march through the streets of the town to recreate its ancient Viking past in a tradition that dates back to the 19th century. Up Helly Aa always takes place on the last Tuesday in January and culminates in a torchlit procession of Vikings (inset) and the burning of a galley (main). Shetland and neighbouring Orkney were ruled by the Norse for about 500 years until they became part of Scotland in 1468. The event stems from the 1870s when a group of young local men wanted to put new ideas into Shetland's Christmas celebrations.

Kevin Taylor was at Morrisons in Failsworth, Greater Manchester, on Monday with wife Bernie when he spotted a woman shouting at the armed man who then brandished a knife.

Barrister Michael Wolkind QC has been slammed by the Lord Chief Justice, at a London tribunal, for boasting on his website and for his 'patronising' behaviour to a fellow QC during a murder trial.

The former UKIP leader clashed with the daytime show's presenter Saira Khan after she accused him of encouraging attacks on Muslims.

Britain is set to be battered by strong gales and heavy rain as a weather front swings in from the Atlantic. Things aren't likely to improve throughout the month either, with a killer cold snap of -10C forecast.

Teenagers, between 14 to 18, have been invited to a 'Pop Ya Cherry' party at Bisoux Lounge in Esher, Surrey. The Valentine's event is being held on February 13.

The chain has now been slammed after it was spotted strapped to a gate leading the bin its branch in Wrexham, North Wales. The sign was taken down following protests.

University lecturer Kathleen Liddell moved from part time to full time hours after her break-up from Goran Mickovski, saying she needed to work 'as hard as she could' to 'survive financially'.

Snooker star Jimmy White's flat destroyed in fire

Fans' favourite White (inset), 54, posted a picture of police, firefighters and paramedics outside his flat (right) in Surrey as smoke poured (left) from the building. The player - nicknamed The Whirlwind - said: 'Fire at my flat this morning. Everything gone. Gutted. Cue was in car and most importantly no one hurt.' Fans and fellow players were quick to offer their support and sympathy to White, six times beaten World Championship finalist.

Jon Platt (pictured today) caused a surge in term-time bookings after the High Court ruled that his £120 fine was unlawful because his daughter had an excellent attendance record.

Tony Martin (pictured), 72, ambushed shocked Chief Constable Simon Bailey in astonishing scenes as he tackled him over Norfolk Police 'being cut to the bone'.

THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
 

The would-be assassin, identified only as Betinho, fled the church in Limoeiro de Anadia in Alagoas, Brazil, having opened fire at a father and son who were set to serve as witnesses to the marriage. Dramatic video footage captured the moment he clumsily pulled a gun from his waistband and stars unloading, causing a frenzy inside the church. It was reported the ceremony continued unperturbed after the incident and that the shooting was a possible revenge attack due to the suspect's son being killed recently.

Faces of Nazi guards who killed a million Jews go online

The names of almost 10,000 Nazi SS guards who helped in the extermination of more than a million Jews at Auschwitz have been posted online for the first time. The huge database, which includes hundreds of photographs (pictured), has been uploaded by Poland's Institute of National Remembrance in an attempt to dispel false claims that many of the guards were Polish. The list of 9,686 names are predominantly German and their pre-war occupations are listed as farmers, butchers, teachers, cobblers and all manner of jobs.

Steeve Briois, who is part of the French far-right leader's campaign team, said American President Donald Trump's hugely controversial policy could work in Europe and could be implemented in France.

The incident happened in the town of Arnstein in the southern state of Bavaria and officials in Wuerzburg, Bavaria, are still working to determine the source of the gas and what caused it to leak.

Analysts from the Institute of National Remembrance, a Polish organisation that probes crimes against the Polish nation, have been studying handwritten documents by a agent codenamed Bolek.

Alisa Tsyrenova and Lyubov Tsyrenova from Siberia gave birth to girls Yulia and Dugarma 34 years ago but are coming to terms with the fact they raised daughters who weren't their own.

A court heard how the he 21-year-old female student, originally from Turkey, had been targeted by the three teenagers at Vienna's Paterstern station last April as she went to use the toilet.

The attacks follow weeks of combat on Yemen's western coast between the Iran-allied Houthis and the coalition backing Yemen's internationally recognized government.

Bright student Maksym M, 18, claims he was booted out of Blindow School in the Eastern German city of Leipzig because his social studies teacher mistook his raised hand for a Hitler salute.

The teacher has gone into hiding following the death of pupil Joy Wangari at Mukandamia Primary School. It has been claimed that fellow pupils were encouraged to beat Joy up.

WORLD NEWS

       

BBC film poachers killing chimpanzees and selling orphans

Police and Interpol raided the West African operation's base following a year-long investigation by the BBC, which spanned across six countries. It is estimated that for each baby chimpanzee taken from the wild, 10 adults are killed, and their bodies are sold as bushmeat. Many are smuggled to wealthy buyers in the Middle East, south-east Asia and China, where demand is high, and are often locked up in a cage - or even killed - once they stop being 'cute'.

The mysterious holy men live a life of minimalism and rely heavily on people's good will as they travel through cities, villages and forests, sleeping in temples, under trees and on riverbanks.

The collection, taken by Scottish photography pioneer John Thomson, is expected to fetch £20,000 at an auction in New York next month.

Hitler's personal wartime phone that was picked up by a British officer from the 'Fuhrerbunker' in Berlin at the end of the Second World War is set to fetch over £400,000 when it is auctioned off next month.

COMMENT
 

A strong supporter of Brexit, Donald Trump (pictured) has said repeatedly that he wants to strengthen America's links with Britain and see it prosper after the UK withdrew from the EU.

For this new generation of baby boomers, the idea of co-existing with those whose values they were so busy rebelling against seemed anathema. The irony is, of course, that it is they who now need help.

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