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Boy dumped by parents who thought he was a with recovers

Photographs of the little boy in Nigeria known as Hope broke the world's hearts last year (left) after a charity worker found him emaciated and riddled with worms after being abandoned. Having made a miraculous recovery, the now healthy-looking youngster set off to embark on his education in a strapping red outfit (right). Hope (inset) was dumped by his family because they thought he was a witch and was found in the streets by Anja Ringgren Loven, a Danish woman living in Africa, in January 2016.

Company director wrongly arrested over train fare loophole

Company director Steve Morrissey, 33, would normally get the train to London from Preston - only to discover he could save almost £260 on his return ticket by getting on at Lancaster instead - even though it is 25 miles further away. But during his journey on a Virgin train to Euston, a guard examined his £92.20 ticket from Lancaster accused him of getting on at Preston and said he should got the £356 return it would cost to travel from there. When father-of-one Mr Morrissey protested and refused to pay up, police were waiting on the platform to question him when he arrived in London.

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union were due to stage two walkouts from Sunday evening in a dispute over jobs and ticket office closures.

Jonathan Norbury, from Swansea, is facing an Education Workforce Council hearing where he could be banned from teaching. The hearing has been told he made a girl, 16, touch him sexually.

Convicted defendants will learn their fate sitting miles away from the judge, in adapted rooms in police stations or in specially-converted vans or buses under rules put into effect by the Lord Chief Justice.

The campaigners led by Peter Wilding and Adrian Yalland wanted judges to force Parliament to vote on keeping Britain in the European single market because they want a 'soft Brexit'.

Lee Crawley was injured after stepping into a pothole in Barnsley and won a payout after appeal judges heard the local council waited until after a weekend to fix it.

James Aaron Laity, 34, launched the attack while his victim was semi-conscious following a night out, Stafford Crown Court heard.

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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.

Paris' Louvre shut down over man with machete

A machete-wielding man shouting 'Allahu Akbar' was shot five times in the stomach outside the Louvre in Paris this morning after he attacked four soldiers. French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has described the attack as 'terrorist in nature' and a terror probe has been launched by authorities. An estimated 1,250 people were inside the famous art gallery, home to the Mona Lisa, when the shooting happened. Pictures from inside the museum shows schoolchildren cowering during the emergency lockdown.

Aga Czachowska, 31, used the insult when she tried to collect a debt for her employer when after the client went bankrupt, Worcester Crown Court heard.

The average price paid in the final three months of last year for comprehensive cover was £462, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) said - a jump of £22 on the previous quarter.

A tenth of health trusts, which cover a population of about four million, admitted they were unable to find GPs for overnight or weekend shifts on at least one occasion last year.

Despite being one of the UK's most elite universities, Cambridge (pictured) has the ninth most privately educated intake, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency.

Young professionals in the UK face an uncertain working future after it was predicted by a Government task force they could be in jobs until they are 74.

Officials will only view the life-changing breast cancer drug palbociclib as cost-effective if its price is cut by 80 per cent, taking it from £2,950 a month to less than £590.

Gordon Brown scrapped a plan to make Peter Mandelson deputy prime minister after Harriet Harman told him it would happen 'over my dead body', in a Downing Street row, she has claimed.

The former Labour deputy leader said Mr Brown 'changed her speech on the autocue' at the 1996 Labour Party Conference in Blackpool while she was 'waiting on the stage'.

Friends of the pensioner accused of 'groping' Harriet Harman when she was a clerk at a London law firm in the 1970s said they were 'horrified' at the accusation and that it was 'not possible'.

Supermarkets ration vegetables due to Mediterranean storms

Supermarkets have started rationing vegetables amid a shortage caused by floods, snow and storms across the Mediterranean farming belt. Morrisons has imposed a limit of three heads of broccoli and two iceberg lettuces (inset right) per customer throughout its 492 stores. Shoppers have also taken to social media to share pictures of empty fresh produce aisles in Sainsbury’s (top) and Morrisons (bottom right). A notice in a Tesco store (left) stated that they have started limiting bulk purchases of iceberg lettuces to three per person. And a private seller was flogging 12 lettuces for £50 on Gumtree (centre bottom).

British soldiers hounded by disgraced lawyer Phil Shiner called for him to be jailed after he was struck off at a disciplinary hearing yesterday for falsely accusing soldiers of war crimes.

All bathrooms should have a second bin for recycling to stop plastic rubbish polluting the natural world, according to a campaign backed by Prince Charles.

Plain-speaking Philip Davies (Con, Shipley) is causing merry mayhem. Mr Davies has got himself elected on to the soppingly wet select committee for Women and Equalities.

European Parliament leaders have written to the European Council asking its president not to accept Ted Malloch, pictured with Nigel Farage, as US ambassador to the EU should he be put forward.

The US government is in talks with UK authorities to introduce what is known as 'pre-clearance' at Manchester, Edinburgh, and London Heathrow airports.

John Smyth QC (pictured) was accused by young victims of beating them violently after he recruited them at a Christian youth camp where the Archbishop of Canterbury once worked.

In a speech entitled 'Coping with Russia' at St Andrews University in Scotland, Sir Michael Fallon said Nato members were being 'tested' by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Deutsche Boerse's boss Carsten Kengeter - the driving force behind the takeover bid - is being probed over his purchase of the shares in his company days before the deal was announced.

Savers have been offered a glimmer of hope after Tesco Bank said current account customers would receive three percent interest rates for the next two years.

Yellow Corsa that was ruining Bibury written off

Peter Maddox, 84, parks his banana-coloured Vauxhall Corsa (main image) outside his Cotswolds cottage Bibury, Gloucestershire, on a road which is owned by the National Trust. The chocolate box houses are the oldest inhabited properties in the UK and appear on the inside cover of millions of passports. But a row erupted in 2015 when visitors complained that Peter's 'ugly' car was wrecking the classic English scene. This week, a yob scratched the word 'MOVE FREDDIE' onto the bonnet (inset), scratched every other panel and smashed the driver's side window and rear windscreen.

The average life expectancy of a Briton is 80. Does it make sense to fritter away four years of it on the phone at work, more than 18 months commuting (pictured) and a year in traffic jams?

An Army team were called to Workington police station in Cumbria over the incident this morning. Following the controlled explosion, police said there were 'no issues of concern'.

Researchers at Newcastle University found that people who find the sound of chewing, breathing, or numerous other conditions unbearable have a genuine brain abnormality.

The breathalyser, similar to the machines used by cops for roadside alcohol tests, uses sensors to identify biomarkers linked to the virus and indicate if the sufferer has flu or just wants a 'duvet day.'

Carrie-Ann and Emily Crawshaw, of Fareham, Hampshire, are two of around 160,000 children in England who are carers for at least one of their parents.

Tattoo artist known as 'Dr Evil' 'split customer's tongue'

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Brendan McCarthy, 47, from Wolverhampton, allegedly committed the offences at Dr Evil's Body Modification Emporium. He was arrested in December 2015 after concerns over his lack of medical qualifications, the unsuitability of his salon and unregulated actions. McCarthy appeared at Walsall Magistrates' Court  today charged with three counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and three alternative counts of wounding without intent. The charges relate to Ezechiel Lott and two other unnamed customers.

David Walker, 32, from Nuneaton, Warwickshire, tampered with the brakes on Kate Gore's Peugeot 307 before she planned to take their two young children, aged one and three, to France.

A man who travelled almost 100 miles in a bid to meet a 15-year-old girl and her 14-year-old friend for sex has walked free from court.

Craig Palmer pleaded guilty to a string of child sex offences in December and was sentenced for the crimes at Birmingham Crown Court today, Police said.

David Thompson (left), 34, sustained serious injuries and later died after Thomas Jessop crashed his car during a street race with Alexander Clacker in West Yorkshire in April 2015.

John Vanderwolfe (pictured), clerk of Tiverton Town Council in Devon, accidentally exposed the IT system to a virus after opening a ransomware file that claimed to be from a parcel delivery firm.

The coins, which are considered 'trial coins' aren't rare, aren't legal tender and cannot be used in shops, the Royal Mint said. But they're now selling on eBay for more than £200.

A highly damaging video has emerged of French Presidential candidate Francois Fillon's British wife Penelope admitting, in 2007: 'I have never actually been his assistant or anything like that.'

Gary Munt, 58, fell into a river in Slough, Berkshire, while walking his Staffordshire Bull Terrier Jess, who jumped in after him and unsuccessfully tried to rescue him from drowning.

The London Borough of Barnet has been given permission to vaccinate a seven-month-old baby boy, despite his mother saying her other children suffered bad reactions from immunisations.

Sir Michael Fallon signalled that the government would block any bid to call a fresh vote on whether to split the UK - saying she must 'respect' the result from 2014.

Britain reached a landmark moment in its battle to leave the EU when MPs backed the Brexit bill, with 319 Tories and 167 Labour MPs throwing their support behind the legislation.

Presented by French actor Antoine de Caunes (left) and French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier (right), it became an unexpected hit with ratings of between two and three million at its height.

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.

Man sues stepmother for a share of £2.9m Lotto win

David Walsh (pictured celebrating outside court, left) took the case to Ireland's High Court after claiming he was owed a sixth of Mary Walsh's jackpot after purchasing the winning ticket as part of a syndicate. The court heard how David's late father Peter Walsh, who was married to Mary (shown right), had promised his son he wouldn't have to ever worry about money again after the win. The winning ticket, bought in County Galway in January 2011, was signed by Peter Walsh, his wife Mary and his son David, as well as three other relatives. After winning £2.9million, Mrs Walsh's sons Tony and Jason received £380,000 and £257,000 respectively, while Mr Walsh's nephew Kevin Black was given £86,000. Mrs Walsh argued that David was offered £171,000 or the house she shared with her late husband, and claimed he opted for the home - which Mr Walsh denied.

Local protesters in the 'genteel' market town of Morpeth, Northumberland, gathered to save the avenue of 35-year-old maples planted honour of the Queen Mother from being felled.

Student Daisy Ho (pictured), 20, sent her final goodbye note on social media to her friend in California. Miss Ho's body was found hours later in her student flat in Cardiff.

Dennis Welchman fell in Cheddar in Somerset and broke his hip. His family said 999 was called four times before an ambulance from South Western Ambulance Service showed up.

Chloe Phillips, 29, is furious after her son Maxwell broke his femur from taking the tumble in Morrisons in Erith, south east London, but the supermarket giant is denying it was their fault.

Veritee Reed-Hall, 63, from Cornwall, contracted the virus from her husband Barry, 65, who had unprotected sex with another woman while he served in the Merchant Navy.

Lyndsey Higgins, 30, of Barnoldswick, Lancashire, met Martin Westwell on a dating website but later told him she would cut her arms or cause further harm to herself if they split up, it was said.

Headteacher who appeared on Come Dine With Me found dead

Huw Jones (pictured) from Cardiff, was found dead just months after his school, Albert Primary School, was rated excellent. His body was discovered at St Lawrence Church in Lavernock, near Penarth (inset). Married Mr Jones featured in a Shrove Tuesday special of the Channel 4 series in 2011 (right), where he treated his guests to pancakes.

Amanda Qi reversed up the steep driveway at the family home not realising she had only her young son in the car and that Karen was still outside, Reading Coroner's Court (pictured) heard.

Jonathan Humbert  was amazed when he opened the suitcase weighing 40kg. The suitcase, in a dead relative's house in Towcester, contained 22 gold sovereigns and 17 solid silver bars.

Luigi Trent-Paroli was an American student studying at the Oxford Tutorial College. He was found hanged in the house he shared with other students on January 19, with a note left on his laptop.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Troy MacKinlay was given a less than five percent chance of survival after a devastating blaze at his grandmother's home in County Durham last year.

Ben Spence paid £82 to update the document ahead of a weekend birthday trip to Amsterdam with friends at the end of this month but was stunned to find a total stranger's photo inside.

The body of Lara Nosiru (pictured), 23, was found after a two-hour search of the Avon Gorge following reports a woman had fallen from the bridge.

Become Lord of the Manor for just £2!

Dunstan Low bought and renovated Melling Manor in Lancashire in 2011 for £435,000, but has fallen on hard times as he struggles to get work in the area. He is selling raffle tickets with the house as the grand prize and hopes to make £1million by selling 500,000 tickets at £2. The Grade II listed manor has been on and off the market since December 2014, but hasn't attracted any offers and he has been forced to try to recoup his costs by selling tickets to avoid repossession. He is still open to offers of more than £650,000 but will use the cash he's made selling tickets as a prize should he find a buyer. Pictured left, Dunstan outside the home, top right, the kitchen, and bottom right, expansive living space.

Dramatic video clips that show the lead up to the Marine A shooting incident during the Afghanistan War have been released by the Ministry of Defence following a legal challenge.

Basharat Dad (pictured) was among six men jailed for between 10 and 20 years by a judge who heard details of how two young girls were sexually abused in Rotherham between 1999 and 2001.

The unsuspecting victim was strolling along near the Barbican Centre in central London when two people rode behind him on the moped before speeding off with his mobile phone.

Paul Chapman, 45, was arrested after he took covert footage of twin teenage girls in a Sainsbury's in Sale, Greater Manchester, and was spotted by their horrified father.

Joshua Dobby drove a Ford Focus into Makayah McDermott, 10, and Rosie Cooper, 34, as they walked in Penge, south London, in August last year.

Jonathan Frame (pictured), 30, from Swinton, Greater Manchester, used the popular dating app to meet his victims and stole from them after they had 'fallen for his charm'.

Moment burglar got wedged in a tiny first-floor window

A hapless burglar who became wedged in a bathroom window as he tried to climb into a pensioner's house has been jailed. Sean Crawshaw, 47, was found stuck in the tiny upstairs window (pictured, left) of a property in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. Crawshaw, who was rescued by the fire brigade from the window (right), pleaded guilty to burglary with intent to steal and was jailed for two years and four months. Sergeant Richard Garland, from Greater Manchester Police, said 'poetic justice' had been served.

Betty Boylan's relatives hid the device inside a television after they found unexplained bruising on the retired nurse when they visited her at the Perry Locks Care Home in Birmingham.

Peter Eubanks, 54, who lives in Brighton, East Sussex, arrived at Chichester Crown Court yesterday morning, charged with one count of theft from a Sainsbury's store.

Muslim convert Ryan Counsell, of Nottingham, was in the advanced stages of planning his trip to fight with terrorist group Abu Sayyaf when he was arrested last July.

Gareth James swapped underwear and naked images with the 17-year-old girl while head of the IT department at her school, Lliswerry High in Newport, South Wales (pictured).

Gareth Dack, 33, will serve a minimum term of 33 years for murdering 79-year-old Norma Bell at her home in Hartlepool. He was convicted of murder and arson following a trial at Teesside Crown Court.

Amanda Spencer, 25 and Christopher Whiteley, 23, are accused of playing key roles in gang that prayed on girls in the Sheffield area, plying them with drugs before forcing them into lewd acts.

Does this figure hold the key to missing Corrie McKeague?

Police searching for missing RAF gunner Corrie McKeague (left) have released a new CCTV image of a potential witness spotted in the area he was last seen. Mr McKeague, 23, from Fife, Scotland, vanished while on a night out with friends on September 24 in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. The last sighting shows him walking from a shop doorway and into a horseshoe-shaped area in Brentgovel Street, with no sign of him emerging. Suffolk Police officers combing through CCTV footage have released stills of three people who have yet to be traced. They are re-issuing some images along with a new image of one person that has now been obtained (right).

The Digital Economy Bill currently being discussed in the House of Lords could see a range of new rules imposed on social media websites.

Birds Eye packets of fish fingers have shrunk in number from 12 in a box to 10, with the fish giant blaming a rise in the cost of raw materials since the EU referendum vote.

The shocking incident took place in Leven, Scotland, yesterday with the girl suffering wounds to her eyes and mouth. Police are now searching the area for the black dog and its owner (file image).

A deal to end the Aslef dispute over driver-only trains on Southern Railway has been reached. But the misery isn't over for Londoners with more Tube strikes planned.

The singer teamed up with face-value ticket platform Twickets for his April and May concerts, but dozens of listings appeared on secondary ticketing sites offering the passes at inflated prices.

New Celebrations boxes, containing only Malteasers Teasers, have been launched in the UK and have sent the internet into a frenzy.

Flat where Dennis Nilsen killed escorts on sale for £500k

The flat in Muswell Hill, north London, was where Nilsen murdered a handful of male escorts before cooking their body parts and eating them. The two-bedroom home seems unremarkable, but it was the subject of a massive police investigation after reports of a strange smell coming from the drains. Officers raided the house and discovered that the odour was from rotting human remains in the house of horrors, also finding body parts in the wardrobes.

Human bones including skulls, teeth and vertebrae, litter the shoreline on grisly Deadman's Island off the coast of Sheppey, Kent.

About 35 of them occupied the seven-storey building close to Buckingham Palace, which is worth up to £25million and was once home to a famous British general and archaeologist.

CCTV cameras have been installed outside schools across Bournemouth in a bid to catch and clamp down on parents who park illegally at drop-off and pick-up times.

This is what £20m worth of collectible motors looks like

Scoop your chin off the floor and try to stop rubbing your eyes in disbelief - RM Sotheby's first classic car sale of the year is rammed with a bounty of automotive beauty. We feature the most exclusive, including clockwise from top left: Porsche 959 Sport, Ferrari 275GTB, OSCA MT4, Porsche 917 Spyder. Centre: Ferrari F40.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Harrowing footage shows the lions take down their prey before one latches onto her throat in Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe.

Max the dog got the wind in his hair, and ears, when he went for walkies in the Lake District today. The 'canine ambassador to Keswick' was captured by his owner Kerry Irving just before 'storm Doris' hits.

The dizzying footage shows James Kingston, from Southampton, exploring a Californian construction site and ascending a blue crane before he is stopped by a police officer.

THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
 

Indonesian woman is forced to endure 26 lashes

The woman clutched her head in her hands after being lashed with a cane after being found guilty of having sex outside of wedlock, which is against Sharia law in Aceh, Indonesia. Pictures show how the woman was forced to kneel on the ground on the public stage in front of a mosque in Indonesia's Aceh province. Looking fearful, the man who hands out the punishment uses a cane to crack her across the back 26 times for violating the law as a crowd of people look on.

Romanian president challenges new corruption rules

The Romanian government has sparked anger after decriminalising official misconduct - despite warnings it will make corruption legal with thousands taking to the street. And the Romanian president Klaus Iohannis has confirmed he will file a challenge with the country's Constitutional Court against the new legislation. In a televised new conference he said: 'It is obviously a legal constitutional conflict between the government and the judicial system and parliament.'

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today rebuked German Chancellor Angela Merkel for using the expression 'Islamist terrorism', saying the phrase saddened Muslims.

Ali Akbar Velayati, who is a senior adviser to Iran's most powerful man Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the country would not yield and that US threats had been dismissed in the past.

Fanatics trained up a group of children from its stronghold in western Mosul to fight against advancing Iraqi troops.

An emaciated lioness was found cowering in a squalid cage and lying on exposed cables at Al-Murur public park, in Mosul, Iraq, after the area was liberated from ISIS.

As Nepalese cities continue to grow and the nation recovers from two earthquakes in 2015, the demand for bricks is higher than ever and kiln owners are capitalising on cheap labour.

Anwar Ali, 17, was left lying on the road for half an hour while onlookers took photos after his bicycle had collided with a bus in the Koppal district of India's Karnataka state.

Fabio Di Lello (right) handed himself in to police after gunning down Italo D'Elisa, who faced manslaughter charges for mowing down Roberta Smargiassi (left), 33, last year.

The doctor at a nursing home in the Netherlands was being probed after the death of the 80-year-old woman, who had previously expressed a desire for euthansia when 'the time was right.'

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TOM UTLEY says he was utterly mortified to find that a member of his family took part in Monday night's mass demonstration and brandished a placard bearing the obscene legend: 'Trump is a c***'.

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