Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage is sharing a secret £4 million bachelor pad with an attractive French politician at the centre of a probe into illegal funding of his party. Laure Ferrari, who is 15 years younger than the married Brexit campaigner, moved in with Mr Farage in a grand Georgian house in an upmarket area of West London (inset) last week. She was photographed outside the property early on Friday morning, dressed in tracksuit bottoms and putting out the bins (centre), shortly before Mr Farage left in his chauffeur-driven Land Rover (right). Mr Farage (left) last night confirmed that Miss Ferrari had been living at his Chelsea house but said it was 'crackers' to suggest they were having an affair. He said he 'knew her well' but was just helping her out with somewhere to stay. Miss Ferrari and Mr Farage first met a decade ago when she was a waitress and he got her a job in the European Parliament.
'I'm just a normal person who is extremely disappointed not to get a knighthood': Beckham's jaw-dropping excuse for his leaked c-word rants
In fairness, it was never going to be easy for David Beckham to repair his shredded public image. But in giving it his best shot yesterday, the former England star offered an extraordinary excuse. He insisted through friends that he was a ‘normal person’ who was just ‘extremely disappointed’ at being passed over for a knighthood.
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- Pictured: Proud dad David Beckham watches Brooklyn go skateboarding amid the fallout over hacked emails suggesting his was furious to be snubbed for a knighthood as support grows to make Goldenballs a sir
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George Michael's lover is in the clear as police rule out foul play: Celebrity hairdresser is no longer part of investigation into singer's death
George Michael’s boyfriend Fadi Fawaz has been told by police that he is no longer part of their investigation into the singer’s death. The celebrity hairdresser was quizzed by Thames Valley Police last month as they tried to piece together the last hours of the star’s life before he died at his Oxfordshire home, aged 53. Mr Fawaz, 40, is viewed as a controversial figure by some members of the singer’s family – particularly after his claim that he spent the night sleeping in his car before finding George dead on Christmas Day.
Pictured: Proud dad David Beckham watches Brooklyn go skateboarding amid the fallout over hacked emails suggesting his was furious to be snubbed for a knighthood as support grows to make Goldenballs a sir
Beckham (pictured left) was at a skatepark in London watching his son Brooklyn (right) with his friends. Several emails were released yesterday appearing to show an elongated push by his PR team to secure recognition from the Queen, and that he was furious when he did not receive one. But the allegations appear to have only boosted his public standing, with #SirDavidBeckham appearing on Twitter. Unicef has also leaped to the defence of their ambassador (pictured inset on a philanthropic trip) despite allegations that he demanded £6,685 from the charity for a business class flight and refused to donated $1million of his own money.
As Sheridan Smith stars in a new BBC drama about the schoolgirl 'abducted' by her mother, her furious family say it's 'sick' to turn her trauma into a show
June and Gordon Matthews described BBC drama The Moorside as a disgrace. The two-part series dramatises the abduction of their granddaughter Shannon, by their daughter Karen. Shannon, then nine, was found 24 days later drugged and tethered beneath a bed. Karen, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, was jailed for eight years in 2008 but was released in 2012 after serving half her sentence. Sheridan Smith stars in the drama as neighbour Julie Bushby.
Lettuce have them! Spanish supermarket shelves are overflowing with vegetables as grocers hoard supplies while in Britain shoppers are facing rationing
Shoppers in the UK are being stopped from bulk-buying vegetables such iceberg lettuce, courgettes, broccoli and aubergines due to a growing fresh produce shortage caused by extreme weather in Spain. But despite the empty shelves across Britain (including at Tesco in Goole, East Yorkshire, right), supermarkets in Spain are displaying an abundance of fresh vegetables (Mercadona supermarket in Mijas, Malaga, left).
'You don't deserve to be here. Bloody Foreigners': Racist solicitor, 47, is filmed ranting at a mother and her young son in a first class train carriage as he tells her she should be in the 'common' seats
Alexander 'AJ' MacKinnon (left), 47, was filmed hurling racist abuse at Sanaa Shahid and her four-year-old son Zayn (inset) while the pair were travelling home to Glasgow from London on Virgin train in December. In the shocking footage, MacKinnon is seen swearing at the young boy. But a heroic train guard confronted the solicitor and called him a 'drunken racist' before kicking him off the train (right). MacKinnon appeared at Carlisle Magistrates Court earlier this week and admitted a racially aggravated public order offence. He was fined £1154, plus £50 compensation, a £150 victim surcharge and £85 in court costs.
WESTMINSTER TODAY
- Don't be sheepish your little baby is welcome! Speaker ushers in MP Chloe Smith who breaks maternity leave to take part in historic Brexit vote
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The hacks that slash rail journey prices revealed: How 'fare-splitting' works on trips all over the UK... but you may need up to 28 tickets to make a saving!
MailOnline Travel reveals how train passengers can make astonishing savings on the ticket fare for a number of UK routes by using ticket splitting websites. One football fan this week revealed how obtaining the cheapest fare, a saving of £56, involved carrying 56 tickets around with him. Meanwhile, one return journey from Exeter to Durham proved £47.60 cheaper if the thrifty traveller is prepared to carry 28 different tickets (above).
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Brought to tears by Sharia justice: Woman is forced to endure 26 agonising lashes of the cane for having sex outside of marriage in Indonesia
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.
Inside the hidden world of Indonesia's transgender women: Incredible photos reveal life for the 'waria' at a safe haven boarding school where they study religion away from the communities that shun them
Transexual and transgender people are often shunned in the largely conservative country, and many choose to retreat to a community on the island of Java. Here they could, until last year, attend an Islamic boarding school for transgender learners, thought to be the only one in the world. Now the waria - a term which combines the Indonesian words 'wanita' and 'pria', which mean woman and man - often gather in the building to pray, but the school shut after a public outcry last year. Nevertheless, defiant teachers continue to hold occasional classes for those of the 42 students who continue their learning.
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