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Mark Austin admits he told his anorexic daughter to starve

Newsreader Mark Austin, 58, has revealed that he once told his daughter Maddy, now 22, (pictured with her father) to 'starve to death' after failing to understand her anorexia. He said that he struggled to come to terms with the fact that it was a mental illness and said he once thought of it as 'crass, insensitive, selfish and pathetic'.

David Beckham calls in police over 'Beckileaks' email hack

As the fallout over the leaked email scandal continued today, David Beckham's eldest son Brooklyn posted a picture of his father cuddling his young sister Harper in a touching photograph posted on Instagram (left). The former England captain has seen his reputation tarnished after damning emails between the superstar and his team of advisors were leaked. The emails allegedly showed how desperate Becks was to ensure he was made 'Sir David' - and the lengths to which he would go to achieve his goal, even using his charity work. Police officers have launched a probe in Portugal, where 18.6million emails and documents were hacked from servers of Beckham's PR firm. Team Beckham is now said to be worried that more private correspondence could include 'banter' about several well-known figures. The leak comes as a bitter blow to the popularity of Brand Beckham, which has been carefully cultivated over several years by David and Victoria (pictured right), who share several celebrity friends.

The un-named celebrity secured a court order against a Sunday newspaper to prevent details of their personal and professional life from being brought into the public domain.

Police said the 18-year-old was in a vehicle outside the Ship Inn at Llandedrog, near Pwllheli, Gwynedd. Four people have been arrested following the shooting, North Wales Police said.

Marina Adams, 44, from Bognor Regis in West Sussex, was held hostage and subjected to a vicious 15-hour ordeal by illegal immigrant Alexander Volynets, 39.

Kate and Gerry McCann will inform him: 'Beware, our lawyers are watching!' if he tries to sell his new novel or his first contentious one in the UK, family spokesman Clarence Mitchell.

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An article on 17 June last year included a photograph said to be of Kamil Najim Alseran, an Iraqi bringing a legal claim against the Ministry of Defence.

Nigel Farage returns to home he shares with wife in Kent

Nigel Farage (left) was pictured arriving in a car at his Kent home, which he owns with his wife, Kirsten. Mrs Farage was pictured stepping out onto the driveway without a wedding ring on her finger.(circled right, bottom) It follows news the former UKIP leader, 52, was sharing a house with Laure Ferrari.(top) She is 15 years younger than the Brexit campaigner and at the centre of a probe into illegal funding of his party.

Mr Justice Bernard McCloskey launched the scathing attack at an immigration tribunal by a Rochdale sex grooming gang attempting to overturn attempts to deport them.

Experts have created a voice for Jason Liversidge, of Scarborough, who has been battling Motor Neurone Disease since 2014. His new voice was created from recordings of him speaking.

Leading education experts to urge some church schools, including some in west Yorkshisre, Oldham and Bolton, to become secular institutions because it is 'confusing for children'.

Police have recovered suspected human remains beside the M40 motorway forcing them to close a busy slip road near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

Murderer Paris Green, 23, who was born Peter Laing, but now identifies as a woman, has been moved from the female wing at HMP Edinburgh to the male block amid claims he slept with other prisoners.

Iceberg lettuce, aubergines, cabbages and courgettes are in short supply leaving shelves empty and retailers forced to impose rationing, while broccoli has been on sale for £5 per kilo (centre).

Victoria Cross recipient Johnson Beharry was delayed for three hours at JFK Airport, New York as staff scrutinsed his passport. He was going to a charity event where he was to be guest of honour.

According to statistics released by the Ministry Of Defence between 2014 and December 2016, 36 Army recruits, 15 RAF and 10 Navy recruits became pregnant during their basic training.

The Met Office warned freezing temperatures - plummeting as low as -4C overnight in the south - and a frosty, foggy start could cause dangerous conditions on the roads for many across the UK.

Police probe cancer sufferer after he is accused of faking

Police are investigating a claim that teenage cancer patient Eli Stewart (left and inset) told lies about his stomach and lung cancer. Alan Crossan, founder of The Clutha Trust, made the allegations to the police after the charity gave him a £1,000 guitar and allowed him to perform at the Clutha pub in Glasgow. He has also been accused of failing to pay another charity after staging a gig for them at Ivory Blacks nightclub in Glasgow. Police have confirmed they are investigating the claim.

A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a clubber died in a nightclub. Police were called to Warehouse in Stroud at 2.07am today.

Barry Pring, 47, was mysteriously killed in a high speed, hit-and-run while flagging down a taxi on a motorway in Kiev in 2008, following dinner with his internet bride, former lap dancer Ganna Ziuzina.

Emma Studley and Amy Allen (right) have accused Jordan Walters (pictured with girlfriend Emma Horseman) of staying silent over the near-fatal shooting of their son, Harry in Bristol last year.

UK defence 'at risk' due to billions wasted on trophy kit

The Ministry of Defence was criticised last night for leaving Britain vulnerable to attack due to a series of equipment blunders. Rear Admiral Chris Parry described the navy's Type 45 destroyers (top right), which cost £1billion each, as sounding like 'a box of spanners' underwater, meaning they can be heard 100 miles away by Russian submarines. It also emerged that the Ajax tank (bottom left) is too big to be transported by an A400m aircraft (bottom right) without being dismantled and potential new P-8 drones (top left) are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Inset: The MoD spent £1.2bn on drones 12 years ago which have not been used due to faults.

The peer, who is the 12th Baron Monson, of Burton, Lincolnshire, inherited his title after the unexpected death of his father in 2011. His lost one son in 2012 and now his youngest has died.

Emergency services raced to the scene in Carmarthen, South Wales, to rescue the stricken motorist when his car became almost completely submerged.

Flavanols extracted from cocoa help tackle cholesterol levels and blood flow. Now a pill that has contains the anti-oxidant nutrient in its purest form has hit the shelves in Britain

Oxford University director, Carl Frey, has revealed the high paying jobs most likely to become obsolete because of the march of technology. Middle class roles such as loan officers could soon disappear.

Mars, Nestlé and Mondelez could make their products smaller in a bid to stop them from being highlighted in a new report by Public Health England (PHE).

Trevor Jackson, 57, was out walking greyhound Princess in Hull, East Yorkshire, when she collapsed. He flagged down a car and began giving the poorly animal mouth-to-mouth.

British student Claudia Barrall, 21, (pictured) spent two weeks researching things to do in Denmark, only for the tickets to arrive and reveal she had booked them for Milan instead.

Lewis Crouch, 16, died when his scooter collided with a car as he drove home in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire on Friday night. Paramedics tried to save him but he died at the scene.

Clifford's legal team say a witness can place him away from an alleged crime scene on August 16, 1977 - the day after Elvis died. The hearing is expected to take place in two or three months.

Shocking footage shows father with 'Rambo-style' foot-long knife that he confiscated from youngsters at niece's 16th birthday party

Faron Paul (pictured), 31, said he would allow his 14-year-old daughter (far left) to go to her cousin's birthday party in Tottenham if he could supervise. However, he then received a call from his brother who said 20 teenagers were trying to force their way inside the party. Mr Paul then confiscated three knives (centre and right) from the teenagers and filmed the shocking discovery and posted it on Facebook. It has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

Conservative rebels are said to be plotting with Labour, the SNP and Liberal Democrat and cross-bench peers to pass key amendments to the legislation in the Commons.

Veteran German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble said cutting the City of London adrift would be counterproductive because it had capacity that did not exist in the rest of the continent.

Man woke up the to find he was £1.2MILLION overdrawn 

An unemployed man who went to bed with 90p in his bank account woke up the next morning to discover he was £1.2million overdrawn. Tyler Daniels (left), 21, has been locked out of his accounts while Barclays conducts a fraud investigation after he noticed the unusual bank statement. He has now been forced to borrow money from his grandfather and has been left feeling 'so stressed' following the ordeal. Mr Daniels, from Essex, claims he is unsure why his current account showed that he was overdrawn by so much. He woke up one morning and noticed that his current account showed that he was minus £1,119,999.00 (right).

Aslef has come to an agreement with Southern following months of disruption and fears of a revolt from drivers, who lost around £2,000 during six days of strikes and an overtime ban.

Three in five boys and girls born to co-habiting couples in Britain will see their parents split up before they reach their teenage years.

Tessa Dunlop, a BBC Coast presenter, opens up about her experience with equine therapy in Grange Farm, Chapel-Y-Fin on the Welsh borders, that helps her cope with her grief after the loss of her baby.

2000 migrants saved this month crossing Ocean to Europe

The newborn baby (pictured left) was among more than 120 migrants rescued by Libyan coastguards off the coast of Tripoli in the early hours of Sunday morning. More than 2,000 migrants have been rescued from deadly boats attempting to cross from Turkey and North Africa into Europe so far this month, according to newly released figures. Several children (bottom right) were among those rescued from a boat which sank off the coast of Turkey, including a young girl (top right).

The suspect, believed to be Egyptian national Abdallah El-Hamahmy (pictured), was shot in the stomach and seriously wounded after lunging at soldiers with two machetes in the French capital.

Far-right presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen paid glowing tribute to Donald Trump and Brexit claiming she could make France 'free again', after taking inspiration from the recent electoral shocks.

The University of Medical Sciences and Technology in Khartoum has been exposed as a hotbed of extremism for British medics studying abroad.

Iran is today testing missile and radar systems to 'showcase its power' to new US President Donald Trump. The test retaliates to sanctions on Tehran yesterday for a recent ballistic missile trial.

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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***'.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The legal profession should examine how Phil Shiner (pictured) got away with his corruption for all these years while it was busy attacking the Press.

Apple Tree Yard has caused controversy and divided opinion. Partly because the brooding atmosphere has alienated those looking for the usual sexy older woman romp, writes JAN MOIR.