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David Beckham put off a charity visit to Downing Street

At the time, Beckham was playing for LA Galaxy (left) and therefore domiciled in the US for tax purposes. If he travelled to the UK, it could have meant to pay more to HM Revenue and Customs. He did later undertake the visit,(top) but on a more convenient date. It follows revelations in leaked emails that Beckham's knighthood was blocked by a 'red flag' from the taxman to warn there were issues over his tax. Pictured right: Victoria Beckham going to work in New York on Monday.

The firm takes a cut of more than 6 per cent from almost every donation. Accounts show more than £10million last year went on staff costs. Pictured: The Managing Director and Co-founder.

London-based Marclay Associates have been employed by the former footballer to try and identify who stole the 18.6million messages and documents.

The firm takes a cut of more than 6 per cent from almost every donation. Accounts show more than £10million last year went on staff costs. Pictured: The Managing Director and Co-founder.

Brian O'Shaughnessy, star of Channel 5 show 'Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away', was friends with Milly Dowler killer Levi Bellfield, it has been revealed.

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Britain's foreign aid budget is being offered to the Chinese to help look after their elderly. Our embassy in Beijing is inviting groups to apply for cash from a £1.36billion fund.

Two cricket clubs in Yorkshire and Cumbria have not yet returned to their grounds. The 130-year-old Corbridge Cricket Club, Northumberland, had to demolish its flooded clubhouse.

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Articles on 17 and 24 September said that police were examining the death of Margaret Hesketh after she was allegedly placed incorrectly on an end of life pathway at a Wigan hospital.

Ex-England rugby ace was blackmailed by two strippers

Rugby star Danny Cipriani (right) was blackmailed for £15,000 by two strippers after one of them aborted his baby and threatened to sell her story to the press. Lisa Murphy (left), 39, and Violet Smith (centre), 29, both admitted blackmailing the former England player between September and October 2015. The pair were due to stand trial today at Kingston Crown Court but changed their plea after the judge indicated they would not be sent to prison if they admitted the charge.

Fewer than five foreign prisoners a month are being booted out of Britain under controversial transfer deals, it has been revealed.

The Commons' defence select committee will today hear how translators who risked their lives to protect British forces have been 'abandoned' in the war-torn country.

A survey of 1,500 parents by Internet Matters shows that six-year-olds are now as digitally-advanced as 10-year-olds were three years ago.

7,200 midwives are aged over 50, including 1,000 who are over 60. The Royal College of Midwives says they need another 3,500 professionals to keep wards running smoothly and safely.

Sauce sales fell by 3.7 per cent last year to £777m. Last April Mars, which owns Dolmio, advised families against eating some of their products, including pesto, more than once a week.

Senior executives said they received details of 287 cases of the model catching fire. Just 59 of these incidents have been investigated. Almost 70,000 owners have failed to take them in for repair.

Donald Trump WON'T speak in Parliament on UK state visit

Donald Trump faces being banned from making a speech in Westminster Hall on his state visit after Speaker John Bercow said he was 'strong opposed'. The Speaker - one of three 'keyholders' for the ancient hall who must agree to its use - said he had been opposed to the US President addressing MPs and peers before his migrant ban. And he said the ban on migrants from seven majority Muslim countries had increased his opposition. Speaker Bercow was applauded by MPs after his intervention, prompted by a point of order from Labour MP Stephen Doughty.

John Bercow, who has been in a peculiar mood since early January, exploded messily all over the Commons yesterday when he attacked Donald Trump, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

Councils will be ordered to give permission for hundreds of thousands more homes today as part of Government plans to fix the 'broken' housing market.

EXCLUSIVE: The UK Government's Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says the trendy gadgets, which burn wood chips, should not be fitted in built-up areas as they 'give rise to air pollution'.

The French politician living with Nigel Farage in London branded English women 'drunken tarts' in an email to a woman previously named as his mistress.

Some 500 supporters were expected to throng The Strand in London in solidarity with the jailed Royal Marine. An even greater number is expected tomorrow.

Ministers have begun the process for selling off part of the student loan book to private companies in a move branded 'ugly' by campaigners.

The new rate would initially cost £565 a month to borrow £150,000 for 25 years. After 18 months, this would switch to the bank's standard variable rate. Buyers need a deposit of at least 40 per cent.

Phil Shiner, 60, who made his name suing the Government at taxpayers' expense, received an honourary doctor of Law from the University of Kent in 2012. He was told to pay interim costs of £250k.

Britain will be the fastest growing major economy in the developed world between now and 2050, according to a report published today.

Oxford race row over black 'intruder' who's an ex-student

Oluwafemi Nylander (pictured) accused Harris Manchester College of institutional racism after they sent out a photo of the visiting former student in a security alert. Mr Nylander labelled Oxford University 'shambolic' and said there would have been a different reaction if it had been a student of another colour.

John Caudwell, who founded Phones4u, has been accused by a former employee who took legal action after losing her job. Mr Caudwell, who grew up in Stoke-on-Trent, denies the allegation.

Theresa May's government is recruiting advertising giants M&C; Saatchi to lead the online fight against 'alt-right' extremists as part of a £60 million campaign against far-right lies and disinformation.

Police Constable Christian Ciobanu, based in Barnet, north London, received a penalty notice on his car - so made a false entry on the police database to support an application to have the notice quashed.

Charles Declan Lindley (pictured), trawled through Instagram and Facebook asking girls as young as 13 for explicit selfies. The 20-year-old was jailed for three years at Teesside Crown Court.

Beverley Pearce, 54, paid herself 90 extra wages at building company Brecongate. It is now struggling to survive and may have to sack 60 employees, Cardiff Crown court heard.

Flight Lieutenant Andrew Townshend, 49, was flying 187 passengers from the UK to Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, when he was practicing 'long-exposure photography' while his co-pilot got a cup of tea.

West Midlands Police said it had discovered the body of a man in an 'inaccessible area of waste ground' next to the M6, while searching for Zahid Mirza.

Paul Thompson said at an inquest that he and his wife were 'pushed' towards choosing Tunisia, and were told by travel agents that a previous attack in the capital had been a 'one-off'.

Manchester United fans gathered outside Old Trafford to remember the 23 who lost their lives on February 6 1958, when the Busby Babes were returning from a clash versus Red Star Belgrade.

World's first prosthetic which is controlled by thought

This is the world's first prosthetic arm which is controlled by thought via the spinal cord. It works by linking the nerves from the spine into an intact piece of muscle, either in the patient's chest or biceps. It gives patients more movement options including opening and closing the hand, rotating the wrist and moving the arms up and down. To control the new prosthetic, the patient simply has to imagine they are controlling a phantom arm.

A male contraceptive jab more effective than the Pill has been found to prevent pregnancy for up to two years, in a dramatic new scientific breakthrough. It is scheduled to be trialed as early as next year.

Scientists at Cambridge University say that if everyone aged 30 to 60 maintained their weight, one in five cases of type 2 diabetes could be prevented.

Contrary to what The Graduate's Mrs Robinson would have you believe, middle-aged women actually prefer older men rather then toy-boy lovers, new research from Finland has revealed.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Once he left the BBC as a highly paid executive, it was always going to be a struggle for Alan 'two jobs' Yentob.

The BBC broadcaster (pictured) said his relationship with his wife Jackie Ashley improved following his debilitating stroke - despite the marriage being rocked by his long-running affair.

The dramatic conclusion of BBC's Apple Tree Yard aired tonight and saw the show's star Dr Yvonne Carmichael, played by Emily Watson, found not guilty of her rapist's murder.

Tory backbencher Johnny Mercer, who is leading a parliamentary inquiry into Ihat, said he believed a 'rotten core' of civil servants had warped the purpose of the process.

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.

The veteran left-winger is facing another tortuous week as the Theresa May pushes through legislation that will allow her to trigger Article 50.

Letters found in an attic reveal WWII love story

Cyril Mowforth (inset) served with a tank regiment in El Alamein, North Africa, and Germany. He exchanged letters with bride Olga (right), from Sheffield, nearly every day from 1940 to 1946. Daughter Sue, 68, discovered the letters (left), which were tied up in a ribbon, when she was clearing out her parents' house. She has collected the messages into a book, Good Evening Sweetheart, which has been accepted into the Imperial War Museum collection.

A couple in Chorley, Lancs have named a new puppy after a Shrek character after their Lab gave birth to a green puppy (pictured) - a condition caused by exposure to biliverdin in the placenta.

Lauren Bolt said she had a 'complete breakdown' after receiving a letter from Cardiff Magistrates' Court ordering her to pay £616.30 before the end of this week.

Celeste Smith, 19, from Cornwall, was due to meet the father of her child and attend a meeting about the pregnancy the day after her disappearance - but failed to show for both.

Amanda Telfer (pictured) was passing by a building site in Hanover Square, central London when a strong gust of wind toppled over three 13ft-by-13ft wooden structures weighing 655kg.

Stella Weston, 36, from Halesowen, complained when a woman parked in a disabled bay in a McDonald's store she needed for her dementia-suffering nan - only to find it was the manager.

Jacqueline Cox (pictured with her niece), 69, visited the supermarket in Levenshulme, Manchester, to pick up a few groceries when she asked for an employee to help her on the tills.

Amin Abdullah set himself alight outside Kensington Palace

Amin Abdullah (left) - who was said to have 'lived for his job' - suffered a 'mental breakdown' after he was dismissed from Charing Cross hospital, London, in December 2015. After trying to take an overdose of steroids, he was voluntarily referred to a mental health unit in west London, where he expressed suicidal thoughts. But, two days before the appeal hearing over his sacking, Mr Abdullah was let out of the unit unaccompanied to get a suit. Four hours later, the 41-year-old doused himself in petrol and torched himself outside the London home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (inset). Westminster Coroner's Court heard how his mother had also killed herself by setting herself on fire when he was aged three. Today, at an inquest into his death, Mr Abdullah's partner of 12 years Terry Skidmore (together, right) criticised the NHS trust for sacking him and then taking too long over the disciplinary process.

Ollie the Pyrenean mountain dog made his way onto the roof of his home in Pontardawe, South Wales, after escaping through an attic window while his owners were out shopping.

Iris Sibley, (pictured), had been taken to Bristol Royal Infirmary last June after she suffered a fall at her care home. It took health officials until January 4 to find the 89-year-old a suitable nursing home.

Bryony Nierop-Reading, 71, was determined to live the land she owned near Happisburgh on the north Norfolk coast, which is subject to fast-moving coastal erosion.

Maria Christofi, 42, from London, was diagnosed with a fibroid - a benign tumour - a decade ago. She made the decision to have surgery last month after the symptoms became too much.

Single mother-of-three Leanne Keating, from Abergale, North Wales, claims 10-year-old daughter Tia was left with an angry, itchy rash which developed five days after using the product.

Moving video footage captures the moment an autistic nine-year-old sings for the first time at his school concert in Bristol. Musab Mohamoud, who has learning difficulties has amazed his teachers.

Thug who launched into a 'vile and disgusting' tirade of racist abuse against a mixed-race man on the top deck of a bus is jailed 

Jamie McMillan, 29, has been jailed for seven and a half months after verbally abusing a man on a Manchester bus. The father-of-one said he 'blacked out' from alcohol and medication. He ordered the mixed-race man off the bus, threatening to 'bounce this can off your head'. McMillan stamped on the bus floor and shouted 'Daesch' and 'Islam' before the driver locked the doors and called the police. The vile clip of the tirade has been watched more than 500,000 times.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT Samir Hussain, 28, left the Cineworld at Crawley Leisure Park in West Sussex when Michael McPherson, 27, threw sulphuric acid in his face.

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.

A video showing two inmates entering a boxing match while other prisoners cheer them on has been published online. The footage was apparently filmed at HMP Featherstone.

Xixi Bi, 24, of Llandaff, Cardiff, who spoke four languages was killed by her jealous boyfriend Jordan Matthews, 23, in a 'vicious, sustained and prolonged attack'.

Robert Colwell, 18, was shot in a car at the Ship Inn in Llanbedrog, North Wales just after midnight on Sunday. Officers recovered a shotgun from the scene and four men were arrested and bailed.

Limshin Chung Ching Wan was arrested with four laser pens at a house in East Finchley, North London. Upon sentencing, he could receive a fine or a maximum five-year prison term.

Rowing coach becomes fifth St Paul's teacher convicted 

Patrick Marshall (left), who used to work at the south-west London school, was found guilty of 24 counts of indecent assault against nine boys and teenagers, and one count of indecency with a child. He was one of six St Paul's teachers who have been convicted or banned for sex offences. Pictured, right panel: Anthony Fuggle, who got a suspended sentence;(top left) Thomas Laessing, banned for life;(top right) Michael Ellis, who was jailed;(bottom left) and David Sansom-Mallett, who was also jailed. (bottom right)

David Gallacher will appear before a magistrates after the Somalian woman, who was wearing a headscarf, was attacked outside the Co-op in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire.

Keziah Flux-Edmonds' body was found in the master bedroom of her home on the Isle of Wight, cradling the two family dogs, who were also believed to have been drowned.

Christopher Thompson, of Darlington, spent hours online attempting to groom children and asked other sex offenders for pictures of babies.

Daniel Burgess used a large potato to block the inflow and outflow pipes of 48-year-old Michael Horner's house in Newlyn, Cornwall, during a Christmas Day attack.

Denver Beddows, 95, from Warrington, was arrested after his wife Olive suffered serious injuries. The pensioner appeared in front of magistrates this morning and has been remanded in custody.

Richard Wood, 33, was confronted outside a Tesco supermarket in Surrey by adults who had set up the fake chatroom profile of the girl whose breasts he 'wanted to kiss'.

Policeman in a giraffe suit arrests a TX Maxx shoplifter

PC Ben Perkins teamed up with two friends to apprehend the alleged thief while he was running out of TK Maxx in Brixton, south London. He tweeted a photo of the bizarre incident online,(left) prompting a colleague to comment: 'Always good to see officers sticking their necks out.' Pictured: PC Perkins on his bike (top right) and all the giraffes on the bar crawl.(bottom right)

Bishop of Guildford Andrew Watson said he had endured a 'violent, excruciating and shocking' beating at the hands of John Smyth QC - and he has now told Hampshire Constabulary about it.

Rare archive footage shows the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II on her Coronation day in 1953. She was cheered along by thousands as her great procession made its way along Pall Mall.

European Parliament documents on the new ban on roaming charges say they will not apply to British travellers after the UK officially leaves the EU - expected to be in spring 2019.

Part-time beautician Maria Mills, 51, of Weybridge, Surrey, received a £230,000 lump sum and £1,100 per month when she split from her husband Graham - but is 'unable to meet her needs'.

Michael and Joan Parkinson could not believe their eyes when they spotted the albino blackbird in their garden in Nottinghamshire and now it pops by on a daily basis for food and a wash.

It was claimed the footballer engineered the cut-price transfer 'miles away' from the English club in a bid to prove to his wife that the affair was over and to get his marriage back on track.

Victoria Riley chased burglar Lee Cheney out of her home in Hedon, Yorkshire, after coming back to the property to find him in her kitchen. Cheney was later sentenced to 10 months in prison.

The world's most expensive footballer paid £2.9m for the swanky five-bedroom home that was up for sale at £3.49m in Cheshire.

The motorist, who has not been identified, noticed that she had parked next to another silver Ford Kuga at Melbicks Garden Centre in Coleshill, Warwickshire.

THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
 

ISIS terrorists left to rot alongside their suicide belts

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The fly-blown corpses of ISIS militants have been left to rot on a main street in Mosul as the Iraqi Army leave them as a grisly warning to others. The bodies (pictured, circled) have been there for two weeks. Two men on a motorbike glance at the corpses (top right) and the stench of death is all-pervasive as people walk past (bottom right). As Iraqi forces prepare to expand their offensive against Islamic State from east to west Mosul, they want to stamp out any sympathy that residents may have for the group, which seized the city in 2014. 'The message is clear to Iraqis, to keep them from joining or supporting Daesh. This will be your fate. The Iraqi army will finish you off,' said Ibrahim Mohamed, a soldier.

A new report by Amnesty International has found civilians opposed to the dictator were executed secretly at Saydnaya military prison near Damascus.

A little boy has been found dead in France after allegedly been beaten to death by his father for 'wetting the bed'.

Francois Fillon and Penelope Fillon, originally from Wales, face prison after French prosecutors launched a corruption investigation of abuse of public funds, embezzlement and concealment.

Placards used in the march in Vienna declared that wearing a veil is a personal choice, and protesters claimed that the measure is both sexist and anti-Muslim.

The youngsters' passage to Europe and the UK is being funded by the terror groups, who hand over cash to human smugglers to get them over the border having radicalised them at some stage along the way.

Fighters from the Free Syrian Army disembark from a vehicle near the town of Bizaah northeast of the city of Al-Bab on February 4, 2017 ©Nazeer al-Khatib (AFP)

Syria's army and its allies advanced towards the northern Islamic-State held city on Monday, cutting off the last main supply route that connects to militant strongholds further east towards Iraq.

With officers staging a walk-out over conditions, thugs are running riot in Brazil, with people running rampant with guns and machetes, shops being robbed, buses set on fire and bodies left in the street.

Shockingly, many of the life jackets are fake, and some are even made from sponge, which means they quickly fill with water before dragging their wearer down into the depths.

WORLD NEWS

       

How West Papua’s gold rush has created a wasteland

The western half of the island of New Guinea is rich in minerals, especially copper and gold, but its discovery has been a very mixed blessing for the local people. Indigenous tribes like the Kamoro (pictured, left) say they have been hit by disease, poverty and environmental degradation since operations began at the Grasberg mine in 1973. The mine allegedly dumps as much as 200,000 tonnes of mine waste directly into the Aikwa delta system every day, turning thousands of hectares of forest and mangroves (bottom right) into wasteland. All the Kamoro can do is pan for gold (top right) and hope to hit it rich.

Despite efforts to save him, 14-year-old Faisal Hossain died from his injuries in the southeastern port city of Chittagong.

The latest fiery war of words between Tehran and Washington has led to Iraqi officials warning the US that any mistake they make will result in ballistic missile action on one of its airbases.

Rioting has broken out on a tinderbox French council estate after a policeman was accused of sexually assaulting a black youth with a truncheon.

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DAILY MAIL COMMENT -- The idea of sending cash to China to help their older people while ours endure a miserly, threadbare service sticks horribly in the craw.

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