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.
- How Beckham changed date of charity party at Downing Street to save his tax perks: Footballer said it was a 'problem' to lead delegation for Unicef while he played in the US
- Website that rakes off £20million a year from your charity donations: JustGiving is branded 'JustTaking' after using funds to pay its staff up to £200,000 a year
- David Beckham hires top cyber-security experts to find hackers behind embarrassing email leak
- 'Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away' star was best friends with Milly Dowler killer Levi Bellfield after meeting when they both worked as bouncers
- Your aid millions to help the elderly in China: British embassy in Beijing invites groups to apply for cash from £1.36billion fund
- Has climate hit cricket for six? Sport could be under threat after bad weather causes £3.5bn of damage to 57 clubs across the UK
- Clarifications and corrections
- Ex-England rugby ace was blackmailed for £15,000 by two strippers after one of them aborted his baby and threatened to sell her story to the press
- Just five foreign prisoners a month are being sent home despite repeated promises to boot out convicts from abroad clogging up jails
- At last, MPs probe betrayal of Afghan hero translators: Defence Select Committee to hear how interpreters have been 'abandoned' and could be killed unless they are given sanctuary
- Study that will terrify parents: Almost HALF of six-year-olds go online in their bedrooms - and a THIRD use messaging service like WhatsApp
- Maternity crisis looms over tide of retiring staff: Third of midwives are aged over 50 as Royal College say an extra 3,500 are needed to cope
- Sales of ready-made sauces slump by £30m in a year after warning they contained high levels of salt and sugar
- Vauxhall chiefs haven't met ANY Zafira fire victims: Bosses admit they have only investigated 59 of 287 cases a year after 235,000 cars were recalled
- Bercow BANS Trump from addressing Parliament: Commons Speaker brands US President 'racist and sexist' - but had no problem with the President of CHINA
- Ka-boom! Bercow boils over with self important outburst: QUENTIN LETTS sees the red mist come down from the Speaker's chair
- Hero flight attendant rescues teen from human trafficker by leaving a secret note for her on Alaska Airlines bathroom mirror
- Tom Brady breaks down in tears while hugging his cancer-stricken mother after Patriots win historic FIFTH Super Bowl over Atlanta Falcons - cementing his status as the greatest QB of all time
- It's the Brady bunch! Champion QB poses with entire family after they watch him make Super Bowl history... while even grumpy coach Bill Belichick cracks a smile as he poses with rarely seen girlfriend
- 'Now your nightmare begins': Mother of murdered Queens jogger screams at 20-year-old who 'admitted' raping and strangling her daughter as they come face to face in court six months after her grisly death
- Britney Spears asks for 'prayers' for niece Maddie, 8, whose ATV flipped into pond trapping her underwater for several minutes despite her mom Jamie Lynn's attempts to free her
- 'They've crossed over to mean': Sean Spicer slaps SNL after gum-chewing Melissa McCarthy skewers him but then says it was 'cute' and 'funny'
- Texas Rangers are called in to help search for Tom Brady's missing Super Bowl jersey which could be worth $500,000
- Brady and Gisele arrive in Boston after the quarterback's historic Super Bowl victory as Patriots coach sends message to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell with a clown T-shirt
- Policeman is charged with rape after footage emerges showing a black youth being arrested by four officers and 'sexually assaulted with a truncheon' in a Paris suburb
- EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Huma Abedin and estranged sex-pest husband Anthony Weiner are seen together for the first time since September - out and about with their son Jordan
- 'It was not a way out. It was heartbreaking... the government doesn't belong here:' Photographer, 28, reveals why she chose to abort her sick baby after 23 weeks in response to Donald Trump's pro-life stance
- Nordstrom bosses sent strongly worded memo criticizing President Trump's Muslim travel ban to all staff TWO days before dropping Ivanka's line
- 'Just like Joffrey': Hilarious memes poke fun at how Atlanta Falcons choked in the Super Bowl after losing in overtime to the New England Patriots
- 'Thugs are randomly shooting at anyone who passes': Looting, rape and murder break out on the streets of Brazil after military police go on strike in the state of Espírito Santo
- JAN MOIR: Now we know the tawdry reality behind the facade of David Beckham
- 'He's never had a fight in his 20 years': Father of 20-year-old man arrested for raping and strangling Queens jogger says his son is a 'very humble kid' who 'would never do what they say he has done'
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Ex-England rugby ace was blackmailed for £15,000 by two strippers after one of them aborted his baby and threatened to sell her story to the press
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.
Bercow BANS Trump from addressing Parliament: Commons Speaker brands US President 'racist and sexist' - but had no problem with the President of CHINA
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.
New Oxford race row as college issues alert over black 'intruder' - who was one of its own former students innocently picking up a key for a friend
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.
World's first prosthetic arm which is controlled by THOUGHT via the spinal cord is developed by British scientists
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.
WESTMINSTER TODAY
- Donald Trump will NOT get to speak in Parliament after Commons Speaker John Bercow launches furious tirade at 'racist and sexist' US President
- Ukip MEP Jane Collins is ordered to pay three Labour MPs damages of £54,000 EACH after she lost libel case over Rotherham sex abuse scandal
- Theresa May keeps Israeli PM waiting on the Downing Street doorstep before potentially tricky talks about Iran and West Bank settlements
- 'I don't want to accidentally bite one of those things': Boris Johnson keeps calm and carries on despite being smacked in face by microphone during Brussels press call
Secret hoard of 1,000 letters uncovered in an attic reveal the heartwarming story of how two sweethearts kept their love alive despite him being sent to serve in WWII
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.
Award winning nurse who spiralled into depression after he was sacked for supporting a colleague set himself alight outside Kensington Palace 40 years after his mother also burnt herself to death
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.
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.
Rowing coach jailed for 18 years for sexually abusing 10 boys becomes SIXTH teacher at £35,000-a-year St Paul's schools attended by George Osborne to be convicted or banned
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)
Are they having a giraffe? Bizarre moment off-duty policeman and his friends arrest a suspected TK Maxx shoplifter while on a pub crawl wearing animal onesies
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)
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'We leave them so dogs eat them': ISIS terrorists are left to rot alongside their suicide belts on the streets of Mosul as Iraqi army tries to stamp out any support for jihadists
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.
WORLD NEWS
- 'We leave them so dogs eat them': ISIS terrorists are left to rot alongside their suicide belts on the streets of Mosul as Iraqi army tries to stamp out any support for jihadists
- Assad's thugs 'killed 13,000 civilians in four years': Regime accused of pursuing a 'policy of extermination' including mass hangings of up to 50 people at a time
- Boy, five, is found dead wearing just his pants and socks and with a broken nose 'after his parents punished him for wetting the bed' in France
- 3,000 Muslim women and their supporters protest in Vienna against Austria's face-veil ban, claiming the niqab is a sign of 'self-empowerment'
- 'Thugs are randomly shooting at anyone who passes': Looting, rape and murder break out on the streets of Brazil after military police go on strike in the state of Espírito Santo
- French presidential hopeful apologises for using taxpayers' money to bankroll his British wife and their children... but he won't pay a single Euro back!
- Nowhere to run: ISIS is 'completely besieged' in its last major Syrian stronghold of Aleppo as Assad's forces and rebel groups attack from all sides
- Child refugees are being recruited by ISIS to travel to Europe and hundreds have gone missing since arriving in the UK, terror experts warn
- Tricked into death: 150,000 migrants' life jackets - many of which are useless fakes - lie piled on the coast of Lesbos in grim memorial to those who die crossing the Mediterranean
- Iran boasts it only needs 'seven minutes to hit Tel Aviv' with a ballistic missile just days after Donald Trump put the country 'on notice' and opposed its nuclear deal
- Support for Angela Merkel in freefall as new poll shows her party has just a 4% lead, its lowest for three and a half years
- Policeman is charged with rape after footage emerges showing a black youth being arrested by four officers and 'sexually assaulted with a truncheon' in a Paris suburb
- Furious batsman accidentally kills a 14-year-old cricketer after throwing a stump in anger when he was declared out during a match in Bangladesh
- Letter from Osama bin Laden detailing when jihadists should be allowed to masturbate is revealed
- Putin's child soldiers: Boys and girls are trained to use machine guns and grenades as part of Russia's Young Army which has recruited 42,000 youths since it was launched last year
- Christian family claim police are refusing to investigate the death of their daughter, 12, who was 'drugged, raped and drowned in a canal' in Muslim-majority Pakistan
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How West Papua's gold rush has created a wasteland: Indonesian island's lush tropical riverland is laid waste by toxic dumping from the world's biggest gold mine
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.