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Public Health England boss Paul Cosford yesterday told people to wrap up warm and turn the heating on in a 'patronising' set of tips to deal with the first flurries of snow.

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson was found dead in her London flat yesterday aged 45, after a life in the spotlight from skiing with Prince Charles to making a big impression at glitzy parties around the world.

Piers Morgan and Duncan James have led a host of celebrity tributes to Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, following her shocking death at the age of 45.

Exactly a fortnight ago on January 25, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson was photographed for the last time walking outside her flat in London, where she was found dead from a brain tumour today.

The families of the soldiers killed in the IRA Hyde Park bombing have been refused legal aid to bring a private prosecution against the suspect, John Downey, after the case against him collapsed.

Fraud allegations involving Britain's £12billion aid budget have quadrupled in the five years since David Cameron's spending target was set, a damning report reveals today.

The new wave grammar schools expected to open in 2020 will accept the top ten per cent, while they currently take 25 per cent, minutes from a Grammar School Heads' Association have revealed.

The gap is worst among girls at three years, eight months less than boys. In Wales and Northern Ireland the gap is around two years. In Scotland, the gulf is two years and seven months.

Former BNP member Jack Buckby told student Barbara Ntumy 'I hope you don't get raped' while debating the issue of whether Britain should allow more Syrian refugees into the country.

Just in time, Jeremy Corbyn did the business at PMQs. A milky Wednesday sun had risen over Westminster amid rumours (denied) that the Labour leader was contemplating resignation.

Mrs May was confronted in the Commons over the plans by former shadow Europe minister Graham Brady. At PMQs he told her schools in Trafford are among the worst-funded in the country.

The Labour MP (pictured) told David Davis, who is the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, to f**k off when he moved in to kiss her at Strangers' Bar at Westminster.

The Church of England through the Investors Group has written to some of the biggest firms in the country to tell them it will fight executive pay deals out of kilter with the pay of ordinary employees.

BBC radio chief James Purnell said the broadcaster would 'no longer dispense culture from on high' but instead adopt a 'thoughtful' approach without any 'elitism'.

Cheryl Byron, from North Wales, has been diagnosed with a brain tumour after she was told symptoms of tasting ginger in her mouth were the menopause. She could have 18 months to live.

Flt Lt Nathan Jones, 34, was making a cup of tea when the plane nosedived. The Voyager was travelling from the UK to Camp Bastion when the captain's camera jammed the controls.

The ex-Coronation Street actor and Family Fortunes presenter pleaded guilty after being spotted  driving his Audi at 38mph in Liverpool on March 29 last year but was not banned from driving.

The actor, 65, spoke candidly about the aftermath of the affair with ex-model and actress Polly Williams, who was his lover when he was still married to Carolyn Cox. He said he felt 'in a corner'.

It suggests that the nation's youngsters are less likely to feel optimistic, loved, confident and generally content than their peers in many other countries, including Indonesia, India, Germany and France.

By the time they hit 30, 'millennial' men - those born between 1981 and 2000 - have earned around £12,500 less than those in 'Generation X', defined as those born between 1966 and 1980.

High-powered intrabeam radiotherapy, would save women with early-stage breast cancer up to six weeks of daily trips to hospital for lower-strength conventional radiotherapy.

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.

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

Graham Mills said that it was 'grossly unfair' that a Court of Appeal judge had upped his maintenance payments to ex-Maria by over £300 a month, despite the couple breaking up 15 years ago.

Dave Mitchell, 49, of Withernsea, East Yorkshire, who took the trusty handset on military tours, says it is indestructible and only needs charging once every ten days.

Charlotte Caldwell and her 11-year-old son Billy, from Castlederg, in Northern Ireland, are living in LA so he can receive pioneering treatment for his life-threatening form of epilepsy.

Pam Smart, 59, claims British Gas held up the sale of her mother's Gateshead home after she died in November 2006 - alleging they threatened to break in to take meter readings.

Scriptwriter Alan Simpson (left), famous for creating classic sitcoms Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe And Son (right) with Ray Galton, has died at the age of 87 after a battle with lung disease.

Former RAF officer John Clayton, 41, left the service to live his dream of being a mature student studying animal geographies at Cardiff University.

Karla Roman - who grew up in Brazil, spoke four languages and moved to Britain five years ago - was knocked down while cycling during rush hour in Whitechapel, East London.

Sarah and John Wenham from Gravesend in Kent had saved for years for 'the wedding of their dreams' in Cuba, costing more than £25,000 for themselves and 24 their special guests.

Witnesses reported sightings of a man holding a 'massive knife' outside Ealing Broadway Station at around 8pm on Wednesday and police arrested a suspect at the scene (pictured).

PC Zaid Malik, 51, who worked for West Midlands Police, has been jailed after he escaped a road rage charge by persuading his friend, Roger Baker, to provide a false alibi.

Mark MacCormick, 30, from Stockport, who left a friend to die in the wreckage of his car after he crashed it into a lamppost while trying to shake off police at 90mph was jailed for six years.

Daniel Harris, 33, of Theydon Bois, Essex, is accused of being a ringleader in a multi-million pound operation which dealt cocaine and heroin between 2012 and 2016.

Bartholomeo Joly de Lotbiniere, 21, is accused of raping a woman at York University. His victim claims that he came into her room at halls of residence and had sex with her after a night out.

Leanne Fallow, 39, from Middlesborough, has been banned from having animals for five years after keeping a litter of Serbian Mastiffs in such a poor condition that their fur fell out.

The businessman and the Candy brothers fell out over a £12m loan they made to him to help fund the luxury Grosvenor Gardens in London's Belgravia.

Ian Stewart, 56, of Royston, is accused of killing the writer after 'secretly administering' a sleeping drug in increasing amounts over time.

The swimming pool, in Wales, was closed after a group of children developed rashes during the lesson with an instructor. Paramedics treated the children at the scene.

The white teens (pictured), who deny any accusations of racism, were wearing the outfits at a University of Bristol student party on Friday with the theme of 'teams, memes and 2016'.

Sports Direct's internal system was alleged to have picked up the breach in September but the UK's biggest sports retailer did not learn of the hack until December, despite experts leaving them a note.

Members of Unite in the so-called mixed fleet - working on short and long-haul flights - will walk out for three days. The strikers will mount picket lines at Heathrow airport.

York Minster's Police - the UK equivalent of the Vatican's Swiss guard - will gain the same powers as regular PCs this spring, giving them the power of arrest within the cathedral's precinct.

Solicitor Katherine Simpson was convicted of stalking alongside her barrister husband Jonathan (pictured together) following a trial at Southwark Crown Court last June.

Temperatures in the next few days will be up to 5C colder than expected at this time of year, and the Met Office has issued warnings for ice in parts of South West England.

Images of fed-up commuters at Glasgow's Central Station were revealed online. The passengers were unable to buy tickets at their departure station and were forced to queue up.

The shameless group were captured on camera driving into Barr Lakes Lane in Aldridge, West Midlands. at around 3pm on Monday, before dumping 21 industrial fridges along the road.