A shocked passer-by watched while a drunk University of Cambridge student in a white bow tie and tails attempted to burn the banknote (left) in front of the homeless person (right). Video of the incident was seen by hundreds of students after it was shared on Snapchat. In the video the student struggles to light the note, while the film-maker panned to the homeless person. It is understood that the student was a member of the Cambridge University Conservative Association, who has since been expelled from the group.
RAF Typhoon jets are scrambled to intercept Russian bomber planes approaching British airspace
The Tupolev TU-160 Blackjack bombers were in the UK's 'area of interest' but did not enter British territorial airspace, the RAF said. Typhoon jets from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland and RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire were scrambled to keep watch on the bombers in the latest sign of Russian military activity close to the UK.
- Mother of drunk Cambridge University Tory student who taunted a freezing homeless person by setting fire to a £20 note in front of him slams her own son's act as 'thoughtless and cruel'
- RAF Typhoon jets are scrambled to intercept Russian bomber planes approaching British airspace
- A day of hope for Sergeant Blackman: Prosecutors accept Marine A was 'unequivocally' suffering from a mental disorder when he shot Taliban fighter
- Meat company 'carried out a £250,000 scam by duping restaurants into buying cheap turkey thinking it was HALAL LAMB’
- The police forces who ignore thousands of serious crime victims: 60,000 calls were not dealt with because of staff blunders or lack of training
- Two million British viewers watch Clarkson's new show: The Grand Tour pulls in less than half of the audience of Top Gear
- Young people are having sex BEFORE dating: 18 to 34-year-olds getting between the sheets as a way to learn about a potential new partner
- British tourist, 55, could lose his FOOT after cutting himself on the bottom of a swimming pool during his British Airways holiday to Antigua
- Viewers will be able to watch Sky Sports, BBC iPlayer and Netflix right across Europe from next year as the EU takes a major step to ending digital barriers
- Sun, sea and SECURITY: Record number of Britons are flocking to Spain for their holidays because of terror fears in Turkey and Egypt
- Wrap up warm and turn on the heating! Health nannies' 'patronising' tips to the public for staying safe in icy weather as temperatures are set to fall to -5C
- Gibraltar police BLOCK runway with their car in astonishing bid to stop an RAF jet from taking off to arrest British serviceman 'suspected of sex offence'
- Britain is closing its doors to Syrian orphans to stop fuelling people trafficking routes, says ministers as Archbishop Welby says he's 'shocked and saddened' by the decision
- Helen Bailey's partner is branded 'a complete liar' after he claims he was blackmailed for half a million pounds by thugs called 'Nick and Joe' who kidnapped the children's author
- ‘My whole face erupted!’: Bride-to-be, 24, is left scarred after suffering a horrific allergic to reaction to waxing strips she used before appearing on Say Yes To The Dress
- Now TJ Maxx and Marshalls are dumping Ivanka too: Signs for her products are thrown in the TRASH and remaining items are HIDDEN in racks as boycott against her fashion line gathers pace
- Terrifying CCTV shows mother trying to hand her toddler to a McDonald's drive thru worker as 'she battled the child's father who had kidnapped and beat her'
- 'This is bulls***': New York Knicks star Charles Oakley, 54, charged with assault after punching THREE security guards while being dragged out of Madison Square Garden
- Teenager is devastated to be turned down for a job with a text with a CRYING EMOJI that mocked her 'basic' answers
- Lynch mob throw a woman onto a BONFIRE after breaking her out of a police station where she was held over the death of a two-year-old boy killed in a fire in Brazil
- 'Links to the Illuminati', Masonic masters and a corpse that was evicted a year after being buried: The story behind America's bizarre pyramid mausoleums - and even Nicolas Cage has one
- Can YOU spot all TWELVE members of the Household Cavalry hiding in the Brunei jungle in this amazing camouflage picture?
- The Counselor gets counseled! Kellyanne gets slap-on-the-wrist from White House for 'violating ethics' by telling Americans to 'Go buy Ivanka's stuff' during TV interview after Nordstrom pulled plug on her label
- ‘My darling sister. I miss you’: Heartbreaking tweet as it’s revealed Tara Palmer-Tomkinson was 'last seen with a mystery new boyfriend' on Saturday - four days before cleaner found her dead amid claims she had 'relapsed'
- Trafficked by her own family: Brave survivor of sexual abuse reveals how paedophiles made her 'star' in vile porn videos from the age of TEN and let police officers rape her
- 'His death was sudden and peaceful': Matthew Badger, the father who lost all three daughters in tragic Christmas Day fire at his ex's house in 2011, dies aged 51
- Hi Grandma! Hillary Clinton is spotted arriving at Chelsea's Manhattan home with Secret Service in tow after it's revealed son-in-law Marc CLOSED his hedge fund
- Grey Gardens, the once-ramshackle Hamptons home made famous by documentary about eccentric relatives of Jackie Onassis and their 58 cats, goes on the market for $19.95MILLION
- Despair of 'recluse' Tara Palmer-Tomkinson's final months: How a rare auto-immune disease was 'eating' the 'It Girl' from the inside as friends feared she was still facing battle against addiction
- PIERS MORGAN: Ivanka should be a role model but Hillary’s hateful losers are so bitter they will stoop to ANYTHING to get at her dad
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Gibraltar police BLOCK runway with their car in astonishing bid to stop an RAF jet from taking off to arrest British serviceman 'suspected of sex offence'
A row over jurisdiction saw the plane grounded for nearly two hours after a Royal Gibraltar Police car drove onto the runway, physically blocking the RAF flight from leaving. A Ministry of Defence car in turn tried to block the police vehicle, according to reports. It is understood a member of the British military on board is suspected of a sex offence.
Pictured: Karen Matthews as she claims she's been 'frightened out of my life' and bombarded by death threats over the controversial BBC drama about her 'kidnapped' daughter Shannon
Karen Matthews - who faked the abduction of her daughter in order to make money from publicity - claims she is afraid to leave the house after the first episode of a two-part drama The Moorside, where she is played by actress Gemma Whelan (bottom right). Matthews, who was jailed for four years, still maintains her innocence and has now claimed that the truth about her daughter's disappearance in 2008 will eventually be revealed. Karen (pictured, top right, at the time of the abduction) complained that the new show, which angered other members of the family, opened up old wounds. The day after the first broadcast of the show yesterday evening, she was seen out and about in her new life in another part of the country (left and centre). Her daughter (inset) is now 18 and living under a new identity.
Teenager devastated to be turned down for a job with a text with a CRYING EMOJI that mocked her 'basic' answers
Megan Dixon (left), 18, had been interviewed by assistant manager Shantel Wesson (right) for a part-time job at a new branch of Miller and Carter in Enderby, Leicestershire. But the A level student was shocked to receive a text message just moments after the interview, which said: 'It's a no' (inset). When the teenager responded to ask why, Shantel replied: 'Just not engaging. And answers we're "like" basic.' She then used the emoji which depicts someone laughing so hard that they're crying. Megan also claimed the assistant manager had behaved poorly during the interview, by not having a copy of the teen's CV to hand and drinking coffee throughout. A spokesman for Miller and Carter told the paper said they 'could not apologise enough' and that the texts were sent in error and intended for the manager.
'I'm a lawyer too you stupid woman!' Astonishing video captures two legal workers in furious row over an ARM REST on a flight to Spain
A video has captured the moment that two flight passengers claiming to be lawyers got into a vicious row over an arm rest. Footage taken by another flier shows the man (shown left) and woman shouting at each other as the flight crew desperate tries to calm them down. Many of the other passengers on the plane, believed to be a Monarch Airways flight from the UK to Malaga in Spain, can he heard laughing as the pair's feud escalates. The video starts mid-way through the row, as an air steward tries to get the man to move seats (shown right). As the row intensifies and voices get louder, other fliers can be heard shushing the pair. The woman (pictured centre) then claims that she is a lawyer and 'knows' her rights, leading the other man to scream: 'I'm a lawyer too, you stupid woman.' At the end of the video, recorded on New Year's Eve, an air hostess asks if the pair are travelling together, causing the rest of the passengers to burst out in laughter and clapping.
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson was 'last seen with a mystery new boyfriend by her local barman' on Saturday - four days before a crying cleaner found her dead in her £1.6m flat amid claims she had 'relapsed to a dark place'
It emerged this morning that the socialite's body was discovered at her luxury west London apartment by her cleaner, as a close friend revealed that she had relapsed into 'a dark place' in the weeks before her death. It later emerged that builders had heard a 'loud bang' coming from the apartment last Friday and had not seen her since, but this afternoon the barman at her local pub, The Bottlery, confirmed he saw her on Saturday with her new, mystery boyfriend. (Pictured: Tara and her friend, gay rights campaigner Ivan Massow, and inset, her apartment.)
Shannon Matthews' family fury over 'sick' BBC drama: Grandparents of kidnapped child brand the show a 'disgrace' as producers admit they did not even contact relatives for input
The drama, starring Sheridan Smith (inset, centre) as family friend Julie Bushby, aired on Tuesday. It centred on the hunt for Shannon Matthews (right), who was nine when she disappeared from the Moorside estate in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, in February 2008, but it was later revealed that her mother Karen (left) had staged it. Miss Matthews' grandparents led the outcry, saying they thought it was a 'disgrace' to dramatise the faked kidnap of Miss Matthews, who is now 18 and living under a new name. June and Gordon Matthews said: 'Shannon deserves to live her life in peace. She deserves to be left alone. What happened to her was a trauma, a tragedy. It is sick and disgusting that it is being turned into a TV show.'
Holier than thou? Barely a day passes without Gary Lineker sharing his 'oh, so right on' views. But while his fans pay their pennies to the HMRC, the sanctimonious presenter saves a fortune by avoiding tax
From the moral high ground that Gary Lineker so resolutely occupies, he enjoys a crystal clear view of world affairs. Brexit Britain is a 'dystopian land' where the decision by voters to leave the EU makes him 'feel ashamed of my generation'. He has tweeted a number of times and protested against Donald Trump (top inset and right). Public attitudes to refugees can be 'hideously racist and utterly heartless'. Nigel Farage is 'disgusting'. Iain Duncan Smith is an 'irritable dunce'. Then at the weekend, he went into bat against an old foe - popular newspapers (bottom left inset), which had exhibited the temerity to reveal that David Beckham's efforts to manipulate the honours system had been stymied by his equally vigorous attempts to avoid paying tax. Yet one important area of Lineker's life is curiously absent. It also, coincidentally, has almost never been properly addressed in his public statements, or endless commentary on social media. Namely: His colourful tax affairs.
'The NHS has failed me': Grandmother, 62, accuses her local hospital of mistreatment in shocking deathbed video
Patricia Whitehouse (inset), 62, from Stoke-on-Trent, visited her GP seven times in two months complaining of back pain. She was also seen by nurses, a physiotherapist, paramedics and hospital doctors but was repeatedly sent away with painkillers for a twisted spine. The former charity project manager who ran her own crafting business, described on the video (main) how she had asked a locum GP for an X-ray to get to the root of her back pain, but was dismissed with an explanation that 'X-rays don't show everything'. The bed-bound patient added: 'The doctors have failed me, the NHS has failed me.'
White-haired and weedy... the real Mr Darcy: Experts create historically accurate portrait of the Pride and Prejudice heartthrob (and he's nothing like Colin Firth)
Experts from University College London and Queen Mary London have created the first historically accurate depiction of Mr Darcy, the romantic male lead in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. With a pale complexion with powdered white hair, sloping shoulders, a pointy chin and a long nose, and a physique which was 'more ballet dancer than beefcake', he is quite different to the character depicted in the best-known adaptation where he was played by Colin Firth. The researchers said the genius of the author was to allow each generation to put their own version of masculine beauty onto the character.
WESTMINSTER TODAY
- Talking about Brexit but not voting for it: George Osborne misses key EU vote to make a speech 200 miles away in Antwerp - about Brexit
- Theresa May blasts George Osborne's outdated and 'binary' approach to the Brexit talks as she insists Britain has a strong hand in the EU negotiations
- Ex-Tory minister was poised to ask Theresa May about a vote of no confidence in Commons Speaker John Bercow but he WASN'T called at PMQs
- Theresa May slams 'absolutely appalling' Phil Shiner and promises to crack down on Ihat lawyers 'chasing after our brave troops'
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THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
Army struggles to regain control of lawless Brazilian city where 95 people have been killed in just FIVE days since police went on strike
Military troops had to be deployed in the state of Espírito Santo after looting, rape and murders broke out on Saturday amid the industrial action in a row over wages, but even they can't wrestle back control. Since the walkout, more than 100 people have been killed in the metropolitan area of Vitoria, and officers' refusal to return to work has been labelled blackmail and holding the public to ransom by state officials. Schools, shops and public services remain closed in the city, and more members of the Brazilian army have been sent in to deal with the uprising.
WORLD NEWS
- Army struggles to regain control of lawless Brazilian city where 95 people have been killed in just FIVE days since police went on strike
- Putin apologises after a Russian air strike accidentally kills three Turkish soldiers while trying to hit ISIS targets in Syria
- European terror attacks halted as German police arrest two known African Islamic extremists and Turkish cops seize four ISIS members with 24 suicide belts
- Germany prepares to speed up deportations as Angela Merkel desperately tries to see-off rising anger over the migrant influx
- ISIS rocket attack on Israel is foiled when missiles fired from Egypt are shot down by Tel Aviv's Iron Dome defence system
- France puts the Eiffel Tower behind an 8ft-high glass wall to protect the monument from terrorists following attack at the Louvre
- Man who attacked soldiers with a machete at the Louvre says he was not following the orders of ISIS and only planned to damage artworks
- 'Julian Assange will be given 30 days to leave Ecuador's embassy', vows right-wing presidential candidate if he wins South American nation's elections later this month
- French police say man who was 'raped' with a truncheon was 'accidentally' sodomized when the man's trousers 'slipped down on their own as an officer applied a blow across the buttocks'
- Explosion rocks French nuclear power plant close to the English Channel after fire breaks out in machine room
- Gibraltar police BLOCK runway with their car in astonishing bid to stop an RAF jet from taking off to arrest British serviceman 'suspected of sex offence'
- Lynch mob throw a woman onto a BONFIRE after breaking her out of a police station where she was held over the death of a two-year-old boy killed in a fire in Brazil
- Woman is killed during exorcism when 'spiritual healers' tie her upside down to a tree and beat her with sticks as her husband begged them to stop in Pakistan
- Who would live in a house like this? Schindler's List 'House of Horrors' where Nazi butcher Amon Göth shot Jews from the balcony and his dogs ripped victims apart is being turned into a LUXURY VILLA
- Marine Le Pen continues to lead in French election polls, showing she will WIN the first round presidential vote
- 'Censor this!' Bare-breasted protesters demonstrate in Argentina after police forced topless women sunbathers to cover up
- ISIS fanatics living in fear of vigilante dubbed the Mosul Strangler after a jihadi was found smothered and a civilian stabbed a militant
- EU insists Greece's economy is on track despite IMF issuing a warning over the country's 'explosive' debt that could threaten the future of the Eurozone
- Two asylum seekers are charged with molesting five girls aged between 12 and 14 in a German swimming pool
- Asylum seeker is arrested after 'abusing EIGHTEEN women' during a two-hour train journey in Germany
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Gibraltar police BLOCK runway with their car in astonishing bid to stop an RAF jet from taking off to arrest British serviceman 'suspected of sex offence'
A row over jurisdiction saw the plane grounded for nearly two hours after a Royal Gibraltar Police car drove onto the runway, physically blocking the RAF flight from leaving. A Ministry of Defence car in turn tried to block the police vehicle, according to reports. It is understood a member of the British military on board is suspected of a sex offence.