Jeremy Paxman splits from the mother of his children

The presenter, 66, is now living with Canadian-born books editor Jillian Taylor, 37 (right). The pair worked together on two of Paxman's best sellers, including Great Britain's Great War. For the past three decades Paxman has been the partner of Elizabeth Clough (left), mother of his three children and a talented TV producer in her own right. He is following in the footsteps of his own father, Keith (inset), who abandoned Paxman's mother and his four children.

Sir Edward Heath WAS a paedophile, says police chief

More than 30 people have come forward with claims of sexual abuse by the former Conservative Prime Minister, according to well-placed sources. And they are said to have given 'strikingly similar' accounts of incidents to Wiltshire Police. Wiltshire Chief Constable Mike Veale (inset) regards the allegations as 'totally convincing', and plans to publish a report in June. Detectives have established that, contrary to claims that Sir Edward could not have committed the crimes as he 'never drove a car' and 'always' had a police driver with him, he did drive - and did have a car (top).

Edward Putman, 51, is believed to have submitted a 'deliberately damaged ticket' to trick the National Lottery into making the payout. He apparently tested out the scam on friends beforehand.

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A locked in wife. In England, in 2017. This is so primitive, so mad that the Appeal court judges who heard the case must overturn Tolson's decision, writes RACHEL JOHNSON.

The hopes of Princess Beatrice and her sister Eugenie to be treated as 'major' royals have been dealt another blow after they were overlooked in a shuffle of the Queen's charity roles.

Eman Ahmed (pictured today), 78 stone, was flown from her home in Egypt to India on a specially modified cargo plane to undergo a series of operations to help her lose weight.

Medicine made from the organs and limbs can sell for £7,000. More than 70 Albinos have been attacked in two years. In Tanzania, 'protectorates' house children in squalid conditions.

Tom Daley 'had an 18-month affair with a male model'

Mr Daley (left and inset), 22, is said to have exchanged sexually explicit messages with Edward William (right), 27, and is also accused of having 'physical' liaisons. The Team GB athlete, who is engaged to 42-year-old American film director Dustin Lance Black (inset), reportedly met his 6ft 6ins lover in the street and began chatting online in 2014.

Justice Secretary Liz Truss announced an immediate salary rise for frontline staff across 31 jails in London and the South East, including some hit by violence late last year.

The great pretence, that our society has crime and disorder under control, cannot continue much longer. It could only really last when the public had not seen in detail what goes on in our prisons.

Richard Keys's wife reveals how she discovered his affair

Whether you describe it as ironic, fortuitous or horribly prescient, there's no doubting what finally awakened Julia Keys (right) to the thought that her sports presenter husband (right and left)might be 'playing away' from home - and that was her fateful decision to write a book on the sensitive subject of infidelity. After nearly 20 years as a trained counsellor, Julia was in an excellent position to describe the warning signs in a failing marriage. Pictured left and inset, lawyer Lucie Rose, the 27-year-old alleged to have had an affair with presenter Richard Keys.

The author revealed the abuse in his 2002 bestseller Berlin: The Downfall 1945. He cannot return to Russia and says an ambassador accused him of 'lies, slander and blasphemy'.

Diane Abbott's retort to Brexit Secretary David Davis's crass 'I'm not blind' text to a pal, explaining he was not trying to kiss her in a Commons bar, was canny as well as feisty.

British tourists are being barred from hotels after a surge in bogus illness claims. Some tour operators are facing a 700 per cent rise and now Turkish hotels(pictured) are dumping them

The show, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, left, has been praised for encouraging home sewing and dressmaking, once seen as dying arts. It's made by Love Productions - makers of Bake Off.

Dust-up over unpaid cleaning bill at Jamie Oliver's house

Specialist cleaner Elena Stiglits (inset) said she was hired to clean the home of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver (right, with his wife Jools). Ms Stiglits charged £600 to clean the eight-bedroom house near Hampstead Heath, London (left), but was only paid £350. She said she was told her invoice was too high and the work had not been up to scratch.

Charlotte Cash, 34, has been named by friends and family as the woman who died after being hit by a train at Wigan North Western station yesterday afternoon.

Senior British government officials believe the Kremlin was behind a plot to assassinate Milo Djukanovic, who was then prime minister, on October 16 last year. Moscow has denied involvement.

Father reveals shock at his twins being adopted by Madonna

Adam Mwale (left), father of Esther and Stella (right), claims he was misled into believing their move to the US with pop star Madonna (also right) would not be permanent. Speaking for the first time since Madonna began the process of adopting the twins, the 40-year-old farmer dismissed as 'lies' a court's contention that he had 'abandoned' the girls after their mother died in childbirth. Mr Mwale's account of how he had done all he could to care for his family was backed up by the chief of his remote rural village.

Kim Han Sol was living in fear of his uncle's ruthless hit squads even before the murder of Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia on Monday. He was due to move to the UK to start at a graduate college in September.

A single shot was fired through the upstairs window of the semi-detached house in Tameside, Greater Manchester, at around 3.10am on Saturday morning.

The Kate Effect made me – then broke me

Having Kate Middleton wear your dress for her engagement interview would be fashion gold for most designers. But for Daniella Helayel (inset) it was the beginning of the end. Here, for the first time, she opens up to Katie Nicholl about the rise and dramatic demise of her A-list label Issa. It wasn't just Hollywood stars, however, who couldn't get enough of Daniella's designs - the then Kate Middleton owned the Lucky dress in every colour (pictured). For all the A-list fans it was, however, Kate Middleton who transformed the brand overnight when she chose a blue wrap dress for her engagement announcement interview in 2010 (centre left).

Prue Leith is hot favourite to take over Mary Berry's TV role. But which cookery queen is star baker? Food writer Lucy McDonald tests five of their classic recipes. On your marks, get set, BAKE!

EastEnders star June Brown dedicated a song to her first love, Ralph Latimer, who came to stay with her and her family in 1940. But he later broke her heart when he married someone else.

Temperatures in the UK will be hotter than Greece, Dubai and Saudi Arabia thanks to a 'blast of hot air from the Caribbean', bringing weather fit for a barbecue on Monday.

Luxury hotel chain Jumeirah is offering a penthouse apartment at Grosvenor House in Park Lane, London, for £60,000 per week. The 4,800 sq ft property comes with a butler and an Aston Martin.

King of the cuties! Meet the adorable Dorset dumpling

He's only 15 months old, but gorgeous tot Harlen Bodhi White (pictured), from Dorset, already has more Instagram followers than Beyonce's daughter or Kim Kardashian's three-year-old. Now the social media sensation is raking in the cash - and could the first million-dollar tot.

Mike Coupe (pictured), 56, called for a 'level playing field' after the Government faced a backlash over the controversial new levy. Small firms will be hammered by the shake-up.

Communities Secretary Sajid Javid is facing a growing Conservative revolt over the April rates rise, which will hit many small shops while bills fall for giant online retailers. Some MPs are furious.

Tom Innes (pictured, left) has emerged as an unlikely hero in the protest against business rates. The rates for some shops in his home of Monmouth, Wales might rise by 300 per cent.

The London diocesefaced a call by the bishop's own independent inquiry to consider punishing two priests criticised after trainee vicar Timothy Storey (pictured) raped two Christian girls.

The Government Equalities Office (GEO), which is run by Women's Minister Justine Greening (pictured), also pays ethnic staff 12.3 per cent less than white colleagues.

Britain braces for a Jihadi bride invasion

Secret intelligence analysis seen by The Mail on Sunday warns of the influx. The anticipated military defeat of IS in their stronghold of Raqqa is set to send jihadis back across Europe. Pictured left Sally-Anne Jones who took her son with her to Syria, top right Tareena Shakil en route to Syria with her son and bottom right Aqsa Mahmood who is said to have had military training under IS.

Ray Woodhall, 54, of Wednesbury, West Midlands, had been playing walking football when he collapsed form a heart attack. He was taken to hospital where he suffered 26 more.

An anonymous informer has angered residents of Rottingdean by 'sticking his fat nose where it's not wanted' and shopping illegally parked motorists to the council, landing many drivers with fines.

Why Emma Watson's Beauty And The Beast rings a Belle

Millions of pounds have been lavished on Disney's new Beauty And The Beast, its makers seem to have had a paucity of original ideas, judging by the uncanny resemblances. One scene shows Harry Potter star Emma Watson as Belle and Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens as the Beast dressed in exactly the same clothes as their cartoon counterparts, and locking arms in an identical pose (top left). This painstaking reproduction continues when Belle strolls through her village while reading a book (middle left). There's even an repeat of the moment the villainous Gaston, played by a third British star, Luke Evans, admires his reflection in a mirror (bottom left).

The accident happened just after midnight local time today on a road known as Route Seven in Aconcagua Provincial Park near the Argentinian city of Mendoza where the journey began.

The guidance comes after hundreds of streets, footpaths, plaques and statues had to be renamed after Jimmy Savile was posthumously exposed as a sex offender, such as Savile's Hall, in Leeds.

Thousands took to the streets in the French capital in support of a 22-year-old black man who was allegedly raped by a police officer with a baton. Thirteen people were arrested at the protest.

Magnets in the hobs can prevent nearby medical equipment from working properly - but warnings about the risks are often buried so deep in the instruction manuals they can be easy to miss.

'Beirut Beefcake' struggles to find love on app Tinder

Foreign correspondent James Longman, 29, (right) has been looking for love on dating app Tinder - using screengrabs of himself reporting on the Syrian conflict from Beirut (left). The hunk's profile, linked to his Instagram account, also features a snap of him reporting from Paris and a racy shot of him in a chest-baring body stocking. Mr Longman was ticked off by the Beeb last month for breaking their social media policy after he shared an Instagram photo comparing Donald Trump's press conference to a speech by former Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi.

Probate records reveal that Scully, who died aged 72 in October 2015, left the bulk of his estate to his sons Oliver and Charles. Scully began broadcasting at the age of 11 on a radio show for the Boy Scouts.

Comedian David Baddiel, 52, is candid about his father's difficult battle with dementia in the Channel 4 documentary. Colin, 82, has Pick's Disease a rare form of the illness that he now needs 24-hour care.

Police have interviewed a 33-year-old man following a road rage attack last year. Video captured the moment a maniac driver rammed his truck into a lorry and used a shovel to attack the two drivers.

President Trump and the First Lady step off Air Force One

Donald Trump once again doubled down on the media, telling a cheering crowd in Florida: 'I want to speak to you without the filter of the fake news.' The president was introduced on stage in Melbourne by Melania Trump, who led the Lord's prayer after she and her husband stepped off Air Force One Saturday afternoon.

Mr Pence (pictured) was speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany today - his first trip to the continent since taking office as part of the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump is working on a 'streamlined' version of his executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim nations to iron out the difficulties that landed his first order in the courts.

Eight people flee border patrol to seek asylum in Canada

Dramatic photos capture the moment that eight asylum seekers, including four children, barely made it across the Canadian border on Friday as a US border patrol officer tried to stop them. As a US Customs and Border Patrol officer seized their passports and questioned a man in the front passenger seat of a taxi that had pulled up to the border in Champlain, New York, four adults and four young children fled the cab and ran to Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the other side.

The incident happened Friday around 1:45 p.m in West Palm Beach. A child from a local middle school confessed to throwing the wood at the motorcade, and also implicated four additional students.

Captured ISIS jihadi reveals how he killed 500 civilians and raped 200 women during the terror group's barbaric raids on Yazidi settlements... and boasts: 'It was normal'

Amar Hussein (pictured left and right) says he reads the Koran all day in his tiny jail cell (inset) to become a better person, yet he shows little remorse for the 200 women he raped as he pillaged Iraqi minorities. He said he also killed about 500 people since joining Islamic State in 2013. The terrorist moved from house to house in several Iraqi cities raping women from the Yazidi sect and other minorities at a time when Islamic State was grabbing more and more territory from Iraqi security settlements.

Samantha Cameron said Ivan's premature death in 2009, the year before David Cameron entered Downing Street, was of such magnitude that it made everything else 'meaningless'.

As her husband gave his farewell speech, Mrs Cameron was having an issue of her own... with her 'fine' billowy hair. She said the most difficult part was trying to find clothes for all the family.

The shock report by an independent nuclear watchdog documents 110 major alerts - four times higher than the Ministry of Defence has acknowledged.

The WE.177A nuclear depth charges were taken aboard aircraft carrier HMS Invincible, from which the Prince flew sorties as a Sea King helicopter co-pilot with 820 Naval Air Squadron.

Julia Bradbury reveals the reason she left Countryfile 

Julia Bradbury (left) reveals why five gruelling rounds of IVF forced her out the show she loved - and how her TV career was put back on track after she 'hit the buffers' and found herself walking into a psychiatrist's office. She had worked for Top Gear and Watchdog, but it was travelling up and down the countryside and filming in all weathers for BBC's Countryfile (right) that nailed her as the nation's favourite cagoule-wearer. Viewers loved her - and Bradbury (inset) adored the job. So there was something of a mystery about why she left the programme that made her a household name.

A poll of 2,000 people set out to discover the nation's favourite TV heroes and found that Doctor Who secured the top spot pipping detective Sherlock Holmes to the post.

Guido Schuette, 48, was unaccounted for following the explosion, and police said they 'strongly suspected' he was killed in Tuesday night's blast in Gibbs Crescent, Oxford.

A group of rebel peers will try to change the Brexit Bill to force the Prime Minister to give Parliament a vote on Britain's final exit terms regardless of the outcome of negotiations. The move is led by Lord Pannick.

Theresa May's secret coat of arms granted to Robert John May by Letters Patent of the Kings of Arms dated 10 October 1997

The Mail on Sunday can reveal that Mrs May is entitled to use the unique shield. It was passed down by her father-in-law John May who acquired it in 1997, and bears the motto 'To Thyself Be True'.

Brexit banger con: Packs shrink but prices don't

In one of the worst instances of so-called shrinkflation, the price per kilo of Sainsbury's sausages has soared by more than 40 per cent. But unless shoppers paid close attention to the packaging, they may not even have noticed. Stores and manufacturers have turned to the 'underhand' practice since the vote to leave the EU sent the pound plummeting, making the price of imported foods and ingredients more expensive. Examples include chipolatas (top left), desserts (top right), fish fingers (bottom left) and turkey (bottom right.)

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Bring on big knickers! KATE GARRAWAY fighting midlife

Midlife is a time of explosive change, when our hormones rampage and our bodies alter, forcing us into a whole new chapter of life whether we want it or not, writes KATE GARRAWAY. But it can also be a time for a wake-up call to fight back against midlife woes.

Innocent man jailed for 24 years after being framed

Robert Jones, now 44, is describing his arrest at 4am on April 18, 1992, for the notorious killing of a British tourist, Julie Stott (left), as well as three robberies and a brutal rape. He had no previous convictions, and by the time of his trial, another man had already been convicted of Julie's murder. But Jones was to spend the next 24 years of his life locked up in Louisiana's most terrifying prisons (inset) for crimes that even the lawyers who convicted him knew he had not committed. It was not until the end of January this year that New Orleans prosecutors, who for years hid evidence proving Jones's innocence, finally announced they would not seek a retrial, following his victory on appeal (right).

Corbyn long ago ceased to be the leader of his party in any practical sense. Control has been effectively ceded to Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey and his allies on the Left.

Union baron 'Red' Len McCluskey (pictured) was accused of presiding over a 'culture of freebies and favours' last night as the battle for control of the Unite union exploded into life.

The Bouche a Oreille, a small town in Bourges, central France (pictured), was mistakenly awarded a Michelin star. Judges had confused the cheap roadside cafe with a upmarket Paris restaurant.

Morrison's supermarket has recalled packets of peppered beef slices over concerns they are contaminated with listeria monocytogenes, which cause flu like symptoms including diarrhoea.

Joan Collins flees wealthy Russians blighting Belgravia

The star has been driven out of her £3 million home by nightmare neighbours. She had planned to celebrate her 15th wedding anniversary with a party there but has fled to the exclusive hotel. Dame Joan, 83, tweeted that it was a 'home away from home' after staff left a celebratory cake and bottle of wine in her room.

The Royal Berkshire in Reading almost paid £855 for a simple blackout blind. Some hospitals have been paying twice as much for loo roll as others. Several had to ditch pricey drugs because of faulty fridges.

The NHS is the ultimate post-truth world - fake news and alternative facts. When he created the National Health Service, its founder Nye Bevan, explained what he was doing very simply.

Nutritional therapist Jackie Lynch helped carry out a number of taste and nutrition tests to see if gluten-free pennes and noodles are better than regular spaghetti (pictured).

The ewes were found dead on the road and in an adjoining ditch next to a badly-damaged BMW car in Sussex. The driver is unharmed but said to be 'badly shaken'.

Thousands of tattoo fans at London convention

More than 1,000 new tattoos are expected to be sketched and drawn at Britain's 'biggest' convention celebrating the UK and Ireland's top inkers. Billed as 'the new London convention' to showcase the best local artistry, Tattoo Collective is hosting 150 hand-picked studios from Britain and Ireland at the three-day event held at Brick Lane's Old Truman Brewery in east London. Pictured (inset) is body piercing artist Aneta Von Cyborg showing off what she can do with her cleaved tongue at the event at the Old Truman Brewery.

Sigmar Gabriel, who is the country's Vice Chancellor, told the Munich Security Conference today that he regrets Britain's decision to leave but said 'we must respect it'.

More used cars were bought by drivers in the UK in 2016 than any other year, new figures have shown. A massive 8.2 million second-hand vehicles found new homes last year.

Ministers are proposing to change the law to ensure that satellite broadcasters do not win the right to put the 'crown jewel' events, such as Wimbledon, on pay per view.

Party animal Spencer Matthews has been warned to swap cocktails and clubbing for cocoa and slippers - if he is to be best man at big brother James's wedding to Pippa Middleton.

The ultimate sacrifice: Heartbreaking moment a grieving widow meets her hero Green Beret husband's coffin on the airport tarmac - leaving scores of plane passengers in tears

Green Beret Shawn Thomas (pictured inset and right on his wedding day), 35, an Oklahoma native and father of four who was based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, died earlier this month after a vehicle accident while serving in Niger, Africa. His flag-draped coffin was brought back to Raleigh-Durham International Airport (left) and the fallen warrant officer's remains will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. He had two Bronze Stars and four Good Conduct Medals, as well as other decorations for the time he served abroad. A passenger on the aircraft recorded the moment Thomas' wife, Tara, came up to her husband's coffin on the tarmac - and later said the widow had told her to share the video so viewers would understand the sacrifices made by military families.

Brigit, most famous for her role as Thelma Harris, pictured right, in Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? has revealed Dr Noel Forsyth regularly carried out mercy killings.

Kimberly McLeod, 28, said she 'misread the signs' of the women dancing together at the venue. She attempted to kiss them but lashed out when they rejected her, bursting one victim's nose.

The drink of choice since the days of Ivan the Terrible 500 years ago, vodka is losing out to the growing popularity of more flavourful drinks in trendy bars of Moscow and St Petersburg.

A 64-bedroom mansion in Shropshire (pictured) has finally found a buyer - after knocking £2 million off it's £5 million asking price. Hawkstone Hall has spent five years on the market, despite it's luxury.

Boy, seven, is 'beaten senseless' and struck SIXTY TWO times with a belt by his mother's boyfriend 'because he stole phone charger'

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: A man has been arrested for child abuse after graphic footage of him beating a seven-year-old child outside his car was reported. Kordarell Williams, 27, is reportedly the boyfriend of the young boy's mother. He was seen lashing the child 62 times with a belt on his head, shoulders, and legs during the five minute long attack. Williams admitted in court to hitting the boy because he stole a phone charger,

Revelations by the Mail on Sunday about how world leaders were misled over global warming by the main source of climate data have triggered a probe by the US Congress.

Several of the chicks had already died by the time they were discovered in a field in Crowland, near Peterborough, in Cambridgeshire by a member of the public on Friday.

The author of the iconic fantasy books lived in the property for 15 years during which time the Lord of the Rings trilogy was published. Current owner David Bougourd, bought the Oxford home in 1996.

Christine Carter-Stephenson, from Whetstone in north London, has been left with permanent facial nerve damage following botched treatment by a Harley Street dentist.

 

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