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Cambridge locals catch beggars feigning homelessness

The group walked together to the outskirts of Cambridge's shopping arcades, before separating to avoid working the same areas (pictured on the streets right). They left Romanian licence plated car (pictured left) in a residential road. The parking ticket displayed in the window showed that they had paid for the maximum allowed eight hours, from 9am to 5pm.

Lords told to declare EU pensions ahead of Brexit debate

More than 20 peers who worked in Brussels built up lavish EU pensions. They include Labour's Lord Mandelson (top centre) who will receive almost £35,000 a year thanks to his former job as trade commissioner. Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock (bottom centre), 74, rose to became vice president of the EU Commission. With a retirement pot of £1.7 million, he draws a huge £87,800 pension each year. As the first High Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Baroness Ashton (left) was the highest-paid politician in the world, with a salary package of around £328,000. Her pension pot of £1million will pay her around £51,400 a year. Ex-actor Michael Cashman (top right), 66, was a Labour MEP for 15 years until 2014, amassing a £390,000 pension pot worth £20,100 a year. Lord Patten of Barnes (bottom right), 72, was a Cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher and was an EU commissioner for four years with a pension pot of £773,539 paying him just under £40,000 each year.

The dramatic reduction - equivalent to closing 24 hospitals - amounts to a 10 per cent fall in NHS beds at a time when the health service is under unprecedented pressure.

Michael Watson, 51, and his carer Lennard Ballack were sprayed with ammonia by thugs in Chingford, east London, who smashed into the back of their Volkswagen Golf.

Sir Michael Fallon said Britain cannot pull troops from Afghanistan because the terrorist groups that existed there when soldiers deployed in 2001 remain and 'still pose a threat'.

By dropping body temperatures from 37C to around 13-15C, the body's functions could slow to a virtual standstill. It would allow doctors more time to treat tumours and would make it more effective.

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An article on 8 February stated that diabetes charity Silver Star donated £2,500 to John Bercow's 2010 election campaign.

Scottish police find body in search for missing boy

A two-year-old boy drowned yesterday in a fast-flowing river just yards from a family home (pictured top). The toddler's lifeless body was found in the water just over an hour after he was reported missing from the remote rural property. It is believed he may have wandered out of the house at Milton of Drimmie, Perthshire, and walked the 150 yards down the hill to the River Ericht (pictured top). A massive search operation was launched (bottom) after the boy went missing at around 11.15am yesterday.

Phil Jones, pictured, who is on £80,000 a week, sacked Nigel and Angela Stubbs in November having spent three years working for the Manchester United star and his fiancee Kayla Hall.

Germany and Sweden already operate a successful deposit scheme. Whitehall insiders suggest ministers are sceptical of a similar plan for England. 15m bottles are not recycled every day.

After 65 years in TV Sir David Attenborough shows no signs of slowing down. Following the success of Planet Earth II the broadcaster will now work on a sequel to the Blue Planet.

Children are as panicked being separated from their smartphones as they are being separated from their parents and develop patterns associated with PTSD, according to new research.

Svalbardi water is sourced from icebergs in an archipelago between northern Norway and the North Pole and only enough to fill 13,000 bottles is harvested at a time.

Families earning £1,500 or less a month have an average of £95 in savings. High income families of £5,501 a month have a typical savings pot of £62,885. London families have the most put away.

French officials met with senior staff at Oxford University to discuss proposals. The 'satellite' campus could have French legal status making it still eligible for EU funding.

Karen Matthews 'told shop boss she was convicted of theft'

A source claims Matthews (right) originally from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, said she'd been convicted for shoplifting in order to get the voluntary position. The source who had called Matthews a friend was shocked to find out her true identity after BBC drama The Moorside starring Sheridan Smith (left) forced her back into the limelight. The shows tells the story of how Matthews faked the kidnapping of her daughter Shannon (inset).

Superstores operated by Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons are set to benefit while smaller high street retailers will be charged an average of 3.7 per cent more, costing them tens of millions.

Sajid Javid risked enraging small firms last night after he wrote an extraordinary letter insisting the row over business rates was based on myths.

The farce came as police probe incredible claims that the prime minister was linked to a paedophile ring that killed as many as 16 children - making them the worst child murderers in British history if true.

The ex-Chancellor's policy, which will see the minimum wage rise to £9 an hour by 2020, will have a huge burden on firms and councils that employ care workers, as they often paid very little.

The subcontractors are thought to include recruitment firms and insurance providers. The warning was aimed at those not involved in initiatives such as 30 per cent Club.

Britain sent India £279million in 2014 alone - despite the fact the country has its own space programme and is planning to spend £10billion on a fleet of warships.

Hamster disappears after escaping cage and scaling wall

The rodent's five-year-old owner Liam Lawrie was heartbroken when Gingy managed to escape from the family home. But Gingy had managed to break free of her cage and scale a seven foot wall - and was found some six weeks later when she turned up at a care home a mile away in Aberdeenshire.

Ella Murtha, 32, from Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, decided to donate her mother Tish's kidneys. She received letters from the families of Jane Holmes, 43, and Teresa Saunders, 40,

One-year-old Layla was diagnosed when she was just 14 weeks old. Chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant failed to halt the aggressive disease. She was taken to Great Ormond Street.

Countryfile star Julia Bradbury (pictured) has criticised travel companies for jacking up prices during the school holiday period. She even accused the travel industry of being 'evil'.

Cat can let herself out after learning how to open door

Muffin the five-year-old tabby cat stands up on her hind legs, reaches up to pull the handle down, then hooks a paw behind the door of her home in Ely to swing it open. The cat was rescued from an animal shelter when she was two and her owners say she is 'particularly astute at figuring out how to get to where she wants to go'.

The new SpaceFlight bill could see space ports established across the UK as early as 2020. Ministers have hailed the sector as the 'future of the British economy' and wants the UK at the global forefront.

Retirement communities like Whiteley Village (pictured) near Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, can help women live years longer than the national average- partly due to increased social interaction.

The £50m Mosaic project will send Russian icebreaker RV Polarstar into the Arctic. It will be frozen into the ice, which moves across the region. 50 institutions from 14 countries are taking part.

Sinn Fein leader Michelle O'Neill (pictured) said the party will not support the DUP leader in an executive office until an inquiry into the botched renewable energy scheme is carried out.

The Commons Speaker is facing calls to resign following his extraordinary attack on Donald Trump, and revelations about his strident anti-Brexit views.

Diane Abbott spoke out about the 'misogynistic' comments made by Brexit minister David Davis, who joked in a private text message to a colleague that he wouldn't hug Ms Abbott as 'I am not blind'.

Cancer mother claims her baby son saved her life

Sarah Boyle, 26, from Staffordshire, says she was encouraged to undergo a biopsy after her son Teddy, now one, repeatedly rejected her right breast while feeding. Two weeks later she was diagnosed with grade 2 triple negative breast cancer. Pictured: Sarah and Teddy during her chemotherapy (left) and at home (right), Sarah with her medic in the hospital (inset).

Hannah Davies (pictured), 23, was involved in the one-vehicle smash on the A92 Inverbervie to Kinneff road in Aberdeenshire at around 10.50am yesterday.

Darren Galsworthy said he blames himself for not saving his daughter. The Bristol teenager went missing in February 2015 and step-brother Nathan Matthews was convicted of her murder.

Ryan Lock, 20, from Chichester, West Sussex died in Raqqa, Syria in December while fighting alongside Kurdish rebels against ISIS. Dozens of people paid tribute as his body returned today to Heathrow.

Neil and Helen Robinson have both been deaf since birth and communicated through sign language, lip reading and failed attempts at using hearing aids until being fitted with cochlear implants.

Heartbreaking images show the ravaging effects of Huntington's Disease, after 20-year-old Becky Aspinall, from Oxton, Merseyside was diagnosed eight years ago and can no longer walk.

The unidentified man pumped his arms and ran across the road with delight after he was offered a permanent contract at a window supplier in West Bromwich yesterday.

Huntsman launches foul-mouthed rant at saboteurs

Video footage filmed during a meeting of the Cottesmore Hunt in Owston, Leicestershire, shows an outraged man launching into the foul-mouthed attack while appearing to swing at protesters with a metal chain. The footage was filmed by the Beds and Bucks Hunts Saboteurs, who claimed a number of attackers used chains and wood as campaigners tried to stop them chasing and killing foxes.

Matthew Anthony (pictured), 32, from Staffordshire, made up two online profiles and chatted to his victims on Instagram, before receiving the shocking pictures.

Mobile phone footage shows the 'disgusting' scenes which unfolded after a boxing event at Leeds United's Elland Road stadium when fans began brawling.

Ambulance workers took the suspect, aged 86, away by ambulance after he reportedly tried to harm himself at the home in El Campello near Alicante. His injuries are thought to be superficial.

Stills from a shocking video taken at Redditch's Hewell Prison shows several other convicts casually observing the brawl, which was filmed in one of the Midlands jail's bathrooms.

Britain's most notorious prisoner Charles Bronson has admitted he urged serial killer Rose West to hang herself, after receiving a fawning letter from her seemingly asking for advice on prison life.

A Ukip canvasser in Stoke has been caught on CCTV urinating on the fence outside a pensioner's home in the Northwood area of the city before trying to force his way into her home to use her toilet.

Drunk milkman smashes float into couple's car and home

Milkman Adam Martin, 28, (inset) admitted drink-driving at Leamington Spa Magistrates Court and was banned from driving after crashing his milk float into a couple's home, causing tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage. The court heard he smashed his truck into Jo and Declan Sunderland's car (right), shunting it into their house and subsequently damaging every room in the property (pictured).

Peter Maddox, 84, found his Vauxhall Corsa with the windows smashed in. Tourists complained his car ruined their photos of Bibury, Gloucestershire. The car was written off, with £6k of damages.

Thousands of revellers flock to Frank's Cafe in Peckham (pictured) over the summer to indulge in cocktails and stunning views of London. But new development plans could see the views blocked.

Rents and rates specialists CVS predicts 17,160 pubs in England and Wales will receive increased demands in April, adding an extra £70.17million to their bills compared with 2016/17.

Overconfident Joe Harding was battling John Segas in the British MMA 18 featherweight title fight in Colchester, Essex - Harding's hometown - last night.

Police and an air ambulance rushed to the scene of a double stabbing in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire. Pictures on social media show police vans and an air ambulance at the scene.

Sixty firefighters were needed to battle the flames at an industrial building in Manchester. The man emerged unharmed after sleeping through the commotion.

The property in Hammersmith, west London was built as a Victorian laundry house in the 1850s. It's priced at a whopping £700,000 more than the average home in England and Wales.

Temperatures in the UK will be hotter than Spain, Greece and Saudi Arabia thanks to a 'blast of hot air from the Caribbean' before wind and rain will close in and batter the north from Tuesday.

A major search was launched after the child was reported missing from a property in the Milton of Drimmie area, close to Bridge of Cally in Perthshire at around 11.15am on Sunday.

Inside the Kim Kardashian heist crime scene

Haunting images have been released which show the crime scene where Kim Kardashian was the victim of a terrifying raid at a hotel in Paris last October. Screened by a French television network, the chilling photographs show the tape used to bind the star's hands (bottom left) and a tie used to gag her (top left) as she was robbed of some £8million worth of jewels. The 36-year-old was held at gun point, bound and gagged and left in the hotel bathroom while the robbers took several pieces of her diamond jewellery (inset). Viewers were shown a video re-enactment of the heist, showing a group of men holding the star at gunpoint in the middle of a room before she is held hostage in the bathroom. CCTV stills show several men walking along the road outside the hotel and they can then be seen together in a French café (top right). None of the items have been recovered, though several men have been arrested in connection with the crime.

CCTV shows moment leading to Kim Jong-nam's assassination

The CCTV video, from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, allegedly shows the moment which led to the assassination of Kim Jong-nam - the half-brother of the North Korean leader. A woman in a while top and jeans is seen grabbing the man and holding him back, while another woman sprays a toxic substance in his face (left). Later in the leaked footage, he appears to be telling security guards that he had been sprayed in the face (top right). Jong-nam (inset and bottom right), who often spoke out against his brother's regime, was found dead at the Malaysian airport.

Pope Francis was visiting the parish of Santa Maria Josefa of the Heart of Jesus in Rome, where he met some children. He cracked a smile when the schoolboy showed him the picture.

Journalist and pro-democracy activist Vladimir Kara-Murza (pictured) nearly died two years ago after a 'toxic influence of an unknown substance' caused his kidneys to fail.

Valentina Sampaio from Brazil will grace the front page of the iconic publication for its March edition, becoming the first transgender model ever to do so in a French magazine.

The full extent of the crimes against women in the jails of the Syrian intelligence service were revealed in a report by the centre for women, peace and security at the London School of Economics.

Speaking at the Munich security conference the German chancellor Angela Merkel (pictured) said Europe has an obligation to take displaced refugees from Syria and Iraq.

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Iraqi forces launch push to retake western Mosul from ISIS

Iraqi government soldiers swiftly retook at least five villages and set their sights on Mosul airport, marking a new phase in Iraq's largest military operation in years. Pictured: Iraqi forces to the south of Mosul. Top left, bottom left - armoured trucks advance on the city. Top right, bottom right - rockets are fired on ISIS positions. And centre - an Army helicopter flies over the Iraqi rapid response forces' position during a battle against Islamic State militants.

The unnamed assailant, who is said to be 32 and from the French overseas territory of Reunion Island, struck in the town of Montauban, north of Toulouse, on Sunday afternoon.

The men were taking part in Hadaka Matsuri - or the Naked Man Festival - which takes place every year at the Saidaiji Kannon-in temple in Okayama City in western Japan.

Malaysia's National Police Deputy Inspector-General Noor Rashid Ibrahim, left, speaks as Selangor Police Chief Abdul Samah Mat listens during a press conference at the Bukit Aman national police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017.  Malaysia's police are looking for four more North Korean suspects who they say left the country the same day the North Korean leader's brother died after being attacked at the Kuala Lumpur airport. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Malaysian police have arrested Ri Jong-chol, pictured, in Kualar Lumpur who is believed to be a North Korean chemistry expert in connection with the murder of Kim Jong-un's half brother Kim Jong Nam.

The lesson DOMINIC LAWSON take from the achievements of older men is not that they are especially clever but that their character means they have energy that barely diminishes with age.

Like an 18th Century aristocrat planning a last stand against the peasantry, Labour's Lord Mandelson calls on his fellow ermined Peers to join him in sabotaging the Brexit Bill.

The £115billion brawl over control of the British-Dutch consumer products group Unilever has ended in the first round. The would-be buyer, Kraft Heinz, has thrown in the towel.