Partridge Family legend David Cassidy has died aged 67 from organ failure - after suffering complications from dementia. The musician and actor was hospitalized several days ago in Florida and was surrounded by his family when he passed away. The 70s icon revealed his dementia diagnosis earlier this year and he last performed at the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in New York in March and spoke about its effect on him.
Theresa May finally lost patience with Philip Hammond last night as Tories described the build up to the Chancellor's Budget as the worst in memory. Downing Street was forced to rush out an announcement on school funding to off-set concerns over the lack of fanfare surrounding Mr Hammond's Budget. The Treasury had insisted that no policy announcements would be made, however it was forced into a spectacular U-turn just hours later. It came about after Mr Hammond's Budget was released to the media last night, with Tory MPs criticising it as lacklustre and for not mentioning Brexit. Two hours later, a £177 million plan was revealed, in which schools and sixth forms in England would be given £600 for every additional student taking A-level maths or core maths qualifications.
Philip Hammond will pledge £180million to improve maths teaching in schools as part of a bid to improve skills and workplace productivity in order to prepare for life after Brexit.
Barclays, Lloyds, Santander, Halifax, NatWest, HSBC and RBS have not passed on the full rate rise to all customers. Banks have been much quicker to raise their mortgage rates.
A specialist squad of prison officers are catching one drone every five days trying to smuggle drugs, weapons and mobile phones into jails, which has led to 17 people being convicted.
Simon Baker, 22, and Mikey Coyle, 21, confronted Quhey Saunders (pictured) in a shop at Cobham Services, with the 20-year-old later receiving a four-inch fatal wound to his head.
The board did not recommend the inmate, who recently married soap actress Paula Williamson behind bars, should be released or moved to an open prison
The EU is ‘insulting’ Britain by demanding a huge upfront payment before talking about trade, a senior German politician said tonight.
I can reveal Dillie Keane performed at the Queen's private dinner party to celebrate her and Prince Philip's platinum wedding anniversary in Windsor, WRITES SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE.
Radical changes to the National Lottery may see the introduction of a game which gives winners a monthly payout for life.
The former Scottish Labour leader, 36, jetted off to Australia last week to take part in the reality show against the wishes of her party.
Staff at an ‘unsafe’ youth jail have been left in hospital following a surge in attacks, a damning report has disclosed. Employees have suffered serious assaults at the hands of young inmates.
Following an article on September 9, which included the English Democrats in a list of ‘far right’ organisations, we are happy to make clear that they consider themselves to be modern democratic English nationalists and to fall neither on the right nor left of the political spectrum.
Of all the memorable TV sitcom theme songs over the years, it was the most melancholy, its words the most haunting: ‘Oh, what happened to you, whatever happened to me? What became of the people we used to be?’ Rodney Bewes, one half of the hit BBC show Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads (left), who died yesterday aged 79, asked himself those questions every day of his life for 40 years. His acclaimed double act with co-star James Bolam had ended in an acrimonious telephone call in 1976, after an ill-judged joke sparked an almighty row between them. Bewes is pictured left with Bolam, Janet Kelly and Kate Story, right with his wife Daphne and inset with their children Daisy, Joe, Tom and Billy.
More of us are now developing the deadly condition than getting the four commonest forms of cancer, a major study from Oxford University shows.
Some 675 patients have falls on NHS wards every day across England and Wales, a major Royal College of Physicians audit has found.
British defence chiefs have bought the Sky Sabre missile shield to protect the Falklands, which uses pioneering technology, as Argentina bolsters its air force with more planes.
Kate Moss, 43, has has revealed that she ties her hair into braids tight enough to pull her skin back, helping make her face look wrinkle-free. She is already famous for her 'Croydon facelift'.
The amount of plastic pollution, such as 7000 toy ducks, that has been discovered in the pristine waters of the Arctic has risen 20 fold in just ten years, researchers have found.
Drinking red wine makes people feel relaxed and amorous while vodka or whisky boosts energy and aggression, a study by Bangor University and King's College London academics suggest.
Boys and girls are driven by biology to play with toys that are traditionally aimed at their own gender, according to a new study.
More than a quarter of dog owners say they have caught their pets sleepwalking, a poll has found.
If you struggle to get a good night’s sleep, think about opening your bedroom window or door. It helps the air circulate at night, leading to better quality sleep, a study found.
Robert Mugabe, 93, could leave Zimbabwe as early as tonight after finally resigning the presidency but military leaders have demanded that hated wife Grace be left behind to face prosecution. Gucci Grace, as she is known thanks to her lavish spending sprees, may be arrested this evening, a family friend told Mail Online, as scenes of jubilation broke out across the country and in parliament at the news of Mugabe's departure. Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mugabe's former deputy who was ousted at Grace's insistence earlier this month, has returned to Zimbabwe and will be sworn in as interim leader on Wednesday.
Welcome to the world of Zimbabwe's wealthy young elite flaunt their wealth in the second poorest country on the planet. From the 'Zimbabwean Kardashians' fathered by Mugabe's 'nephew' Philip Chiyangwa to young entrepreneurs, they regularly showcase their expensive tastes online. Michelle Chiyangwa showed off a silver-plated Rolls-Royce (pictured, bottom right) on Facebook while sister Vanessa Chironga is also keen to flaunt her jet-set lifestyle (left, and, top right) on social media. Meanwhile Sidney Himbara Jr shows what being the son of one of the nation's richest businessman can buy you with a gold-plated revolver that fires lipstick pellets (inset).
Emmerson ‘The Crocodile’ Mnangagwa is set to become Zimbabwe's new president. He has a fearsome reputation and led a crackdown in which thousands died in the 1980s.
The writing had been on the wall for the dictator who has ruled over Zimbabwe for 37 years after a shock coup was orchestrated by the vice president he sacked last week.
The Prime Minister promised that Britain would help as 'Zimbabwe's oldest friend' as the country emerges from 37-years of brutal dictatorship.
Zimbabwe's parliament erupted in cheers and MPs got up onto their chairs and started dancing as it was announced that dictator Robert Mugabe, 93, had resigned 'with immediate effect'.
A Sky News reporter was mobbed by jubilant crowds in Zimbabwe following President Robert Mugabe's resignation.
The resignation of Robert Mugabe marked an historic day in the history of Zimbabwe, but it also made Britain's 91-year-old Queen Elizabeth the world's oldest living head of state.
EXCLUSIVE: A huntswoman who lashed saboteurs with her whip had been provoked by a balaclava-clad ‘hooligan’, her Sussex partner said today. Richard Goring (pictured, left and right), 79, yesterday identified his wife Jane Miller (pictured, left and right), 56, as the rider who was filmed in a furious clash with anti-hunt activists. He said they had injured her horse and wrongly targeted her because she was not fox hunting. Mr Goring, whose family founded the five-star Goring Hotel (pictured, inset) in Belgravia, London, said Miss Miller (pictured, inset, striking saboteur) was taking part in the legal sport of drag hunting instead.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was markedly upbeat during an hour of Commons questions to his department. Was it the crisis in Germany or remembering optimism is life's best medicine?
Sue Gray, director-general of propriety and ethics at the Cabinet Office, is understood to have asked officials whether there is any evidence of attempts to access pornography by Mr Green.
Philip Hammond is expected to reiterate a promise to eliminate Britain's deficit by the mid 2020s in his Budget, as figures showed borrowing and debt payments shot up in October.
For five centuries, the word 'betrump' has languished on the scrapheap of forgotten English words. But now the term could be set for a return after winning favourite long-lost word.
The Hinkley Point power station deal will add up to £15 to every energy bill in the country due to ‘grave errors’ by the Government, MPs will say today.
One in four elderly shoppers across the UK find self-service supermarket checkouts intimidating and unfriendly, a survey has found.
Labour's socialist leader inspected a fleet of luxury cars roll off the production line at an Aston Martin plant amid warnings his proposed tax rises would cost British jobs. Jeremy Corbyn tried to woo business on the eve of the Budget by going on a guided tour of the factory of the famous makers of James Bond's car. The leader of the Opposition, who has heaped praise on Karl Marx, used the trip to accuse the Government of endangering jobs by mishandling Brexit. But critics pouted out it is ironic the left-wing leader of Labour used a visit to a the makers of Britain's most expensive ever car to score political points.
Eurocrats have been stalling on the talks in an attempt to make Britain cough up more cash in a 'divorce' settlement before starting trade negotiations.
David Davis fell off his own Brexit cliff edge today after stumbling off a podium following a crucial speech in London on divorce talks with Brussels.
Dominic Grieve, the former attorney general and prominent Remainer, led the charge in calling for the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights to be enshrined in UK law after we quit the bloc.
Billy Martin, 23, dumped exactly 1,287 coppers (pictured) on the counter to pay for his £25.74 meal of cheese and tomato and mighty meat stuffed crust pizza, potato wedges and Fanta at his local branch of Domino's. The father-of-one, of Tamworth, Staffordshire, says he was forced to take drastic action on one particular delivery driver over an outstanding payment. When Mr Martin ordered his food last week the Domino's worker drove off before he could hand over the money. The member of staff claims he thought Mr Martin had already paid online, so left without a second thought. But the next day, Mr Martin received a string of calls and text messages from the pizza chain, demanding he pay the outstanding amount. Unfortunately he was unable to make the payment immediately as he going out of town to attend his girlfriend's grandmother's funeral and told them he would cough up on his return. But regardless the delivery driver called him six times before he got home last Sunday. The 23-year-old claims Domino's went as far as getting the police involved, who also rang him chasing the payment.
Police confirmed this evening that Emma Reinton-Brown, 13, of Beckenham, south London, was found safe and well.
A family of four prehistoric mammoth skeletons found in Siberia failed to sell at auction in West Sussex today. But the remains of a creature likened to the Loch Ness Monster was scooped up for £92,000.
A Hindi-speaking visitor to coastal beauty spot Durdle Door (pictured right) in Dorset was left stumped when he saw a sign (pictured left) telling him to 'not leave his bull**** on the beach'.
Viorel Constantin (shown) was filmed pulling his victim's head from one side to another, while his wife Christina-Alexandra was also seen laughing at her expense in footage taken in Cambridgeshire.
Iouri Chliaifchtein, 60, objected to staff cuts at his block in Grosvenor Crescent, located in London's exclusive area of Belgravia, and said one concierge on duty at times jeopardised security.
A drunken off-duty British Airways cabin crew manager, who twice groped a snoozing male passenger between the legs on a long-haul flight to Bangkok, was spared jail today.
As a professional footballer, there are few better feelings than scoring to help your team to victory... but Wigan's Ryan Colclough may just have found one. After netting not once, but twice, in the Latics' victory over Doncaster, left, the winger was substituted in order to make it to hospital just in time for the birth of his son. Still in his full kit, a picture was shared on social media by Wigan chairman David Sharpe, with Colclough looking lovingly down at his newborn child, right.
A teenager has been sent a new driving licence which gives her official address as 'My dad's house'. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) failed to spot Eve Paterson's mistake when she applied for an updated licence. The 18-year-old (left), from Greenock in Inverclyde, was astounded when she received the card and posted a photo of it online (right and inset), which has since amassed thousands of shares. And it has sparked a debate among social media users with some seeing the funny side - and others suggesting the DVLA should have looked into her details more thoroughly.
An SAS hero of the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege who is selling his medals to help fund his retirement has said Britain should do more to help ex-servicemen. Warrant Officer Ian 'Chalky' White, 62, was one of the first to enter the Iranian Embassy and bring an end to the six-day siege. It was played out live on TV and ended with the SAS dramatically killing five gunmen and freeing all but one of the hostages. Mr White was one of the team on the roof of the embassy who abseiled in through a skylight as part of Operation Nimrod.
Alex Batty, from Oldham, flew out to Spain on a pre-agreed trip with mother Melanie for a week-long stay in the Benahavis area near Marbella, but did not come back home as expected.
Thomas Millward, 19, was found unconscious and naked after falling from a stairwell at Girton College after he and his girlfriend took 'the most potent mind-altering substance there is'.
Reg Buttress worked at Sainsbury's in Cwmbran, south Wales, for over three decades and became a well-known and liked figure in the store.
Eve Paterson from Inverclyde applied for an updated licence and gave her official address as 'My dad's house' - but the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency failed to spot her mistake.
GRAPHIC CONTENT: William Wildgoose, a ornamental fish specialist from London, operated on Speckle the goldfish over two years, using a tiny clamp and scalpel to remove the infected eye.
An inquest into the death of Ghent Wakefield's, who died at his home in Staffordshire, heard how his hopes of becoming a wrestler in the US had been destroyed after he tore his biceps in 2011.
Emma Brookin, 25, said the man criticised her son's behaviour after approaching the family at ASDA in Hinckley, Leicestershire.
Kia Gott, from Bradford, is in a high dependency unit and recently had her fourth limb amputated. The Countess wrote to her family wishing them 'peace, strength and hope' as the youngster recovers.
The gang targeted the luxury motor as it stopped at traffic lights in Bury, Greater Manchester. As the Bentley Bentayga came to a stop, two approached the car and repeatedly smashed the driver's window and windscreen with their weapons. The driver, a 51-year-old woman, tried to manoeuvre away but the offenders persistently hammered against the glass whilst demanding she hand over her watch. However, she bravely refused and managed to drive to safety.
A jealous husband has been convicted of murdering his wife by stabbing and bludgeoning her to death in a car after suspecting she was having an affair. Norbert Chikerema (left) struck Nyasha Kahari (right), a mother of four, at least 40 times with numerous weapons, including an axe, before driving her body to a Lidl car park in Marston Green (inset). The care home boss was found guilty of the charge by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court.
Chief Inspector Dave Gould of Northumbria police demonstrates the shotgun hidden within a walking stick which was handed in during the two-week long Operation Aztec weapons amnesty. The Metropolitan Police also put on display two World War Two-era machine guns, bottom right, which had been deactivated, as well as a Webley Premier air pistol, bottom left.
Businessman Mark Harris, from Dundee has failed to pay a £2,000 fine after he was convicted in July 2016 of dangerous driving by Perth Sheriff's Court. Mr Harris failed to show up to court today.
Mohamed Abbas Idris Awan, 24, from Huddersfield, was arrested in June after police became suspicious when he bought an order of ball bearings online. Pictured: Sheffield Crown Court.
Aveesha Ahsan, 34, from Catford, south London hugged and kissed the teenager after offering to buy her gifts including a Kindle, prom dress and make-up, Inner London Crown Court heard.
Killer Nicholas Redding (left), 45, burglar Barry Anderson (right), 41, and drug dealer James Vaughan, 37, have all fled HMP Spring Hill in Buckinghamshire over the past week.
The footage described as horrific was recorded on a police officer's body camera as the thug was being treated by a member of staff from East Midlands Ambulance Service (pictured).
Katar Shahin, 40, attacked his heavily intoxicated victim at his home in Swansea, south Wales, then lied that she was a prostitute who he had paid £20 for sex.
These are the shocking scenes as a group of men were filmed apparently inside jail taking nitrous oxide - also known as hippy crack - inside an unidentified English prison.
Percy Chikobvu is accused of sexually assaulting the 17-year-old teenager at his house following a night out in Cambridge.
Joseph Fettah, 20, denies causing the death of Jenna Miller (pictured), 30, by dangerous driving, after allegedly challenging his friend Jamie Oaten, 24, to a race along a road in Barry, South Wales.
A Labour MP was filmed getting a cringe-worthy dressing down from his wife in revealing footage taken during this summer's shock general election. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the former Prime Minister of Denmark and wife to Stephen Kinnock, is seen telling her husband off for agreeing to an interview with the BBC. She advises Mr Kinnock, who had dismissed Jeremy Corbyn's chances earlier in the night, not to speak to the media until the result of the general election is clear. The 50-year-old Dane asks: 'Why are you doing this now? Why? What are you going to say?' Mr Kinnock, the son of former Labour leader Neil Kinnock, then replies: 'Umm… I don't know.' He then asks her if she should delay the interview until later. The cringe-inducing footage was broadcast during the BBC documentary Labour - The Summer That Changed Everything.
A report released earlier this month revealed that the number of people recorded as homeless in the South East has reached 27,600 - in Milton Keynes one in every 110 people are homeless. In Brighton and Hove, a shocking one in every 69 people sleep rough. Now, Milton Keynes town centre has been transformed into a number of 'homeless hamlets' by rough sleepers who have sent up their sleeping bags and tents under some of the underpasses. In the most extensive review of its kind, housing charity Shelter combined official rough-sleeping, temporary accommodation and social services figures to discover that more than 300,000 people in Britain homeless today.
Coombe Park has gone on the market for £10m but has been untouched for 30 years and faded since its glory days so its price tag is solely down to its stunning location and potential. The house, which is in Whitchurch-on-Thames sits on 125 acres and has its own boat house with a wet and a dry dock. However, due to the condition of the house, which was built in 1865, it may be better value to demolish the property and rebuild it. During the Second World War, the estate became one of 16 'flak houses' for US bomber crews to give them some respite during their 25-mission tour of duty. Unlike British crews, the US airman were unable to go home during their tour. Instead, the American Red Cross took over some stately homes, including Coombe Park, for the duration of the conflict.
Natasha Devon, the Government's former mental health tsar, warned headteachers at Britain's leading girls' schools that she would never use 'patronising' terms like 'girls' or 'ladies'.
Roger Cruickshank was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross for his actions in saving two groups of soldiers and received the medal from the Duke of Cambridge at Buckingham Palace.
Google will open a new office in King's Cross which, once completed, will join its current building in nearby Pancras Square and a third space to create a campus housing thousands of staff.
The police watchdog, the IPCC, has been called in after the teenager reportedly suffered a fractured skull in an incident in the Anfield area of Liverpool yesterday morning.
Tom Hunnings' beach hut, perched on a remote cliff on Portland Bill, in Dorset, has more than doubled in size and now boasts a mezzanine floor, timber shutters, a second floor and basement.
Faiz Siddiqui (pictured) claims his failure to get a top degree at Oxford University cost him the chance of a lucrative legal career, the High Court has heard.
The wet and windy conditions are expected to hit most of the UK over the next few days, with parts of northern England forecast to be worst affected, but the snow will be confined to Scotland.
The Royal Navy has escorted the ship out of UK waters after sonar detected a 'non-NATO warship' in the north sea on Saturday. It was identified as a Russian Destroyer (pictured).
Shocked drivers at Haven Banks Retail Park, Devon, including Chris Wellings (pictured with his children) , received the notices on October 29 - the day the clocks went back - despite paying correctly.
Two leading Argentinian politicians are under fire after branding British Navy forces that have joined the search for the lost ARA San Juan submarine as 'pirates'. The submarine (bottom right) with 44 crew members on board has been missing for six days, with reports warning there could just be hours left before the vessel runs out of oxygen. Britain's HMS Protector (top right) has been scouring the South Atlantic as part of the international hunt for the missing vessel, and is being joined by HMS Clyde which has been diverted from South Georgia. But despite the increasing desperation to find the crew alive, Argentina's Workers' Party leader Gabriel Solano (inset) appeared to prefer that British forces did not help in the search, instead tweeting: 'F*** you! pirates.' It comes as incredible footage (shown left) taken aboard one of the ships sent out to try and find the missing submarine shows the horrendous conditions rescuers are forced to search in.
The tyrant was seen at the wheel of a lorry (left) as he inspected facilities at the Sungri Motor Complex (inset) in North Korea's South Pyongan Province. The images drew comparisons with pictures of the US President who posed for photos in the cab of a truck and fire engine at the White House in March (right). The new photos of Kim Jong-un emerged as Trump put North Korea back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, with the US saying it will ramp up pressure on the reclusive regime to get rid of its nuclear weapons.
The Swiss mountain town of Albinen (pictured) is debating if it will offer a cash incentive of more than £53,000 to every family willing to live in the municipality in order to stop it from emptying out. The town is set in a picturesque valley and is surrounded by spectacular mountain landscapes. The population has sunk to 240 and the local school has been forced to close so the town has decided to act to reverse the decline.
Images of life across Iran in the 60s and 70s portray a vibrant kingdom on the brink of change. The photos were all taken in Iran before the Islamic Revolution, which saw the ousting of King Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the installment of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - a shift that would have long-lasting and far reaching implications. Compared to previous rulers, Pahlavi was revolutionary - he banned the hijab, saying it suppressed women, encouraged education for everyone and granted women the right to vote. At the time, actresses who were later banned from performing posed up in short skirts for magazines, while locals were photographed skiing, wearing swimsuits and enjoying paddle-boat outings.
German police recovered three diaries, two pairs of glasses, a handwritten music score, and other items that were stolen from John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, in New York more than ten years ago. Among the stolen items were two pairs of his signature metal-rimmed glasses, a cigarette case (top right) and a handwritten music score. There are also three of Lennon's leather-bound diaries (bottom right), from 1975, 1979 and 1980. The last entry was made by Lennon on the morning of December 8, 1980, a few hours before he was killed. Ono's former driver, who is now living in Turkey, is another suspect.
Lebanon's prime minister Saad Hariri returned to his home country on Tuesday pledging to 'clarify' his position almost three weeks after he tendered his resignation while visiting Saudi Arabia.
A woman who served in the North Korean army before defecting has said conditions were so harsh that fellow female recruits stopped their periods while rape was also common place.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel hung her head in frustration after parliament speaker Wolfgang Schaeuble urged political leaders to show more readiness to compromise.
The blast happened during early morning prayers at the Madina mosque in the Unguwar Shuwa area of Mubi, 125 miles from Nigeria's Adamawa state capital Yola.
The warning came a day after it was reported that 2.5million people in Yemen's crowded cities had no access to clean water, raising the risk that a cholera epidemic will spread.
Eliana Krawczyk, 35, had spoken to her brother while in port in Ushuaia, and told him that there had been an mechanical issue on board the ARA San Juan, local news reports.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has praised Vladimir Putin for 'saving Syria', as the two leaders met ahead of a summit between Russia, Turkey and Iran to discuss the peace process.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made his comments ahead of a meeting with the presidents of Russia and Turkey, where they will re-boot the peace process in Syria.
The Syrian men were arrested during raids involving 500 officers in the German towns of Kassel, Hannover, Essen and Leipzig.
The Dongfeng-41 missile (pictured) will be finished in the first half of 2018, according to state media, after successful tests in an undisclosed location in the Western desert area.
Made from steel reinforced concrete, the crooked cross measuring four metres across was discovered during renovation work at the Hein Klink Stadium in Hamburg, Germany.
Mayumi Saito, who has handed herself into police in Osaka, Japan, told investigators she had given birth to the infants between 1992 and 1997.
Kim Jong-Un reportedly called for an inspection of the military's General Political Bureau and punished its head, Vice Marshal Hwang Pyong So, North Korea's second most powerful official.
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