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Graham Mackrell (right) who was safety officer for the club at the time of the 1989 FA Cup semi-final, was found guilty of failing to discharge a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act. As well as a £6,500 fine, Mackrell was ordered to pay £5,000 of the legal costs of the case today. But, speaking outside court, families of those who died said the fine was too little. Louise Brookes (left), whose brother Andrew (inset) died at Hillsborough, said: 'Our 96 are dead and all it’s worth is £67.70 each. Shameful. Thirty years to get to this.’

Amanda Holden tweeted footage showing two robbers threatening Phoebe Ruele with her three-year-old son in Richmond, South West London, on 21 June last year. Witnesses heard the terrified mum scream 'don't take my baby' as the robbers demanded she hand over her jewellery. Helicopter footage (top) shows the moment two of the gang slid off their moped after another crime. They were chased into a graveyard when one was detained, leading to a series of arrests. Twelve members of the gang (some of whom are pictured, bottom) were today jailed for a total of 68 years.

Jack Moore, 25, (bottom right) was flying in the plane with sister Billie Manley, 16, (top right) and pilot uncle Stuart Moore (inset) when disaster struck on their way to see Manchester United play. The light aircraft hit overhead power cables - and the plane burst into flames when it attempted an emergency landing on a busy road. Pilot Stuart had taken off from Abergavenny Airfield in South Wales to fly to Old Trafford to see Cardiff City face Manchester United. The plane crash landed on the A40 in Monmouthshire - but did not hit any passing cars. Passersby Joel Snarr, 35, and Daniel Nicholson, 46, pulled the passengers from the 'inferno.'

The Brexit Party leader also admitted he would be willing to prop up the next Conservative leader to make them Prime Minister in the event of a hung Parliament - but only if they agree to leave the EU with No Deal on World Trade Organization (WTO) terms. Mr Farage, who last stood in South Thanet in 2015 in his seventh failed attempt at getting into Parliament, has not said the constituency he would target at the next general election. Speaking while campaigning in Pontefract, where he posed for selfies (pictured), he told LBC today: 'I'm going to have to [stand] of course.  It's a duty, it's a duty, it's a duty'. The Brexit Party is racing ahead with a predicted 34 per cent of the vote on May 23 - but Theresa May 's Conservatives are heading for just 10 per cent, a YouGov survey has found (bottom right). The collapse in support for the Conservative Party is piling pressure on Mrs May (top right today) to set a date for her departure from No 10.

Beth Martin, 18, from St Anne's, Blackpool, was stunned when she went into labour during riot training - as she had no idea she was even pregnant. The size six student was training to become part of the UK's Border Force, and undertaking extreme physical activity such as army and police riot training (inset) up to an hour before she entered labour. Known as a 'cryptic pregnancy', Beth's baby Maizie, now seven-months-old (pictured right), had grown behind Beth's ribs, showing no physical bump - and has even failed to show up on two pregnancy tests. Pictured left: Size six Beth when she didn't know she was pregnant.

The driver was caught on camera rushing from his Audi A3 onto the front of the car behind him and shattering the glass with a single stamp. The incident is believed to have happened near Sandbrook Park in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, and the footage was uploaded to Facebook on Saturday.

Adrian Thomas, from Mermaid Pleasure Trips, saw the 91,000 ton BOKA Vanguard near Mount's Bay, off the coast of Marazion, Cornwall, this weekend. The 'jaw-dropping' vessel can carry cargoes of up to 110,000 tons - 19,000 tons heavier than itself - including ships, oil rigs and other offshore installations. And its flat deck allows ships longer than it is to overhang the bow. Mr Thomas said: 'I was astonished by the ship while I navigated around it. It was a great sight for me and my guests. You could see it from the land for ages. It looked like a giant oil rig from the land.'

Mitchell Zuckoff's new book recounts exactly what happened on board United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. The flight was hijacked on 9/11, but never hit its target in Washington DC after passengers tried to take the plane back. It crash landed in Pennsylvania. Zuckoff's book contains text of the emotional phone calls passengers made to their loved ones.

Samantha Joseph (top left) from Brockley, south-east London, was jailed for life in 2009 for her part in the murder of Shakilus Townsend. She has now been deported to Trinidad - where she was born - after doing the minimum stint of ten years in a British prison. Joseph, who was 15 at the time, lured Shakilus into an alleyway. He was then ambushed by a gang of six masked and hooded teenagers, led by Danny McLean (bottom left). CCTV footage (pictured) showed Joseph and McLean walking away calmly after murdering 16-year-old.

Elena Bunbury (right), a councillor in West Yorkshire, will be seeking a constituency to contest in the next general election after passing the party's MP selection process. She grabbed headlines in September last year after sharing bikini snaps (left) on Twitter to silence a mob of critics who unleashed a barrage of sexist remarks following her appearance on Question Time (inset). Now, Ms Bunbury could be set to become one of the youngest ever MPs to take their seat on the House of Commons's benches. Passing the Parliamentary Assessment Board does not automatically mean that you will fight the next general election but allows you to seek the support of a local constituency association to contest that seat.

Schoolchildren as young as 11 have been targeted to launder dirty gang money in the UK. Some 10,686 under-21s were caught acting as mules last year - a 26 per cent rise from 2017, according to the fraud prevention service Cifas. Drug gangs will use the children's 'clean' bank accounts to deposit and move funds. In February conman Alexander Ogun-Moweta, 27, (inset), was jailed for using mules' bank accounts in a £200,000 fraud racket. Money launderers will promote their 'business' on Instagram to attract youngsters (left and right).

Earlier this month, the England striker invited Ella Markham, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, to be a mascot at his north London side's Premier League finale against Everton. The schoolgirl, who has Down’s Syndrome, became the target of cruel online bullying after she was filmed by her father during her first visit to the club's new stadium last month. Yet despite the experience, Ella's enthusiasm was in no way diminished, with footage capturing the teenager dancing jubilantly when attending Spurs’ last home game on Sunday.

Metro Bank has assured customers their money is safe despite many responding to rumours circulating on Whatsapp by trying to withdraw all their money from branches in west London. The bank has issued a statement assuring customers of its financial health and said plans to raise £350million from investors are 'well advanced'. Many customers took to social media to post photographs of the queues and share their fears of a repeat of Northern Rock from 2007.

The Mayor of London (pictured right today), who has feuded with Mr Trump (left) since before either of them took office, is not on the guest list for the white-die dinner hosted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace. The snub for Mr Khan is a break with recent precedent, as his predecessor Boris Johnson did attend the state banquet for then-President Barack Obama in 2011. But Mr Khan has insisted he did not want to go anyway, echoing the stance of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn who is boycotting the dinner.

This year's notorious Maldon Mud Race lived up to its name as hundreds of contestants caked in sludge ran, crawled and slithered their way across the bed of the River Blackwater in Essex. Batman suits, bright green wigs and fairy dresses were among the bizarre garments worn by the competitors as they hauled themselves through the 400-metre mud course. And one brave man (left) - who clearly thought that clothes would slow him down - stripped completely off and charged through the slime.

Never mind a different generation, sometimes our daughters seem to inhabit a different planet — one that consists mostly of extraordinary eyebrows, Instagram filters, and graphic online chat. Now, mums Joanna Taverner-Averkiou, 41, (far left, with daughter Devon, 20), Harjit Kaur, 46 (centre left, with Kiran, 23), Rachel Williamson, 39, (centre right, with Taylor, 18), and Monera Pamela, 32, (far right, with Elesha, 16) have agreed to take part in BBC documentary 21 Again to plunge them directly into the world they were so afraid of. All five, chosen from different parts of the UK, will move into the same house in Liverpool and spend a month living as their daughters do — with the younger women there, too, to show them the ropes and cast an eye over their dress choices, lifestyles, views on religion, work and life.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have posted a brand new photo of their baby son Archie Harrison, born on May 6th, today, to mark Mother's Day in the US and other countries around the world. Believed to have been taken at Frogmore Cottage in Windsor, the adorable image shows two tiny flexing feet being held by a hand, with a flourish of blue forget-me-nots – Harry’s mother Princess Diana's favourite flower - seen in the background. (Pictured from left: The photo of Archie's feet with forget-me-nots in the background. Right: Meghan and Harry with Archie introducing him to the world for the first time last week)

Major Tom Archer-Burton (left and with Harry on the right during a charity mission in Lesotho), commonly known as 'Archie' among friends, was the prince's commanding officer during his highly secretive tour of Afghanistan in 2008. He convinced top brass to allow the prince to become the first royal since Andrew during the Falklands war to be deployed, having missed out on the Iraq war because of fears he would be a prime target for the enemy. The bond between the two became so strong, with the 41-year-old meeting most of Harry's family including Meghan, that the couple decided to name the newest royal (inset with Meghan and Harry) after the Surrey-born officer, reports suggest.

Niketa Bell, 25, and her husband Mark, 30, from Carlisle, had initially refused a second round of IVF because of the emotion and trauma they had already been through. The couple gave the fertility treatment one more go and Niketa fell pregnant with triplets.

The case of missing student nurse Louise Kerton (left), from Broadstairs, Kent, has frustrated police and private investigators since she went missing on her way home from Germany in 2001. Now her father Phil (inset) has released new images of her growing up and enjoying life (right, aged nine) before she disappeared. The snaps show Louise on family holidays with her siblings, doing her homework, eating ice cream, playing on the beach and having dinner at home. Mr Kerton, of New Ash Green, Kent, said the case still affected his family even now. He said: 'We still miss her, even today. That never fades. It affects everybody differently. The way one person copes with it is not necessarily in the least helpful to another person. One thing we are all in agreement on is that we want to know what happened.'

Emergency services found the man alive at the bottom of the cliffs east of Brighton marina near Roedean School, East Sussex, at about 6.30am this morning. He was found inside his crumpled silver Vauxhall van (inset) which had smashed into the concrete walkway after falling off the cliffs above. A Sussex police spokesman said: 'On Sunday May 12, just after 6.30am, police were called to a silver coloured Vauxall van gone off the edge of the cliff east of the Marina and close to Roedean school. Police, ambulance and fire services attended the scene. The driver sadly died a short while after. Next of kin have been informed.'

Analysts at GCHQ knew Mohammed Emwazi (right and left in his first ISIS video) was the terrorist seen threatening the West after beheading American journalist, James Foley, in scenes that shocked the world when first broadcast in August 2014. GCHQ used recordings of his voice from previous wire taps taken during a three-year surveillance operation and compared it to the disguised voice used in the ISIS video. They also examined the way he stood during the clip and compared the pattern of the veins in his left hand (inset) that he pointed directly towards the camera with archive photographs. He was finally tracked down and killed by a US drone strike in November 2015 just in Raqqa as he walked towards a vehicle. Despite his counterintelligence efforts, such as using encryption, private networks and wiping every computer he used to send messages, Emwazi's movements were discovered when he contacted his wife and child who lived in Iraq.

Pakistan's Army says the death toll has risen to five people in the attack by insurgents on a luxury hotel in the country's Southwestern coast. Three gunmen stormed the Pearl Continental hotel in the city of Gwadar on Saturday, killing three staff members, a hotel security guard and a special forces soldier. A further six people, including two soldiers, suffered injuries. All three gunmen were killed after an eight-hour shootout with Pakistan security forces. A Baloch separatist group, the Baloch Liberation Army, claimed responsibility Saturday for the attack, releasing photos of the insurgents who it said took part.

The film, simply titled Schumacher, is backed by the German's family and is expected to hit cinemas in Germany and Switzerland in December this year. The driver's 50-year-old wife Corinna (pictured together right), who has rarely spoken in public and is believed to be responsible for guarding the secrecy of Schumacher's health, is expected to be among the interviewees. His 73-year-old father Rolf (pictured inset, left, with the driver's brother Ralf) is also set to appear but Schumacher himself (pictured left celebrating victory at the 1999 Brazilian Grand Prix) is not expected to be in the film. A trailer for the film will be shown at the Cannes film festival which begins this week.

For the first time since the Joliet Correctional Center opened in 1858, and closed in 2002, The Old Joliet Prison (left) - what it's called by locals - is now open for tours. It's famous as one of the filming locations for the 1980 comedy The Blues Brothers starring Dan Akroyd and John Belushi (top right and bottom right). Tours, which last 90 minutes and cost $20, and include visits to prison cells, the yard and the chapel. Some sections are closed off until they can be restored, such as the former warden's quarters