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During the final weeks of his life, those who knew RAF chief engineer Alan Warrender (left) watched him become a shadow of his former self. If he had always been partial to the odd glass of whisky, then by the spring of 1993 he was drinking it in alarming quantities. The 43-year-old father of four was in despair, struggling with spiralling debts and chased down by loan sharks. But what pushed him over the edge in April that year was the discovery that his wife, Penny, was cheating on him. While Alan took his own life days after finding out about her affair, Penny went on to marry her lover (right) and two decades later, in a crime that shocked the nation, stabbed him to death in cold blood at their home in Somerset while he was on the phone to the emergency services. destroyed by the so-called 'pyjama killer'.

Now Boris Johnson pays price at the polls: Labour race ahead of the Tories by SIX points

The survey for the Daily Mail revealed the scale of public anger over Boris Johnson's handling of the crisis. According to the Savanta ComRes survey, a three-point Conservative lead last week has become a six-point deficit. The rapid turnaround ramps up pressure on the Prime Minister (left) to get a grip and could spark panic among Tory MPs. One said he was on the brink of submitting a formal letter of no confidence in the Prime Minister. The poll found that voters overwhelmingly believe Mr Johnson should apologise for his botched handling of the scandal. He has stubbornly refused to do so. The vast majority think Tory grandee Sir Geoffrey Cox should stand down for earning earned hundreds of thousands of pounds from a second job that saw him vote in parliament remotely from the Caribbean.

JOHN HUMPRHYS: Like many others who reported on Watergate from start to finish, I have no doubt that Nixon had sealed his fate in those few unguarded seconds in that Disney theatre.

Selling peerages has been illegal since 1925, when the Honours (Prevention Of Abuses) Act was introduced in response to David Lloyd George's flogging of hereditary titles for £50,000 apiece.

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Malik Karim, co-treasurer of the Conservative Party, is founder and chief executive of Fenchurch Advisory, the investment bank advising LV on the £530million deal.

Daniel Humm, 45, will leave his post at Claridge's in London's Davies and Brook at the end of December following tense talks with the five-star hotel's management.

Bina Patel (pictured), 56, from Ashton-under-Lyne, in Tameside, Greater Manchester, already had 'no pulse' by the time paramedics got to her home, according to her son, Ashkay, 27.

Rachel Johnson claimed the media mogul 'dandled' Mr Johnson's son Wilfred on his knee at Chequers as he made the case for scrapping the licence fee-funded broadcaster.

'Best day ever!' Britney celebrates after judge officially terminates her $60M

Judge Brenda Penny has granted Britney Spears her wish to end her 13-year conservatorship, officially bringing an end to the controversial arrangement. Ahead of the hearing, the 39-year-old pop star's fiancé Sam Asghari shared a brief Instagram video of her modeling a #FreeBritney t-shirt that features the tagline: 'It's a human rights movement'.

Matt Hancock book deal will see him tell of heroic role in pandemic

Matt Hancock is set to write a 'How I Won The Covid War' book on his 'heroic' role in the UK vaccine campaign. The former health secretary is in talks with HarperCollins over a blow-by-blow account of 'heated' lockdown rows with ministers, aides, scientists and medics. The book, which could earn him an advance of £100,000, will allow him to dispute claims that he was to blame for key blunders in the pandemic as well as push his case for a Cabinet comeback. It is understood he will hit back at former No 10 aide Dominic Cummings who has accused him of incompetence and lying. According to insiders, he will fuel their vicious war of words with the explosive claim that Mr Cummings' 'destructive antics' delayed the vaccine breakthrough. They suggest he will also take aim at EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen over Covid jab rows. Mr Hancock is keen to resist pressure to use the book to describe the affair with aide Gina Coladangelo that led to his resignation in June - or the leaked photo of their kiss (right) that ended his marriage. (Left, Mr Hancock and Gina Coladangelo in September 2019.)

Princes William and Harry will be 'pleased' that Michael Fawcett has resigned as they felt he was a 'pernicious influence' on their father's household, sources said last night.

EXCLUSIVE: Dr Farah Jameel, a GP in Camden, is one of two contenders shortlisted for the vacant role of chair of the British Medical Association's (BMA) general practitioners committee.

Teen girl, 16, says 'stubborn' bus driver who refused to let her board a bus 'showed no compassion' and wasted police time after officer was forced to drive her home 

Eleanor Hockney, 16, (left) shared a clip online showing the bus driver refusing to let her on the last bus to her home in Dunswell, East Yorkshire. Despite Eleanor's pleas and questioning by a police officer (inset), the bus driver (right) cited health and safety as the reason why he could not let the teenager onboard. Eleanor was left stranded and had to be given a lift home by the police officer which she says was a 'waste of police time'.

Harrow School, which charges £43,665-a-year, has enlisted a social media influencer to teach boys about 'the change' and demystify what students' loved ones could be going through.

Afghan girls' tears as they're sold by their starving families

Two weeks ago, as 'the cold season came', Halim decided to sell his eight-year-old daughter, Noqra (left), a once lively girl who enjoys playing with leaves outside the family's concrete hut. The 70-year-old plans to sell Noqra within a month by declaring his intentions to their community. 'We will announce we have a daughter for sale,' he says, hoping the 100,000 Afghanis (£820) she may fetch would get them enough food to stay alive. Seven-year-old Zohra (right) currently lives in her family's hut in the province of Ghor, north-west Afghanistan. Her father, Qadir, 35, used to work as a labourer, earning up to £2 a day, but since the Taliban took over in August, even that work has dried up.  Two years ago, he sold Zohra, his eldest daughter. He was paid 170,000 Afghanis - £1,386 - for the little girl, then aged five, by a 52-year-old man he doesn't know. He doesn't know when her purchaser will come and pick up his 'goods'. And until recently, 14-year-old Najiba (inset) was a student who dreamt of being a teacher. But the Taliban ordered high schools to only re-open for boys, ending any hopes of continuing her education. Last year, Najiba's father died. Her uncle, Ahmad, 44, is helping her mother, Mastana, raise Najiba, her two sons and younger daughter. Three months ago, he decided the family would not survive without selling Najiba as a child bride.

JOHN SIMPSON: As I talked to a woman named Fatima in Bamyan, I asked if she'd thought of selling her daughters in marriage to make enough money to survive the winter. Yes, she said.

Emma Tustin, 32, 'enjoyed' making little Arthur Labinjo-Hughes suffer before allegedly fatally shaking him and bashing his head against a hard surface, Coventry Crown Court was told Friday.

BARBARA AMIEL endured humiliation after her husband was jailed and now returns from social

NEW Barbara Amiel's (pictured) hadn't a clue what she was in for last month when her made my first trip back to London in seven years. Sensing apprehension, my Toronto manicurist thought microblade eyebrows would add to my confidence. 'Eyebrows are the picture frame,' she said encouragingly, looking at my forehead where no hairs grow. I resisted. I contemplated the packing. After three years of seclusion writing my memoir, Friends And Enemies, followed by 18 months of intermittent Covid lockdowns, my daily wardrobe consisted of laceless trainers from China with photos of my dogs printed on them and rotating Zara outfits of cargo trousers with mismatched sweaters. I was out of practice in everything including dressing and speaking to anyone but my husband and dog. The impetus for the trip had been an invitation to take part in the Cliveden Literary Festival along with genuine luminaries such as historian Antonia Fraser, political hatchet Sasha Swire (author of 'Diary Of An MP's Wife' with its tell-all look at life in the Tory clique around David Cameron) and smart, promising young women like Emerald Fennell (the Oscar-winning director, actress - Camilla in The Crown - and writer). This all got me very excited when I talked about it - six months ahead of it. Less exciting when you're facing it.

Soldiers sent to help Poland at border with Belarus

The escalating migrant crisis at the edge of the EU (bottom right) triggered a rapid military build-up in the region, with Russian paratroopers touching down on the opposite side of the border. The deployment of Royal Engineers on a reconnaissance mission came as a pair of Kremlin nuclear-capable bombers forced the RAF to defend British airspace. Vladimir Putin (left) was also warned against making a 'serious mistake' after America said satellite images of troops suggested Russia could be planning to invade Ukraine. The small forward party of British soldiers, thought to number about ten, will help Polish forces strengthen their border with Belarus, where as many as 4,000 migrants, mainly from Iraq, Syria and Yemen, have gathered hoping to cross into Europe (top right)

The latest crisis at in Eastern Europe follows months of unease in the region dating back to last summer when Belarus was rocked by months of massive protests over Lukashenko's re-election

This is how war starts: DOMINIC SANDBROOK says the echoes of history have never been so

Tomorrow morning, at exactly 11 o'clock, Britain will fall silent. Young and old, black and white, rich and poor, millions of people will stand united to remember the fallen. Known originally as Armistice Day, Britain's first day of remembrance was held on November 11, 1919, marking the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Today, as Remembrance Sunday, it remains one of the few truly sacred moments in our national calendar. But what was it all about, that first Great War? Why did it happen? And how did more than five million young men from Britain and Ireland find themselves on the beaches of Gallipoli, in the deserts of Mesopotamia, in the hills of Palestine and, above all, in the mud of the Western Front?

Tony Sewell (pictured), the author of a government race report who came under fire for saying white people have a lower life expectancy claims he has been vindicated.

Victoria Spry killed herself in her flat in Cheltenham after years of worrying her childhood abuser Eunice, who was released from prison in 2014, might try to 'exact revenge', the coroner heard.

England players continued the act of taking the knee ahead of their games but Albania were forced to re-take the kick off after they appeared to forget their opponent's plan and began the game early.

While MP colleagues toiled 4,000 miles away, THIS was Geoffrey Cox's paradise retreat 

Discreetly located above a secluded bay on the sun-drenched holiday isle of Tortola, Cooper Bay Villas (pictured) is the last word in luxury. Set in 1.7 acres of perfectly manicured tropical gardens, this dream destination is where Sir Geoffrey Cox QC (inset), the Tory MP for Torridge and West Devon, was billeted while beavering away at his 'second job'. As far as temporary digs are concerned, it is certainly not too shabby. Worth £3.1million, the five-bedroom, five-bathroom residence is split across two villas and no expense was spared, gushes a local estate agent, in the property that 'redefines luxury and contemporary island living'.

The Metropolitan Police said its officers had concluded there were 'not sufficient grounds' to initiate a probe after being urged to do so by senior SNP MPs.

Mr Raab declared the donations made to the Esher and Walton Conservative Association for 'campaigning costs' on the Commons register of interests in July.

Drake 'blew $1m on exotic dancers' at Houston strip club a day AFTER performing alongside Travis Scott at Astroworld festival where nine people died in crush

Hours after performing with Travis Scott, Drake went to a strip club in Houston. Video suggested Drake spent $1 million on strippers at Area 29 strip club. It occurred just hours after eight people died and 300 others were injured at Travis' Astroworld concert at NRG Park. Earlier it had been reported that Drake and Travis partied at Dave & Busters in Houston the same night as Astroworld.

Fourteen buildings up to 14 storeys in height are expected to be constructed on the site of the former women's prison in North London - five years after it last housed inmates.

This week Bel answers a question from a woman who questions why her son always takes his wife's side.

Meghan Markle texted her aide to say Harry faced 'constant berating' from royal family

Meghan, 40, sued Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), the publisher of The Mail On Sunday and MailOnline, over five articles that reproduced parts of a 'personal and private' letter to Mr Markle, 77. ANL has brought an appeal against a High Court judge's decision to grant Meghan summary judgment - meaning she won her case without a trial. During the hearing this week, ANL's lawyers told senior judges they want to rely on new evidence from Jason Knauf - former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex - who claimed that the duchess wrote the letter with the understanding that it could be leaked.

Steve Bannon was indicted by a grand jury on Friday after he defied a subpoena to testify before the House's select committee on the January 6th Capitol attack.

Jack Lis, pictured, suffered unsurvivable injuries to the head an neck after he was attacked by a dog on Monday in Caerphilly, his inquest heard.

Ghislaine Maxwell: Step-by-step guide to what many predict will be one of the trials of

Long before dawn on Monday morning, Ghislaine Maxwell (left, with Jeffrey Epstein and right, in court) will be taken out of her 6ft by 9ft cell at Brooklyn's bleak Metropolitan Detention Centre for a day the British socialite has long fought desperately to avoid. In her blue prison uniform, shackled by her hands and feet, she will be ushered into a white Department of Corrections prison van for the six-mile journey through Brooklyn, across the East River and on to a downtown Manhattan court. The route offers a fine view of the Statue of Liberty and should she catch a glimpse of it through the window grilles, its welcome to the world's 'huddled masses' may now ring hollow for this particular immigrant. Thirty years after she moved to the US following the death of her father Robert Maxwell - the newspaper publisher who plundered millions from his companies' pension funds - and tirelessly worked to reinvent herself, she faces charges that could see the American Dream end for her in a maximum 80-year sentence. When she arrives at the courthouse in Foley Square on Monday, facing charges over allegedly helping her super-rich friend Jeffrey Epstein groom and sexually abuse underage girls, she will be transferred to a holding cell before being led to a courtroom reserved for high-profile trials. So what can we expect in the coming weeks? And, above all, will Prince Andrew - who she introduced to Epstein - be dragged into the case? Here is our step-by-step guide to what many predict will be one of the trials of the century.

Killer knifeman on the loose in Brentford: Police launch urgent search after man in his 20s stabbed to death and woman in her 80s left fighting for her life in 'random attack'

A man has died and a woman in her 80s is fighting for her life after a double stabbing in west London , as police tonight launch a desperate hunt for the killer knifeman. The male victim, believed to be in his twenties, was pronounced dead at the scene of the stabbing in Albany Parade (pictured left and right: Police at the scene), Brentford (pictured inset: A map showing the location), this evening. Police say the woman, aged in her eighties, was rushed to hospital where she is believed to be in a critical condition. Officers are tonight investigating the double stabbing. They say there is 'nothing to suggest' that the incident is linked to terrorism. No arrests have been yet made and enquiries are ongoing. The male victim has yet to be formally identified.

Mother Sherrilyn Speid (pictured), 34, from Purfleet, Essex, who rammed Insulate Britain activists with her Range Rover has launched her own clothing line based on the experience.

Three unjabbed carers reveal 'heartbreak' at having to leave job

EXCLUSIVE: Niamh Bradley (top right), 23, Shevorn Perkins (bottom right), 28, and Justina Ugo, 47, were three of six staff sacked from the Boldmere Court Care Home in Birmingham , yesterday. Up to 57,000 care home staff were barred from their workplace as of yesterday as England's new rule kicked in, despite desperate pleas from the sector for it to be delayed

Le Tissier, who was recently axed as a Sky pundit, has been regularly sharing anti-vax content, including the evidence-free claim there have been 15,000 vaccine-related deaths in Europe alone.

A taskforce set up to stop the spread of coronavirus in the Sverdlovsk region in Russia is considering banning the sale of alcohol to people who don't have a QR code showing they've been vaccinated.

Independent Sage, a pressure group made up of eminent experts, said compulsory masks and widespread working from home were needed in England 'urgently' to 'save the NHS and Christmas'.

The NHS Covid app does not permit children under the age of 16 to register their status so they are unable to prove they are vaccinated or have tested negative, a requirement for some venues abroad.

Moderna officials are standing by its Covid shot after seven European countries sidelined it for the Pfizer jab instead in young people. There are concerns the jab causes myocarditis.

Boris compares Europe's escalating Covid outbreak to 'storm clouds' that could hit Britain next as daily UK infections rise by nearly a FIFTH but deaths and admissions continue to fall 

Britain's daily Covid cases rose by nearly a fifth today as Boris Johnson used Europe's rising epidemic to urge Britons to get their booster vaccines. The Department of Health reported another 40,375 infections across the UK over the past 24 hours, marking a rise of 19 per cent compared to last Friday and the second day in a row they've risen. The rising numbers came as Mr Johnson warned that there were 'storm clouds gathering over parts of the European continent'. In a noticeable shift in tone, the PM said: 'I've got to be absolutely frank with people, we've been here before - and we remember what happens when a wave starts rolling in.' Mr Johnson, speaking during a visit to a pharmacy in Sidcup, suggested that Britain's fate this winter hinged on how many people got their booster jabs.

Rory Cellan-Jones (inset) tweeted earlier today that the van was stolen with his Collie - Cabbage (left) - inside at 10.20am in East Acton. Five of the six stolen dogs have been found.

Has there ever been such a hyped album launch as Adele's £35million Operation Overkill?

Adele's return to the spotlight for the release of her new album, 30, couldn't have been more exhaustive. But then, with an army of LA's top movers and shakers - plus a budget of £35 million - at her disposal, it's no surprise she's taken the world by storm. From brokering peace between Vogue bosses Edward Enninful and Anna Wintour to battling a shortage of vinyl and elbowing other artists out of the way, we reveal how the singer managed an Adele of an album launch . . .

Aleksi Shyti was using a fake Greek identity document when the white Rover 211 he was driving struck Ricky Burlton, who was thrown into the path of three other cars in Hertford on June 4, 2010.

Paris Hilton is MARRIED! Heiress ties the knot with entrepreneur beau Carter Reum

Paris Hilton has married entrepreneur Carter Reum in a lavish ceremony at her late grandfather's Bel-Air estate in a star-studded affair that included A-list guests Kim Kardashian, Nicole Richie, Emma Roberts and Ashley Benson. The 40-year-old hotel heiress also gave a first glimpse at her custom Oscar de la Renta bridal gown as she took to Instagram on Thursday evening following the ceremony. On Friday, Paris released official photography from the event, as well as sharing her first thoughts on her big day.  Reports claimed that Paris had only decided on the dress late the night before, and that she had also changed the venue in the weeks leading up to the big event. Paris did not debut her wedding ring in the glamorous snapshot, but instead flashed her impressive engagement ring at the camera as she held her veil over her face.

The Restaurant Guide 2022 showcases 1,700 eateries, each handpicked by the AA for their 'culinary excellence'. Here are a few of the mouthwatering restaurants that made the cut...

European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic (pictured) said there had been a 'change in tone' during talks in London with Brexit minister Lord Frost about the Irish border problem.

Unmasked: Three boys who killed vulnerable man by pushing him into a canal after violent

The body of Scott Anderton (inset) was found in a canal in Leigh, Greater Manchester, in March this year and a post-mortem exam revealed he had suffered 35 stab wounds before he drowned. Liam Bailey, 18, (bottom right) had pleaded guilty to the murder of Mr Anderton, while Harry Maher, 16, (top right) was found guilty by a jury of the same charge and Liam O'Brien, 17,(left) was convicted of manslaughter. Bailey and Maher were both handed life sentences at Manchester Crown Court today while O'Brien was sentenced to 10 years in youth custody. The juveniles have been named for the first time today after Judge Alan Conrad QC lifted reporting restrictions.

David Salmon, of Keighley, West Yorks, was married to wife Linda for 41 years before she took her life last April, and called on husbands to recognise the 'mental' symptoms of the menopause.

PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Katie, 43, and Carl, 32, head to bridal store

Katie Price cut a low-key figure as she headed to a Las Vegas bridal shop with her fiancé Carl Woods on Friday.  The glamour model, 43, went shopping at David's Bridal Store in Sin City with the former Love Island star, 32, hot on the heels of news the couple are planning to move to the US after their wedding.  Shunning any pre-wedding glamour, she cut a low-key figure in red trousers and a black tee as she headed into the shop with Carl, who was given a mask by a shop assistant to stay in-line with local Covid rules. 

Stephanie Davis, 28, had to move out and suffered panic attacks due to harassment campaign by Alex Boston, 43, who admitted to a stalking charge at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday.

What it's really like watching your partner getting STRICTLY STEAMY: Olympian Adam Peaty's partner EIRI MUNRO shares the joy of watching his first dance... and the agony of trolls telling her to leave him

When gold medal winning Olympic swimmer Adam Peaty, 26, became the latest celebrity to be eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing (left) last weekend, his partner Eiri Munro, 23, (top right with Adam and son George), could be forgiven for heaving a sigh of relief. After all, Eiri found her own relationship with the swimmer under public scrutiny (bottom right) when Peaty and his dance partner Katya Jones, appeared to almost kiss (inset bottom) during a steamy Argentine tango. Here Eiri, an artist, who lives with Adam and their son, George, one, gives a candid account of the Strictly experience from a partner's perspective. Her observations may surprise you... August 5: We're in our garden with Adam's brother huddled round the radio when it's announced that he will be among those taking part in this year's Strictly Come Dancing. We've been keeping this news under our hats for a few weeks now and can finally share our excitement. We hug one another and Adam's brother teases him about his chances of winning - his talents in the water are indisputable but on the dance floor? Let's just say he's no Rudolf Nureyev . . .

Can Arslan, 51, is accused of knifing 43-year-old Matthew Boorman (pictured) to death in Walton Cardiff near Tewkesbury on Tuesday October 5.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Chef Marco Pierre White wants to become an Italian citizen

RICHARD EDEN: Fiery chef Marco Pierre White (left) used to throw out diners he disliked when he was still the enfant terrible of Michelin-starred restaurants. And now, I can reveal, the TV star has decided to apply for Italian citizenship because he's so angry about the way his beloved late mother, Maria-Rosa Gallina (right), was treated by the British authorities after she emigrated here from the Veneto region of Italy after World War II. 'My mother was sent to live with her nonna [grandma] in Leeds and met my father and fell pregnant, and had no choice but to marry him,' he reveals.

Multi-millionaire businessman, 48, who launched into space with William Shatner on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket last month dies learning to fly

Glen de Vries (left, circled), who flew into space last month alongside William Shatner aboard the Blue Origin rocket (top right) died in a small plane crash on Thursday (bottom right). De Vries, 49, co-founder of Medidata Solutions, was taking flying lessons with Thomas Fischer, 54, of Fischer Aviation, when their plan crashed in Sussex County, New Jersey at 3 p.m. Both men perished in the crash, the New Jersey State Police Department said. De Vries' death comes a month after he paid to board Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket with Shatner, Australian entrepreneur Chris Boshuizen and Blue Origin executive Audrey Powers. He had called the experience 'a dream come true.' Blue Origin tweeted, 'We are devastated to hear of the sudden passing of Glen de Vries. He brought so much life and energy to the entire Blue Origin team and to his fellow crewmates. His passion for aviation, his charitable work, and his dedication to his craft will long be revered and admired.' 

Jeff Bezos said future generations born in space colonies will visit Earth on vacation. He added that the floating cylinders were a better prospect than restarting life on another planet like Mars.

Two teenagers Raymond McGill and Gift Osondu who took part in a knife fight in Beckton, east London, that ended with a schoolboy dead, were jailed for two years each at the Old Bailey today.

The Smithy Family, who have around 2.6 million followers on the social media platform, saw their semi-detached home in south east London, wrecked in a devastating inferno earlier this year.

Bogdan Ksiazek was driving his passengers home to the Midlands after a festive trip to Ely, Cambridgeshire, but failed to give way at a junction and caused the fatal crash in November 2019.

Oxford Street leads festive light switch-on as London gets into the Yuletide spirit 

Some of London's most well-known streets including Mayfair, Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Street, have been decked with over one million LED lights for Christmas. A total of 20 streets across the city's West End all had their lights switched on at the same time by the Lord Mayor of Westminster to mark the beginning of the festive season.

Suppliers are deliberately holding back from increasing wine prices until after the busy Christmas and New Year period has passed in a bid to remain competitive with their rivals.

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Ambulance gets stuck in traffic when car gets jammed in controversial new cycle lane that council installed 'by surprise' 

Cycle lanes on Cannonmills in Edinburgh were installed as part of the city council's Spaces for People project which was introduced during the pandemic to give people more space. The lane has plastic rods installed along it- which caused a 'pantomime' when a car attempting to give way to an ambulance found itself trapped on Tuesday evening. Footage shows the ambulance flashing its lights in an attempt to get through the traffic but the first car remains jammed in the cycle lane. The car behind it remains unable to move to let the ambulance go through. Traffic can only move to let the ambulance go when the first car manages to get out of the cycle lane. Finally, the ambulance can get through after both cars have moved and it can dash to hospital.

All 'outstanding' schools in England last visited before 2015 will receive a full inspection, while those primaries and secondaries awarded the top grade since then will get short visits.

Solicitor Rebecca Elliott, of Southampton, used some of the cash from her own firm's client account at to prop up her second business, and borrowed thousands from her mother in a bid to cover her tracks.

Police were called to 17th century wedding venue Lemore Manor in Eardisley, Herefordshire went into administration last month, leaving angry brides thousands of pounds out of pocket.

Ex-Chicago Bulls player Corey Benjamin reveals it was his daughter 14, who was caught on viral video sucker-punching rival

The 14-year-old basketball player who shot to infamy on the internet this week for sucker punching a 15-year-old opponent has been identified as the daughter of former Chicago Bulls player Corey Benjamin (left) in a statement apologizing for the attack. 'This is not how I raised my daughter,' said Benjamin, who played three seasons with the Bulls and had a brief stint with the Atlanta Hawks in 2003 before finishing his career overseas. Benjamin's daughter has not been identified by name because she is a minor. In a video that quickly went viral (right), Benjamin's 14-year-old daughter is seen sucker punching a 15-year-old opponent during a tournament game in Southern California on Sunday, leading to her immediate ejection. Lauryn Ham (inset left), the victim who has been identified publicly by her own family, was blindsided by the punch and, according to her mother, suffered a concussion. The family has filed a police report and is accusing the 14-year-old of assault. The game referee told NBCLA the 14-year-old's mother told her daughter to 'go hit' Lauryn. Now, Benjamin has apologized to the Ham family, not only for his daughter's actions, but for her mother's as well.

Ivanka Trump visits Jewish food bank in Miami with son Joseph

Ivanka opted for an inexpensive frock by the German fast-fashion brand Lichi for her visit to the Jewish Community Services Kosher Food Bank on Thursday. The 40-year-old paired the short beige shirtdress with glamorous tortoiseshell cat-eye sunglasses and small gold hoop earrings. Ivanka, who has kept a relatively low profile since her family's move to Florida, drove to and from the location herself with her security guard in the front seat. The mother of three was joined by her oldest son, eight-year-old Joseph. The JCS Kosher Food Bank is the only food bank in Miami-Dade County that offers kosher foods for those who observe Jewish dietary laws. Ivanka converted to Judaism to marry her husband, former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, who is a Modern Orthodox Jew. They are raising their three children, Arabella, Joseph, and Theodore, in the same faith.

And Just Like That trailer! Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte reunite to bring back Sex And The City's magic WITHOUT Samantha... and Mr. Big makes a swoon-worthy return too

An official teaser for And Just Like That dropped on Friday morning. The clip was bubbly and fast paced as the Sex And The City vets Sarah Jessica Parker , Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon were seen in outrageous fashion while living it up in New York City. The series debuts on HBOMax and Sky Comedy on December 9.

Eggshell planets likely have an outer layer a few miles thick, are unlikely to have plate tectonics, and may not be habitable, report a team led by Washington University in St. Louis.

Feras Al Jayoosi, 34, from Swindon, pleaded guilty to four counts of wearing an article supporting a proscribed organisation at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday.

The lavish contents of an Elizabethan country house that featured one of the world's finest collection of needlework (pictured) have sold for more than £1million.

Can't keep a good woman down! Rachael Blackmore incredibly recovers from her horse falling at the second-last hurdle to WIN at Cheltenham after staying on-board

Rachael Blackmore brilliantly held on to Gin & Lime to win at the Cheltenham races on Friday despite rival horse My Drogo falling at the penultimate hurdle which put her and her horse off.  Blackmore was competing alongside Harry Skelton and My Drogo at the end of the 2m4f Novice Chase on Friday when her rival stumbled over the final hurdle and unseated the jockey, which caused some temporary havoc.  The Irish jockey sensationally sat her horse on the ground, with Blackmore somehow managing to stay in the saddle before heaving the Henry De Bromhead horse back up to continue the race.

The FDA union launched judicial review proceedings in February over the Prime Minister's decision last year to disregard the findings of his adviser on ministerial standards in order to back Priti Patel.

Pictures show 'happy and cheerful' Leiland Corkill with his birth mother, Laura, before his tragic death this year. The one-year-old died at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital on January 7.

The landlord must be taking a dig! Student goes viral with tour of £115-a-week rented home, including a leaky light bulb, a VERY tiny shower and a construction site in her garden

Ami McGivney, who is studying at the University of Worcester, lives in the property with four friends and took to TikTok to document the bizarre local accommodation. The amusing clip shows one of her housemates squeezing into a tiny shower, a disjointed skirting board, washing hanging on the table, a door without a handle and an outside bin without a lid. The voiceover announces: 'Things in our uni house which just make sense', before the video pans to its various features.

A Vincent van Gogh landscape seized by the Nazis during their Second World War occupation of France has sold at auction in New York for $35.9 million - a record for a watercolour by the painter.

John Faragher stepped down as Essex County Cricket Club chairman after a historic allegation of racist language used by him at a board meeting in 2017. He strongly denies the incident.

The return of the lion queen? Woman in red dress climbs into Bronx Zoo lion enclosure and throws $100 bills at the beasts: Believed to have done similar stunt in 2019

Cellphone footage shows the woman approach the carnivore with two bouquets of roses (left) and told the man filming the bizarre scene, 'I miss him so much.' She waved at onlookers as she told the lion, 'King, I love you. I came back for you.' The woman proceeded to dance and throw $1 bills at the big cat (right), and by the time spectators alerted the zoo's staff about the situation, she was gone. The scene was reminiscent of an incident where another woman broke into the lion's enclosure in 2019 to taunt the animals.

Gary Osborne, 72, is accused of exercising 'undue influence' over his 'vulnerable' mother Joan Osborne, who died with dementia in 2018, when she gave him her £3m West London flat in 2002.

Winston Churchill's warm words of tribute to Neville Chamberlain after his death

Neville Chamberlain (pictured left with Churchill in 1939), who was 71, had been Prime Minister for three years from 1937 until May 10, 1940, and had served in the War Cabinet of his successor Winston Churchill. Whilst Chamberlain's time in Downing Street had ended with the failure of his goal of preventing war with Nazi Germany, Churchill stood up in the House of Commons on this day 81 years ago and honoured the man he had so fiercely criticised. He said Chamberlain had the most 'noble and benevolent instincts of the human heart, the love of peace, the toil for peace, the strife for peace, the pursuit of peace, even at great peril.' But, he added, the politician had been 'deceived' by the 'wicked' Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, who had agreed in the September 1938 Munich Agreement (seen with Hitler top right) to limit his European territorial ambitions to the Sudetenland region of what was then Czechoslovakia. The Nazi leader had already absorbed Austria into Germany in March 1938 and had been pushing to do the same with his planned invasion of the Sudetenland, where around three million people of German origin lived. The following year, Hitler rode roughshod over the deal signed in Munich by annexing all of Czechoslovakia (invasion shown bottom right) in March and invading Poland in September, leading to Britain's declaration of war.

The high-pressure form of calcium silicate perovskite was predicted in 1967 but never before seen in nature. Experts led from the University of Nevada found it within a diamond from Orapa Botswana.

Shocking snaps show the destruction guests have left behind at hotels

Photos from around the world that capture the destruction and chaos left behind by shameless hotel and Airbnb guests have been collated into a gallery by Israel-based blog Traveler Door. Pictured top left to right: A smashed bathroom sink, buttons missing from a headboard and graffiti in a trashed apartment. Pictured bottom left to right: A messed up hotel room left behind by Van Halen, shattered glass table in Stephen Curry's hotel room and Popeyes chicken left beside a swimming pool.

A young girl on holiday in Italy caught gonorrhoea from sharing a thermal pool with an infected stranger. Experts say holidaymakers need to be aware regarding the risks of using these hot spots

At the extreme pressures found at the bottom of the Earth's outer core, iron assumes a stronger form to cope with the stress in a process called 'twinning', researchers from SLAC have determined.

Pingu the young Adèlie penguin went on the holiday of a lifetime when he travelled 1,900 miles to Birdlings Flat Beach near Christchurch, New Zealand

The FTSE 250 listed company said that the average price of its homes to buyers has increased nearly three times as fast as the cost of building materials.

Amazon has launched thousands of early Black Friday deals before the start of Black Friday on November 26. Here are 15 early Black Friday deals worth shopping this weekend.

Oscar Pistorius, 34, has been eligible for parole since July after he was convicted of murder for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp multiple times through a toilet door in his home in South Africa.

Mother-of-five reveals how she saves £420 a month by spending 3 hours meal prepping per

Carrie Durbridge, 40, from Mitcham, Surrey, said she saves £420 a month thanks to meal prepping for four of her five children and her husband, and has saved £5,000 in just a year. Carrie, inset, who used to spend £150 on food for her family a week but now spends £45, said she spends three hours cooking every Saturday where she fills 66 tubs, left, with seven different meals, right. Inset: Carries with three of her children.

Residents of Kwaqongqota Village in South Africa are worried a werewolf is behind the death of Diesel Michael Makambi, 59, whose body was found near a river last month with bite marks.

Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has condemned a Welsh school whose head teacher announced a plan to stop serving food to children who owe money for their lunch.

Enormous bungee platform is set up near I'm A Celeb site in Wales

An enormous bungee jump platform has been set up near the I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here site in north Wales. Viewers of the ITV show hosted by Ant and Dec have been given a glimpse of the contestants' first terrifying challenge which could involve launching themselves from a height. The structure has been erected at the remote Alexandra Quarry near Penyffridd just outside of Caernarfon.

Four new astronauts through the hatch! SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule safely arrives at the ISS following a 21 hour journey from Earth 

Four astronauts - three from NASA and one from the European Space Agency - have officially entered the ISS, after climbing through the hatch. The rendezvous came about 21 hours after the team and its capsule were launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday night, following a string of weather delays that postponed the liftoff for a week and a half.

David Linden and Drew Hendry, who were accused of drinking heavily on a flight to Gibraltar, told health workers they were double jabbed and did not need to be swabbed, according to a witness.

Sam Pybus, 32, was jailed for four years and eight months after admitting the manslaughter of Sophie Moss, a vulnerable mother-of-two who he strangled to death in bed.

It's a Mc-Tear-jerker! McDonald's releases its VERY heart-warming Christmas advert staring a fluffy imaginary friend named Iggy

McDonald's UK has released its very heartwarming Christmas advert for 2021, featuring a girl called Matilda who rediscovers her childhood imaginary friend, Iggy, set to a cover version of Time After Time by Mabel. As Matilda grows up, she forgets the furry friend who she was so close to, but a trip to McDonald's as a young adults sparks her imagination again.

The competition, run by Tramway Path, promised the winner the homes mortgage-free, with winner Sade Oluwaleimu, from London, free to do as she wishes with her newly-gained property portfolio.

A statement on the club's official Twitter feed read: 'We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of club legend and vice president Ron Flowers MBE at the age of 87.

I see your Katana, and I raise you! Moment road rage driver pulls Samurai SWORD on VERY COOL motorist who then pulls RIFLE out of his trunk in crazy Portland stand-off 

A driver was filmed running towards another motorist while brandishing a samurai-like sword in Portland, Oregon this week. In footage shared on Twitter, the man he threatens is seen keeping calm with his hands by his side, before finding the right moment to pull a rifle from the trunk of his car. Portland is seeing shootings and murders soar this year after the city's police department had its budget cut by $15million in 2020 as part of the woke city council's new defunding plan following the death of George Floyd.

Hattie Brown blacked out on a night out with friends in Fever nightclub near her university in Exeter, Devon, and when she regained consciousness alone in the toilet noticed teeth marks on her arm.

£6,830 version of iPhone 13 Pro Max contains a fragment of a real 80 million-year-old

London-based phone brand Caviar has unveiled a £6,830 version of the iPhone 13 Pro Max called the Tyrannophone, which features a fragment of a real 80 million-year-old T.Rex tooth. The Tyrannophone is part of Caviar's new Tera collection, and features an image of a T.Rex.

Israeli's state-run defense contractor announced on Thursday a new family of electronic warfare systems, Scorpius, which uses beams to interfere with electromagnetic spectrums.

An explosion at a mosque in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, close to the border with Pakistan, during Friday prayers has caused a number of fatalities and injuries, officials said.

Yacht builders unveil concept vessel they claim will use 'wings' to travel above the waves

A new 70-foot 'hyperboat concept' which claims to 'fly' above the water and has retractable wings and futuristic 'spaceship-like interiors' is being developed by Italian yacht builders Persico Marine in collaboration with Carkeek Design Partners and Pininfarina Nautical. Designers of the carbon composite crafted yacht boast it as having a 'sleek, aerodynamic silhouette that's conducive to breakneck cruising'. They also say that while most foiling yachts are 'designed purely for speed', Persico F70 'combines high performance with luxury interiors, meaning it can be used for both racing and leisurely daysailing'. Persico Marine claims the yacht 'outperforms 100-footers and can "fly" at just 10 knots' but gave no exact speed figures. As well as the retractable wings, it also promises 'elevators on the rudder blade that together allow it to fly across the water with minimal drag'. (Pictured: The Persico F70 'hyperboat concept')

Leicestershire Fire and Rescue deployed nine units to the Walkers Crisps factory in Leicester this morning after receiving reports that the building's roof caught fire.

Thames Water will have to slash bills by £53m in the year ending March 2023. Southern Water will have to forgo nearly £46m and Southwest Water by £15m.

As the row over cash given to St Peter's and Lady Margaret Hall following the death Max Mosley, BLM has said the university should not take money from 'violent racists'.

Tiny London ticket kiosk next to Garrick Theatre in the West End hits the market for

The Tourist Island (pictured) includes a small ticket kiosk near the Garrick Theatre which was once used to sell theatre tickets - with cast-iron stairs that lead to a larger basement area. The kiosk has stood for a number of years and owners are now looking to sell it for a considerable sum as theatres up and down the country try to recover from the pandemic.

Catherine Mann (pictured), who is on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, said a hybrid form of working could open 'two tracks' and widen the gender gap.

As the Christmas parties loom, official figures have revealed shortages of tablets such as ibuprofen and paracetamol as Britons stock up to cope with possible Covid symptoms, flu and colds.

Mother who was fed up with her size 22 frame is unrecognisable after a £8,000 'mummy

Kayleigh Baldwin-Wilkinson, 28, of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, tipped the scales at 19st and hated her size 22 frame (left). Despite years of dieting, Kayleigh had struggled to keep off the pounds so spent £3,200 on a gastric bypass to help reduce her appetite and calorie intake. A year later, Kayleigh, who is mother to Hayley, seven, and Harley, four, went under the knife again to remove excess skin from her weight loss and paid £4,500 for a tummy tuck, breast lift and implants. She now weighs 10st 6lb and 'doesn't recognise' her size 10 figure in the mirror (right).

Research from Oxford University and Alsi shows a cheaper bottle of plonk can be rated more highly than an expensive brand - if it has a picture of a French chateau on the label.

The team of Northwestern University scientists behind the newly-published research hope to approach the Food and Drug Administration as early as next year to propose human trials.

Hilarious moment man loses control of his £10k motorised trike and flips it before falling off while showing off in a US skatepark

The man tried desperately to hold on to the trike as it roared off across the D Park skatepark in Denver, Colorado, on October 30 in video captured by Tim Miller. But the vehicle eventually flipped, throwing its rider off and leaving him red-faced and bruised. Earlier in the video the man can be seen riding around the skatepark, showing off by purposely fishtailing on his 2022 Can-Am Ryker, which sells for around $13,000. Motorised vehicles are not supposed to be used in skateparks because they can damage the equipment.

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Brave pets who mucked in to help out during the war brought to life in edited photographs

Tom Marshall, who lives close to the Defence Animal Training Regiment base near Melton Mowbray, has transformed the incredible black-and-white images for PhotograFix. Among the images he has bought to life is one from July 1944, showing Jasper, a mine-detecting dog, having his ear bandaged by a sergeant of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps in Bayeaux, France (left). (Pictured left inset; These two kittens lived aboard HMS Hawkins, a heavy cruiser built by the Royal Navy during the First World War, though not completed until 1919. The kittens are pictured inside the barrel of a 7.5 inch gun; centre, another of the pictures is Aircrew was a young cat adopted by the Royal Australian Air Force Flying Training School, Cressy, Victoria, Australia; right inset, Venus the bulldog, mascot of the destroyer HMS Vansittart, taken in a photograph in 1941; right, another image taken in 1917 shows an unnamed British Royal Artillery soldier sitting for a portrait while wearing his uniform alongside his tiny white kitten)

Orangu-tantrum! Ape has a tug-of-war with family of otters as they try to steal his blankets at Belgian zoo

The footage was taken by staff at Pairi Daiza zoo in Brugelette, Belgium, and shows three oriental small-clawed otters and a four-year-old orangutan called Berani playing together. The orangutan family arrived at the zoo in 2017 after moving from Germany. The two species became friends when staff at the zoo decided to run the otter's river through the orangutan's territory. Orangutans are extremely threatened in the wild and Pairi Daiza has raised funds for more than 11,000 trees to be replanted in Borneo and restore the habitat of the great ape.

   

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