William Avery-Wright's father Christopher (pictured with his son centre) was racing to hospital from his office when he started receiving calls, texts and emails of condolence after his death outside Worth School (bottom left) near Crawley in West Sussex. Friends had seen the school's announcement which had been made before police had formally informed Mr Avery-Wright of his talented son's death. The tragic detail emerged as Mr Avery-Wright, 48, and his wife Lisa (top left), 43, decided to sue the school for alleged failures in their duty of care to their son.
- Devastated father discovered his 13-year-old son had been killed in car accident when £30,000-a-year boarding school posted tragic news on its website
- Drug addict burglar caught red-handed by grandfather, 58, who confronted him while filming him with video camera
- Labour plots 'Bridget Jones tax': Party accused of demanding an end to council tax discounts for singletons
- Holiday couple 'threw themselves overboard' as luxury cruise liner prepared to dock in Australia
- Cleveland 'kidnapper' Ariel Castro on suicide watch in prison as it emerges that prosecutors will seek the death penalty if charges of murder are brought for the unborn babies of the victims
- Top chartered surveyor run over and killed by a car while lying in the road after two bottles of wine during eight-hour drinking session
- 'I force-feed myself 5,000 calories a day through a funnel': Meet the 23-year-old desperate to reach 30st - so that men with a fat fetish will PAY to watch her eat
- Manager who stole £160,000 to take her boyfriend on luxury holidays to stop him leaving her only has to pay back £10,000
- London really is THE millionaires' playground: More 'ultra-high net worth' individuals live in English capital than any other city on Earth, new figures reveal
- Leveson barrister to be a High Court judge: Robert Jay appointed to Queen's Bench Division where he will rule on civil actions
- Outrage at barrister who called Stuart Hall's crimes 'low level'
- One of America's most wanted found hiding in KENT: Gun-crazed teacher convicted of attempted murder for kidnapping his ex found working at Sainsbury's and even has a family in the UK
- Radical reform that will allow shops and restaurants to open without planning permission 'threatens to suck life out of our high streets'
- £90 fine if you're texting at the wheel: Minister warns of safety crackdown
- Middle classes are 'ignoring the dangers of using casual drinking to combat stress'
- Fracking firm will drill 3,000ft well in Sussex in first test for gas in the Home Counties
- Axing grammar schools has reduced social mobility, says Eton headmaster
- Debt crisis for over-60s: Number unable to cope rises by 40% in three years
- 'I'm not like Ian Huntley': Tia Sharp's step-grandfather told prison officer she died falling down the stairs and tried to pin blame on Somali neighbours
- Finishing first and having the last word, Sir Alex Ferguson's lifelong obsession
- EXCLUSIVE: Man United line up Ronaldo return after chief Gill flies to Spain to talk to Madrid star's super-agent
- Hello ladies! Michelle Obama beats hundreds of adoring women to get closest to Britain's most eligible bachelor Prince Harry as he arrives in the U.S. for week-long tour
- Woman who injected COOKING OIL into her own face after doctors refused to give her any more plastic surgery
- Just vantastic! Head-turning campervan opens up to reveal secret compartment at the flick of a switch
- British Olympic champion killed after sailboat capsizes while practicing for America's Cup in San Francisco Bay
- Devastated father discovered his 13-year-old son had been killed in car accident when £30,000-a-year boarding school posted tragic news on its website
- GUILTY: Carer, 29, who dismembered paralysed ex-boxing champ with chainsaw before storing body parts in freezers and stealing £25,000 is jailed for life
- Cleveland 'kidnapper' Ariel Castro on suicide watch in prison as it emerges that prosecutors will seek the death penalty if charges of murder are brought for the unborn babies of the victims
- The net closes in on super rich tax dodgers: Spies expose how hundreds of Britons are 'hiding billions' in foreign tax havens
- Is this London's narrowest home? Makeshift wooden house just 6 feet wide pops up sandwiched between two terraces
- Terrifying moment a pod of 20 killer whales follows boat of couple on wedding anniversary trip
- 'I cannot stand Jewish people': Lawyer almost loses her career over office rant about queue-jumping man at medical centre
- 'Happy abduction day': Cleveland victims reveal how Ariel Castro 'gave them cakes to celebrate anniversaries of being kidnapped'
- Dental surgery receptionist, 28, was threatened with the sack for eating an APPLE at her desk
- The only person who gives Fergie the hairdryer treatment: Why Sir Alex Ferguson's wife is even more formidable than him
- Hop it! You could be a criminal: What police told girl, 10, who chalked hopscotch grid on the pavement outside her home
- Filthy takeaway fined £2,250 after staff were forced to manually flush their broken toilet using bare hands... and then go back to make pizzas without washing them
- QUENTIN LETTS: If there's one child who needs one-to-one nannying, it's Clegg
- Name the lead singer or you don't get in: Police deny fans entry to Vaccines gig unless they pass band quiz to flush out pickpockets
- We had a dream stop-over in Abu Dhabi! Airport unveils cocoon-like sleep pods where you can nap for £8 an hour
- Smirk of teenage thug moments before killing an OAP for her handbag: Pair of 15-year-olds including father-of-two jailed
- A red rose and a kiss from soldier's pregnant widow: Mourning wife says goodbye to husband killed in Afghanistan
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London really is THE millionaires' playground: More 'ultra-high net worth' individuals live in English capital than any other city on Earth, new figures reveal
The UK capital is home to more multimillionaires than any other city in the world according to new figures. London boasts a staggering 4,224 'ultra-high net worth' residents - people with a net worth of more than $30million, or £19.2million. Tokyo is in second place with 3,525 multi-millionaires, with Singapore in third with 3,154 and New York City in fourth with 2,929, reveal figures from WealthInsight. Oligarch Alisher Usmanov (inset left) is the UK's richest man while Nick Candy (inset right with wife Holly Valance) shares a £330million fortune with brother Christian. Both Usmanov and Candy have homes in London.
'I'm not like Ian Huntley': Tia Sharp's step-grandfather told prison officer she died falling down the stairs and tried to pin blame on Somali neighbours
Stuart Hazell (bottom right), 37, denied that 'anything sexual' had happened between himself and Tia Sharp (top right), whose mother Natalie, 32, and grandmother Christine Bicknell, 46, are pictured left outside court today. He also apparently tried to pin the blame on his Somali neighbours after the schoolgirl’s body was found in Hazell’s attic which stretches across their row of terrace houses. He also accused them of being sex offenders, the Old Bailey jury heard.
'I could feel the electricity racing through my body': Dramatic moment a motor-paraglider crashed into power lines... and survived
The 30-year-old daredevil, known only as Daniel, misjudged his approach to an airfield in March, Cambridgeshire, and slammed into the power lines (right). He was left dangling precariously above the ground for 10 minutes before he jumped to safety and was taken to hospital. He managed to avoid touching any of the live wires and survive the ordeal. Another pilot can be seen (left, inset) taking the correct line as he lands at the airstrip - steering well clear of the cables.
HOW THE WORLD LOOKS FROM WESTMINSTER
WESTMINSTER TODAY
- Nadine Dorries allowed back into the Tory party five months after swapping the Commons for the I'm A Celeb jungle
- On a new bike, Mitchell leaves Plebgate behind: Former Chief Whip shows off £350 machine
- Brown's plans to surrender 30 marginal seats to the Lib Dems: Former PM hatched plan to try and stop Tories winning 2010 General Election
As more teenagers have weight-loss surgery, a horrifying insight into the terrible price they pay as they grow up: Agony of the children given gastric bands as young as 13
A shocking number of children are undergoing potentially life-threatening surgery every year in a drastic antidote to the UK’s obesity crisis, which has seen a third of British school children classed as overweight before they start secondary school. Last year it was revealed that up to 20 children as young as 15 had invasive weight-loss surgery on the NHS in Britain.
Is this London's narrowest home? Makeshift wooden house just 6 feet wide pops up sandwiched between two terraces
Puzzled neighbours in Manor Road, Leyton, said the makeshift house appeared in what was once a gap between two more solidly-built houses a month ago. Now Waltham Forest Council is investigating whether the Heath Robinson-style property has planning permission and if it does not, they will order it be torn down.
Jailed for 30 years, mum who burned neighbours to death because they left pushchair in the hallway: Chilling pictures show remains of flat where five people died
Melanie Smith received a life sentence at Mold Crown Court for killing her neighbours, including three young children, by setting fire to their pushchair while they slept. The blaze spread into a devastating inferno which ripped through the first-floor flat in Prestatyn, North Wales, last October. It trapped and killed Lee-Anna Shiers, 20, her partner Liam Timbrell, 23, their baby son Charlie, 15 months, Miss Shiers’s nephew Bailey, four, and niece Skye, two.
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- Clinging on for dear life: Desperate workers hang from windows as giant blaze sweeps through 13-storey government building in Pakistan leaving at least four dead
- Electioneered to its death: Rare white tiger used as Pakistani campaign mascot dies of dehydration in 30C heat
- Cardinal reveals 'shock' at declining health of Pope Emeritus Benedict that has left him 'half his previous size'
- Isn't she supposed to be a communist? Mao Zedong's granddaughter appears at 242 on Chinese rich list with fortune of £525MILLION
- Greece's youth unemployment hits 60% as recession continues to cripple the country
- Balotelli stuns spectators by taking his £200,000 Ferrari for spin around an indoor go-kart track (that's one way to get round AC Milan's karting ban)
- Russia's show of strength: Vladimir Putin flexes military muscle with massive army display to marks 68th anniversary of victory over Nazis
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- Coin with corners goes into circulation in Australia... and its worth $80 more than its $5 face value
- India's missing children: Haunting portraits of 'disappeared' generation as government reveals child of FOUR has been raped
- Forty-year fight for justice by British woman whose brother was killed by Pinochet's thugs ends in victory as officers are jailed
- German opera featuring Nazi uniforms and massacre of Jewish family is cancelled after audience stages walk-out and requires treatment for 'psychological trauma'
- The hills are alive with the sound of folk music: Villagers in tiny Catholic corner of Germany celebrate Ascension Day with full costume and song
- Cruise passengers left high and dry for eight hours after ship gets stuck on sandbank
- Two elderly women accused of being witches die after drinking poison to 'cleanse their souls'
- Terrorists kidnap son of former Pakistan prime minister in middle of campaign rally, killing one and wounding five
- Top director 'investigated by Chinese for fathering seven': The Flowers of War filmmaker could be fined £17million if found guilty of breaking country's one-child policy
- Eight killed in Bangladesh clothing factory fire in latest industry as building collapse death toll reaches 900
- Job seekers in Denmark who literally put themselves in the shop window
- We can still win wars you know! Russia's massive show of military might as it stages commemoration of victory over Nazis