With its formica panels, Fifties-style G-plan furniture, plastic baths and strip lights, the Royal Train has all the ambiance of a mid-range provincial hotel circa 1975. It now seems destined to follow the dear old Royal Yacht, Britannia, in to retirement. And while that may please modernisers and republicans, royalists will regard it as a crying shame.
In a 56-minute interview in 2009, two years before he died, Savile fobbed off police with lies, bluster and legal threats. The 83-year-old said accusations from three of his child victims were the ‘complete fantasy’ of people ‘looking for a few quid’.
Jimmy Savile faced police over potentially devastating allegations from three women who claimed he abused them as girls.
Mark Rimmer, the chairman of the Local Registration Services Association, estimates that 15,000 of the 173,000 civil weddings each year in England and Wales could be fake.
Child protection experts said the police have seized an estimated 300million indecent images in just two years - which are increasingly extreme.
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust in London spent £4.15 per inpatient per day in 2012/13, compared to a national average spend of £9.87.
The glare of the setting sun during rush hour is to blame for 36 deaths a year, a report from the AA warns today, and is particularly dangerous as autumn turns to winter.
Police are chasing new leads in the Madeleine McCann case after being swamped by almost 1,000 tip-offs from the public.
Ministers plan to remove the legal necessity for a special page and a witness to the decision, when someone hands over life-and-death powers.
The 150ft high turbines of Chelker Reservoir, near Ilkley, will not be replaced after the council refused permission for two even bigger machines. According to campaigners, the turbines have not worked in years. In an unprecedented move, the utility company sent in contractors at the end of last month to dismantle the rusting structures.
A 0.5 per cent month-on-month uplift took the average price across the UK past a previous peak recorded in January 2008, the Office for National Statistics said.
Having a routine by going to bed at the same time and waking up at the same time each day may also significantly boost success rates, researchers claim.
New figures from the Office for National Statistics show how the proportion of women giving birth over the age of 30 has doubled in three decades.
Parents who fail to teach their children right from wrong are at the root of Britain’s biggest problems, Ofsted’s chief inspector has said.
Sir Michael Wilshaw implied Birmingham City Council (pictured) would work better to protect children if it was smaller.
Home Secretary hits out after the Independent Police Complaints Commission said the behaviour of police officers after a meeting with Mr Mitchell last year raised an 'issue of honesty and integrity’.
The 66-year-old executive agreed the ‘huge amounts of money’ thrown at presenters such as Graham Norton and Gary Lineker were unfair.
The short, geeky singer with the glasses failed to impress the BBC’s talent spotters. Rather embarrassing, in hindsight as their subject was Elton John.
The corporation has been condemned for paying its staff up to £150,000 each to move to its new base in Salford, Greater Manchester, without keeping a full record of who authorised the sums.
Goals by Wayne Rooney and captain Steven Gerrard booked England's place at Brazil 2014 in front of 70,000 jubilant fans. The team played in front of a charged atmosphere as 20,000 Polish fans made their voices heard before kick-off. Dozens of fans lit flares in the away end of Wembley Stadium (right) causing smoke to billow onto the pitch during the national anthems. However, it was England fans (inset) who were left jubilant after 90 minutes when their side finished top of Group H.
The King's College study also suggested that any initiative to replace the LCP should be 'grounded in scientific evidence' and tested before it is implemented.
Former minister Stephen Dorrell said a plan to offer loans to pay for care was not delivering 'the objective the Government set out'.
Researchers found a fifth of grandparents in England aged 50 or over, a figure of just under 2.5million, give money to help their grandchildren.
MPs yesterday revealed plans for an inquiry into whether Royal Mail was sold too cheaply - after its share price jumped by nearly 50 per cent in just three days of trading.
The price of a first class stamp, which has rocketed to 60p, will jump higher over the next three years it emerged last night.
Fuel duty in remote rural areas will be slashed by 5p a litre under plans to be put forward by ministers this week.
Michael Dixon, president of the NHS Clinical Commissioners and chairman of the NHS Alliance, said doctors had to consider introducing new charges to balance the rising costs of treatment and an ageing population.
The number of complaints about doctors made by their colleagues or patients is on the rise, according to new figures.
Women made up 61 per cent of doctors under 30 last year. But the numbers suggest the medical takeover by women is slowing.
Many of the six million viewers – including children – were left horrified after Doc Martin’s wife was unexpectedly hit by a car (pictured), prompting many to vent their distaste on social networking sites. Following the accident, which left Louisa Glasson, played by Caroline Catz, with a broken collar bone, a viewer wrote: ‘I wasn’t expecting that! Not sure my nerves can take it!’
The 28-year-old was awarded the £50,000 prize for her second novel The Luminaries at a ceremony in London’s Guildhall last night.
The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) commissioned the sculpture of Sefton, whose recovery from the blast captured the nation's hearts.
Celery from the Cambridgeshire Fens is the 55th British food product to earn recognition for its quality, history and links to a specific local area.
Newly designed 'slimmer' seats will mean rows are being fitted in new aircraft up to an inch close together. This means an extra row of five or six passengers can be squeezed in on United, Alaska and Southwest Airlines.
EXCLUSIVE: British ministers close to sealing compulsory prisoner transfer agreement to deport more than half of the 534 Nigerians serving sentences here.
The experienced firearms officer told an inquest yesterday how he saw Duggan leap out of a mini cab after the vehicle was stopped by police.
The father of 14-year-old Jade Anderson, pictured, who was mauled to death by four dogs earlier this year has said the decision is 'disgraceful' and 'ludicrous'.
Former vice-madam Natalie Rowe, who plans to publish a book describing her alleged connection with George Osborne, says that while police raided her home an officer asked her about the autobiography.
Andy Newman, the new Labour candidate for the Chippenham constituency in Wiltshire, has praised repressive regimes in ultra-left-wing publications.
Official government figures show that green taxes and subsidies, many of which were pioneered by Mr Miliband, add £132 to the average household bill.
Business Secretary Vince Cable insisted the dramatic rise was of ‘absolutely no significance whatever’ and accused Labour of fuelling a surge in demand for shares.
Daniela Ruggiero, 18, (pictured) and her 17-year-old passenger were pronounced dead at the scene following the accident on the A10 near Ware, Hertfordshire. The road was closed for seven hours today while police accident investigators examined the scene. The Citroen C1 the pair were travelling in hit a deer before colliding with another car and catching fire. ...read
Schoolgirl Jemima Prees, from Colerne, Wiltshire, was on a family skiing holiday at the Mayrhofen resort in the Austrian Tyrol when she died.
Former animal welfare officer Dawn Aubrey-Ward, 43, of Mattock, Somerset, accused the charity of euthanising pets which could not be rehomed.
The victim, who is 35, was filming a one-on-one battle scene for Fury when a nine-inch blade was plunged into him on set in Watlington, Oxfordshire (pictured).
Kerry Watson, 28, had to endure the torment of delivering her lifeless child Cameron at Pinderfields Hospital in West Yorkshire following sub-standard care.
Slightly-built Kes Taylor was brought in to wriggle down the tiny gap to reach the collie dog, Chip, stuck 82ft underground in Snowdonia, North Wales.
Karen Cooper, from Manchester, found a lump when her chest was still painful the next day. Physical injury can lead to a diagnosis of breast cancer because women inspect the sore area more closely.
Sarah, Kaylee and Jodie Swales from Snellville, Georgia married their fiances on Sunday after learning their mother's condition had worsened.
Archie Koncher, 10, from Gloucestershire, is one of just three people in the country with Propionic Aciduria which means his body cannot handle protein.
Lewis Harrison, pictured with mother left, was in a playground near to his home in South Bank, Middlesbrough, when the horse, right, kicked him in the head, inset.
There was little escape for Benjamin Edwards, 28, who was growing a cannabis farm in his 10th floor flat in Nechells, Birmingham (right). Heat-sensitive cameras on board West Midlands Police’s helicopter picked up unusually high temperatures seeping from the walls of the high-rise home. The ‘glowing’ light (left and bottom right) are a tell-tale sign of cannabis production because the plants require huge heat and light to grow. He was given a two-year prison sentence suspended for 24 months when he admitted cannabis cultivation at Birmingham Crown Court.
Helen Dugdale, 44, was arrested in her own driveway after a passer-by spotted her driving erratically and called police, Manchester Magistrates' Court heard.
Jon Webb, from Sheffield, took advantage of the 94-year-old's trust to siphon off money from her bank account and her £400,000 estate.
David Belmar, 44, of Haringey, north London, admitted trespass and possession of a bladed article after he tried to run through the palace's north centre gate.
John Ward, 23, was jailed for life for stabbing Wayne Busst, 32, top right, and Ian Watson-Gladwish, 31, below, to death in Birmingham in January.
Jade O'Brien, 26, right, admitted assaulting Mary Tomlinson-Harrison, 70 outside St Mary’s Church of England Primary School in Moston.
Tracey Pascall, pictured, told trusting couple Wendy and Andrew Petford, of Telford, Shropshire, that she had cancer to avoid paying back borrowed cash.
Sylvia and Kelvin Rostron (pictured) attacked a boy and a girl both aged under 16 over a number of years in east Lancashire, the jury was told.
Carer Kumari Murphy, pictured, took advantage of Nicholas Rayner the former boss of Sotheby's Geneva branch, who orchestrated the sale of Wallace Simpson's gems.
Zahid Akram, 37, (pictured) would persuade his victims to send him sexually explicit pictures, Exeter Crown Court heard. He may have had hundreds of victims.
The mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence swore allegiance to the Queen in a short ceremony flanked by her supporters. Lady Lawrence, 60, will sit as a Labour member of the Upper House using the title Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon. She received a rousing cheer from peers on all sides of the House as she shook the hand of Lord Speaker Baroness D’Souza. Her elevation to the Lords comes after a 20-year fight for justice for her son, who was stabbed to death at the age of 18 in a racist attack in London.
For more than a year after his double gold medal triumph at London 2012, Olympic star Mo Farah is still 'always' pulled aside by suspicious US customs officials - because his full name is Mohamed, he said today.
We are happy to clarify that on June 7 a headline ‘Speed trap cameras raise fatal crash risk’ referred only to 21 specific sites where the RAC had highlighted a significant increase in injury rates.
Experts at Edinburgh Zoo believe Tian Tian (pictured) was successfully inseminated but then lost the foetus at late term.
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The New Hampshire-based auction house RR Auction will put on sale 30 items once owned by Oswald (pictured right and bottom right with his wife Marina), including photographs, letters, and even his Iver Johnson revolver (pictured right). The crown jewel of the collection is Oswald's 14-karat gold wedding band (top left) engraved with the Communist symbols of hammer and sickle that was locked away in a safe of a Fort-Worth law firm for 49 years.
South African photographer Greg du Toit beat almost 43,000 entries to be crowned this year's winner with his enigmatic portrait of African elephants in Botswana.
Photographer Paolo Seimandi, 34, captured the amusing moment the herd of alpine ibexes decided to scale the dam in the Gran Paradiso National Park in Northern Italy.
With their big eyes and fluffy paws, it’s not hard to find puppies and kittens adorable.These two, however, have a larger dose of the ahhh-factor.
The rodent had climbed inside a toaster in Catford, London, in search for crumbs, but got into trouble once it had finished his dinner.
Shoppers in the Asda store at the Beehive Centre in Cambridge were baffled by the bilingual signs which were hung as the result of a mix-up at the printers.
The futuristic property in Ochaby, Poland, features an underground driveway gallery decorated with the owner's prized collection of paintings and modern art.
After the Australian woman tied the knot in the Thai resort of Phuket, she walked up to the uninvited exotic guest.
Anne Leigh (pictured), of Aslacton, Norfolk, has constructed boats, hats and even musical instruments to hold the final remains of beloved individuals.
Giant 18-foot oarfish dragged from the deep off the Southern California coast.
Riot police set of tear gas to subdue the crowds outside the funeral for former SS officer Erich Priebke in Albano Laziale, a suburb of Rome.
Tao Lung, 28, was taking part in a street race with one other car in Kunming City, southwest China, when he hit a car coming out of its drive and slammed into a tree.
The unknown youngster was among more than 300 asylum-seekers who drowned when their fishing boat sank last just half a mile from Lampedusa on October 3.
Many believe the 'Dark Countess' was none other than Marie Thérèse Charlotte de Bourbon - daughter of the French King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette.
The state Archaeological Survey of India has sent a team of archaeologists to the village of Daundia Khera in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where women are not allowed to drive but even male drivers are supporting an end to the ban as new video footage shows.
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Norman Lamb announced last July that people would no longer be forced to sell their homes to pay for long-term care in old age. It seemed to be a promise, set in stone. Now, it appears to be nothing of the sort.
It’s only natural for parents to want to protect their children. But there is a moment when protection becomes paranoia. As parents, we must not allow our own fears to overshadow the freedoms of our children.
Was it really only four months ago when ministers gave us a categorical assurance that the elderly would never again have to sell their homes to pay for social care? How quickly their pledge has unravelled.
Today the Commons will elect a new deputy Speaker. The job pays £102,000 a year. Sounds a lot but there is a drawback: you have to work under John Bercow. Danger money, by QUENTIN LETTS.
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