With six Michelin stars under his belt you would forgive Heston Blumenthal feeling like it was time to slow down a bit. But talking to Jane Fryer he can hardly sit still and chats over-excitedly about drunken japes, daft experiments with liquid nitrogen and bananas and his fascination with extreme exercise.

Apart from a few nervous-looking brides, nothing seemed to stand out in the wedding photos which landed on the desks of immigration officials in marriage visa applications. But when they placed them side-by-side, a more sinister story began to emerge. Home Office immigration officials’ suspicions were raised when they noticed several different couples were wearing exactly the same outfits to their weddings. At least five brides were clad in the same distinctive red and yellow shawl, while a golden turban appears to have been passed between the grooms.

Derek Hockley, pictured left in the 1950s, was the inspiration for Only Fools and Horses character Del Boy (bottom right) and shared many of his traits. Photographs and details of his fast-dealing lifestyle were provided to the Mail by his daughter Jan Wilson, who used to run a bar called Del Boy's on Spain's Costa Blanca in memory of her late father.

The woman, a married teacher, said she was subjected to a violent assault by Paul Fallon, 41, (pictured with wife Magz) as she slept next to her husband at a friend's house. The 42-year-old mother-of-two, has branded the treatment of her case 'shambolic, disgraceful and inept' after Mr Fallon walked free yesterday despite the judge admitting that he posed a 'serious risk'.

Coral Millerchip, 19, (right) has been remanded into custody awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to assaulting Joginder Singh (left), 80, in Coventry. Her vicious attack was caught on camera by a passer-by, and shows her punching Mr Singh, who suffers from dementia, to the ground and spitting at him before swaggering away. The pensioner's relatives say he has not been the same since the attack, which happened in August.

The Central London property (centre) is on the market for £2.35million pounds - which would leave Tony and Cherie Blair (right) more than £1million up from the £1.29million it cost in 2010. But there could be a snag in the sale, as the property is advertised as having a self-contained basement flat, which Euan Blair (left) lived in which the council has not given permission for.

Sangita Naik, (inset) is said to have threatened the class of mainly seven-year-olds at Kingsmoor Academy in Harlow, Essex. Kerri Oehme, 33, (main picture, right) reported the incident after her seven-year-old daughter, Neve, (centre right) came home upset. also pictured are Stacey Knibbs (left) who said her daughter Ashlee (centre left) had come home crying following the incident.

Rachael Sacks, who is enrolled in a $40,000-a-year writing program at a New York liberal arts school, ranted to MailOnline today (pictured left) that she was undeserving of the attention because she is a 'spoiled brat who masturbates too much'. Miss Sacks wrote in her essay that she had no idea that she was rich while growing up because her family went to McDonalds and she wore clothes from Old Navy.

Every year, Vivien Steenson received a Christmas card from her elderly uncle. At least, that is who she thought it was from. Before moving to Nottinghamshire, the couple lived a few miles from Mrs Steenson in North London. How could they — how could anyone — have known the sinister truth behind those festive greetings? For whoever wrote the cards, it couldn’t have been William and Patricia Wycherley. Police believe they were murdered 15 years ago and buried in the back garden of their semi-detached home on the outskirts of Mansfield.

They are the work of London-based photographer Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz, who specialises in working with liquid. Each photograph takes about 200 frames and the milk is poured onto different areas of the models body for each one, captured mid-flow by the camera. These individual shots are then amalgamated using Photoshop into a single image, creating the illusion that the girl is wearing a single milk dress.

Jordan Horner was part of the 'Muslim Patrol' which wandered around Tower Hamlets late at night threatening people for drinking beer. The group said they wanted to 'kill non-believers' and said they would stab revellers, as well as uploading YouTube videos in which they criticised non-Muslims for what they were wearing. Horner, 19, was previously jailed for six weeks after telling photographers gathered outside hate preacher Anjem Choudary's house that they could end up like murdered soldier Lee Rigby.

Terry Sullivan was part of a gang of armed robbers which raided a string of shops in Kent, East Sussex and Lincolnshire between November 2011 and June 2012. During the brutal raids, the balaclava-clad thugs - armed with guns and knives - stole cash, scratch cards, stamps and cigarettes from seven shops and one residential home. He was caught after he wore his girlfriend's cartoon sheep pyjamas on a raid - before police discovered a 'selfie' of him wearing the same outfit on his phone.

Matt Ford came across Skunkworks, a shop openly selling legal highs, on a trip to Canterbury with two friends and bought the herbal blend Exodus Damnation because they were bored. The chain has opened up 21 stores in the south of England in the past year alone and bill themselves as ‘the UK’s premier one-stop shop for lifestyle accessories, smoking paraphernalia and adult fun!’ They even boast that ‘all of our products are completely legal in the UK as they do not fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act’.

Alexandra Harris, 27, from Devon, is the only British woman among the group of 30 activists held on board their Arctic Sunrise vessel after a protest against a Russian oil drilling. She is being held in a detention centre above the Arctic Circle which was revealed today to be infested with rats.

Daniel Zamudio, 24, (centre) was tortured for over an hour last year before he was left to die in a park in Chile's capital by four men who were today convicted of his murder. Raul Lopez Fuentes (top left), Patricio Ahumada Garay (bottom left), Alejandro Angulo Tapia (top right) and Fabian Mora Mora (bottom right) have been found guilty of first degree murder in a case which shocked Chileans and forced a discrimination bill to be passed after spending seven years stuck in parliament.

Penelope Schofield, the West Sussex coroner, said carers at the now defunct Orchid View care home in Copthorne should be 'ashamed'. In total, 19 elderly people died at the £3,000-a-month home run by Southern Cross - which was given a rating of 'good' by regulators. The victims included Doris Fielding (left), Enid Trodden (top centre), Jean Leatherbarrow (bottom centre), Wilfred Gardner (top right) and Jean Halfpenny (bottom right). A five-week inquest heard how residents were given wrong doses of medication, left soiled and unattended due to staff shortages and there was a lack of management.

The cakes were invariably cheap and unappetising — jam and synthetic cream sponges bought for 80p at his local Co-op store. The tea, brewed to builders’ strength by his charwoman, was served in stained mugs; for despite all those grandiose philanthropic gestures, when it came to entertaining his chums, the host was the meanest of multi-millionaires. ‘Now then, just make sure you rinse them in the sink before you go!’ Sir James Wilson Savile would demand of his assembled guests, his mirthless Yorkshire brogue emitting from a fug of Havana cigar smoke.

Nicole Whelan, 21, from Swindon, Wiltshire, discovered her garden where her two-year-old daughter plays had become infested with Britain's most dangerous spider, the false widow - one of which is pictured trapped in a glass jar. She has banned her daughter from playing outside amid fears she could suffer a potentially-fatal bite. She said: 'The number of spiders in the garden has increased so rapidly in the last 10 days I dread to think what's going to happen in the future.'

John and Jan Brooks, from Taunton, Somerset, had their £170,000 three-bedroom villa in Cantoria, Spain, reduced to rubble this week (bottom left) after a court ordered it must be demolished. All that remains now (top) is a pile of rubble, an empty pool and some of their abandoned possessions. They bought the home in 2005 without realising there was a demolition order in place. Within months their Spanish dream (bottom right) turned into a property nightmare.

Grumpy Cat shot to fame after owner Tabatha Bundesen's brother visited her in Arizona last year and posted a picture of the cross-looking pet on picture sharing website, Reddit. Grumpy, real name Tardar Sauce, was born with dwarfism and an underbite, a combination that produced her trademark expression, which is compounded by the frown-like dark fur patches around each eye.

The three-bedroom property in Dulwich, south London, (left)is on the market for £985,000, having been bought for a fraction of the price in the 1970s. The outdated interior (top right and bottom right) has not deterred the owner from choosing such a high asking price.

Historian Emily Mayhew's book recounts the horrible fate of the men whose bodies were torn apart in the First World War, and lives were changed forever. No less brave - and overlooked - were the medical staff and stretcher bearers who struggled relentlessly to save what lives they could in awful conditions.