'Six people are killed' and more than 30 injured when police helicopter crashes though the roof of a packed Glasgow city centre music pub after 'aircraft's rotor blades stopped spinning in mid-air'

Clutha Bar in Glasgow

The Police Scotland helicopter crashed into The Clutha pub on the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow City Centre at around 10.25pm last night (left), leaving at least 30 people injured. Customers who were wounded in the busy venue were carried out by bystanders who created a human chain, lifting people to safety. Many of the wounded were treated at a nearby Holiday Inn as 80 firefighters attended the scene. A witness said it looked as though the rotor blades of the aircraft were not working as it fell from the sky. Labour MP Jim Murphy, who was at the scene, said: 'It's a terrible, terrible, terrible scene.' Today, firefighters were still working to make the scene safe (pictured right and centre).

Rapper Professor Green is arrested on suspicion of perverting course of justice after telling police that a mugger stole his Rolex watch

Professor Green

The rapper - real name Stephen Manderson - was arrested on Monday. It is thought the charges relate to an incident earlier this month when he called police claiming he had been robbed of his Rolex outside his £1million home in south London. A police spokesperson said: 'A 29-year-old was arrested for attempting to pervert the course of justice.' Green is pictured with his wife Millie Mackintosh.

What makes Boris run? Many Tories believe London's Mayor can lead them to election victory... and this week he gave tantalising clues to what he REALLY believes

Delivering the annual Margaret Thatcher lecture Boris Johnson opened up about his political views. Here we publish the extracts

The London Mayor delivered the annual Margaret Thatcher Lecture this week and used the opportunity to give his views on everything from the BBC to the rich.

'Humans evolved after a female chimpanzee mated with a pig': Extraordinary claim made by American geneticist

True love: A chimp and a pig

The startling claim has been made by Eugene McCarthy, of the University of Georgia, who is also one of the world's leading authorities on animal hybrids.

50,000 new drivers lose their licence as young male motorists are penalised by tough new points regime

Learner: 50,000 new drivers have been banned after racking up six points within two years

Under rules brought in to cut the number of serious accidents among newly qualified drivers, those who tot up six points within two years of passing their test face an automatic ban.

Pictured: Teenage surfer killed by a shark in the second fatal attack to hit Australia in a WEEK

Victim: Zac Young, 19, from a nearby coastal town suffered a cardiac arrest on the beach after his attack

Zac Young, 19, is believed to have lost both legs when the shark attacked off the coast of New South Wales and died of cardiac arrest when he was pulled onto a beach.

Police hunt Romanian ATM thieves who are behind 90% of UK cashpoint fraud

British police are working with Romanian officials to track down the masterminds behind £40million worth of cashpoint fraud per year in the UK

Officers from Britain are working with their Romanian counterparts to track down the 'Mr Bigs' who are thought to be behind £40million of UK fraud per year.

The new Beckingham Palace: Four nail bars, a catwalk, even a waterfall - the secrets of the Beckhams' riotously naff new £30million London Home

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David and Victoria Beckham have bought a property in Kensington for a reported £30million and plan to spend up to £5million redecorating in their own unique style. The new furnishing will include four nail bars - in case Victoria invited friends to stay - a catwalk for her dressing room, a hidden door in a bookcase and a secret tunnel to the 100ft oriental garden. The house covers 9,000ft over three floors and includes eight bedrooms and seven bathrooms.

'I had to perform a sex act while looking at Clayton Blackmore calendar': Embarrassed David Beckham reveals his Manchester United youth team initiation

David Beckham

The retired footballer has confessed to performing a sex-act on himself while looking at calendar of Welsh footballer Clayton Blackmore as part of his initiation into Manchester United's youth team.

Young girl had a 'fully grown' dandelion inside her EAR and had to have it surgically removed by doctors in China

Unusual discovery: Doctors in China were left stunned after finding a dandelion growing in the ear canal of a 16-month-old child

It is said dandelions can grow anywhere, and it seems the old saying rings true after the flower was found living inside a girl's ear canal. It had grown to 2cm long.

British couple killed when their car is crushed between two lorries moments after disembarking from ferry in France

The man and a woman, both 54, had just disembarked from a ferry in Dunkirk, France, when the crash happened (file picture)

The man and woman, both aged 54, had just disembarked from a ferry at the Channel port of Dunkirk today when they were crushed by the lorries. (file picture)

Tragedy for pregnant British teenager whose baby died after she went into labour while driving along French motorway

A desperate 19-year-old British woman went into labour while driving along a motorway near the French town of Beziers but tragically lost the newborn

A desperate 19-years-old driving along the A75 motorway close to the town of Beziers (pictured) called emergency services when she experienced intense labour pains while driving.

The £30million girl: When Anna Nicole Smith died, four men claimed her baby daughter was theirs. Now the real father says his little princess is in line for a huge inheritance

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Dannielynn was just five months old when her mother died and her story is told in the documentary Life After Anna Nicole, which airs tomorrow night. Dannielynn's father, Anna Nicole's former boyfriend Larry Birkhead, narrates much of the programme and, even at seven years old, Dannielynn's resemblance to her mother is striking. 'When she smiles, she looks just like her mum,' says Larry. 'She's a beautiful little girl.'

I meditate on food to curb my rages, says Heston: Chef credits his ex-wife for encouraging him to get help

Heston Blumenthal and his ex-wife Zanna (pictured in 2009). The chef has credited her with introducing him to mindfulness meditation

But Heston Blumenthal has revealed his legendary temper is now under control thanks to a surprising technique – food-based ‘mindful meditation’.

Mairead Philpott loses second appeal live on TV against the length of her 17-year prison sentence for killing her six children

Mairead Philpott, pictured with husband Mick, today lost her second appeal to have the length of her sentence changed

Mairead Philpott, 32, was jailed alongside her husband Mick at Nottingham Crown Court in April after being found guilty of the manslaughter of her children.

Six in 10 men 'punch above their weight' in relationships as they pair off with better-looking women

Couple: Many men say having a good sense of humour has helped them attract a better-looking partner (file photo)

But while most men feel inferior to their wives or girlfriends in the looks department, only one in four women believe their partner is better off in that way.

The charity cold-callers preying on the elderly as whistleblower reveals 'we can't hang up until we're turned down three times'

Last year there were 6,379 complaints about cold calling from charities including the NSPCC and the British Red Cross (file photo)

Complaints about the telephone fundraisers, employed by organisations including the British Red Cross and the NSPCC, have trebled in just two years.

The sex-mad canoe man, his three trips to snare a blonde in the Ukraine and how this time HE was the one being conned

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The messages are graphic in nature - often startlingly so. They describe, in explicit detail, the variety of sexual acts their male writer would like to engage in with the recipient, a pretty blonde woman 38 years his junior. And the author leaves no room for doubt that he is quite the Casanova; irresistible to women and highly skilled at pleasing them. The messages were written by John Darwin (top left), the 63-year-old conman who was famously declared dead in 2003, a year after apparently drowning on a canoe trip. The recipient is a 25-year-old Ukrainian single mother named Anna Avramenko, whom he met on a website called Dream-Marriage.com (pictured right).

Don't lecture us mums, Clegg! Women's fears that new laws on maternity leave could see them returning to work too soon

The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg was criticsed by mothers for being old-fashioned

The Deputy Prime Minister said new rights for couples to share parental leave were designed to challenge ‘Edwardian’ attitudes to child-rearing.

Greedy bankers STILL don't get it: Bonus culture returns with a vengeance as, five years after the crash, 2,700 British bankers pocket an average of £1.6million

Allegations: Last night there were claims that the sector had learned nothing from the greatest financial crash for decade

The astonishing greed of bankers was laid bare last night as it was revealed their salaries soared by more than a third last year, while average workers saw an increase of only 0.8%.

Record winter snowfall sparked the biggest baby boom for 20 years nine months later as couples got close to beat the big freeze

COMMUTERS TRY TO GET TO WORK IN THE VILAGE OF TIMPERLEY,CHESHIRE. HEAVY SNOW COVERS CENTRAL MANCHESTER AND THE NORTH WEST. . REXMAILPIX.

October 2010 had the most births of any month since 1992 - exactly nine months after Britain ground to a halt in record snow..

A fatted calf for baby George: Kenyan tribesmen send unusual gift to celebrate royal birth

William and Kate have been gifted a fatted bull calf and a goat by Kenya's Samburu people to honour the birth of Prince George

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have written in Swahili thanking elders of the Samburu tribe for their 'extraordinary generosity'.

So Mr Iceland, do YOU eat your doner kebab pizzas and frozen sandwiches? The boss of Britain's least fashionable supermarket hits back at the snobs and sneering lefties

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Malcolm Walker, a plain-speaking northern entrepreneur, started Iceland way back in 1970 with one shop in Oswestry, Shropshire, selling loose frozen vegetables. Today, Iceland has 800 stores in the UK - from Aberdeen to Truro - employs 25,000 people and is still run by Walker, who seems to have an impeccable perception of his customer base and the appeal of his stores.

Crazed gunman who stockpiled weapons in case of Armageddon held nurse hostage before threatening to shoot himself if he didn’t get drugs

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NEW Armed police arrested Christopher Turkington, 41, at Salford Royal Hospital, Greater Manchester, after reports that a man had grabbed two nurses and was waving a gun.

Seeing the Northern Lights is our ultimate holiday dream: Egyptian Pyramids and Great Barrier Reef pushed down bucket list of top foreign destinations

The Northern Lights, otherwise known as Aurora Borealis, is the new must-see destination, with 37 per cent of travellers putting it on the top of their 'holiday bucket list'

Forget a trip to the Great Barrier Reef or a Caribbean cruise, witnessing the Northern Lights in Norway is the new dream holiday, a poll has found.

Police investigate NEW allegations against Lostprophets paedophile Ian Watkins after appeal for more victims to come forward

Police have vowed to carry on investigating Ian Watkins after he admitted a series of sexual offences

Watkins, from Pontypridd, South Wales, admitted two counts of attempted rape on the baby of a female fan, on the eve of a contested trial this week.

Family GP died from a heart attack just two hours after refusing hospital treatment following a car crash

Dr Liz Pope, 38, refused hospital treatment at the scene of a crash but died at home two hours later from a heart attack

Dr Liz Pope, 38, lost control of her black Alfa Romeo while overtaking a cyclist on a narrow lane near Claverley, Shropshire, on Wednesday morning.

Want to slim? Don't feel guilty about that chocolate cake! Scientists find that people who don't worry about snacks are less likely to gain weight

Enjoy it: Psychologists have discovered those of us who see treats as something to celebrate are much more likely to stay slim

Researchers at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand found the way we perceive treats is as important as the calorie count when it comes to waistlines.

Is this Jack the Ripper? Crime writer Patricia Cornwell claims to have 'cracked' the mystery and to have new evidence linking it to the royal family

British Impressionist painter Walter Sickert

The best-selling writer has spent 11 years researching London's most famous serial killer and says Walter Sickert, pictured, is the culprit. Ms Cornwell has been working with former Scotland Yard commander John Grieve to look through a selection of letters, held at The National Archives in Kew, allegedly sent to police by the killer. The author says he could have links to the royal family also - perhaps backing a 'royal conspiracy', suggested several times over the decades.

Norwegian football WAG attacked online for putting new mothers under pressure to look good after posting photo of her perfectly flat stomach just FOUR DAYS after giving birth

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The prolific Norwegian fitness blogger posted a selfie to her Instagram profile of her posing in front of a mirror in her underwear. Her washboard stomach, complete with six-pack, and toned thighs can be seen in the image, left. Mrs Ber Eriksen, who is married to Odd Grenland player Lars-Kristian Eriksen sparked outrage with the post - with one blogger slamming the move as 'wildly provocative.' She gave birth to her daughter Neilia four days ago.

Nottingham set to be named UK's worst city for schools after the majority are deemed to be failing following 'blitzkrieg' of Ofsted inspections

Humiliating: Nottingham has been condemned as one of Britain's most under-performing cities for education after inspectors deemed three-quarters of its secondary schools are failing

Nottingham is set to become the country's worst city for education after three quarters of its schools were deemed to be failing by inspectors.

Scrap the sibling rule, says regulator in bid to reduce burden on over-subscribed schools

Popular schools should consider scrapping the 'sibling rule' that gives priority to younger brothers and sisters of existing pupils

The Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA) warned that some parents suffer ‘disadvantages’ because their children are being squeezed out of classes by lots of siblings.

Acid attack victim is in bandages 23 hours a day: Ordeal goes on amid parents' fury at Zanzibar police delays

Acid attack: Kirstie Trup (left) and Katie Gee (right), both 18

Kirstie Trup and Katie Gee, both 18 and from London, are still recovering after they were splashed with acid by two men during a volunteering holiday this summer.

Freezing weather to last until MARCH: Britain to be stuck under cold front 'for the next three months'

Britain will have to wrap up warm from next week as Arctic winds bring a cold front for the next month at least

Forecasters have warned temperatures in December and set to be lower than average for this time of year as the country is hit by northerly winds.

Little black dazzlers: SANDRA HOWARD - still slinky at 73 - picks the best of the 60 LBDs on sale at M&S; for the party season

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Sandra Howard has dress-tested the 60 LBDs that M&S; are offering this winter and has picked the eight best for every event from cocktail parties to Christmas day. Ranging from £45 for the cheapest to £249 for the more luxurious, the dresses boast both glamour and a sense of sophistication. Whether leather or lace, they fulfill the two most important requirements of the LBD: turning heads and making the luck wearer feel elegant and chic.

Dimbleby brothers give £2million to set up new cancer centre in honour of their father

Dimbleby brothers give £2million to set up new cancer centre in honour of their father

The centre, which will accommodate a range of leading services, is under construction at Guy's Hospital in London and is due to open in 2016.

Father has painted a ceiling and cooked meals while ASLEEP because of rare disorder which causes him to snooze for 60 hours at a time

Busy: Steve Chapman, 57, has no recollection of painting the ceiling or cooking meals while asleep

Suffering from a rare condition called KLS or 'Sleeping Beauty Syndrome', Steve Chapman, 57, had no idea what he had done until his wife spotted the ladder.

Does prayer help us resist temptation? Talking to God boosts self-control and emotional stability, claims study

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Experts at Saarland University and the University of Mannheim found that a brief period of personal prayer buffered the 'self-control depletion effect'.

Top referee and two other men charged with hacking into Football Association computers

Arrested: Referee Dean Mohareb

Referee Dean Mohareb has been arrested on suspicion of computer hacking. Mohareb was due to take charge of Barnsley against Peterborough on Tuesday night.

Baby girl choked to death as 999 operator said: 'Jeez, stop giving me that information'

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Staff at Ramillies Hall private nursery in Cheadle Hulme, Manchester, rang for assistance after nine-month-old Millie Thompson got into breathing difficulties. The emergency medical dispatcher told an inquest into Millie's death how she 'did not click' the baby was struggling to breathe when she was told it was going purple.

Our teenage girls' drinking shame: More 15-year-olds get drunk than any other country in the Western world... except Denmark

Binge problem: Britain's position in the survey puts it below countries traditionally seen as having alcohol problems, such as Russia

A report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development found that 44 per cent of 15-year-old girls told researchers they had been drunk at least twice.

Time to log off, Peaches? Geldof takes to Twitter again to try to justify naming the mothers of babies abused by Lostprophets pervert Ian Watkins

In trouble: Peaches Geldof is facing a police investigation after she tweeted the names of women who helped Ian Watkins abuse their babies

Peaches Geldof posted a series of tweets this morning explaining she had assumed the names were already 'public knowledge'.

'I adore Nigella now... I'm broken-hearted to have lost her': Charles Saatchi's emotional confession as he tells court he 'doesn't know' if she took drugs

Charles Saatch

The millionaire art dealer told a jury he wished this year had never happened as he gave evidence against his two former personal assistants who are accused of fraud.

MP caught in lobbying scandal fighting for his political career after being ditched by his local party

Tim Yeo, MP, outside his London home

NEW The South Suffolk Conservative Association refused to re-adopt veteran MP Tim Yeo just days after he cleared his name in scandal.

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Dramatic final seconds of Lee Rigby's life: Jury sees video showing moment before he was mown down in car and hacked to death 'like a piece of meat being butchered'

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CCTV footage (centre images) show the moment soldier Lee Rigby was mown down by a car, allegedly driven by his murderers, before his body was dragged into the middle of the road. There were gasps in the court room at the Old Bailey today as the footage was shown to jurors, and relatives of the fusilier left the room in tears. Prosecutors claim that the 25-year-old was victim to 'a cowardly and callous murder' when Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, ran him over, dragged him into the middle of the road and attacked him with a meat cleaver and knife. Pictured left is Fusilier Rigby - wearing his Help For Heroes sweatshirt - seen earlier in the day getting off of the Docklands Light Railway at Woolwich station. Adebowale, one of the alleged killers, is pictured right with his hands covered in blood, delivering a hate-filled speech shortly after the murder.

Fiancée and estranged wife of soldier Lee Rigby flee murder trial in tears as jury is shown CCTV footage of moment ‘Muslim converts ran him down before almost decapitating him with meat cleaver and knives’

Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, are charged with killing the Fusilier, from Manchester, as he walked back to Woolwich Barracks in south-east London on May 22.

Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, are charged with killing the Fusilier, from Manchester, as he walked back to Woolwich Barracks in south-east London on May 22.

'I did it for God. I wish the bullets had killed me': Suspect 'thanked' police for shooting him after Lee Rigby's death

Message: Michael Adebolajo thanked police for shooting him and told them he killed Lee Rigby 'for my God', the prosecution said

Jurors were shown footage of Michael Adebolajo, 28, (pictured left) and his accomplice Michael Adebowale, 22, (right) being gunned down by armed police when the defendants tried to attack them.

Bob Dylan sued by Croatia for racism after saying 'Just like Jews can sense Nazi blood... the Serbs can sense Croatian blood'

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Famous musician Bob Dylan is being sued by a French Croatian group for ‘racist’ comments in the cover interview of French Rolling Stone's September’s edition.

Film star Jean Kent who appeared alongside Marilyn Monroe dies aged 92

One of Britain's box office actresses of the 1940s and 50s, Jean Kent, has died, aged 92

NEW The actress was a box office star in the 1940s and 50s and also acted alongside Michael Redgrave and Laurence Olivier.

Give groundskeeper Danny back his job! Petition to help warden back to work goes global after he was the only worker axed when a new firm took over council contract

Disabled groundsman

Daniel White, 44, who has learning difficulties, has spruced up Collett Park in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, since being hired by the council at the age of 17. He has worked full time for the minimum wage, cutting the grass in the huge municipal park and clearing the paths - and has never had a day off or arrived late.

Tory MP emails protesters outside his office calling them 'numb-nuts' and branding police as being 'daft'

Mike Freer has accidentally sent an email to protesters in which he called them 'numb-nuts' and the police 'daft'

Mike Freer, a Tory MP, accidentally emailed protesters camped on his own doorstep branding them 'numb-nuts' and calling police 'daft'.

Man ends up in court for criminal damage after frantic sex in a flat he used to rent broke the bed and tore down the curtains

Passion: The building (centre) containing the flat where Adam Disney's antics made the bed collapse

Adam Disney, 28, was convicted of criminal damage after he and a partner sneaked back into the flat he used to rent in Wavertree, Liverpool (pictured).

BBC chairman Lord Patten says political correctness stops politicians speaking the truth on immigration and says Europe's weak borders have led to rampant crime

Dark side: Chris Patten blamed the 'dark side of globalisation' for the problem of immigration

Speaking in Paris, the Chairman of the BBC Trust and former Conservative minister blamed the 'dark side of globalisation' for the problem of Europe's 'porous borders'.

Body parts of Harold Shipman's victims were kept by police for more than ten years before they were secretly destroyed without the families' permission

Serial killer: Harold Shipman murdered between 215 and 260 of his patients using the drug Diamorphine over a period of 20 years

Greater Manchester Police kept the remains of Shipman's victims until 2011 before incinerating them in secret without ceremony, it was revealed today.

'Why does nobody ever talk about my successes?' asks Captain Calamity (whose crew had to be rescued when his attempt to row the Atlantic ended after just 150 miles)

Scottish sailor Roy Finlay, pictured here at Porto Colom, Mallorca after his third and final failed record breaking bid to row across the Atlantic

NEW After a disastrous end to his third attempt to break the Atlantic rowing record, sailor Roy Finlay, (pictured), explains how a wave wiped out his latest effort and his £50,000 boat. The Scot, dubbed Captain Calamity, has now given up his dream after his crew had to be saved by the Spanish coastguard just 150 miles into his mission earlier this month.

Cannibal cop 'killed and ATE a man he met on "exotic meat" website’'

This German police worker, known only Detlev G, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a man who fantasised about being eaten by a cannibal

Police handwriting specialist Detlev G, (pictured) from Dresden, allegedly killed and chopped up a man he met on a fetishist website who fantasised about being eaten.

Nasa to grow PLANTS on the moon: Space agency will sow seeds to see if humans could one day live on Earth's neighbour

The Lunar Plant Growth Habitat

The U.S. space agency plans on sowing its first seeds on the moon in 2015 by hitching a lift on commercial spacecraft the Moon Express lander.

Financial adviser found guilty of murdering his millionaire client because he was about to be exposed for £343,000 con to fund his lavish lifestyle

Murderer: David Jeffs, pictured, swindled his client out of hundreds of thousands of pounds before killing him

David Jeffs, 36 (pictured), battered Roberto Troyan to death after he realised how much money he had taken from him, and blown on cars, dining and holidays.

Sir Bradley Wiggins forced to apologise after cracking sex joke at Barnado's charity event for child abuse victims

Off comment: Sir Bradley Wiggins with his wife Catherine were at the event earlier this month where the cycling star made a rude joke that shocked diners

The cycling great asked the compere to 's*** me off' because he had a 'posh voice' but diners at the £300-a-head event in Harrogate were 'stunned into silence'.

Great-grandad Mick's ever growing dynasty: Four exes, seven children, four grandkids and a great-grandchild on the way

Amba, Mick's grandaughter

He has more to celebrate than ever as he is set to become a great-grandfather when his granddaughter Assisi gives birth in April. Here, PAUL SCOTT explores the relationships between Mick’s former wives and lovers, children, grandchildren and their devoted patriarch.

Vicar who claimed he was abused by 'League of Gentleman-style parishioners' who 'poisoned his dog' wins permission to 'sue God'

Legal action: Rev Sharpe was initially refused permission to sue the church - but that decision has been overturned on appeal

Reverend Mark Sharpe, 47, claims his dog was poisoned and his telephone lines were cut during a campaign of harassment in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire.

Fugitive wanted for £1.5m fraud in South Africa is found working as a teacher in CORNWALL (after police were tipped off by a pupil)

Mr Hale denies any wrongdoing and says he fled South Africa because of stress

Mike Hale, 63, left four years ago after £1.55million went missing from his insurance firm. He began working as a teacher in Cornwall but police were tipped off by a pupil.

The Garden Expert downs tools aged 85: Dr David G Hessayon blames Google for withering book sales

Retiring: Dr David Hessayon is retiring from writing after selling more than 50million books

Dr David Hessayon, 85, is retiring from writing after selling more than 50million books - but says he will still offer people gardening advice

The phones of the future are DIY! Motorola will 3D-print 'modular' mobiles that customers can put together like Lego

Good call: Motorola's Project Ara is a mobile phone that customers will be able to build themselves

To make the parts for them, Motorola has turned to the company that made the first 3D printer 20 years ago – South Carolina-based 3D Systems.

'I've drawn up shortlist of suitable wives for my husband in case I die first!' Princess Pushy on royalty, money and lineage

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Princess Michael of Kent, married to the Duke of Kent, revealed the 'very European' move of planning for after her own death, along with a host of other unintentionally hilarious Royal insights, including some words on her new neighbours in Kensington Palace - the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Driver who crashed his car after taking cannabis and killed his girlfriend is spared jail after victim's mother begs for leniency

Mother-of-two Samantha Jennings who died in the car crash

Samantha Jennings, 26, died when Thomas Whitehouse, 23, lost control of his Vauxhall Astra and ploughed into a stone wall and then a tree.

New Jimmy Savile sex abuse claims reported every WEEK - as the number of hospitals under investigation doubles to THIRTY-TWO

Inquiry: The scope of NHS investigations into abuse by former BBC presenter Jimmy Savile has been widened again

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said an extra 19 hospitals had been caught up in the scandal, in addition to 13 already subject to an urgent inquiry.

Is November now the healthiest month of the year? Supermarkets see spike in low calorie food sales as we try to slim into our party outfits

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We are bulk buying superfoods like kale, spinach and blueberries as well as healthy ready meals in our last ditch attempt to drop the pounds.

Retired teacher, 78, died of a massive stroke after teenage thugs set fire to her car

Victim of thugs: Grandmother of five Gillian Dudley-Smith

Gillian Dudley-Smith a talented botanical artist, dialled 999 after a passing taxi driver alerted her to the Ford Fiesta ablaze on her driveway in Wrexham.

'Why I've promised to help my beautiful daughter take her own life': Mother's astonishing confession after her Jennie was struck by terminal illness

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When Jennie - who suffers from cystic fibrosis - decides her life has become intolerable, I have promised to help her travel to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland so she can die, writes Debby Thornton. No mother wants to see her child suffer in unimaginable pain and I am no different. The last thing I want is to lose her, but if the end is near and she is suffering needlessly, then I will do anything to help. Even if that means helping to hasten her death.

Porn risk for children on iPad presents: Minister warns parents to install filters on tablets and phones bought for Christmas

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Tablets such as iPads and Kindles are expected to be one of the top presents this year - with Tesco and Argos coming on the market with cheaper versions.

How Facebook reveals if you're a PSYCHOPATH: Status updates about prostitutes, decapitation and pornography can indicate a 'dark personality'

The dark side of Facebook: Status updates can reveal psychopathic traits, say Swedish researchers (stock image)

Researchers from Sahlgrenska Academy and Lund University in Sweden found that people with psychopathic traits are strongly focused on their own wishes.

25% rise in patients left languishing on trolleys for up to 12 hours as A&E; crisis takes hold

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The number is up 25 per cent on the figure for this time last year – which was itself higher than usual due to a winter vomiting bug outbreak.

Curb on middle class students as top universities join scheme to help pupils from poorer families

Top universities are signing up to a scheme that means disadvantaged teenagers don't need to obtain the same grades as their better-off rivals to get a place

Twelve universities including Birmingham, Warwick, King's College and Bristol are already involved in the Realising Opportunities programme.

Baby who had the most misshapen head doctors had ever seen undergoes pioneering surgery to stop her brain from being squashed

Rare: Kaydence Theriault had the most severely misshapen head doctors had ever seen.

Three-year-old Kaydence Theriault and her fellow triplets Taylor and Kaylin, of Indianapolis, were all born with Crouzon Syndrome, which causes a misshapen head.

Mystery of preserved T Rex tissue solved: High levels of iron in dinosaur’s body kept it intact

Iron from the Tyrannosaurus' blood helped the tissue to survive intact for 68million years

Scientists were baffled when matter from the king of the dinosaurs, with intact DNA was discovered in 2005 after apparently surviving milenia.

They're SO trendy - but are you brave enough to swap the car for a bike crossed with a wheelbarrow?

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This week one Londoner was pictured taking his children to school in a kind of bike crossed with a wheelbarrow, but how safe are the £1,000 'cargo bikes?' While they may be news to us here in England, in Copenhagen 40,000 take to the streets every morning and in Holland the King uses one to do the school run. The Danes and the Dutch both claim to have invented the idea and it is also fast catching on in Sweden.

Thames Water will not pay tax for a DECADE despite soaring profits as 'super-sewer' helps it avoid bills

Troubled: Last month Thames Water had a 8 per cent price rise slapped down by a regulator

Britain's biggest water supplier, owned by Australians, has already been berated to racking up more than £1bn in unpaid taxes.

Outcry as UK scientist flies to Africa for experiments on monkeys that are banned here

Outcry as UK scientist flies to Africa for experiments on monkeys that are banned here

Neuroscientist Stuart Baker has been accused of bypassing British law by flying to Nairobi to do work on baboons captured on the African plains.

'Britain's most prolific thief' is jailed for his 334th offence after being caught walking out of Tesco without paying

Prolific: Robert Knowles, pictured in May, has chalked up his 334th offence - and has been in court every year since 1959

Robert Knowles, 66 (pictured) has so many convictions since 1959 that prosecutors have lost track of them, Plymouth magistrates heard. He was jailed for two months.

British businesswoman, 47, dies of malaria at luxury African holiday home after ignoring doctor's advice to take tablets to prevent the disease

Jayne Rowley, 47, pictured here with husband Martin, 45, at their daughter Victoria's wedding

Jayne Rowley, from Lytham, had been staying in the three-bedroom villa she owned with her husband in Brufut, Gambia, which they had owned for two years.

Sandy Hook school gunman Adam Lanza's father is a 'broken man' wracked by guilt since massacre as family reveal what it's like to live with one of the most hated names in America

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Peter Lanza, 55, of Stamford, Connecticut, is wracked by guilt, confusion and grief after Adam shot dead 20 children and six schoolteachers before taking his own life, according to his family. He is finding it 'impossible' to deal with what has happened. His sister-in-law told what it is like to live with the stares at checkouts, restaurants and banks. The family's children have suffered abuse because they have to live under the shadow of the horror their relative committed.

Annual house prices surge by 6.5% - the highest rise for three years

Boom time: House prices rose 6.5 per cent year-on-year in November, marking the fastest annual increase seen in more than three years

Prices have been rising every month for the last year and the latest monthly increase of 0.6 per cent took average UK house values to £174,566.

Old Etonian army officer was shot dead at point blank range moments after giving a gun back to Afghan 'ally'

Inquest: Lieutenant Edward Drummond-Baxter, 29, was shot dead by a man in Afghan Police uniform at a checkpoint in Afghanistan, an inquest heard

Eton educated Lieutenant Edward Drummond-Baxter, 29, from County Durham, pictured, returned the AK-47 to the man who then shot him at close range, an inquest heard.

'Mum would be so proud of this video': Student who lost mother and two siblings in crash wins two awards for poignant film about her family

Student who lost mother and two siblings in horror crash wins award after documenting her father's struggle to bring her up alone

Sophie Piggott, now 20, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, has scooped Best Documentary Short prizes at two UK film festivals.

Italian judges accuse Berlusconi of paying witnesses to lie during bunga bunga sex trial

Beleaguered: Berlusconi

The accusation came in a written judgment from the trial of associates of the former prime minister charged with procuring prostitutes for parties at his home near Milan.

CC-Tree-V: Council Christmas tree had five foot chopped off the top because it got in the way of a town centre CCTV camera

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NEW Residents in Goole, East Yorkshire, were dumbfounded when the 30ft conifer in their town centre was cut short because it interfered with a CCTV camera. Former trawlerman Donald Walker, 70, said: 'Where is the star going to go?' But town clerk Brian Robertson defended the decision, saying it was essential to have a view of the street which had been 'totally obscured'.

French jet placed in quarantine after passengers develop symptoms of swine flu and crew discover they had all recently been to Asia

Flu on a plane: A plane full of passengers returning from Asia were quarantined on the runway at Blagnac Airport near Toulouse after 47 started coughing and spluttering and other developed fever-like symptoms (file picture)

The Hop Airline plane landed at Blagnac Airport near Toulouse where authorities decided to take precautions, quarantining everyone in their plane seats.

Former world heavyweight champion Herbie Hide jailed after 'agreeing to sell cocaine' in sting operation

Sentenced: Herbie Hide has been jailed after agreeing to sell cocaine to the 'Fake Sheikh' in a sting operation

Former world champion boxer Herbie Hide has been jailed for selling cocaine after a court heard he fell for a sting operation set up by an investigative journalist known as the Fake Sheik.

Woman kept as a 'slave' in London for 30 years is finally reunited with her sister after three decades in a far-Left commune

Woman believed to be Aishah, the 69-year-old Malaysian one of the victims.

Aishah Wahab, 69, who is believed to have been held captive in a south London house for three decades, was saw her older sister Kamar Mahtum for the first time since 1968.

Very High Commission: Canada cashes in on Britain's property boom by selling London embassy for £306m - more than SIX times its asking price in 1999

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The stunning building, in London's historic Grosvenor Square, has been the Canadian High Commission since 1960.

The North Dakota ghost towns that are coming back to life thanks to oil boom

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Two Fargo radio personalities who photographed the remains of western North Dakota's pioneer towns for a coffee table book discovered a surprise when they returned for volume two. Some of the 'ghost' towns had come back to life, thanks largely to the oil boom. 'We were shocked to see that some of the towns we photographed in 2005 or 2006 had people living there now,' Larson said.

Our stores are copying the U.S. in dubbing today Black Friday, slashing online prices by up to 70 per cent. Yes, it's hype, but we've found some great Christmas bargains

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Black Friday — the biggest day in America’s festive shopping calendar — has arrived in the UK to kick off the pre-Christmas rush.

From bargains to busted: Police forced to step in after Black Friday bargain hunting frenzy descends into chaos - with one 'shoplifter' arrested yards from the Queen

Two minutes after the Queen arrived at Windsor Guildhall this man was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting just yards away by armed officers

One man, believed to have been shoplifting, was arrested just yards from the Queen in Windsor, while another was arrested in Bristol in a row over some TVs.

Paedophile who sexually abused five-year-old girl is given permission to adopt a child in Sweden

A man, convicted of molesting a girl, 5, has been granted permission to adopt a 10-year-old boy (file photo)

The man in his sixties from Helsingborg convicted of molesting the girl in his neighbourhood in 2004 but a social affairs committee says he is now not in danger of reoffending.

South African president ordered to repay millions of pounds of taxpayers' money spent on 'security measures' at his home which included a swimming pool and a tuckshop

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An official report entitled 'Opulence on a Grand Scale' found Zuma had derived 'substantial' personal gain from improvements to his private compound at Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal province.

Now TV producer who used Twitter to publicly shame irate plane passenger receives an online bashing

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An ABC producer is under fire for publicly shaming a fellow passenger who became irate after a delay kept her plane grounded as she attempted to return home for Thanksgiving. Elan Gale, who works for TV's The Bachelor, live-tweeted a series of exchanges, mostly via note-passing, between himself and a passenger known only as 'Diane' that allegedly culminated in Diane slapping Gale after they disembarked the plane. Today, Gale posted on his The Year of Elan Tumblr account about the altercation, saying he was only trying to stand up for airline staff to whom Diane was rude and dismissive.

Lesbian forklift truck driver forced to watch naked women on Babe Channel by abusive boss wins £7,500 discrimination payment

Ms Rowntree, 47, told the hearing her colleague made rude comments while watching the TV show relating to her sexual activity with her female partner

Coleen Rowntree, from Grimsby, won a discrimination claim after relief chargehand Steven Evans repeatedly switched on the Babe Channel at work and made crude comments about her sex life.

Headmistress of private girls' school tells pupils to hero-worship local mayoress NOT 'toxic' WAGS and pop stars like Miley Cyrus

Advice: Charlotte Avery, head of St Mary's School in Cambridge, is trying to give girls new idols

Charlotte Avery, head of St Mary's School, Cambridge, said she fears pupils are being starved of role models with pop stars getting too much 'toxic' media attention.

Proof Britain is building again: Factories make 1.73BILLION bricks in 2013, the highest since before the financial crash

This year 1.73billion bricks will be produced in the UK, the highest number since before the 2008 financial crash, according to the Brick Development Association

Ministers say the humble brick is a key barometer of economic growth, and demand is up by 18 per cent on last year, fuelled by the Help To Buy mortgage scheme.

Britain's personal debt mountain hits record high of £1,429,624,000,000 as mortgage approvals soar to pre-crash levels

The Bank of England said personal debt has risen again to £1.43trillion, higher than the previous record seen in 2008

Personal debt has risen steadily since the financial crash, and is now higher than the previous record seen five years ago, the Bank of England said.

Shocking video of dogs having their teeth pulled out in name of medical testing before being put down sparks outrage

Unnecessary? The video claims that dogs go through the process of having their teeth pulled and then replaced with dentures before being killed to harvest a small amount of jaw bone to sample

A graphic undercover video captured by the Humane Society shows alleged dog abuse by researchers at Georgia Regents University. The video shows dogs having their teeth pulled, replaced with implants and then euthanized to harvest a jaw bone sample. After the video was released, activists organized a protest on campus and the Humane Society is attempting to stop federal research funding to the university.

'Arggggh! Her skin is pooping!': Disgusted reactions to '25-year-old blackhead' extraction which has become a YouTube sensation

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The internet is littered with clips of spots being squeezed, pimples being popped and boils being lanced. But why are we so fascinated?

How the Tube will warm-up London's homes (and cut bills): Waste heat from the Northern Line to be piped into hundreds of houses

Hot stuff: Engineers will be putting excess heat generated on the often cramped Northern Line to good use by piping it into hundreds of homes

The scheme will reduce heating bills by 10 per cent and is part of Boris Johnson's plan to cut the capital's carbon dioxide emissions by 60 per cent.

Green levies on energy bills WILL be cut, says Cameron but he denies pleading with the Big Six for a price freeze

Prime Minister David Cameron said he was determined to roll back the green levies which push up bills

The Prime Minister said he was determined to ‘roll back' costs which add to bills, but again dismissed Labour’s promise of a two-year price freeze as a 'con'.

From the forest giraffe to the flufftail: Shocking report reveals that 21,286 animal species are under threat of extinction

From the forest giraffe to the flufftail: Shocking report reveals that 21,286 animal species are under threat of extinction

The report is compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which also found that almost 200 species of bird are now critically endangered.

Abused Office actress waives her right to anonymity to tell of child sex ordeal after the beast who molested her is jailed

Office actress tells of sexual abuse ordeal

Rachel Isaac, who played Trudy in the popular sitcom and later acted on Broadway, yesterday chose to talk about the ordeal after Michael Batten, 70, was jailed for 30 months. A judge said he had 'brainwashed' his young victim and that the abuse had 'tainted' her teenage years in the Welsh town of Maesteg.

'A crucifix is now just a fashion statement and has lost religious meaning': Justin Welby says the purpose of wearing a cross has been lost

The Most Rev Justin Welby claimed the cross has been trivialised and is now a sign of beauty as well as faith

The Archbishop of Canterbury has written in the foreword of a new book that the cross has been trivialised and ceases to shock or challenge people.

Dear Santa... One in six ADULTS admit they still write letters to Father Christmas

Where's mine?: One in six adults revealed they still write letter to Father Christmas

Nearly one in every six adults pens a letter to Father Christmas, while one in five adults visits a grotto to visit him and his elves in person a, study found.

Revealed: The top five regrets of the dying - from working too hard, missing out on family time and not saying 'I love you'

Bronnie Ware, a former palliative care nurse, has revealed the top five things dying people tend to regret. She says the most common regret people have is that they did not live a life true to themselves

Bronnie Ware, a former palliative care nurse, says it's surprising how many people have the same regrets - the most common being they didn't live a life true to themselves.

Jeweller arrested after shooting dead career-criminal who threatened storeowner's wife with a handgun during latest French gem raid

Scene: The jewellery shop in the Sezanne near Paris where the owner shot dead one of two robbers who had threatened his wife with a gun

The thief was left in a pool of blood after being shot four times by the shop owner in the commune of Sezanne in Marne department north east of Paris.

 
   

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Wife who vowed to stand by Asil Nadir seeks a £5m divorce... plus a villa in Cyprus and a four-wheel-drive

Nur Nadir is seeking £5million in a divorce settlement as well as property and a car

As well as the £5million, Nur Nadir (left) is seeking his four-wheel-drive vehicle and villa in Northern Cyprus. Asil Nadir, 71, who received millions in legal aid from the taxpayer during his Old Bailey trial after nearly two decades on the run, is said to have told her from his prison cell: 'If you leave me I will reject everything and leave my fight for life.' He is pictured right with his wife during his Old Bailey trial.

'Some people don’t realise how much sugar there is in Coca-Cola,' admits the company's PRESIDENT - as it emerges a large cinema serving contains 44 teaspoons of sugar

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Eurpoean president James Quincey has also admitted that servings did need to reduce in size. He said 'things need to change and the bigger cups need to come down'.

Dial 00000000 for Armageddon. US’s top secret launch nuclear launch code was frighteningly simple

Mushroom cloud: For nearly 20 years the secret code to authorize U.S. nuclear missiles was terrifyingly easy

Between 1962 and 1977, the code to fire devastating nuclear missiles was as simple as 00000000, to make the weapons as quick and as easy to launch as possible.

Thatcher's £50,000 bequest to Crawfie: Ex-PM left £4.7million in her will... and paid £750,000 for ceremonial funeral

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Baroness Thatcher, who died last April, gave her devoted assistant a tax-free £50,000 bequest and a flower brooch with emeralds and ruby diamonds. Mrs Crawford was at the former Prime Minister's side when her hotel was bombed by the IRA in 1984 (bottom right), through to her old age (left), and attended her ceremonial funeral in April this year.

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Police handwriting specialist Detlev G, (pictured) from Dresden, allegedly killed and chopped up a man he met on a fetishist website who fantasised about being eaten.        

Poignant photographs document stories of farmers left destitute by Great Depression who fought to get back on their feet

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Between 1936 and 1940, the Farm Security Administration sent photographer Dorothea Lange to Utah to show the lives of farmers who had received loans from the federal government. The stark black-and-white images tell the story of Utah's slow, very gradual emergence from a severe economic depression just a few short years after the unemployment rate in the state peaked at 35.8 per cent, and where more than a third of the population relied on the government basic necessities like food, clothing and shelter.

Blair's mission to murder Mugabe: As it's claimed ex-PM planned to topple Zimbabwe despot, top thriller writer chillingly imagines the audacious SAS raid

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Best-selling thriller writer TOM CAIN imagines how a British assault on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe might have unfolded.

UK Border Agency wasted £100million on empty buildings, scrapped projects and flights for asylum seekers who did not leave

The UK Border Agency was broken up after it emerged the backlog of immigration cases would take 24 years to clear

Analysis of the discredited agency's accounts reveal the catalogue of waste in the three years before Home Secretary Theresa May broke it up.

That's one for the money: The only pair of blue suede shoes ever owned by Elvis on sale for £80k

The iconic size 10 brogues are being auctioned next month and are expected to sell for $80,000

The iconic size 10 brogues were ordered for him after he hit the charts with Blue Suede Shoes in 1956 and will now be auctioned in Los Angeles next month.

Is Burberry losing the rights to its famous checked design? Luxury fashion house appeals as China cancels tartan trademark

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The trademark was cancelled because the comapny hasn't used the checked pattern in China for three years.

Three-quarters of girls are sexually harassed and a fifth of primary school-aged pupils have been on a diet, shocking report reveals

Girls aged 11 to 21 are as likely to have been harassed at school as on the street

Sexism has become so rife in everyday life that 75% of schoolgirls say they are sexually harassed, while one in five 7-year-olds admit to having gone on a diet

Fleeced by a very unlikely Viscount: The fraudster from Peckham who conned his in-laws into funding luxury lifestyle by pretending to be a Moldovan noble

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The Vizconde von Hoehen de Bessarabia claimed to be a Moldovan Viscount deprived of his birthright. He was actually Kirk Brown, a habitual liar and fraudster. Using his alter-ego he claimed to be investing his in-laws' money in an offshore account, while actually using it to fund a luxury lifestyle of five star hotels and £300 bottles of Ace of Spades champagne. This month the balding 46-year-old started a 40 month jail term for his fraud.

   

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