SPOILER ALERT: The detective, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, appeared to be dead on the pavement after tumbling from a rooftop at the end of the last series two years ago. But all can finally be revealed (eventually). Pictured clockwise from top left: The body of Moriarty, and a latex mask of Holmes; Sherlock before his leap; a collapsed Watson, with an inset of hypnotist Derren Brown; and Holmes on a bungee. Right, reaction, both positive and negative, on Twitter.
Is this the end of First Class rail? Ministers pay train firms to do away with premium seats
First class carriages will become a rarity as a result of the move designed to placate passengers angry at being packed into increasingly congested standard class carriages on busy routes. As commuters returning to work after the Christmas and New Year break are hit by another punishing round of fare rises, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin is preparing to pay train companies to do away with first class seats that are left empty, Government sources say. Pictured in a first class carriage (bottom right) is the Queen and (bottom left) Her Majesty boarding a train from London to King's Lynn. At the top are first class commuters in their bowler hats and brollies in 1965.
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- State will make a profit from rising rail fares by 2018, when ticket prices will cover 103% of operational costs of railways
- Trial by Twitter: Fury at police who name drink-drivers on internet BEFORE they're convicted
- Don't give treats to friends who are trying to lose weight, says nannying watchdog
- No one said finding The One would be easy: The average women will kiss FIFTEEN men enjoy TWO long-term relationships and have her heart broken TWICE
- Motorists typically have their eyes distracted from the road 10% of the time, research suggests
- Want to be King Kong? Keep practising son! Baby silverback tries to impress by thumping his chest
- Bank which employs Tony Blair as adviser paid 126 staff average salary of £2m in 2012
- Two killed in stormy seas as gales and rain sweeping in from the Atlantic continue to lash Britain
- Afghan president to free scores of Taliban fighters: Karzai condemned over betrayal of British war dead
- 'One in four US drone deaths in Pakistan are civilian', report suggests as Washington and London face growing pressure to cut programmes
- Age of the 50p discount deal: Supermarket chains in new battle to tackle low cost rivals
- Fans blast Hamilton's 'bad taste' ski photos: F1 driver posts snaps online as Schumacher lies in coma
- Reading now a specialist activity and no longer enjoyed by general public, says crime novelist Ruth Rendell
- One in six over-50s suffers painful form of foot arthritis which tends to affect more women then men
- Wills joins the royal selfie craze: Prince stuns schoolgirl, 12, as he takes her phone to pose
- Caught by his tinted windows: 'Dead' banker arrested on $20m fraud charges 18 months after his apparent suicide
- Haunting series of photographs shows devastating effect decades of war and gang culture has had on the children of Central America
- Coffee shop with baristas in bikinis under fire for calling customer 'fat' and telling her to 'save world hunger by shooting yourself'
- Starbucks super fan eats breakfast, lunch and dinner at coffee chain every day for a whole YEAR... costing $700 a month
- Hundreds of marijuana users line up at Colorado stores as state becomes the first to allow sales for recreational use
- Dying woman's family get to spent final hours with her online from Iran after she's fatally 'beaten' by her husband 6,000 miles away in Michigan
- 'I don’t know how the hell they let her do this': Residents of exclusive beach community furious after Taylor Swift builds sea wall in front of $18million Rhode Island mansion
- Kerry Kennedy embroiled in a Christmas spat with high-powered friends after her festive email leaves them with tons of spam
- Wills joins the royal selfie craze: Prince stuns schoolgirl, 12, as he takes her phone to pose
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- There's a new Mayor in town: Bill de Blasio is sworn in to run New York City by Bill Clinton
- Ever wondered what happens to your bag at an airport? Behind the scenes on the luggage conveyor belts of Heathrow Terminal 5
- Airline passenger’s complaint about having to sit next to obese man ‘the size of an infant hippopotamus’ goes viral
- Heiress sues husband 'who claimed he needed $700k for mob gambling debts then used the cash to buy lavish gifts for his mistress'
- Family's joy as conjoined twins are thriving a year after they were separated in complicated surgery
- Bad taste: NBC under fire for MOCKING Pearl Harbor survivors saying they are only being able to chew SpaghettiOs
- How your favorite drink speaks volumes about your personal politics: The chart that measures voters in terms of vodka, whiskey and wine
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Two killed in stormy seas as gales and rain sweeping in from the Atlantic continue to lash Britain
A 27-year-old man was feared drowned yesterday after he paddled into the sea in severe gales near Porthleven, Cornwall (pictured top left), and was swept away by 15ft waves. His friends raised the alarm at 1am on New Year's Day, triggering an unsuccessful rescue attempt. Twelve hours earlier, a woman was swept away while reportedly trying to body-board in 11ft waves off Croyde Bay in North Devon. She was pulled from the water, but died in hospital. Most of the country experienced heavy rain sweeping in from the Atlantic, bringing more than 100 flood alerts (right shows jockey Sam Twiston-Davies covered in mud at Cheltenham race course).
Car thieves stole sick toddler's vital medical equipment and disabled parking badge ... but abandon the vehicle
Audrey Frantzich has to be tube-fed and constantly hooked up to an oxygen supply but has now been left house-bound after the heartless crooks took her special car seat, buggy, chair and her oxygen canister from her home in Baildon, West Yorkshire. Also taken were a satellite navigation system and a camera full of irreplaceable pictures of Audrey.
New shaving cream with a coffee kick can give an energy boost within five minutes
Migrants: Give the people a say on EU freedom says Keith Vaz - the one man welcoming committee
Mr Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said the British people needed to decide if rules allowing free-flowing migration across the continent should be changed. His comments came as controls on migrants from the two impoverished Eastern European countries lapsed at midnight on New Year’s Eve.
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How my little girl (and her scissors) helped me beat cancer: Mother-of-six whose touching video of her daughter shaving her head went viral has finished chemotherapy and is starting to grow her hair back
Now just finished her chemotherapy sessions, Sara Etchells, 46, from Manchester, made the video so she could help daughter Lola deal with her breast cancer. The mother-of-six, from Oldham, Greater Manchester then carried on her chemotherapy treatment and, two years on, Sara's hair is growing back and the family are now living without the fear of chemotherapy or surgery for the first time since 2011.
The four body shapes that hold they key to a woman's weight loss, according to celebrity personal trainer
Before signing up for a gym membership, perhaps you should decide which of these body shapes you are. Because that is the key to successfully achieving your goals, according to celebrity personal trainer Matt Roberts. He gave his New Year’s fitness tips, which include swearing off alcohol for at least a month and cutting out all dairy except for milk in tea, Mr Roberts said it was ‘crucial’ to work with your shape.
Was Midsomer murder mansion used by swingers? Police question victim's rock roadie ex-lover as it's revealed
Police are investigating an advert on a well-known sex website, which suggests that the property could be used as a venue for 'casual sex' and a 'discreet relationship'. Artist Valerie Graves, 55, was apparently bludgeoned to death while house-sitting for friends at the six-bedroom home, in a village that once featured in ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders.
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Frolicking free, the laboratory ponies saved by animal rescue teams hours before they were due to be slaughtered
The foals, aged between six and eight months, were given their liberty not by animal rights activists storming the lab, but by quiet negotiation with the research centre. Instead of sending them to the knacker’s yard when they reached the end of their useful laboratory lives, it handed them over to the Unite To Care group, which campaigns to end all animal testing. The foals were sold to the laboratory by a breeder in Wales when they were around three months old. They are understood to have been injected and analysed as part of an undisclosed medical research programme (bottom left).
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- Russian president Putin visits victims of Volograd terrorist atrocities as he vows to 'annihilate' those responsible for attacks
- Incredible 360-degree image of Times Square lets you home in on thousands of New Year's Eve revelers at the stroke of midnight
- Hadron Collider upgrade will lead to highest energy particle collisions ever attempted in efforts to solve questions over Dark Matter
- Lebanon arrests head of al-Qaeda linked group that claimed to be behind suicide bomb attack on Iran's embassy in November
- Man is pictured making footballer Nicholas Anelka's anti-Semitic 'quenelle' gesture outside French school where Jewish children were murdered
- Anger in Britain and the U.S. at Afghan plan to release 88 Taliban prisoners responsible for scores of attacks that killed and maimed troops and police
- Palestinian ambassador in Prague killed in explosion at his house
- Fear on streets of Volgograd: 5,200 police and troops crack down on migrant workers after two deadly bomb blasts in Russian city
- Jubilant scenes in Palestine as 26 prisoners are freed as part of peace deal with Israel... where Netanyahu faces anger over the move
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- That'll teach him! Curious cameraman runs screaming as swarm of creepy crawlies charge towards him after he investigates 'hairball' that's actually their nest
- German parliament denies claims that two of its artworks were paintings stolen by Nazis
- British father who slit his children's throats in France has hanged himself in jail ahead of his murder trial
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- The Kims go ski-ing: A typically stage managed public appearance on the slopes for the Kardashian family and North Korean dictator Jong-Un