Jeanette Matthews (left) allegedly threatened the expectant mother at Airedale General Hospital in Keighley, West Yorkshire (right), in February 2011. The midwife, who qualified in 2002, faces a series of charges relating to alleged misconduct and lack of competence at a Nursing and Midwifery Council tribunal, which is being held in central London.
- 'Hurry up and have your baby or I'll cut you': What midwife allegedly told expectant mother 'because she wanted to go home and have a takeaway curry'
- Moment Daniella Westbrook's hire car was searched by police officer looking for 'suspicious items including a knife'
- 'Give my toyboy a visa', pleads real life Shirley Valentine: Woman who moved to Tunisia to marry her Facebook lover is broke and wants to move back to Britain with him
- 'I thought I was going to be raped': Teenage victim relives terrifying moment Rolf Harris allegedly pinned her against wall and groped her after offering to show her his artwork
- Office manager jailed for stealing £100,000 from clients so she could 'live like a TOWIE girl' paying for a boob job and sports car
- Son is banned from visiting his elderly mother who is 'wasting away' in hospital after complaining about the standard of care
- Drunks have turned me off stand-up comedy says Paul Merton as he admits he doesn't even go to see genre which made him famous
- 'My film isn't a documentary so real Turner nuts shouldn't complain if it's not historically accurate' says director Mike Leigh who has made period drama about artist's life
- More young women would vote for Joey Essex to be Prime Minister than say they admire Nick Clegg
- What a sizzler! It's the hottest day of the year as temperatures soar to 26C (but it's too hot for one Guardsman at rehearsals for Trooping the Colour)
- Ministers promise to 'tear up' soft touch day release system for criminals as figures reveal 100 lifers are let out of jail every DAY
- 'He's my guardian angel': Meet the dog who's has saved his owner's life TWICE (and also does the washing and answers the door)
- ‘There were armed police everywhere’: British couple’s terror as they are evicted from Kenya just one day into dream holiday
- Former National Farmers' Union official arrested after police seize almost 200 cannabis plants worth £75,000 in barn raid
- British drugs giant AstraZeneca's share price slumps as it rejects 'final' £69billion takeover bid from US rival Pfizer
- Judge names and shames women who spent £230,000 of elderly relative's savings on cars, designer handbags and jewellery
- 'She was going to kill me for my car!': Elderly woman 'run down by Hawaiian surfer model in attempted murder attack' says it was a carjacking gone wrong
- Disturbing video footage shows father throw his two-year-old daughter face first into a swimming pool to 'teach her a lesson'
- 'If I have one more drink I'll die': Grammy-nominated musician and Avril Lavigne's ex, 34, warns of dangers of alcohol with shocking photographs from hospital bed after his liver and kidneys collapsed
- Power, prostitutes and alcohol-fuelled orgies: But will DSK sue for movie based on his disgrace?
- Mexico divided: Stark photos show urban wealth and poverty side-by-side
- Girl, 10, 'raped by eight-year-old classmate while his sister held her down' in horrific elementary school attack
- Police search family home of girl, 13, who went missing 25 years ago from Minnesota gas station
- Teenage girl found dead in hotel room after leaving prom early to spend night with her boyfriend
- Watch: See these Good Samaritans stop to help a crying girl only to run terrified from a DEVIL child in hilarious prank
- 'Planes don't just disappear': Former Malaysian Prime Minister accuses CIA of covering up what really happened to flight MH370
- Pro surfer and model investigated for attempted murder of 73-year-old woman after 'running her down' in road rage attack
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- Messages from the dead: The drowned son who returns for bedside chats. The astronaut who spoke to his father's ghost. Impossible? This spine-tingling series may make you think again
- Woman, 68, kills husband and critically injures daughter and son-in-law after she accidentally plows THROUGH her house and into a lake with her grandson, 3, sitting on her lap
- 'To sell baubles I find quite shocking and repugnant': Families of workers killed on 9/11 vent fury at new museum's tacky gift shop which stands above tomb storing 8,000 unidentified body parts of victims
- Player in the making! Young boy pulls off slick foul ball trick to impress cute girl
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What a sizzler! It's the hottest day of the year so far as temperatures hit 25C (but it's too hot for one Guardsman at rehearsals for Trooping The Colour)
By 9am the mercury had hit 20.1C (68F) at Heathrow Airport - and 24.6C (76F) by midday, making London hotter than Rhodes, Rome and Madrid. Forecasters said the places most likely to see the hottest temperatures as well as London would be up to the Midlands, and up towards the North-West. Pictured: A Guardsman is carried away after fainting during a rehearsal for Trooping the Colour in Central London (left), Noah Crackett, four, plays in the rock pools beside St Mary's Lighthouse, also in North Tyneside (top right), and Jack Wright, four, plays in the sea at Cullercoats Bay, North Tyneside (bottom right).
Woman, 37, so addicted to 'buzz of pregnancy' she's had seven babies and won't stop until her 'womb falls out'
Tara Sawyer, 37, from Wimblington, Cambridgeshire, loves the feeling of being pregnant and refuses to take any payment for surrogacy. 'Surrogacy is very addictive,' said Tara. 'It’s a huge rush from the moment the test comes back positive. It’s an amazing feeling to hand over a child to someone who desperately wants it, and I feel at my best whilst pregnant.'
Holiday home has INDOOR BEACH where visitors can even get a suntan and set the temperature to 33 degrees
Bringing the tropics to Dymchurch, Kent, Karl Emanuelsson has transformed his home into a luxury Caribbean style retreat - complete with real sand, palm trees and deck chairs. Holiday makers can relax with a drink and listen to music as they bathe under the 'sun', created by cutting edge Swedish technology which replicates natural sunlight. The room is believed to be the only beach room of its kind in the world - and it’s even possible to tan safely and without suncream because the light is only as strong as natural sunlight but with greatly reduced UV rays.
HOW THE WORLD LOOKS FROM WESTMINSTER
WESTMINSTER TODAY
- Miliband at 'crunch point' as he meets election guru to plot fightback with economic optimism at a record high
- 'The party deliberately attracts the racist vote': Ukip poster girl tipped by Farage as 'rising star' quits over 'terrifying' lurch right
- Most over-70s are 'uncomfortable' about homosexuality, Farage claims as he defends views of Ukip candidate
Teenage twin hooligans caught fighting in barbaric street brawl where they threw a PORTABLE TV at rival family are both jailed - because police can't tell them apart
Ryan and Grant Seymour, both 19, were caught on CCTV taking part in mass violence, in Biddulph, Staffordshire, on July 6 last year. A court heard the siblings were seen pelting missiles including a portable television at members of a 'rival' family. A court heard the twins also hurled vases and bottles at their victims - with one brother attacking a group of men with a spanner. But because the brothers are almost impossible to tell apart it was 'unclear who did what'.
Licenced to fell: Former Bond girl Fiona Fullerton defies neighbours and cuts down 'iconic' Cypress trees outside her £900,000 mansion
Fiona Fullerton, pictured bottom right with co-star Roger Moore in the Bond film A View To A Kill, came under fire after she obtained a licence to fell the towering Cypress trees as part of a major renovation of her £900,000 home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Ms Fullerton says she is just following guidance from council officers who said the 70-year-old trees are unsafe. The house is pictured with the trees before the work, top left, and after, top right, and as workmen chop up logs, main picture.
'Sex without love isn't worth it': Virgin schoolboy tells fellow pupils they should not have casual relationships because it won't make them happy
Phil Lyman, 18, a pupil at £30,000-a-year Wellington College, Berkshire, said he was 'going public' because of the pressure on young people to have sex. The teenager warned fellow pupils in an article for the Wellingtonian, the school magazine, that casual sex 'never works in the long term' because two people become 'emotionally and physically' connected when they have sex. He said boys learned about sex through pornography while girls thought it was romantic - paving the way for heartbreak.
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The sailors are seen on stage in the image, holding trophies on the last day of the event they'd sailed the 40-foot Cheeki Rafiki in - the Antigua Regatta. The crew had joked on social media about their lengthening beards and the food they were eating on their journey back to Southampton. Circled is a picture a merchant vessel took of a capsized boat that could well be the missing Cheeki Rafiki.
THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
Mexico divided: Stark unaltered photographs capture middle class affluence side-by-side with extreme urban poverty
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