Builders were temporarily banned from working on the comic's cliff-top home in Fowey after carrying out a series of seemingly-risky manoeuvres. As they worked to strengthen a wall on the cliffs, one worker is pictured leaning face-first into the cliff from the scaffolding, right. A second worker was also spotted balancing on the scaffolding in front of the huge-arched windows, top left, as material was lowered to his colleagues below. After complaints, the Health and Safety Executive ordered Heritage Cornwall Ltd to stop work immediately until they had 'put it right'. It said the firm had to stop work 'immediately' but the issue had now been resolved. French, inset, bought the house with ex-husband Lenny Henry in 2006.

Myra Nicol from West Sussex, left, and Sinead Flannery who did a dream retreat in Birmingham,right, say that training themselves to have lucid dreams has helped them to overcome real life problems and years of haunting nightmares. A growing number of people have trained themselves to control their dreams and the technique is now being used as a cure for insomnia and post-traumatic stress disorder.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Gaza is on its knees tonight, the United Nations has declared, with babies' bodies crammed into ice cream freezers in overflowing morgues as fighting leaves almost half of medics unable to get to work. Palestinians say corpses are littering the streets as casualties litter the blood-stained emergency room floors of Gaza's hospitals, a third of which have been damaged in the fighting. Almost half a million civilians - 460,000 or a quarter of all Gazans - have been displaced with 260,000 crammed into 90 desperately crowded shelters, some of which have had no running water for two weeks. The crisis escalated today after Israel reportedly attacked another UN school killing 10 people. Another strike nearby in Rafah killed nine members of the same family (right) and left others scrambling to get out of the rubble, including a dirt-coated young boy (left). Inset: Some Israeli soldiers have been celebrating after many ground troops pulled out of Gaza, their mission to destroy Hamas tunnels largely complete, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue his nation's assault on militants.

The range is called Purple Ivy and includes a remarkable 82 pieces, including necklaces, rings, bracelets, bangles, brooches and earrings. There are six collections under the labels Lady, Girl Next Door, Vintage Colour, Mysterious, Nature and Rustic Animals. Chief executive Jim McCarthy says he wants Poundland, which has made a virtue of the fact that its products cost only £1, to become a force in high street jewellery.

Over the past few years CLAIRE GOLDWIN has noticed her locks thinning. While she's tempted by extensions she doesn't want to cause further damage, or face high costs. Half wigs of three-quarter wigs are designed to cover only the back of your head, blending with and enhancing your own hair. CLAIRE tries some out and gives her verdict

Josie Cunningham (right), 24, was seen at Blue Almonds (centre) - a shop in upmarket South Kensington, south-west London, where the Duchess of Cambridge (left) visited 16 months ago, ahead of the birth of Prince George. Blue Almonds boasts that it creates ‘magical rooms for children’, and previous clients are also said to include Formula One heiress Tamara Ecclestone, singer Lily Allen and supermodel Claudia Schiffer.

Even for a nation well used to the mercenary exploitation of spy-on-the-wall television, this latest series from Channel 4 has raised concern, writes TANITH CAREY. As one worried viewer pointed out on Mumsnet, the series would more aptly be named ‘Lunatic Parents’. For it is really all about the Eagle Dads and Tiger Mums, who want to show off how much work they have invested in their youngsters.

David Cameron was flown home from Portugal by the Royal Squadron so he could attend the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. He will today use the RAF plane to fly to France and Belgium for the First World War commemorations before flying back to Portugal on a commercial flight at his own expense. He and his wife will also take their traditional break to Cornwall, where they are pictured inset in 2008, later this summer.

Elle Holmes, from Bootle, Merseyside, had also been self-harming, covering her injuries with chunky accessories. Her mother Leigh Holmes said it was only after losing her 15-year-old daughter, she realised that the talented young singer had been battling 'hidden demons'. The 15-year-old was in Beijing at the time of her death where an inquest was held. It is believed that she took her own life.

They are the forgotten voices of World War I, who here bring to life the unbearable horror of trench warfare from the ordinary men who would become heroes for King and Country... Pictured (top right) are British volunteers marching through London to war in 1914, guarding a trench armed with rifles (bottom right) and finally going over the top - probably to death - on the front lines (left).

Residents from a block of flats in Woolwich have criticised the building's policy of making low income tenants use a separate entrance. The housing association tenants must use what is known as the 'poor door', while around the corner a nicer, separate entrance (pictured) is kept only for private flat owners to use. The practice made headlines recently with Labour claiming it was a form of class 'segregation'.

Geraldine Jones, 51, from Fownhope, Herefordshire, was fulfilling a promise she made to herself during a four-year battle with breast cancer when she was fatally injured after being thrown off her horse at Llangennith Beach on the Gower Peninsula. The mother-of-two had just been given the all clear and celebrated by riding down the beach in South Wales. Despite efforts by medical staff, the former hospice worker died on the way to hospital.

The new generation of mob bosses originally began using internet sites such as Facebook using aliases and fake identities to carry out drug deals and demand 'pizzo' protection money, police say. But they are now increasingly using it to flaunt their power and wealth, according to an investigation. In images reminiscent of the ridiculed Rich Kids of Instagram, Sicilian boss Domenico Palazotto posted photos of himself lounging aboard gin palaces (left), cruising in a limousine and drinking champagne (right).

Adele Vellacott and Dave Cobain have become the first Take Me Out couple to get married. The couple, who live in London, met on the hit dating show presented by Paddy McGuinness, but ended up going on dates to the Isle of Fernando's with other people. Two years later they have a one year old son, Freddie, and on Saturday tied the knot in an intimate ceremony at Cwrt Bleddyn Hotel in Monmouthshire, South Wales.

Rogue firms have been given free rein across the majority of the country, allowing them to target patients with extortionate ‘fines’ during their medical appointments. Pictured: Nurse John Fagan (left, with wife Julie), 46, who was taken to court by an NHS hospital in Kent when he refused to pay two parking ‘fines’ he was given while living on the other side of the country; and Robert Goodchild (right), 86, who was threatened with a 22-page ‘evidence file’ after being fined £70 at an NHS hospital car park in Worcestershire.

Much of Britain basked in glorious weather today - bringing holidaymakers and fun-seekers to the coast.. Brighton beach glistened in the early August sun, and Woolacombe beach in Devon (above) was filled with people.

Carl and Clarence Aguirre were born conjoined at the head in the Philippines in 2002, at a time when the treatment was to sacrifice one to save the other, but their mother refused to decide. She took the boys to Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York City, where doctors successfully separated them two years later. Now 12, the boys have to wear helmets to protect their brains. Carl (center) uses a wheelchair and leg braces, with limited use of his left arm and leg, while Clarence (left) is very active and acts like Carl's older brother. He can be hard to understand verbally.

In a corner of the battlefield dubbed Sanctuary Wood sheltering soldiers, relics can be seen 100 years on, as memorial services were planned across the UK, which will see David Cameron, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry and hundreds of other figures pay their respects to those who died between 1914 and 1918, while a flood of ceramic poppies outside the Tower of London (top right) continues to grow.

Mo, Evie and Otis Maslin (centre) and their grandfather Nick Norris were returning from a holiday in Amsterdam when their plane was shot down over Ukraine. Their mother, Rin Norris, was reduced to tears (left) when remembering her children and father at a Perth memorial service on Sunday. Ms Norris and her husband Anthony Maslin released three balloons (right) for their children at the Dockers AFL game on Thursday as the Fremantle Football Club paid tribute to three young children.

Three-year-old Chung and his brother Hu, five, fell in the quarry in Loudi, Hunan province, when they were throwing stones. The site had been excavated to make way for a new road two years ago but was left derelict. The boys' father Cai Libiao, 28, and mother Wang, 27, are now appealing for compensation from the council, and an explanation. They say they will keep the boys' bodies until they have answers.

Twins Isla and Grace Devine (pictured together right), of Northumberland, were both born with a rare form of eye cancer which was discovered when they were just 12 months old. The heartbreaking news was delivered to their parents Laura Pollard and Alan Devine (pictured left with Isla) after they noticed something wasn't right with Grace's eye. Although Grace had to have an eye removed and her sister Isla underwent six months of chemotherapy, recent tests have shown the cancer is now dormant in both girls.

The aircraft, measuring 155ft long and 19ft wide, left Cotswold Airport in Gloucestershire at around 6am this morning and made its way to the Royal Portbury docks near Bristol. Due to its size, the transporter carrying the Airbus aircraft fuselage was slow-moving and caused congestion on the A419 for several motorists. It was escorted by a police convoy from Wiltshire Police, who had advised members of the public that the journey would be taking place.

With a cheer, a wave and a peace sign, these construction workers are putting the finishing touches to what has been hailed a symbol of 'China's boundless future'.  Secured with safety ropes and harnesses, they sit astride the final truss on the top of what will be the world's second-tallest skyscraper. Topped out exactly a year ago, the Shanghai Central Tower is already China's tallest tower. But its position was cemented today as the last part of its roof was secured, bringing it to its full height of 2,073ft.

A shirtless photograph of a Texas football coach said to resemble Ryan Gosling was shared online Monday. Texas Tech University's head coach Kliff Kingsbury, left, was caught posing with two women in bikinis in the image, one of whom is a cheerleader for the Dallas Mavericks. Kingsbury, 34, has already been declared multiple times a lookalike of Hollywood actor Ryan Gosling, right. Kingsbury has spoken publicly about his resemblance to the heartthrob.

Just weeks after her luxurious 'she cave' became national news, someone has robbed former Mrs. Texas United America of nearly $1 million in jewelry, bags, and valuables. Theresa Roemer, pictured in her huge two storey walk-in closet before the raid top, said she and her husband were only gone 90 minutes for dinner at a country club just two blocks away when they came home to broken glass and empty shelves, pictured bottom left and right.