'ISIS pose a greater threat to Britain than we have known before': Prime Minister warns an attack on the UK is now 'highly likely'

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The Prime Minister's remarks came after the official threat level was raised from substantial to severe - the second highest - amid growing fears over extremists returning from Iraq and Syria. Mr Cameron (pictured speaking in Downing Street today) said ISIS now posed a 'greater and deeper threat to our security than we have known before'. The PM said terrorism was 'the most important issue facing this country today'. He also announced that new laws will be passed to make it easier to remove extremists' passports if there are concerns they will travel to the Middle East to join ISIS. The Prime Minister's remarks came after the Home Secretary Theresa May stressed that there is no information to suggest an attack is imminent, but warned: 'We face a real and serious threat in the UK from international terrorism.'

'They ran away in desperation': Jehovah's Witness couple who snatched their seriously ill son from hospital 'took him abroad to find brain tumour treatment after doctors told them nothing could be done'

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Police have launched a 'major investigation' to find five-year-old Ashya King, who has a brain tumour and was taken without consent from hospital by his parents. Ashya, who was being treated at Southampton General Hospital, is described as needing round the clock care and there are 'serious concerns' for his life if he is not found today. Officers said his parents - Brett King and Naghmeh King (pictured with Ashya) - boarded a cross-Channel ferry from Portsmouth to Cherbourg at 4pm yesterday with Ashya's six siblings. CCTV shows Ashya's father leaving the hospital with him around 2pm yesterday.

'Ban supermarket special offers on junk food': Deals should only be allowed on healthy meals, says health committee chief

The Co-operative Crisps, Buy one, get two free. Supermarkets across the UK are offering consumers deals on junk food which people are buying into due to saving money in the lead up to Christmas.

EXCLUSIVE: Dr Sarah Wollaston told MailOnline that too many special offers were on crisps, sweets and fizzy drinks, which encouraged cash-strapped shoppers to have a poor diet.

Pensioner 'too fit to qualify for blue disabled parking badge' even though he has NO feet

Tom Hannah, 73, from Rosyth, Fife, was told he cannot have a permit because he could 'walk 20 yards' - even though the lower part of both of his legs have been amputated.

Love really IS all you need: Happy relationships help people thrive in every aspect of their lives

Scientists from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and University of California, said ‘thriving’ involves five components of wellbeing, including learning new skills (stock image pictured).

Two fat ladies? That's not the worst of it! Tourette's syndrome sufferer is banned from bingo hall for swearing and shouting

Louis Bunn (pictured), 23, was ejected from the Leo Leisure Bingo hall in Eastbourne in the middle of the game after staff thought his involuntary tics were deliberate efforts to disrupt people.

Drunk mother drove on pavement and flipped her Jeep on its side... then told police they should be 'out catching real criminals'

Kimberly Gale, 30, was more than twice the legal limit when she got behind the wheel and wrecked her 4x4 after a night out in Plymouth, Devon.

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'I'm going to rip his throat out': UKIP in chaos as original Clacton candidate attacks rebel MP Douglas Carswell for jumping ship

Roger Lord (top right) said he will fight Mr Carswell (with Nigel Farage centre) for the UKIP nomination in Clacton ahead of the forthcoming by-election, expected to held on October 9.

Running a marathon to lose weight? Don't bother! More than half of people completing their first race GAIN pounds

Running a marathon to lose weight? Don't bother! More than half of people completing their first race GAIN pounds

Fitness fans struggle to lose weight as they consume more calories than they burn off - 54 per cent treat themselves to fattening snacks after exercise.

Angry farmer takes revenge on gypsies by blocking them in with his tractor collection when they refused to leave his land 

Chris Awdry, 53, from Wiltshire, took direct action when the travellers - who had arrived with six caravans - told him he would need a court order to move them on. He turned to police but they said it was a civil matter and refused to get involved. So Chris called in his staff to drive the tractors around the edge of the 1.5-acre site and block them in as police watched.
And less than three hours after arriving the gypsies decided it was time to leave.

Rotherham council staff 'seized files and wiped computers to cover up scale of child sex grooming'

Cover-up? Council officials are said to have seized details that would have exposed the abuses in 2000

Officials are said to have ordered a raid on the town's young people's service centre and seized nothing but the details of victims, offenders, and grooming cases that would have contributed to a landmark report in 2000.

Loom band charms taken off the shelves by Britain's biggest independent toy shop over 'cancer causing chemicals' 

Tests on accessories manufactured by RMS International (not pictured) - which also trades with Asda, Tesco and Argos - found dangerous levels of two banned chemicals.

Ice bucket challenge toddler who became a star for swearing is set to appear as a RAPPER on Britain's Got Talent

Potty mouth: Three-year-old Scarlett-Rose Davis turned the air blue during an ice bucket challenge - and her doting grandparents have now revealed she intends to try out for Britain's Got Talent as a rapper

Scarlett-Rose Davis, 3, from Walsall, West Midlands, became a web sensation after screaming 'f****** hell' during the stunt - and now plans to audition for the ITV show.

New Tesco boss rushed into action a month early as crisis-hit supermarket issues ANOTHER profit warning

Tesco said its new chief executive Dave Lewis will now start work on Monday, a month earlier than planned, in order to commence a review of 'every aspect' of the group's operations.

Firearms police raid Fifty Shades director's £15.5m London home after passer-by spots a MACHINE GUN that was given to her for an art project 

A pedestrian walking past the £15.5 million home Sam Taylor-Johnson shares with her husband, Kick Ass actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson (both pictured right), spotted the gun on a desk (main picture) and called 999. The weapon, a deactivated M16 assault rifle, had been given to the film-maker and photographer as part of an art project entitled Peace One Day M16. Mrs Taylor-Johnson, 47, who is currently working on the film version of the erotic best-seller, met her actor husband Aaron, 23, when he played John Lennon in her Beatles biopic Nowhere Boy.

House prices hit new record high after soaring 11% in a year with average homes now worth £189,306, new report reveals

Britain's 20 year House price boom

The average house price across the UK rose £357, or 0.8 per cent, in August. This is up from the 0.2 per cent rise in July, and marks the sixteenth monthly increase in a row.

Golden sands! Public hunt for 30 pieces of 24-carat bullion hidden on Kent beach by artist as part of town’s arts festival

The 10g and 20g gold bars were buried on the Outer Harbour beach in Folkestone by German artist Michael Sailstorfer. The gold can only be recovered during low tide.

Is that all independence is worth? Scots try to sell their referendum votes on EBAY for as little as £1.04

Adverts offering the chance to buy a vote in the September 18 ballot were spotted and quickly removed by the online auction site as Police Scotland confirmed today they were investigating.

New GCSEs penalise brightest pupils for giving longer answers in language exams, headmistress claims

Fiona Boulton, headmistress of Guildford High School, found that her brightest students were marked down in their language GCSEs because of 'erratic' marking

The brightest girls at top independent school, Guildford High School, were marked down in their language GCSE's because of 'erratic' marking, it has been claimed.

Drink-driver killed her hotelier friend in Range Rover crash - but left his father to find the body after she failed to call 999 

Debbie Barker, 43, has been jailed for three years after the crash in the Yorkshire Dales which killed her friend Tom Bannister, who she was giving a lift from his Coniston Hotel.

Is this Britain's luckiest woman? Comping addict wins £30,000 of prizes in two years (but she does enter 100 contests a day)

Is this Britain's luckiest mother? Comping addict who enters up to 100 contests EVERY DAY wins £30,000 of prizes in two years

Katy Spence, 34, from Boston, Lincs. has been able to kit out her entire home with prizes she has amassed by entering up to 100 competitions each day.

'You look like something out of Harry Potter': Judge blasts Hagrid-lookalike solicitor-advocate who went to court with a ribbon of medals sewn into his gown

Judge David Wynn Morgan at Cardiff Crown Court tore into solicitor advocate Alan Blacker (left) who bears a striking resemblance to Hagrid in the Harry Potter films (right). Mr Blacker had sewn a set of what he claimed were ceremonial St John Ambulance medals on his left breast along with colourful ribbons. Mr Blacker, a solicitor advocate, goes by the full name of Dr The Right Honourable The Lord Harley of Counsel of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.

Married doctor, 51, who told student, 20, she had a 'nice body' during intimate examination then asked her out for a curry is struck off

Father-of-four Dr Mohammad Tariquezzaman watched the young woman undress and asked for her phone number during the consultation at University College Hospital, London.

Fraudster who stole £3m from City firm while working in its payroll department gambled it away and spent cash on his Thai bride 

Dennis Harold, 60, from Dagenham, Essex, paid 'wages' to fake staff at recruitment firm Devonshire then squandered the cash on chauffeur-driven cars and betting.

Anti-Israel slogan stamped on £5 notes: Bank of England warns campaigners could be prosecuted for defacing currency

The offending £5 bank note, with the pro-Palestine message stamped on it

Campaigners stamping anti-Israel, pro-Palestine messages on bank notes could be prosecuted for defacing currency, the Bank of England has warned.

A run on powerful vacuum cleaners? Sales rocket 44% as households scramble to buy best models before EU ban

DDJ0P0 Henry vacuum cleaners for sale in a Currys store in Exeter, UK.

ao.com had its best ever day for vacuum cleaner sales as customers rushed to get hold of a model with a high wattage before they are banned by the EU. Tesco saw sales leap by 44%.

Now it's the OIL bucket challenge! Mechanic takes charity soaking a step further - and raises more than £1,000

Colin Meyrick, 46, from Llanhilleth, South Wales, agreed to have 30 litres poured over his head on one condition - all the money raised would go to a cancer charity in memory of his late mother. 

EU chief Juncker 'is acting like a dictator' after he tells David Cameron: Send a woman to Brussels or miss out on top jobs

Mr Juncker indicated Britain could expect a lowly European Commission post because of the Prime Minister’s nomination of Lord Hill of Oareford, pictured.

Blair branded 'a disgrace' for giving Kazakh dictator PR advice on massacre of civilians by his regime

Tony Blair with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev who he gave PR advice to over the massacre of civilians

Tony Blair has been branded ‘disgraceful’ for advising notorious dictator, Nursultan Nazarbayev, on how to ‘spin’ a massacre of civilians by his regime.

Gordon Brown to the rescue: Former PM puts feud with Alistair Darling to one side in bid to save the union 

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 22:  Gordon Brown former British Prime Minister gives keynote speech during an event to mark the beginning of the last four weeks of the campaign on August 22, 2014 in Glasgow,Scotland. Both camps in the referendum campaign are holding events on the first day of purdah a 28 day period which curbs what public bodies can do during the election period.  (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

The Labour grandees will appear together at a rally in Dundee to shore up support for Scotland remaining in the UK after Mr Darling’s disastrous television debate performance.

Row over Scotland debate 'rent-a-mob': BBC accused of bias after viewers complained independence supporters were allowed to challenge Alistair Darling 

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 25:  Alex Salmond First Minister of Scotland takes part in a live television debate by the BBC in the Kelvingrove Art Galleries on August 25, 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland. Tonight is the second time the two politicians have gone head to head answering questions from members of the audience on key issues on Scottish independence. The referendum will take place on 18th September when the nation will be asked to vote yes or no to decide whether Scotland should be an independent country.  (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Critics said that an SNP 'rent-a-mob' were allowed to loudly challenge leader of the No campaign Alistair Darling, while First Minister Alex Salmond escaped tough questioning.

Pictured: 'Funny, lovely' drama graduate, 22, who was killed on level crossing while trying to rescue her boss's dog from the tracks

Yasmin Jones, 22, (pictured) from Glastonbury, Somerset, was killed by a train while trying to rescue her boss's dog at Fisherman's level crossing (inset) between Freshfield and Ainsdale in Lancashire on Wednesday. Her father Nigel today paid tribute to his 'beautiful' daughter and said the family had been left devastated by her tragic death. Dozens of tributes have also been left on social media for the popular drama student, who recently graduated from Liverpool's John Moores University. British Transport Police said her death was not being treated as suspicious.

Beware one-night-stands! Official police warning after married man is robbed of wallet and phone after 3am hotel tryst

The police have issued an official warning urging people to beware the dangers of having a one-night stand. It came after a married man was robbed of his wallet and phone after a one-night stand.

Fowl play: Duck rustlers are made to sit with dead birds stuffed in their mouths as punishment for their crimes

The two 14-year-olds were caught stealing ducks from the village pond. The village head called the pair 'delinquents' and suggested they might think twice about stealing something again.

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Father-of-two suffers horrific injuries after 'motiveless' attacker sprayed acid in his face as he drove through town centre

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Darren Pidgeon was horrifically injured in what police believe was a completely unprovoked assault as he drove through Rayleigh, Essex earlier this summer

You really ARE what you eat: Forget sunbathing, munching just two extra portions of fruit and veg a day gives you a more attractive skin glow than a suntan

New research suggests that a 'caretonoid' glow from eating fruit and veg such as melons, carrots, pumpkin, spinach and broccoli gives a more attractive skin glow than a suntan - and actually signals health to potential mates. Scientists digitally enhanced images to show the golden 'cartenoid' glow that can be achieved through a diet high in fruit and vegetables (pictured in the middle). This was rated as more attractive than images digitally enhanced to show the changes in skin colour achieved through tanning (pictured right).

Student ‘raped by former public schoolboy’ admits she was drunk when she got into bed with him - but denies kissing him

The 20-year-old woman had been drinking all evening when she went back to her London halls of residence with currency trader Archie Read, also 20, and suggested he stay the night.

Woman 'battered musician boyfriend to death with a guitar stand in drunken row - then waited an hour to call 999'

Samantha Adeokun, from Silverdale, Lancashire, is accused of killing her partner Peter Davegun, 42, in a brutal attack at his home in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire on December 23 last year.

Internet blackmailer ordered suicidal teenager to make sordid webcam video of eight-hour rape re-enactment or he would send her family naked pictures

Mark Yeeles, 20, was jailed for six years at Newcastle Crown Court for after forcing the girl and her friend to perform 'depraved and sickening acts' over webcam.

Premier League footballer Ravel Morrison to face trial over claims he threatened to throw acid in ex-girlfriend's face during four-year campaign of harassment 

The West Ham player, 21, is also accused of threatening to blow up former girlfriend Reah Mansoor's house, as well as assaulting the 19-year-old and her mother.

Moment brave landlord tackled top Grand National jockey and his two drunk friends with a pool cue after they attacked drinkers

Pub boss Barry Birch stepped in when jockey Sean Quinlan and his two friends sparked the bar brawl in The Priory pub in Leek, Staffordshire in February

Summer's coming back, but not until Tuesday: Wet and windy weekend … and then Hurricane Christobal will bring glorious weather to the UK

As the storm moves across the Atlantic, it is set to create an area of high pressure, bringing settled conditions to the UK next week. But heavy showers are expected to last until Monday.

Now EU targets hairdryers and lawn mowers: Brussels set to introduce ban on devices to meet energy efficiency targets

Dozens of energy-sapping electrical devices could be struck off next spring to meet Brussels' targets after it was announced powerful vacuum cleaners would be banned from next week.

New stars of Benefits Street are good neighhh-bours! Grandmother-of-six 'Orange Dee' admits she hasn't worked for 20 years... as a HORSE is taken on a visit to nearby house

Dorothy 'Doris' Taylor is one of the many residents of the Tilsbury Estate in Stockton, Teesside, hoping to appear on the next series of Channel 4's Benefits Street.

Stunning aerial photos show the new shape of London as £6.5billion Thameslink rail project takes shape

The £6.5 billion Thameslink rail project will connect multiple regional destinations on either side of the city for the first time with Tube-like service frequency when complete in 2018. The railway will link Brighton and Gatwick Airport with central London and stations north of the Thames, including Luton Airport and Bedford. At the heart of the programme is Britain's biggest station redevelopment - the complete rebuilding of London Bridge (pictured).

The Turbanator: Devout Sikh wears the world’s largest turban that takes him six hours to put on and weighs 100lb 

Holy man Avtar Singh Mauni, from Patiala, in the Punjab, wears a turban that measures a staggering 645m. If could well be long enough to land him a Guinness World Record.

Hey Dumbo, did you ever see an elephant fly? Curious elephant calf is spent spinning through the air after picking a mismatched fight

The over-confident young elephant was refreshing himself at a watering hole in Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa, when he unwisely attempted to scare off his new drinking companion.

The 'office' with the best views in the world: Snow-capped mountains and a city emerging from the clouds among beautiful pictures taken by pilot jet cockpit

Jordi Martin Garcia took this photograph of contrails streaming behind a B747 above the south of France, during a stunning orange sunset

Spanish pilot Jordi Martin Garcia has produced a series of stunning photos of the world below as he sees it from the seat of his aircraft.

Spotted out and about: Seven-week-old snow leopard cub who was saved from the womb makes his debut at New York zoo

Asa the snow leopard cub was born by emergency C-section on July 9 at Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Syracuse, New York. He was saved from the womb when veterinarians could not detect a heart beat.

Bungee like Bond! Fans flock to 720ft high dam to copy 007’s famous GoldenEye leap from the top of the famous landmark

Film fans take the James Bond bungee jump

Fans are queuing up to throw themselves off the 720ft-high Contra Dam, also known as the Verzasca Dam, on the Verzasca River in Ticino, Switzerland.

'It's just her way of saying hello!': Excited lioness pounces on conservationist for a hug ... forgetting she's bigger than him

When faced with a lioness clawing at its flimsy cage, most of us would do a runner. But Valentin Gruener calmly approaches the cage - and lets the beast run wild in Botswana, Africa.

The NATO satellite pictures that prove Russia IS fighting inside Ukraine as Obama says Moscow is responsible for the violence

Russian tanks have been filmed rumbling through Ukraine as president Barack Obama has laid blame for the conflict squarely with Russia. Petro Poroshenko has called for urgent meeting of UN Security Council amid increasing reports of Russian troops fighting with rebels in Ukraine. The US ambassador to Kiev said Russian troops and state-of-the-art air defence systems were being used against Ukrainian forces. As more shelling hit Donetsk (pictured) Ukraine's security and defence council today said the border town of Novoazovsk and other parts of Ukraine's south-east had fallen under the control of Russian forces who together with rebels were staging a counter-offensive.

UN say 43 of their peacekeepers have been detained by an 'armed group' at Syria-Israel crossing recently claimed by Al Qaeda-linked fighters 

The UN's report follows heavy fighting in the Golan Heights region over the last two days. Yesterday the area was captured by rebels prompting the Syrian army to bomb the area today using jets.

Princess Diana had a 'DIY security team' which led to 'tragic outcome' on the night of her death, says French policeman who guarded her body 

Daniel Bourdon's claims are made in his new book called Diana: That Night in which reveals his shock at the standard of the security operation around her and boyfriend Dodi Fayed in Paris.

Biblical plague of locusts swarm Madagasca as billions of the insects make their annual migration

An enormous dark cloud of the flying insects has appeared in the east African country's capital of Antananarivo, sparking panic for Madagascar's nine million agricultural workers.

MH370 could have changed course earlier then thought, say searchers

Boeing 777 Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 with the registration number 9M-MRO flies over Poland February 5, 2014. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, with 239 people on board, dropped off air traffic control screens at about 1:30 a.m. on March 8, 2014, less than an hour into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. There were no reports of bad weather or mechanical problems. Picture taken February 5, 2014. REUTERS/Tomasz Bartkowiak (POLAND - Tags: TRANSPORT DISASTER)

A failed attempt at a satellite phone call from the jet 'suggests ... the aircraft might have turned south a little earlier than expected,' said Warren Truss, Australia's deputy prime minister.

Italian politician who compared a black female minister to an orangutan now claims he needs to be exorcised 'because her African father has cursed him'

Roberto Calderoli, deputy speaker of Italy's Senate and former minister of the anti-immigrant Northern League party, claims run of bad luck is down to immigration minister Cecile Kyenge's father.

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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Those Blair letters in full... Dear Pol Pot, Love Kettle

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Tony Blair has earned millions advising the president of Kazakhstan on public relations after police shot protesters, here are imagine letters between Blair and other dubious world figures.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Defection that is a wake-up call to PM 

While David Cameron was gently ‘chillaxing’ on his summer holiday, we now know that his Ukip counterpart Nigel Farage was very busy indeed.