The £3.1m parking bay: Supercar parade outside the Dorchester Hotel continues - but could you reverse park a Rolls Royce?

Flashy: Collections of supercars - most of them customised and all of them worth thousands of pounds - have been seen on the streets of London today

With temperatures in the Gulf still baking hot, wealthy Arabs are seeing out the end of the summer in London's rather milder climes... and they've brought their supercars with them. This line-up outside the Dorchester Hotel of (left-right) a gold-plated Range Rover, a Lamborghini, a Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé, a Ferrari, another Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé, yet another gold-plated Land Rovers, and a Bugatti Veyron is worth at least £3.1 million. It is one of the many glitzy parades of cars that have swamped Kensington and Knightsbridge this summer. Residents in Knightsbridge and Mayfair complain their drivers don't respect parking rules and rev their engines til the small hours, but fans of the unusual cars - dubbed the carparazzi - make special trips to photograph the vehicles.

Police to seize the passports of UK terror suspects and extremists will be forced to relocate as Cameron vows to fill 'gaps in our armoury' against jihadist threat

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The Prime Minister said Britain was proud to be an 'open, free and tolerant' nation, but new measures were needed to tackle the threat posed by extremists fighting in Iraq and Syria.

Boyfriend who knew he had HIV for three years jailed for GBH after deliberately infecting his girlfriend by having unprotected sex

Alan Mason, 45, from Endmoor, Cumbria, discovered he had HIV in 2008, but when he began a relationship with a woman in 2011, he neglected to tell her, and she became infected.

Le Top Gear? Hit BBC show set to cross the Channel with French version

A version of the programme is to be made locally by BBC Worldwide France for the broadcaster RMC Decouverte and will begin filming in the next few months for screening next year.

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Agony of domestic violence victim after boyfriend who beat her so badly she was left unconscious in a pool of blood is spared jail 

Gary Parker, 26 (inset with Melanie), dragged his 37-year-old girlfriend Melanie Adams (left, right and inset) around their home in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, while her children cowered in fear upstairs. The vicious attack was only stopped when Ms Adams' 12-year-old son managed to find a phone to call the police. Parker was arrested at the property after Ms Adams was found unconscious, covered in bruises (left) with a suspected fractured wrist on the living room floor. But today, the mother-of-three has hit out at the justice system as a court handed her attacker a 22-week sentence, suspended for 12 months.

Police accused of 'industrial levels of dishonesty' over Plebgate as Scotland Yard releases previously-unseen CCTV footage

Tory MP Andrew Mitchell was accused of calling police officers ‘f****** plebs’ after they refused to let him push his bike through the main gates in Downing Street on September 19, 2012.

WATCH: The 3D-printed 'bump keys' that can open almost ANY lock in seconds

A German engineer has revealed how to make 3D-printed 'bump keys' (shown). These devices can be used to break into popular pin tumbler design locks.

Sugar substance 'kills' good cholesterol raising the risk of heart disease 

Scientists at the University of Warwick have discovered that 'good' cholesterol is turned 'bad' by a sugar-derived substance, known as MG.

The ultimate power nap! Drinking coffee BEFORE a 20-minute sleep is the best way to improve alertness

Separate research in Japan and Loughborough has found that taking a 'coffee nap' can improve memory, alertness and reduce the number of errors made in tests.

Did iCloud's 'Find My iPhone' function help hacker steal 'nude' photos of Jennifer Lawrence and 100 other celebrities? Flaw may have allowed 4chan hacker to break into their accounts

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The hacker claims he or she broke into stars' iCloud accounts, including those of Jennifer Lawrence (pictured), Kate Upton and Rihanna, before publishing them on 4chan, the image-sharing forum. A list of the alleged victims of the hack - 101 in total - has also been posted online; most of whom have not seen any photographs leaked by the hacker. Following the publication of the images of Sunday night, experts have voiced their concerns over how the hacker managed to access them. Now, reports suggest that a specific flaw in Apple's iCloud's 'Find My iPhone' (bottom) service may have been to blame.

How DID hackers steal celebrities' private iCloud photos? Tech experts suggest wide range of security flaws for data theft

It is unclear how the hacker gained access to the images. Reports state a flaw was discovered in the California firm's Find my iPhone service that would have left it open to a 'brute force' attack.

Revealed: Hacked nude celebrity photos had been on 'deep web' black market for a WEEK - and there could be even more to come

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The hacked nude photographs leaked online of dozens of actresses including Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton have been circulating the web for at least a week and may not be the work of one hacker.

Celeb hacker on the run: Mystery man who stole celeb nude pics admits he is running from authorities as 'deep web' hackers congratulate him

Mr Hamade tried to sell intimate pictures of actress Jennifer Lawrence (left) in return for the internet currency Bitcoin. Kate Upton (right) was among the list of victims whose accounts on iCloud were allegedly hacked into

The mysterious chief hacker who organized the theft of private nude pictures of actresses including Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton has gone on the run.

Wish you hadn't sent that drunk text? The app that deletes your messages AFTER you've sent them

Ansa (pictured) was created by 23-year-old Natalie Bryla from San Francisco. It lets people send self-destructing text messages, photos and videos when using the ‘off the record’ mode.

Buckingham Palace official appears in court charged with accepting £100,000 in bribes for awarding royal contracts 

Ron Harper The Queen's former deputy property manager arrives at Southwark Crown Court where he faces charges for receiving payments to award contracts for work at Royal Palaces
He has pleaded Not Guilty

Ron Harper, 62, was deputy property manager at the Royal Household from 1994 until his suspension in 2012, Southwark Crown Court heard.

Living on the edge: Shocking moment idiot poses for photographs with legs dangling over edge of 500ft cliff at Beachy Head 

The group, who were taking it in turns to pose perilously close to the edge, were filmed at Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex

Three friends took it in turns to perch over the crumbling 500ft high cliff as the others took snaps of them at the beauty spot near Eastbourne, East Sussex. Eye-witness Guy Hollingsworth filmed the three as the put themselves in danger for up to 15 minutes as families walked by.

'I thought I was going going to die - because of my hair dye': Woman is hospitalised after home-highlighting kit swells her head to size of rugby ball

Tina Littlewood from Catterick, North Yorks, was rushed to A&E; where doctors compared her burns to those of fire victims. Six weeks later, she is still covered in scabs.

Woman died of brain haemorrhage after waiting SIX HOURS in A&E; for a scan that should have been done within an hour

Linda Lloyd died from a brain haemorrhage after a six hour wait in A&E

Linda Lloyd, 63, died of a significant brain haemorrhage after she waited more than six hours to receive a vital scan at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.

'My hayfever turned out to be a brain tumour': Musician's headaches and droopy eye diagnosed as inoperable growth leaving her unable to walk

Beth Frazer, 20, from Valley on Anglesey, blamed hayfever for her headaches, but after three visits to her doctor a brain scan revealed the true cause - a growth in her brain.

Controlling teenager forced his girlfriend to take constant 'selfies' every time they weren't together to prove she wasn't having an affair

Michael Deighton, 19, from Walker, Newcastle, wanted to know where his girlfriend Sophie Bruce, 18, was at all times, and even demanded she delete all her male Facebook friends.

Lidl delivery driver who killed two Land's End-John O'Groats charity cyclists after falling asleep at the wheel is jailed for eight years 

Robert Palmer, 32, mowed down Andrew McMenigall, 47, and Toby Wallace, 36, who died almost instantly in the crash on the A30 in Newquay, Cornwall, on July 2 last year.

E-cigarettes 'contain higher levels of certain toxins than regular cigarettes' 

Researchers from the University of South Carolina said elevated levels of toxic metals found in e-cigarettes raise concerns, although overall they are still less harmful than normal cigarettes.

Couple stranded on sailboat for a WEEK after bungling husband kept going when the engine cut out... before the wind died too

Couple tells story of being stranded at sea for one week

Bogdan Makowski, 69, and his wife Elizabeth Makowski, 61, were eventually discovered 10 miles off Anclote Key, Florida on Saturday.

'I was exhausted!': British adrenaline junkie solos 100 extreme climbs in the Lake District in 19 HOURS ... surviving on just one egg sandwich

Professional climber and instructor James McHaffie, from North Wales, overcame mental and physical exhaustion to complete the centenary of solo climbs in an astonishing 19 hours.

Tory Chris Kelly who was 'reduced to tears' by Cameron after rebelling over Europe becomes NINTH new MP to quit Parliament

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Dudley South MP Chris Kelly is the ninth member of the 2010 intake of MPs to quit the Commons after a single term – sparking accusations that many are ‘giving up’.

Cheerleading saved my life: Anorexic teenager whose weight plummeted to 5st makes remarkable recovery 

Lynne Lang, now 21, from Glasgow was diagnosed with the eating disorder in 2011. Within 18 months her extreme weight loss spiralled out of control and her weight fell to just five stone. In 2012 she was rushed to hospital because her low weight had put her body under such pressure that her heart almost stopped. She was banned from any physical activity- despite having been a keen cheerleader ever since she was young.

Shopping addict runs up £40,000 debt and has to sell home and move in with her mother-in-law after her spending spirals out of control

Emma Sims, 41, from Standford-le-Hope, Essex, found her spending addiction spiralling out of control when she was diagnosed with depression, spending over £2,000 a month.

Clarifications and corrections

Our report on June 12 said that the former deputy head of Carlton Bolling College, Akhmed Hussain, was coached to become deputy head of the school by his ‘personal friend’ Tahir Alam.

White British girl who's now a 'celebrity jihadi': Mother-of-two a 'top priority' for MI6 and she calls on Muslims to join the terror group

Khadijah Dare, 22, was born a non-Muslim in Lewisham, south London, but is now said to be of grave concern to British security services as she calls for more jihadi recruits. Dare appears in an ISIS recruitment video, right, holding an AK-47 and calling on British Muslims to abandon their families and their studies and join her in Syria. She has even posted pictures of one of her sons with the semi-automatic rifle that is the terrorist's weapon of choice, left, believed to have been taken at the home she shares with her extremist husband, Abu Bakr, inset.

Hells Angel murderer who walked out of prison and spent NINE YEARS on the run while claiming benefits and holidaying abroad is jailed again

Hells Angel David Richards should have triggered a manhunt after he absconded from Sudbury open prison in Derbyshire in 2005.

Mother who locked four-year-old daughter in a bedroom for three hours so she could go into town is jailed for 150 days

Sophie Ritson, 21, admitted neglecting and abandoning her daughter while she went to Carlisle city centre (pictured) in July because she 'needed to be by herself'

Terrifying moment fireworks shot into the sky after exploding at Lake District wedding reception killing two people

The tragedy happened shortly after the bride and groom had posed for photographs at their reception at home in Windermere, Cumbria, and as 70 guests were mingling in the marquee.

Here comes the... baby! Best man's wife gives birth in a car outside wedding venue after her waters broke as she arrived at ceremony

Bridesmaids cover the car with towels as Amanda Hutchinson gives birth inside outside the wedding of her best friend Amanda Vasey

Amanda Hutchinson suddenly went into labour in a car outside her best friend's wedding ceremony in Darlington when her waters broke seconds after arriving. Bridesmaids quickly covered the car with hotel towels (main picture) to give her privacy, before she and the baby (top right), along with her husband Gareth Hutchinson, were taken to hospital where she gave birth seven minutes later. The bride Amanda Vasey has now said the picture of herself with the new parents and her husband Steven Vasey (bottom right), is one of her favourite photos taken on the day.

'The colour of his skin is of no concern - Jonah being a healthy and happy baby is what matters': White child is born to black mother - beating odds of a million-to-one

Catherine Howarth, 32, from Milton Keynes, is of Nigerian heritage, and so was, at first, a little taken aback when she saw her son Jonah for the first time.

British host of US TV show who once ran 'religious cult' dance school in UK is shot dead in 'murder-suicide' bid by his son-in-law - who was also his LOVER

British born Scott Rogers, 52, was shot and killed at his Baton Rouge, Louisiana home on Wednesday by his son-in-law - Matthew Hodgkinson - who was also believed to be his former lover.

Temperatures reach up to 22C on the last day of summer (but don’t worry, the first week of autumn is set to be even warmer) 

Even though many children are heading back to school this week, temperatures are set to rise and could reach as high as 24 or 25C by the end of the week.

'Lucas is our gift from Oscar': Family's joy after baby boy is born four months after his big brother died 

Lucas Tasker was born two weeks ago, four months after his 14-month-old brother Oscar, from Coventry, died after he was born with the main arteries to his heart wired the wrong way around.

Sales of English rosé wine soar thanks to best-ever quality and drinkers dreaming of some sun 

Workers pick pinot noir grapes at Denbies Wine Estate on October 11, 2011 in Dorking, England. 

Workers are picking this year's crop of grapes for what is expected to be a very good year for British wine after an early warm Spring and a unusually mild October. At 265 acres Denbies is the United Kingdom's  largest single estate vineyard.  



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M&S; said that it had sold out of this year's English Pinot Noir rosé in just a month after shifting more than 500,000 bottles of rosé in June and July.

Bullied teenager 'nearly died after steel bar inserted to disguise his sunken chest came within 1cm of his heart' 

Euan Russell, 18, from Northumberland, was rushed to the operating theatre after doctors discovered his heart had started growing around a metal bar inserted to cover a dip in his chest.

Just HALF of women can locate the vagina on a diagram of the female reproductive system

Women's cancer charity The Eve Appeal is promoting 'straight talking' about gynaecological health, after survey found a third of young women avoid going to their GP due to embarrassment.

An apple and a half a day could reduce your chance of suffering a heart attack by 40% 

Researchers at Oxford University found eating a couple of pieces of fruit every day can help cut a person's risk of heart disease and stroke.

Stonehenge WAS completely round: 5,000-year-old mystery is solved by groundsman who couldn't water part of the circle- because his hosepipe was too short

Historians have long debated if the outer ring of the prehistoric monument was at one time completely round - but countless attempts by archaeologists have failed to uncover any evidence. This year however staff at the site have said that this ancient puzzle has been answered - all because a groundsman failed to reach a part of the circle because his hosepipe was too short. The dried out land revealed 'stone holes' (bottom left part of the circle) which were spotted by volunteer Tim Daw (bottom left) and English Heritage believe they mark where stones once stood.

Would YOU pay $400 for the iWatch? Apple's wearable tech will cost significantly more than its competitors, reports claim

California-based firm Apple is rumoured to unveil its smartwatch (concept pictured) at an event next week. By comparison, Samsung’s Gear 2 costs $299.99 in the US (£249 in the UK).

How does an elephant dance? Very, very well actually! Five-year-old Faa Mai takes up rhythmic gymnastics – to delight of fans 

The talented elephant got to grips with a water hose and perfected her performance skills at the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Springer spaniel Sprig rescued by lifeboat after falling down 300-foot cliffs and getting trapped on a rock for a week

Rescuers later found out Sprig had been lost on the mountainside for a week

A dog has been miraculously rescued by RNLI members after spending a week trapped at the base of England's highest sea cliffs at Foreland Point, Devon.

Is Google's driverless car a fair weather friend? Vehicle WON'T work in heavy rain or snow, insider reveals

Google’s car (pictured) can’t currently cope in heavy rain or snow – or find its way around 99 per cent of the US, an insider has admitted.

UK's only giant female panda Tian Tian feared to have suffered a miscarriage, say zoo bosses

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The UK's only female giant panda has passed her due date and experts fear ‘bad news’ regarding a pregnancy after hormone tests were atypical, Edinburgh Zoo said.

'If I want to I can take Kiev in a fortnight': Putin's threat to Europe revealed by EU boss as Ukraine loses control of key airport

Kiev's forces suffered a further setback in their war with pro-Moscow separatists, with Ukraine's military revealing it had pulled back from defending a vital airport in the east of the country. Military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said Ukrainian forces had pulled back from the airport near Luhansk. 
However, they had destroyed seven Russian tanks and identified a major build-up of Russian forces to the north and south of the city. 

Raju the crying elephant faces life back in chains after cruel former owners launch legal battle to win him back

Raju, the elephant who wept after being released from chains is facing more misery - after his owners have launched a legal battle to win him back

The creature captured the hearts of people from around the world when he cried as he was freed from chains after 50 years, and was taken to join five female elephants at Wildlife SOS's Elephant Conservation and Care Centre in India.

Joan Rivers' family consider lawsuit over botched procedure as doctors fear stroke could leave star 'either a vegetable or in a wheelchair'

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The family of Joan Rivers are said to be considering legal action as doctors begin to bring the comedian out of a medically-induced coma but fear she could be left as a 'vegetable'.

The Beslan survivors' decade of hell: Ten years since the horrific school siege, how the children caught up in it are still suffering

We went back to Beslan to find some of the victims who cheated death. We discovered amazing young people who defied adversity - but the memory of this terrorist hell will be with them forever.

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DOMINIC LAWSON: Jobs for the girls and why it's MEN who'll soon be suing for sexual discrimination

If things carry on the way they are, following the PM's most recent reshuffle and the potential selection of Carol Mills as Chief Clerk (pictured), it won’t be long before the men rise up.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Worrying wake-up call for Mr Cameron

The Prime Minister accused Douglas Carswell of 'rank disloyalty' after he defected to Ukip - but polls suggest he could storm to victory in the forthcoming by-election.