A shawl found by the body of Catherine Eddowes, one of the Ripper’s victims, has been analysed and found to contain DNA from her blood as well as DNA from the killer - Aaron Kosminski, Polish-born hairdresser who was later admitted to a lunatic asylum. The landmark discovery was made after businessman Russell Edwards, 48,(right) bought the shawl at auction and enlisted the help of Dr Jari Louhelainen, a world-renowned expert in analysing genetic evidence from historical crime scenes. In the intervening century, a Jack the Ripper industry has grown up, prompting a dizzying array of more than 100 suspects, including (left from top right) Prince Albert Victor, Edward VII’s son, Sir William Gull, Queen Victoria’s doctor, post-Impressionist painter Walter Sickert and John Pizer, a Jewish shoemaker,
We'll put guards on Scottish border: Ed Miliband reveals incendiary plan as Yes camp leads for first time in shock new poll
With just 11 days to go until the referendum - and polls showing growing momentum for Alex Salmond's nationalists - the Labour leader has urged voters to face up to the consequences of severing the 300-year-old Union. 'If you don't want borders, vote to stay in the United Kingdom,' Mr Miliband said in an interview with today's Scottish Mail on Sunday.
- Jack the Ripper unmasked: How amateur sleuth used DNA breakthrough to identify Britain's most notorious criminal 126 years after string of terrible murders
- We'll put guards on Scottish border: Ed Miliband reveals incendiary plan as Yes camp leads for first time in shock new poll
- Oh crumbs! EU health chiefs say toast gives you cancer: It must be yellow, never brown, to cut risk of danger chemical
- Revealed: New boss of investigation into VIP child abuse claims is linked to Leon Brittan: The Mail On Sunday exposes family friendship of SECOND inquiry chief with the ex-MP accused of abuse file cover-up
- Man, 25, arrested on suspicion of murder by detectives investigating disappearance of schoolgirl Alice Gross
- Scotland WILL become independent, shock new poll claims as it shows 51% now back Yes campaign with just 11 days until vote
- West's 'plan to force out Putin will backfire': Moscow claims US is exploiting Ukraine conflict in bid to force Russian president out of power
- Football goldrush creates world's first £1bn 'super agent' and he has masterminded £200m of signings in the last two months alone
- 'I don't feel safe in Scotland': Bra Queen Michelle Mone bombarded with abuse after speaking out against independence
- Kew Gardens drugs storm over 'Intoxication Season' which includes talks on mind-altering plants
- Alex Salmond's secretive Saltire-smuggling First Lady (...who is 17 years his senior)
- Revealed: The German residents who will vote 'Ja' to Scottish independence (including one Herr Mittler)
- How the Met shot down their own poster woman: Bullied, demeaned and smeared, trailblazing PC tells the full horror of the Scotland Yard campaign that destroyed her life
- UK ebola fear as 21,000 African students from countries in the affected regions arrive
- Knocked out with laughing gas, then robbed... in our own motorhome: Family tell of motorway ordeal in latest attack on tourists in France
- BBC boss to be quizzed over £5m shares in global education firm in business with Corporation
- Three arrested over murder of mother-of-five found stabbed to death after frenzied attack in New Forest
- Tories are all at sea over Clacton Tube: Residents of Essex town left baffled after survey question about local Underground services, despite nearest stop being 60 miles away
- Jack the Ripper unmasked: How amateur sleuth used DNA breakthrough to identify Britain's most notorious criminal 126 years after string of terrible murders
- G.R.L. singer and former X Factor contestant Simone Battle found dead at 25 from apparent suicide
- The funniest video you will see all week: Dog dressed up as a huge spider makes unsuspecting victims flee in absolute terror
- Stars arrive in New York for Joan Rivers' funeral as NYPD announces they will probe death of star who suffered heart condition which made her 'scared' of anesthesia
- Inside the tiny town built for sex offenders: Photographer captures the spiritual 'safe haven' in Florida where 200 convicted sex criminals and their relatives live side by side
- Terrifying moment gang of teens viciously beat couple on Missouri street after sexually harassing female victim outside nightclub
- Say goodbye to Summer! Snow comes a month early with SEVEN states due to drop into freezing conditions over the next week thanks to another Polar Vortex
- Woman, 20, hit and killed 89-year-old great-grandmother 'because she was distracted looking at Facebook on her phone' while driving
- 'Please don’t die like my boy’: Mother releases harrowing footage of son’s death in 97mph horror motorbike crash to try and stop other families going through her agony
- New pictures show bruised and bloodied faces of couple who were beaten up by six men outside Missouri nightclub
- How the sickest website on the internet is exploiting those naked selfies of celebs: Inside 4chan 'the ninth circle of hell'
- 'I don't have a problem with what I've created': Man with 34 children is SLAMMED by life coach Iyanla Vanzant, who asks if he EVER thought about a vasectomy
- Mom 'who partied while pregnant and dumped newborn in trash can' is charged with murder
- Leaked nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton to be used in Florida art exhibition
- 'She wanted to tell you something before I killed her': Murdered teen's mom reveals killer sent taunting texts from her daughter's phone the day AFTER he stabbed her to death
- Joan Rivers' daughter Melissa visits funeral home to make arrangements for Sunday service as the comedienne's former voice coach questions procedures at Manhattan clinic
- America's most expensive home up for sale in Florida for $139 MILLION
- Angry parents storm school bus claiming the driver wouldn't let children out of the sweltering vehicle ... and one of the mob PUNCHES the driver
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Revealed: The German residents who will vote 'Ja' to Scottish independence (including one Herr Mittler)
How the Met shot down their own poster woman: Bullied, demeaned and smeared, trailblazing PC tells the full horror of the Scotland Yard campaign that destroyed her life
Carol Howard, 35, (pictured at her home in Surrey, right) saw her dream job turn to ashes after falling victim to workplace bullying. The one time Met Police London Olympics poster woman (as seen in the picture, left) has been accused of incompetence, dishonesty and has been subject to racial and sexual discrimination. After two years of going 'through hell' she has finally been vindicated. Last week she was awarded £37,000 after winning an employment tribunal case against the Metropolitan Police, including £10,000 in exemplary damages for her appalling treatment. Here, she talks about her ordeal for the first time.
ISIS TAUNTS BRITAIN: THE HUNT FOR JIHADI JOHN
Doctor called to 'desperately ill' British hostage held by brutal Jihadi John: Aid worker tortured with Tasers - and now has 'serious digestive problems'
A shocking investigation has revealed that father-of-two David Haines has been struggling to hold down food and suffering from acute gastric and other health problems in his cramped captivity. The revelation will add to the anguish of his desperate family - including his Croatian wife Dragana and four-year-old daughter Athea (pictured right) - after Islamic State fanatics named him as the next hostage to be murdered. A security source familiar with the cases described the hostages’ internment as a ‘living hell’. He is also said to have been given electric shock 'punishments' by the group of British jihadis led by ‘Jihadi John’ and nicknamed The Beatles.
Little Ashya 'playing happily' before Prague flight for vital treatment which could save his life
The five-year-old, who is suffering from a brain tumour, is currently in hospital in Malaga, southern Spain, with his parents, Brett and Naghmeh (pictured), by his bedside. The family was dramatically granted permission by a High Court judge late on Friday to allow Ashya, who is a ward of court, to undergo pioneering proton beam therapy in the Czech Republic. Staff at the £30 million Proton Therapy Centre in Prague (inset) are due to meet tomorrow to finalise plans for Ashya’s treatment - which British doctors insist is not suitable for his type of tumour.
Is this Britain's cruellest father? One of these babies was his legitimate child, the other his darkest secret... What followed was a saga of deception and betrayal that took his daughter four agonising decades to unravel
Gradually, SUSAN SWINGLER uncovered the web of lies and obfuscation created by her father and the woman he took with him from the UK to Australia when she was just four-years-old. After a lifetime of unanswered questions, the writer has come to the conclusion that his was not a coldly deliberate decision to deceive, but that one thing led to another and, like a car slithering down an icy hill, the story ran out of control. Her full story is told in The House Of Fiction, published by Scribe.
HOW THE WORLD LOOKS FROM WESTMINSTER
WESTMINSTER TODAY
- JK Rowling accuses Alex Salmond of scaremongering over threat to Scots NHS
- 'You're a very impressive boy': Nick Clegg roasted on live radio by 9-year-old over his 'expensive' free school meals policy
- We must protect IRA suspects' human rights, says Northern Ireland minister as she says list of names will not be published
Quick, Carson, the smoking jacket! Lady Edith engulfed by The Great Fire of Downton: Drama as Abbey bursts into flames in series opener
Our exclusive pictures from the opening episode of the fifth series show the dramatic moment Barrow risks his life to rescue a sleeping Lady Edith from a blaze that engulfs her bedroom. The scheming manservant lifts the Earl of Grantham’s daughter into his arms and leads her to safety down a smoke-filled corridor. The dramatic storyline – which has been glimpsed in trailers for the series – leads to the full-scale evacuation of Downton. To avoid spoiling the series for viewers, we will not reveal the fate of any other characters.
Attack of the drones: Hollywood celebrities are besieged by paparazzi spies in the sky. Worried? You should be... because they'll soon be a regular fixture over YOUR home
Paparazzi drones have terrorised celebrities including Miley Cyrus (left) who spotted the unmanned aircraft hovering above her home (bottom centre and right) earlier this year. But, with some models costing as little as £150, there is little to stop others purchasing the machines. Fears of deranged stalkers keeping tabs on the whereabouts of their victims are rife, and it has even been suggested that divorce lawyers could use the devices to track cheating spouses.
It's been a struggle, admits Harry over his role in war wounded's 'Paralympics': Prince reveals for the first time why he's nervous about hero Games
Prince Harry has revealed that staging the Invictus Games has been much harder than he had anticipated. The Games will see more than 400 wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women compete across several sporting disciplines, including wheelchair rugby and athletics. Thirteen nations, including Afghanistan, will compete at the tournament, which takes place at some of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games venues.
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Peter Vacher, of Oxfordshire, painstakingly restored the plane (pictured) to working condition a decade ago after buying it for £25,000. But he is now selling it through an American dealer, meaning it could be lost to Britain forever. The plane flew 49 combat sorties during the worst days of the fighting and shot down five enemy aircraft, three while being flown by Wing Commander Bob Foster (pictured). Retired businessman, Mr Vacher, 72, said 'this Hurricane is a one-off. There is no other British plane like it from the Battle of Britain that is flying today. It was a labour of love to recover and restore it and I have enjoyed watching it fly for the past ten years'.
PE teacher, 26, is jailed for 15 months for lesbian sex with pupil, 15, at all-girls' private school
THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
Taking the fight to the heart of the caliphate: Syrian government airstrikes kill at least 29 in Islamic State stronghold city of Raqqa
Eight blasts tore through the north eastern region today as President Assad's army takes further steps to regain control from the extremist group, killing nine IS fighters and at least 20 civillians. Videos of the destruction were uploaded to social media websites accompanied, in one case, with the chilling observation of one activist who said: 'Raqqa is being silently slaughtered'.
WORLD NEWS
- Terrorist on trial for Jewish museum shooting may hold key to identifying 'Jihadi John'
- A whole country in quarantine: Every man woman and child in Sierra Leone is told to stay inside for the next three days in bid to stop spread of Ebola
- Taking the fight to the heart of the caliphate: Syrian government airstrikes kill at least 29 in Islamic State stronghold city of Raqqa
- Russia ships lay claim to Arctic's energy riches: Putin sends naval convoy to reopen military base
- North Korea fires three missiles into waters off coast of South Korea as the country begins celebrating major national holiday
- Is this the end of haute cuisine? Giant of French cooking takes meat and cream off the menu at his flagship Paris restaurant in favour of fish and vegetables
- Slingshots, stones and burning buildings: Palestinians clash with Israelis over plans for 283 new homes in West Bank settlement
- Ukraine's guns fall silent as ceasefire is implemented - but Putin gets his wish as rebels insist they still want to form breakaway state
- Britain to send 1,000 troops to lead new Nato 'spearhead' force based in Poland amid growing threat from Russia
- You're supposed to get OUT the way! Portuguese bullfighters launched into the air like skittles after provoking beast into charging
- He REALLY didn't take the hint: French man jailed for phoning and texting his ex 22,000 times in 10 months demanding she thank him for fixing up her flat
- More than one in 10 girls around the world is sexually abused: Shocking Unicef report finds 120 million have been raped or sexually assaulted by the age of 20
- France to set history right with plans to pay major tribute to British forces for their part in saving Paris from the Germans on 100th anniversary of the First Battle of the Marne
- Man granted divorce because his wife wanted TOO MUCH sex: Exhausted Indian couldn't satisfy his partner's 'insatiable lust'