Alvin Stardust's widow Julie, pictured with the singer and their daughter Millie at home in West Sussex, was lying beside her husband of 27 years as he struggled through his final moments on Thursday. Just hours later, before the undertakers had even been to collect Alvin's body, Julie gave this interview that will tear at your heart. Alvin had arranged the meeting himself after learning on Monday the cancer he'd been battling for a year-and-a-half had spread to his liver. Alvin, pictured inset in his glam-rock heyday, wanted to encourage people to get checked for prostate cancer - which he was diagnosed with 18 months ago.

Unmarried Peter Rolfe, 64, of Newport, Isle of Wight, has 14 daughters and 12 sons ranging from three to 40, and already claims £32,678 a year in benefits, but now he says he needs a bigger council house than his current three-bed home, top right. The Local Government Ombudsman has ruled that Isle of Wight Council has failed to find a large enough home for Mr Rolfe, back left in the main picture and bottom right, who has one eye, walks with a stick and suffers both arthritis and diabetes. Now the man Anne Widdecombe dubbed 'Britain's most feckless father', may be in line for a four-figure compensation sum.

Ashly Covington, from Old Church, Virginia, has been a professional hand model for 14 years, and posed as the hands of Adriana Lima, Brooke Shields and Charlize Theron, for clients including Dior, Maybelline, Rolex and Sephora. To protect her prized extremities off the job, Miss Covington is almost always wearing gloves.

Victoria Beckham has been accused of stunting her daughter Harper's speech and putting her teeth at risk of damage by still letting her use a dummy. At three years old, Harper Beckham (pictured left with Mrs Beckham and right with her father David) is beyond the age that most health experts would advise giving a child a pacifier. However some parents use them to stop a child crying, or because it has become a habit.

June and Barry Steenkamp (left) said justice for their daughter Reeva, 29, has not been served as Oscar Pistorius, known as the 'Blade Runner' could be out in 10 months. Mrs Steenkamp, 68, said she he did not believe the athlete's story, describing him as 'vague, evasive and shifty' after he claimed he shot Reeva (right and inset) thinking she was an intruder. They have a recurring image of Reeva, terrified and alone in the small toilet cubicle, pleading for her life or screaming in agony once she had been shot. 'Both of us are haunted by the same nightmare. The vision of Reeva suffering this terrible trauma. Her terror and helplessness. Her yells for help piercing the silent night air,' said Mrs Steenkamp.

Trish LaForty arrived to her home on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland after a family day at the beach on Thursday to find the insulting letter in her mailbox.After she posted a message about the note on a local community page, her inbox was flooded with messages of support.

The family of New York Ebola victim Dr Craig Spencer (pictured with his family, from left to right mother Pat, father Jim and sister Andrea), came to his defence on Friday after he was criticised for failing to quarantine himself on his return from West Africa.

It's been almost 40 years since the original TV show ended, but it is still embraced as one of Britain's most beloved comedies. And now fans anticipating the big screen remake of Dad's Army have been treated to the first official shots from the movie, which is currently in production in Yorkshire. In one picture, the film's male stars are seen posing together in their army uniforms, looking like the motley crew who won hearts in the TV comedy, while Catherine Zeta-Jones cuts a glamorous figure as she emerges from a car under the watchful eye of co-star Toby Jones.

Italian film star Sophia Loren was just 22 when she first met Hollywood heart-throb Cary Grant (pictured together bottom left). Although at the time she was already romantically involved with film producer Carlo Ponti, she has described how she almost fainted when she first spotted him. In this extract from her new autobiography, Loren (pictured right and top left alongside actress Jayne Mansfield) details their passionate, but ultimately, doomed relationship.

Singer Kendra Moriah's video on YouTube achieved almost 30,000 views because a clip of her trying to keep her top on as a puppy tried to snatch it got over 2 million views. Kendra Moriah was pleased with the number of people who watched her puppy video but she reminded her 'fans' to pay attention to the music in addition to the beach view.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Disturbing images of life under ISIS rule in the Syrian city of Raqqa has emerged showing the decapitated corpses of Syrian soldiers lined up in the streets. Women walk past their bodies unceremoniously without acknowledging their impaled heads on fences for fear of being killed themselves. Elsewhere hate preachers urge children, wearing black balaclavas, to disobey their parents to join the terror group. Raqqa has remained an ISIS stronghold since the group took control of the city last year. Residents have been subjected to an unrelenting torrent of horror, with many too poor to flee across the border to Turkey. Despite American and Arab forces bombing the city, fighters remain jubilant and have taken control of the population's homes and resources. One resident, speaking through the only outlet exposing the atrocities, Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, said he feared they would be for their city 'in blood'.

Completely unrecognisable as she posed for photos at a Los Angeles awards ceremony this week (left), Zellweger was flung into her most unexpected role yet - an apparent tragic victim of cosmetic surgery. The actress insists her changed appearance is down to 'living a happy, more fulfilling life'. Which leaves us wondering what exactly are the 'bad choices' and 'chaos' that she left behind? Her first serious boyfriend, who she met when she was a student, committed suicide after she left him to move to California and his band broke up. Later, her humiliating marriage to country music star Kenny Chesney (top right) set the ball rolling for years of short-lived love affairs, including one with actor Jim Carey (bottom right).

Alan Eustace, 57 (main image) was this morning lifted by a balloon filled with 35,000 cubic feet of helium (bottom right) from an abandoned runway at an airport in New Mexico and jumped from 135,000 feet. Google's 'senior vice president of Knowledge' returned to Earth just 15 minutes after starting his fall, and said it was 'beautiful'.

Terry Nurrish was given the 'jardiniere' (right) by his parents, who picked it up as part of a £100 'job lot' of antiques in 1946 - so he was stunned when the ornament was valued at £10,000 on the Antiques Roadshow in 1991 (inset). But the retired farmer decided to keep hold of the antique for just a little longer... and it turned out to be a wise decision. It has now sold at auction for a staggering £668,000, the most expensive sale price of any item valued on the long-running show. He returned to the BBC programme this weekend to share his story with Fiona Bruce (pictured with Mr Nurrish) and Eric Knowles - the man who valued the urn on-air more than 20 years ago.

The youngster, reportedly called Marcus, was pictured being carried into a funeral home in Hamilton, Ontario, by a tearful relative on Friday (main) in the wake of his father Nathan Cirillo's remains. Just minutes earlier, the 24-year-old soldier's body had been transported to the parlor in a motorcade that traveled down the Highway of Heroes in front of thousands of people. Corporal Cirillo (inset), a ceremonial guard, was shot dead at the memorial on Wednesday by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a 32-year-old Muslim convert whose motives for killing the solider are still very much unclear. 

The Daily Mail's Weekend magazine received over 10,000 entries for the competition. The image of a thirsty vole (left) taken by Phillip Petrou was the overall winner chosen by Michaela Strachan.

Bob Davey (pictured) stumbled across the ancient church of St Mary's, Houghton-on-the-Hill, in Norfolk, in 1992. Satanists had painted the walls in blood with symbols of the Anti-Christ. They had even torn open the grave of an 18th century rector, flinging the smashed tombstone across the graveyard and stealing his skull to use for satanic rituals. On the spur of the moment, the recently retired Bob made a decision that would dominate his life for the next 22 years. Pictured, the church tower covered in ivy and split from top to bottom; and how it looks now after Bob rebuilt the ancient flint and restored the windows.

Whether you prefer to live like a queen in a luxury French castle or give something back by volunteering in Nepal, why not consider these unconventional honeymoon destinations? From scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef to sleeping high above the ground in a tree house, these destinations are as memorable as they are romantic.

A horse-drawn carriage bearing the coffin of the 11th Duke swept out of Blenheim Palace, bottom right, and on to the church of St Mary Magdalene in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. Draped in a flag bearing the Marlborough family crest, the coffin was carried by estate gamekeepers in plus fours into the church, top right. His son, Jamie Spencer-Churchill, 58, who inherits the title to become the 12th Duke, accompanied his stepmother, Lily Mahtani, to the private family service. 

The incredible scenes, which show the wildebeest moving from Kenya into Tanzania, was a finalist in the new time-lapse category at this week's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

Many guests visit the far-flung Arabian Peninsula to experience the capital city of Muscat, but Hud Hud Travels offers an opportunity to sample a taste of rural Oman... from a luxurious desert camp.

Andy and Sarah Skinner from Berkshire have been on more than 50 excursions to Africa, India and the Arctic to photograph some of the planet's most dangerous animals. While there have been hairy moments the couple say they never feel in danger because they understand how animals behave.

In his new book, Eric Zemmour, 56, a far-Right broadcaster, argues that since Charles de Gaulle resigned the presidency in April 1969, France has suffered a moral and economic collapse. Although many observers might agree with such an assertion, the most troubling passages are those concerned with Vichy France, the French administration led by Field Marshal Petain (inset), that worked hand-in-glove with the Nazis during the occupation. The French film La Rafle (pictured left) recreates the infamous scene of Jews being rounded up in France in July, 1942. Nearly 13,000 Jewish men, women and children were arrested by the French police and members of the French fascist party. The Jews were taken to the Velodrome d'Hiver, where there were only six lavatories between them. From there, many would go to Auschwitz. Right, Jewish deportees in the Drancy transit camp in France, 1942.

Photographer Silvin Morgan took a series of beautiful close quarter shots with surfers Nick Glinkowski and Neil Dana off the coast of Huatulco in Mexico.