Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey, 27, from Hampshire, played down his actions and paid tribute to his regiment and the Army after receiving the honour at Windsor Castle

Sam Barton, who has had £55,000 of cosmetic surgery - including two operations on the NHS - believes the men tracked him down using Facebook posts and then attacked him in in Sutton Coldfield.

Christopher Moody, the brother of James Moody (pictured), the only junior officer to die on the Titanic, was sent a letter asking for the equivalent of £2,000 to have his body sent home to Scarborough.

Toddler Libby Jane Wilson was enjoying a day at Yarrow Country Park in Chorley, Lancashire, with her father Alex Knight when she was pounced on by the pet, which bit her on the face.

Shaun Worthington (pictured), 29, from Bridlington, East Yorkshire, was killed instantly after his car veered into the path of a truck. His mother has called for people not to use their phones while driving.

It means that in the 12 months to March, family living costs have not risen at all - while at the same time people's pay jumped by 1.8 per cent. The figures were hailed by ministers this morning.

Launching his manifesto, the Labour leader kept leaning on the lectern and staring moonily at the camera lens. He had been coached to the nth degree and it showed, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

Launching the party's manifesto in London this morning, the party's leader Natalie Bennett called for a 'peaceful political revolution' at the General Election on May 7.

Suzanne Evans, the party's deputy chairman, said uncontrolled immigration had to be stopped but faced embarrassment minutes later as she confessed owning several homes.

Natasha Jackson, 24, and her younger brother, Patrick, 22, were both left with cerebral palsy and brain damage after complications during their births at the former Sharoe Green Hospital in Preston.

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Harley Renshaw, five, from Manchester, is overjoyed to find out he is free of cancer, after battling an aggressive and rare neuroblastoma for a year. He donned a Ninja Turtles mask to feel brave during radiotherapy.

The woman, named only as Gemma, left her two children, both of whom have different fathers, with her mother. According to Gemma's 52-year-old parent Debbie, the infants now call her mum instead.

George Osborne speaks to the Mail on Sunday on the campaign trail in the South West about how being booed at the Paralympics became a defining moment in his five years in the Treasury.

Appearing on the Andrew Marr Show, Mr Osborne said it would come from the Conservatives' 'balanced plan' for the economy, but declined to go into further detail.

The Ukip leader, who says he is finding the election campaign knackering, said that it was a 'reasonable proposition' to charge people who end up in hospital more than once after drinking.

The image shows Hungarian national Evelin Mezei, 12, with the man on Romford Road, Stratford at about 10.30pm last night, close to where she was last seen by her mother in East London.

War hero and former stunt pilot Doug Gregory (pictured), 92, was rushed to hospital after being struck near his home in Blackfield, Hampshire, by a car that failed to stop. He died two weeks later.

The Crown Prosecution Service announced today that 36-year-old Leslie Cooper would be charged over the murder of Abdul Hadi Arwani.

Rachel Simpson, 15, was diagnosed with a one-in-a-million genetic condition which will give her cancer if untreated. The rest of the family, from Lancaster, are now waiting on tests which could reveal who else has this faulty gene.

Drugs charity Re-Solv has called on the 'role model' player to condemn the use of the drug to deter children and fans from taking similar risks with their health

Followed closely by Emirates and China Eastern, the top three airlines showed how the Gulf and Asia are dominating the travel market.

Kyle Iveson burst into a convenience store in Clitheroe, Lancashire and demanded cash from shop assistant Karen Brown, the mother of his ex-girlfriend and grandmother of his daughter.

The raiders were foiled by a brave employee who barricaded the door to the premises in Wigan, Greater Manchester, and they proceeded to flee on a motorbike.

Victorino Chua wrote a note which he described as his 'bitter nurse confession' a year before he allegedly killed three patients at the hospital where he worked in Stockport.

Historian Mary Ann Lund from the University of Leicester believes that Richard III used good tailoring and carefully made armour to disguise his scoliosis through his lifetime.

The notebook, believed to be the only extensive Turing manuscript in existence, was written in 1942 at Bletchley Park and sold for $1,025,000 (£698,000) at Bonhams in New York.

Controversial bookmakers Paddy Power have provoked outrage with a 'joke' about the African-American police beatings.

Almost half of all people who have visited discounters such as 99p Stores, Poundstretcher, B&M; Bargains and Wilkinsons are middle class and among the country's highest earners.

Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts captured incredible images of earth from 250 miles away while carrying out maintenance work on the International Space Station

Father-of-two Tim Peake from Chichester, West Sussex, will make the six-hour flight from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station (ISS) in November.

Rone Odendaal, 24, was photographing the moment two lions attempted to bring down a buffalo in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, when the horned creature charged at her car.

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