The Scottish ex-MP's death was not believed to be suspicious and the cause of death has yet to be confirmed. Mr Kennedy lost his seat in the Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency to the SNP's Ian Blackford in last month's general election. He had for years battled a problem with alcohol and friends said that he had been 'heartbroken' not to be re-elected as an MP and feared for his safety without the 'support' of Parliament. In 2010 he divorced with wife of eight years Sarah (pictured left), with whom he had a 10-year-old son. Mr Kennedy is pictured centre on April 27th in East Dumbartonshire during the election campaign. The shock news prompted a wave of tributes this morning from across the political divide.
Revealed: The master butcher who was filmed launching expletive-laden tirade at cyclist he told to 'get in the f****** cycle lane you c***'
The expletive-laden rant was caught on camera by the cyclist, after the Land Rover Discovery 4 driven by master butcher Jason Wells (pictured) appeared to attempt to overtake him in south-west London. A torrent of abuse between the cyclist and Mr Wells, who owns cafe chain Brew, then breaks out as he accuses him of hitting his car on Priory Lane in Roehampton, heading towards Richmond Park. The video appears to show the driver of the 4x4 slowing down to allow the cyclist to catch up before closing the space between them.
- Friends feared for health of former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy who has been found dead aged 55 just 25 days after he lost his seat in the General Election
- Revealed: The master butcher who was filmed launching expletive-laden tirade at cyclist he told to 'get in the f****** cycle lane you c***'
- Now cut our power bills: New Energy Secretary warns 'Big Six' providers they MUST pass on 20% fall in gas and electricity costs
- Rugby star Danny Cipriani is held on suspicion of drink-driving after 5am collision involving his Mercedes just hours after starring for England
- Office workers 'should stand for two hours a day': Doctors say constant sitting is leading to health issues including obesity, cancer and Type 2 diabetes
- Are YOU living life to the full? Only one in five have enough excitement... and the rest of us should skydive and swim with sharks for starters
- Great-grandad with black belt in martial art sends armed robber packing after bashing him with BASEBALL BAT as he tried to rob his jewellery shop
- Badger protesters target Sainsbury's on milk sales: Leader of animal rights group threatens 'mayhem' if chain sells milk from areas where culls are planned
- France and Germany reject EU migrant quota plan and say Italy and Greece need to do more to strengthen their borders
- Curbs on NHS fat cats - thanks to the Mail: Hospital chiefs banned from retiring for a day...then returning on even higher pay
- The 'last-time buyers' stuck with 7.7million spare rooms: Huge shortage of retirement housing and bungalows leaves over-55s in unsuitable properties
- I'll axe TV shows if licence cheats escape court, says BBC boss: Director of television accused of 'holding viewers to ransom' following comments
- We're a nation of HENs - that's Happy Empty Nester mums loving life WITHOUT the children
- American woman, 22, dragged to her death by a lion and another person seriously hurt after leaving their car window open during South African safari
- Air Force for one: Massive military transport plane that usually carries 100 troops picks up US Secretary of State John Kerry to bring him home after he breaks his leg cycling
- Rows of pet dogs hanging on hooks and cats skinned ready for the dinner table: Inside China's gruesome annual 'meat festival' that was supposed to have been banned
- Surviving daughters lead hundreds of mourners at the funeral for their CEO dad, mom and brother, 10, who were killed in robbery-arson attack at their mansion
- Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta snubs adopted son from $26M will 'after high-profile falling out over son's clothes label'
- San Diego woman, 25, who 'killed Navy sailor in road rage incident' is charged with first-degree murder
- Is Casey Anthony ready to tell all? America's most infamous mother lands in New York ahead of rumored interview
- Floods bring the Old West back to Texas: Cowboys save 200 cattle from rising alligator infested waters by leading them 70 miles to safety
- 'Their luck will run out, it's just a question of when': The East Coast cities that experts say are overdue for 'disastrous' storm
- 'My beautiful childhood': Daughter of Auschwitz commandant Rudolph Hoess describes life growing up next to a concentration camp - and how she has hidden her identity for decades
- 'The loss of my friend will never heal': Tracy Morgan breaks down in tears in first interview since truck crash killed fellow comedian and left him with severe brain trauma
- Pastor shot dead by cops who say they were trying to SAVE him from flood: Wife questions officers' claim he attacked them because he didn't want to leave his truck
- Now ISIS prisoners are burned alive: Video claiming to show Islamist tied up over a fire and taunted by ‘Iranian-backed forces’ as he dies is shared with the hashtag ‘burning a young Sunni’
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Great-grandad with black belt in martial art sends armed robber packing after bashing him with BASEBALL BAT as he tried to rob his jewellery shop
David Bruce was working alone when the thug stormed his jewellery shop in Barnstaple, Devon, wearing sunglasses and a latex mask. He held he 71-year-old at gunpoint, demanding that he empty the tills after slamming a bag on the shop counter. Pretending to go to open the till, Mr Bruce produced a baseball bat from beneath it and smashed it onto the thief's hand, breaking his wrist. He fled the scene seconds later (right) and is now wanted by police.
Axing brutal SAS hike that killed three men was 'too much bother': Inquest told of 'red tape excuse', lack of water on blistering day and how victim wasn't found for 2.5 hours
Bryher Dunsby (left) today attended the start of a four-week inquest into the deaths of three men, including her husband, who died in July 2013 following the SAS exercise on the Brecon Beacons. During evidence on the opening day of the hearing, the coroner heard how Corporal James Dunsby (bottom, left), Lance Corporal Edward Maher (bottom, middle) and Lance Corporal Craig Roberts (bottom, right) carried 49lb backpacks in 27C (81F) temperatures before they collapsed (march shown, right). Giving evidence, Mrs Dunsby - who arrived at the hearing with her wedding ring around her neck - described how her 'handsome and charming' husband had an 'exceptional level of fitness' before his death. In emotional scenes, she then turned to the coroner and said: 'I have to do right by him.' Meanwhile, the relatives of Lance Corporal Craig Roberts described asking an officer why the 24-year-old was 'sent up there in that heat'. An unnamed commander then replied: 'There would be too much paperwork',' according to the family statement. The inquests into their deaths continues.
The bottom's fallen out of the car market! TWENTY vehicles plummet through Audi dealership's first floor onto workshop
The vehicles crashed through a 100ft by 65ft section of the upper floor at the Audi dealership in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, but staff were evacuated before the collapse and escaped unhurt. Employees spotted the danger and activated the fire alarm, prompting everyone to vacate the building in the Northfield area of the town about 20 minutes before the collapse at 12.30pm. The fire service - which sent one engine to the scene - isolated the gas and electricity supplies, and Milton Keynes Council confirmed building control inspectors were investigating what happened.
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WESTMINSTER TODAY
- Ukip civil war reignites: Carswell slams Farage over 'plain wrong' election attack on foreign HIV patients
- Rupert Murdoch does U-turn on Europe and says 'We must stay in': Huge boost for Prime Minister as media mogul abandons campaign for a 'Brexit' in 2017
- EU reform? Where there's a will there's a way, says Merkel: Boost for Cameron as German stance softens
Ex-soldier survives 'hardest week of his life' in a life raft with barely any water or food to raise £9,000 for Great Ormond Street
Former Staff Sergeant Wayne Ingram, 45, has survived the 'hardest week of his life' in a life raft with with only one day's food and water to raise funds for charity. He spent seven days and nights in the raft in Portland Harbour, and ate raw fish and their eyeballs during the gruelling challenge. Mr Ingram, who admits to suffering from sea sickness and claustrophobia, lost a staggering 8kg (17lb) in the fund raiser for Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. Speaking to MailOnline, the father-of-four said: 'It was the most difficult thing I have ever done, harder than being in the military. It was not only physical but also a mental challenge.'
Respected solicitor who swindled £600,000 from pensioners to spend on antiques, sex lines and prostitutes after being diagnosed with Parkinson's is jailed for four years
Andrew Taylor (left), 58, plundered more than £600,000 from the accounts of 13 pensioners whose affairs he was looking after, many of whom were in care homes or had dementia. He then 'frittered away' the cash on antique pens, pottery and cricket memorabilia as well as sex chat lines and escorts leaving one victim unable to pay her for funeral. Taylor, from Cheadle, Greater Manchester, was a pillar of the community before launching his bizarre thieving spree in 2011, a court heard. He had set up his firm Andrew J Taylor Solicitors (right) in 1990.
Villagers win 30-year battle to remove 40ft Leylandii hedge in their neighbour's garden that towers over homes completely blocking the light
Residents in the village of Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire, have been in dispute with Catriona MacGregor over her overbearing Leylandii after she stopped cutting them in 1983. Since then the tree has grown over fencing, blocking any view from beyond the house. It is pictured above in 1989 (right) and today (left).
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The Bentley 4½ was bought by the grandfather of the current owner in 1935 and he would often take the luxury saloon on family holidays around the UK (pictured in Cornwall, right inset) even towing a caravan behind. It has remained in the same family since then, but in 1985 was taken off the road and parked in a barn in Surrey (left inset) where it remained until six weeks ago.The current owner thought it would be worth around £30,000 but a car specialist from auction house Bonhams believes it could fetch ten times as much when it's sold.
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Three meals on trays a day, an hour for exercise and a hard bunk for sleep: Inside the Swiss prisons holding FIFA suspects
At the oak-panelled Baur au Lac lakeside hotel (above) in Zurich, you can find spacious kingsize beds in luxurious rooms costing more than £400. But the seven FIFA officials arrested on corruption charges are now experiencing a rather different life - being held in jails in the Swiss capital where they are sleeping on prison bunk beds. FIFA vice-president Jeffrey Webb (bottom left) and his colleagues - who face 20 years in prison if convicted - are also allowed to spend an hour in the exercise yard and served food on trays three times a day. Pictured: Prisons in Kloten (left), Dielsdorf (top right) and Pfaeffikon (bottom right), all in the canton of Zurich.
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- Fury as rape victim's two attackers are sentenced to be hit with a shoe five times each for sexually assaulting 15-year-old girl in India
- Pakistan's top model hides under a hoodie as she attends latest court hearing over money laundering after being found with $500,000 in cash... as reports claim she is given special treatment in jail
- Summer's here... and the Un has got his hat on! North Korean dictator dons jaunty headgear for farm visit
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- Pope condemns the 'scourge' of abortion and praises the 'heroism' of parents who choose to keep children who show signs of major illnesses in the womb
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