Eyewitnesses have described how the depraved gunman 'laughed and joked' with holidaymakers on a Tunisian beach before he mercilessly opened fire on them - slaughtering 37 and injuring another 36. Armed with an AK47 which was hidden underneath his parasol, Seifeddine Yacoubi was choosing who he wanted to kill in Sousse - even telling some to 'go away'. The massacre that ensued left at least five Britons dead, although the Foreign Secretary has warned the true number could be much higher. He began firing on the sand before violently bursting into the lobby of a nearby hotel. The bodies of his victims were covered with towels on the beach where he gunned them down (pictured). One of those killed was Lorna Carty (inset) from Ireland, who had taken her husband Declan on holiday to help him recover from his recent heart surgery. The assassin was later pictured stalking the streets of Sousse (left) looking for more victims before Tunisian police shot him dead.
Dancer in Alton Towers roller coaster crash becomes second person to have leg amputated after seven surgeries to limb
Vicky Balch, 20 (left), who has been in intensive care since the crash on The Smiler ride on June 2, had her right leg removed below the knee yesterday morning, according to her lawyer. Miss Balch was riding in the front of a carriage on the ride when it smashed into a stationary coach at 20mph, burying the metal crash barrier into her knee. She was sat alongside Leah Washington, 17, who had her left leg amputated above the knee earlier this month.
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- 'Just go, tell our children that their daddy loves them': Fiancee tells how hero father used his body to shield her from bullets as he was shot three times in the stomach by terror gunmen in Tunisian massacre
- Tunisia terror slayings were ‘savage’ says David Cameron but he insists attacks and foiled Islamic extremist plot should not stop Brits ‘paying tribute to our armed forces’
- Irish mother who was gunned down on Tunisian beach had taken her husband on relaxing holiday to help him recover from heart surgery
- Travel agents brace for thousands of holidaymakers to cancel their trips to Tunisia in the wake of hotel massacre
- MICHAEL BURLEIGH: It's when, not if, the extremists hit Britain
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'Just go, tell our children that their daddy loves them': Fiancee tells how hero father used his body to shield her from bullets as he was shot three times in the stomach by terror gunmen in Tunisian massacre
Matthew James, 30, from Cardiff, was on a two-week holiday with fiancee Sarea Wilson, 26 (pictured together, left), at the Bellevue Hotel in Tunisia when gunmen attacked the nearby beach earlier today, killing 37 and leaving 36 wounded (right). Miss Wilson has told how Mr James used his body to shield her from bullets, before telling her 'I love you babe. But just go - tell our children that their daddy loves them.' The news comes as a second Briton, James McGurie, believed to be in his 60s, was reported killed in the attack at a popular tourist destination.
Let's get this party started! The Libertines and Florence and the Machine kick off Glastonbury as rain fails to dampen festival's first day
The first of the big acts take to the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury tonight as 175,000 revellers celebrate one of the world's most popular festivals. But campers might need to grab their ponchos as showers arrived this afternoon, as forecasters warned, with heavier rain due on Sunday. The change in weather comes as tens of thousands of fans enjoyed the first bands. Celebrities spotted mingling among the crowd include Prince Harry's ex Cressida Bonas (inset), model Daisy Lowe, Rio Ferdinand and Made In Chelsea's Fran Newman-Young.
Forget the Greek crisis or Britain's referendum, this tidal wave of migrants could be the biggest threat to Europe since the war, writes MICHAEL BURLEIGH
Yesterday the Mail revealed the Mediterranean boat crisis has now reached Britain, with police figures showing a 200 per cent increase in the number of migrants making it to our shores over the last year. The news came just hours after a pair of Kuwaiti migrants were caught strolling along the M1 as lorries rumble past just yards away (inset). Yet it would appear nobody is prepared to acknowledge that Europe's most urgent problem is the relentless human tide heading our way from several points of the compass, writes MICHAEL BURLEIGH.
As scary as she is sexy: Maria Sharapova has all the warmth of her Siberian homeland, JANE FRYER found during a comical encounter with the tennis goddess
Maria Sharapova looks like a giantess dressed up as a doll. Her enormous shoulders jut out either side. Her thighs are rippling, surprisingly chunky and ever so slightly veiny. Her beautiful face is expressionless. And her eyes . . . her eyes are green, sleepy, incredibly sexy but also rather scary.Like a tiger that could turn any moment, and take out her entire (very extensive) entourage with one arm and then gobble us all up.
The British tycoon who sleeps in Hitler's BED: World's biggest collector of Nazi memorabilia has £100million haul including Panzer tanks and V2 rockets
It started with a Nazi stomrtrooper helmet he got for his fifth birthday but Kevin Wheatcroft, pictured, from Leicestershire, is now worth £120million and has the world's largest Nazi collection. Wheatcroft looks after his late father's property portfolio and oversees the management of Donington Park Racetrack and motor museum, which he also owns. But what he calls The Wheatcroft Collection is his main passion in life and is spoken about in mythical tones by online enthusiasts.
A very flawed accuser: Investigation into the academic who hounded a Nobel Prize winning scientist out of his job reveals troubling questions about her testimony
On Monday, June 8, a British academic called Connie St Louis uploaded a sensational document to her Twitter feed. Beginning with the question 'Why are the British so embarrassing abroad?', it offered an account of bizarre remarks that a Nobel Prize-winning biologist by the name of Sir Tim Hunt had made earlier that day at a conference in Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
Millionaire BBC boss who kept a secret family around the corner... until the shattering day his wife and mistress met at his hospital bedside
Anthony Fry, left, managed to keep news of his mistress Claire Hoey, right and their two twin girls secret from his wife Anne, until he suffered a massive stroke on March 4 last year, when they bumped into each other in hospital. Mrs Fry initiated divorce proceedings when she discovered details of the affair. As a result the £13.5million marital home in Notting Hill, inset was sold.
'We felt as if the whole world had turned against us': Father of girl killed by a drug driver tells how he was threatened with jail for speaking to the family of her killer
Liberty Baker (right) was 14 was killed by a drug driver as she walked to school with in June last year. Her parents, Paul and Maureen (both left), visit their daughter's grave every night to light a candle for her. In April, 19-year-old Robert Blackwell (inset) was sentenced to four years in prison for causing death by dangerous driving. He was travelling at 44 mph in a 30-zone when he lost control while texting at the wheel. Shockingly, just six days after he attended court to see his daughter's killer jailed, he was handed a summons on two 'harassment without violence' charges. One claimed Paul had given the Blackwells 'hard stares'.
HOW THE WORLD LOOKS FROM WESTMINSTER
WESTMINSTER TODAY
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A pizza man with his own key. Carers who brought him junk food. And £1,000 a month in benefits: How was 65st Karl allowed to eat himself to death on the taxpayer?
Carl Thompson was Britain's fattest man - he was 65st. Or, to put it another way, he weighed roughly the same as a Steinway grand piano, or five washing machines. The analogy is not meant to be disrespectful or cruel, just an illustration of what it must have been like to be imprisoned in Carl's body. Imagine trying to function while strapped, metaphorically speaking, to a piano. The truth is that Carl didn't function, he existed, barely able to move, on a 10,000-calorie-a-day diet of junk food (four times the recommended daily amount for an active man).
Amid the evil of Belsen, the Queen lays the past to rest: ROBERT HARDMAN on a poignant day for the monarch and Prince Philip
ROBERT HARDMAN: While, as head of the Armed Forces and the Commonwealth, she has paid her respects at battlefields and war memorials on every continent, until yesterday afternoon the Queen had never seen a Nazi concentration camp. Alone with their thoughts amid chilling reminders of the evils of the Holocaust, the 89-year-old monarch and Prince Philip, 94, walked for a quarter of a mile through Belsen, now a memorial site.
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Couple who were part of family cocaine ring blew £40,000 on wedding and took lavish holidays in the Maldives and Dubai while claiming benefits
Carl Honey-Jones, 31, his wife Donna, 32 (pictured, left, at their wedding), and four relatives appeared in court today for their part in flooding the streets of Swansea with cocaine. The couple drove around in a top-of-the-range Audi and BMW, with private number plates (inset left), and lived in a suburban four-bedroomed home - while still in minimum-wage jobs and claiming thousands in benefits. Among their lavish holidays were trips to Dubai (right) and Florida. The drugs network was dismantled after police raided 11 addresses in Swansea last year. Cocaine with a potential street value of £750,000, and almost £60,000 in cash was seized along with expensive jewellery - including a genuine Rolex watch - as well as cars and quad bikes. Mr Honey-Jones (also inset, right) was jailed for nine years.
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