The journalist interrupted his appearance on the Today programme to promote Dimbleby Cancer Care - a charity set up in memory of his father - and a fundraising walk through London.

Joe Pugh, left and Leah Washington, right, enjoyed a romantic meal together in their first date since the 17-year-old Miss Washington was released from hospital following the horrific accident.

The veteran presenter has been host of the Radio 4 programme since February 1994, after a career in newspapers, much of it as a political correspondent at Westminster.

The retailer said its general merchandise - which is mostly clothes - sales fell 0.4 per cent in the three months to June, although its better than last year when notched up a 1.5 per cent decline.

At the club's AGM in London, just 50.5 per cent of members voted in favour of allowing women to join the club - falling short of the two-thirds majority needed for rules to be changed.

Two teenagers were taken to hospital suffering from hypothermia after being pulled from the River Wyre near Fleetwood, Lancashire. The mother of a 14-year-old boy thanked her son's rescuers.

The humorous photos, showing policemen smiling broadly as they mingle with revellers in Chelmsford, Essex, have been going down a storm on social media, with people posting them on Twitter.

Brother and sister Paul and Rosemary Wiggin left wet puppies outside their Staffordshire home. Pregnant dogs were also kept in a 'filthy and unhygienic' house covered in faeces (pictured).

SAS paratrooper Lieutenant Norman Poole was one of a six-man team who landed on the Cherbourg peninsula in Normandy on the night of June 5-6, 1944.

With its turrets, enchanting gardens and spacious bedrooms, Grade II-listed Compton Castle, in Compton Pauncefoot, Somerset, looks like it has come straight from the pages of a fairytale.

Clayton Kennedy, 20, was fined £400 and given a community order at Cardiff Magistrates' Court after admitting posting a photograph on social media of his ex-girlfriend performing a sex act.

In memory of those killed in the bombings a decade ago, commuters across London today stepped off the train, tube and bus one stop early to walk the remainder of their journey.

Mr Blair, who was PM when four British bombers blew themselves up killing 52 people in 2005, warned today that the threat posed by Islamist fanatics has reached 'the edges of Europe'.

While eight out of 10 MPs believe new anti-terror laws and extra funding have helped the security services prevent an attack, just a quarter say an atrocity is now less likely than in 2005.

Bob Quick, a former Scotland Yard assistant commissioner, said it could be safer to help British extremists leave the country and ban them from returning by withdrawing their passports.

Backbench MP Helen Goodman wrote an article saying she supported Ms Cooper because 'as a working mum she understands the pressures on modern family life'.

Small business minister Anna Soubry said plans to give elected mayors and councils the power to allow supermarkets to open for more than six hours on a Sunday were not a threat to family life.

New Conservative MP and former Army captain Johnny Mercer has caused a splash after he was spotted half naked - in an advert for shower gel on American TV.

The British Red Cross, NSPCC, Oxfam and Macmillan have all been exploiting loopholes in the Telephone Preference Service, which was set up to protect the elderly from cold callers.

Data from Knight Frank's latest Farmland Index shows the value of bare farmland has risen 2.6 per cent between April and June 2015, and 33 per cent, or £2,050 per acre, since the end of 2012.

EXCLUSIVE: The terrorist-linked group's emblem was printed on to a Syria flag on the side of a blue Subaru Impreza, spotted outside an Asda store in London's Wembley Park today.

Former Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond have been blocked from immediately appearing on a rival motoring show on ITV by their former BBC contracts.

Hoping to uncover dangerous criminals hiding in areas such as Benidorm, Malaga and Puerto Banus, the tactic is part of a joint campaign by Crimestoppers and the National Crime Agency.

David Barwell, of Nottingham, was diagnosed with T4 mouth cancer in March, after losing four stone in less than three months. Doctors now hope he will be able to eat, drink and talk again.

An independent review has called for sweeping changes at the UN agency, warning 'the world simply cannot afford another period of inaction until the next health crisis'.

Scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found by preventing the protein kinase from working, the malaria parasite was killed and the disease stopped in its tracks.

Jessica Mann and then-boyfriend Aaron Rigby were forced to seek medical attention for painful rashes and blisters that broke out all over their bodies while on holiday in the Dominican Republic.

The 25-year-old's Tutti Fruity range - a collection of bath products - launched at midnight on Superdrug's website and was an instant hit with hundreds of products selling overnight.

Farmers in Giverny, about 50 miles north east of Paris feared that Claude Monet's water garden, subject of many of his greatest works, pictured, would infect the water supply and kill their cows.

Worried neighbours watched from below as a boa constrictor escaped its tank and managed to climb out of an upstairs window at its owner's house in Anglesey, North Wales.

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Researchers at Maynooth University showed language skills are the only area in which children who are cared for by their own extended family outperformed others by the age of three.

The polygamous Wodaabe tribe stage the Gerewol festival where men dance for the women hoping to steal one as a wife. The women who choose the men can have a number of husbands

Colney Hall, a grade II listed seven bedroom property in Norwich, Norfolk, which was bought by Hugh Gurney Barclay in the late 19th century, has been put on the market for £2million.

The After School Club is London's latest restaurant, housed in The Round Chapel, Old School Rooms in, Hackney, London. For £55 diners can tuck into shepherd's pie and spaghetti.

The flights of five of Britain's busiest airports can now be viewed as a beautiful, coloured lightshow in the sky.

Freight traffic was being disrupted but there were also delays to passenger services following the intrusion near Calais in the early hours of the morning, Channel tunnel operator Eurotunnel said.

The consumption of dog and cat meat is outlawed under the Contagious Diseases Act, which deems the meat unsafe due to the risk of fatal diseases like rabies.