Pettiness of the jobsworth binman: Moment worker took two bags of rubbish OUT of woman's wheelie bin and dumped them in the street - because he said open lid breached health and safety rules

Leeds bin man took two bags of rubbish OUT of bin and dumped them on street

Debbie Campbell watched the council's collector removing two bags from the top of her bin and dropping them next to her gate before emptying the rest of her waste into his truck. The 48-year-old mother could not close the lid on her two bins because she had extra waste after missing a collection a fortnight ago - but she was furious that her rubbish had been tipped out into her street in Leeds.

British pensioner is raped, murdered and set alight in Bulgaria just three months after moving there with her disabled husband 

Jan Bennett raped, murdered and set alight in Bulgaria months after moving there

Expat Jan Bennett (pictured), 67, was attacked while she out walking her dogs near her home in the village of Malomir, Bulgaria on Thursday. She had only moved to the area recently with her husband, after living in Altinkum in western Turkey. Her body is believed to have been set alight following the brutal attack and a local man has been arrested.

'I heard a fellow prisoner decapitated... it was like a cat being run over': ISIS fighter flees to Germany after extremists tried to kill him because they thought he was a spy

German Isis recruit Ebrahim B to reveal full horrors of his 'execution centre' ordeal
Tempted by the promise of four wives, Ebrahim B joined up and travelled to Syria ? only to be arrested as a spy

Ebrahim B (pictured), a German Tunisian, travelled to Syria to join ISIS last year but was interrogated by the terrorists who feared he was a spy. He is due to appear in court today.

Bully, 16, who was filmed humiliating teenage girls in online video watched 11 MILLION times walks free from court

The girl claimed she had drunk a litre of vodka before forcing two younger children to the floor in the Northfield area of Birmingham.

Police watchdog to investigate Wiltshire force after claims it failed to act on allegations of child sex abuse made about former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath 

Ex-Prime Minister Edward Heath at lunch for the unseen Queen Mother's upcoming 100th birthday at the Guildhall.  (Photo by Ken Goff/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

A senior detective has claimed that Wiltshire Police was told in 1990s that the former Prime Minister may have been a paedophile.

How to nail the 'no make-up' look in just THREE minutes: Beauty guru reveals tricks for achieving the season's most flattering natural look in record time

A tutorial from Topshop's make-up artist Hannah Murray shows viewers how to achieve a polished and flawless look, just by highlighting, contouring and slightly defining the eye area.

Jobless 26-stone mother is going blind after drinking 28 cans of Red Bull energy drink every day 

Lena Lupari, 26, from Newtownabbey in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, has gained so much weight from having seven litres of a Red Bull on a daily basis that her brain has swollen.

City trader, 35, dubbed 'Rainman' who made £3.5million in 9 months faces years in jail after he is found guilty of fixing Libor rate 

Former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes, from Fleet in Hampshire, conspired to rig the London interbank offered rate (Libor), which helps set borrowing costs worldwide.

Childhood friend of Cilla Black says the star 'willed herself to die' after telling him she was losing her sight and 'wasn't going to linger' because her dead husband Bobby 'was waiting for her' 

Cilla Black's son Bobby found body after she didn't wake up from her siesta'

The legendary entertainer was snapped looking 'glamorous' as she made her way through Gatwick Airport on Friday afternoon (pictured with a fan, centre), just 24 hours before she died at her Spanish holiday home (inset). Her devoted son Bobby smashed down her bedroom door after she failed to rise from a siesta. He found her lying face up on her sun terrace. Spanish authorities have said they believe Cilla died of natural causes. One theory is that she became dizzy and fell after she went from the air-conditioned bedroom and onto the sun terrace in the midday summer heat, and fell. The singer and television presenter had marks on her right arm, below the elbow, which suggest she tried to break the fall. Meanwhile, tributes have been pouring in from both her fans and her famous friends

Knock 'em out, Cyril, joked Lennon. And she did just that! From docker's girl to buddy of the Beatles, Cilla rose like the bubbles in a glass of Champagne 

The champagne lifestyle of the Sixties superstar and friend of the Beatles was a world away from Cilla Black's upbringing on Liverpool's toughest street,. Scotland Road, in the heart of the docklands.

Katie Hopkins sparks outrage after criticising celebrities who have been paying tribute to Cilla Black saying they were in a 'rush to gush'

The outspoken columnist hit out at those paying tribute to the former singer and TV presenter saying they were in a race to 'gush' about the 72-year-old, who died at her home in Spain.

Father escaped fine for taking his two sons on term-time holiday to Corfu for a week by falsely claiming they were TRAVELLERS

Michael Baker, from Newmarket, Suffolk, claimed his two sons had to miss time at for 'occupational reasons' because he had a job laying tarmac around the country.

Children as young as TWO sent to NHS 'fat camps' to tackle obesity crisis

More than 700 children have been referred to the paediatric weight management scheme run by NHS Lothian in Scotland, to help tackle rising rates of childhood obesity.

Plane passenger captures moment a 'UFO' overtakes his Virgin Atlantic plane during take-off from New York JFK Airport

Plane passenger captures moment a 'UFO' overtakes his Virgin Atlantic plane

This is the moment a plane passenger captured a 'UFO' overtaking his flight during take-off from New York JFK airport. The footage, from July 7, appears to show the object flying past the Virgin Atlantic plane at high speed. The peculiar object has led to speculation that it may be an extraterrestrial craft.

Dear Tesco, your exploding dog food has ruined my house: Furious shopper posts hilarious rant after stinking pets' dinner is left coating his ceiling and furniture

Dave Crissell, 31, from Ipswich, came downstairs after a night's sleep to find the food coating his walls, ceiling and floor. The mess was so bad that he even had to repaint his walls.

Heartless single mother left her two pet dogs to starve in empty house after she moved out because she had split up with boyfriend

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Sheridan Greer, 23, threw her Staffordshire Bull terriers out with the rubbish after leaving them to starve to death at her home in Burnley, Lancashire.

Former footballer Colin Hendry admits stalking ex-girlfriend - calling her ten times a day, throwing stones at her window and sneaking into her home - and blames 'emotional turmoil' after breakup

Former footballer Colin Hendry admits stalking ex-girlfriend

The 49-year-old (pictured leaving court today) bombarded beautician Sarah Kinder (with whom he is pictured left) with texts and e-mails after refusing to accept the breakdown of their 'turbulent' five-year relationship. The harassment campaign culminated when he slipped through her unlocked front door, claiming that he wanted to check on her welfare, the court was told. The court heard how the former Scotland captain, from Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, had started seeing the mother-of-two after the death of his wife Denise, who died in 2009 following botched cosmetic surgery. But he had been left in 'emotional turmoil' when the pair split for the second time in March this year. Appearing at Blackpool Magistrates' Court, Hendry admitted one charge of harassment. Putting forward his basis of plea, Hendry (pictured inset playing for Scotland) said he was 'embarrassed and truly sorry'.

Greek stock exchange plunges 22% in just a few MINUTES as the market opens for the first time in five weeks and desperate traders race to sell 

The main Athens stock market plunged to 615.72 points - meaning 10billion euros had been wiped out of the stock exchange in the opening 40 minutes, according to early reports.

Social worker's jargon is like a foreign language, says angry judge as he calls for reports to be written in language that everyone involved can understand

A social worker's report for a family court hearing in Nottingham was so riddled with jargon it 'might as well have been written in a foreign language', a judge said.

You CAN have fabulous hair over 50: Royal hairdresser reveals the secrets to getting great tresses at any age

American actress Grace Kelly (1929 - 1982) in a lace-trimmed top, circa 1955. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Royal hairdresser Denise McAdam made headlines last month when she said that cutting hair short can give women over the age of 50 a facelift. Now she reveals how to keep hair looking fabulous over 50.

The moment a baby girl was rescued from the worst possible start to life: Newborn is abandoned in a Chinese restroom and found stuck head-first down a toilet 

Heartbreaking photos capture the moment a newborn baby was rescued from inside a Beijing public toilet after her mother gave birth and walked away, abandoning her child.

Grandmother, 69, died after suffering ammonia burns 'when she was left in her urine-soaked bed for eight days by neglectful care workers'

Taunton woman died 'when left in her urine-soaked bed for eight days'

Doctors found 69-year-old Margot Green (left) in agony after she arrived at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, Somerset, with burns 'all over her body' (top, inset). She died four days later after developing an infection. Her devastated daughter Corrin Garland (bottom, inset) has hit out at a care company tasked with visiting Margot twice daily, claiming the pensioner had not been showered for three weeks. The 43-year-old said she found her mother's bed covered in urine and faeces (right) and has complained to Taunton-based Way Ahead Care.

Woman who longed to have a baby is 'disgusted' at her niece who stole the £15,000 she set aside for IVF and then pretended to be pregnant in a bid to avoid jail 

Tracy Sedgwick, 46, from Darlington, County Durham, was desperate to become a parent with her 41-year-old partner Ahmet and had trusted Lisa Philips, 37, to look after her inheritance.

'Vulnerable people are being taken advantage of': Ex-tennis star Andrew Castle criticises 'rip-off' equity release schemes after one cost his elderly relatives £46,000 

Andrew Castle, 51, branded equity release schemes 'not human,' after his wife's elderly parents were left owing £46,000 when they took out a £70,000 loan against their home in Dorset.

India bans pornography from the internet... 2,000 years after inventing the Kama Sutra 

India - the country that invented sex manual the Kama Sutra - has blocked hundreds of pornographic websites to top adult material becoming a 'social nuisance' as part of a crackdown on porn.

The electric bicycle for CHEATS: 'Stealth' ebike disguises battery as a water bottle and hides the motor

Vacuum cleaner company Gtech, which is based in Worcestershire, has hidden a motor in the frame of its new eBike, giving it a top speed of 15mph and a range of 30 miles on one charge.

Calais under siege: Riot police battle 2,500 migrants desperate to reach Britain through Channel Tunnel during weekend of chaos 

Migrants storm the Channel Tunnel in Calais chanting 'open the borders' 

A French riot officer is in hospital today after he was left with a lacerated face and head as police were pelted with stones as they tried to keep them at bay. Around 1,700 people tried to get to Britain last night - around one in four of all people living in the 'Jungle' camp on the edge of Calais - the highest number for almost a week. Since Friday only around 400 people per night have been trying to scale fences, way down from the peak of around 2,000 last Monday. But the 1,700 attempts last night shows that the crisis has not slowed despite extra French police being brought in. New footage shows how one mob tore down fences and charged past police, who retaliated by spraying tear gas. Migrants are continuing to overwhelm the police guarding the Eurotunnel terminal despite the wider use of tear gas and batons. One union official said today that the officers holding the line at Calais are 'exhausted'.

Seven in ten Calais migrants get into UK: Police chief reveals up to 900 people enter the country illegally each month

Kent Chief Constable Alan Pughsley's warning that up to 900 illegal immigrants make it to the UK every month comes amid frantic efforts by ministers to show they are tackling the Calais crisis.

Landlords threatened with jail if they rent to illegal immigrants but minister can't say why the police do not just kick them out

Communities Secretary Greg Clark could not say why the police do not automatically arrest and deport people reported by landlords or how many have been removed as part of a pilot scheme.

Migrants are 'being transported from Dover to London in taxpayer-funded cabs costing £150-a-time', claims taxi driver

One taxi driver for a Dover-based firm said the company had made 'seven or eight' 70-mile journeys to London in the last week - resulting in a bill that could reach £1,200.

How Bulgaria keeps migrants out - with 50 miles of razor wire: Fence along Turkish border that is 15ft tall and 5ft wide said to have kept out 500 people in a month 

The country's authorities are hoping to put off the ruthless criminal gangs exploiting families fleeing war and terror in Syria, Iraq and North Africa from trying to enter Europe via Bulgaria.

Fergie finally moves out of house she shared with Prince Andrew and sets up home in £13million Swiss ski chalet

Sarah, Duchess of York FINALLY moves out of marital home 

The Duchess of York (left) has set up home in the £13m Chalet Helora (top right) in the upmarket Swiss ski resort of Verbier. The property, which is jointly owned with Prince Andrew, has seven bedrooms, a private sauna and an indoor pool. Fergie, 55, hopes the move will show people that she is 'an independent unit' and, according to a spokesman, is the result of her many 'international business commitments'. The Duchess has lived with Prince Andrew since divorcing him in 1996, first at Sunninghill Park in Berkshire and then at the Royal Lodge in Windsor (bottom right).

Jeremy Corbyn is backed by 'malign Trots' warns ex-Labour leader Neil Kinnock as he urges members to back Andy Burnham

Lord Kinnock warned of 'entryism' - the dangers posed by some of those paying a £3 registration fee to vote, while endorsing Andy Burnham for his ability to appeal to 'the breadth of the British people.'

Cameron was 'inexperienced and unsure' on world stage while Boris was the 'Tory clown prince': US advisor's withering assessment of Tories in emails sent to Hillary Clinton

Prime Minister David Cameron talks with Hillary Clinton during a conference in London

A series of emails sent by Sidney Blumenthal, an adviser in Bill Clinton's White House, painted a bleak assessment of Mr Cameron's positioning on the world stage before he became Prime Minister.

Iran's ayatollah publishes 416-page guide to destroying Israel and rails against the 'American Great Satan' - despite nuclear deal

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers the sermon of the weekly Friday prayers, with a portrait of the late founder of the Islamic republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the background, at Tehran University 19 August 2005.  Iran's Islamic regime is as "solid as a mountain" and can easily stand up to international pressure for it to abandon sensitive nuclear activities, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said today. AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)

Ali Khamenei, the nation's Supreme Leader, is said to have published the lengthy tract, called Palestine, outlining a master plan to harass the Jewish people from their state and take it over.

Disgusting all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet where cockroaches scuttled next to open tubs of ice cream and across walls, floor and surfaces is fined £3,000

Customers complained for months about the insects at Lau's Buffet King in Newcastle-upon-Tyne - and now its owner has been fined £3,000 after council officers uncovered a shocking infestation.

How 'cold as steel' Ava Gardner drove Sinatra to try and kill himself... TWICE: Two abortions. A smoking gun. Told for the first time, the full story of Old Blue Eyes' greatest - and almost fatal - obsession

Ava Gardner drove Frank Sinatra to try and kill himself TWICE

Frank Sinatra bumped into Ava Gardner a few times, on film sets and at nightclubs. But it was a magazine cover that launched one of Hollywood's most tempestuous love affairs. Under a caption that read 'She's sexational!', the December 1944 issue of Photoplay showed the movie star at her most alluring: bare-shouldered and wearing an emerald necklace that matched her flashing eyes. Frank Sinatra was instantly smitten.

'I feel my life is complete. I'm ready to die': Healthy ex-nurse, 75, spent years caring for elderly, then decided she would rather kill herself at Swiss clinic than suffer their fate

Gill Pharaoh, from north London, was not suffering from a terminal illness but decided she did not want to become frail in old age and took her own life at a suicide clinic in Switzerland.

I chewed gum for seven hours a day... now I need an operation to fix my jaw: Mother calls for warning on packets as she faces major surgery after wearing out her joints

Claire Embleton, from Liverpool, could be left with scars after her chewing gum habit wrecked the joints at the side of her mouth leaving her unable to open her mouth more than 1cm.

Huge brawl breaks out in Chinese shopping mall after family carry out mock funeral of woman killed by an escalator and security staff 'carry her body away'

Chinese shopping mall brawl after family carry out mock funeral

Astonishing video has emerged of a body being removed from a coffin and carried out of a shopping mall after it was taken into the centre by grieving relatives (pictured left to right). The film shows hundreds of shoppers yelling and watching in shock as a chaotic struggle takes place in the mall amid an emotional protest carried out by the mourners. Posted on Reddit, it was claimed the coffin contained the body of a woman who died in a tragic accident on the mall's escalator.

More than 150 women and children kidnapped by Boko Haram are freed as extremists release video of beheading and attacks on army barracks 

Some of the 275 women and children rescued from Boko Haram during military operations leave the Malkohi camp outside the Adamawa state capital, Yola, in northeast Nigeria, on May 25, 2015. The former hostages were freed earlier this month but the military said last week they were being moved to an undisclosed location for medical treatment and counselling to help them come to terms with their ordeal. AFP PHOTO/STRINGER        (Photo credit should read STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images)

Of the 178 captives freed in Nigeria's Borno state - the heartland of the insurgency - 101 were children, 67 were women and the rest were men, an army spokesman said.

Pictured: Troubled football legend Kenny Sansom swigging wine from the bottle on a park bench - just weeks after finishing rehab

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 The former National team left back who once held the record number of caps (86) in his position before Ashley Cole overtook him, was seen openly drinking white 'Jacobs Creek' wine from the bottle in broad daylight next to a childrens summer holiday event.  
 
 Still wearing his wedding ring despite being thrown out of the marital home by wife Denise Mullins in May this year, the star of Highbury was well and truly benched by the booze, seemingly slipping back into his alcaholism despite telling a national sunday newspaper recetly that he's overcome his addiction. As Sansom, hair deshevelled, struggled to his feet, wearing shorts, white trainers and a black jumper, he appeared to have a cut on h

Former England football star Kenny Sansom, 56, has been spotted swigging white wine from the bottle on a park bench in south London just weeks after leaving rehab.

Is YOUR make-up out of date? Mascara goes off after three months, foundation after a year and even sneezing in the same room as cosmetics can cause them to go bad 

16 Aug 2014, Los Angeles, California, USA --- Caucasian woman applying makeup in bathroom mirror --- Image by © Peathegee Inc/Blend Images/Corbis

Whilst foundation and concealer can last as many as 18 months and bronzers up to two years, mascaras and liquid eyeliners should be in the bin after three months.

M&S; Bank wrongly listed woman as DEAD - throwing her life into chaos as it cancelled her insurance, credit cards and direct debits and even sent her family a letter of condolence

Alison Lattimer, 56, from Stakeford, Northumbs, was declared dead by the bank. Her family were even sent a condolence letter from the Post Office, where she has home insurance.

Can you spot the space station? ISS captured in stunning images as it makes rare pass in front of the moon

ISS captured in stunning images as it makes rare pass in front of the moon

Nasa photographers managed to capture the International Space Station as it was silhouetted in front of the moon just days after the rare Blue Moon. It took just 0.82 seconds for the space station to pass across the bright face of the lunar surface. Normally the space station is only visible as a fast moving bright speck in the sky, but backlit by the moon's surface, it is possible to make out the ISS's massive solar arrays, which are larger than football pitch, making it the largest man-made object in orbit around the Earth.

New end-of-life care rules are 'worse than the death pathway': New rules could leave staff to 'guess' which patients are dying 

Professor Patrick Pullicino, a leading critic of the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway which was phased out in 2014, said the new proposals mimic many of the LCP's key problems.

French far-Right party Front National orders artists to provide free childcare in return for their state benefits

David Rachline, a member of France's Front National party, wants artists who benefit from subsidies for their work spaces in the Mediterranean port of Fréjus to 'give something back' to the town.

Woman convicted of assaulting a police officer with her BREAST during anti-China protest in Hong Kong

Dozens of bra-wearing protesters held a rally outside a police headquarters in the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong after Ng Lai-ying was found guilty of using her boob to assault an officer.

Anger in Russia over Vladimir Putin's aide seen wearing a watch worth £397,000 - four times his official salary - in wedding photos with new glamorous ice skater wife 

Vladimir Putin’s aide Dmitry Peskov seen wearing a watch worth £397,000

President Vladimir Putin's official spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, 47, married former Olympic icedancer Tatyana Navka, 40, last weekend. Russian opposition spotted the extravagant watch in the photos, but Mr Peskov claims it was a gift from his wife. Opposition campaigner Alexei Navalny claims the luxury watch is evidence of corruption, and asked how he could have afforded the limited-edition Richard Mille watch - only 30 of which were ever made - on his official salary. The couple's Sochi wedding was hailed as the 'wedding of the year'.

DOMINIC LAWSON: My father, sharp as a tack at 83, and why Britain needs the wisdom of age

A general view of the House of Lords, as ministers are braced for a potentially damaging Commons defeat over Nick Clegg's plans for House of Lords reform. 


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Baroness D'Souza, the House of Lords Speaker, declared that something must be done 'to address the current age profile of the House' but what has this got to do with the actions of Lord Sewel?

Forceps and needles left inside patients by NHS surgeons: UK ranked among the worst Western nations for failing to remove 'foreign bodies' after surgery

A new report shows the UK's rate for failing to remove 'foreign bodies' is 5.5 cases per 100,000 people, three times that of Poland, with 1.9 cases, and twice that of Slovenia, at 2.9 cases.

Saudi Arabian king unexpectedly cuts short holiday on the French Riviera: Closed beach set to reopen after royal ends his holiday just eight days into three-week stay 

Eight days after arriving in southern France for what was billed as a three-week luxury vacation, King Salman and his entourage boarded a flight from Nice airport to the Moroccan city of Tangiers.

How maths can solve Agatha Christie's whodunnits: Researchers devise formula looking at setting and language to work out who the killer was in crime writer's novels 

One of the pleasures of an Agatha Christie detective story is to try and guess 'whodunnit'. Now researchers claim to have come up with a formula which can help readers identify the perpetrator.

Supermarket cleaner has his leg amputated after getting it foot caught in a gap at the top of an escalator - the THIRD incident of its kind in China in just seven days

Horrific CCTV footage shows the 35-year-old man was stepping over the top platform of the Shanghai shopping mall escalator when his leg accidentally became stuck in a gap on the steps.

Why the HUN is our favourite new 'do: Messy half-bun style seen on Khloe Kardashian, Hilary Duff and Miley Cyrus is hot new hair trend

This low-maintenance style is criminally easy to copy, updating your look in an instant with minimal time, skill or product required. And, perfect for summer, it can even make you look younger.

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Family who saved for ten years to go on dream holiday to Disney World say daughter is still suffering damaging health effects from mouldy room FOUR MONTHS later

Family on Disney World holiday say daughter is suffering health effects 4 MONTHS later

Gary and Jamie Foreman spent ten years saving the £7,000 to surprise their three children Isobel, 10, Brady, six, and Phoebe, four (pictured right), with a dream two week break to Disney World, Florida. Before they were due to fly, Jamie, 38, contacted the hotel, which was booked through tour provider Virgin Holidays, to tell them that their hotel room would have to be clean, as her daughter Phoebe (left) had suffered from asthma attacks in the past. However, the family were shocked to discover dirty beds (inset) and mould in their room.

Salon owner is dragged through the courts 'like a common criminal' after her mother put out rubbish in a bin bag that was the wrong COLOUR

Susan Le Poidevin, 50, said she was 'grilled' for several hours by Birmingham council officers for failing to use clear bin liners designated for commercial waste.

Traditional post boxes tagged to stop thieves after at least 100 are taken each year and sold for up to £5,000 

Gangs are thought to be targeting post boxes after four Victorian ones were stolen from three Norfolk villages over just one weekend. The 'significant threat' has driven Royal Mail to take action.

Relief as Jericho - brother of slain lion Cecil - is found ALIVE despite reports he too had become a victim of poachers

Jericho the lion, who cares for the cubs of slain lion Cecil, is alive and well according to a researcher who is monitoring the pride. Reports that Jericho had also been shot flooded social media overnight.

Second American is accused of killing a lion: Gynaecologist who loves posing with big game 'shot animal with a crossbow' after dentist killed Cecil

A second American, Dr. Jan Seski, has been named in a growing big game poaching investigation in Zimbabwe on Sunday and is accused of participating in an illegal lion hunt in April

Pull the other Un! North Korean leader Kim Jong-un receives 'global statesmanship' award in recognition of 'his persistence in fighting imperialism' 

'Tyrant' Kim Jong-un was awarded the prize by the Bali-based Sukarno Centre. Previous winners include India's Mahatma Gandhi and Burmese Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.

Could your fridge burn your house down? You can't switch them off. They're packed with inflammable insulation that can give off toxic gas. Here's why they are the most dangerous appliance of all...

Although doors and side panels of most fridges are covered with metal, many manufacturers still use flammable plastic backing, which offers little protection against the insulation catching fire.

Neighbour from hell is evicted after she and her boyfriend burgled their disabled neighbour in a cruel distraction con

Natalie Bateman and Richard Teague targeted neighbour Sarah Walsby at her home in East Howdon, Tyne and Wear, masquerading as good Samaritans and offering her help to buy groceries.

Severely disabled man left heartbroken at 'cowardly' anonymous note from neighbour telling him to clear his overgrown garden

Dean Wingate, 28, from Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, has lived at his five-bedroom home for four years and needs daily help from his carers to manage his cerebral palsy.

Liz Hurley cashes in after boom in the price of farmland: Actress triples her money in just 13 years as she sells nine-bedroom Cotswolds property for £9million 

Liz Hurley sells her Cotswolds property for £9million

Liz Hurley, 50, bought the Grade II listed property (pictured main) just outside Barnsley, Gloucestershire, for £3.3million in 2002. She said at the time that she hoped to live a farmer's life and even bought cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens and geese to prove it. The actress and model, currently starring in the US series The Royals, put the home up for sale for £6million but it languished on the market for more than a year. But instead of dropping the price, she hiked it by a whopping £3million and threw in an extra 300 acres of farmland. The decision to up the price paid off with Hurley selling the home to a farming family. At around £9 million, it is one of the biggest sales of the year outside London. The house has nine bedrooms, six bathrooms, a drawing room (top left), dining room, kitchen with celebrity features (bottom left) and a sitting room.

Sleepwalking beautician, 43, is left paralysed after falling down the stairs and breaking her neck and back in TEN places

Kate Sell, 43, from Chipping Sodbury, has been left paralysed from the chest down after falling down the stairs when sleep walking. She faces an anxious wait to see if it is permanent.

Is Apple Music playing YOU the wrong tunes? Users complain streaming service is giving them different versions of tracks

Apple Music (pictured) is designed to let users stream music from a library but people have complained it's unable to distinguish between single, live and acoustic versions of a song.

Gloomy winters could be killing us warn experts who say Britons are not getting enough Vitamin D from sunlight putting us at risk of deadly ailments 

Government health advisers are proposing a dietary intake of 10 micrograms of vitamin D per day for everyone age over one year in a bid to combat the gloomy British winters.

Would YOU date this man? Tinder user compiles lengthy quiz to determine if women are girlfriend material, including questions on appearance and book choices

A Reddit user shared a questionnaire she was asked to fill out by Solomon, a man she met on Tinder. Questions included how your boss would describe you and recent dating disasters.

Rowan Pelling's sex column: Should I confront my best friend over an old betrayal that still cuts deep?

Stock photo of a Restless woman in bed with man

QUESTION: My first boyfriend recently admitted he once slept with my best friend when we were at college 30 years ago. Should I confront her, or let sleeping dogs lie?

Meet the woman who has lived 'off the grid' for more than 30 years in a house she built for $3000 with walls made from COW POO

Jill Redwood has lived 'off the grid' for more than 30 years in East Gippsland

Jill Redwood (top right) was five years old when she decided she wanted to be a hermit. For more than 30 years she has been living 'off the grid' in a home she built herself (left and bottom right) made entirely out of reused and recycled materials, with walls made from timber offcuts and cow poo. Ms Redwood, a writer and environmental activist, hates supermarkets and only eats food she's grown and made herself on her 15-acre property on the edge of the forest in East Gippsland in Victoria.

Why shouldn't older women wear bikinis? These ladies say they're proof that there's no age limit for looking good on the beach

In last week's Femail magazine, Janet Street-Porter insisted that no woman over the age of 20 should ever wear a bikini. But Susanna is one of a host of over-50s who disagree.

Obese man driven to despair by bullies who pulled his hair and called him 'Rik Waller' loses EIGHT STONE... and is mistaken for Olly Murs instead

Craig Cooper, 28, from Southampton, who weighed 19st 7lb, was bullied for resembling the overweight Pop Idol star. Since slimming to 11st 8lb he says girls now think he is the X Factor host.

Mother who lost two babies to a rare condition says a single STITCH in her cervix saved her 'miracle' baby son's life

Nicola Richards, 27, from Brierley Hill, West Midlands, had a stitch sewn in to her cervix when she was 14 weeks pregnant to keep it closed, and prevent her son Jesse being born prematurely.

Purr-manently confused! Tilly the cat looks forever perplexed after vicious attack that left her head stuck at a 45 degree angle

Meet Tilly the confused cat - whose neck is stuck at an angle leaving her looking constantly perplexed. The six-month old kitten, who lives in Sydney, suffered an attack that left her head at a near 45 degree tilt.

Own goal? Manchester United slammed for 'sexist' women's replica shirt which has a plunging neckline 

The neckline on the new Manchester United shirts - made by Adidas - is noticeably lower than the men's shirt. But Natalie Dickinson (pictured) has come out in support of the new kit.

My wife volunteered for a one-way mission to Mars: Husband whose other half signed up for Mars One gets to grips with the prospect of never seeing her again 

Sonia Van Meter's husband speaks out after she volunteered for Mars One

Jason Stanford refers to himself as an 'astronaut wife', because his actual wife and stepmother to their two sons, Sonia Van Meter, 36 (pictured together with sons Henry, 13, and Hatcher, 11) was one of the people chosen for the Mars One Project, a privately-funded one-way mission which hopes to establish a permanent human colony on the red planet. In an oped for Texas Monthly, Stanford writes of how he has come to accept his role in the process and the reality that he will have to say goodbye to his wife in 2026, when Mars One hopes to send the first four people to live on Mars. 'We're just an ordinary couple in an extraordinary situation, and we're taking it one small step at a time,' he wrote.

Girl, 16, who was stabbed at Jerusalem Gay Pride march 'by ultra-Orthdox Jew' dies from her wounds

Shira Banki, 16, (pictured) was one of six people wounded in the assault on Thursday and succumbed to her wounds at Hadassah hospital today. Suspect Yishai Shlissel was arrested at the scene.

'I've been called a paedophile': Australian mum, 52, who breastfeeds her six-year-old daughter insists 'people can say what they like, I know what I'm doing as a mother'

The 52-year-old mother who proudly breastfeeds her six-year-old child by day during school hours has admitted that she has 'been called a paedophile' because of her extreme breastfeeding practices.

Brain training app that could help schizophrenia sufferers live a normal life: Patients who played game regularly for a month were four times better at remembering things 

Scientists at Cambridge University have developed a brain training app to help patients with schizophrenia recover their ability to carry out everyday tasks that rely on having a good memory.

Owner 'demolished his own pub with a JCB causing thousands in damage after being refused pint at closing time' 

Businessman Mark Swistun, 45, is accused of smashing down the walls of the Royal Oak, in Penclawdd on the Gower, South Wales, having previously spent £60,000 refurbishing the pub.

Oh deer! Terrified stag is found drowning in a suburban pool after it was chased by vicious wild dogs that 'wanted its blood'

A wild dog 'chasing after blood' cornered a wild deer into a backyard pool in Helensburgh, 45km's south of Sydney last week. The attack has shocked residents concerned about the safety of their children.

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Guests can sleep inside a quirky ART EXHIBITION in Amsterdam

Marrying art and camping UrbanCampsite Amsterdam is inviting guests to stay in an art exhibition in one of 14 artistic and unusual mobile objects. The pop up campsite has been launched in the newest part of the city- Centrumeiland of IJburg, a sand scape surrounded by the IJ lake boasting a view of the island of Pampus.

Brits make 25 applications a WEEK to exhume human remains as CofE hits out at trend of taking loved ones with you when you move home

According to current laws in Britain, without a licence it is illegal to remove any body or the remains of any body which have been interred in any place of burial.

Public sector workers must be able to speak English under new reforms designed to reverse 'disastrous' lack of fluency

The Government's new Immigration Bill is set to make fluent English a requirement for all public sector employees who deal directly with the public.

Bake Off's Sound of Music advert is axed after BBC is accused of breaching copyright 

The trailer for the new series, featuring judges Mary Berry (pictured) and Paul Hollywood dancing on a hillside, has been the subject of a complaint from the song's publishers Rodgers and Hammerstein.

How singing Happy Birthday can cost you a small fortune: Ruthless greed and a Victorian ditty that became the world's favourite song...

The idea that this innocent little expression of human goodwill might come with a sting in its tail seems almost inconceivable. But the truth is that you have to be careful when you sing Happy Birthday.

It's raining money! Met Office staff given £20.8m in bonuses over the past five years amid claims they have got better at weather forecasting 

Sammy Wilson, MP for East Antrim, has branded the bonuses 'very odd' and
Piers Corbyn, of forecasting firm Weather Action also slammed the sums. The Met Office claims it has 'performed well'.

Obese man driven to despair by bullies who pulled his hair and called him 'Rik Waller' loses EIGHT STONE... and is mistaken for Olly Murs instead

Obese Southampton man is mistaken for Olly Murs after losing eight stone

Craig Cooper, 28, from Southampton, who weighed 19st 7lb at his heaviest (left), claimed that strangers used to bully him for resembling the Pop Idol finalist who went on to appear on Celebrity Fit Club (inset left). Now having slimmed down to 11st 8lb (right), the estate agent says girls tell him he looks more like X Factor host Olly Murs (inset right).

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Breathtaking new cavern with rare 'King Arthur's beard' rock formations is revealed to the public for first time after three tonnes of explosives exposed it 

Somerset cavern with 'King Arthur's beard' rock formations revealed to the public

Owners of the Wookey Hole attraction were left stunned by the incredible discovery (main and top right), and the new cave - officially known as 'Cavern 20' - is now accessible to visitors for the very first time. The chamber is the largest at the West Country attraction and also features a subterranean lake which had previously only been seen by a handful of cave divers. It also features rare fluted rock known as 'King Arthur's Beard' (bottom right).

Donald Trump accuses Obama of 'doing absolutely nothing for the black community' as he soars over GOP rivals again in the latest poll

In an ABC interview Sunday, Trump said that black people 'are worse now than just about ever' and that Obama has 'done very poorly for the African-Americans of this country.

Monsoon leaves thousands stranded and 27 dead in Myanmar flooding - and the toll is expected to rise

Monsoonal rains have caused severe flooding across Myanmar, killing at least 27 people. Over 156,000 people have been affected, and the toll is expected to rise.

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A night in a pop-up lighthouse, helicopter rides over glaciers, prosecco on the black beaches and smoked puffin for lunch: How to spend an incredible 48 hours in Iceland

How to spend an incredible 48 hours in Iceland

The new 'Incredible Stopover' package from Icelandair features a selection of 'incredible' activities including (pictured) a stay in the Marina Hotel in Reykjavik, helicopter rides over glaciers, visits to the black beaches of Reynisfjara, waterfall exploring and puffin eating. The Icelandair Stopover service offers transatlantic passengers the opportunity to stay in Iceland for up to seven nights at no additional airfare.

Out (on patrol) and proud: Police give car a rainbow makeover for Gay Pride parade

A police force today spent hundreds of pounds giving a patrol car and a motorbike a colourful makeover in rainbow colours ahead of a gay pride parade.

The land where anyone can walk on water: Dreamlike pictures from the world's largest salt flats

A Japanese tourist photographed a man strolling across the water at Salar de Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia. As one of the flattest places in the world, during the rainy season, a mirror effect is created.

Baby rhino the poachers couldn't kill: Young animal that survived horrific attack on its pregnant mother is so happy it smiles

Baby rhino that survived attack on its pregnant mother is so happy it smiles

The cheerful calf (pictured main, and top and bottom right) was pictured at the Kariega Game Reserve, east of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. Its mother (bottom right) was pregnant when vile poachers chopped off her horn and left her to die. She survived the attack and her baby's relief is written all over its face.

   

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