Acclaimed actor George Cole (pictured above) who starred as the loveable rogue Arthur Daley in the hit ITV series Minder (pictured above, left in character) and had a career spanning more than 70 years, has died aged 90. He passed away at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Berkshire, with his wife, Penny, and son, Toby, at his bedside following a short illness. Despite his ill-health, Mr Cole had hoped to star in one more movie and had urged the projects director to 'get a move on.'
BREAKING NEWS: Apprentice star Stuart Baggs died as a result of his asthma after suffering from the condition for many years
Apprentice star Stuart Baggs (left) died as a result of his asthma after suffering from the condition for many years, police revealed today. Mr Baggs, who was known for his nickname 'The Brand', was the BBC show's youngest ever contestant when he appeared on the sixth series in 2010 aged just 21. He was found dead by police last Thursday just days after his 27th birthday when they were called to his flat in a seaside apartment block in Douglas on the Isle of Man (bottom right).
Chaos on the buses, roads and trains: Millions of commuters endure misery as striking tube drivers shut down the whole network and mayor blasts union bosses as 'totally bone-headed'
- Minder star George Cole dies at 90 - months after asking director to hurry up on final project because he wanted to make one more film before he died
- Revealed: Apprentice star Stuart Baggs, 27, died of an asthma attack after battling the condition for many years
- Sports star wins an injunction gagging revelations about him cheating on his wife-to-be with a female celebrity
- Boris Johnson blasts 'totally bone-headed' union bosses after millions of commuters struggled into work through London chaos as striking tube drivers shut down the whole network
- £50,000 and 43 days holiday for being a tube driver but YOU can't apply because jobs haven't been advertised for seven years
- Uber cashes in on commuters’ travel misery: Taxi app doubles its prices on morning of Tube strike
- 'It was weed heaven': Girl boasts she spent Kids Company handouts on DRUGS as founder claims charity handed £37million taxpayers' cash needed MORE money
- 'I've been targeted for speaking out about child sex abuse by powerful people', claims Kids Company founder as it emerges that philanthropist pulled the plug on £3m donation after finding out about police probe
- Jimmy Savile's nephew claims his friend was abused at 14 by Ted Heath as picture emerges of the ex prime minister with known paedophile dubbed 'King Cornet'
- Five terror plots foiled in the last year as police reveal that they are arresting suspects EVERY day
- Has name of Bake Off winner ALREADY been leaked? Bookies stop betting after suspicious flurry of wagers contestant to evens favourite
- Who needs a book deal? Former businesswoman became one of Britain's bestselling authors with novel she published herself on Kindle store
- The nightmare aftermath of Hiroshima: Parents carry burned children past corpses and rubble in rare photographs taken during the days after atomic bomb killed 140,000 people
- It's not just McDonald's! Now KFC, Taco Bell and Nando's reveal secret menus (including a Zinger Stacker and the Incredible Hulk)
- Banker stole £19,000 from elderly customers' accounts to fund her boyfriend's £1,000-a-week gambling habit in ‘desperate’ bid to save their relationship
- Former glamour model Samantha Fox 'devastated' after the death of her long-term girlfriend and manager from cancer
- Cilla 'wasn't discovered for five hours after fall': Star could have been saved if found sooner, officials reveal
- National Enquirer runs DEATHBED photo of Bobbi Kristina in a Georgia hospice amid heated family feud over another image taken during her funeral
- Businessman who transformed his modest bungalow into a £2million three-storey mansion is ordered to demolish it and return it to its original size
- Heartbreaking scene as dying bat boy, nine, was cradled by US baseball player while his team prayed after he was fatally struck in the head by a practice swing
- Washed up wing part IS from missing Flight MH370: 515 days after it vanished, Malaysian PM says we can finally be sure jet crashed into sea
- Hair we go again: After THAT incredibly hirsute baby, MailOnline parents share photos of their own very dear mane attractions
- ISIS executes 19 girls for refusing to have sex with fighters as UN envoy reveals how sex slaves are 'peddled like barrels of petrol'
- Kids Company founder blames everyone but herself: Boss lays into civil servants, ministers and the media for charity's closure as staff leave and lock up for the last time tonight
- Hungry pet shocks its owner by copying baby and saying 'mama' in a bid to be fed
- £50,000 and 43 days holiday for being a tube driver but YOU can't apply because jobs haven't been advertised for seven years
- Shocking moment two Uber drivers start fight in street over clipped wing mirror - before passenger gets out and joins in brawl
- Prepare for a day of chaos in the capital: Millions of London commuters face travel misery as latest Tube drivers' strike over pay shuts entire network
- Did she EAT her victims?: Serial killer 'Granny Ripper' who kept diary of 11 people she decapitated may be a cannibal
- Radical Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary is remanded in custody after being charged with terrorism offence over 'inviting support for ISIS'
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'It was weed heaven': Girl boasts she spent Kids Company handouts on DRUGS as founder claims charity handed £37million taxpayers' cash needed MORE money
The charity, whose headquarters are in south London, closed yesterday amid allegations of financial mismanagement and a row over funding. One of the youngsters helped by the organisation has now told how she and her friends would splash the spending money they were given on cannabis. Ms Batmanghelidjh was played a recording of the girl's claims this morning and said only that the full circumstances of the girl's situation were not known.
The nightmare aftermath of Hiroshima: Parents carry burned children past corpses and rubble in rare photographs taken during the days after atomic bomb killed 140,000 people
It's not just McDonald's! Now KFC, Taco Bell and Nando's reveal secret menus (including a Zinger Stacker and the Incredible Hulk)
First came the McDonald's secret menu - a hybrid of burgers created bespoke for those in the know, including the McGangBang and the Monster Mac. Now other fast-food chains have followed suit, with KFC, Nando's and Taco Bell all revealing that they too have off-the-menu concoctions customers can order. Pictured clockwise from top left: KFC's Zinger Stacker, Nando's Peri-tamer, Taco Bell's The Incredible Hulk, KFC's The Ultimate Zinger, Taco Bell's Cheesy Gordita Taco, Five Guys' Patty Melt.
It's a hay fail! Bales of straw smash into cars after falling off the back of a tractor's trailer
The trundling bales (main picture) completely flattened a lamppost and damaged at least three cars (pictured inset) after falling from the vehicle as it was towed through Tenterden High Street in Kent. The dramatic incident, which left hay strewn across the village, unfolded when the load clipped the lamppost, causing the bales to shift and fall off the trailer. It then completely crushed the back of one vehicle, before colliding with two others. Describing the incident, which took place last night, local resident Leni White said: 'Our very own Operation Haystack.' Ian McCormick, who was visiting the town at the time, said: 'I hope the tractor driver has good insurance but I suspect he'll be back on the hand plough after this.'
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The heart shredding betrayal when your husband sleeps with the nanny: One couple's devastating story - told by both sides
Many women joke about their husbands running off with a nanny or au pair - but for some it becomes a heart-breaking reality. Abigail Shepherd, 38, (right) a project co-ordinator and mother-of-two from Farnham, Surrey, reveals how her husband Ben (left, and together on their wedding day, centre) betrayed her and left her for Anna, their live-in nanny of 15 months. Incredibly she didn't even sack her and throw her out - for the good of her children. She said: 'Ben had left me for another woman. And not just any woman our nanny, who was 23. Worse still, I knew he was, at that moment, ensconced with her in her room just across the landing'. Ben believes his feelings for Anna are anything but frivolous and said: 'I don't feel guilty because I didn't go out looking for love. And it certainly hasn't been easy. I've worried about absolutely everything and the impact it will have - not just on the children, but also Abi and Anna. The person I was least worried about was me'. The situation echoes the scandal surrounding actors Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, after claims were made that Affleck has become romantically involved with their children's 28-year-old nanny Christine Ouzonian just weeks after their split.
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WESTMINSTER TODAY
Washed up wing part IS from missing Flight MH370: 515 days after it vanished, Malaysian PM says we can finally be sure jet crashed into sea - but we are still no nearer knowing WHY?
Najib Razak, left, has confirmed that the wing fragment, main, found last week is from the Malaysian Airlines plane, inset, that went missing last March, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The admission comes after experts at a facility in Toulouse, France today examined the washed-up part, which was found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. The Malaysian Prime Minister said: 'It is with a very heavy heart that I must tell you that an international team of experts has conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370.' The confirmation is now the first sign of the aircraft since it went off radar across the Indian Ocean in March 2014 with 239 passengers on board.
Cameron wants peerage for banker who gave the Tories £2.5m... and offered week on his island for party's auction
James Lupton, who has donated £2.5million to the Conservatives, is in line for a peerage in the controversial dissolution honours list. The investment banker (left, being made a CBE in 2012) reportedly hosted a table at the Tories' infamous Black and White fundraising ball in February, donating a week-long trip for 24 people to his £56million La Fortaleza estate on the Bay of Pollenca in Majorca (pictured right). The dissolution honours are mired in controversy over expectations that a 'big handful' of donors will be rewarded, and a backlash over initial plans for 100 new Tory peers.
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Long in the face? No, horses share facial expressions with humans and are more animated than chimps and dogs
University of Sussex researchers used an Equine Facial Action Coding System to identify different individual facial expressions on the basis of underlying muscle movement (muscles are shown top right). They analysed video footage (stills are shown left and bottom right) of a wide range of naturally occurring horse behaviours to identify all the different movements it is possible for horses to make with their face.
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The dogs (and kittens!) of war: Ukrainian soldiers post photographs of their pets online after they were allowed to take them to the front line to combat heavy boozing among troops
Ukrainian soldiers have given a rare insight into life on the frontline by surprisingly posting pictures of their beloved pet dogs and kittens. Dressed in his camouflage military uniform, one Ukrainian soldier stares into the camera looking tired and battle hardened. Instead of holding his heavy rifle, in his hands lies a small, fluffy white kitten with a slight brown smudge on the top of its head.
WORLD NEWS
- Plane wing found washed up on Reunion island IS from missing MH370, Malaysian PM reveals as investigators are finally able to confirm the jet crashed into the sea 515 days after it vanished
- The dogs (and kittens!) of war: Ukrainian soldiers post photographs of their pets online after they were allowed to take them to the front line to combat heavy boozing among troops
- Books by British historians that focus on Red Army atrocities are stripped from Russian libraries after officials say they promote 'Nazi-era stereotypes'
- Father travels 3,000 miles from Finland to Africa on a JETSKI after his son asked him if it was possible
- Owner of dog found buried alive up to its head with its lead tied to a sack of gravel so it could not escape is arrested in France after a photograph of the animal sparks outrage
- Wish you were here...? ISIS release bizarre jihad holiday brochure for cheap package deals to Islamic State promoting swimming, farmers' markets and BEEKEEPING
- Has Jihadi John re-emerged in latest ISIS video? Militant holds knife in his trademark left hand as terror group threaten to execute hostage kidnapped in Cairo in 48 hours if 'Muslim women' are not freed by Egypt
- Held down by three jihadis and beheaded: Shocking new video shows depraved Boko Haram decapitate a POLICEMAN in Nigeria
- As many as 600 people feared to have drowned after boat carrying 700 migrants across the Mediterranean capsizes
- Horrifying giant swarm containing MILLIONS of locusts sparks state of emergency in southern Russia as crops are decimated
- Terrifying moment Russian crane driver is killed when his vehicle snags overhead cable and bursts into flames as powerful electric current runs through it
- Seven Christians detained in China after taking part in protests against a 'humiliating' government campaign to tear down crosses from churches
- Newlyweds spend their wedding day feeding FOUR THOUSAND Syrian refugees on the Turkish border
- Egypt unveils giant expansion to Suez Canal