Popular TV cartoon show Peppa Pig is already a childhood favourite in 180 countries including Britain and the inspiration behind 12,000 products.

The record difference means the average property value in the South is now £303,811 compared with just £150,851 in the North, according to figures from Nationwide.

The Open has been broadcast live on the BBC for the final time after the corporation gave up its rights to show next year's tournament at Royal Troon.

Carl Ellam had his ears syringed and was given sleeping tablets but still suffered from a 'noise in his head'. The father-of-two, from Golcar, West Yorkshire, committed suicide on July 18.

Aseel Muthana, 18, from Cardiff, travelled to Syria in February last year to join his brother Nasser, 21, a former medical student - and the siblings are now on a United Nations list of dangerous fanatics.

Those missing the bacteria - thought to be transferred from mother to child during birth or breastfeeding - at the age of three months were more than 20 times more likely to have been diagnosed with asthma.

Simon Stevens, pictured, wants fire crews to pick up on possible warning signs when they carry out routine safety checks on elderly people's homes. These could include the oven being left on.

A woman who falsely claimed Leon Brittan raped her in 1967 is a veteran Labour activist with mental health problems who had earlier wrongly branded a close relative a paedophile.

New diesel cars from manufacturers including Renault, Nissan, Hyundai, Citroen, Fiat, Volvo allegedly produce more emissions when tested in realistic driving conditions.

The insects - known as crane flies - are emerging earlier than usual and experts predict 'bumper' numbers will begin invading British homes over coming weeks as they shelter from the cold.

Tests on 274 sugar-sweetened soft drinks found some had more than double the sugar content of their equivalents in other countries. Sprite in Thailand had the most sugar with 12 teaspoons.

The Shadow Cabinet descended into open war over Trident yesterday after Jeremy Corbyn vowed he would never push the nuclear button if he became prime minister.

Mass immigration is 'nothing but a plus' for Britain, Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday as he opened up a fresh split with his own MPs, including Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham.

Charlotte Bevan, 30, vanished from St Michael's Hospital in Bristol with her four-day-old daughter Zaani Tiana Bevan Malbrouck on December 2 last year.

Two weeks after the election of the hard-left new leader, a survey has found that 54 per cent believe the Tory leader would make a better premier than his Labour counterpart.

Michelle Thomson's, pictured, short political career appeared to be in ruins last night as she stood down as the SNP's business spokesman, and she has withdrawn from the whip at Westminster.

The rules have been rewritten after the latest 'cash-for-access' scandal involving Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who were filmed offering to use their influence to help a fake Chinese company.

Evelyn Celgy, pictured, was killed outside Nottingham's Capital FM Arena. At the inquest into her death coroner Mairin Casey described it as 'one of the most tragic cases' she'd ever seen.

The platform at Ealing Broadway station (pictured) was packed with people when Celise McLean, 36, and her 17-year-old daughter Leia died in a double suicide on June 23 this year.

Cassie Edwards, 27, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, believes getting a copper IUD coil fitted following the birth of her second child is to blame for her 'whale-like' figure.

Erin Morgan, 15, spent two weeks in the high dependency unit at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, after suffering her first fit, three days after she had the cervical cancer jab at school.

EXCLUSIVE: Jack Wells, 23, from London, was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer which is now incurable as it has spread to his lungs, spine and arm.

Carla Whitlock, 37, suffered life-changing injuries when acid was thrown in her face outside a city centre restaurant in Southampton on Friday, September 18.

Tony Comerford, 42, is accused of stabbing his 16-year-old stepdaughter Leah Jeffries before starting a blaze at the family's £96,000 terraced house in Kitts Green, Birmingham.

Father-of-seven Simon Boam, 50, of High Legh, Cheshire, set up the charity appeal in 2010 so his daughter, could have treatment in America but instead stole the £25,000 of donated money

Dr Peter Barnett, 44, spent more than two and a half years cheating the system before being caught travelling from his home in an Oxfordshire market town to London's Marylebone station.

Sebastiano Magnanini, from Venice, was found tied to a shopping trolley in Regent's Canal on September 24. He had previously been investigated for links with the Italian mafia.

Former BA purser, Louise Graham, said she was 'left in pieces' after violence erupted on the flight from Heathrow as deportee, Jimmy Mubenga, was held down by G4S security guards.

Senior staff members at the Jamie's Italian restaurant chain have told their managers the tipping system - in which they must pay a 2 per cent levy from table sales on their shifts - is unfair.

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Accrington Crematorium's wall-mounted cross has been removed following growing concerns about it upsetting followers of other religions. Cllr Peter Britcliffe (pictured outside) has blasted the decision.

The rather tame exhibit of a series of ten chairs with fur coats sewn to them by German-born artist Nicole Wermers is in the running for the £25,000 art prize, being staged in Scotland for the first time.

There's no doubt there would only be one winner if these two were fighting. But the animals played for the cameras and got along, with the mouse 'scampering off' unscathed in Westport, Ireland.

This is the amazing scene after a leopard gets its head stuck in a metal pot while searching for water in a remote Indian village of Sardul Kheda in the Rajastan district of Rajsmand.

Old Thatch, a four-bed cottage in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, was home to the author when she dreamed up timeless characters like Moon-Face, Dame Washalot and the Saucepan Man.