Oregon college gunman made victims stand up and state their religion - then shot them anyway: Twenty-year-old shooter kills 13 and injures 20 in shooting spree before being shot dead by cops 

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A gunman opened fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, killing at least 13 and wounding 20 others. Scanner reports indicated the suspect is down, but the gunman's condition remains unknown at this time. Sgt. Dwes Hutson, of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, says officers responded around 10.40am local time to reports of a shooting at the Roseburg campus. The shooter is in custody - it is not known whether he is injured.

Shoreham air disaster pilot is seen for the first time since he left hospital three weeks ago as it emerges police have still not spoken to him over the fatal crash

Shoreham air disaster pilot Andy Hill is seen for the first time since he left hospital

The pilot of the Shoreham air crash (pictured right) in which 11 people died has been pictured for the first time since he left hospital three weeks ago - but police have yet to speak to him. Andy Hill (left), a former British Airways pilot, was left in a critical condition following the deadly August 22 crash and was put into an induced coma. Wearing denim and clutching a water bottle, the 51-year-old has now been photographed for the first time since his release and his return to his Hertfordshire home.

GPs paid up to £6,000 to SLASH the numbers of patients sent to hospital - including those needing urgent cancer tests

Leading doctors described the scheme as 'ethically questionable' and warned lives will be put at risk by patients being diagnosed too late. Britain has one of the lowest cancer survival rates in Europe.

Scrimping NHS chiefs tell deaf patients: 'You can't have a hearing aid - just lip read instead'

A health board in England started refusing free devices for people with 'mild' hearing problems for the first time since the NHS was formed. Experts yesterday condemned the decision.

Your early 20s really ARE your happiest years: Misery plagues middle-age as money and job worries take over (but the good news is life gets better at 65)

Happiness in life follows a U-shaped curve, tailing off in your mid-20s as money and job worries as well as children fuel concerns. But Australian experts say the good news is satisfaction increases at 65 and peaks at the age of 80.

Dalziel and Pascoe star Warren Clarke died penniless despite TV and film career spanning five decades, including a starring role in Poldark 

Probate records reveal actor Warren Clarke, who died last year at the age of 67, left a gross estate of just £13,056. After outstanding money matters were settled, this figure reduced to nil.

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Pictured: Mother-of-two drowns in 4am beach tragedy as she tries to rescue friend swept away in storm

Lisa Coggins and Tracey Aston's bodies recovered after drowning in Spain 

Lisa Coggins, 35, left, and Tracey Aston, 32, right, from Birmingham died after they were swept out to sea on the Costa Brava during the early hours of yesterday morning following an night out in Lloret de Mar, inset. The pair were reported missing shortly after 4am yesterday and searchers recovered their bodies after midday. They had been on holiday with three other friends in the town which is north of Barcelona.

Beatings by a 'sadistic' head and why the creator of Foyle's War is at war with his old school 

By any measure, Foyle's War creator Anthony Horowitz is at the top of his game. Two weeks after its launch, Trigger Mortis, his thrilling James Bond novel, sits at No 3 in the Sunday Times bestseller list .

Will Bake Off final be the most watched show of the year? Next week's grand finale set to be the biggest TV event of 2015 

Wednesday night's semi-final was seen by 10.2million viewers - 1.4million more than 2014's offering - placing it among the year's most popular programmes.

Headteacher who was accused of sexual abuse by a sacked teacher who wanted revenge has told how her 'inexcusable lies' left him devastated 

Tudur Williams, of Ysgol Ardudwy school in Harlech, North Wales, faced investigations after maths teacher Eleri Edwards posed as a girl, 13, and told ChildLine he had groped her.

Why bosses should teach us to follow, not to lead: Senior staff should encourage workers to be better at following instructions 

Professor Birgit Schyns of Durham University Business School says there are too many offices filled with people who act as if they are in charge but few who are actually doing the work.

How £37,000 is the perfect salary: Nine in ten Britons think earning more money 'isn't worth the sacrifice, responsibility and stress that comes with payrise' 

Almost two thirds even admitted they have considered taking a pay cut or demotion in order to have a richer life and improve their work-life balance. And just one in ten believes money can buy happiness.

Boss of BBC Radio 3 promises to rip up the schedule and bring back 'slow radio' after a deluge of complaints from viewers fed up of mid-concert news breaks

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Alan Davey, BBC Radio 3's controller, said he wants to give musical performances and radio plays the time they need to be played in full, rather than cutting them short to fit the timetable.

Russia's extraordinary Twitter taunts at Britain as it steps up strikes on Syria

Russia's Twitter taunts at Britain as it steps up strikes on Syria

The online clash (pictured top left) came as the White House warned that Russian involvement in Syria risked making the conflict 'indefinite' and Iranian troops began a ground offensive in support of the country's dictator president Bashar al-Assad. In a tense 24 hours, Moscow admitted it had moved nearly 2,000 marines to beef up the ground forces protecting its base at Latakia on the Syrian coast with 32 of their fighter jets. The Russian Embassy in London then taunted Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond from its official Twitter feed by sending him a photograph of one their warplanes firing a missile.

One in five 20 to 34-year-olds has moved back in with their parents in the last year because they cannot afford to rent 

One in five young adults has moved back in with their parents or grandparents in the last year, having previously lived independently, according to research into the plight of the 'clipped wing' generation.

Cheating soars in race for school places: Desperate parents lying about addresses and religion on admission forms 

Figures released today show councils are being bombarded with bogus forms from parents trying to get their children into the most sought-after schools amid a 'chronic' places shortage.

Therapist who had a 'deplorable' affair with a suicidal brain injury patient is thrown out of the profession 

Occupational therapist Hayley Gillett started the 'passionate' sexual relationship with the man after he began treatment at Waters Park House in Plymouth, Devon and kept it a secret from her bosses.

Brexit rivals at war: Ukip hit back after Lord Lawson says he won't leave anti-EU campaign to 'xenophones'

Lord Lawson, who served under Margaret Thatcher, said Tory Eurosceptics 'cannot afford to wait' for the PM to conclude negotiations on a new EU deal before launching an exit campaign.

Cow infected with mad cow disease dies on a Welsh farm in Britain's first case of the brain bug this year 

Officials are urgently working to investigate the circumstances of the case, which is the first in the country since 2013. It is thought there is no risk to human health as it had not entered the food chain.

Businessman with £5million debt after building 84 property lettings empire 'shoots himself dead' at his country manor home

Charles Cole who built an 84 property lettings empire shoots himself dead

A businessman who was left £5million in debt after building up an 84-property lettings empire is believed to have shot himself dead at his country manor (pictured right). Charles Cole (left, with his wife Iona), 50, was found by police in the grounds of the family seat ten days ago after concerns were raised for his welfare. The father of four had been saddled with the debt following a disastrous overseas property investment in 2007, but had launched an upmarket camping business from the manor house earlier this year which appeared to be successful.

Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder: Our perceptions of attractiveness are NOT hardwired but instead affected by personal experience

Harvard researchers have found that what we find attractive is mostly the result of personal experience - with even identical twins disagreeing on who is good looking.

Politicians 'ignore' small towns in the south: Author Gill Hornby says there is lack of representation for those who live away from big cities 

Gill Hornby said yesterday there is a lack of cultural representation for people quietly getting on with their lives away from the big metropolitan centres. She also bemoaned the lack of acknowledgement for people who 'run things' in their communities.

Deaf police marksman who was removed from job because he 'couldn't hear the difference between "shoot" and "don't shoot"' wins disability discrimination payout

An employment tribunal ruled that there was 'no evidence' being partially deaf in one ear had ever caused any operational issues in Bruce Shields' job as a marksman for Sussex and Surrey Police.

Operating theatres are an 'old boys' club': Leading female surgeon blasts sexist colleagues who call women doctors 'nurse' and ask them to make the tea

Jyoti Shah, a consultant urological surgeon at Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said operating theatres were a hostile environment for women to work in and called for urgent change.

Is Corbyn fit to be PM? Union boss says leader's refusal to use Trident means 'somebody else' should do job

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Sir Paul Kenny, the general secretary of the GMB, suggested 'somebody else should be given the nuclear button' if Mr Corbyn could not face up to the responsible of high office.

If Corbyn becomes Prime Minister we should all move to China, says former Labour peer Lord Sugar

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The Apprentice star and former Labour adviser warned that victory for Marxist throwback Mr Corbyn would 'shut down' business in London and the UK would be left to 'just rot'.

Former chancellor Lord Lawson set to spearhead 'quit EU' campaign after warning any reforms PM secures will be 'wafer thin'

Lord Lawson will become president of Conservatives for Britain as it prepares to join a cross-party campaign for a 'Brexit' in the EU referendum expected to be held next year.

Former MPs to be banned from working as lobbyists for six months after they leave office following tightening of rules in wake of latest 'cash-for-access' scandal

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.

Transgender model wants to become first person in Britain to be both the mother and father of the same baby... and has launched £100,000 campaign to find a surrogate

Transgender Fay Purdham wants to become the baby's mother and father

Fay Purdham (right), from Newcastle, who was born Kevin McCamley, has launched an appeal to find a surrogate mother in a bid to become the first person in Britain to be both mother and father to the same baby. The 27-year-old, whose transition cost £60,000, froze some of her sperm before she began her journey to become a woman aged 16. She now needs £100,000 to pay a surrogate mother to help fulfil her dream of having children and has launched a crowd-funding campaign. Once the baby is born, she plans to be the child's adoptive mother and biological father. Ms Purdham, a model, is currently preparing to marry her partner Chris Dodd (together left and inset), who was a childhood friend at school and who she fell in love with years later.

Schoolboy, 12, dies after falling from a rope swing over a river in north Wales 

Ethan Rainey, pictured, was playing after school on the thick piece of rope near the River Dee at Llangollen, North Wales. A doctor tried to save him but he was pronounced dead at the scene

Driver is fined after getting lost at an airport and stopping 'for seconds' to turn around in a dead-end road 

Driver Anna Turner was making her way to Robin Hood Airport, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, when she got lost on her way to the car park and drove down a dead end road in order to turn around.

Girl, 15, is left 'thinking her legs are fat' after being threatened with isolation at school because teachers said her trousers were too tight 

Chloe Boorer was embarrassed when she turned up to class at The Beacon School in Banstead, Surrey, and was handed a pair of extra-large black trousers to change into

Retired couple who enjoyed a handful of cherries together under a tree were fined £160 for littering because they threw their stones on the ground

Peter Marsh, 69, and his wife Gillian Green, 65, (pictured) had left a handful of cherry pits from the fruit they had eaten while sitting under a tree in Canterbury, Kent.

Disabled boy has to be carried into school because charity boss uses blue-badge parking bay as his own personal space - and says he can't be fined 

Keir Wallace, eight, suffers from a rare condition which can unexpectedly leave him unable to walk. But the only disabled bay outside his school in Portobello, Edinburgh, is being used by a resident.

Young family whose car burst into flames were rescued by an entertainer dressed as SPIDER-MAN 

SPIDER-MAN entertainer Tom Roche saves family from burning car

Lucy Day and Stephen Grant, right inset, were driving to hospital with their three-year-old daughter when, unknown to them, smoke began pouring out of their car, right. Luckily the real-life superhero - who was later unmasked as children's entertainer Tom Roche, left and left inset, - was driving past in full costume on the way to a party at the time.

'Kind, funny and bright' student, 17, hanged himself after being falsely accused of rape and finding it 'difficult to cope with the investigation'

Jay Cheshire was rushed to hospital after being found in Riverside Park in Southampton, Hampshire in July, but died two days later, an inquest has heard

'I was such a health freak that I missed Christmas dinner to go to the gym': Woman obsessed with 'clean eating' forced herself to only eat vegetables for a YEAR

Christine Johnson, 28, of Moore, Oklahoma, had orthorexia - an obsession with healthy eating. She lost seven stone in four years through eating 'clean' foods and exercising three times a day.

Mother fined £100 after she pulled into seafront amusement arcade's car park for 15 minutes to feed her toddler son 

Fay Riley, of Leek, Staffordshire, said it was the most expensive milk she'd ever given her son, and appealed the £60 fine from the Pleasureland car park in Morecambe, Lancashire.

Furious mother claims school breached son's human rights when they banned 11-year-old from playground for having shaved hair

Ben Anderson has to sit outside the school office at break and lunch times at Tor Bridge High in Plymouth, Devon after he had his hair cut to grade 0.5 on the sides.

Retired couple who enjoyed a handful of cherries together under a tree were fined £160 for littering because they threw their stones on the ground

Peter Marsh, 69, and his wife Gillian Green, 65, (pictured) had left a handful of cherry pits from the fruit they had eaten while sitting under a tree in Canterbury, Kent.

What shall we do with the drunken tailor? Savile Row entrepreneur punched a stranger in the face after the man asked him for directions 

Savile Row tailor James Beckett-Dunn punched a stranger in the face

James Beckett-Dunn, 29, launched the unprovoked attack on Ghali El Jalil Hamoudi in Sloan Square, Chelsea. Beckett-Dunn had been drinking heavily at the time of the attack on September 1. He had also been on 29 different prescription drugs to treat mental health problems and cancer, Hammersmith Magistrates' Court heard.

Teenager with Asperger's syndrome is convicted of murder after strangling 18-year-old girl so he could have sex with her 

Jason Conroy, 19, pictured, who has Asperger's syndrome, attacked Melissa Mathieson at the Alexandra House residential home in Bristol where they both lived.

Burglar who 'tried to kill' his girlfriend by driving their car into a house then put the vehicle's keys in her hand when he failed is jailed

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Peter O'Neill, 22, has been jailed for four years in Teesside after driving his girlfriend's car into a house in Darlington, North Yorkshire. and telling her that he was 'going to kill them both'.

Racist black cab passenger launches foul-mouthed tirade before climbing out of window to avoid fare - then SPITS at driver

The smartly-dressed passenger, who apparently lives in Fulham, south west London, began abusing the driver as they drove along the King's Road, Chelsea.

Carers 'persuaded seriously ill pensioner, 76, to FAKE home visits so they could still get paid even when they didn't turn up'

Pam Wheeler, 76, of Mullion Cornwall, went along with the scam as she said she sympathised with the workers for being 'overstretched.' But the alleged deceit was rumbled by her daughter.

'You're on my beheading list': How baby-faced British terrorist, 14, threatened his teacher before plotting from his parents' home to kill police at Anzac Day parade in Australia

Manchester Crown Court heard the terror attack in Melbourne, Australia being planned by the boy would 'in all probability' have resulted in a number of deaths if it was not thwarted.

Niece promised dying uncle she'd look after his widow then plundered tens of thousands from her 101-year-old poppy seller aunt - and even stole her sofa 

Jean Kelly (pictured) raided Laura Judge's bank account constantly over a six year period, plundering as much as £45,000 as the frail pensioner lived in a dilapidated house in Normanton, Wakefield.

Jilted boyfriend stabbed pregnant ex and punched and kicked her in the stomach in attempt to kill his own unborn daughter - and screamed that he would 'get the baby out of her' 

Samuel Easterbrook flew into a rage after Kira Brooks, 32, of Dawlish, Devon, ended their year-long relationship. He poured bleach over her clothes before launching his frenzied attack.

Amateur footballer is jailed for a year after deliberately breaking opponent's leg with a two-footed horror tackle in revenge for foul on a teammate

Father-of-one Nathaniel Kerr, 27, was playing for a pub team in Longsight, Manchester, when he launched the 'serious assault' on Stuart Parsons just two minutes into the first game of the season.

I'm tired of people knowing who I am - and thinking I'm a big joke, says Ronnie Pickering as road-rage ranter's son insists he's a 'great guy' 

Ronnie Pickering (pictured) from Bransholme, Hull, is famous for a bizarre road rant in which he asked a biker if he knew who he was. Now everyone knows him, he wishes no-one did.

Twenty residents evacuated and dozens more stranded after 66-foot sinkhole opens up in suburban cul-de-sac - and they don't know when they'll be able to go home

St Albans sinkhole opens up in suburban cul-de-sac

The gaping hole (pictured bottom and top right) was discovered early this morning in Fontmell Close in the Roman town of St Albans, after spreading across the quiet cul-de-sac and eating into two residents' front gardens (pictured left). Now the six families forced to take temporary shelter have been warned they might never be able to return home, amid fears the ground - which was apparently a former rubbish dump - is unsafe. The devastating news came as more than 50 homes - including properties in neighbouring streets - were left without gas, water and electricity. There is currently no access to and from the road, unless marooned residents clamber through their neighbours' gardens. Speaking this afternoon, amid claims that the hole was continuing to grow, Richard Thake, from Herts Couty Council, said it was too early to say 'when or if' the evacuated residents would be allowed to return home. Although only a handful of properties have been evacuated, several other families have been advised to leave their homes - but will not be able to claim accommodation costs on insurance unless their property is actually damaged.

Australia's ousted PM admits knighting Prince Philip was a mistake - but refuses to reveal whether the Queen had asked him to award the honour 

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (L) presents Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (C) with the Insignia of a Knight of the Order of Australia at Windsor Castle, on April 22, 2015 ©John Stillwell (POOL/AFP/File)

Former Australian Prime MInister Tony Abbott admitted that his award of a knighthood to the Duke of Edinburgh, centre, in January was 'injudicious' but refused to say whether the Queen asked him for the favour.

Totally nuts! £37,000 art project that aimed to capture the sound of beechnuts falling from a 100-year-old tree is scuppered as the tree they chose had no fruit 

The project cost the taxpayer £37,000 to record the sound of nuts falling from this tree in Bristol. However, organisers had to change the plan to record other sounds after realising there was no fruit.

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Town in the Scottish Highlands is both the coldest and hottest place in the UK - in a single day 

Aviemore woke up to temperatures of 1C on Wednesday morning, with the mountain village shrouded in mist. But by lunchtime it had reached 21C - hotter than Rome and Paris.

Volkswagen pulls 4,000 new vehicles from its British showrooms over diesel emissions cheating scandal

The vehicles contain the EA 189 engines which are fitted with software that was used to con emissions testers in the US. VW said this equates to 3 per cent of new vehicle stock.

'Back in the truck, they've dropped us in Barry': Mayor apologises over 'extremely offensive' Facebook 'joke' about migrants arriving in his own town

Vale of Glamorgan's Labour mayor Fred Johnson (pictured) shared an image of desperate migrants as well as other jokes mocking refugees on his own page on the social network.

Prima facial evidence! Judges can't resist a selfie as they hold the annual Westminster Abbey service to mark the new legal year

Judges take a selfies as they hold the annual Westminster Abbey service

It is the traditional start of the legal new year where 700 members of the judiciary and their guests take a brisk two-mile walk from Temple Bar to Westminster Abbey for a prayer service which dates from the Middle Ages. The 45-minute ceremony is conducted by the Dean of Westminster and includes prayers, hymns, psalms and concludes with the national anthem.

Britain kicks the habit: Another fall in smoking with under-25s now amongst the least likely to light up

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As the ban on smoking in cars carrying children comes into force, new figures show how the proportion of adults who say they are smokers has dropped to just 18.3 per cent.

Keep your children inside! Warning after Helga the seven-foot bald eagle that could snatch a toddler goes missing from bird sanctuary 

Helga went missing from the Raptor Centre in Kent on Tuesday afternoon. The massive bird, who has an incredible 7ft wingspan and three-inch-long razor-sharp talons, flew off after finishing a demonstration.

It's an even bigger jungle out there: Aerial photographs show the Calais migrant camp has rapidly increased in size in just three months as the number of people living there hits 4,000 

Calais migrant camp has rapidly increased to 4,000 refugees in just 3 months

The Calais migrant camp known as 'the Jungle' (pictured) has grown by around 1,000 since June (inset) and tripled since September 2014, when only 1,300 refugees and migrants set up tents on the former landfill site. It is now home to more than 4,000. The once-desert area, which was home to just 800 in 2009, has been transformed into a small town with its own mosques, shops that sell food and cigarettes, restaurants and even a bicycle repair workshop. Migrants from 'the Jungle' began sneaking onto trucks and lorries crossing the English Channel in July but when security was stepped up, hundreds stormed the underwater tunnel every night to walk the 31 miles to their so-called promised land.

Where there's a wheel, there's a way: Migrant squashes himself inside a car's spare wheel well to get into Spain 

This is the moment that Spanish police discovered a desperate Moroccan migrant crammed inside the spare wheel well of a car after noticing that the woman driver appeared nervous.

'Trapped in solitary confinement and immensely stressed': Borneo's sad sun bears caged for tourists' entertainment

Borneo's trapped sun bears are being held in solitary confinement in tiny cages that are too small for them at The Tawau Hot Springs Recreational Park, in Sabah. Now rescuers are trying to set them free.

'Witch doctor' decapitates four-year-old boy in a bid to earn 'divine powers' from a Hindu goddess before villagers catch him and set him on fire in India 

The witch doctor has been accused of beheading four-year-old Manu Sagar in Pokur, southern India, and then offering him up as a sacrifice to the Hindu goddess Kali in order to achieve power and wealth.

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TOM UTLEY: Now my adult son's moved back home, should I charge him £500 a month to live under the stairs?

After the extraordinary story of the 'cupboard under the stairs' room (pictured) advertised for £500-a-month, TOM UTLEY asks: Should parents charge rent to their own grown-up children?

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Patients could pay the ultimate price as GPs are offered £6,000 to refer FEWER people to hospital

GPs are being offered incentives of up to £6,000 to refer fewer patients to hospital, including those who may require urgent cancer tests to reduce the number of appointments (file photo)