Nick Gargan resignation was accepted by police and crime commissioner Sue Mountstevens with immediate effect. He leaves with a £45,000 pay-off, just 17 months after he was suspended.

The Met decided to press ahead with the case against Lord Brittan in November - just two months before he died - despite concluding 'there was not a strong case' against him.

Vaughan Dodds, 45, a former officer with Durham Police, claimed he had been left house bound by his ME, and said he could only manage to walk for five minutes without being in severe discomfort.

The cost of having a car repaired is forcing many drivers to go without their vehicles, though some are putting themselves and other motorists at risk by driving cars they know are not roadworthy.

An RAF war hero will be laid to rest 70 years after he lost his life behind Nazi lines. Flight engineer George Smith, 25, from Banffshire, died when his Lancaster Bomber was shot in the Battle of Berlin.

The comedian, who now lives on the Costa del Sol in Spain, faced financial ruin after losing a High Court court case against Karin Ward who claimed he groped her when she was 15.

According to new research, 82% of Brits are put off solely due to terrible B&B; photography, admitting that photos are one of their top three criteria when deciding where to spend the night.

Luke MacWilliam heard a noise in his ground-floor room at the house he shares in Ealing London. He watched on as a fox jumped on his bed and also urinated in the middle of it.

The Mall, leading from the Queen's official home to Trafalgar Square, was decked out with the flags of China and the UK in honour of Xi Jinping, who will be hosted by Her Majesty next week.

Bill Leech, 73, a grandfather-of-two, was stunned when he was reunited with a wallet he lost as a student in a French bar 55 years ago.

Some 21 Labour MPs refused to vote against the Chancellor's controversial 'fiscal charter' - forcing governments to spend less than they raise in taxes - in the Commons on Wednesday.

Georgia Clarke, 19, Dawn Cooper, 34, and Michael Smith, 19, who are all from Wallasey, Merseyside, will appear at Wirral Magistrates' Court following the 34-year-old's death last week.

Jeremy Clarkson will feature in a new Top Gear Greatest Hits DVD to be released this Christmas, but won't see any of the profit it makes after signing over all rights to the BBC in 2012.

EU officials yesterday reached a provisional agreement with the Turkish government that could offer up to 3billion euros (£2.2bn) of funding to help the country cope with the migrant crisis.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) - which was set up last July under New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard (pictured) - has apologised for the embarrassing blunder

Believed to be from Newcastle, the man named Geoff swears at his friends while attempting in vain to remove the egg from the top of his head.

When Clayton Cross fell over in the school playground and gashed his head, medics at Barnsley Hospital in South Yorkshire decided to glue the cut together.

Amber Worth, 26, from Hull, was told she would never have a natural birth after being diagnosed with polycystic ovaries at the age of 19. Baby Luca was born last year.

The 1960 Ferrari 250 GT that sold for £6.6m at a charity auction was far from museum ready - 100,000 miles on the clock, blemished paint and leaking oil are some of the signs of wear and tear.

Mr Goldsmith, alongside Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson, has been at the forefront of a controversial campaign to expose an alleged establishment cover up of child abuse.

Scottish Police yesterday revealed they want to speak to the suspects, believed to be Colonel Gaddafi's brother-in-law and his technical expert, in connection with the terror attack, which killed 270.

Vladimir Putin called Sir Elton last month after the star was tricked by two Russian comedians pretending to be the president. His politeness impressed the singer's husband David Furnish.

Australian Joe Grewal, 60, suffered chronic back pain for three decades before the life-changing implant. The pioneering treatment could help millions avoid life-long reliance on costly painkillers.

About 20 Labour MPs, including Liz Kendall and Tristram Hunt, defied Corbyn after first being told to back George Osborne's plans for a Charter for Fiscal Responsibility then ordered to vote against it.

The SNP leader told her conference in Aberdeen that she would need 'strong evidence' that Scots had changed their mind on leaving the UK before pushing for a re-run of last year's vote.

The comments came as Prince William returned to the Cambridge college of St John's to open a new archive, having completed a 12-week agriculture course there last year.

The Government plans to use Premier Li Keqiang's state visit next week to finalise a deal for billions of pounds of Chinese investment in a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point, Somerset.

Annie Ruddock, 48, pictured, met Matthew Samuels on dating site zoosk.com. He claimed to be a retired businessman with an £80million fortune but instead scammed her out of her inheritance.

Despite the discrediting of the allegations of a VIP abuse ring, the expensive Goddard Inquiry set up by Home Secretary Theresa May is still grinding ahead, at enormous expense.

Schools could be prosecuted for price-fixing by forcing parents to buy rip-off uniforms.The competition watchdog has found that sweetheart deals are forcing parents to pay too much.

Those suffering from stress took an average of 16 days off work with the condition over the past five years, researchers found - but many did not admit the real reason, preferring to feign another illness.

Lord Lucan's son and heir, George Bingham argues the document would close a mystery that started with the disappearance of his father shortly after the death of the family's nanny.

Segregation of the sexes was part of everyday life at Park View Academy in Birmingham and there was a push to 'Islamise' the school, a teaching misconduct hearing was told yesterday.

The child sex abuse public inquiry was in crisis last night after it emerged one of its key advisers tried to wreck a Tory minister's career with baseless paedophile smears.

The Civitas think-tank study said the UK could strike 'serious deals' more easily if it was free of the EU, as the size of the EU makes deals harder. But it warned that new deals would take time.

The Prime Minister this afternoon said he would accelerate the discussions as he bowed to pressure to set out a timetable for laying out his proposed reforms.

The announcement followed a damning report from the care watchdog which found that three quarters of hospitals were failing to meet key safety standards, partly due to a lack of senior nurses.

The signature of the Rebel Without A Cause star James Dean would raise £18,000 at auction, followed by martial arts legend Bruce Lee's at £11,000 and by Lord Nelson's at £10,500.

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Hunter gatherers living away from the trappings of modern life only sleep for up to seven hours a night and yet are healthier than those in western societies, experts from the University of California found.

Australian Joe Grewal, 60, suffered chronic back pain for three decades before the life-changing implant. The pioneering treatment could help millions avoid life-long reliance on costly painkillers.

Less than three months after Cecil the Lion was shot dead, a German hunter has killed a large elephant with 122 pounds tusks in a game park in Zimbabwe.

Nephew Ken Widner says he believes both John and Clarence Anglin married and had children when they reached Brazil after escaping from Alcatraz, which would prevent their extradition.