Was the horrific slow death of Doctor Who assistant Clara 'too traumatic' for family viewing? Fan fury at character's exit

Was the slow death of Doctor Who assistant Clara 'too emotional' for family viewing?

SPOILER ALERT: Fans took to Twitter to express their highly emotional reactions to the death of the Doctor's companion Clara Oswald, played by Jenna Coleman, on Saturday night's episode. Concerns had been raised that Doctor Who's 8.10pm broadcast time wasn't suitable for the episode's dark content. However, screenwriter Stephen Moffat has defended the episode, saying that many children experience loss in their lives and do not learn about the realities of death from Doctor Who.

Caught on camera: Terrifying moment guests ran for their lives inside Mali hotel where terrorists massacred 19 people

Terrifying moment guests ran for their lives inside Mali hotel where terrorists killed 19

Dramatic footage shows guests sprinting away from the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali, accompanied by heavily armed guards. Malian troops are filmed running back into the building and emerging with more hostages while armed police use a fire escape to access the upper floors of the building. Separate video shows scenes of disarray inside the Mali hotel where 19 people including a US aid worker were murdered by Jihadi terrorists.

Fugitive Paris jihadi went to gay bars where staff thought he was a 'rent boy', took drugs and was hooked on PlayStation

Salah Abdeslam (pictured), 26, who has been on the run since last Friday's terror attacks in Paris, is said to have smoked, drank and flirted with men in gay bars in Brussels' trendy Saint Jacques quarter.

Brussels is in lock down for a second day as police and troops take to the streets hunting for suspects over the Paris terror attack

Belgian officials are meeting in the capital city today to decide whether the extend the security alert which has turned Brussels (pictured) into a ghost town in the wake of the Paris attacks.

'Are you Churchill or Chamberlain?' MPs warned not to 'appease' ISIS as Osborne says vote against airstrikes would be a propaganda coup for fanatics

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The Chancellor said Britain could not rely on other countries to take on terrorists posing a direct threat to our national security as he pushed for MPs to authorise missile strikes in Syria.

Diesel the police dog was just months from retirement: Devastated handler speaks for first time since Belgian shepherd was killed by terrorists in siege of Saint Denis

Diesel, a seven-year-old Belgian shepherd, was killed in the raid on the apartment block in Saint-Denis, where Paris terror attacks mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud was hiding out.

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Six British men driving three old ambulances are arrested in Belgium after they are seen near an Esso petrol station used by fugitive terrorist Salah Abdeslam 

Six British men arrested in Belgium amid 'imminent' terror threat

Six Pakistani born British men were arrested in Belgium after being spotted in three 'old ambulances' near a petrol station used by fugitive terrorist, Abdeslam Salah, it was reported. Armed police in six armoured trucks screamed at the men to get out of the ambulances which were parked at the Esso petrol station in Bierges, 20 miles from the capital Brussels (bottom left and right). They found clothes, food and money inside the vehicles, raising fears they may have been trying to get to Syria. The capital city has been locked down and flooded with armed police and tanks over fears of an 'imminent' terror attack. Salah, Europe's most wanted man, has been on the run since he took part in the slaughter of 130 in Paris last Friday.

Just 17% of people think Corbyn will keep them safe in the wake of Labour leader's disastrous response to Paris attacks

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It follows a disastrous week in which he said he was 'not happy' about police 'shoot to kill' orders questioned the legality of killing Jihadi John and vowed to oppose British airstrikes in Syria.

'I doubted God after the Paris attacks': The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby says he was left asking why when the militant jihadis struck

Asked if the Paris terrorist attacks had caused him to doubt where God was, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said: 'Oh gosh, yes,' and admitted it put a 'chink in his armour'.

'We are not afraid': President Obama says the world must not succumb to fear of terror and insists he will wipe out ISIS

Speaking in Kuala Lumpur, Obama called for resolve in the face of heightened threats from jihadists, adding that the most powerful tool to fight terrorists is to show that 'we are not afraid'.

Ready for action: France boosts its operations in the eastern Mediterranean as it steps up its bombing campaign against ISIS after the Paris terror attacks

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France's defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle sent to help operations against ISIS in Syria will be 'operational' from Monday and 'ready to act.'

Terrorist recruiters are becoming Fagins teaching 'troubled teenagers' how to pick pocket 'non-believers' to help raise funds for ISIS

Police are said to be probing radical clerics (file photo of police in Brussels) who are brainwashing children into robbing 'non believers' in busy areas including the Brussels Eurostar station

Mastermind of Paris terror attacks was linked to at least six UK hate preachers including 'Tottenham Ayatollah' Omar Bakri Muhammad

Paris terror mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud (pictured) was said to have ties to banned Islamist group Sharia4Belgium, which recruited UK based fanatics to help promote sharia law in Belgium

Is this Britain's luckiest couple? Holidaymakers avoid getting caught up in Tunisian massacre AND Sharm bomb thanks to flight delays

Couple avoid getting caught up in Tunisian massacre and Sharm bomb

Lewis Gaskin and Jemma Goddard, from Aldershot in Hampshire, booked holidays which coincided with both disasters - as well as the Greek banking crisis - but avoided getting involved thanks to a series of flight delays. They have now decided to give up on trips abroad after getting into so many near-misses over the past six months.

Delivery driver who hid the fact he was diabetic from his employers at Currys PC World killed a cyclist when he blacked out at the wheel during a hypoglycaemic attack 

Fred Sygrove, 24, from Hampshire, (pictured) was jailed after admitting killing cyclist David Badcock when he suffered a hypoglycaemic attack while driving the Currys PC World van.

Yvonne Fletcher murder suspect is a former Gaddafi loyalist who claimed asylum in the UK in 2000 after the Libyan leader was deposed 

Dr Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk was outside the Libyan embassy in London in April 1984 when the 25-year-old officer was shot dead.

Police are appealing for help to trace a missing schoolgirl, 12, who has not been seen since she vanished from Milton Keynes

Fears are growing over the safety of a missing 12-year-old girl who was last seen yesterday evening. Miah Green was last spotted in Stantonbury, Milton Keynes, at 5.15pm.

Family pay tribute to son, 20, who was killed by his bandmate who stabbed him 32 times while high on psychedelic drug called Mr Happy

Samuel Donley, 20, knifed Liam Miller (pictured) 32 times and then attacked an innocent passer-by after experimenting with a hallucinogenic drug - called Mr Happy - in July in York.

Muslim scholar who posted YouTube speech condemning Paris atrocities reveals he has received death threats from British-born children who support ISIS

EXCLUSIVE: Mufassil Islam, who has lived in Britain on and off for more than 22 years, received death threats after he spoke out following the terrorist attacks in Paris left 130 people dead.

Beware the BFF mothers: Headteacher warns that mollycoddling mums who are best friends with their daughters could make them LESS able to cope with adult life

Jenny Brown, headteacher of £15,450-a-year St Albans High School for Girls, in Hertfordshire, said teenage girls who see their mother as their best friend are anxiety-prone and less resourceful.

Sainsbury's accused of 'letting down children' as stores run out of £10 Mog the cat toys just over a week after Christmas advert first aired

Sales of the popular moggy, who features in the Sainsbury's Christmas advert, have left chiefs struggling to keep up with demand - with some people selling the toy for £35 online.

Toys R Us ditches 'girls' and 'boys' categories online as retailers selling to children come under increasing pressure to go gender neutral

Retail giant Toys R Us have stopped categorising toys by gender on their website, amid pressure from campaigners who say it puts girls off science toys and makes boys feel they can't play with dolls.

Small Swiss bank becomes first to hit savers with negative interest rates - CHARGING them to take their money

Alternative Bank Schweiz told customers they face a -0.125 per cent rate on their money from 2016 - and a -0.75 per cent rate on deposits above 100,000 Swiss francs.

'It's a nightmare come true. I was petrified - that's my life now': Mother's agony after reading 11-year-old son's note describing how he is being bulled at new school

Hull mother is heartbroken to read note on bullies by son, 11

When Kerry Mustafa (pictured), from Hull, East Yorkshire, asked son Ali Junior to write down how he felt about problems she suspected he was having at school, but it was much worse than she imagined. Ali Junior - known as AJ - wrote about being 'petrified' and says his new school was 'a nightmare come true,' in the note (inset), which broke his mother's heart. He also wrote that the racist abuse he suffered made him feel 'sick', as he described how pupils at his new school had threatened to fight him on Facebook.

Brace yourself for council tax hikes: Town halls to be allowed to increase bills to pay for elderly care

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Chancellor George Osborne is expected to announce this week that he will allow councils to raise the levy by up to 2 per cent to cover shortfalls in social care for their residents.

Why classes won't prevent rape: Student who sparked fury over consent workshops says bad parents, poor schools and online porn are to blame for sexual assault

Warwick University student, George Lawlor, 19, from Rugby, wrote the controversial 'this is not what a rapist looks like' article last month, and now he has penned a follow-up piece for FEMAIL.

England star Steven Gerrard is 'captured on camera throwing a punch' during a street brawl despite previously telling a court he was 'trying to defuse the situation'

New footage has emerged that appears to show Steven Gerrard throwing a punch and throwing him against a wall in Formby, near Liverpool, despite claims to the contrary he made in court.

Rise in pensioner income outstrips younger generations' earnings as it soars 170% over two decades

Rising state benefits and private pensions have offset the drag effect of low interest rates to create a massive boost to the income of retirees.

Parents grieving the death of their disabled daughter have been asked to pay back a £10,000 council grant they used to modify their house

Garry and Susan Unsworth, from Runcorn in Cheshire, have been asked to pay back a £10,000 council grant they used to modify their house for their disabled daughter, Suzie.

Holidaymakers' fury after Monarch Airlines flight from Tenerife to Birmingham was delayed for 38 HOURS over hydraulic leak

Angry passengers claimed they didn't receive timely information and the help was 'badly organised' when the sudden flight cancellation forced some of them to lose a day's work.

Tory minister claimed thousands of pounds on expenses to stay at the exclusive London club where he met his mistress

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Cabinet Minister Robert Halfon, 46, claimed for stays at the East India Club where he had secret trysts for six months with Alexandra Paterson behind his long-term partner's back.

How much is YOUR child worth? Overhaul of school funding which means some pupils get £3,000 more

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A new formula will be introduced in England from 2017-18 to close 'arbitrary and unfair' gaps between areas, the Chancellor will announce this week.

'You don't put diesel in a Ferrari!': MP who stripped off for shower advert reveals the reason he has never taken drugs

Conservative MP Johnny Mercer, who stripped off for a Dove shower advert, has said the reason he has never taken drugs is because 'you don't put diesel in a Ferrari'.

Former Blue Peter presenter John Leslie is questioned by police over 'sex attack' claim by 22-year-old woman

John Leslie is questioned by police over 'sex attack' claim by 22-year-old woman

Former Blue Peter presenter John Leslie (right) has been questioned by police in connection with an alleged assault of a young woman at a radio station's awards ceremony in Edinburgh. Officers yesterday swooped on Leslie's £500,000 Edinburgh home (left) following claims by a 22-year-old that she was assaulted hours after last Thursday's event finished. Just last month the 50-year-old spoke of how his life came crashing down when rape allegations ruined his career. Edinburgh-born Leslie was presenting ITV's This Morning when broadcaster Matthew Wright accidentally identified him as an unnamed 'acquaintance' who Ulrika Jonnson claimed had raped her in her autobiography. Inset: John Leslie outside court in 2003, with his then-girlfriend Abi Titmuss.

Revealed: British couple among New Zealand helicopter crash victims were celebrating their 50th birthdays in 'trip of a lifetime' 

Two of the British victims from the helicopter crash in New Zealand were a couple celebrating their 50th birthdays as part of a 'trip of a lifetime'.

Scorned wife takes the ultimate revenge on her cheating husband by selling their house while he is on holiday in New York

Laura Arnolds, 42, found steamy messages to her husband Craig, 44, on his phone from another woman. When he jetted off to New York for business, she sold the marital home and packed her bags.

Poundworld is fined £70,000 for selling £1 'High Vis' jackets with the logo 'be safe, be seen' that were not actually reflective 

Poundworld sold 95,700 of the Chinese-made £1 vests (pictured) but tests carried out on one of the jackets revealed its 'reflectivity' was no more than 2.4 per cent of what it should have been.

Women who are thinking about delaying their family can now take a £65 fertility test to check their egg count

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The £65 test, offered by a New York fertility clinic, screens women aged 18-35 for future risk of developing Premature ovarian aging (POA), a condition which affects one in ten women.

The midlife crisis is real: Happiness DOES go downhill in adulthood and is lowest for people in their early 40s who are weighed down by 'burdens of life'

According to a study of 50,000 people, adults between 40 and 42 are at their most miserable as they care for children, elderly parents and work long hours but happiness improves for the over-60s.

How I became a secret-eating mummy: Mother says sheer stress of eating healthily with the kids makes her hide crisps in the bread bin and stash chocs in her bathroom

Mother-of-three Georgina Fuller, 37, from Warwickshire, says a new breed of mums only eat organic with their children but snack sneakily on junk food when their brood aren't looking.

The selfie-loving sisters who've been sent £75,000 of designer goods from complete strangers... just for posting photos of themselves online

Sisters say they've been lavished with £75,000 of gifts from STRANGERS

Lucy, 28, Sophie, 26 and Stacie Brooks, 25, from St Albans, get so much attention from fans online that they direct them to a 'wish list' so admirers can buy the trio expensive gifts of their choice. They began getting recognised online in 2010 when mum-of-one Lucy posted a selfie that prompted a man to send her a bottle of designer perfume.

Prostituted at 12 by my mother... to Morris Minor icon Lord Nuffield: He was a titan of British philanthropy who founded an Oxford college. Now his victim - after a lifetime of silence - reveals her shattering police testimony 

Ann Vaughan, now 79, has bravely agreed to waive her right to anonymity to reveal how Lord Nuffield assaulted her for a decade following a chance meeting when she was 12.

Duncan Bannatyne forged evidence to hide £10m from his wife in divorce case - and faces police probe when he returns from jungle

EXCLUSIVE: The outspoken millionaire, who is currently in the Australian Outback on ITV's I'm A Celebrity Get Me out Of Here, may now face a police investigation when he returns.

The sex tape that shames the Conservative party: How the 'Tatler Tory' used vile revenge porn to humiliate political opponent 

Mark Clarke tried to leak to the media the film in which one of his Conservative foes was duped into performing a sex act on the internet. The 'victim' previously refused to pay a £2,500 blackmail demand.

Parents are warned not to leave their babies strapped into car seats while they sleep after figures reveal 31 babies have either suffocated or been strangled

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A study by experts at Penn State Medical Centre, Pennsylvania, of children under two who had died while sitting in a car seat, found that 31 had either suffocated or been strangled by seat straps.

Janis Joplin was haunted by self doubt, addicted to amphetamines and never recovered from being teased at school, according to a new film based on her journals

Rock's leading lady (pictured) was famous for her carefree attitude but she was also damaged from being bullied at school for her short skirts and dyed hair, and suffered from body dysmorphia.

Winter wonderland comes five weeks early: Britain wakes up to snowy scenes after the coldest November night for five years - and tonight will be just as chilly 

UK weather sees temperatures plunge to -5C bringing more snow, ice and freezing fog 

The Met Office said the cold temperatures would continue today and a yellow weather warning was in place for Scotland and North East England. A fresh flurry of snow came down in Cumbria (top right) and children made the most of the winter weather. Rain is expected to turn to ice, as snow continues to fall on higher grounds in coming days (bottom right). Temperatures dropped as low as -6C in some places over night. Billy Payne, a forecaster with MeteoGroup, said temperatures will struggle up slightly today but warned there is another chilly night ahead. Showers are expected to push south before becoming confined to the north east of England this afternoon, he said, adding: 'It's still a bit wintry in the hills but any snow which comes down will be short-lived.'

'Don't try this at home! Woman took advice she saw on Facebook to cook cheese on toast in her toaster and set fire to her whole kitchen 

Huge flames started shooting out of Suzaane Dale's toaster when she turned it on its side to cook cheese on toast in her home in Manchester. It took firefighters 20 minutes to put out the blaze.

Not much of a looker, eh Mr Inverdale? Transformed tennis star Marion Bartoli issues rebuke to BBC commentator after dropping two and a half stone 

BBC commentator John Inverdale sparked a huge sexism row when he said tennis star Marion Bartoli was 'never going to be a looker'. But the Wimbledon champion has undergone a dramatic transformation.

Can £10 champagne really sparkle? Our corking critic tests out a range of fizz to find out which supermarket has the best bubbly

Mail on Sunday wine critic Olly Smith has been blind testing the best of the supermarkets offerings under £20 - discovering some fall flat, while others are worth stocking up on this December.

In a class of his own: Ten-year-old dubbed 'the loneliest boy in Britain' is the ONLY pupil in his Scottish island school 

While many parents in the UK worry about growing class sizes, at Skerries Community School, on the tiny Scottish island of Out Skerries, Aron (pictured) gets the undivided attention of his teacher.

Archbishop Welby's fury at cinema ban on 'offensive' Lord's prayer: Church threaten to sue after plug pulled on advert

Odeon, Cineworld and Vue have refused to show the film the Church of England planned to run in cinemas across the UK before the new Star Wars blockbuster, which opens a week before Christmas.

Kids Company boss Camila Batmanghelidjh admits she cheated to get into a top school when her mother took an exam for her 

Camila Batmanghelidjh got into Sherborne School for Girls, in Dorset, after letting her mother take the exam for her. She justified the decision by saying she 'would never have passed it myself'.

The real-life Flintstones house: Holiday home is carved between four granite boulders and comes with a swimming pool and bulletproof windows (but there's no electricity)

Flintstones house Casa do Penedo lures tourists to Portugal's Fafe Mountains

Known as Casa do Penedo, or House of Stone, this bizarre dwelling in northern Portugal's Fafe Mountains has become a growing tourist attraction. Once used as a holiday home by a family, it has been transformed into a museum with local relics and photos on display. The 16.5-ft tall house is nestled within four granite boulders, and a swimming pool carved into one of the large rocks.

Critics threaten a boycott of Zoolander over Benedict Cumberbatch's 'cartoonish' transgender character and say it is the 'modern equivalent of blackface'

Cumberbatch plays androgynous model 'All' in the film. Ben Stiller's Zoolander asks if All is a 'male or female' and Owen Wilson's Hansel then asks the model 'do you have a hot dog or a bun?'

This is your captain... dancing! Leaked footage shows pilots busting a move to Bollywood pop song in cockpit

Leaked footage that has gone viral on the internet shows Pakistan International Airlines pilots dancing in the cockpit to the hit song Afghan Jalebi, from the action film Phantom.

I had those 16 ducklings in the back of my cab! Mother duck lets her babies hitch a 'taxi ride' on her back across the park pond

Mark Chimes, 49, captured the image in Queen's Park Heywood, near Rochdale, Lancashire, and realised that six were actually on their mother's back while the others tagged along behind.

Are these the remains of the last tsar's son? Bone fragments locked in a safe in state archive are not buried because the church wants more evidence 

A probe is being launched to determine whether the remains can be laid to rest next to the other members of Russia's last royal family, interred back in 1998 in their former capital Saint Petersburg.

Skull reveals the real Winnie the Pooh had tooth decay because Christopher Robin gave her too much HONEY

The author was influenced by a Canadian black bear called Winnipeg, who was loved and fed honey by his son, the real-life Christopher Robin, at London Zoo.

Fitting farewell to a rugby giant: Hundreds gather for public memorial remembering New Zealand legend Jonah Lomu

Hundreds gather for public memorial service for All Blacks Jonah Lomu

Hundreds of mourners filled a church for the emotional public memorial for rugby great Jonah Lomu on Sunday evening. Tongan leaders, community members and friends and family - including his mother Hepi Lomu (inset) - gathered at the Lotofalei'a Tongan Methodist Church in Auckland, New Zealand, to celebrate the life of the All Black hero, who died overnight on Tuesday after a cardiac arrest.

Critics of Europe's open borders are 'exploiting the suffering of Paris', says Juncker in vow to save Schengen Zone

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Terrorists were able to sneak into Europe posing as Syrian refugees but the European Commission president said he would fight to stop countries putting back up the walls of Europe.

How Afghans who want to move to Europe are buying forged Taliban threat letters to pretend their lives are in danger

This Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 photo shows a forged letter written in Pashto, in Dand district, Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan. Threatening letters from the Taliban, once tantamount to a death sentence, are now being forged and sold to Afghans who want to start a new life in Europe. Recently the Taliban say they have mostly ceased the practice, while those selling forged threat letters are doing a brisk business as tens of thousands of Afghans flee to Europe, hoping to claim asylum. (AP Photo)

The Taliban say they have mostly ceased the practice, while those selling forged threat letters are doing a brisk business as tens of thousands of Afghans flee to Europe, hoping to claim asylum.

At least 100 die in landslide near jade mine in Myanmar as rescuers dig through rubble in desperate search for survivors

Nearly 100 bodies have been pulled from a landslide near a jade mine in Myanmar's northern Kachin State as rescuers desperately search for 100 people who are still missing.

Indian doctor takes husband to court after he 'tricked her into revealing the sex of their unborn girl twins then pressured her to abort them'

Mitu Khurana, a doctor living in Jaipur, India, claims her husband secretly asked doctors to take an ultra-sound of her babies while she was in hospital with a stomach complaint in 2004.

US newspaper reporter sentenced to prison by Iranian regime after being found guilty of spying

The Washington Post's Tehran bureau chief, who has both U.S. and Iranian citizenship, was convicted on October 11. He was given 20 days to appeal and has now been sentenced.

PETER HITCHENS: Cameron has guns, bombs and a plane - and not one good idea

So far there is little sign of serious thought about the Paris atrocities. We are to have more spooks, though spooks failed to see it coming, and new ones will be no more clairvoyant, writes PETER HITCHENS.

RACHEL JOHNSON: Sex once a week? Where DO they find the time?  

A third of British couples can't remember the last time they had sex. It gave fresh hope to all sex-slackers, to all exhausted parents for whom sex is low priority, that they were not alone.