Becky's killers granted £400,000 legal aid: Couple were given money in lead up to and during seven-week trial... and bill could rise further

Becky Watts' killers granted £400,000 legal aid and bill could rise further

Nathan Matthews and Shuana Hoare were both jailed in November for the murder of 16-year-old Becky Watts, pictured, who was killed in the bedroom of her Bristol home by Matthews, 28, a year ago. He had hatched a sexually motivated plot to kidnap her with girlfriend Shauna Hoare, 21, who was later convicted of manslaughter. The couple dismembered Becky's body and hid it in a garden shed near their Bristol home. Now, figures have revealed they were granted a total of £402,249 - but more bills are due to be authorised and paid for Hoare. Matthews, a former Territorial Army soldier turned takeaway driver, was given £324,549 in legal aid in the lead-up to and during their seven-week trial, while Hoare received £77,700.

Brexit would boost pay... and that's from the former M&S; boss who wants us to STAY in Europe! 

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The new leader of the cross-party Britain Stronger in Europe campaign has claimed that leaving the EU would be a "leap in the dark" and a risk that is not worth taking. Stating that it was "not in our national interest" to retreat from our position of influence in Europe and leave the EU former M&S boss Lord Rose launched the ?in? campaign today by highlighting the financial risks that could come as a result of a British exit and warned "our economy would take a hit".
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Lord Rose, the former boss of Marks & Spencer, told MPs that the wages of low-paid workers would rise if Britain left the EU because ending the free movement would mean less competition for labour.

Badge that says breastfeeding mothers are welcome here: Starbucks becomes first chain to be granted 'parent friendly' status 

Around 800 UK branches of the coffee chain will display the 'Parent Friendly Places' badge in their windows, showing they have 'committed to ensuring a supportive environment for parents'.

How three in four office workers only ever leave their desks to go and make the tea... or visit the toilet 

The survey of 2,000 office workers by US company Plantronics revealed seven in ten workers felt spending all day at their desk was having a detrimental effect on their health.

We've run out of meningitis vaccine, clinics warn: No child over the age of one can now get the jab in Britain with some who have started treatment not fully protected 

The desperate shortage emerged as health officials refused to extend the NHS vaccination programme to toddlers and older children, rejecting a petition backed by 820,000 in the UK.

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'Say goodbye to your daughter': Judge tells shamed footballer Adam Johnson that he WILL be jailed after he is found guilty of sexually touching a 15-year-old girl who idolised him

Adam Johnson found GUILTY of sexual touching a 15-year-old girl

The former Sunderland player (pictured, inset, after his arrest and, right, today) had already admitted grooming and kissing the schoolgirl. A jury has today found him guilty of putting his hand down her trousers when she met him in his car. The 28-year-old was accompanied by his girlfriend, Stacey Flounders (left) into court this morning. The player, who was sacked by his club after his initial guilty pleas, now faces a potential jail term and is unlikely ever to play football again. The case also raises questions for Sunderland, who allowed Johnson to continue playing for them even after he told them he had groomed the girl.

Selfish, depraved... he acted as if footballers were above the law: How gifted but flawed star threw away his career - and lost WAG who stood by him 

He recently started a family with his stunning girlfriend, the glossy embodiment of WAG beauty, setting up home in the sort of £1.8million mansion fans on the Sunderland terraces could only dream about

The story of Adam Johnson's fall from grace is the ultimate football morality tale. A colliery worker's son, he rose from modest beginnings to become a Premiership and England midfielder.

Adam Johnson's schoolgirl victim insists he always knew she was just 15 - and says she feels sorry for his ex-girlfriend Stacey

In a statement read on her behalf outside Bradford Crown Court following the conviction, the girl said: 'He asked me straight away how old I was and I said 15 because I didn't see it as a problem.'

Heartbreak of party-loving ex-air hostess Stacey Flounders who supported Adam Johnson through his child sex trial even though his infidelity destroyed their relationship

Hartlepool-born Stacey Flounders revealed during the trial that she and Johnson have split up after he confessed to grooming a 15-year-old girl and having flings with a number of other women

Pictured on his wedding day with the bride he met online: The sex-obsessed father-of-three who raped five women and brutally attacked two others after meeting them on Match.com

Jason Lawrance who raped five women after meeting them on Match.com pictured

Jason Lawrance (left, on his wedding day), 50, a sex-obsessed father-of-three from Hinckley in Leicestershire, raped five of the women he met through Match.com and brutally attacked two more. Yet, in the middle of his crimes, he married another woman (left, her face obscured) he met on the same site. In court, Lawrance's defence was that the sex was consensual. He said: 'I believe it is called "playing the field"... I like ladies and I like sex. That's Match.com.' But his two-week trial at Derby Crown Court has raised disturbing questions about how the serial rapist targeted his victims online and why, when several reported his behaviour to Match, nothing was done to stop him from using the site. He used the names KeepItStraightToday and StraightManLooking (top right) to approach thousands of women on the site.

Internet dating is the 'darkest alley of them all': After company boss is convicted of raping five women he met online, a stark warning from chief of police force that caught him

Jason Lawrance, 50, from Liphook, Hampshire, used the dating site to prey on vulnerable women - but was not stopped from using match.com because there were no written messages.

Wedding venues are warned to 'play fair' over hefty deposits as couples are charged thousands of pounds for cancellations

Wedding venues that take advantage of brides and grooms with large deposits and cancellation fees have been warned they must 'play fair' when it comes to charges or risk facing action.

How Blair made the NHS a black hole that wasted BILLIONS: Former PM tried to transform the health service by throwing money at it - with disastrous results 

Tony Blair and Cherie Blair during the 1997 election campaign at the Childrens Hospital in Derby. They are with 8 month old Lauren Smith.

Today, in the fifth part of our exclusive series, Tom Bower reveals how the Labour PM tried to transform the National Health Service by throwing cash at it - with disastrous results.

Pensions reforms a 'honey pot for thieves': Warning middle class savers could lose thousands because of 'toxic combination' of too much choice and too little guidance

Employees in Middle Britain are failing to save enough, meaning without immediate increases retirement would become 'a lucky gift' granted to just a few generations, a new report has found.

Curses! Council bosses declare no-swear zone on the streets - but fail to specify which words will be considered foul enough to break the law

Salford council has brought in a Public Space Protection Order to the Quays area, shown, in a bid to make it a criminal offence if anyone is caught 'using foul and abusive language'.

Power firms are forced to help their own rivals: Suppliers will open databases to other companies so they write to their customers to offer them better deals 

Under sweeping reforms to be unveiled by competition authorities next week, energy providers will be forced to come clean over how much they are charging UK householders.

KATIE HOPKINS: They've finally given us a vote on Europe just in time to see it collapse. So, whoever 'wins', we need to prepare for the chaos that comes after 

KATIE HOPKINS writes they've given us a vote on Europe in time to see it collapse

Can you hear all that babble? Brexit this and Grassroots that. Undecided about staying. Unsure what might happen if we leave. Listening to Dave the Rave (pictured left) justifying why we are safer in and Bojo telling us to get the hell out. I was getting quite caught up in the excitement of it all, watching grown ups shouting IN and OUT at each other like tug of war teams, digging in with their heels to prove whose balls are bigger. Only to fall on your a*** and find there's nothing on the end of the rope. So then I stopped for a moment. And took a look around, writes KATIE HOPKINS.

Fury at the In camp's latest 'dodgy dossier': Philip Hammond sparks outrage by claiming Out campaigners are secretly content to 'sacrifice' British jobs to regain borders

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Philip Hammond triggered fury by claiming that Out campaigners are secretly content to 'sacrifice' British jobs to regain control of our borders and was accused of trying to 'smear' his Cabinet colleagues.

Now the Swiss withdraw their bid to join the EU: Nation's parliament retracts 24-year-old bid to become a member amid deepening row about migration 

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Switzerland's parliament has voted to withdraw its long-standing application for membership of the EU with Lukas Reimann from the Swiss People's Party arguing it is 'high time' to make the move.

We'll let migrants move to Dover if you quit EU, warn the French: Economy minister says Brexit will provoke nation in to tearing up deal that sees migrants held in Calais 

French minister Emmanuel Macron said Britain and France's relationship would change dramatically in the event of Brexit and threatened to relocate migrants from the Calais 'Jungle' camp to Dover.

Now Scots may retire TWO YEARS before English.... because they have worse health

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said Scotland's lower life expectancy and health variations will be considered as part of the Government's review of the state pension age.

The PM didn't look thrilled to be compared to Wilson: QUENTIN LETTS on Yesterday in Parliament

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At PMQs yesterday David Cameron was invited to compare himself to Harold Wilson, the centenary of whose birth falls next week, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

Ad-blockers are 'a protection racket', claims Culture Secretary: John Whittingdale says software is depriving websites of 'legitimate income'

John Whittingdale said that ad-blocking software - which edits out online adverts - is 'depriving' British websites of 'legitimate income', and could drive them out of existence.

Bake Off shows how BBC1 'has lost its edge': Culture Secretary says channel has dumbed down over the past decade 

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The Great British Bake Off has been singled out in a row over whether BBC1 has lost its edge. The Culture Secretary said the channel had gone through a decade of dumbing down.

Viewers slam ministers over decision to start charging for BBC iPlayer as Culture Secretary says they will no longer get a 'free ride' on hit shows

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John Whittingdale said the BBC only worked if everyone who watched it paid for it and vowed to end the chance for people to get a 'free ride' but viewers questioned how it would be enforced.

Only place we get some peace... the bathroom: Nearly 3.7million Britons now use the room to 'find solitude' from busy parts of the home

Nearly 3.7 million Britons now use the bathroom to 'find solitude'

Lifestyle guru Oliver Heath said the bathroom is one of the few places we can be at home with our thoughts in a world in which we are 'always on' thanks to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets'. He added: 'Creating a refuge space for private calming moments is fundamental in restoring our mental and physical energy, helping us to relax after a long day.' A survey found that two thirds (67 per cent) of us are spending more time in the home. But the average family spends just 58 minutes with each other per day, including weekends.

'Silent killer' sepsis hits 400 a day: Number leaps more than 50% in five years with over-prescription of antibiotics by GPs blamed 

Experts say the rise in Sepsis is down to several reasons, including resistance to antibiotics, the aging population and more patients undergoing surgery and chemotherapy.

Heart risk from energy drinks: Consuming just two a day said to trigger abnormal rhythms and a rise in blood pressure

Energy drinks triggers abnormal heart rhythm and a rise in blood pressure, the study by scientists in California said, increasing the risk of stroke and sudden cardiac death.

Do you know what a teaspoon of sugar is? Industry boss says content should be labelled in a different way as families don't know what one is 

Tim Rycroft has stunned UK health campaigners by rejecting calls to label sugar content in terms of teaspoons as the food industry boss suggested families don't understand what a teaspoon is.

Go vegan to keep prostate cancer at bay: Men who avoid all animal products found to be a third less likely to develop the disease 

Researchers from California who tracked the health of more than 26,000 men aged over 30-for five years found avoiding all animal-related foods cut the odds of prostate cancer by 35 per cent.

How joy can break your heart as well as sadness: 'Storm' of adrenaline at a happy event can cause organ to become overwhelmed and fail 

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'Broken heart syndrome' - a condition thought to affect 6,000 people in Britain each year - occurs when extreme emotional stress causes the heart to shut down, but can also be the result of happy events.

Why buying a home from a smoker raises YOUR diabetes risk: Third hand smoke can linger in furniture and carpets for decades

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, found exposure to third hand smoke causes insulin resistance, a precursor to type 2 diabetes.

Moderate drinking PROTECTS your heart: Up to 6 alcoholic drinks a week 'helps prevent heart attack and stroke'

Within 24 hours of enjoying one drink, those who drink moderately, are protected from heart attack and stroke, as blood flow improves, blood vessels perform better and risk of clotting is reduced.

How ageing starts in the WOMB: Mothers-to-be who are overweight or smoke 'may cause babies to become old before their time' in later life

The Cambrige University researchers found giving mothers anti-oxidants, (health-boosting nutrients found in high levels in fruit and vegetables) may have an anti-ageing effect in their children.

Boris Johnson storms ahead in the race for No 10 as he leads George Osborne by more than 20% among the activists who will pick the next Prime Minister  

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Tory activists will choose the resident at No 10 for the first time when David Cameron leaves. He will quit before 2020 and his career could be brought to an abrupt end by an EU referendum defeat.

Jeremy Corbyn reveals he centres his 'moral compass' by watching EastEnders and asking what would hard man Phil Mitchell do? 

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, left, revealed his love for the long running BBC soap while he prepared for a TV recording on Monday night.

Slash top tax rate to 40p, Osborne told after news that cut from 50p to 45p raised an extra £8billion 

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Figures released by HM Revenue and Customs reveal a huge rise in the amount paid by the well-off in Britain following the Chancellor's controversial decision to reduce the top rate from 50p.

Top MoD mandarin breaks ranks by saying that leaving the EU could HELP British manufacturers 

Andy Markham, part of a team in charge of buying weapons for the Armed Forces, said leaving the EU would help the UK when it came to purchasing military equipment (file photo)

Labour MP Ian Austin rages at David Cameron after decision to make British medals in FRANCE

The PM said the medals should be made in Britain but he cannot stop foreign firms bidding for the contracts due to EU law. Ian Austin (pictured) said people were 'absolutely furious' over the decision.

Emotional moment HOMELESS woman is reunited wither two best childhood friends after they saw her on TV news report about sleeping rough

Nuneaton HOMELESS woman reunited with childhood friends after they saw her on TV

Lisa Moore first met Amanda Phillips and Ann Marie Preece at nursery school in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, but the trio lost touch when Ms Moore moved away more than a decade ago. Their moving reunion was arranged by homelessness charity Red Bag Company after Ms Phillips and Ms Preece set about trying to track down their friend upon hearing of her plight on TV. Ms Moore, who has been living on the streets of Birmingham for the past three months, is seen embracing her two best childhood friends as the trio are reintroduced.

Street entertainer who found fame balancing upside down with his head in a bucket killed himself after suffering from depression 

Travis Linton Galleymore was well-known in Plymouth, Devon, after upending himself with his head in a metal pail in the city centre. He committed suicide in London on August 4 last year.

Crash test dummy: Engineer seriously hurt after sitting on car safety check equipment and telling a colleague to switch it on

The 35-year-old, from Salzburg, Austria, is believed to have sat down on the equipment, which is used to test car crashes, and not realising its power, asked for a fellow crew member to switch it on.

Street entertainer who found fame balancing upside down with his head in a bucket killed himself after suffering from depression 

Travis Linton Galleymore was well-known in Plymouth, Devon, after upending himself with his head in a metal pail in the city centre. He committed suicide in London on August 4 last year.

Baby girl was snatched from her mother's living room by her next-door neighbour while she was upstairs getting ready to go out

Zorita Stanca, 24, from Oldham, was getting her two children ready to visit her mother when she went upstairs to get her handbag - and Contessa was taken by neighbour Michael Keeton, 27.

Grieving husband, 81, died hours after watching a video of his late wife's funeral from his hospital bed 

Bill Cameron, 81, was too ill with pneumonia to attend the funeral of his wife, Rena, who died aged 82 last month. The couple, from Monifieth, Angus, had been inseparable since they first met

Tory activist Elliott Johnson suffered 'inhuman and degrading' treatment from party workers before he killed himself his family tells his inquest

Tory activist Elliott Johnson, 21, pictured, was found dead on railway tracks in Bedfordshire in September last years, weeks after making allegations about bullying in the Conservative Party.

Farewell, Father Jack: Hundreds of mourners including Ardal O'Hanlon attend the funeral of actor Frank Kelly who brought 'joy to millions' as the drunken, foul-mouthed priest in Father Ted

Mourners attend funeral of Frank Kelly who brought 'joy to millions' as Father Jack

Frank Kelly (inset right), who played Father Jack Hackett (inset left) in the hit comedy series, passed away on Sunday at the age of 77 after a career spanning 60 years on stage and screen. His wife of 51 years, Bairbre, seven children, 17 grandchildren, his brothers Aidan and David and sister Pauline led mourners at his funeral (main) at the Church of the Guardian Angels in Blackrock, Dublin. Other attendees included Father Ted writers Graham Linehan (bottom left) and Arthur Matthews, Father Dougal McGuire actor Ardal O'Hanlon (top left). Don and Rob Morgan, two sons of Father Ted actor Dermot Morgan - who died on the same day as Mr Kelly 18 years ago - also arrived to say their final farewells.

Anorexic told her weight loss was 'just a phase' reveals she was just HOURS from death - and she's been told she's too THIN for treatment 

Emma Carlill, 21, from Brough, East Yorkshire, has created a chilling video about her fight to get treatment for the condition.

Mother-of-three 'swallowed mystery lump inside a can of Coca-Cola which contained hair, wood, stones, plastic and an INSECT'

Samantha Roach, 23, of Fairwater, Cardiff, drank three quarters of the can she had bought at her local Aldi supermarket when she allegedly felt the clump in her mouth and managed to cough it up.

Mother who has battled with obesity since the age of 10 loses HALF her body weight - by giving up eating sandwiches

Davina Bywater, 37, from Lancashire, battled with obesity for 27 years. However when doctors revealed she was too overweight to have life-saving surgery she made a change to her diet.

Fly-tippers caught on CCTV as they returned time after time to industrial estate to dump 42 TONNES of waste including fridges, rubble and 15 rotting SHEEP

Birmingham fly-tippers caught on video dumping sheep carcasses are jailed

Two fly-tippers who were caught on CCTV dumping 42 tonnes of waste including 15 rotting sheep carcasses in the middle of a road have been jailed. Ionut Muti, 24, (bottom right) and Augustin Dobre, 23, (top right) were caught repeatedly driving to an industrial estate in Birmingham and leaving fridges, mattresses and rubble in the road. On one occasion, the pair were spotted dumping the bodies of 15 sheep on Priory Road, Aston, in the middle of the night (inset) before driving off in their battered red people carrier. They admitted fly-tipping and were jailed for a total of 17 months.

Stephen Lawrence murder suspect Neil Acourt admits conspiracy to supply £4million worth of cannabis 

Neil Acourt, 40, who was one of five arrested over the murder of Stephen Lawrence, 18, in Eltham, south east London in 1993, admitted conspiracy to supply £4million worth of cannabis today.

Teenager who stabbed a schoolboy to death on his lunch break 'told police it was "just a moment of anger" as he was handcuffed' 

A witness told Aberdeen High Court how the accused, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had shown him a knife just days before he allegedly murdered 16-year-old Bailey Gwynne, pictured.

Mental health patient 'snapped' and battered a care worker to death with a fire extinguisher after she asked him to turn the TV down 

Michael Meanza (pictured) had been living in support accommodation in Acton, west London, for three months before he bludgeoned Jenny Foote, 38, over the head with a fire extinguisher.

VAT inspector pocketed £1.2million from her buy-to-let property empire while not paying tax in scam with her husband

Savita Seth and husband Naveen, from Uxbridge, north west London, had 12 buy-to-let properties - often split to maximise profits - but failed to declare their rental income between 1995 and 2012.

Former Commonwealth Games swimmer who bit off part of a man's ear during a fight in a nightclub avoids jail 

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Dominic Hegarty, 31, attacked 22-year-old Ryan Lawton on the dance floor of the Tokyo club in Huddersfield, west Yorkshire, on January 4.

Male model, 23, 'assaulted a security guard after being asked to leave West End's trendy W hotel' 

Danny Blake, who is signed to agency D1 Models, is accused of attacking Mark Craven after being asked to leave the swanky W London in Leicester Square, central London, on December 3.

Sexual predator is given four life sentences for abducting and murdering British-born student Hannah Graham and another young woman in Virginia

Jesse Matthew to get 4 life sentences for Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington's murders

Jesse LeRoy Matthew Jr (left) appeared at Albemarle County Circuit Court on Wednesday to enter guilty pleas for the murder of Morgan Harrington (inset) and Hannah Graham (right). Matthew, 34, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and abduction with intent to defile in both cases under an agreement that means he will never again be free. The judge accepted the plea agreement and he was given four consecutive life terms. He is already serving three life sentences for raping a woman in Fairfax County in 2005. Under the terms, Matthew waived his right to appeal and will not be eligible for any kind of parole.

Guinness heiress battered her 65-year-old mother with her handbag leaving her covered in blood as she lay in bed at her £1.7million London home'

Eliza Irby, 35, has been issued with a restraining order after leaving mother Emma Irby (pictured with her other daughter Clare) lying in her own blood-soaked bed sheets after the attack in the middle of the night at her home in Fulham, west London.

Hospital manager 'fondled nurses' bottoms and asked them about their breasts in scenes like something out of Benny Hill'

Ward manager Bryan Gray (pictured) groped three women at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital in Guernsey, the Nursing and Midwifery Council was told.

Glamour model 'stole £28,000 Hublot watch from a luxury London flat'

Gemma Boal, 23, of Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, allegedly took the Hublot timepiece belonging to a a Farhank Majid from the flat in Knightsbridge, Central London.

'Paranoid' wife is facing a £1million legal bill for dragging her ex-husband to court and wrongly accusing him of plundering their £18million fortune 

Maya Kanev-Lipinski facing a £1m legal bill for dragging ex-husband to court

A 'paranoid' divorcing wife is facing a staggering £1million lawyers' bill for dragging her ex-husband to court and wrongly accusing him of plundering their £18million fortune. Maya Kanev-Lipinski, right, wept in court after hearing a judge rule that her 'fear, suspicion and dislike' of her multi-millionaire ex-husband Shahar Lipinski, right, had got the better of her. But a judge has said there had been 'no dispersal' of the former couple's £18million student housing fortune by the tycoon, 45, since their 17-year marriage ended in 2012. The couple are currently locked in a High Court battle over the division of their assets, with Mrs Kanev-Lipinski seeking a £9million payout over the coming months. Pictured inset is their former £2million family home near Nottingham.

'Terror' at Waterloo: Emergency services carry out a drill for Europe's biggest disaster response with mocked up major incident at train station 

Emergency crews have responded to the scene of a major disaster on the Tube as part of the third day of a training exercise testing their response to a mass-casualty incident in Dartford, Kent.

New Harry Potter film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be a TRILOGY, JK Rowling confirms

The hotly-anticipated prequel to the Harry Potter series, which stars Eddie Redmayne (pictured) and follows the adventures of Newt Scamander, is set to be released in November.

Homeowner fined £6,000 for letting his home fall into such a state of disrepair it left neighbouring houses riddled with damp 

Christopher Perry's derelict house (pictured) in Oldbury, West Midlands, was so unkempt that water began leaking into the house next door. He has been fined £6,000 for failing to care for it.

Hippie 'hunter-gatherers' face eviction from woodland commune where they've lived for 16 years because they didn't get planning permission for the timber structures

Steward Woodland hippies face eviction from commune because they didn't get planning

The Steward Woodland Community, which has 21 residents, including nine children, live in homes which they built themselves (top right) in rural Dartmoor, Devon. Their alternative self-sufficient lifestyle includes foraging for food, using solar powered electricity and alternative medicines. But despite living there since 2000, the Dartmoor National Park Authority has refused permanent planning permission for their homes and ordered them to leave. Resident Sonny Parsons (pictured left with her daughters Daisy, 17, Asha, 13, and friend Emerald Worsley, 13), said leaving the set-up would be like leaving their family. A crowdfunding campaign has now been launched to raise the £38,000 needed to launch a legal challenge against the planning decision. Pictured bottom right: The community room in the woodland.

Ministry of Defence failings caused the deaths of three soldiers on an SAS training exercise - but Army chiefs will escape prosecution because they have Crown immunity

Lance Corporal Craig Roberts died during the march in the Brecon Beacons in 2013, and Lance Corporal Edward Maher and Corporal James Dunsby collapsed and died later.

Special needs teacher who let off party poppers in the face of an autistic child scared of loud noises is struck off

Tanya Olsen, 35, fired one of the poppers in the classroom at Ty Gwyn special educational needs school in Cardiff - and laughed as the scared pupil tried to run away to a designated 'quiet room'.

Tesco recalls range of flavoured butters over fears of contamination with deadly listeria bug

Tesco urged customers to throw away nine types of butter sold in its stores amid concerns they could contain toxic levels of bacteria Listeria monocytogenes.

Want to get away from it all? Stunning chalets built into cliffs on the Jurassic Coast are designed to give you a taste of life as an 18th-century hermit 

Five sensational homes are to be built in the heart of England's only natural World Heritage site in Dorset - and they will be so well camouflaged nobody will know they are there.

You're not going to reach that with a stepladder! Last remnant of 17th-century Palace of Whitehall gets a facelift - with the help of a LOT of scaffolding

Extensive conservation work is taking place at the Palace of Whitehall's 17th-century Banqueting House including cleaning and repairing an original Rubens ceiling painting.

Ex-Playboy model and Miss Bosnia is jailed for attempted murder after luring gangster into an ambush because he was infatuated with her

Ex-Playboy model and one-time Miss Bosnia is jailed over role in a failed hit

A court ruled that Slobodanka Tosic (left and right), 29, who was once crowned Miss Bosnia, should spend at least two and a half years behind bars for luring a suspected crime boss into an ambush. She led convicted murderer Djordje Zdrale (inset), who was in love with her, to an area where his rivals were waiting to kill him. The hit was masterminded by another Balkan gangland figure, Darko Elez, who Tosic was said to be dating at the time, the court heard. She was arrested and extradited from Croatia after being linked to five murders and a string of robberies to the amount of millions of pounds in July. It was thought those charges stemmed from her involvement with Elez.

A team of REFUGEES will compete at the Rio 2016 after Olympics bosses invited stateless athletes to join forces and compete under their Games' flag 

So far 43 athletes, who are also refugees, have been identified as possibly being eligible for the Games which get underway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, later this year (file photo).

ISIS has established an international sex ring by smuggling kidnapped Yazidi slaves into countries including Afghanistan, Pakistan and Chechnya, freed women reveal

Dozens of women who were snatched from Yazidi villages across northern Iraq are said to have been taken to nations including Afghanistan and Pakistan where they are being held as sex slaves (file photo)

President Assad promises a 'full amnesty' to rebels who lay down their arms as efforts continue to bring peace to Syria 

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President Bashar Assad is promising a 'full amnesty' to rebels who lay down their arms as efforts continue to bring peace to Syria, where more than 270,000 have been killed in the complex conflict.

Under fire Malaysian prime minister hits back at claims he took more than $1 BILLION from state owned investment firm he founded himself

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The Wall Street Journal said Najib Razak (pictured) may have claimed more than $1billion from investment firm 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) - much more than previously thought.

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STEPHEN GLOVER: Tony Blair's deranged, messianic egotism laid bare the dangerous flaws in our democracy

Tom Bower's excoriating book about Tony Blair (pictured in 2001) shows how to all intents and purposes the former prime minister behaved like a dictator, writes STEPHEN GLOVER

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: All Project Fear lacks is a plague of giant rats! 

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: This was the day Project Fear turned into Project Hysteria, as an increasingly rattled Government cranked up the scaremongering over the risks of Brexit.

As 'experts' are demand a ban on tackles in under-18s rugby, HARRY MOUNT says: What (rugby) balls!

The open letter calling for a ban on tackling in school rugby smacked of expertise. But scratch the surface of its signatories, and their authority appears rather less impressive, writes HARRY MOUNT.