It's a royal rite of passage but today Prince William attended one of the Queen's famous garden parties for the first time with his wife the Duchess of Cambridge. Kate, 34, is something of a veteran, however, having made her debut in 2012. The pair made a long-awaited appearance with the 90-year-old monarch on the palace terrace at 4pm as the National Anthem was played.
'Lol. Knew something was up': Schoolgirl, 16, revising for her AS exams sent tragic final tweet to friends as she was rushed to hospital - two days before dying from meningitis
Isabel Gentry, a pupil at St Brendan's Sixth Form College in Bristol, was taken ill last week with a severe headache while revising for the tests. On Wednesday, she posted on Twitter: 'Lol I knew something was up. Did not expect I'd be rushed to hospital in an ambulance, how peak.' Two days later, she died in hospital after apparently being diagnosed with meningitis.
- Getting her money's worth! Kate dons the same cream coat she wore for Prince George's christening as she joins William for his first Queen's garden party
- 'Lol. Knew something was up': Schoolgirl, 16, revising for her AS exams sent tragic final tweet to friends as she was rushed to hospital - two days before dying from meningitis
- Estate agent who was sacked after dubbing female colleague 'sugart*ts' also 'upset boss's daughter' by calling her 'babe'
- Burt Kwouk who starred as Inspector Clouseau's hapless sidekick Cato in the Pink Panthers films dies aged 85
- Police are hunting this man after thugs sprayed teenage boys with acid leaving one 'blinded in one eye' and four more horrifically injured as they waited for a train
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- That's £300,000 down the drain! Row over £4,000 bill for a blocked pipe and flooded back yard has left next-door neighbours with massive legal bill
- Mother accused of covering up her six-year-old daughter's murder made 999 call that 'was the most remarkably cynical and staged piece of acting the jury could possibly imagine'
- Ex-Tory councillor was caught with huge cache of child porn after he mouthed to his wife to 'get rid of the USBs' in front of police quizzing him about Churchill theft
- Islamic tutor 'slipped his hand under copy of the Koran to grope 13-year-old girl's thigh as she read at his home'
- Yet more bomb threats hit British schools as SIXTEEN more are closed just a day after 27 were evacuated
- Mother of four found dead on her doorstep after ‘burglars slit her throat with a piece of broken mirror when she confronted them as they were trying to steal family gold’
- Inside New York's polyamorous community headed by a real estate mogul who hosts open sexuality parties in his $12million converted church dubbed the 'Taj Maharlem'
- 'Reckless' curry house boss who switched almonds for cheaper nut powder is jailed for six years for manslaughter of allergic customer
- McCaughey septuplets graduate high school 18 years after they beat the odds to become the world's first set to ALL survive infancy
- 'It's a miracle': Virgin Mary statue 'crying a single tear of blood' prompts mass pilgrimage towards small Colombian town
- Trump slams Hillary Clinton for not 'protecting women' in video featuring voices of Bill's sex-assault and rape accusers
- Bill Cosby ADMITS to sexual encounters with teens and says agency sent him young models on a weekly basis in deposition released the day before he learns if sex assault case will go to trial
- Bizarre tale of the Boardwalk babies: How thousands of premature infants were saved from certain death by being part of a Coney Island entertainment sideshow
- 'Suicide by LION': Man strips naked and jumps into a Chilean zoo's enclosure in a bid to feed himself to a big cat - and only survives in a grave condition after two beasts mauling him were SHOT DEAD
- EXCLUSIVE: No backsies! Chef Paula Deen demands her husband of 11 years return the $1.3 million Savannah home that she 'gifted' to him to show her 'love and affection'
- Merrill Lynch banker, 23, plunges to his death out of his 26th floor Manhattan apartment after eating magic mushrooms
- Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood says Hollywood is gripped by a powerful pedophile ring and Tinseltown is covering up a 'seedy' underbelly full of predatory 'vipers'
- Mark Zuckerberg to tear down his $30million four-home complex in California and replace it with smaller homes so 'neighbors can't see into his bedroom'
- EXCLUSIVE: Sex for contracts, pressure to have cosmetic surgery and lose weight, fake fees by their own agents - 'Hell' of exploited models to be revealed in landmark court case
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That's £300,000 down the drain! Row over £4,000 bill for a blocked pipe and flooded back yard has left next-door neighbours with massive legal bill
Terry Court, 57, and her neighbours John (right, pictured today), 60, and Bernadette Van Dijk, 47, disputed who was to blame for flooding in the back yard of the Van Dijks' home (left) in York, North Yorkshire. They claimed work Mrs Court had done in 2007 effectively blocked off their access to the private sewer between their homes - and they then found rainwater flooding into their back yard. But it was another three years before it was fixed, sparking a five-year legal battle which has run up legal fees topping £300,000 for a case which could have settled for just over £4,000.
Sheridan Smith 'collapses and is rushed to hospital during stay at A-list health retreat' after dropping out of West End show for exhaustion and stress
Remain campaign opens up new 13% lead in EU battle as Tory poll guru warns Boris's Brexit campaign is 'weak and dwindling'
- Now our HOLIDAYS are at risk from Brexit! PM ramps up Project Fear with warning about £230 increase in bills for foreign breaks if we leave EU
- Knives out for Cameron: Dozens of Tories threaten no-confidence vote over PM's 'shabby' Brexit scaremongering
The poll (left) found men, pensioners and Tory voters are snubbing Brexit, suggesting Vote Leave - which is spearheaded by Boris Johnson (right) - is failing to win over key voters. Sir Lynton Crosby, the polling strategist who masterminded David Cameron's surprise general election last year, warned the campaign to leave the EU is 'dwindling' and has 'failed to quell ongoing concerns about the financial and economic consequences of a Brexit'. The ORB poll, for the Daily Telegraph , showed the Remain campaign on 55 per cent and Leave trailing on 42 per cent among those who said they will definitely vote. The lead is even bigger among all voters, with Remain on 58 per cent and Brexit on 38. In March the ORB poll found a majority of 60 per cent of Conservative voters were backing Brexit, while only a third (34 per cent) said they were for Remain.
Ex-university lecturer, 59, who had clutter spilling out of her letterbox after 30 years of hoarding thousands of books, lecture notes and exam papers FINALLY has a clear out
Elizabeth Eaton (pictured, inset), 59, needed more than three skips to get rid of the mounds of rubbish she had collected in 30 years of hoarding Her problem had got so out of control it had left her three-bed semi so cluttered (top and bottom left) she could barely move. Her staunch refusal to get rid of anything meant her rooms were buried under five feet of possessions - most of which were not even originally hers. The three-piece suite in her living room was completely submerged by clutter - with so much crammed into her home that junk had started to spill out of her letterbox onto the street. It was only then - after three decades of hoarding, and literally no space to welcome any guests into her home - Elizabeth realised she needed to see someone. She said: 'At that point I realised I really needed help sorting it out.' Her home has now been cleared (top and bottom right) a job that took ten days to complete.
WESTMINSTER TODAY
- The return of Ed Miliband? Corbyn wants to give him a job in his Shadow Cabinet - despite the former leader delivering Labour's worst election result in 30 years
- Stewart Hosie to quit as deputy SNP leader after affair with love triangle hack Serena Cowdy - blaming high blood pressure
- Winston Churchill's grandson MP Nicholas Soames tells fellow Tory MP to 'f*** off you c***' as the party's bitter civil war over Europe intensifies
- Andy Burnham mocked on the first day of his Manchester Mayor campaign for saying Northerners have the mickey taken if they want to be lawyers
Well that should save on the plastic surgery bill! Anne Robinson takes to London's streets in a BURKA to film for the BBC
Former The Weakest Link presenter (inset and left) was seen today on High Street Kensington wearing the controversial religious robe for women, which covered all but her eyes, and is believed to be filming for a new show. Wearing a black burka with orange trim (left), she was asking passers-by about their thoughts and feelings on the attire - which some complain is sexist - for a new show. It comes just days after the star hit the headlines when she was seen walking into a salon looking tired and puffy, and twelve hours later she looked like an entirely different person.
Jamie Vardy's mother and stepfather WON'T be at his wedding tomorrow because they don't approve of his fiancee
Jamie Vardy's parents will not be present when he ties the knot with fiancee Becky Nicholson (pictured left with Vardy) at the ceremony at the exclusive Peckforton Castle, in Cheshire, tomorrow afternoon. Mother Lisa and stepfather Phil (bottom right), who raised Vardy since he was a baby, have apparently fallen out with their son over his bride-to-be. Grandparents Gerald and Mavis will also reportedly miss the ceremony. Pictured top right, Vardy and Miss Nicholson celebrate Leicester City's Premier League win with their family.
Police clear vehicles from the car 'camp' outside an Asda where migrants have used dumped motors as their make shift homes for TEN years
More than ten vehicles were towed away by Scotland Yard officers, working alongside Southwark Council and the Home Office to clear the site off the Old Kent Road in South London. All cars without up-to-date taxation were removed, according to bystanders, while anyone found to be in the country illegally will now face deportation. Locals around the retail park have been complaining about the semi-permanent camp for at least eight years, but the authorities had not previously taken action.
Massive chunk of 250ft cliff plummets into the sea at Seven Sisters beauty spot visited by thousands every year in biggest landslide in a decade
A huge chunk of the Seven Sisters cliffs, East Sussex, has fallen into the sea - and now experts are warning the public to stay well away from their crumbling chalk edges after fears of further landslides. Around ten metres of cliff was lost at the popular national park where reckless groups come perilously close to death each year by swinging their legs over the side.
'Respectable and hard-working' parents with two young children sold thousands of pounds' worth of drugs including ecstasy and cocaine from their suburban semi
Window cleaner Christopher Billings, 35, and his hairdresser wife Zoe (both left), 40, from Swadlincote in Derbyshire, were said by a judge to have 'responsibilities, a nice house and friends'. But the couple, who have two children aged nine and 11, were caught with a stash of cannabis at their £140,000 semi-detached home (right) plus 69 ecstasy tablets, cocaine and diazepam. They nicknamed their drugs 'Bluey Vuittons,' 'pudding' and 'corn' when peddling them to a close social circle of friends when they attended parties at each other's homes, or at nightclubs and music festivals. Mr and Mrs Billings admitted various drugs charges but were both given suspended prison sentences and ordered to complete 200 and 100 hours of unpaid work respectively.
Horse-loving travellers take to the roads as they start the journey from far and wide on their way to Appleby Horse Fair - one of the world's biggest gipsy events
Horse-drawn caravans were spotted bringing traffic to a standstill along the A65 in North Yorkshire today as they headed to Westmorland ahead of next week's annual horse fair in Appleby. Up to 10,000 travellers and an additional 30,000 spectators will arrive in the small town over the next few days ahead of the fair that starts on June 2. The Appleby Horse Fair is believed to date back to the 18th century and is an opportunity for travellers to meet old friends, conduct business, but primarily to trade horses.
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THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
'There isn't even a whole head. The logical explanation is an explosion': Forensic chief says 80 body parts retrieved from MS804 suggest a blast downed plane - as air traffic official denies jet swerved or lost altitude
The official is part of the investigation team that has personally examined the body parts taken to a Cairo morgue. He said all 80 pieces brought to the capital so far were small and that 'there isn't even a whole body part, like an arm or a head.' The official, who declined to be named, added that 'the logical explanation is that it was an explosion' that may have brought down the jet in the Mediterranean. The revelation came after the head of Egypt's state-run provider of air navigation services said the doomed jet did not swerve or lose altitude before it disappeared off radar, challenging an account by Greece's defence minister who said the jet spun and plunged 27,000 feet. It came as fellow EgyptAir staff (inset) and relatives took part in a memorial service at the Al Mosheer Tantawy Mosque (main) in Cairo for victims of the disaster.
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- Pictured: Blood-smeared floors and walls of child migrant centre where a Swedish social worker, 22, was stabbed to death in 'a frenzied attack' by 'Ethiopian boy' who is at least TWENTY-ONE
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