The mock Tudor 'castle' thought to have been worth in the region of £1million is just a pile of rubble after Robert Fidler, of Surrey, obeyed a court order to demolish it rather than face jail. He had managed to conceal the construction of his striking home in 2000 by hiding it behind a wall of hay bales on his farm in Salfords. However, once Reigate and Banstead Borough Council discovered the building - which was put up without planning permission on green belt land - the farmer was ordered to knock it down. That was nine years ago - and the once-grand home has now finally been razed after Mr Fidler, a 67-year-old grandfather of 11, was threatened with a prison sentence.
'Follow your heart and not scaremonger Cameron': Michael Gove twists the knife into his friend as he urges voters to defy 'sneering elites' and the 'undeserving rich' - and tell the EU 'You're fired'
Michael Gove urged voters not to listen to 'sneering' elites as he made the case for Brexit during the second Sky News special programme ahead of the EU referendum. The Justice Secretary dismissed dire warnings about recession and job losses from organisations such as the Treasury and International Monetary Fund, saying the public was 'sick' of getting told what to do. He said the EU was a 'job destroying machine' and insisted taxpayers' money should be going to the NHS rather than 'invincibly arrogant' Eurocrats. Mr Gove also condemned David Cameron for 'scare' tactics during his appearance in the first of the televised events last night. Both the Remain and Leave camps are hoping the debates in the last three weeks of the referendum battle can swing the vote their way.
- Reduced to rubble: Secret Tudor castle at centre of planning row is finally demolished after nine years
- 'Follow your heart and not scaremonger Cameron': Michael Gove twists the knife into his friend as he urges voters to defy 'sneering elites' and the 'undeserving rich' - and tell the EU 'You're fired'
- Mother, 26, who smashed Martini glass into woman's face in horrific cocktail bar attack leaving her victim needing 42 stitches is jailed
- Going, going, gone! World's dearest handbag complete with crocodile skin and goat fur sells for £206,000... (But is it worth it?)
- The key to stopping breast cancer returning: Scientists identify 'Achilles heel' of condition in landmark discovery
- Sex scenes are a turn off for prudish Brits as Versailles' viewers switch channel during the raciest moments of the BBC drama
- Clarifications and corrections
- Nightclub kicked out drunk student, 19, and 'abandoned' her to be picked off 'like prey' and have her virginity taken by two rapists in an hour long ordeal
- Crime? Don't be Scilly! From high-speed chases on a child's bike to the drugs bust that turned out to be cheese: The enchantingly dotty memoir of a bobby on the British islands that time forgot
- CofE vicar shouted 'I’m from the Vatican, you’re f***ed' at police as he was arrested for biting and spitting at a paramedic after downing three bottles of wine
- First episode of Chris Evans' new Top Gear 'was boosted by canned laughter as viewers rated it the worst show on TV last weekend'
- You liar! IDS savages 'insincere' Cameron for claiming we can deport EU nationals who have not found jobs within six months
- EXCLUSIVE: Greek heiress Athina Onassis splits from her Brazilian horseman husband 'Doda' after he was caught cheating by her security team at the couple's Florida home
- Bank of America worker fired after posting vile racist rant on Facebook saying 'f***ing n****rs' should 'go back to Africa'
- 'Hillary Clinton has to go to jail!': Donald the counter-puncher clobbers his Democratic challenger over her classified emails as he says watching her anti-Trump speech was 'like taking Sominex'
- Mother of Zika baby born in New Jersey says she flew to America to seek treatment after doctors in Honduras 'underestimated' her symptoms - and the U.S. citizen baby will cost AT LEAST $1million to treat
- 'I'm hungry': First words of Japanese boy, 7, found in a disused military base six days after he was left in bear-infested woods – as his father tells him 'I'm so sorry for causing you such pain'
- Violence erupts at Trump's San Jose rally as protesters fight The Donald's supporters in ugly street brawls leading to several arrests
- 'It's a matter of hours': Stark warning from Muhammad Ali's doctors as legendary boxer remains on life support and family 'start making funeral arrangements'
- The grieving father who couldn't wait for daughter's murderer to get lethal injection: Ohio serial killer LAUGHS as victim's father leaps over a table to attack him as he's sentenced to death
- Sore loser: Russian man chops off his friend's genitals with an axe after coming second in competition to see who had the largest penis
- EXCLUSIVE: MORE women accuse Kanye's fashion sidekick of 'rape' as pressure mounts on rapper to dump stylist who befriends his 'victims' on Twitter
- Teenage girls who 'senselessly beat elderly woman, 78, on New York City subway after she asked them to move feet off seat' turned in to police by one of their mothers
- Three-year-old boy who crawled into Harambe's enclosure is seen for the first time since gorilla's death - as his parents are interviewed by police
- MOST READ IN DETAIL
First episode of Chris Evans' new Top Gear 'was boosted by canned laughter as viewers rated it the worst show on TV last weekend'
The BBC show - watched by just 4.3million people last Sunday on its revamped debut, top right, - is said to have used a laughter track to boost the reaction from the audience at its Surrey base. Hosts Chris Evans, left, and Matt LeBlanc, bottom right with Evans, are also alleged to be embroiled in a feud over the former's 'lack of support' over the latter's stunt at the Cenotaph in Westminster. The show has also been hit by claims that it was the worst-rated show on terrestrial television last weekend according to 'leaked BBC data'.
Traffickers' new way into Europe: Migrants attempting more dangerous crossing towards Italy following deal between EU and Turkey
More than 340 migrants were rescued off the Greek island of Crete yesterday amid growing fears that traffickers are opening up more dangerous routes to Europe. Four bodies were recovered in the Mediterranean south of the island after a fishing boat capsized, and around 100 more are feared dead. It was not clear whether the boat had blown off course after setting off from North Africa or had left Turkey and was avoiding Nato patrols further north in the Aegean. There have been 47,820 arrivals in Italy from Libya this year. Meanwhile, there have 156,574 arrivals in Greece from Turkey this year.
The Queen's secret sanctuary: Fairytale follies and memories galore, Robert Hardman gets a privileged peek inside Her Majesty's glorious garden
Robert Hardman gets a privileged peek inside the Queen's secret sanctuary and fairytale gardens (bottom right) inside the grounds of Frogmore (top picture), a Georgian house inside the Home Park of Windsor Castle. The house and grounds were designed as a place of study, contemplation and escape for Queen Charlotte, the green-fingered wife of George III. Not only have successive royal generations enjoyed its privacy, but many members of the family, including Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, are buried in the gardens (along with several corgis). Queen Victoria's Tea House (bottom left) seems unchanged since the 19th century. But it is the Queen (inset top right) who is unquestionably the boss here, discussing all the comings and goings with the five-strong gardening team. No tree or shrub is removed or planted without her say so.
Sex, bullying and a 'toxic' atmosphere where female recruits yearned to be accepted: As fury continues over Deepcut verdict, the question remains - should women really be serving alongside men?
The atmosphere at Deepcut became more akin to a Club 18-30 holiday camp than a British military base. Young teenage Army recruits hellbent on letting their hair down indulged in alcohol and drugs brought into the Surrey barracks. Young female recruits were regularly propositioned by both officers and instructors. It was against this morally repugnant backcloth that 18-year-old Private Cheryl James (right) died in November 1995 from a gunshot wound to the head. 16 years later Anne-Marie Ellement (left), a 30-year-old corporal in the Royal Military Police, hanged herself at Bulford Barracks in Wiltshire.
Zika may be transmitted by ORAL SEX: French woman caught the virus after her partner returned from Brazil, doctors warn
HOW THE WORLD LOOKS FROM WESTMINSTER
WESTMINSTER TODAY
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- Donald Trump WILL visit Britain to open his new golf course despite petition demanding he be banned - and he's due the day after the UK's EU referendum
Pictured: Primary school teacher, 31, who has been banned from teaching after messaging boy pupil, 11, to say 'About to have a shower #mental image for you lol'
Kay Hollingsworth, 31, left and right, was banned from teaching National College of Teaching and Leadership (pictured) panel in Coventry after sending sexual messages to the 11-year-old boy. She sent one suggesting he think of her in the shower and also said she had just broken up with her partner. However, due to her remorse, the panel said the ban may not be for life and she could seek to have it lifted in the future.
Vanity, vulgarity and vacuity: It's been a decade since the England squad's wives & girlfriends strutted out to the World Cup, prompting the WAG phenomenon. But JAN MOIR says today's crop are even worse - and their influence has spread like a rash
Jan Moir reflects on the 10-year anniversary of the introduction of the England squad's WAGs - an acronym used to refer to the wives and girlfriends of the country's most high-profile footballers. In 2006, Mrs Beckham was photographed leading the WAGs out to dinner as their partners prepared for their matches during the tournament in Germany. She was walking alongside, Coleen Rooney and Louise Owen. Becky Nicholson, who recently married Leicester City star Jamie Vardy, is in the new crop of England's WAGs (right).
Family ordered off EasyJet plane after passengers refused to move so they could all sit together have to cancel £2,300 Tenerife holiday and take a caravan break 15 miles down the road instead
A devastated family were forced to cancel their £2,300 all-inclusive dream holiday to Tenerife because their Easyjet flight was overbooked - and other passengers then refused to budge. Jay and Carolyn Mortimore, along with their two children Ryley, 12, and Brayden, seven, from Exeter, had to spend their half-term holiday in a caravan in Exmouth (inset) instead.
Haunting tale of the Real Tess: How the hanging of a woman who killed her violent husband inspired Thomas Hardy more than 20 years later
Thomas Hardy was haunted as 16-year-old after watching Martha Brown, 45, hang after killing her husband who had abused her for years. So struck was Hardy by this lasting memory of Martha that she became the inspiration for his penultimate novel, Tess Of The D'Urbervilles. When that much-loved classic was first published in 1892, it became an instant bestseller with its themes of frustrated love and unfair treatment of women. These recur throughout Hardy's writings and resonated all too tragically in the real-life story of Martha Brown.
'I lost 21 stone but I've never hated my body more': Woman is left with six STONE of excess skin after weight loss surgery - and it even gets trapped in car doors
Emma Lovell, 35, from Townsville, Queensland, shed an incredible 21 stone through gastric band surgery - but has been left with huge rolls of excess skin. And now 13 stone, she claims her confidence is lower than it has ever been. 'I have between 20kg and 40kg of excess skin and it makes me so self-conscious,' she said. 'I've trapped it in car doors before which is very painful, and can't even go for a run because it moves and pulls so much. Even though I'm technically a size 12/14, I'm wearing size 20 trousers just so my skin isn't hanging out.' Despite being 34 stone at her heaviest, Miss Lovell claims she ate a balanced diet, rarely gorged on junk or takeaways and got regular exercise by riding her bike. She was eventually diagnosed with an intolerance to carbohydrates - and firmly believes this was the cause of her extreme weight gain.
Welcome to Belly-dorm! British holidaymaker smothers himself in suncream and slides head-first across CONCRETE into a pool in crazy stunt that scrapes his skin off
A woman who filmed the antics at a hotel in Benidorm said the man, believed to be from Nottingham, had spent the afternoon drinking with mates before performing the painful stunt.
'You could see them all whooping and cheering. I couldn't believe he did it. I saw him around the hotel afterwards and he was covered in cuts and bruises to his legs and arms,' tourist Kelly Crouch said. '...They rubbed him up with suncream thinking it would help with the friction.
'The ground was solid concrete. Even though they covered it in water, it still must have hurt like hell.'
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'I'm hungry': First words of Japanese boy, 7, found in a disused military base six days after he was left in bear-infested woods - as his father tells him 'I'm so sorry for causing you such pain'
Yamato Tanooka (inset) was rushed to hospital (main) suffering from exhaustion and dehydration but otherwise apparently unharmed on Friday morning after he was found deep in woods on the northern island of Hokkaido. He was discovered inside an old military training facility (bottom right) around three miles from where he disappeared after a massive search involving hundreds of police, military and volunteers. He did not shed a tear when he was found and told his rescuer he was hungry before wolfing down rice balls and bread. He said he survived by sleeping between two mattresses (bottom left) inside the abandoned dormitory which was an unheated wooden building (top left). His parents left him behind in a wooded area as punishment for misbehaving last Saturday, but when they returned minutes later, he had disappeared. Appearing outside the hospital where he was reunited with his son, his father Takayuki Tanooka (top right) said he thought he was punishing him for his own good, but realised 'we went too far'. Police said they are considering filing neglect charges against them.
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