He didn't allude to the costume choice on the BBC 1 show tonight other than to say 'nothing much had really changed.' Pundits and former England strikers Alan Shearer and Ian Wright could be seen giggling away as Lineker read out his introduction to the programme's first game after the Premier League got underway today. Some on Twitter have criticised Lineker, 55, for opting for the large boxers, which featured a Leicester City logo, instead of the expected pair of skimpy briefs. The show's first game was Hull City against Lineker's team Leicester.

Last week saw the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge enjoy yet another low-cost holiday, this time a ten-day break at a charming 16th Century chateau in the South of France, courtesy of communications tycoon Michael Green. It appears to be the latest in a string of freebies provided by a willing and very wealthy network of friends and acquaintances in Switzerland, Barbados, Mustique and other desirable locations around the globe. Among those who have opened their doors are the owners of the Jigsaw fashion chain, a hedge fund millionaire, fellow Royals and the late Duke of Westminster. The Cambridges are hardly short of money. Prince William has a personal fortune estimated at around £20 million. But as royal author and editor of Majesty magazine Ingrid Seward says: 'The fact is, people are bending over backwards to host the Cambridges.'

Seven people have been injured after a man attacked passengers on a train(top right) in beautiful Swiss countryside with 'fire and a knife' today, including a six-year-old child. Officers have confirmed the train has been sealed off an it is understood the county's interior minister is holding an emergency meeting over the incident. The suspect was on fire when police arrested him at Salez-Sennwald station (left and bottom right). It is the latest in a series of similar attacks in Europe over the past month, including a 17-year-old injuring five people with an axe and knife on a train in Wuerzburg, Germany, in July.

Team GB's female cyclists left this hilarious note (left) for the gold-winning boys (right) and pinned it to their bedroom door telling them: 'This is not your room so please don't try and get in.' The girls wrote: 'To the team pursuit men, CONGRATULATIONS! As we're guessing you're probably going to be drunk by the time you read this. And a few of you have already come into our room accidentally - just a friendly reminder that THIS IS NOT YOUR ROOM.
'So please don't try and get in a 4am.' Gold medal winner Owain Doull posted it on Twitter.

She's a multiple gold medallist at several European Championships, winning events both as a part of a team and as an individual. But despite her haul, Russian diver Nadezhda Bazhina is likely to be remembered for one thing - for scoring zero with a back flop into the pool at the Rio Olympics. The athlete produced the horrendous dive (pictured main) during the 3m springboard preliminary round with an eye-watering performance. The accomplished diver seemingly losing her footing as she sprang from the board (pictured left) but completed several flips as she fell, looking as though she has regained her composure halfway through the routine (shown middle). However it wasn't to be for the Russian, who smacked back-first into the water (right), much to the amusement of commentators and viewers.

Sports fans watching the BBC's coverage of the Olympic Games have slammed the commentary of five-time gold medallist Sir Steve Redgrave - accusing him of being the most 'boring man alive'. Twitter exploded after frustrated viewers were fed up with the rowing legend's analysis, with one user posting: 'This isn't rowing. And it ain't about you.' Meanwhile, another user wrote that his 'beige outfits reflect his personality' and one said that he 'wins the gold medal' for being the most 'boring man alive'. The outburst on social media comes after BBC sports reporter Jill Douglas snapped at Sir Steve by telling him 'let me do this' when he barged through during a live interview to embrace Sir Bradley Wiggins. It came just hours after Redgrave stormed off camera after a bust-up with John Inverdale.

The mother of British Olympic heptathlon athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson has written her daughter a heart-warming letter as she tries to win her first Olympic medal this evening. Tracey Johnson (pictured with her daughter, right) wrote a tear-jerking open letter (bottom inset) to reveal that she realised early on 'just how special' her daughter was. She penned the emotional message to 'wish her all the luck in the world' as Katarina (left) goes up against her Team GB rival Jessica Ennis-Hill in Rio de Janeiro today. It comes as Katarina, 23, sits in fourth place and could still win a medal with three events remaining. Her mother wrote that she is 'proud' of the 'humble, grounded and wonderful' woman her daughter (pictured as a child, top inset) has become.

Rio's Olympic chiefs today admitted they have run out of ideas on how to make the diving pool blue again - and have decided to change the water altogether. The water will be drained and replaced, a spokesman said Saturday. The first event to be held in the newly refilled pool will be synchronized swimming on Sunday. Mario Andrade, spokesman for Rio's organizing committee, said that despite several attempts to bring the water back to its usual blue, the pool has stubbornly remained green.

The Birmingham-born Star Wars legend, 83, passed away today according to family members after suffering from prolonged lung problems. Baker played the resourceful droid known for his whistles and beeps in the original 'Star Wars' movie in 1977 and in the five following movies. He also received a credit in last year's 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens', and attended the European premiere in London in December in a wheelchair. However Anthony Daniels, who played R2-D2's on-screen friend C3PO and with whom Baker had a frosty relationship dating back decades, said he was never actually on set. The latest instalment of the franchise, 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story', is due out in December.

Mr Farage, who resigned as leader of the party after the Brexit vote on June 23, met voters in Newington, close to Ramsgate. (left; right, top and bottom) He appeared in his new bushy facial hair on Friday. The 52-year-old's moustache has been compared to the likes of Ron Burgundy from the Anchorman films. Other comparisons have been made to TV character Alan Partridge and James Beck playing Private Joe Walker in Dad's Army.

Right-wing blogs and journalists have seized upon a video of Hillary Clinton responding to reporters with an 'exaggerated motion' (left and right) to suggest the Democratic nominee had a seizure. In the video, which was shot on June 10 at a muffin shop in Washington DC, Associated Press reporter Lisa Lerer was seen shouting questions at Clinton, and then laughing in surprise at the candidate's head-shaking response. Lerer said she believed Clinton was maybe being 'evasive' to the questions, but that the incident was 'innocuous'. However, Fox News host Sean Hannity dedicated a week of his shows to examining Clinton's health, which included looking at the video - he said it was 'seizure-esque' - and also bringing up and old photo of the 68-year-old slipping on a flight of stairs (inset).

Officials swooped on the eyesore property in Knighton, Leicestershire following a series of complaints from neighbours. It took two days to remove the filthy waste and the nightmare neighbour was handed a £14,000 bill to pay for the operation. An aerial photograph taken from a Leicestershire Police helicopter shows the extent of the debris that accumulated at the semi-detatched house. The clearance operation, which took place last month, saw items such as motor vehicles, construction materials, electrical waste, scrap metal and general rubbish stacked up around the house. A spokesman for Leicester City Council, which carried out the clear up, said: 'Despite having been given months to undertake this work, the legal notice was not complied with and the site remained an eyesore.

Families enjoyed a sunny day at the beach as the mercury hit highs of 22C in the south east, including Brighton (top and bottom right) today while others ended up covered in paint as they took part in the Holi One Colour Festival in London (left). There will be much higher temperatures next week as the Spanish plume arrives with warm air from the continent on Wednesday, making some parts of the country hotter than Morocco and Tenerife. But experts have warned the Spanish plume could also bring a blanket of toxic smog with it.

The shutters of BHS's flagship branch in central London have come down for the final time - with no stores to be left by next weekend. The Oxford Street outlet (pictured right) is one of 58 closing over the next eight days as administrators call time on 88 years of British retail history. On their last-ever shift, workers spoke of their fears as the chain's collapse has affected 11,000 jobs and 22,000 pensions. Inside, the shop was littered with scores of red and yellow 'everything must go' style signs (shown bottom left) advertising as much as 80 per cent off. Retail billionaire Sir Philip Green (pictured top left) has borne the brunt of the public fallout over the closure, having been branded the 'the unacceptable face of capitalism' by furious MPs.

Khadiza Sultana, (left) 17, one of three pupils who left their school in east London to join Islamic State, is thought to have died in a Russia airstrike on the terror group's de-facto capital, Raqqa. She became disillusioned with life in the self-declared caliphate and was desperate to escape, but was told not to by former classmate Amira Abase, (right) 16. The two girls travelled to Syria with fellow Bethnal Green Academy classmate Shamima Begum in February last year. (bottom)

Pallbearers making their way from Inverness, Scotland, to the late Duke of Westminster's funeral on board his £5million private jet had to evacuate his plane after the cockpit filled with smoke. Five passengers were on board the Citation 750 aircraft when the emergency services were called after the incident at Inverness Airport yesterday. It has been reported that two of the passengers were due to carry the coffin of Gerald Grosvenor, who died from a heart attack on Tuesday aged 64. Emergency services were called to the airport after the pilot suspected a technical fault with the plane. The private jet - which belonged to the duke - is thought to have had an air conditioning problem which caused the cockpit to fill with smoke. A Highlands and Island Airports Limited (Hial) spokesman said: 'The pilot of a Citation 750 private aircraft reported a suspected technical fault during pre-flight checks ahead of take-off from Inverness Airport.' It comes as his family revealed a 'quiet private' service was held on Friday.

Thomas Rees, 32, and boyfriend Joshua Bradwell, 25, were reprimanded by a security guard at the Sainsbury's Local store in Hackney, east London, after a customer deemed their holding hands to be 'inappropriate'. Up to 200 people danced outside the supermarket this evening before streaming inside to fill the aisles and pledge their support to the couple. Shoppers appeared puzzled as the scores of gay men and women entered the store before starting a countdown to the mass kiss-in. Mr Rees and Mr Bradwell thanked their supporters before joining in with the affection. Mr Bradwell said: 'The number that turned out was absolutely insane, we were not expecting this at all.'

The X-rated footage shows the naked holidaymakers gyrating on a stage of a nightclub during a UV paint party in front of cheering revellers in Magaluf, on the Balearic island of Majorca. The events are popular at the holiday resort, which is frequented by many Britons every summer, and attract hundreds of party-goers. The explicit footage is the latest to show yet more debauchery in the Spanish resort known by British holiday makers as 'Shagaluf'.

After being told she had dangerously high blood pressure by her GP Petronella Wyatt (left) was prescribed with statins (right) - but instead of making her better the drugs turned her life upside down. She suffered pounding headaches, emotional mood swings and survived on a few hours of sleep a night. However, after consulting a cardiologist in Harley Street, Petronella dumped the drugs and found she was back to living a healthy lifestyle in a less than a week.

Ted McDermott was filmed singing Quando, Quando, Quando as his son drove him around in his car in Blackburn - and the adorable video has since gone viral with thousands of online views. Mr McDermott, 79, was diagnosed with dementia in 2013 following a long career as an entertainer, performing for the public in pubs and clubs. His recent carpool karaoke sessions with his son have helped raise more than £30,000 for the Alzheimer's Society.

More than 30 teams enter the crazy competition, where six-man teams battle it out in a 80ft by 50ft bog in the Chinese capital of Beijing, every year. The mud-covered participants(pictured left and right) take part in games lasting just under half an hour, with two halves of 12 minutes played and a six-minute break in between. The matches have no offsides or even a penalty spot, with players seemingly encouraged to play dirty (shown inset). Teams are allowed an unlimited amount of substitutions during the games given the demanding nature of slogging it up and down the difficult terrain. The sport of swamp soccer is believed to have first kicked-off in England as part of a training exercise for army personnel.

Elena Lillian Moore (right), 16, was stabbed to death in her house in Pico Rivera, California around 3:00am Friday morning. She yelled her ex-boyfriend Rory Murga's name before she died says her mom. Police have been looking for Murga (inset), 17, for over 12 hours.

These dramatic photographs, taken on Saturday, show villages near Viseu in central Portugal being completely surrounded by towering flames. Dozens of firefighters (left and right) are seen fighting the inferno on the ground as a water-bombing plane flies overhead (inset), releasing large volumes of water in an attempt to dampen the flames. But containing the flames has been a struggle - almost as soon as flames were extinguished in one location, another one starts elsewhere. Several families have already been evacuated from the region as the inferno continues. 

The skyline of London is iconic - instantly recognisable abroad, be it the Gothic imagery of the Palace of Westminster and Big Ben to the Art Deco re-imagining of the Oxo Tower. Yet it is set to change significantly over the next few years, with more than 400 towers already in planning, approved or under construction, adding to recent additions such as the O2 Arena (shown bottom right) and the Cheese Grater. But an ever-changing architectural view of London is nothing new, with the outline of the capital's buildings constantly evolving through the 20th century as areas such as Canary Wharf (pictured top) and the South Bank (bottom left) experienced mass construction through the decades. Here, MailOnline provides a look back at how London's skyline has changed through the years, and the stories behind the buildings responsible.

The shocking incident was captured on a security camera from a home in Ashford, Kent and shows the elderly man walking up the driveway to the front of the Audi. He then places his key just next to the headlight before scraping it along the paintwork in clear view of the security camera. The man causes visible damage as he drags the key towards the car door before walking back up the driveway and leaving the area.

These pictures show the incredible moment a man (main and inset) was pulled out of the rubble alive after a concrete wall collapsed on four shanty homes in Manila, Philippines. Two teenage girls, who were also rescued from the debris on Saturday, have since died from their injuries according to local reports. An unknown number of residents remain trapped underneath the rubble, which is thought to be home to around 20 people.

Community midwife Christine McDermot was 27 when she delivered baby Tom Archer after he was born in 1987. She grew close to the family and kept in touch with Mr Archer when he moved from Lancashire to Edinburgh to become a copper. So when Mrs McDermot retrained as a registrar and Mr Archer proposed to girlfriend Katie Black, he asked her to travel 250 miles to officiate at his wedding in Fife. Now the 56-year-old can boast to not only watching over Mr Archer as a baby, but also telling him: 'You can now kiss the bride'.