The season has arrived for making new introductions at school and work. Etiquette expert William Hanson offers his 'how to' guide for shaking hands, making eye contact and conducting small talk.

West Midlands Police officer Beth Walker, 40, has been sacked after she was caught on CCTV brutally attacking her mother's love rival in a busy Asda supermarket in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire.

Torridge and West Devon MP Geoffrey Cox earns hundreds of thousands of pounds a year as an experienced barrister alongside his work in Parliament.

Isla Wiggin died from serious brain injuries after the crash on the A34 in Oxfordshire. Isla wanted to name her unborn brother Harry, and her family said she would have been an 'amazing big sister'.

A Greater Manchester Police officer has been suspended for gross misconduct after he used footage from the Hillsborough disaster during a training exercise.

Paedophile hunters Dark Justice tipped off police when 58-year-old Ian Skittlethorpe, from Gosport, Hampshire, told them he had access to two children.

Michelle, 29, has been dyeing her hair extensively for different acting roles, with her last change leaving her tresses feeling 'dry and crispy'. Expert Tina Farey tells us how to avoid the same fate.

Lorraine was forced to wrestle a tantruming toddler who finally agreed to try on one shoe before removing the rest of their clothing in an illogical protest at a High Street shopping mall.

Harry Stallworthy, 19, had dropped out of St Mary's University, London, after the break up and returned home to Christchurch, Dorset, where he committed suicide, an inquest heard.

British manufacturer, Futuru Medical, could be line to grab a share of a global market for erectile dysfunction treatments worth billions a year after successful trials of the treatment.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Elizabeth Gilbert announced that she was in love with another woman - her best friend and fellow author Rayya Elias.

Bosses at Zapatas in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, called 999 after the eight diners complained following a two-hour wait for their meals to arrive - and an agreement could not be reached.

Michael Baranowski, 33, broke into the home of Robert and Anne-Marie Taylor in Deeside, North Wales, and took cameras and a computer containing photographs of their 11-year-old daughter Caitlyn.

The frank admission was spotted under the FAQ section on Apple's iPhone 7 web page following the unveiling of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus in San Francisco yesterday.

In the last 20 years, wilderness regions amounting to an area twice the size of Alaska have vanished, the research reveals. The Amazon basin and central Africa have been hit the hardest.

Ankur Panwar has been sentenced to death in India for killing Preeti Rathi by hurling sulphuric acid on her in a fit of jealously when she rejected his marriage proposal.

Ian Gibbons was head scientist at the Silicon Valley firm when he started finding issues with the technology thar made Elizabeth Holmes (pictured)  the richest self-made women in America.

EXCLUSIVE: TV cooks Michela and Emanuela Chiappa, born in Wales to Italian parents, exclusively share their three-step approach to baby weaning in new book, Baby At The Table, with FEMAIL.

Lloyd Garratt, 32, is accused of engaging in sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl and inciting her to take naked selfies while working at Garstang Community Academy in Lancashire.

Presenting the judges with his homage to Norse God of thunder, the 26-year-old project manager sent social media into meltdown as fans likened his bake to a 'c*** and balls'.

PC Jason Lobo of Lancashire Police sent numerous text messages describing the scene where Adam Wilson died after being stabbed to death in a frenzied knife attack near Preston.

Within minutes of entering the Go Mobile shop in Bedminster, Bristol staff had persuaded John Williams, 78, to sign up to new deals with Sky and Three - and cancel his existing Virgin contract.

The Grolier Codex was discovered in 1965 by Josué Sáenz in a cave in in the highlands of Chiapas near Tortuguero, Mexico and is thought to date back to around 1230 BC.

Researchers at University College London have examined how Pygmies living in the northern Republic of Congo use medicinal plants and pass the knowledge between families.

Pamela Williams, 48, from Denbigh, said her two daughters, aged 12 and 15, both go to Denbigh High School in north Wales and claims her daughter was told to 'bite off' her false nails.

Barr Beacon School in Aldridge near Birmingham, West Midlands, made the offer after a crackdown on trainers, short skirts and low-slung trousers caught out students on their return.

Jody Bradley, 11, pictured with parents Shane and Lynsey, was reduced to tears when he was put in isolation on his first day of secondary school in Nottinghamshire for his short-cropped hair.

Eliz Cingoz, from Sevenoaks, has not been able to go to her school in Ide Hill, Kent because her mother, Lilly, (pictured with her daughter) is unable to walk without crutches and cannot drive.

Landlord Clive Davies, 70, is offering the low price despite the house in Swansea rising to fame after the resemblance was spotted by a local youth worker in 2011.

Health watchdog NICE say GPs and pharmacies should recommend the coil, which is inserted by a nurse or doctor, is more than 99 per cent effective, works as soon as it is in place, to women.

The American fashion designer has a $1billion business and a 122 stores, with clients that include Beyonce and Michelle Obama, but it was getting behind the camera that really helped him.

Scientists at University of Leuven in Belgium have created a 'family tree' of yeast microbes - focusing on beer yeast - revealing the first brewers domesticated yeasts in the 1500s.

Arnold Mballe Sube and his wife Jeanne, 33, currently share their three-bedroom, end-of-terrace home in Luton, Bedfordshire, with their eight young children but describe it as 'terrible'.

A 43-page Pakistani police report given to MailOnline contains pictures of the bedroom where investigators claim Samia Shahid was raped before being murdered by her ex-husband and father

Economic advisors working for the German government calculated £8bn has been spent already this year on benefits for newcomers such as accommodation and healthcare.

Mrs May welcomed European Council president Donald Tusk to Downing Street for a working breakfast today ahead of next week's talks among the other 27 EU leaders.

Playboy's Dutch publisher, Sanoma, had sought to get website GeenStijl to remove a hyperlink to photos of a television celebrity Britt Dekker, which were posted illegally.

The fashion clash of the titans is between Anna Wintour and Alexandra Shulman. The respective editors of US and British Vogue, they've clashed heads and have a long-running rivalry.

The two men are accused of helping two other suspects who Austria extradited to France earlier this year through 'logistics as well as through gathering information and arranging contacts.'

Investigators (one is pictured with a red kite carcass) found 20 dead birds on the Glanusk estate in Wales. The land belongs to the parents of former royal nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke.

Louise and Howard Nicholson bought their farmhouse near Rotherham in 2012. The property was derelict and they spent a six-figure sum renovating it. Now it could have to be knocked down.

Robert Ménard, mayor of Beziers, has claimed that being French means being 'European, white and Catholic'. He went on to complain that 91 per cent of children in some French schools were Muslim.

On a visit to charity Refuge, the 69-year-old royal heard horrifying stories including that of Rachael Slack who was stabbed to death along with her son by her ex-partner in 2010.

Passing pedestrians pinned the alleged thieves to the ground outside the jewellers near Windsor Castle (left). The window of the shop was smashed (right) and motorbike abandoned (inset).

Former shop assistant Judith Duncan, 23, from Invercylde, was diagnosed with the long-lasting autoimmune disease almost three years ago. But rather than hide it, she say it is now 'part of her.'

Keith Vaz faces a string of questions about the role of fixer Daniel Dragusin, a 31-year-old Romanian, was in hiding last night. He is also linked to the Washington Mayfair hotel.

Melissa Dye (pictured) first met the sick child when caring for her at Chestnut Tree House hospice in Sussex (pictured). She avoided being struck off but must now work under certain conditions.

Lucy Frazer, representing South East Cambridgeshire, came close to being left red-faced as she switched her legs during May's praise for Team GB's Olympic heroes.

Chump? Is that not a mite strong for the Rt Hon Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, former leader of the Lib Dems and sometime Special Boat Squadron commander, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

The Oxford student Adam Elliott-Cooper, 29, covered his face in mud while holidaying in St Lucia and and even copied Al Jolson's 'jazz hands'.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has axed a number of the old guard at the Kremlin as he looks to build a new, younger executive committee which is likely to include his eventual successor.

Father-of-one Dr Robert Stone, 62, who worked at Hellesdon Medical Practice in Norwich, began the extra marital affair with the besotted patient after they kissed during a home visit.

British schoolchildren between the ages of five and 16 were quizzed on the secret to success. The poll found that nearly 60 per cent of kids deemed happiness as the ultimate recipe for success.

Speaking on LBC's Health Hour, Dr Dawn Harper, pictured, advised the caller to try ear candling, rather than syringing, in an attempt to clear their ears of wax.

Help! It's Tom here again. You might remember that I wrote to you in the summer, shortly after I started dating this amazing woman called Taylor.

Dawn White-Prince, 49, from Plymouyh, has been married to Philip, 43, for 13 years. But despite enjoying a loving relationship their sex life has hit a wall - and the pair have no idea why.

They are currently only available in the US and Canada. However, the firm hinted that similar limited-edition buttons might be used again on other special occasions.

Avril, 60, who lives in a two-bed council flat in Chiswick, London, appears on Channel 5's On Benefits. She says she needs to make her £400-a-month handouts stretch.

The royal was seen arriving at Letchworth, Hertfordshire in his East of England Air Ambulance yesterday afternoon as shocked onlookers gathered to watch.

Lesotho, formerly known as Basutoland, presented Britain with 24 Spitfire fighter aircraft - enough to equip two entire RAF squadrons - during the Battle of Britain.

Jorge Morales and Dario Rodriguez were swept from the Colombian coast to shark-infested waters and had to tie themselves together and urinate on each other in order to survive.

Student Ellie Rogers, 18, of Tipton, West Midlands, and two friends booked a car to take them to Pryzm nightclub in Birmingham city centre - but the driver took them outside HMP Birmingham by mistake.

Unlike in the Olympics, Russia was last month issued with a wholesale ban from the Paralympics - a decision which was supported by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Children being raised as gypsies and travellers reveal on Channel 5's Gypsy Kids: Our Secret World how attending school can be difficult as they are often bullied and called names.

Two-year-old Kimberley Martinez, from Oregon, was born with anophthalmia which meant she had a cyst growing where her left eye should have been.

Cerebral palsy sufferer Ruby Doolan, eight, is told she will 'grow out of' her condition by shoe shop worker in Redhill, Surrey. The girl's mother, Danielle, was shocked by the insensitive comments.

The banyan tree is still shackled in Peshawar more than 100 years after inebriated British officer James Squid chained it down because he thought the tree was running away from him.

Hundreds of people had gathered on the banks of Medway Estuary in Kent yesterday to watch the chimney at Grain Power Station be obliterated but many were watching the wrong structure.

Beau Jessup, 16, from Edge, Gloucestershire, has so far suggested names for 221,000 Chinese babies in six months - and her unusual business is booming.

As well as having tests on their breasts, mothers will have to obtain a doctors note saying they are eligible for the manufactured milk in a move by the Egyptian Health Ministry.

For decades children's writers have used story books as a way of helping kids understand difficult or disturbing events in real life such as a grandparent with dementia or parents going to prison.

Since the 1940s, Brits have paired towns with counterparts worldwide, becoming increasingly imaginative. They include the twinning of Wincanton, Somerset, and a fictional Terry Pratchett city.

The Tesla Model S sedan had been driven by a man, aged 54, near the eastern Dutch town of Baarn, when the car ploughed into the tree at 100mph but the company insist the auto-pilot was not switched on.

Shocking footage shows the moment a pedestrian narrowly escaped being hit by an out of control tank truck in China. The incident occurred on September 7. The pedestrian was unharmed.

Horse-mad Maisie Goodsell feared she'd broken her back in the horror fall (pictured). But miraculously the 17-year-old from Sussex escaped with just bruising.

The unique fossil has been uncovered by researchers from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfur. digging at the Messl pit, in the oil shales at Grube Messel in Darmstadt

The latest survey from the RICS confirmed that professionals valuing property now expect house prices to rise 3.3 per cent a year on average for the next five years.

Scottish musician Charlie, from Los Angeles, was born without a left ear as a result of Goldenhar syndrome which left him feeling 'incomplete' - until specialist surgeons fitted him with a prosthetic one.

A floating living room has been spotted in the Dutch city of Groningen. The DIY project appears to consist of a floating dock with a motor attached and furniture including two L-shaped sofas.

Images taken in the North Korean capital Pyongyang show how high ranking officials drive around in gleaming Audis while ordinary workers have to struggle around the city on bicycles.

The Penang-bound Dragonair A330 had begun taxiing towards the runway when one of the engines struck the van. The van driver reportedly suffered head and shoulder injuries.

Heart-melting footage shows two pandas getting a massage in China's Sichuan province. The video shows the animals' keeper playing with one of the bear's legs and rubbing its back.