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GUY ADAMS investigates the nine Black Lives Matters protesters who blocked London City Airport recently. He discovers they are all the product of wealthy white families. They include Natalie Geraldine Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (bottom left), a well-connected cousin of actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes. District judge Elizabeth Roscoe handed out conditional discharges and a £95 fine each for aggravated trespass. But it will doubtless be only a matter of time before these surprisingly privileged young men and women try to once more cause untold misery for airport passengers.

Five years after her daughter Kate married Prince William and became Duchess of Cambridge, Carole and her husband Michael have cemented their place in royal life in a manner that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. In the process, they have nimbly avoided the traditional fate of royal in-laws down the ages. For years, the Middletons' predecessors have been solidly side-lined and rarely invited to Royal Family gatherings. So the presence of Kate's parents as guests at Balmoral, the most intimate and private of all the Queen's residences, is highly significant.

Helen Nicoll's friends and siblings insist that the description of the Cambridgeshire dentist (right) as 'pushy' and 'paranoid' does not match the 'kind, devoted' mother they knew. One of her closest friends, a dental nurse who worked alongside her for a decade, has told the Mail of Helen's private torment in the months leading up to her tragic death. She said Helen not only felt 'unloved' by her husband, but was certain he was having an affair - allegations he has denied. There were also tensions regarding the couple's children, with Helen and husband Stephen apparently disagreeing over the best way to raise them. She is pictured left with her children Tori, Tom and Georgia in 2000, while her daughters are pictured inset attending the inquest with their father.

Four months ago, Michele and Chris Newman's daughter, Lily (all pictured), was born in Mumbai, India, to a 25-year-old local woman - not a friend or a relative, but a stranger - whose womb they had 'rented' to carry her child for £19,000. Today, thanks to a delay in processing Lily's passport application in Britain, Michele and her husband Chris are stuck in their cramped rental apartment in Mumbai with their daughter. Worse still, they face being sent home to England without her, when their medical visa runs out in the first week of October.

Sunday night TV has never been sexier, with ITV depicting young Queen Victoria smouldering at Prime Minister Lord Melbourne, and Poldark's pecs back on BBC1. However, sharp-eyed viewers have spotted blunders in Poldark, with historians also commenting that mistakes have been made, like the burglar alarm spotted on a wall in the background (second from bottom right). Victoria, too, has been called to account for some glaring historical inaccuracies - like dancing to a tune that was yet to be composed (top far left) and the actors being better looking than the people they were portraying (bottom left).

Sarah Willingham, entrepreneur, and Dragon of the Den, is taking her family on a year-long world trip to make sure her kids' childhoods don't go by 'in a whoosh'. The family had a huge declutter before packing up, shown left, and putting their Oxford home up for rent for the year as they travel. Sarah, pictured centre and right with her family, said they will be keeping up with friends and family with Skype and email and that they are sneaking in maths 'by stealth' to make sure the children don't fall behind in their studies.

With a gloriously awkward 'mullet' hairstyle made popular in the 1980s, it's hard to imagine that this little blonde teenager named Renee Zellweger from rural Texas would become the star of the blockbuster Bridget Jones movie trilogy. DailyMail.com has exclusively obtained never before seen images from her years at Katy High School, in a sleepy community on the outskirts of Houston - a town she still sneaks home to visit, much to the delight of local residents. As these pictures show, Renee, now 47, went from a typically awkward young teenager in 1984 in her freshman year, growing up to becoming the most gorgeous girl in school by the time she graduated. 

Ray Williams, 79, has spent most of his life what happened to his father's RAF Lancaster bomber during World War Two. At the age of five he was pictured (inset) with his parents outside their home in Swansea, proudly wearing his dad's RAF cap. Now he has discovered the truth about what happened to it one night in October 1943 after a bombing raid in Hanover, Germany. But it is all thanks to a German aviation history enthusiast, Dirk Hartmann, who has restored Ray's faith in humanity.

Together with a Mail photographer, I made the 31-mile journey to Dover from the French port of Gravelines, which lies between Calais and Dunkirk, the two busy towns where countless migrants wait to cross the Channel and get into Britain illegally. Our findings about the UK's scandalously poor border controls come just days after six suspected illegal migrants jumped off a private yacht on the Suffolk coast and disappeared.

People have been sharing their alternative 'life hacks' on social media. Clockwise from top left: One man claims you can fix your aversion to broccoli simply by 'adding cheese'; Lynn's solution to spilling red wine on your top is 'just turn it around'; one savvy Instagrammer uses their sleeping dog as a 'phone stand'; one woman's jeans double up as a wine holder; and Dom Monte says if you put off healthy eating for long enough, you'll end up with a house plant.

Mark Zuckerberg's plans to demolish and rebuild four homes neighboring his primary Palo Alto residence (top right) have been rejected by an architectural review board. On Thursday, the board decided the Facebook founder's plans will form a giant 'compound' and reduce the city's housing stock, violating zoning codes and ideal land use (the four homes shown surrounding Zuckerberg's own, left). Three years ago, the 32-year-old billionaire spent $30million snatching up the four properties in an attempt to maintain his privacy after a local real estate developer announced plans to build a home with direct views into Zuckerberg's bedroom. According to application materials filed with city planners in May, Zuckerberg's plans include tearing down the four homes surrounding his house and rebuilding them as smaller single-family homes that will take up 20 per cent of the current footprint, without a clear view into his home (artist's rendering of one of the proposed houses, bottom right). The two single-story and two two-story homes would be replaced by three single-story houses and one two-story house. Zuckerberg's plans to keep the four homes as part of a larger compound where family and friends could stay is what the board took issue with, saying it would ruin the single-family home feel of the Crescent Park neighborhood.

QUENTIN LETTS was in Bournemouth to witness the changing of the guard at UKIP's conference. He said Nigel Farage's successor Diane James is not a born orator but had a few good lines. And he compared that famous kiss (pictured, left) with ones Prince Charles shared with his estranged wife Diana towards the end of their relationship (right).

Adult actress Maria Ozawa (pictured), 30 - star of X-rated lesbian, bondage and group sex films - gave her ID card and passport to immigration officials to update her work permit in Manila, the Philippines. She found photos which appear to have been shared by a government worker of her passport and ID card pictured over a keyboard with the caption 'I bet you know this girl' followed by two crying laughing emojis.

In 1959, 16-year-old Jonathan Franklin brought two rescued owl chicks back to Eton with him and raised them in his dorm room. Dum and Dee, pictured with the teenager in the late 1950s, left, lived with Franklin until his A level years, when he was actively encouraged to write stories about the pair after lights out. He even serenaded them on his clarinet, pictured top right, as he looked after them in his Eton room, pictured bottom right. His stories were published in 1960 and in this adapted extracts from his book, he reminisces about being the Owl Boy of Eton.

Horse Sands, up for auction for £875,000, is one of four forts ordered to be built by Prime Minister Henry John Temple, Third Viscount Palmerston, in 1860, following concerns over the strength of the French Navy and was completed by 1880. One of four, the forts became known as 'Palmerston's Follies' after they were never called into action, and are thought to have been one of the most expensive fixed defence systems undertaken in Britain during peacetime. Built from concrete and granite, the fort (shown top left and centre), which sits four miles off the coast in the Solent, comprises two floors and a basement and has a circular road along the inner perimeter, known as 'the Street' (pictured bottom right and top right). It was armed in both the First and Second World Wars, before being deemed surplus to requirements (bottom left) by the Ministry of Defence in the 1960s.

Solas, one of twins, was rejected by his mother after he was born, and had to be hand-raised. And Tara Adams (pictured), whose father Ian is the stockman on owner Grace Noble's farm near Banchory, Aberdeenshire, came along to lend a hand. When Tara jumps to her feet, yelling, 'C'mon wee man', Solas follows, albeit in a more lumbering fashion. Tara's other passion is dancing, and she likes to try out her latest moves with him.

People have been submitting hilarious pictures of school textbook fails - with some clearly being the deliberate work of page designers with a sense of humour. Clockwise from top left: This diagram illustration showing vital first aid techniques has been sabotaged by a bro-wielding vandal; a bizarre children's book illustration sees a seemingly-naked boy strolling along with a giant ruler in his hand; an engineering textbook shows a human hand sticking out from a truck; a bored office worker added the message: 'Help! I'm trapped in a barcode factory' to the back of a book; a dog-walker says 'Bonjour' to a couple who appear to be getting down and dirty in a bush; and a diagram of sperm swimming towards an egg is labelled as Michael Phelps.

Princess Anne, 66, left and inset, who was forced to cancel several days of engagements after being admitted to hospital with a chest infection, was seen dressed in her country garb at the Whatley Manor Horse trials, in Gatcombe, Gloucestershire. She watched the farrier as he shoed Zara Tindall's horse, right, before the Cross Country section. The Queen 's daughter was taken to hospital in Scotland for tests last week and has been at Balmoral recuperating. A spokesperson today said: 'As a precaution, on the advice of doctors, The Princess will not undertake the planned visit to Botswana and Mozambique at the end of the month. The Duke of York will now undertake this visit.'

Sonja Andersen (upper right) is one of thousands of people who applied to work at the Farmer's Daughter Country Market (bottom right), a bakery and food store located in the tiny village of Whycocomagh on Cape Breton island (the region is pictured left), at the easternmost end of Nova Scotia. The store put out a plea on Facebook urging other Canadian citizens to relocate to the island and take up a new job. The ad offered two acres of land for the new hires to set up their home immediately. Sonja and her 10-year-old daughter Ava began a long road trip on Friday to kick off their new life. Both were in need of a change after Ava suffered through years of bullying at school and Sonja had difficulty making ends meet.

An undercover agent who posed as the brother of a Florida professor's alleged killer got much more than he bargained for when he confronted the victim's mother-in-law as part of a sting operation. The unidentified law enforcement member was investigating the murder of Daniel Markel (top right) and looking to confirm a connection between hit man Luis Rivera (bottom far right) and Markel's former mother-in-law, Donna Adelson (left). Markel was shot dead in July 2014 while in his garage. Rivera and Sigfredo Garcia were later charged with the murder, but Markel's in-laws are suspected of playing a role in arranging the killing in response to his recent contentious divorce from their daughter and sister Wendi (brother Charlie Adelson bottom middle). To investigate the role the Adelsons may have played in Markel's death, the agent approached Donna on the street and said that his brother was in need of money, and asked her for $5,000 to help out the man.

Nathalie Dauriac-Stoebe (left), who is locked in a court battle with City tycoon and Phones 4u founder John Caudwell, says two more women have come forward to back her case. Mrs Dauriac-Stoebe, 38, claims that shares worth £15million were taken from her. She says the billionaire 'concocted' false allegations that she fiddled her expenses to justify sacking her from a wealth management firm which she fronted. Now Mrs Dauriac-Stoebe says two other businesswomen - Tracy Gehlan (top right) and Suzette Burger (bottom right) - have stepped forward to say a similar thing happened to them. It means Mr Caudwell (inset) faces the prospect of a showdown with the three women lining up against him in the bitterly-fought case. Mr Caudwell denies her claims.

The six vessels notched up a staggering 1,515 days in our harbours in the year between April 2015 and 2016 - and four of the state-of-the-art ships were stationary for more than 300 days each. The damning figures, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, have angered a former head of the Royal Navy, who has called for urgent action by Theresa May to resolve the problem. The Ministry of Defence has insisted the fleet was not 'sitting idle' and was meeting 'operational tasks'. The MoD also dismissed accusations the ships were at port to save money. However Admiral Lord Alan West, the former First Sea Lord, was not convinced and said more needed to be done to improve the situation. He said: 'We desperately need to get the destroyers out and doing their job.

Prince William rushed to the aid of a local dignitary today after he toppled over while welcoming the Duke and Duchess to Essex. The royals were greeted in Harlow by Vice Lord Lieutenant of Essex Jonathan Douglas-Hughes, the Queen's representative in Essex. But the Vice Lord Lieutenant fell to the ground with a thud shortly after the couple got out of their car. William rushed to help the stricken official, who got up looking somewhat embarrassed and later seemed fine. William and Kate arrived at windswept Stewards Academy in Harlow, Essex, to discuss how young people cope with issues such as starting a new school this morning.

In a video captured by surfing website Surfline, what is estimated to be a seven or eight foot juvenile great white shark is seen breaching the water just past the surf break at Ocean Beach (main). The rare moment occurred as dozens of surfers sat on their boards nearby around 8.45 am Wednesday. One of the surfers who saw the shark described the sight as surprising - but not scary. 'I saw it straight on,' surfer Nick Masturzo told Surfline. 'And when I saw that white belly go up and the super defined white of pectoral fins I knew what it was. I told everyone around me and went in.

Elena Yatkina, 25, from Novosibirsk, Russia, posts dance routines online but has come under fire for twerking while pregnant - with some people suggesting she could be harming her baby. Elena shot to fame two years ago when one of her more risqué routines clocked up more than 140 million views.

Anna Swabey, 24, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, passed away in her home after a long battle with a rare form of brain tumour. She had been due to marry her fiance Andy Bell (pictured inset) tomorrow. Anna was diagnosed with a very rare Grade Three brain tumour, known as anaplastic astrocytoma, in January 2015.