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Sarah Willetts (pictured), 28, a tutor from Newcastle, turned sleuth when her bag was stolen from an office at work. She used a mobile app on a colleague's phone to track down the thief. 'I knew about a phone app called Find My iPhone (inset),' remembers Sarah. 'All I had to do was type my phone details into a colleague's phone and we could see where it was on a map. I called the police again, but they were still too busy to send an officer,' says Sarah. 'So I decided to go after it myself.'

Britain's top 10 fish and chip shops have been named, and among them is Kingfisher Fish and Chips in Devon (top centre) which serves whole lobster and posh coffee to diners. Others who've made the shortlist include: Henley's of Wivenhoe in Essex (top left), Hennighan's Top Shop in Powys (top right), Hodgson's Chippy in Lancaster (bottom left), Dudley's Old Swinford Fish&Chip; Shop (bottom centre), and The Dolphin Takeaway in Country Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Diane James has sensationally quit as Ukip leader just 18 days after winning the race to succeed Nigel Farage. Ms James took over Ukip less than three weeks ago with a promise to 'wipe the slate clean' after a summer of bitter rows. She was seen as Mr Farage's pick for the post after he resigned on the back of Brexit success - insisting he wanted to get his 'life back' after decades hammering at the political establishment. However, she has quit the role after 18 days because of personal reasons. Reports suggest she 'shaken' after being spat at on a train on her way to Cardiff last week, and did not feel she had assurances from some members of her party. Bookies immediately installed Mr Farage at 10-1 to make an extraordinary return to the helm of the Eurosceptic party that has been riven by infighting since the referendum. But Steven Woolfe - - who was left out of the summer contest after failing to submit his membership papers on time - is the early favourite.

Kim Kardashian's former bodyguard has said he believes the terrifying armed robbery at the star's Paris apartment was '100 per cent an inside job'. Steve Stanulis, 42 (left), warned the world-famous celebrity that she should withdraw from social media and stop flaunting her riches (pictured right and inset) to help ensure her safety. He slammed Kim's security team - including her bodyguard Pascal Duvier (top right) for leaving her unguarded after she showed off a 20-carat emerald-cut ring worth $4.5million (£3.5 million) on social media. Five masked men dressed in clothes with police markings burst into Kim's luxury apartment in the early hours of Monday morning and held her at gunpoint.

An image of the armed gang who robbed the reality TV star in Paris was caught on a 'million-to-one' image after a camera facing a mirror reflected their getaway. The gang of intruders wore ski masks to hide their faces as they attacked the 35-year-old reality TV star and mother-of-two who screamed, 'Please don't kill me! I have children'. French police have now seized the footage from the Bel Ange nail salon (left and inset) on the same street as the apartment.

From frolicking on the beach (bottom right) to shopping (top right) and hanging out (main), Parisian model, Louise Delage's, Instagram profile looked like so many others when it appeared in August. However, it was revealed last week that the account was fake. Can you spot what's going on with these pictures?

Junior Cox-Noon (pictured), from Brighton, turns heads wherever he goes thanks to his impressive mane which has continued to grow since his birth in July. His hairdresser mother Chelsea Noon (left), 32, says it now takes her two hours to do her weekly shop rather than 40 minutes as she is stopped so often by people who want to speak to Junior. The infant has now been nicknamed 'Baby Bear' thanks to his thick locks that stand on end.

Photographer Jacques Nelles has captured life of a poor white community living in a camp just outside Munsieville , near Johannesburg, South Africa, in a series of depressing images. Jeanine (left), Chillo (top right) and Irene (bottom right, with her daughter and grandson) all have hard luck stories about their life in the camp. Around 42,000 white South Africans live in poverty - compared with 22 million black south Africans - but despite the apartheid era having long gone they tend to live apart. But nowadays there is at least a strange form of equality. While the black South African middle class has grown and many live in big houses, with swimming pools and drive around in BMWs like their white peers; many poor whites live in squalid squatter camps just like their black peers.

People along the East Coast entered better-safe-than-sorry mode Tuesday, flocking to hardware stores, grocery aisles and gas stations as Hurricane Matthew marched toward Florida, threatening to become the first hurricane to hit the state's Atlantic coast in over a decade. The storm was on track to rake the Southeastern coast and trek north. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said she planned to issue an evacuation order Wednesday so that 1 million people can safely leave the coast. Matthew, a Category 4 storm packing winds of 145 mph, pummeled parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Tuesday and is expected to head north over Cuba and the Bahamas before nearing the Florida coast by Thursday. At least nine people in the Caribbean have died.

A video has shown how workers in Vietnam inject tiger prawns with substances to make them look big and fresh when they are sold and imported to places like Australia. The footage shows tiger prawns in a Vietnam factory being injected in the head, tail and middle with a substance to make them heavier for when they are sold. Vietnam is the largest source of imported prawns in Australia and they are sold in major supermarkets like Woolworths and Coles.

A woman claims to have caught the elusive graffiti artist Banksy on camera in Melbourne. Shaky mobile phone footage shows the woman, called Mia, approaching a man (left) down a dark alleyway as he sprays paint on a wall. The mysterious man puts his hood up and walks away as the woman approaches the wall, where she finds graffiti depicting Australian anti-Muslim politician Pauline Hanson (right) next to what she claims is Banksy's signature. In the video, the woman races after the man, who turns and tries to block the camera with his hand, shouting 'f*** off, f*** off', before escaping down the alley. It is not known if the footage is genuine, or if the graffiti is a Banksy. Banksy has never been caught while creating his graffiti and his identity has never been confirmed.

How could so jellyish and unformed a political personality have been made Lord Chancellor? When she mentioned her predecessor, Michael Gove, the hall -stunned by her weakness - burst into applause. They miss the Gover. Sacking him from Justice was a mistake. Lord Chancellor! Here is one of the ancient offices, for centuries associated with full-bottom-wigged brainpower. Yet Mrs Truss could have been an airline stewardess Doris-ing her way through the in-flight catering announcements, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

Panasonic has been working to make its transparent television completely invisible. The firm recently revealed a new version that uses an OLED screen instead of a LED, and now when the set is in transparent mode, it is completely undetectable. This suggests the firm is one step closer to rid the world of monstrosities that hang in our living rooms.

These funny photos show how difficult life as a toddler can be. Parents snapped photos of their children crying and written the reason. They include broken crackers, dropped receipts and saying good morning. These kids are determined to wear their dirty underwear as hats and to shoplift pink socks, no matter what the consequences.

The average bra size in Britain is now a 36DD, making today's bras bigger than ever. In the 1920s, the average bust size was a 31A and M&S; sold a simple white cotton bra. Top row, pictured from left: M&S; made bras in feminine satin in the 1930s; by the 1950s bras were conical in shape; the 1960s bra, made of Bri-Nylon and Lycra, was considered revolutionary; in the 1970s bras were closely tailored for control with thick panelling down the sides. Bottom row: Lingerie was soft, feminine and floaty in the 1980s; cleavage was back with a bang in the 1990s; M&S;, started to stock bras in larger E, F and G cups in the 2000s. Today M&S;, who joined forces with model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in 2012 (bottom right), now has 1,300 styles of bra on sale.

The nest (left) was found at the top of a 55ft conifer tree (right) in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, close to where the insects were first seen. They have since been spotted in six different locations, raising concerns about the threat to Britain's honey bee population. Two hornets were first spotted in September, prompting experts from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to cordon off a 20km zone around the find. The latest find is the first time a nest has been seen. It has now been destroyed. The hornet (inset) arrived in France in 2004 and is now common across large areas of Europe.

Lonely Planet's new edition of its voyage bible, The Travel Book, is extremely heavy - but that should come as no surprise, because it's laden with descriptions and facts for every country in the world and is stunningly furnished with more than 800 photographs. These spectacular images capture the unique essence of exotic travel destinations around the world. The book's odyssey starts in Afghanistan and circumnavigates the globe from A to Z, ending with Zimbabwe, and visiting every single country in between, from Norway's Geirangerfjord and Seven Sisters waterfall (top), to the seascapes of New Zealand (bottom left) and the mountains of Turkey (bottom right).

In a chilling scene showing the aftermath of a crash between a truck and a motorbike, a 'ghost' appears to hang in the air above the corpse of a girl caught up in the horrific accident in Thailand. CCTV outside the Phibun Songkram Camp in Lopburi captured the event. Critics however have slammed the video, claiming the images are photoshopped and are 'disrespectful' to those involved.

The house, a Georgian manor known as Atalanta, occupies a 289-acre property in the Hudson Valley near Red Hook, New York. It was built in 1851 for Franklin Hughes Delano and his wife, Laura Astor Delano, who received the land as a wedding gift. Two more wings were added in the late 19th century to the 16,000-square-foot house (upper left). The estate now has seven bedrooms, a Greek temple-inspired pool house (center) and a tennis court. Inside, Atalanta's grand staircase opens onto an arts and crafts ceiling with a skylight (upper right). The property's 27 rooms (one of them is pictured bottom left) open onto views of the gardens and the New York State scenery.

NEW A quick glance at anyone's Facebook or Instagram today would make you think the world is filled with incredibly photogenic animals. But these hilarious photos serve as a reminder that even our furry friends can have an off day. From the dog who managed to get a stick wedged in its lip (top left) to the emotional cat holding its paw against its chest in distress (bottom right), these pictures show that even the most adorable pets can take a bad photo.

NEW For many people, autumn marks the most beautiful season of the year, as evidenced in these photos captured as the trees shed their leaves in Britain, Tuscany, Canada and beyond. Pictured (main) a forest pathway shrouded with fiery leaves in Derbyshire, (bottom right) a pair of hedgehogs nestled together in a German park and (bottom left) Scotland's Loch Ard in the early morning fog.

Lyndsey Mann (far right), from Armthorpe, near Doncaster, filmed the spooky clip (left) on her mobile yesterday afternoon which shows her dryer rattling on a still and clear afternoon with no apparent sign of what was causing the movement. Now Mrs Mann, who eventually fled inside, is wondering if it was a poltergeist or ghost that caused the weird goings on. In the video, which has been shared and viewed more than 2,000 times on Facebook, Mrs Mann says: 'I think it's stopped now' but is urged by a voice off camera to be careful as she approaches the washing rotary.

Dr Sharon Stocker and her husband Professor Jack Davis stumbled upon the remarkably undisturbed grave while digging near Pylos, an ancient city on the southwest coast of Greece. Among the findings were rings (picture top left), necklaces (pictured top middle), combs (pictured bottom left), and several beads (pictured centre). The grave and its bounty sheds light on the dawn of the Mycenaean civilisation, a transformative period in the Bronze Age.

Fourteen-month-old Elijah Davies, from Seacombe, Merseyside, suffers from a rare condition called anophthalmia. He will have to go through a series of operations to rebuild the front of his skull in order to have prosthetic eyes fitted in the future. Mother Zoe Hickson, 23, said Elijah is an 'absolutely amazing' child who is 'always laughing'.

Bob Greenfield (pictured) is running an unusual experiment in the streets of New York City: he's wearing all his garbage as clothing for a month. The environmental activist is stuffing the packaging, cups and pots into see-through bags strapped to his body for around seven hours a day.He expects to accumulate 100 pounds of trash when his 30-day 'Trash Me' project ends on October 19.The project, which will be made into a documentary, raises awareness to how much waste the average American throws away each day.