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Richard Keys ADMITS there is 'an element of truth' in the stories saying he had an affair

Football presenter Richard Keys has finally admitted there is 'an element of truth' in the stories that he had an affair with a 27-year-old woman. It was said that Keys, who previously admitted behaving in a 'prehistoric way' towards women, cheated on his partner with lawyer Lucie Rose (shown right). His wife Julia (pictured together, left), who has thyroid cancer, announced they were to divorce - but 24 hours later insisted her husband had not committed adultery. Confronted at Heathrow as he fly back to the UK from the Middle East for talks with his wife, Keys, 59, revealed that parts of the claims were true. He had moved to the Middle East since leaving his job at Sky Sports in disgrace after making sexist remarks.

Ed Miliband is leading demands for Theresa May to include Parliament in Brexit negotiations but Jacob Rees-Mogg told MailOnline: This 'typifies the disdain that the liberal elite has for voters'.

Jay Hunt (pictured) said she knew when she signed the deal with Love Productions that the stars were not guaranteed to follow, and affirmed her belief that the show would continue to be a success.

A probe has been launched following the alleged racially-motivated assault in Haringey. The victim was approached from behind by two men as she walked down the street (stock image).

The British Army booted out the soldier as it is revealed more than 11,000 troops have failed at least one fitness test so far this year, although men are in decline more so than women.

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The 'items of interest' found on the farmland in Kos where Ben Needham was last seen will be sent back to the UK for further testing and analysis when the search team returns home.

Mahamed Abdullahi, from King's College London Students' Union, called the traditional rendition of God Save The Queen 'outdated', adding 'f*** the nation state'.

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I forgive you, mum: Canoe son rebuilds relationship with mother Anne Darwin after she lied

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MARK DARWIN: Mark Darwin and his younger brother Anthony stood with their mother Anne when they threw a wreath of red roses into the choppy waters off a windswept pier in County Durham in 2004. His father, John Darwin, had disappeared during a canoeing accident two years earlier and been declared dead. What Mark could not have known as he comforted his mother was that behind a wall dividing the house from the one next door stood the 'dead' man himself. No wonder Mark and Anthony swore they would have nothing more to do with their parents. Yet now, there has been a most unlikely reconciliation between Mark and Anne. Pictured: Mark and Anne Darwin in London last week (left); John and Anne with Mark and Anthony as schoolboys (centre); and Anne joins Mark, his wife Flick and their children Joe and Max on holiday in Spain (right).

Theresa May's 'era of meritocracy' will be forgotten when she co-hosts a £5,000-a-head dinner for Tory donors at Englefield House, a stately home in Berkshire that played host to Elizabeth I.

In an outspoken letter to the Prime Minister, Lord Rowan Williams, senior bishops and Muslim and Jewish faith leaders urged her to display 'moral leadership' and help child refugees in Calais.

A 36-year-old man in Manchester was lucky to be alive after his neck was slashed by an attacker while travelling on one of the city's Metrolink trams. The blade narrowly missed his carotid artery.

X Factor's Brooks Way suspended from live shows after twin Josh 'kicked' ex-girlfriend

The 17-year-old (pictured with twin Kyle left), from Penarth is alleged to have attacked his girlfriend Amelia Clarke (centre and right) at a New Year's party, something the hopeful has strenuously denied. As the first live show of the series got underway, host Dermot O'Leary simply said: 'Sadly, due to circumstances, Brooks Way will not be appearing this evening.' Detectives allowed Josh to walk free after Amelia refused to press charges. Known as 'Milly', it's thought she met Josh while they lived together in the Welsh town. Amelia, who now lives in New York, has posed dozens of pouting selfies and snaps from nights outs on social media.

The bill for patients' legal teams - most of whom work on a no win, no fee basis - jumped by a massive 43 per cent on the previous year's figure of £292 million.

There are more than 3.5million EU nationals living in the UK, more than 80 per cent of whom will have permanent residency rights by the time Britain leaves the union in early 2019.

A teenager has died in a suspicious hit-and-run in Birmingham, minutes after being apparently being forced into a car during a nearby disturbance. Police are linking the two incidents.

Controversial new Left-wing peer Shami Chakrabarti also hit back at critics who have claimed her peerage was in return for her 'whitewash' report on allegations of anti-Semitism in the party.

Jeremy Corbyn has been heckled by protesters while attending a conference of peace activists. The Labour leader was yelled at as he arrived at Congress House, in London.

Sources told MailOnline that an examination of the MEP show bruising on his face consistent with a punch, with contusions suggesting his head hit the floor following his fall in Strasbourg (shown).

Nigel Farage and 'ex-mistress' are dragged into Ukip leadership farce

The abuse is contained in a leaked email sent by Annabelle Fuller (left), who was once named in the European Parliament as Farage's mistress. She now works for Mike Hookem, the Ukip MEP accused of hitting party leadership favourite Steven Woolfe (right) last week in Strasbourg. Both Farage and Fuller vehemently deny any affair. Woolfe was one of the recipients of the 'utter bitch' email, sent as Diane James (centre) was standing for Ukip in the Eastleigh by-election in February 2013. In the message, dated a fortnight before James came within a whisker of claiming victory, Fuller said: 'I understand from the man who knows best we've been lumbered with an utter bitch who is Marta Mk 2.' 'Marta Mk 2' is a reference to former Ukip MEP Marta Andreasen, who enraged Farage by defecting to the Conservatives in 2013, calling him 'anti-women' and a 'Stalinist dictator'.

Cambridge Calre College freshers boycott 'patronising' sexual consent class

No freshers attended an hour-long sexual consent workshop at Clare College, Cambridge. Women's officer Rosie Boxall later posted pictures of the empty auditorium on social media (pictured) and lambasted freshers for snubbing the event. She described it as a 'huge step backwards'. Workshops are being held at universities across the country in order to inform new students about sexual consent in an effort to tackle the rising number of assaults on campus. Earlier this month, students at York University staged a walkout in protest against consent classes.

Investment banker Sanjay Nijhawan was accused of murdering his wife Sonita, 38, (pictured) at their £2million mansion in a gated community in Weybridge, Surrey, on May 21.

My 88-year-old mother, who lives in America, paid a state visit to England recently, but she didn't get the best of welcomes at Heathrow Airport, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN.

Mike Hookem said he did not punch Steven Woolfe, describing the incident as a 'handbags at dawn, girl-on-girl' scuffle. Woolfe remains in hospital after collapsing at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

Daniel Moffatt (pictured), from Long Eaton, Derbyshire, 'systematically raided' Emma Willis' account for almost three years during their relationship, Derby Crown Court heard.

Selina Waterman-Smith attempted to win the backing of Lord Sugar as one of the hopefuls on the hit reality TV show last year - but was 'fired' by the businessman after a turbulent few weeks.

Lounging in the back of a limousine as it cruises New York, Bill and Ann Green seen enjoying the high life. But today Green, 60, will wake up in a prison cell instead of his Scotland castle.

Oscar Long, from Bury in Lancashire, was diagnosed with leukaemia at the start of July but his family had booked the trip to the U.S two weeks earlier sparking the refund row.

Labour peer Baroness Scotland was also offered a generous pension, a grace-and-favour Mayfair mansion and a chauffeur-driven car to become Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.

Dylan Crossey was knocked off his bike while cycling in Whitestake, Lancashire. He was described as a talented and proud footballer, who represented his local team almost 100 times.

The private party, in Las Vegas, was certainly a nice little earner for Mick Jagger and his bandmates Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood, with each of them pocketing £1million.

Mr Hammond, who has warned against cutting all ties with Brussels, believes tough guy Mr Davis should be banned from negotiations with the EU - and forced to stay at Westminster.

No wonder she’s cracking open the bubbly... this woman's clinical negligence firm bagged

Sheffield-based company Irwin Mitchell, which like many firms attracts clients with the promise of so-called no win, no fee agreements, was paid a startling £29,027,575 by the NHS in legal costs for medical negligence cases in 2015-16 alone, according to figures obtained by The Mail on Sunday under the Freedom of Information Act. During the latest financial year, the company secured £38,454,015 for its medical negligence clients, according to NHSLA figures, suggesting that for every £1 it secured in damages, it was paid 75p. But Lisa Jordan (pictured), Irwin Mitchell's head of medical negligence, accused the NHSLA of issuing 'selective' and 'misleading' figures.

The dramatic untold twist of the abdication crisis and how Edward VIII tried to flee the

A new book, The King Who Had To Go: Edward VIII, Mrs Simpson And The Hidden Politics Of The Abdication Crisis, looks at the romance between the monarch and Wallis Simpson - and how Britain faced its biggest royal mess since 1688 when James II fled to France in the face of a parliamentary coup. It was December 1936 and since Edward had announced his plans to wed twice-married Wallis Simpson, the Government had blocked his every wish - including his plan to make a broadcast to the Empire 'to tell them that he intended to marry Mrs S but without announcing his abdication'. The book also details how Edward (pictured, alongside his personal plane), had confided the scheme to one of his few remaining friends, Winston Churchill, who immediately recognised its danger. Churchill, then a backbench MP in his 'wilderness years', supported the King in general, but saw that such a move would be disastrous.

Police have taped off a high street (pictured) in the north London borough of Haringey after a man in his 20s was shot at about 11pm last night. He remains in a critical condition in hospital.

The prolific paedophile, 75, admitted abusing 11 children, some as young as eight, between 1969 and 1986, following an investigation by Surrey Police.

The Queen has been left distraught following the death of one of her two surviving corgis. Holly,13 who was in the James Bond sketch, was put down in Balmoral leaving one corgi and two dorgis.

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Jack Walker, 18, was jailed for 11 years after brutally attacking and raping a 58-year-old woman as she walked her dog in Cumbria. She wiped her own blood on him to get him to stop.

Officers swooped after spotting former Formula One mechanic Dean Smith (pictured) and Dipak Ram exchanging a holdall near a car outside a block of flats in Birmingham on March 9 this year.

In the past six months, Amy and Nick Brace, parents of little Marnie, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, have been ushered into rooms used by doctors to impart bad news with grim regularity.

ISIS jihadis trained in Iraq and Syria are now at large on Britain's streets

Just 14 battle-hardened ISIS fighters have been jailed. The shock figure is far lower than Ministers previously claimed and means almost 400 jihadis trained in Syria and Iraq are at large on Britain's streets. Imran Khawaja (left) was jailed for 12 years after he was caught trying to sneak back into Britain but Gianluca Tomaselli, (middle, right) who fought in Syria, is working as an NHS parking attendant in London.

London's Chapel Market traders told to stop bellowing because it's too loud

The barrow boys at London's 137-year-old Chapel Market in Islington may be silenced after complaints from well-heeled residents who have moved into swanky flats nearby, inset. They say the bellowing of the traders is too loud and have protested to the council. David Twydell, 59, pictured, chairman of the Chapel Market stall holders' association, who has traded in Islington since he was 12, said: 'Ever since the flats were bought and refurbished last year we have had no end of problems from the landlord and the tenants.'

Her partner Jez Hughes launched an online appeal on Thursday to raise cash for cutting edge immunotherapy in Germany that they hope will give the British actress (shown) a fighting chance.

The Northampton home of Michael and Naomi Parkes was petrol-bombed as they slept. But the couple were left stunned when police asked firemen tackling the arson to take witness statements.

Wayne Rooney could be liable for a £3.5million charge over a suspected tax avoidance scheme, it was reported last night, along with the new England manager Gareth Southgate.

Debbie Holden, 44, is in a 'critical but stable' state in a Cornwall hospital. She was caught up in a horror car crash on Thursday morning, prompting her sister Amanda to dash down from London.

A credit card with a constantly changing security code is being launched in an attempt to combat fraud. Oberthur Technologies is talking to UK banks about introducing the innovation.

Mr Crompton was suspended by South Yorkshire PCC Alan Billings in April following a statement the chief made the day after the end of the Hillsborough inquests.

Top-flight staff were routinely paid through personal service companies and face calls to hand back tens of thousands of pounds in unpaid income tax and national insurance.

In the past six months, Amy and Nick Brace, parents of little Marnie, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, have been ushered into rooms used by doctors to impart bad news with grim regularity.

French President Francois Hollande has launched a furious attack on Britain's decision to leave the EU - saying it would have to 'pay' for the Brexit 'crisis'. He echoed similar claims made by Angela Merkel.

Theresa May's former council leader dumps wife to be with 32-year old aide

David Burbage, 51, former council leader of Prime Minister Theresa May's constituency in Maidenhead, has left his wife, inset, for a woman 20 years youngers than him, who worked for him. Michaela Rizou, 31 from Greece, pictured left, has herself called off her wedding in Corfu taking her female friends on holiday there instead of having her destination ceremony. She worked for Cllr Burbage, pictured left with Theresa May, in the cabinet policy office in Maidenhead Council.

Britain's most prolific surrogate mother prepares for her 16th child

Carole Horlock (main image), from Colchester in Essex, was told by medical experts that she was at high risk of complications and that she needed to stop for the sake of her health, after losing the last child she attempted to have. However, she has now done a u-turn and travelled to Greece to have two embryos implanted in her because she was not allowed to have the procedures in Britain. Pictured are babies number four (top left), five (top right), seven (bottom right) and eight (bottom left).

Officers were called to Clacket Lane services at 10.15am today after reports of a group of suspected illegal immigrants who were discovered in a vehicle.

The supermarket chain has armed staff at 81 of its UK stores with a special smartphone app to record evidence. The scheme will be rolled out to 200 more locations over the next few weeks.

The girl was walking to school along Martson Ferry Road, Oxford, last Wednesday when she was bundled into a car then raped in nearby woodland - but she was not found for another three hours.

The paper published the first report about how Labour's leader had been forced to sit on the floor on a train from London to Newcastle.

The position puts Mr Watson (pictured) in charge of Labour policy on press regulation. He has been an outspoken supporter of implementing the findings of the Leveson Inquiry into the UK Press.

Mike Hookem said he did not punch Steven Woolfe, describing the incident as a 'handbags at dawn, girl-on-girl' scuffle. Woolfe remains in hospital after collapsing at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

Boasting he has a more impressive garden than the Queen, 58-year-old Keith Chuck from Bolton uses the same grass seeds used by Premier League football clubs to maintain his award-winning lawn.

The stepmother branded 'nasty, selfish and greedy' bites back

This week Central London County Court ruled in favour of Elaine Ames (pictured left), whose late husband Michael (bottom right) left his daughter Danielle (top right) with nothing. But she said: 'There is no victory here.' Not only did Danielle not receive a penny of her father's will, she was also ordered to pay her stepmother's £87,000 legal costs. In her first interview since the ruling, Elaine says it brings her little joy. 'The judge did the right thing,' she says, 'but there is no victory here. I just feel so sorry for Michael and what his daughter's done to his name. Calling him a philanderer and things was terrible. Awful.'

Jelly Belly Bean Boozled game among presents set to be 2016's Christmas bestsellers

Toy store Hamleys has predicted what it expects to be the top 10 sellers this festive season, including a new range of Star Wars drones (pictured main and inset) that can fly at speeds of 50mph and shoot lasers. The £25 Pieface Showdown is already a hit on social media, with posts abounding of youngsters enjoying a face full of cream. Meanwhile, the fourth edition of the BeanBoozled spinner game, also £25, will have players risking eating jelly beans flavoured to taste like rotten fish and spoiled milk.

A tooth belonging to a dog thought to resemble an Alsatian has been found in the grounds of a nursing home a mile from Stonehenge which is thought to be the oldest evidence of 'walkies'.

British women born in 2015 can expect to live 82.8 years on average and men 79. But women can expect to stay disability-free for only 72 years, while for men it is 69.9, the study found.

Scientists at Oxford University found the incidence of breast cancer was essentially the same whether someone did no night shift work at all or did night shift work for several decades.

Firefighter Patrick McBride, who won the role ahead of 20,000 hopefuls last year, is the latest to don the black polo neck for Cadbury's new Milk Tray Man in a £3million televised campaign.

David Cameron is spending most of his time focussing on his memoirs and had hoped to secure an advance to match the lucrative multi-million pound deal secured by Tony Blair.

The Home Secretary appeared to rebuke the firm during the Tory conference this week, suggesting it recruited 'almost exclusively' from Romania and Poland.

Clutching a blue satchel, David Cameron could be seen strolling down a street in West London and treating his daughter to breakfast before taking her to her primary school after skipping the conference.

Emmerdale's Leah Bracknell is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer

Fans of Emmerdale star Leah Bracknell who played Zoe Tate have rallied to her support after it was announced she has terminal lung cancer. Her partner Jez Hughes is raising funds to send her for desperate treatment in Germany. So far £2,547 in donations have been pledged from a £50,000 target. Writing on Facebook he said: 'Hi all. So it's been an incredibly tough month as my beloved partner and soul mate, Ali/ Leah, was rushed to hospital 5 weeks ago. Luckily they were able to drain a litre of fluid from around her heart which saved her life. Unfortunately the diagnosis for the problem that caused the fluid build up was lung cancer, stage 4, what the doctors call 'terminal.' Mr Hughes said Zoe has been a 'wonderful mother of two, loving partner and daughter'.

This was the heavy price Kevin Summerhayes paid for his success after setting a new world record - by a margin of just one second.

Maria Domanic said she is 'fed up' with people pointing, laughing and taking photos whenever she takes 14-year-old Jax for walks in her home town of Kingsbridge, south Devon.

Kavan Stables and his mother Cazzie Franks, from Broomfield, had already returned home when Studio 21 (pictured together) called them and asked them to come to Istanbul for the final.

First for the Army as soldier weds his groom on base in Cyprus

Sergeant Alastair Smith (centre) married civilian Aaron Weston (left) on British forces territory in Dhekilia, Cyprus in what is believed to be the first gay wedding (inset) on a UK overseas military base. The marriage - which took place on September 10 - was approved and officiated by Air Vice Marshal Mike Wigston (right), the commander and administrator of the Army's sovereign base area. Sgt Smith, 36, said he was 'overjoyed' to celebrate the occasion surrounded by friends, family and infantry colleagues.

Wallasey residents’ fury as police order council to chop down tree in local park

Youths started picking apples from the tree (circled, left) in a park in Wallasey, Merseyside, and hurled them at cars and passers-by. Police decided not to wait for the fruit season to pass and ordered the council to chop the tree down (pictured after, right). The decision has angered residents who have accused the authorities of over-reacting to the problem. One resident went so far to suggest the tree had been 'murdered' by authorities.

The next phase in the government's plan to sell the taxpayers' remaining £3.6 billion stake in Lloyds Banking Group will begin shortly, Chancellor Philip Hammond has said.

Andy Murray was reported as beating his opponent in 'straight sex' by BBC Scotland presenter Phil Goodlad in a hilarious slip when reporting on the player's victory in the China Open.

Joshua Smith, 12, panicked and almost drowned when he found himself in difficulty in deep water during a day trip to Danes Camp Leisure Centre in Northampton.

Syrian baby girl pulled ALIVE from the rubble is reunited with Abu Kifah

Abu Kifah, beamed with happiness and pride after travelling for hours through the dusty Syrian landscape to a patch of farmland Wahida Ma'artouk's family now calls home (left, the rescuer and toddler together). Footage (right) of Kifah pulling the then-30-day-old baby from the wreckage of her bombed home went around the world and reduced a veteran BBC presenter to tears. 'I carried her in my arms again and the night of the rescue came back to me,' Kifah told MailOnline after their reunion. But it was not without sorrow. Since their home was reduced to rubble, allegedly by Russian or Syrian warplanes, Wahida's parents were forced to move the baby girl (inset, in Idlib) and her brother Zakaria to a rough patch of farmland where they survive on even less than before.

UN envoy Staffan de Mistura today made an impassioned plea to save eastern Aleppo, warning the city faces total destruction, and urged Islamist fighters to leave so civilians can get aid.

The blast occurred in the Yenibosna neighbourhood of the Turkish city and one of the people injured is in a serious condition as police hunt for a man who was seen fleeing the scene on a second bike.

The category-three hurricane has triggered the worst humanitarian crisis to hit struggling Haiti since a devastating 2010 earthquake killed 200,000. At least 65 were killed in Haiti alone.

Mobster Antonio Pelle, 54, crawled out of his hiding place on his stomach to the top of a wardrobe that had shielded the bunker at his home in southern Reggio Calabria.

The loot of 540 boxes - filled with diamonds, gold and other valuables - are said to be buried 16ft underground in tchovice near Prague after fleeing Germans stashed them in a cave.

The data, collated by World Bank, has used leaked ISIS data and shows jihadis heading to the Middle East to blow themselves up are likely to be more educated than their countrymen.

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A staggering 80.6 per cent of people aged 15 to 29 years old in Italy now live at home, a study has found. This compares to 66.6 per cent and 52.4 in the U.S. and UK respectively.

Photographer Lee Chapman captured the quirky photo series which documents the lives of Tokyo's elderly away from the city's well known and modern entertainment districts.

A remote pass in the middle of the mountains has become a dumping ground for unwanted pooches, it has even been suggested that someone is deliberately roundig them up and abandoning them.

Cuban jet Flight 455 mystery still leaves questions over CIA involvement 40 years on

Forty years ago today a Cuban passenger jet trundled down the runway at Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados and took off, climbing into a blue Caribbean sky en route to Jamaica. Two bombs exploded 11 minutes later and all 73 people on the plane were killed. A memorial stands by the sea (pictured, left) overlooking the spot where Flight 455 came down. The DC-8 (similar to the one pictured, top right) was owned by Fidel Castro's regime and 47 of those on board were from Cuba. Cubans divers (bottom right) were sent down to look for the wreckage. But years later questions remain about whether the CIA was involved and there are hopes the thaw in US/Cuban relations will lead to the mystery finally being solved.

Norway's right-wing government on Wednesday announced plans to ban the full-face Islamic veil from classrooms and university lecture halls (file photo)

The Polish parliamentary commission session last night saw the bill rejected and the controversial legislation was withdrawn this morning before full assembly after a massive backlash.

Mosques are known in Arabic as 'masjid', which literally translates to a 'place of prostration', and have come a long way from the prophet Mohammed's home in 7th-century Saudi Arabia.

What made her conference speech all the more extraordinary is that it was delivered by an unelected Prime Minister and an opponent of Brexit, Boris Johnson, writes ANTHONY SELDON.

I was worried that, in her party conference speech in Birmingham, Theresa May spoke of moving on to 'the centre ground'. That is where parties, like the Lib Dems, die, writes NORMAN TEBBIT.

In years to come it will be known as the Rivers Of Rudd speech, writes DAN HODGES. What should have been the proudest moment of her career could easily have been the last act of it.