London has some of the most dramatic variations, with estimates for deprived boroughs far below those of wealthy parts just miles away. But there are also huge gulfs elsewhere - including Manchester, where children can expect to live a decade less in good health than in nearby Cheshire. The figures were compiled by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) using data from the most recent census covering 2010-12.
- How long can YOUR children expect to live? New figures show the SHOCKING differences in healthy lifespans across the country (and how daughters do best on the south coast)
- JCB tycoon quits anti-Brexit CBI: Digger manufacturer pulls out over apocalyptic warnings
- Scots 'have better quality of life than the English': Brussels bureaucrats claim they're more tolerant and their schools are superior
- Fuel prices are set to rise by another 5p a litre before the end of the month as soaring cost of oil and weak pound leads to a 'double whammy' for drivers
- Spag bol? That's British, not Italian, says Carluccio: Restaurant chain's founder pours scorn on the UK version of the dish
- Farage almost blew it for us, claims Vote Leave mastermind: Dominic Cummings says Out would have won by 60% to 40% without the Ukip leader's intervention
- Sir Shifty's £2m bonus for key staff as BHS went into administration: Green handed out money dubbed a 'Philip bonus' to 200 employees at the company's HQ
- Clarifications and corrections
- Southern Rail offers to meet the RMT tomorrow to settle industrial dispute but commuters face further chaos as union refuses to call off industrial action
- The under 35s who can't boil an egg or change a lightbulb: Survey finds growing numbers who still live at home do not know basic skills
- Only half of women talk to their mum each week: Young are most likely to keep in touch
- 'Who the hell buys a vibrator from Poundland?' Shoppers are left in hysterics after spotting £1 sex toys on sale at the budget chain
- Four in ten GP surgery patients delay booking appointments because they fear receptionists will pry into their symptoms
- Mortgage cost hike as interest rates are cut: Millions of homeowners see no benefit from the Bank's decision
- Mary Whitehouse was right after all! Barrister who fought over Romans in Britain rape scene says she has been vindicated
- Now Wikileaks reveals how Bill Clinton's closest adviser called Chelsea 'a spoiled brat' and accused her of leaving foundation staff member close to suicide
- Trump DARES the Clintons and the press to unveil more explicit audio from his past as he warns he'll double down on Bill and Hillary's 'vicious' real-life treatment of women
- EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton’s bodyguard revealed the former president viewed women purely to be 'chased, dominated, conquered and graded on a scale of one-to-ten' - as Hillary slams Trump for doing the SAME THING
- Donald's Great Escape: Trump keeps his campaign alive with barnstorming comeback after confronting Hillary with four Clinton 'sex victims' - and she FAILS to nail him over sleazy tape scandal
- The Donald hoists his mini-me on stage as his crowd roars – and doppelganger baby steals the show by saying he wants to stay with Trump!
- Billy Bush 'BRAGGED to his NBC co-workers about lewd Trump tape over the summer - and then broke down in tears believing his career was over when it was released last week'
- From a smiling pose to staring eerily into the distance: Chilling selfies taken by Gable Tostee with his Tinder date Warriena Wright show her in the minutes before she plunged to her death off his balcony
- Meth mother 'sat back and watched her boyfriend and his cousin rape, murder and dismember her 10-year-old daughter - then had sex with him 20 minutes later'
- This is what happens when you try and go in the 'secret back gate' to Area 51: Two mysterious men in camouflage pull out guns on off-road bikers
- Now Wikileaks reveals how Bill Clinton's closest adviser called Chelsea 'a spoiled brat' and accused her of leaving foundation staff member close to suicide
- Sickening moment teenage girl trying to take a selfie is SCALPED when her hair gets caught in a ferris wheel
- Trump DARES the Clintons and the press to unveil more explicit audio from his past as he warns he'll double down on Bill and Hillary's 'vicious' real-life treatment of women
- EXCLUSIVE: Money trouble? Kanye West took out a massive $2million line of credit against his New York apartment just months before Kim Kardashian was robbed of $5.6million worth of jewelry
- Wheelchair-bound woman is gang-raped by six migrants at Swedish asylum centre after asking if she could use their toilet
- PIERS MORGAN: The night Bill Clinton and his loose zipper let Trump dodge the bullet that should have killed his campaign for good - and then walk all over Hillary
- Heartbroken man commits suicide live on Facebook after girlfriend breaks up with him
- Buns of steel - but are they real? 'Male Kim Kardashian' obsessed with the star breaks the internet as he shows off his huge backside in a series of revealing selfies
- Would YOU do the same? McDonald's customer pours his drink over woman 'fat shaming' a man waiting to order
- Sex diary kept by married air stewardess who wrote about her romps with colleagues is at the centre of a legal battle after husband finds it and tries to serialise it
- You may now grope the bride: Chinese newlywed 'allows guests to molest her during the ceremony to raise money for her honeymoon'
- Muslim father rapes his daughter as punishment because she had become 'too Westernised' living in Norway
- MOST READ IN DETAIL
'Striking workers could cost me my job': Tempers fray as RMT walkout and a broken down train cause 'perfect storm' for desperate Southern rail commuters trying to get into London
Railway staff and union members faced angry backlash from passengers this morning as scenes of chaos caused tempers to flare. Widespread cancellations, delayed engineering work and a broken down train led to a 'perfect storm' on the first day of a planned three day strike by rail staff. Hundreds of passengers crammed into stations across the south desperate to make the commute to London. In Brighton (pictured top and left) frustrated passengers attempted to storm barriers desperate to get place on the occasional train that was running to London. In East Croydon (right) commuters were left standing on packed platforms for hours as they waited for their trains.
THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
Now Wikileaks reveals how Bill Clinton's closest adviser called Chelsea 'a spoiled brat' and accused her of leaving foundation staff member close to suicide
One of Bill Clinton's closest aides, Doug Band, called Chelsea Clinton 'a spoiled brat' and suggested she wasn't concerned about leaving a staff member close to suicide, a new crop of John Podesta's emails reveal. On the heels of last night's second presidential debate, Wikileaks released a trove of conversations from the inbox of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman this morning.
Look familiar? Chinese wave power device is suspiciously similar to a Scottish machine made at factory where laptops were stolen after visit by Beijing officials five years ago
The unveiling of a Chinese wave power (below) device has prompted suspicion of foul play after it appeared strikingly similar to a model produced at a Scottish factory (above) which fell victim to an unsolved burglary. The Chinese government visited a Scottish renewable energy manufacturer in 2011 after expressing an interest in their innovative new prototype product which used ocean waves to create electricity. Two months later, the plant suffered a burglary where laptops were stolen after the culprits scaled a perimeter fence. But suspicions were aroused when the burglar or burglars headed straight for the first floor office of Pelamis Wave Power, neglecting to take anything from the ground floor office of tech giant Siemens, according to reports.
I want my mum back! £2.5million-a-year executive quits after her children say they don't see her enough
A Tory peer has quit as the £2.5million boss of one of Britain's biggest firms to spend more time at home after one of her children told her: 'I want my mum back.' Ruby McGregor-Smith, 53, has spent nine years juggling her role as chief executive of security and cleaning staff supplier Mitie with raising her two children. But yesterday Baroness McGregor-Smith, Britain's first Asian boss of a top FTSE 250 company, announced plans to step down, saying this was partly influenced by the comments from her children.
WESTMINSTER TODAY
- Cameron's £22.5m blunder: Spending watchdog slams former PM for overruling officials and pushing through Garden Bridge project in London that may NEVER be built
- George Osborne takes a swipe at hardline Brexiteers as he echoes Philip Hammond's warning that people did not vote to be 'poorer' in the EU referendum
Heartbreaking pictures show a couple cradling their stillborn daughter who died after a midwife told her mother to go home and take paracetamol despite her excruciating pain
Angela Owens, from Warrington, Cheshire, had been rushed into Warrington Hospital after developing severe pains on a shopping trip. But despite Mrs Owens raising concerns about her unborn baby girl's welfare, a midwife who examined her recommended she be discharged. The mother-of-two refused to leave and was moved to a birthing pool to await labour - only for tests to subsequently reveal the child had no heartbeat. The infant - named Ella - was tragically stillborn, leaving Mrs Owens and partner Paul Humphreys, 31, with a few hours to build memories of the youngster in photos (shown left and right). Today it emerged Mrs Owens had been awarded an undisclosed sum of damages from Warrington Hospital (inset) following the tragedy shortly before Christmas 2013.
I could barely walk and struggled to see - but TWO doctors said there was nothing to worry about: The terrifying ordeal of a British backpacker who brought back a tropical disease from the Colombian jungle
Following a holiday in Colombia last year, Adam Millward woke up drained of energy and with a pounding headache. 'I knew it wasn't just a hangover,' says the 29-year-old from London. As he would later discover, Adam had leptospirosis - a bacterial infection that's spread through the urine of infected animals, such as cattle and rodents, and that you can pick up in contaminated water, practically anywhere in the world, including the UK.
Polish lorry driver admits killing three children and their mother in an eight-car pile up on the A34 while changing the music on his mobile phone
Polish lorry driver Thomasz Kroker (inset) admitted killing Tracy Houghton, her sons Josh Houghton and Ethan Houghton and her partner's daughter Aimee Goldsmith in a horrific eight-car pile up on the A34, Oxfordshire, in August (left). Ms Houghton (top right with partner Mark Goldsmith) was driving the children (bottom right) home from a family camping trip when Kroker's vehicle crashed into a queue of traffic and shunted them beneath another lorry. Kroker, from Andover, Hampshire, said to have been distracted for around eight seconds while he changed the music on his mobile phone. Pictured right, from left to right, Ethan Houghton, Aimee Goldsmith and Josh Houghton.
Two teenage sweethearts 'murdered a church-going dinner lady and her 13-year-old daughter before celebrating by watching vampire film Twilight'
A 15-year-old boy has admitted murdering a school dinner lady and her teenage daughter by stabbing and smothering them to death in their beds as they slept. The boy, then aged 14, crept into their bedrooms and knifed his victims repeatedly in the neck while his female accomplice, 14, listened to them 'struggling and gurgling', a court heard. The teenage boy has already admitted murdering the victims in their semi-detached home ahead of the start of an eight-day trial at Nottingham Crown Court on Monday. A girl, also 15, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denies murdering popular dinner lady Elizabeth Edwards and her 13-year-old daughter Katie.
Dramatic moment brave passers-by jump into a lake to save a pensioner and his dog from sinking car
Dramatic footage shows two men and a woman urgently trying to rescue a man in his seventies from his car which had plunged into a Hertfordshire lake and started to sink. Fortunately the lifesavers manage to get the back door of the car open and pull out the pensioner before the vehicle is swallowed up. He was taken to hospital but is believed to be uninjured.
Clownmageddon continues! Now a woman is forced into premature labour after being terrified by masked figure while children run in terror from a knife-wielding clown
A woman gave birth prematurely after she was scared by one of the clowns that are terrorising people all over the UK. The baby arrived a month early after a teenage boy dressed as a clown 'jumped out' in front of the un-named expectant mother in Whitwick, Leicestershire. Details of the event were revealed on an anonymous post on Facebook. The post read: 'Thanks for the concern about my friend. She was eight months pregnant and had a stupid 17-year-old kid jump out on her dressed as a clown.The baby came early but mother and baby are doing good. Please think, old people and pregnant ladies aren't the best to scare. It's a nonsense craze that needs stopping.' The post drew a series of angry Facebook responses, with some calling on the teenage clown to be arrested. The post drew a series of angry Facebook responses, with some calling on the teenage clown to be arrested. Children in Watford were also forced to run in fear when a clown in a car with a butter knife shouted at them.
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THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
Terrified and covered in blood, a wounded little girl cries for her father after she becomes the latest innocent victim of Syria's civil war
Crying, covered in blood, and with cuts to her head, the young girl, called Aya, calls out for her dad as she is treated medics. Doctors at the medical centre in Talbiseh in Homs wipe away blood from young Aya's face and scalp as her eyes search the room for her father and she repeatedly cries 'Baba' - Arabic for daddy. The terrified young girl was caught up in air and mortar strikes on Monday, before she was rescued and taken to a field hospital for treatment.
WORLD NEWS
- Terrified and covered in blood, a wounded little girl cries for her father after she becomes the latest innocent victim of Syria's civil war
- Furious Vladimir Putin CANCELS visit to Paris after Francois Hollande insists they discuss Russia's support of Syria's President Assad
- Pictured: ISIS migrant who planned German bomb attack is tied up with electrical cable and pinned down by fellow Syrians after shaving his hair to escape police
- Revealed: The giant German refugee camp where Syrian refugee 'bomb plotter' hid for a YEAR under noses of police (and claimed £333 a month)
- Wheelchair-bound woman is gang-raped by six migrants at Swedish asylum centre after asking if she could use their toilet
- Shocked passengers sit alongside a DEAD BODY after diabetic passenger dies during flight home from holiday in Turkey
- Thousands of Germans who committed crimes for the Third Reich were protected from prosecution for decades by ex-Nazi judges, historical study finds
- Fight to save Schindler's List factory where the industrialist sheltered 1,200 Jews from the Nazis is under threat because Czechs remember him as a womanising crook
- Barely old enough to understand why, a small child prepares to slice his skin open with a razor-sharp flail in bloody Muslim ceremony marking the sacrifice of the Prophet's grandson
- 'If I don't change, I'll be in one of these caskets': Terrified Philippine drug dealers enter rehab program where they build coffins for the thousands killed in Duterte's war on narcotics
- Putin sidles up to Erdogan to seal gas deal after announcing Russia will establish a Syrian naval base - so who else will Vladimir team up with in the region?
- The world is at a 'dangerous point' because of rising tensions between Russia and the US, warns former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
- Very Un-popular: Kim Jong-un is too afraid to set foot in parts of North Korea because he fears being ASSASSINATED
- North Korea will have 100 long-range nuclear missiles within four years, according to US report on its five biggest threats around the world
- Prisoners STARVE to death in Venezuela's jails as country's economic collapse sees food and medicine run out
- Pope Francis is 'saddened' to learn two lesbian nuns married in a civil ceremony in Italy, reveals Vatican official
- Five relatives accused of murdering a mother during botched EXORCISM - including her 16-year-old son - appear in court in Germany
- Refugee 'plotting bomb attack' who was captured by fellow Syrians in Germany 'is probably linked to ISIS' say police
- The world's most awkward handshake: Iranian minister under fire for touching a German man... who is actually a woman (and SHE'S condemned for associating with a terrorist)