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Zenith Staybrite Ltd investigate salesman who tried to mis-sell retired woman new windows

Dominic MacMahon (far left and bottom right) claims his 81-year-old mother Dr Heather Collins (bottom right) was 'taken advantage of' by Zenith Staybrite Ltd after the sold her two doors for £6,000 (top right) at her Essex home. The company is said to have cold called Dr Collins and she informed them her front door handle was broken, an issue another company had quoted her £50 to fix. The following day a salesman persuaded the doctor, who is easily confused and is supported by three part-time carers, to part with the cash for the new doors. Her son confronted the salesman (left) at her home the next day and filmed the conversation, posting the footage to Facebook while venting his anger at the situation.

Bride dies 10 days into her dream Mexican honeymoon from heart attack

A newlywed bride died on her honeymoon after having a heart attack believed to have been caused by eating contaminated fish. Christine Fensome, 54, was on a dream trip to Mexico with her husband Andy Bennetts, 58, (pictured together, right) when she fell ill during the night on September 27. The mother-of-three is understood to have died from a heart attack caused by the fatal food-borne ciguatera toxin, found in reef fish contaminated with toxic algae. Christine, from Burghill in Herefordshire, was described as being a 'fit and active' regular gym-goer who doted on her five grandchildren. Her mother said the family was 'completely devastated' and her husband was today too distraught to talk about his wife's death.

Her voice breaking during an emotional parliamentary debate, Mrs Foxcroft described how Veronica lived for just five days after complications during birth.

Sarah Ford (pictured), 24, of Burnley, Lancashire, claims a shop worker refused to let her five-year-old son buy the same pair of glasses and told her: 'I've convinced a few spaz's in my time'.

Rob Temple, 32, the 'awkward' brains behind the Very British Problems Twitter feed says the hilarious account of the daily embarrassments of living in the UK is just a 'diary of his day'.

Track and field icon Jessica Ennis-Hill, who won heptathlon gold for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, has retired from athletics. The 30-year-old had hinted at retirement after Rio 2016.

A report by the Taxpayers' Alliance says Scotland would need to plug its deficit through massive cuts or a tax hike if it hopes to meet the criteria for rejoining the EU.

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An article on July 30 described the late IRA leader Joe McCann as a 'notorious killer'. In fact, he was never arrested for or charged with such an offence. We are happy to set the record straight.

Brands axed from Tesco after row with supplier Unilever demanding price rise

Consumer goods giant Unilever has stopped delivering Marmite and more than 200 other products to Tesco after it refused a 10 per cent price hike. The Anglo-Dutch firm, an active Remain supporter, says it has been forced to increase prices due to the falling value of the pound in the wake of the vote to leave the EU. Critics claim the multi-national is 'using Brexit as an excuse to raise prices'. The stand-off means popular products including Marmite, Flora, Persil, Dove, PG Tips, Vaseline and Ben & Jerry's are no longer available on Tesco's website (bottom left). Marmite still remains in stock in some Tesco branches (centre, a Bristol shop) but the remaining jars are being snapped up (Clerkenwell, London, top right, and Old Trafford, Manchester, bottom right) and will not be replaced once shelves are empty. While some shops still have MarmiUnilever's CFO today claimed other customers had accepted the price hike. But other major supermarkets are believed to be among those locked in negotiations, meaning Unilever products could still be pulled from other retailers. Now outraged customers have turned on Unilever, threatening to boycott products in a bid to 'take back control' from the 'European giant'. 

Fear over the availability of Marmite has got people worried, after supermarket giant Tesco announced it would be in short supply.

The world's supply of Marmite is made in a factory in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire and the spread, which celebrates its 114th birthday this year, has never been more popular.

As shoppers reel from Unilever's axing of 200 popular products from Tesco, FEMAIL reveals where you can still buy your PG Tips, Persil and Pot Noodle AND save money

The multi-national firm is at loggerheads with Tesco after saying the fall in the Pound since the Brexit vote meant it had to increase prices by 10 per cent. Commons Leader

Eurocrats are preparing calculations for the sums that need to be divided up as the UK entangles itself from the bloc, and are expected to present a huge final bill.

Mr Banks set up Leave.EU to pursue his own vision of the Brexit campaign and wanted to defeat Vote Leave in the race for the official Out campaign designation.

Blackmailer demands ransom for family's missing pet and sends them picture of a hanged

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Beloved beagle Charlie (pictured with owner Olivia Spionkowska) went missing on a walk in Tipton, West Midlands on Saturday. His devastated owners put up posters, which led to them being contacted by a cruel blackmailer who suggested Charlie had been taken by dog-fighters. The blackmailer tried to extort a ransom through a series of text messages (inset top right) before claiming that Charlie had been hanged and sending a sick picture of a dead dog (inset bottom). The family hope it is just a sick hoax.

Kerry Card, 36, from Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, was taken to hospital after 'gentle giant' Michal Kmieciak, 36, who she met on a dating app in 2013, assaulted her.

Apologising for his actions - which saw himself and fellow gymnast Luke Carson ridicule the way in which Muslims pray - the 27-year-old Olympian confessed that he now fears for his life.

The 68-year-old had flown into Brindisi Airport in Apulia in southern Italy and was making his way to the terminal building after leaving the aircraft when he pulled down his trousers and defecated.

Cody-Anne Jackson, 19, of Packett Street, Fenton in Stoke-on-Trent, was charged with murder after the body of two-year-old Macy Hogan (pictured), was found in a house in the street on Monday.

Soaring property prices mean the average brick in a UK house is worth more than £47, based on the property’s overall value. This same brick would have cost £35.70 in 2006.

Will Young's Strictly pay cheque 'is SLASHED from £25K to just £5K

Will Young's Strictly pay cheque has reportedly been slashed since he departed the show on Tuesday.  A show insider told The Sun that BBC bosses have taken his pay from a whopping £25,000 down to just £5,000 after he broke his contract as its claimed he only quit for fear he would not win. Shortly before the claims, the 37-year-old hitmaker broke his silence in a text to Radio Two presenter Chris Evans to say he was fine, after citing mysterious 'personal reasons' for his departure. 

The Care Quality Commission has rated 81 per cent of hospital trusts as either inadequate or requiring improvement to meet basic safety standards.

At least 800,000 patients are registered with unsafe GPs, the Care Quality Commission found. Patients are reportedly not being invited in for routine cancer screening.

The nano-memory tech pioneered by Jim Scott is used around the world. But the US-born scientist from a humble background who works at St Andrews University revealed that he gets no royalties at all.

In an effort to appease local authorities, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said they could apply for £70million of Government grants - but critics say this is not nearly enough.

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling will announce a Delay Repay scheme which will be trialled on a number of services, including troubled Southern Rail, before being rolled out across the country

Banks lent £12.2billion to home-buyers in August, up 14 per cent from July, when there was a lull in mortgage lending following the EU referendum in June.

British skier who suffered horrific burns after Alpine coach crash awarded over £1m

Catrin Pugh, 22, is believed to be the only person in the world to survive such severe burns, which ravaged every inch of her body apart from her scalp and the soles of her feet. She spent three months in an induced coma, has had more than 200 operations and is slowly rebuilding her life since the crash devastating coach crash in the French Alps in 2013. Miss Pugh, from Rossett, in Wrexham, North Wales, has recently been told damage to her optic nerve is permanent, which has left her with no central vision and unable to see straight ahead. She has now been awarded a seven-figure payout, which will help her pay for future needs as a result of the crash, and has decided to be an ambassador for the Katie Piper Foundation, set up by the former model acid attack victim to help people living with severe scars.

George Butterworth, a campaigner for Cancer Research UK, has blasted advertising methods used to promote e-cigarettes, saying that they glamorise smoking rather than getting people to quit.

The explorer said the record-breaking trip to the Antarctic was on his 'bucket list' but that officials had banned winter travel in that part of the world as it is too remote.

Heavy cannabis users, who smoke several times a day, have more fragile spines and hips, a study by the University of Edinburgh found.

Vigilante peadophile hunters film man who thought he was meeting a 12-year old girl

Mohammed Hussein, 30, a married butcher, thought he was about to meet a 12-year-old girl at the Bromley Court Hotel, but was snared by a paedophile hunting group. Prior to their meeting he asked whether she was a virgin and if he could sleep with her so she was 'no more [a] virgin'. He arrived at their meeting with a rucksack containing Viagra pills, five condoms, 11 silk lubricant sachets and sex-prolonging delay spray. He had claimed he would have sent the girl home if she was actually 12, but a jury did not believe him and he was found guilty at Inner London Crown Court of attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming.

Japanese motor giant Toyota has been forced to recall 340,000 hybrid cars worldwide due to issues with brakes, after reports of crashes injuries and deaths have been received by the company.

The charity Hubbub is aiming to collect 20,000 coffee cups in Manchester in order to turn them into useful plastic products. Around 2.5billion cups handed out in Britain every year end up in landfill.

Consumers face spending more than £100 extra to keep their homes warm this winter as energy companies blame the price hikes on increases in the wholesale cost of gas and electricity.

Benedict Emmerson QC, (pictured with George Clooney) was suspended from his duties, soon after his deputy, Elizabeth Prochaska, quietly quit the inquiry in mysterious circumstances

Gary McKinnon has called on the Government to prevent the extradition of fellow computer hacker and Asperger's sufferer Lauri Love. Mr Love, 31, faces up to 99 years in a US jail if convicted.

A 32-year-old scientist, Damian Bowen, died while working at a trust attached to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital when his lab filled with nitrogen as he was freezing blood samples.

Manchester drug dealing student avoids jail after claiming it would blight her career

Privately-educated Poppy Murray acted as a go-between for her younger brother Joel (inset), who dealt ‘recreational’ drugs to Manchester’s party set. They were arrested after police raided their family's semi-detached home in Middleton, Greater Manchester and found amphetamines stuffed in a freezer. Joel Murray was jailed for seven years for supplying cocaine but his older sister - who claimed she did not see 'anything morally wrong' with supplying drugs to friends - got a suspended sentence.

A Dorset man, 21, has been charged with the murder of his partner's two-year-old son who died of blunt force trauma in May this year. The child's mother was arrested but released without charge.

A 31-year-old London broker, William Man, collapsed during the Royal Parks half marathon and could not be resuscitated - leaving behind a daughter, and a wife pregnant with their second child.

South Yorkshire Police Chief Constable David Crompton (pictured) has previously been suspended after being accused of trying to shift the blame on Liverpool fans.

Estelle O'Sullivan, 37, lost three litres of blood after the Caesarian operation to deliver her twins and died from a cardiac arrest soon after. She was a patient at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, Berkshire.

Labour sources told MailOnline that Jeremy Corbyn (pictured) 'was going to sack Conor McGinn anyway' after he blamed him for orchestrating the failed coup in the summer.

Sir John Sawers, who ran the Secret Intelligence Service from 2009 to 2014, indicated the politician's comments could risk retaliation against British diplomats in Russia.

The intrepid mouse was spotted by visitors inside the Jubilee Cafe inside the Palace of Westminster on Tuesday afternoon having avoided almost 2,000 traps and a dedicated pest control officer.

Woman who has spent £15,000 on Botox, filler and THREE boob jobs says she won't stop until

Leza Drummond, 34, a barber from Bangor, Northern Ireland, has had three boob jobs as well as Botox and lip filler. But her boyfriend Graeme McAuley, 25, pictured with Leza right, says he preferred her before her latest boob job and is worried her habit is getting out of control. Pictured (left to right): Leza in 2004 looking natural; pictured after having FF implants and with her latest GG breast. Inset: Leza has had her lips plumped so often she has lost count of the amount filler she has injected.

Thames Valley Police have arrested a man Oxford on suspicion of attempted murder after a woman was found on fire in a city estate. She suffered 80 per cent burns as a result of the incident.

Harjit Singh (pictured) was branded a 'predator' by police after he was jailed for more than six years for singling out vulnerable victims in north London.

The disgraced former Imam of a West Midlands mosque, Hafiz Rahman, has fled to Bangladesh ahead of his sentencing for the historical sexual abuse of two young girls at a mosque.

Shajahan Chowdhury, 47, of Keighley, West Yorkshire, swapped the Indian food for the shell of a 49ft Hawker Siddeley HS125 jet which he now plans to turn into a restaurant.

The Bristol University Cheerleading Society was set to host a chav night, but one of the cheerleaders complained that the theme could be seen as an appropriation of working class culture.

Ian Stewart, 55, is accused of killing writer Helen Bailey, who wrote the Electra Brown and Daisy Davenport books. Her body was found in the grounds of her home in Royston, Hertfordshire.

Rider's risky overtake causes calamitous crash sending cyclists sprawling across the floor

The dramatic clip shows a woman powering on the pedals to attempt a daring overtake on a London cycle-superhighway. But her risky manoeuvre backfires and she creates a painful pile-up. A commuter captured the crash from multiple angles. His videos show the female cyclist smashing into another rider which launches her out of the saddle. The man she hits is also seen somersaulting off onto the concrete path, as other bikers are forced to slam on the brakes.

Schoolboy Lewis Calland, seven, and his nine-year-old sister Nicole (pictured together), passed the man while on a day trip to Rhyl, Denbighshire, with their mother Toni.

Mustafa Haji, 24, bought the Ford Galaxy for £2,700 and was stunned to find it clamped outside his home in Golders Green, North London, just weeks later - because he owed no money.

Aundrea Bannatyne, 42, from Dundonald in Belfast, given less than a year to live, has issued a desperate plea for £100,000 for pioneering treatment to give her a 'second chance of life'.

South Dakota baby smiles for first time after having her tongue reduced in size

Paisley Morrison-Johnson, from South Dakota, has Beckwith Wiedemann syndrome, a rare overgrowth disorder affecting around one in every 14,000 births worldwide. It meant her tongue grew to twice the size of her mouth and gave her problems breathing and eating. She spent the first six months of her life being fed through a tube directly into her stomach. But she has now had two operations, removing around eight inches of muscle from her mouth. Her mother, Madison Kienow, said: 'Since recovering she smiled for the very first time. I couldn't believe it and was shocked by how beautiful my little girl looked.'

Three West Midlands Police officers have been charged with perverting the course of justice and perjury in connection with the death of Kingsley Burrell in 2011, the CPS has said.

Port, of Barking, east London, is accused of murdering four men over 15 months by spiking their drinks with date rape drug GHB in order to have sex with them at his flat while they were unconscious.

Nathan Sumner, 35, from Sheffield, who attacked PC Lisa Bates with an axe leaving her head split open screamed 'I am the King' when he was detained, a court heard today.

The trial of a 15-year-old girl, who denies murdering Elizabeth and Katie Edwards, was also told that she and her boyfriend shared a bath after the killing in Spalding, Lincolnshire.

Farm worker Paul Milner, 47, from Shropshire, was left unrecognisable after the hook fractured his eye socket and jaw bone and smashed his skull, leaving his head permanently indented.

Manchester bouncers leave a message for reveller who left their phone behind

Manchester doormen Chris and Joe (pictured left) showed a reveller why you should keep tight hold of your phone during a night out. The pair picked up Ali Cook's iPhone when she dropped it in the Northern Quarter's Walrus bar (pictured right). But, before returning it to Ms Cook, the cheeky bouncers decide to record a warning message using the phone's video camera.

Hang Zhang, 25, made it through the main gate but was detained by police after a violent struggle in the Buckingham Palace courtyard, pictured, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.

A man took to the tracks at Hatfield Station in Hertfordshire and blocked a London Kings Cross-bound train from departing, leaving commuters stranded during rush-hour.

James Dicks, 28, told a court that he screamed as he grappled with a former friend and colleague in Windsor, Berkshire, but a bystander said he could not intervene because the defendant 'had a knife'.

Dr Michael Brookman, 56, a former teacher and junior doctor in Exeter, is accused of conducting the inappropriate exam, as well a number of other examples of misconduct at the medical tribunal.

Lecturer Nia Davies, 31, from Cardiff, began a 'sexual relationship' with her teenage pupil - even sharing a bed with her on trips to galleries, a hearing was told.

A jury heard that the pupil, aged 14 at the time, lured her victim to a quiet corner of their Hampshire school grounds with the promise of giving her a present before stabbing her.

GBBO's Selasi's girlfriend share Instagram photos of 'bake off nights' with Benjamina

She became the envy of women across the nation when Great British Bake Off contestant Selasi Gbormittah announced he had a girlfriend. And now MailOnline can reveal the fan favourite's other half is a stunning property worker who has been giving him constant support behind-the-scenes. Strawberry blonde Joelle Rainford, 28, has been dating the talented baker for more than two-and-a-half years and the couple (pictured together left) live together in London. She does not appear to have been fazed by his flirty relationship with his co-star Benjamina Ebuehi ( - who crashed out of the competition on Wednesday.

The body of what is believed to be a blue shark (pictured) was discovered by a passer-by walking his dog on Tentsmuir Beach next to the River Tay in Fife on Monday.

BHS has been on Princes Street, Edinburgh, for more than half a century but the store was closed at the beginning of August after the retail chain collapsed, with hundreds of workers losing their jobs.

Gillian Rew (pictured) admitted last month to drinking eight glasses of wine on the trip to Lockerbie in Scotland in September 2014 before having 'improper contact' with pupils.

Des Gunewardena, CEO of D&D; London, says that he was paid just £1,254 for shares in Sir Terence Conran's holding company that he has now had valued at £3million.

A team of cleaners in Somerset drained the Great Bath - 1.6 metres (5ft) deep when full - to begin the task. The deep-clean prevents the pools from becoming murky and stops algae growing.

Red kites flock to a 200-acre sheep farm in Powys every day, where conservation efforts are paying off. Hundreds of the birds mass in the skies above Gigrin Farm, an RSPB feeding station.

Collectors have bid £65,000 for a £5 note on eBay - because it has AK47 on the serial number. The note was put on the site by seller Gareth Wright on and has sparked a bidding war.

On October 14 1066, Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, was killed on the battlefield as he fought the invading Normans, and William the Conqueror seized the English throne.

Gayle Newland, 25, was jailed for eight years in November after she fooled her friend into having sex with her by pretending to be a man but will now face a retrial after the result in London today.

Is this the grandest townhouse in Britain? Ten bedroom home in Belgravia goes up for sale

For a mere £30million, you can become the owner of this grand property in the exclusive London enclave of Belgravia. It comes with not one, but two, separate mews houses for use as staff accommodation, as well as a wine store, vault, several terraces, and space for two cars. The elegant Georgian home in Wilton Crescent is within a stone's throw of Hyde Park and Buckingham Palace Gardens.

Ruth Littlejohns, 37, snapped a photograph of the dramatic spectacle in Falmouth this morning. She was among a number of people who reported seeing the 'twister' in the town.

Customs House in Portland, Dorset, has uninterrupted views over Weymouth Bay and the Jurassic coastline - and is now a beautifully converted three-bedroom home.

The sale of the Green Dragon Inn in the North Yorkshire Dales comes with 5.5 hectares of parkland, a visitor centre, a campsite and Hardraw Force - England's highest single drop waterfall.

The German automaker, headquartered in Munich, unveiled its Motorrad Vision Next 100, a sleek, self-balancing prototype the company released as part of its 100th anniversary celebrations.

The former soldiers appear on screen in Channel 4's SAS: Who Dares Wins, a brutal reality TV show in which 25 ordinary men are put through SAS training in an Ecuadorian jungle.

Party Pieces is selling a gruesome bodysuit depicting a pet rabbit squashed on the road (pictured) for kids aged seven up. Parents fear that the gory outfit could upset youngsters.

Fury in Germany as Syrian ISIS terrorist hangs himself in his prison cell despite 24/7

Jaber Albakr (pictured) was detained on Sunday in Leipzig in eastern Germany after three days on the run following a tip-off that he may have been looking for associates in the city. He had been under round-the-clock surveillance due to an acute risk of suicide and hunger strike. According to security sources, he had built 'a virtual bomb-making lab' in a flat in Chemnitz and was thought to have planned an attack against either one of Berlin's two airports or a transport hub in his home state of Saxony. A major manhunt (inset) had been launched for Albakr, who was believed to have links to ISIS, after police raided an apartment in the city of Chemnitz and 1.5kg of 'an explosive substance more dangerous than TNT'.

Two baggage handlers were seriously injured and 193 passengers were left stranded after a section of the Aer Lingus passenger jet became engulfed in flames at Orlando International Airport.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. The young Shia Muslim looks lost as her head is held still before a blade slices open her scalp as another child cries in the Muslim Ashura festival in Chennai, India.

The helicopter flew just a matter of feet away from the edge of the 7,200ft Torre del Carnizoso in Spain after two climbers became trapped and called the Spanish Civil Guard for help.

Politicians and high-ranking figures are said to have received a warning from president Vladimir Putin to bring their loved-ones home to the 'Motherland', according to local media.

Vikram Agnihotri, 45, from Indore in Central India lost his arms in an accident when he was just seven and now uses his right foot to steer and his left foot to change gears and operate the pedals.

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Much to my surprise, the BBC played with a remarkably straight bat during the weeks leading up to the referendum vote on June 23, writes STEPHEN GLOVER.

Three months after the referendum, the BBC's brief flirtation with impartiality has evaporated and the corporation has reverted to its Europhile roots with a vengeance.

Yes folks, just when you thought it was safe to take a fresh interest in our wonderfully liberated post-Brexit politics, that serial meddler Ed Miliband is back.