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As he puffs on a cigar outside his rented council estate semi (right), Stuart Hall's fall from grace could hardly be more evident. Eleven months after the disgraced broadcaster (inset, in 1978) was released from prison halfway through a five-year term for child sex offences, he has moved into a modest house in a rough area in the north of England. Hall's move to the £600-a-month three-bedroom home (centre) comes three months after he was released from his bail hostel accommodation. Driving a ten-year-old borrowed Mercedes - a gift from a friend - Hall, 86, is living off half his pension, with his estranged wife, Hazel, 77, understood to be taking the rest. His new home, rented from a friend, contrasts sharply with his opulent former home in the upmarket Cheshire town of Wilmslow (left).

Her garish tracksuits mockney' accent and 'gangster' gestures have won Honey G (picturedleft on the X Factor) legions of fans - with judge Simon Cowell even calling her 'the greatest' after one performance. But all this dazzling bling may have blinded viewers to her rather incongruous background. For the 35-year-old is really a middle-class former grammar school pupil (pictured right) with a penchant for ballet. Growing up, she was a talented tenis and netball player and graduated from Salford University with an upper second degree in popular music in 2004 (inset).

Mention the word 'prefab' and you would not visualise picture-perfect homes with saunas, cinema rooms and sweeping staircases. As these envy-inducing pictures show, pre-fabricated houses have come a very long way since their inception in the Forties, with their traditional corrugated iron roofs and concrete walls. Wendy Irvin-Braben, 51, lives with her husband David (right), 52, a computer gaming entrepreneur, and two sons in a 6,000 sq ft prefab by the River Cam near Cambridge. Connie Minton, 43, a doctor, and her husband Drew (bottom left), 44, a company director, live in Purley, Surrey, in a pre-fabricated, five-bedroom detached house with their sons. Merula Frankel (top left), 71, a widow and retired nurse, lives in a pre-fabricated timber house in the grounds of her former family home near Alton, Hampshire.

The woman who was found chained up like a dog in a metal container after vanishing two months ago with her boyfriend has revealed she witnessed her captor murder her partner, just hours after police found a body on the 100-acre property. Kala Brown (pictured, bottom-left) told police that she had watched Todd Kohlhepp (center, at his bail hearing Friday), 45, the man on whose 100-acre property she was found, murder boyfriend Charlie Carver (top-left), 32. Spartenburg coroner Rusty Clavenger confirmed a corpse had been unearthed by police, less than 24 hours into the investigation (bottom-right) of the sprawling property in Woodruff, South Carolina.

Daisy Lowe has split with her model boyfriend Bradley 'Frankie' Wade. The model, 27, is the first of the series to fall victim to the Strictly relationship curse as she and Bradley - who began dating in August - called time on their romance. 'Daisy and Frankie have had a discussion and decided to call it a day due to their mutually busy schedules,' a spokesperson for Daisy told MailOnline.

Now that news of the Prince Harry's (inset) latest girlfriend has emerged, with stories of them criss-crossing the ocean to be together, the question everyone's asking is: Might minxy Meghan (pictured left and right in Toronto today) finally be Harry's Miss Right? The story of how they came into each other's social orbits is fascinating. Her entree into the Prince's world comes, I can reveal, via one of Meghan's fashion world contacts: a designer named Misha Nonoo.

Attending the premiere of a film about a cat will certainly not be one of the Duchess of Cambridge's more testing Royal engagements this year. But it appears her appearance at the London debut of A Streetcat Named Bob may have left its mark on Kate. On Friday, as she carried on with her charitable duties, the 34-year-old was sporting a plaster on her left hand (inset). The cause? More than likely her encounter with the film's ginger tom hero. As she stroked the cat (main), the Duchess asked his owner, James Bowen, 'Is that purring or growling?'

Just a week before Michael Bublé shared the devastating news that his eldest son Noah (the pair pictured right) has been diagnosed with cancer, he gushed in an interview about his two boys and talked about he hoped they would be healthy. The 41-year-old singer discussed the joys of being a father to three-year-old Noah and nine-month-old Eli in an interview last week. '[I] just pray that everything stays good and they are happy and healthy and all of that,' The Grammy winner said. The doting father's comments came just days before he and his wife Luisana Lopilato, 29, (the couple pictured with their sons Eli and Noah, left) shared the heartbreaking news on Friday about Noah being diagnosed with cancer. The couple did not specify what type of cancer their son is battling but said he is currently receiving treatment in the US.

Jennifer Ellison, Claire Sweeney and Danielle Lloyd led the famous mourners at the glitzy and colourful funeral of celebrity hairdresser Herbert Howe on Friday.  Both actresses huddled under pink umbrellas emblazoned with the hairdresser's name as they watched the arrival of the white lacquer coffin laden with pink and white flowers and accompanied by a convoy of a dozen vehicles including stretch limousines, Rolls Royces and luxury coaches. The hairdresser and keen charity fundraiser, who died aged 72, last week, was laid to rest at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral at the service attended by friends, family and the public.   

Screenwriter and narrator of the celebrated film The Snowman, Raymond Briggs, will be melting hearts this Christmas with the moving tale of his parents' marriage - and here is his utterly enchanting preview. His tale begins with the shake of a duster in an upstairs window in a Belgravia Square in 1928 - and he recounts the magic from their first encounter right through to the heartbreaking moment his mother Ethel is in the grip of dementia and being treated for cancer.

A Utah couple who knew they would never be able to have their own children have adopted four in the space of 24 hours thanks to an off turn of events. 'Ever since I was a teenager, and I knew what fostering and adoption was, I wanted that to be a part of my life whether I was able to have children biologically or not,' Kaley Carling told ABC News. That's precisely what she and husband Jeremy (both pictured) got in August when a confluence of events led to them to accepting taking on four children - two sets of sisters - on the same day. Those kids are (l-r) Indie, 1; twins Sunny and Weslie, 9; and Haven, 2.

There is no longer any electricity to light what is left of one the world's oldest cities. And so the late-evening sky above Aleppo is as clear, star-filled and beautiful as it might have been two millennia ago. This is but a small comfort amid the drumbeat of artillery. Night or day, what lies beneath the heavens here is an affront to humanity. Most of the residents have fled. But since July, as many as 250,000 have been trapped and are reportedly living in squalor under the constant threat of death, writes RICHARD PENDLEBURY (pictured inset).

Hillary Clinton filled a big arena and had thousands screaming on their feet Friday night- but she got a big assist from hip hop stars Jay Z and Beyonce at a concert meant to get Ohio voters to the polls. The Democratic nominee is continuing a strategy of relying on some of the biggest stars in music to help get Barack Obama's coalition to make her his successor. And in case the biggest stars in rap aren't enough to get her supporters' attention, she will campaign with hoops star 'King' LeBron James in Cleveland on Sunday, her campaign announced. For a brief period Friday night, Clinton's carefully honed messages, and attacks on Donald Trump yielded to improvised raps, which got combined with motivational messages blasted before a captive audience. 'Stronger Together! We're stronger together,' Jay Z yelled into the mic with an image of an american eagle on screen, right before launching into a pounding version of 'Clique,' performed with Big Sean. He was backed by his band, plus blazing lights and a pounding sound system that had the crowd on their feet and lighting up their cell phones at Cleveland University's Wolstein Center.

The Wason selection task was first devised in the 1960s by Bath-based psychologist Peter Wason. At face value, the task seems simple, and involves just four cards. Two of the cards display the numbers five and eight, while the remaining two are green and blue. A statement alongside the cards reads: 'If a card shows an even number on one face, then its opposite side is blue.' The user is tasked with proving the statement by turning over the fewest number of cards. Click on the article to try the interactive test.

Mother-of-two Lynda Donnelly (left and right) said she felt 'ridiculed' and treated 'like a fantasist' by London's Metropolitan Police as she fought to bring her rapist Pierre Bate (inset) to justice. The US native attacked her in her own home in July 1996 but ended up back in Los Angeles where he became a music producer and rubbed shoulders with Leonardo Di Caprio at Hollywood Parties. Finally in 2011 the Met's cold case team became involved and eventually found DNA evidence that saw Bate convicted of the crime at Southwark Crown Court earlier this year, where he was jailed for 24 years.

Olayinka Mia Noel, 23, wore a blue and gold two-piece to imitate the Disney figure and even managed to recreate her unique hairstyle. The model and singer, who is Guyanese and lives in New York, also treated fans to a rendition of Aladdin song A Whole New World with a man dressed as her character's love interest.

It looks like something out of a James Bond movie and sounds like a professional wrestler, but The Grappler (pictured unfolding from vehicle in left-hand image) is a new invention that could save innocent lives during high-speed police chases. Created by Leonard Stock (pictured top-left) of Arizona, it allows cops to remotely deploy a high-strength net from the front of their vehicle, tangling up other cars' wheels (top-right and bottom-right) and stopping them dead - without doing the same to any hapless humans. '[This] concept is absolutely fantastic,' Lon Bartel, the President of the Peoria Police Officers Association, told Fox 10. 'If that thing holds up the way it appears it's going to [be a] huge advantage for law enforcement.' 

Stephanie Potakis, of Greater Chicago, Illinois, hadn't eaten meat since the fourth grade. She became a vegetarian to protect the environment and to 'save the world'. But the delicious smell of ribs at a recent festival made her question her commitment. She headed to Swift & Sons, an upscale steakhouse in Chicago, to try chicken, bone marrow (bottom right) and beef (pictured). Potakis fell in love with each cut of meat and sometimes had to close her eyes to better savor her food (upper right). She came out of her tasting pledging to eat meat for the rest of her life.

A new book has sought to curate the millions of memes available on the internet - with hilarious results. Parenting, relationships, debauchery and of course pets are all covered. (Clockwise from top left) It's the question every dog is probably asking itself; this photo of the The Queen and Prince Charles made it into the book thanks to its amusing caption; animals - such as this sheep with a bucket on its head - feature heavily; as this photo of a fox proves, it's usually odd-looking images that make the best memes; this dog shows how it could be anyone at the other end of the Internet; this squirrel is clearly expressing every parent's emotion.

Horrifying footage shows the moment a Long Island man crashed his car into a Brooklyn gas station and chased a police officer after allegedly murdering his wife. Surveillance footage shows Robert Crumb, 44, crashing into a Citgo gas station at Fladlands and Pennsylvania Avenues in Brooklyn on Friday as his car bursts into flames. The vehicle slams into another car during the 1am rampage, and soon fire engulfed the gas station. It is believed before the dramatic scene unfolded that Crumb killed his wife and wounded his daughter in their Long Island home, police said.

Charlotte Harding (pictured, with her sons Harrison, two, and Ethan, four) had visited St Fagans National History Museum in Cardiff last month and was taking pictures of her family and friends. But the mother-of-two has since spotted what she believes are the ghostly figures of two men watching her son from the bushes in one of the pictures. She says she is now unable to sleep after researching the period and discovering that there was a Battle of St Fagans in 1648 in which 200 or more are estimated to have died.

Morris Villarroel, a professor of animal welfare at the Technical University of Madrid, has been recording his life for the last six years using a log-book, a camera and a fitness tracker. He takes 1,200 photos every day with a small camera attached to his chest that takes a picture every 30 seconds of whatever he's doing, only switching it off for life's more intimate moments. Many of the photos are exceedingly dull - he has dozens of the car steering wheel, scores of slices of toast that he eats for breakfast and at least one of the kitchen cupboard where he keeps onions.

Skateboarders are no strangers to painful falls, but even they'll wince at this girl's comical pratfall. Shot in late October, the video shows a young Colorado girl trying to show off her sweet skateboarding skills. Sadly, she doesn't have any - as she discovers painfully quickly. 

Posing for selfies on the red carpet this week, Theresa May, 60, looked every inch the A-lister. The PM's £595 blue Amanda Wakeley dress was cut daringly above the knee and she wore Swarovski crystal-studded stilettos by Dolce & Gabbana. What a contrast to her first TV appearance in 1997, for which she wore a raincoat and trilby hat. Privately, she has always cared about style - but from her first pair of leopard print heels to that cleavage-baring dress, she's had ups and downs.

The all-women Hertfordshire squad stripped off to try and raise vital club funds and raise the profile of women's rugby. Of the Hitchin Ladies' 28-strong squad, 12 players took part in the shoot including both group and solo shots. Also getting naked were female members of the hunting community (left)hoping to raise funds for the Wiltshire and the Hampshire & IOW Air Ambulances with their charity calendar.

Tim Wiese's life as a professional wrestler got off to a winning start after the 34-year-old former international goalkeeper won his first match in the WWE. Wiese, competing alongside partners Cesaro and Sheamus, beat the team of The Shining Stars and Bo Dallas. He got the pinball after performing his finishing move, a body splash.

The latest viral challenge taking the Internet by storm will leave you frozen in time - or at least appearing to. Teens across the country are sharing videos of them taking part in the newest fad called The Mannequin Challenge. During the challenge, participants stand completely still mid-way through carrying out various activities - as if someone randomly hit a pause button on life.

A luxurious waterfront residence (top right) in an exclusive Sydney suburb, previously owned by Hollywood Star, Russell Crowe (inset left), and media mogul, Rupert Murdoch (inset right), has hit the market and is expected to fetch up to $40 million. The residence, known as Berthong, features five bedrooms (bottom right) spacious entertaining quarters (top right) a pool (bottom right) and a self-contained two-storey guesthouse.

Very is attempting to tug on shoppers' heart strings with its sweet animated ad (top left), while House of Fraser (top right) has taken a more alternative approach with its fast-paced festive effort inspired by the sense of 'trepidation' that can arrive along with the Christmas rush. The Argos campaign (bottom left) features giant neon yetis skating through a snowy town delivering gifts, and the TK Maxx ad (bottom right) shows a family gathered at the piano for a traditional sing-a-long, only to burst into an a cappella version of the Pulp Ficiton theme tune.