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Women in the UK earn an average of just £350 per week, or around £50 for each of the 365 days of the year. But just how much do the women at the top of the tree really make in a day? To reveal what some of the highest female earners in Britain are paid, we estimated their annual earnings, then divided that figure by 365 to come up with their daily wage. Of course, top earners put a premium on discretion, and our figures, drawn from company documents and other public sources, may be the tip of the iceberg. So who are the super-wealthy women - and what do they choose to spend their millions on?

Dangerous driver David Whitehead, 49, was watched for 35 miles down the M6 motorway by horrified motorists who bombarded police with concerned calls. His motorhome was seen weaving in and out of traffic (pictured), and veering at 80mph across lanes as cars pulled out of his way in terror. Carlisle Crown Court heard Whitehead eventually smashed into the central reservation and flipped his vehicle over on April 8 this year. The smash - which did not involve any other vehicle - was all captured on the dashboard-mounted camera of a worried driver who had followed him out of a service station near Kendal, Cumbria.

A harrowing open letter (inset) was published by the Cheltenham Guardians after they spent two hours caring for a vulnerable young woman named 'Emily' (pictured main) who was left by her friends during a night out on Friday. The group looked after the heavily intoxicated Emily while they attempted to track down her friends who thought it 'was funny' she was unable to look after herself. During the course of the night Emily was cared for by four different groups of volunteers and emergency service staff. Eventually she had to be taken away in an ambulance, costing the NHS £300.

Terry Foster was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2007, while his wife, Melanie, was pregnant with their first child. He spent 19 days in intensive care and at one point was placed in a side room to die after he was given just 48 hours to live. But the father-of-one, from Southport, Merseyside, fought back and doctors were surprised when his condition improved to the point he could be sent home. After meeting up with his manager about returning to his job at CIAT Ozonair, he was shocked to hear he was being sacked.

Andrew Marr defended his controversial interview with Marine Le Pen yesterday morning claiming he could not censor someone who could become 'the next big challenge to Western security'.

President-elect Donald Trump has said he plans to deport two to three million undocumented immigrants with criminal records from the country immediately - and has insisted that will build his wall. In an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes that airs on Sunday evening - his first since winning the election - Trump insisted that he will build the wall along the US-Mexico border that was a vital part of his presidential campaign. Trump kicked off his presidential campaign by outlining his uncompromising stance on immigration.

Hard-working father Dave is the star of the three minute 20 second ad as he comes up with a plan to clone himself to get his work done in time to join the family festivities. The musical-style campaign uses state-of-the-art stop frame animation, which required 800 tiny models of Dave's face to portray his full range of expressions. Flight Of The Conchords star Bret McKenzie, who won the 2012 Oscar for best original song for The Muppets, composed the tune The Greatest Gift For Christmas Is Me, sung by Corden. The campaign will help raise funds for accommodation for the families of children being treated at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

The nation held its breath when baby iguanas ran for their lives from dozens of ravenous snakes and penguins risked their lives to feed their young. And tonight's episode of Planet Earth II once again had millions gripped with more dramatic tales, this time from the vertiginous tips of the world's highest mountains. From a bear dancing around a tree to the perilous journey faced by baby ibex, face-planting bobcats and the bond between a mother snow leopard and her daughter, David Attenborough and the team behind Planet Earth gave viewers more captivating, hilarious, and heart-wrenching scenes. This week began with baby Nubian Ibex, among the most surefooted of nature's mountaineers - but they had millions of viewers on the edge of their seats when a fox trapped them on a mountain, leaving them facing a sheer 30ft drop.

The High Street will leave you little change from £150 - and that's hard to justify for something that shines briefly at the Christmas bash before being banished to the back of the wardrobe. This year, the UK's three biggest supermarkets are very much hoping you might consider a design from one of their labels, including this year's It-dress from Asda (centre). Pictured, (left to right) a gold metallic dress, £18, from Asda, a navy jumpsuit, £18, from Asda, a velvet bodycon dress, £16, from Asda, a black lace dress with nude cutout, £35, from Tesco and a one shoulder dress, £40, from Tesco.

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake centred north of Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island struck just after midnight on Sunday, triggering a two-metre high tsunami. The NZ government's GeoNet website said the earthquake, which was 15km deep, was severe and felt throughout the country. A tsunami has been generated in response to the earthquake and the first wave arrived on the eastern coast of the South Island just before 2am on Monday local time, according to the NZ Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management. The largest waves, between three to five metres, are expected between Marlborough Peninsula near Wellington and Banks Peninsula.

Whitehall was looking magnificent in the morning sun which was beaming straight into the Queen's face as she faced the Cenotaph in Whitehall. All the senior members of the Royal Family were present. The Duke of Edinburgh followed the Queen (top right) with his wreath (and permitted himself a brief about-turn, though, at 95 and wearing a sword, no one was going to object). Looking on from a Foreign Office balcony were the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duchess of Cambridge and the Countess of Wessex (main). Fellow veterans helped each other during the order of service (below right).

After wowing with his Gangnam Style moves, Ed Balls was saved yet again from the dance off by the public vote on Sunday's Strictly Come Dancing Results show. Instead, Daisy Lowe was sent home after finding herself in the bottom two against Greg Rutherford, leading to an almighty war of words between fans on Twitter.

When Lucy Scott (centre in right image with her mother and sister), 18, from Glasgow, was brought out of her coma, a cruel side effect of her meningitis had caused her whole life to be wiped from her memory. She couldn't remember who she was or recognise any of her family or friends. A brain scan revealed scar tissue on the organ, which had caused her to forget her entire life and left her as 'helpless as a newborn baby'. Miss Scott (left with her mother) has spent the past two years learning how to walk, talk, read, write and do everyday tasks she first learned as a child.

The MG6 costs £18,600 at the showroom but loses nearly £14,000 of that value over the first three years of its life. This leaves the Chinese-made car at the top of a list of the ten worst depreciations. The popular Fiat 500L comes in third place - dropping from £22,135 to £7,375. This is followed by the Vauxhall Meriva in fourth, which went from £19,007 to £6,392. to £6,392. And the Ford Ka might start out economical at £9,790, but only retained 36.2 per cent of its value after three years.

The satellite is orbiting as close to Earth as it has done for almost 70 years tonight, but Monday is expected to be the best evening for capturing a rare close-up of the moon. Although the countryside is the best place to see the night's sky in all its glory, some stunning scenes have also been captured over London landmarks such as Canary Wharf and the Eye (main image). Other photographers took the opportunity to clamber up rural landscapes like Beacon Hill near Loughborough and Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire (top right) to catch a glimpse of the phenomenon. And it was not just Brits who were getting in on the act, with the supermoon also snapped above Russia and Israel.

On the morning of Sunday, September 23, 1951, surgeons battled to save the Queen's father, George VI, from lung cancer. The scene was recreated in in The Crown, the much-hyped Netflix TV series. He was then 55 and his health had suffered as a result of the stress of the abdication crisis, not to mention World War II. Like the real thing, the filming took place on a Sunday, with a team from Guy's Hospital (top right) working in their spare time for the scene. Claire Foy and Jared Harris play Queen Elizabeth II and King George VI (bottom right).

Having recently battled cancer and enduring a hip replacement operation earlier this year, Margaret Baker could do without the hassle of bagging up leaves from a line of trees on a verge opposite her home. Together with next-door neighbour Ann Fowler, 76, Mrs Baker has already swept up 50 bags worth of leaves this autumn in order to make access to their cul-de-sac homes safe for the predominantly elderly residents. But their efforts have been rewarded with the threat of a fine by council jobsworths - who warned the bin bags full of leaves they left at the kerbside for collection amounted to fly-tipping. Yesterday the two women condemned Birmingham City Council for failing to sweep up the leaves, which they said have fallen from trees on council land, as 71-year-old Mrs Baker told how the authority dismissed the leaf-fall as an 'act of God'.

Lee Francis (inset, right), 39, broke into 66-year-old Ronald Parker's home and was found rummaging through an upstairs bedroom. The pensioner (inset, left) bravely tackled Francis to the floor, but during the struggle Francis bit him with such force the man was left with a fractured finger. Francis attacked the pensioner's 93-year-old mother Rose (left), who hit him with a walking stick before fleeing the house in Castle Bromwich, West Midlands, with items worth £2,000. Francis left a nasty wound on Mr Parker (inset) and left his tooth (right) behind, which would later be his undoing.

Father and daughter team Neil and Eve Travis put their lives on hold to become a full-time circus act - and now pay their bills by dicing with death. Former warehouse worker Neil, 50, chops cabbages with a carving knife on 24-year-old Eve's stomach - and even smashes concrete blocks while she lies on a bed of nails. Daughter Eve quit her degree when she realised she'd rather be risking life and limb at the hands of her former circus star dad than studying law - and persuaded Neil to leave his day job too and create a father-daughter act. The only limit the pair, from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, have, is that every trick has to be run past terrified mother Deborah, before she lets them perform it.

London's High Court heard how Flora Mascolo (pictured left with her daughter Emmanuella), widow of Toni&Guy; founder Guy Mascolo (inset), had an 18-month relationship with Swiss-born 'celebrity chef' and restaurateur Michael Riemenschneider. During the relationship she claims she bought him a £150,000 Mercedes and gave him £2.12m to invest in two new restaurants. But she now says Mr Riemenschneider (shown right) is a 'liar' and a gold-digger who 'used the restaurants as a front' to obtain her millions. She says he falsely 'led her to believe that he was a well-connected chef with a Michelin star grading' when he was in reality a 'professional conman'. Mr Riemenschneider, who has a string of UK restaurants, denies all the allegations against him, and says he is not being given a fair chance to defend himself.

Spanish archaeologists have discovered a millennia-old mummy in 'very good condition' near the southern Egyptian town of Luxor. The find was in a tomb (right) probably dating from between 1075-664 BC. The mummy had been bound with linen stuck together with plaster. It was in a brightly coloured wooden sarcophagus (left and inset) and had been buried near a temple from the era of fourth-millennium warrior king Thutmose III. The tomb was likely to have belonged to a nobleman, Amenrenef, who was 'a servant of the royal household', the antiquities ministry said.

Davy Moakes, 86, and Helen Andre, 82, met and fell in love at art college and he proposed in 1951 and finally managed to get married in a registry office in Ripley, Derbyshire after being reunited last year. After going to college, Mr Moakes spent his career teaching art and design before becoming an artist in his last 60s.

CCTV footage shows a woman walking out of the restaurant carrying the 10-month-old boy in the city of Shiyan, central China. The baby's mother had reportedly left him with the restaurant worker after she offered to look after him briefly. However, the boy's mother returned several minutes later to find her son and the woman had disappeared. Police managed to trace the woman and child within two hours using surveillance footage.

The footage shows the vessels being destroyed in the Niger Delta as part of an effort to stop illegal oil refining. Two other barges were destroyed in a similar operation near Kidney Island and the Alakiri oil field in Rivers State, southern Nigeria, on Thursday. The video was posted by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on their Facebook page.

People who can afford $25,000 (£20,000) a month to hire a luxury apartment in Los Angeles are being offered a robot butler, which provides room service with a personal touch. Crescent Heights, who operates a 40-storey tower block in Beverly Hills, have thrown in the electronic valets, nicknamed Charley (pictured), as part of the rental fee. All those who move into the building will be given special iPads allowing them to order items which will be delivered by a team of Charleys. They are fitted with a secure compartment (inset) which means there is no chance of a neighbour pinching another resident's delivery as it trundles down the corridor.