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An article last week said the Department for International Development (DFID) gave £5.5 million in UK foreign aid for schools in Uganda which the Ugandan government has now closed. In fact ...

Britain's most notorious madam Cynthia Payne died in November last year, aged 82. The bulk of her estate came from the sale of her home in Streatham, south-west London.

Musical.ly allows users to create and share 15-second video clips for their favourite songs. But there are growing fears that the craze is putting children at risk of being sexually exploited.

The remark brought an immediate backlash from viewers startled by the former Top Gear star's apparent insensitivity over a disease that killed 30,000 in West Africa two years ago.

Official documents compiled detail the most high-profile events, including 300 inmates rioting at Bedford jail (pictured) and two prisoners escaping from Pentonville.

Ria Peake, 23, a student from Manchester, has been affected since the age of 12, and due to her young age, she was unaware that bleeding for six to eight weeks was abnormal.

There were 19,130 infantry troops in August this year - down from 23,630 five years ago, Ministry of Defence figures reveal. This is fewer than the 19,240 British soldiers killed on July 1, 1916.

The investigators - posing as a family-of-four on holiday in Benidorm - were approached by a British firm called Sick By The Sea which was caught on camera encouraging them to lie about falling ill.

The new chairman of the Commons' Home Affairs Committee, raised the prospect of different parts of the UK operating under different immigration rules.

Richard Page from Kent lost roles as both magistrate and Trust director. He complains that recent laws have 'silenced Christians' and is going to a tribunal, alleging religious discrimination.

At least 463 sex attacks were reported by female university students during the past two years. But rape crisis groups warned that the figures were likely to be a 'gross underestimate'.

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu wants the surname name Douglas-Scott-Montagu to continue. The New Forest peer, who founded the National Motor Museum, made the request of his eldest son in his will.

Reports from within Downing Street say Mrs May is unhappy at the way she's been spoken to by some during her time in office, and will not tolerate boorish behaviour from those reporting to her.

The 32-year-old who competed on the BBC show last year, set up a support organisation for abused women in Dubai after she was raped in 2012 after her drink was spiked at a hotel.

The BBC's Children In Need Appeal has raised a record £46.6 million after viewers were urged to 'give everything' in memory of Sir Terry Wogan (pictured).

Millions of donkeys are slaughtered to meet demand for Chinese medicine. Now ejiao has been found in a Chinese food store in East London. Trading Standards is investigating.

The success of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! means that foreign broadcasters are clamouring to fork out such six- figure sums to have their own version of the show.

Microsoft has launched a classroom version of the video construction game to help youngsters learn about history. But experts say it could lower teaching standards and feed computer addiction.

Criminals appear to be brazenly breaching security at the jail in north London by accepting contraband through gaping holes in the fence and stashing it before heading back to their cells.

Inmates have been rating the jails across the UK with stars out of five and leaving detailed comments on the food and other luxuries they claim they have been enjoying while behind bars.

In 1999, Ms Widdecombe proposed, as shadow home secretary, that every convicted prisoner should spend every weekday doing a full day's work in the prison education department or workshops.

At a time when many private sector workers face pay freezes or cuts, 58 MPs shelled out bonuses ranging from £50 to £3,000. Bonuses for SNP staff amounted to nearly half the bonus pool.

The average spend by the government on a person living south of the border is only £8,816 - a gap of £1,720 compared to Scotland. This is up by £109 in the past year, new figures show.

An audit said spending by the the Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe (ADDE) on polling broke rules which say the money must be spent only on European Parliament business.

Theresa May insisted the usual procedure is not to discuss future Lords appointments in public when she was grilled about the prospect of giving Nigel Farage, pictured, a peerage.

About 40,000 party goers descended on Spain's southern coast for the largest fancy dress party in Europe. Revelers braved cold temperatures to strip off for a variety of risqué costumes.

Atkinson, 48, was pronounced dead around 90 minutes after being apprehended by West Mercia Police when they were called to an incident in his hometown of Telford, Shropshire.

Since January, the 44-year-old has been treated for a brain tumour. The growth in her pituitary gland was discovered following numerous blood tests after she began to feel terribly run down.

A dozen officers made the arrests which follow a bitter legal battle between council chiefs and beleaguered residents in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, over the felling of trees in the city.

Andrew Morrall, 53, was placed in an induced coma after medics discovered a hole in his oesophagus while in Antalya, Turkey - but he died at the Royal Stoke University Hospital.

A 47-year-old woman has revealed she lived as a horse every day for seven years until she was a teenager. Kate Havord, pictured, would gallop on all fours, wear a bridle and eat grass as a youngster.

Intrepid explorer Alfred Cery, six, from St Albans in Hertfordshire, has visited four continents and scaled mountains in Nepal, painted elephants in Thailand and stayed in a Cambodian tree house.

An English teenager has pleaded guilty to causing mass panic in America by making a string of chilling bomb hoaxes and death threats all from the comfort of his own bedroom near Liverpool.

Iain Hayward (pictured), 54, from Reading, claims his father Jack was unable to write a valid will before his death from cancer after he left the lion's share of his £1.3million fortune to his daughter Fiona.

The £40million building will provide accommodation for 590 students from Glasgow University, Glasgow School of Art, Strathclyde University and Glasgow Caledonian University.

PC Kelly Jarvis (pictured) harassed Fiona Miller for two years after they met at a riding yard in Ormesby, North Yorkshire, because she was jealous of her marriage and her family's wealth.

Karl Massey, 52, said he was holidaying with Ched when he was accused of rape and chased him around a swimming pool while threatening to kill him.

A judge told the court it was 'utterly extraordinary' Blakeney Dear did not die when he drifted away from the pool edge and sank at the David Lloyd gym in Hounslow, west London.

Footage shows how dozens of construction workers laboured through the night using cement mixers, cranes and diggers to fix the 30m wide chasm in Fukuoka, southwest Japan.

The Arabic speaker, 39, has worked in several migrant centres across Germany and after unearthing the harrowing revelations she headed to the country's mosques to find out more.

Manuel Valls, speaking in Berlin, said today it is 'possible' that Le Pen's anti-immigration National Front could win power following the shock election of Donald Trump as US President.

Berlusconi has reported 35-year-old Giovanna Rigato to prosecutors, alleging that she demanded the cash was put in a foreign bank account.

GRAPHIC CONTENT - A man whose disfigurement has made him a recluse his whole life has finally being tempted out of hiding in Thailand to pay respects to the country's king, who died recently.

I can't help but think that star of the film Emma Watson gets a bit carried away with herself and her ideals. Especially when she starts meddling with our fairy tales, writes JAN MOIR.