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A recent article about prisoners having access to mobile phones, food and drugs in prison wrongly recorded the offence Richard Parsons was in prison for.

Some 11,400 people are diagnosed with oral cancer in the UK each year - including cancer of the lips, tongue, mouth, tonsils and the middle part of the throat. The disease kills 2,300.

The backlash over Philip Hammond's hike in insurance tax intensified yesterday with a warning that the number of uninsured drivers could soar.

The BBC station is set to make Sir Cliff Richard's new release, It's Better To Dream, a festive version of a song from his latest album Just...Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll, its record of the week.

Plans considered by Margaret Thatcher included ditching free healthcare and education and abandoning the annual uprating of pensions and benefits in line with inflation.

Gareth Williams, pictured, Barry Smith and Bonamy Grimes came up with their idea for Skyscanner over a pint in a pub in London in 2001. Now the site has 50million global users every month.

Professor Alexis Jay announced that a senior legal figure will carry out a review after a scathing report by MPs said the inquiry's response to 'sexual abuse' claims had been 'wholly inadequate'.

Andrea Leadsom, Environment Secretary, appeared happily on the despatch box this morning, brightly singing forth about the exciting possibilities of an independent Britain.

The OBR forecast Brexit will leave net migration 80,000 a year lower and claimed that would lead to increased Government borrowing of £5.9 billion a year by 2020/21 because of the impact on growth.

The Ukip leader said he was willing to go to Downing Street to give the Prime Minister a one-on-one briefing on the president-elect. But the Chancellor, pictured, rejected the offer.

Industry figures yesterday showed borrowing on personal loans and credit cards grew at 7 per cent in the year to October - with Britons now owing £89.1billion.

Supermarket Asda has pulled out of Black Friday claiming it will concentrate on low prices throughout the festive period - two years after customers were seen tussling over reduced items.

No women have made the shortlist for the coveted title of hairdresser of the year at the industry awards proving her hair may be a woman's crowning glory, but when it comes to who cuts it, it's a man's world.

Although the Kenwood Chef (pictured) continues to be a best-seller, its designer Sir Kenneth Grange has revealed the secret of its success is that it was designed not to fly off the shelves.

Labour MP Louise Haigh has called for the House of Commons to debate designating the far-right movement as a 'terrorist' organisation.

John McDonnell insisted today that Labour MPs were listening to his response to the Autumn Statement yesterday despite most of them being seen busy on their mobile phones.

Julie McKechnie, 45, needed 30 stitches and a two-hour operation after the incident in Falkirk but Police Scotland said no crime had been committed claiming she was bitten by her own dog.

A young mum who had a drinking problem was found dead by her daughter after accidentally drowning herself in the bath. Linda Coyne of Hertfordshire was found underwater with a bottle of white rum.

A mother and father, from Salisbury, in Wiltshire, were left stunned and overwhelmed when their six-week-old daughter Charlotte Wheeler-Osman said "hello" when she saw them.

George Jackow (pictured), from Aylesbury, was diagnosed with dementia and Alzheimers two years before a trip to Ayia Napa, Cyprus, which his children believed would be their last holiday as a family.

Rosie Skitt was attacked by 20-year-old Charlotte Green who accused the victim of looking at her in a 'sarcastic way'. She was having after-work drinks in a Sheffield pub when she was attacked.

Diane Greig lost Misty (pictured together) when he disappeared from her home in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, in 2002 but he was found 25 miles away in Keighley, West Yorkshire, begging for food.

Giorgia Cole, from Midsomer Norton, Somerset, was born with cerebral palsy and epilepsy but doctors fear she now has the onset of heart failure and may only have a short time left.

David Butlin and Louis Harris told of their ordeal after they were accused of raping a British woman, 25, in a £160-a-night hotel in Dubai. Both men were dramatically cleared on Tuesday and can fly home.

Hayley Elton, of Barnet, said she agreed a plan with EE that let her call her mother in Spain for just 1p per minute, but claims the mobile phone giant then switched it to £1 per minute without telling her.

Nell Robbins, 14, from Rye Harbour in East Sussex, ended up on life support during a school trip to southern France after contracting what she thought was a cold.

Harry Arrowsmith (pictured with his wife Joan) flew 18 missions as a Lancaster bomber rear gunner - and more than 250 people attended his funeral today in Hall Green, Birmingham.

Ten-month-old Cocker Spaniel Wanda, who lives in Deal, Kent, was born with her front legs and paws almost back to front, leaving her struggling to move around on her own.

A woman who claims she was raped by Katie Price's stepfather in Worthing, West Sussex, told a court she tried to stop the attack by saying she could get hold of the infamous gang, the Richardsons.

One of Britain's vilest paedophiles who was part of a gang that raped drugged babies killed himself after inmates took out "contracts" to hurt him. Evil James King, 31, was jailed for 24 years.

Sidney Chan (pictured) is accused of kicking Stephen Kent in the face twice and claims the victim abused him when they left the bar at London's prestigious Imperial College.

While a parking ticket was being printed by the warden on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, the Vauxhall car accelerated towards the traffic warden and careered into him before being driven off.

Car dealerships, residential streets and an airfield were all set alight in nine separate incidents across southern Wiltshire in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Gerald Matovu, 23, from London, is alleged to have supplied the former escort and bus garage cook with party drug mephedrone, known as Miaow Miaow, and GHB.

Charlie Kavanagh (pictured), 26, was part of a gang of armed robbers who wielded axes and machetes in a terrifying raid on a luxury watch store in London.

Andrew Berry, 48, embarked on a year-long relationship with the besotted teenager after inviting her to his home. Berry was head of English at Cardinal Newman Catholic School in Hove.

Natasha Bassi, 23, from Southampton, admitted to defrauding customers by taking money from their accounts. A total of £53,219 was taken in six months.

Four men were crossing North End Road in West Kensington when an Audi A3 driven by a 19-year-old woman hit them, leaving one in a critical condition and the others requiring hospital treatment.

Detectives are investigating the boy's death after he suffered head injuries during an incident with a man in Mountsfield Park (pictured) in Catford, which later killed him in hospital.

 Police in West Yorkshire are urgently appealing for information after the body of a newborn baby was found in a carrier bag outside a vicarage in Leeds.

The country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has opened a lawsuit on the frozen foods giant - 45 years after it was founded. Iceland Foods has traded under its name since the 1970s.

Phillip Eaglesham won his claim after catching Q Fever - also known as Helmand Fever - on a tour of Afghanistan in 2010 and suffering serious health problems including chronic fatigue and depression.

Clive Bellman, 60, of Windsor, Berkshire, was punched in the face twice by his boss, John Major, after a night of drinking descended into chaos, a judge heard.

Chris Jones, 52, is chief executive of Welsh Water, which boasts it is a 'not for profit' company. He received bonuses totalling £336,688 on top of his £288,000 salary last year.

Anthony Duggan, 22, has been jailed for six months after a hit-and-run crash in which he knocked down a 15-year-old girl while driving without a licence or insurance and speeding in a 20mph zone in Bristol.

Businessman Joe Corre, 48, pictured, said he will burn the £5million collection on Saturday 26 November, the 40th anniversary of the release of the Sex Pistols' Anarchy in the UK.

Billionaire John Hargreaves (pictured) claims he was not a resident in the UK when he sold a tranche of his shares in the retail giant.

Married paramedic Dean Mahony, 41, was found guilty of 12 charges of professional misconduct following his behaviour at the Bristol station of South Western Ambulance Service.

Activist Scott Rivers, 29, (pictured) from Ivybridge in Devon, has been posing as a youngster on chat sites for years in a bid to expose sexual predators online.

Mamon Al-Hamza and his wife Tema, who named their newborn daughter in honour of the German chancellor, claim they received a letter saying they may be deported from Germany.

The demand was made amid growing unease over Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 'increasingly authoritarian regime' in the country.

Tensions are soaring between Islamabad and New Delhi over the contested Himalayan territory after the deadliest incident in weeks of border clashes.

Gyulchehra Bobokulova, 39, strode around the city waving the child's bloody head in the air, and threatening to blow herself up along with bystanders.

An ambitious £32billion project to save the world's fastest sinking city - Jakarta - by building a giant sea wall is waiting to get the green light from Indonesia's President Joko Widodo.

The children were attacked as they carried water home. Their mother, Cecilia Emberga Agammbuee (pictured), said: 'When I saw their headless bodies, I thought I would die'.

The bomb exploded in the car park of the governor's office for the Adana region, close to the vehicle entrance with the local government describing the explosion as a 'terror attack'.