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Record 1,400 criminals on the run - including murderers... but why did it take authorities

The Government has been accused of putting ordinary Britons at risk as 1,428 criminals, including 15 killers and 44 rapists, are on the run after the authorities failed to track them down. Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said: 'It is astonishing that more than 1,400 dangerous people can be on the run. This shows that the Government is just out of touch and frankly grossly incompetent.'

Passengers using the strike-plagued Southern service between Brighton and London have been hit with a rise of £980 since 2010. Pictured, commuters wait on the platform at Wimbledon, west London.

Ministers are attempting to toughen up Britain's laws on dangerous driving, amid fury as killer motorists like Majid Malik (pictured), get handed lenient sentences.

A switch to immobilise HGVs is being secretly developed by Government scientists who fear terrorist massacres in the UK like those seen in Nice and Berlin last year.

The UK Tea and Infusions Association said while small there will be an increase in the cost of tea. Makers of Yorkshire Tea have already increased prices and Tetly are in discussions.

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ISIS claim responsibility for Istanbul nightclub atrocity as police hunt gunman who

Photos from inside Istanbul's packed Reina club (left) show partygoers celebrating the new year moments before a gunman stormed the venue. Shocking CCTV footage (bottom right) shows the man brandishing an AK-47 outside the exclusive nightclub. The clip shows the man shooting indiscriminately as he rained down 'a hail of bullets' on the innocent clubbers. Among the victims was a 27-year-old female private security guard from northeast Turkey. Mother-of-one Hatice Koc'un (pictured centre) was working at the Reina nightclub on the night of the attack. A 19-year-old Israeli woman has also been named as among the dead. Leanne Nasser (top right) was on holiday with three female friends when she was killed. A grainy CCTV image (inset), released by Turkish police, shows the suspected gunman who fled the club after the massacre and remains on the run.

Thirty-nine people were murdered at Istanbul's Reina nightclub when a lone gunman stormed the venue, popular with celebrities such as Bono,(pictured) on New Years Eve.

Turkish star Sefa Boydas had been at the Reina nightclub in Istanbul's when the gunman stormed the nightspot killing 39 people and saw people walking on top of bodies to flee the night spot.

Two people have been taken to hospital following the shooting at the mosque in the Turkish city just hours after a gunman, opened fire in the Reina nightclub in Istanbul's Ortaköy district.

Dozens of New Year's Eve partygoers grapple on the floor and throw chairs and bottles

New Year's Eve celebrations suddenly turned sour when a terrifying fight broke out in a Manchester bar.  Shocking footage shows screaming bystanders diving for cover as ferocious revellers throw punches and even bottles at each other.  Dozens can be seen scrapping on the floor and hurling chairs and tables at Sakana restaurant.

These images of paralytic revellers causing mess and mayhem in UK city centres on New Year's Eve show precisely that: a society in the grip of a binge-drinking culture.

When five-year-old Heston is not nuzzling indoors with his owner Bruce Robertson, he is terrorising visitors to his home in Caldicot, south Wales.

The man borrowed the BMW from a friend and drove it down from Scotland to go to a Stone Roses concert at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester - but couldn't remember where he left it.

A&E; units in Surrey, Derby and Manchester were among those across the UK who told people to stay away as an NHS boss said hospitals were put under strain by 'selfish' revellers getting 'blotto'.

More than half a million patients are trapped on NHS waiting lists for hip, knee and other orthopaedic operations. The number has risen by a quarter in three years.

Ben Wallace (pictured) said that exercises are being carried out to prepare for such an atrocity. Troops fighting ISIS in the Middle East have already been hit with such attacks.

The commanding officer of HMS Enterprise, one of the ships given the job of rescuing migrants, has praised the work done by his sailors in the Mediterranean.

Britons will be sending back their unwanted Christmas presents in their droves this week with Royal Mail predicting clothing and footwear the most likely to be returned.

A slide in the pound following the Brexit vote has increased the cost of imports meaning basic goods will go up. Chocolate and coffee could go up by as much as ten per cent.

The Queen is feeling 'better', says Princess Anne as royals attend Sandringham church

Prince Philip (pictured) attended the New Year's Day church service but without the Queen who is still recovering from a 'lingering cold'. She spent the morning inside at Sandringham House where sources insisted she was 'up and about' working on official papers. A spokeswoman said: The Queen does not yet feel ready to attend church as she is still recuperating from a heavy cold.' The sovereign and Prince Philip, 95, were forced to delay their journey to their usual Christmas residence in Norfolk on December 21 because both were suffering from what was officially described as 'heavy colds'. The Queen also missed the traditional Christmas Day service last week - the first time in 28 years.

Several of the garden villages will be in some of England's most sought-after areas, including near Eynsham in West Oxfordshire and Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire.

Senior Tories say the Prime Minister should stand ready to threaten the Upper Chamber with abolition or a huge cut in numbers and powers.

Political figures and mandarins including Tory donors were among recipients of gongs. And sources close to Mrs May said many of the nominations came from Mr Cameron.

Stories of the city were projected onto buildings for the Made In Hull event. Documentary filmmaker, Sean McAllister, said it was time Hull shared its secrets with the world and said the event was unique.

Last year lawyers across Britain achieved a turnover of £32.2 billion - almost 24 per cent more than the £26.0 billion they earned in 2011. The figures were released by the Legal Services Board.

There were 1,165,052 vacancies advertised in November, up by 1.3 per cent from earlier in the year, jobs site Adzuna said. Competition for positions is at an all-time low.

Sherlock fans react as Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington appear on screen together

SPOILER ALERT: Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington appeared on screen together when they starred in an emotional episode of Sherlock on New Year's Day after announcing they had split up. The pair announced they had ended their 16-year relationship before Christmas. And their position was made all the more difficult by the fact that they were starring in the TV event of the New Year period with Benedict Cumberbatch (main picture). The hit BBC show returned on BBC One for its fourth season and fans said they were 'heartbroken' after watching the episode, called The Six Thatchers. Dr John Watson and his wife Mary were involved in an emotional scene at the end of the episode (bottom right).

The popular BBC One show Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, returned to the screen on New Year's Day as the fourth season of the programme got under way.

BBC One's new series of idents is based around the theme of 'oneness' and includes a clip of a group of sea swimmers standing on the shore of Clevedon, Somerset.

The UK Historic Houses Association says the overly negative tone of radio and television forecasts can dissuade people from venturing out for the day.

A team of engineers at US-based Bridgewater Associates is reportedly developing artificial intelligence which can run the firm without emotions getting in the way. Robots will hire and fire staff.

Martin Hughes-Games said the BBC1 series lured viewers into a 'beguiling, fantasy world' that ignores the damage humans are inflicting on endangered species.

Scientists at Umeå University in Sweden found that women who train harder during the first two weeks of their monthly cycle build up more muscle than they do in the last two weeks.

The film could be based on the diary of Arron Banks, the main financial backer for Leave.EU which campaigned to take Britain out of the European Union.

Carolyn Sinclair, a senior adviser to Margaret Thatcher, pictured, said cannabis was regarded 'as part of life' by Afro-Caribbean community and 'the fact [it] is illegal is widely regarded as unjust'.

As education secretary in Edward Heath's government, Margaret Thatcher's decision in 1970 to stop the provision of milk for junior school pupils led to her hated nickname.

A total of 2,720 - or 18 per cent - of total admissions in three years from England and Wales were to pupils from the five local education authority areas.

'If I ever say I want another baby I can watch this back': Mother's vow after she

Sarah-Jayne Ljungstrom, 35, from Richmond, south west London, posted a series of Facebook Live videos documenting the labour, starting with her first hospital trip after her waters broke. She updated tens of thousands of viewers with her strengthening contractions and offered tips and advice to other mothers-to-be. Ms Ljungstrom, a video blogger, stopped short of taking the camera into the hospital for the birth but did post a video with newborn daughter Evelina (left) hours after returning home.

John Cruickshank, 81, and his wife Cheryl, 66, moved to Moray, Scotland, in 2012 after social workers in Australia said they cannot live unsupervised. Now they fear they will be split again.

Bianca Lawrence, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, developed the unsightly keloid scars when she was just 13 years old and, now aged 22 they cover much of the upper half of her body.

Tom Hardy, best known for his roles as Bane in Batman and Max Rockatansky in Mad Max, appeared on CBeebies on New Year's Eve to read the daily bedtime story, much to parents' delight.

George Michael was found dead on Christmas Day at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Fadi Fawaz tweeted a series of messages saying the singer wanted to die

Lisa Ennew, 46, from Colchester, Essex, had no idea the benign mass was growing inside her skull as the only symptom she suffered was a slight numbing of her left foot.

Claire Cunningham was ready to die in September 2016 after a horrendous lengthy ordeal with cancer that started in 2008. She has had immunotherapy treatment in Stuttgart and now says she has hope.

Police arrest people after man plunges to death in St Leonards-on-Sea

The victim died after falling through a utility room ceiling at a flat (inset) in Charles Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, near Hastings, East Sussex, at around 4.46am. A Sussex Police spokesman said: 'The man had apparently fallen from a flat above and despite efforts to resuscitate him was pronounced dead at the scene.' Five people from a flat in the building were arrested on suspicion of murder and inquiries into the death were continuing, the spokesman added. Blue tarpaulin (right) was draped over railings at the property as forensic officers (left) began their investigation.

Three men have been arrested after police were alerted to reports of a gun being fired in a busy street in Southwark in broad daylight.

The prisoners at Guys Marsh jail in Dorset sent the images to an Albanian news website with the message: 'Hello Life is fun. We wish all Albanian people Merry Xmas from a prison in England.'

Wisbey, who was sentenced to 30 years for his role in the heist, suffered a stroke at his care home in Eltham, South-east London, on December 23 and died on Friday.

Dippy the Diplodocus bows out from the Natural History Museum after 112 years

The iconic dinosaur skeleton (bottom right) will embark on a national tour around eight UK locations from Dorset to Glasgow when it moves out on Wednesday - but when this is finished there are no plans for what happens next. Taking Dippy's place will be the genuine skeleton of a whale that was found on an Irish beach in 1891, and museum staff have been slaving away behind the scenes (left and top right) to get it ready. Each individual bone has been painstakingly readied individually to ensure that it makes as much of an impression as its famous predecessor.

Passengers and staff at Golders Green station in North London were asked the leave when the fire alarm went off. Police later revealed that smoke filled the station due to an overcooked apple pie.

The London Ambulance Service had to use pen and paper after technical issues in the control room. Their system was down between 12.30am and 5.15am today, as millions celebrated the new year.

Derby City Council announced that no bin rounds would take place between December 23 and January 3 leaving some locals fearing a month-long gap before their refuse collections.

Rev Geoffrey Short OBE was left devastated in June when wife Zoila Herrera Brozus dumped him in favour of the Grantchester star after meeting at a gym in Wideopen, Tyneside.

Sussex University students' union has released a gender inclusive language policy, that states preferred pronouns should be stated and gender neutral used when they are not known.

The London-bound Airbus A380 'superjumbo' was thousands of feet up in the sky when the cabin crew suddenly fell ill and needed to use emergency oxygen supplies.

Boris Johnson introduced a new fleet of red double-decker Routemasters, in London four years ago, which have folding doors to allow people to get on and off easily.

William Shawcross' (pictured) comments come after it emerged allegations of links between them and terrorist groups has almost trebled in three years.

A massive inferno ripped through a Renault garage in Walthamstow with more than 70 firefighters tackling the blaze. Three quarters of the ground floor of the workshop and half of the mezzanine were damaged

THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
 

Pope Francis warns of 'cold societies that lack compassion' in New Year message

Pope Francis called for more humility and tenderness in the world during a mass in St Peter's Basilica. He said those with 'narcissist hearts' suffer the loss of the sense of belonging in society. He addressed crowds of 50000 in the Basilica square, pictured main, and also referred to the attack on an Istanbul nightclub in the early hours of the morning that left 39 dead and dozens wounded. He express closeness to the Turkish people and said he prayed for the victims and the wounded.

Kim Jong Un said on New Year's Day that research and development of an intercontinental ballistic missile was actively progressing and the test launch was in its last stage of preparation.

Authorities deployed more than 1,500 officers across Cologne for new year celebrations in response to criticism that they failed to stop hundreds of robberies and sexual assaults last year.

Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin (pictured) said another option would be to bring back the Romanov dynasty, which was overthrown exactly a century ago in 1917.

California's decision to legalize weed last year apparently left some LA pranksters in high spirits over New Year's Eve, as the famous Hollywood sign was altered to read 'HOLLYWEED'.

A Moroccan woman has been arrested for trying to smuggle a 19-year-old migrant from Gabon across the border with Spain curled up inside a suitcase.

The ultra-conservative kingdom, one of the world's most prolific executioners, punishes crimes such as murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy with death.

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Every city-dweller will have experienced the sight of someone walking towards them, so engrossed with texting that others have to leap out of the way, writes DOMINIC LAWSON.

Sir Keir Starmer, pictured, joins a raft of prominent Labour MPs suddenly calling for restrictions on free movement, after years of deafening silence on this pressing public concern.

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