Ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele has been named as the author of the salacious ‘dirty’ Russian dossier containing outlandish claims about Donald Trump’s sex life and bizarre footage held by the Kremlin’s blackmail unit. Steele, 52, was seen fleeing his gated Surrey home (top right) in his car yesterday and appears to have been in such a rush most of the lights were left on. A security source said: 'He is terrified for his safety', adding he may now be abroad or in a safe house. Mr Steele served MI6 for nearly two decades in Moscow and security sources say he once worked with murdered Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. After leaving the secret service he set up a security business based in a grand Belgravia office block with Christopher Burrows (bottom right today), also a former MI6 agent. He refused to discuss the report, if his colleague had written it or where he was hiding. Mr Steele was reportedly hired by enemies of Donald Trump and was asked to do a 'general' trawl on the billionaire's links to Russia. A former colleague said he is ‘more showy and less grounded in reality than you might expect a former SIS (MI6) person to be'.

Camden Council is reviewing a request to cut down the 80 foot tree (right), heavily trim another and remove wisteria, honeysuckle and a group of hornbeams which are blamed for causing cracks to a house (inset) in a side-street in the north London area. Locals are unhappy, however, at the prospect of losing a tree which has stood for generations and become a local landmark in their back gardens. The application was submitted by the couple's neighbour. Ms Weisz, the star of The Mummy and The Constant Gardener, married Bond star Craig (together, left) in 2011. An engineer's report said the trees have caused subsidence in the neighbouring property, built in 1850.

Oscar Jefferson (left), 8, who only moved to the Costa del Sol with his family two years ago, was comforted by one of the show's judges after he began crying on the Spanish version of the cookery show. The junior chef was attempting to cook his grandfather Michael Jefferson's take on fish and chips but sadly failed to finish the dish in time (top right). Viewers of the show could not help but fall in love with the boy after he described in Spanish how he’d ‘let his granddad down’.

The attacker, who was reportedly carrying gasoline and gunpowder, walked into the Mercadona shop in the As Lagoas region of Ourense, north-western Spain, before opening firing shots into the air. Several shoppers were inside the supermarket when the man entered and fired shots into the air, causing emergency services to swoop on the building (pictured top right). According to police sources, the young man has psychological problems and lives next-door to the shop. The incident, which happened at around 2pm, did not result in any injuries but left many extremely shaken. Other images show a shotgun on a checkout belt (bottom right) and bottles smashed all over the floor (left).