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The trio of tearaway toffs leading Prince William astray

You can tell much about a man by the company he keeps. So, in the week when the Duke of Cambridge’s partying hit the headlines, the story of who’s who in his ‘Wild Bunch’ speaks volumes. As documented in embarrassing photographs and videos, William spent last weekend in Verbier, Switzerland, with his three best male friends on a boozy lads’ skiing break. The drinks included lashings of beer and lethal Jagerbomb chasers; the evening activity, a bout of rather excruciating ‘dad dancing’; and the female company — a stunning blonde who works as a topless model. Alongside William were his three closest friends: Guy Pelly, known as ‘GP’, James ‘Badger’ Meade and Tom Van Straubenzee, known as ‘Vans’. All have known the Prince since childhood, and to them he is ‘Willy’. So who’s the ringleader of William’s Wild Bunch — and which of the three is most to blame for the Prince’s latest disgrace?

BBC is blasted letting paedophile boast on radio

The caller was on air for nearly five minutes discussing his sex crimes including raping his children. Rather than cutting him off, presenter Allan Beswick (pictured) engaged in conversation with the man on the late night BBC show broadcast on March 1 on BBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire. The audience listened as the paedophile boasted about how his children enjoyed being abused and added: 'I've now progressed to making DVDs of child sex.' At one point a flustered Beswick said: 'I'm glad to hear it,’ but eventually cut off the caller and branded him ‘vile’. The BBC has issued an apology for the shocking broadcast and a spokesperson said: ‘This was completely unacceptable.’ 

The 93-year-old ex-military chief was falsely accused of child sex abuse. His home was raided at dawn by 22 officers in the £2.5million inquiry. The Met tried to negotiate over compensation.

The First Minister will concede that the independence ballot could be put back until after Brexit in an apparent climbdown just days after demanding a vote by spring 2019.

Firms will face limits on the difference in price between their cheapest and most expensive tariffs under plans that will be finalised within weeks in a crackdown on rip-off gas and electicity bills.

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The Government, the BBC, Channel 4 and TfL all play adverts on YouTube. Google, which own YouTube, hands a slice of the revenue to video owners, meaning terror groups are profiting.

Former model Amanda Staveley believes the raid on her £10million townhouse was an ‘inside job’. The thief picked the lock on the front door and stole a jewellery box from the financier’s bedroom.

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Schoolgirls are being preyed on by lip filler cowboys

Insecure young British women are being targeted on social media and encouraged to have their lips injected to enhance their looks, a Daily Mail investigation has revealed. But the cosmetic treatments – which may be carried out in back rooms of hair salons and in customers’ living rooms – can cause irreversible damage. Lip filler treatments, which involve people having their lips injected with acid, can lead to extreme swelling, infections and allergic reactions. Undercover reporters from the Daily Mail accompanied 17-year-old college student Ellie Ducker (pictured inset and centre) while she visited amateur lip filler practitioners who advertise online. One of them represents himself as a doctor but is not registered with the General Medical Council (bottom right). Emma Walshaw (top right) spoke about having two days of training in giving fillers – and held a syringe in her hands without gloves when she met Ellie. Beautician Holly Spedding (left) tried to convince Ellie to have lip fillers – even after the teenager said she was too scared.

The heat in the drinks can dramatically reduce the effects of tablets and even kill the ‘friendly’ bacteria in probiotic foods such as yoghurts, experts at the University of East Anglia found.

Michael Bond, 91, who wrote the first Paddington story in 1958, has written a new book imbued with several very modern problems. Now the bear is in the harsh realities of 21st-century life.

Following his appointment as Evening Standard editor, despite never having worked as a journalist, George Osborne has pledged to continue as an MP - prompting criticism.

This week, ITV’s late-night car-crash of a programme, The Nightly Show, hit a new low when its ratings slumped below a million with Davina McColl as host. For the 10pm slot, it’s an embarrassing figure.

A typical property costs 7.6 times average earnings in England and Wales the Office for National Statistics said yesterday. The figure is based on a property costing £215,000 and a salary of £28,336.

The NHS watchdog has written to all trusts urging them to use new social care funding to discharge so-called bedblockers. The worst affected hospitals could make more than 70 beds available.

Paul John (left), 47, died in yesterday, after being fatally struck by a car saving his daughter's life. Witnesses reported seeing Mr John desperately push his daughter Angela out of the way.

Lady Scott took the 'wholly exceptional' decision to grant Daniel Cieslak an absolute discharge at the High Court in Glasgow on Friday. Cieslak, 21, met the victim, aged 12 in a taxi queue in Edinburgh.

Richard and Jonathan Powell had claimed their Kent farm manager father, David, did not understand what he was doing when he made his final will, granting his second wife, Ailsa Powell, £125,000.

Officers sealed off the Northfield, Birmingham branch and deployed specialists to negotiate with the man before his arrest. A witness said he let customers leave but kept staff hostage.

Kate and Wills begin their Brexit charm offensive in Paris

The Duchess of Cambridge ensured all eyes were on her as she stole the show in her glamorous gowns in Paris. The couple's charm offensive, which comes just days after the Brexit bill received Royal Assent allowing Theresa May to trigger Article 50, is the first time that William or Kate have visited Paris officially - although both have spent time in the city privately. Princess Catherine started the day in a custom green Catherine Walker coat (left), before changing to a black Alexander McQueen gown (right) and she finally opted for an ice-blue Jenny Packham dress (centre and inset).

It is thought there were five minors among the three families, thought to be from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. The group (pictured) was discovered in a HGV at Folkestone services on the M20 in Kent.

The Prime Minister's dark-green armoured Jaguar XJ Sentinel, with a chauffeur at the wheel, pulled up in a loading-only bay as Mrs May stopped off to do a spot of shopping in Henley-on-Thames.

Victoria Gayle, 32, hid her son Kyzer's body in a bag in a cardboard box in the outhouse at her mother's home in Hendon, north London, where the remains were found in July of last year.

Savvy Sam Cam (pictured) has sold more than 11,000 shares in her company to well-connected investors, who include an Old Etonian chum of husband David Cameron.

Former London mayor Livingstone (pictured), who has called tax avoiders ‘rich b*******’, was accused of hypocrisy in 2012 for channelling his earnings through Silveta Ltd.

While overall divorce rates are falling, the number granted to UK husbands on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour by the wife has tripled since 1980 (Stock image).

Thomas Orchard died after he was held in a police cell in October 2012. A paranoid schizophrenic, Thomas had been arrested in Exeter city centre on suspicion of a public order offence.

The findings by the Office for National Statistics suggest there may be pressures on female nurses that are more serious than those affecting doctors or other medics.

How to our British female celebs measure up in height?

Last week we revealed the surprise heights of male British stars. Now here's how the ladies measure up - from a Krankies star to a Game of Thrones heroine - who's the tallest of them all? Coming in head and shoulders above the rest is Gwendoline Christie at 6ft 3in. The Game of Thrones heroine just peaks above male counterparts Idris Elba and Sean Connery. Stunning Keira Knightly nestles in the middle at 5ft 7in. The Bend it like Beckham star is taller than 5ft 6in Ricky Gervais and towers above 5ft 4ins Daniel Radcliffe.

British Airways' new airline Level will initially fly from Barcelona to Los Angeles and San Francisco, Buenos Aires, and Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, from June.

A shortage of housing was holding back UK growth, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said. It also warned of poor skills and a lack of investment in infrastructure.

Aidan Wiltshire, 73, from Chelmsford, Essex, was given permission to have his black cat, Taylor, on his lap. He was living as a woman and calling himself Anne at the time of the alleged stalking.

Netflix's The Crown could show Prince Philip as a cheater

When a female journalist once had the temerity to question Prince Philip (pictured centre) about rumours of his extramarital activities, he erupted in anger and exasperation. ‘Good God, woman,’ he bellowed. ‘Have you ever stopped to think that for years, I have never moved anywhere without a policeman accompanying me? So how the hell could I get away with anything like that?’ His irritation was understandable. Ever since he joined the Royal Family, Philip has been the target of persistent rumour and innuendo about his alleged womanising. So it will be with a deep sigh of weariness that the Prince, now 95, views the resurgence of interest in his love life after it emerged this week that it will inform the second series of the acclaimed Netflix TV drama, The Crown. Pat Kirkwood, the highest-paid star on the London stage, was introduced to Prince Philip in October 1948. Philip was smitten and he and Kirkwood created a sensation by dining a deux at Les Ambassadeurs restaurant in Mayfair, packed with celebrities and staff who could not tear their eyes away from their table. Among numerous other women alleged to have featured in Philip’s extramarital love life were Jane, Countess of Westmorland; the novelist Dame Daphne du Maurier; the actresses Merle Oberon (top right) and Anna Massey; and TV personality Katie Boyle. There was also concern over the nature of his relationship with a childhood friend, the Greek-born cabaret star Hélène Cordet (bottom right).

Midweek was born in the late Seventies, with Desmond Wilcox as chairman. In a memorable interview Joan Rivers angrily encountered black activist Darcus Howe.

One customer wanted clothes hangers but got dog food, according to Which? Asda rated the worst online retailer, with 47 per cent got a replacement item. The best rated was Iceland.

Lesley Clarke (pictured) remains CEO of the £60 million family business and the astute financial brain behind it, despite her 20-year separation from hairdresser Nicky Clarke.

Stuart Gulliver, head of HSBC, is being probed by HMRC after it was revealed he has lived in London since 2003, despite claiming non-dom status allowing him offshore tax relief.

Meaty juicy and utterly yummy — few can resist a sausage. Not even, it seems, those of us watching our weight. But what about new, lighter sausages - a moment on the lips, easy on the hips?

Jasmin Salmon, 24, from Great Shefford, tells how her father Paul had an affair with beauty salon owner Lorna. She was shot dead by her mother Rena in 2002. Rena has been released from prison.

£4.5bn of British gold sunk by the Nazis

ROBERT HARDMAN: Even today, it is shocking to read details of the sinking of the City of Benares, an 11,000-ton British liner hit by a German torpedo while carrying evacuees to Canada. The tragedy would be debated for years. Where was the Royal Navy? How could Germany attack a ship full of children? Now an intriguing new dimension to the tragedy has emerged. The City of Benares (shown bottom inset), along with many other ships scattered off the coasts of Britain and Ireland (pictured left and right), may have been targeted for a reason: its secret cargo of gold bullion. After 25 years of research, a group of marine experts has produced a comprehensive and closely-guarded database of secret gold movements from Britain to the U.S. and elsewhere in World Wars I and II.

Teen seeking cleaning job sent abuse by lawyer over tattoo

A teenager trying to earn some money as a cleaner was shocked when a lawyer who messaged her offering work asked for a picture and bombarded her with explicit sexual insults.  Chelsea Dann, 18, was contacted on Whatsapp by a man offering £15 an hour to clean his house in Walsall but to her surprise he demanded a picture with her CV. After she initially refused asking 'why?', she reluctantly sent a photo hoping to secure the job.

Alison Souter, 52, of Yorkshire, put 'extreme pressure' on the girl to change her story - that Neil Swales, 55, had been abusing her since she was just eight years old.

Paul Newton, 43, said he was subjected to constant jibes including being told he looked 'like a lesbian minister' and was called a 'c**k jockey' while working for Balyasny Europe Asset Management.

Brett Mullineaux's helmet-cam footage appears to shows the female driver browsing the mobile app while driving on the M62 between Rochdale and Oldham in Manchester.

Shiv Sekaran, 48, from Shefford, Bedfordshire, died from kidney failure. He complained of having a cough but became delirious. His family said he could have been too ill to spot the symptoms.

Six men were jailed for offences committed between November 2015 and September 2016 including at Bluewater shopping centre in Kent. Pictured, Andrei Tifui (left) and Bogdan Neagu.

Laylah De Cruz (pictured) urged her mother Dianne Moorcroft, 63, to change her name by deed poll to convince estate agents and solicitors she was the owner of a £3m house in Kensington, London.

Isabel Gentry, 16, of Bristol, was discharged from hospital despite her mother warning medics that another pupil at her college had recently contracted meningitis.

Mark Logan, former director at the Wheatley Group, planted hidden cameras in a toilet at the firm's Glasgow headquarters and made almost 700 videos over 12 months.

Yoga teacher Sofia Janicka, 27, was sleeping on the overnight service in Brazil when a car swerved into its path and four masked men jumped out. They stormed the bus and drove it to a field.

Globe-trotting couple who dodged £1m in tax jailed

A husband and wife who funded their extravagant lifestyles by dodging their taxes have been jailed. Michael Howard, 44, and wife Donna, 43, of Motherwell were sentenced to nearly seven years in total. They operated their firm MDH Ltd from their luxury £400,000 home in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, and splurged thousands of pounds on a globetrotting, no-expense spared lifestyle. However a probe was launched after one of their workers discovered HMRC had no record of him paying tax or national insurance. The investigation discovered the company had failed to pay almost £850,000 in tax over a three year period.

Pamela Wareing from Blackpool thought she was sending money to her lover. But the mum-of-one actually transferred more than £500,000 to a con-man. She stole the money from her workplace.

The company pumped 1.4 billion litres of effluent between 2013 and 2014. Hundreds of fish and birds died in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Thames Water faces a fine of more than £1 million.

The controversial ex-Prime Minister is launching a new 'Institute for Global Change' intended to develop new policy ideas to shore up the centre ground.

George Osborne appointed EDITOR of the Evening Standard

The 45-year-old Tory (left today) has been appointed by billionaire owner Evgeny Lebedev and says he'll edit the paper four mornings a week, spend his afternoons at Parliament and then head up to his Cheshire constituency on Fridays. But critics say he is 'taking the p***' out of the taxpayer and should quit as an MP immediately. Mr Osborne, who has never been a journalist, met shocked Evening Standard staff on a tour of its Kensington newsroom (bottom right) with outgoing editor Sarah Sands (together top right) and told them: 'I may have experience of running the country but I have never run a paper'. He earns £75,000-a-year as an MP but since being sacked from the cabinet by Theresa May he has also pocketed £786,000 from speeches and £650,000-a-year at US financial giant BlackRock. One of his non-MP jobs is even America, where he is paid an estimated £120,000-a-year to work as an academic at the Washington DC-based McCain Institute for International Leadership. Journalist and former MP Martin Bell, who once represented his Tatton constituency, said he must be 'superman' if he can represent his Cheshire seat while editing a London daily paper and holding down five other jobs.

The former chancellor has been appointed the editor of the London Evening Standard so the ex-Labour leader tweeted: 'Breaking: I will shortly be announced as editor of Heat magazine'.

Richard Bull, 32, from Ealing in west London was found by his wife who 'thought he had been attacked' after he suffered severe burns to his chest, arm and hand.

The British child, who cannot be identified, is expected to give birth in the near future. Police are investigating the case, with the father understood to be only a few years older than the mother.

Hundreds of mourners turned out to Durham Cathedral to pay tribute to Neil Fingleton (pictured), the Game of Thrones actor and basketball star who died of a heart attack aged just 36 last month.

Nathan Gray, 27, of Weymouth, Dorset, came to think Elaine Ford (pictured) had started their relationship after she had been recruited by the security services to gather information on him.

Reckless baggage handlers at Luton airport prompt outrage

Two baggage handlers at London Luton airport were seen throwing suitcases from an EasyJet flight onto a truck to be transported to the terminal. The men work for a contractor called Menzies Aviation, who have pledged an investigation after the shocking footage emerged. They were filmed by a passenger, Jonas Ozolins, who spotted the reckless behaviour and uploaded the video with the caption 'idiots'. EasyJet and Luton Airport said they would be working with the aviation company to ensure high standards were maintained.

Steven Campbell, of Harpenden, Hertfordshire, sent a series of menacing emails and Facebook messages to his girlfriend from an invented woman in a bid to make her 'utterly dependent' on him.

Yesterday In Parliament: QUENTIN LETTS says the political class has, with only a few exceptions, lost the art of communicating to electors in a forthright, comprehensible way.

From May next year a London-based tour operator, Blue Marble Private, will run eight-day trips to the Titanic's final resting place at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Michael Lane, 27, said he panicked and that it did not cross his mind to dial 999 after finding 19-year-old Shana Grice's body slumped against her bed at her shared bungalow in Brighton, East Sussex.

Leanne Davies, 30, of Southampton, was serving a suspended sentence for trying to blackmail Dr Rupert Pemsel out of £10,000 when she caused the crash - injuring biker Sam Wolf.

The man, believed to be in his 30s, followed the 22-year-old woman off the EL2 bus in Dagenham, East London, and walked behind her on the road before getting hold of her and pushing her over.

Facelifts can get you off a speeding ticket 

Women who undergo cosmetic procedures are more likely to be successful and even get out of legal wrangles, according to a new study. In the survey at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore, patients who had face lift surgery appeared 'younger, more attractive, healthier, and more successful'. In turn those perceived as more attractive were more likely to be hired for a job, receive judicial leniency, and be elected as political candidate, researchers said. Earlier this month, Broadchurch star Sarah Parish, 48, (left) revealed she had undergone a pioneering new treatment to keep her looking young on-screen. Meanwhile pop star Kylie Minogue (right) has previously admitted to being a fan of Botox, in 2014, Amanda Holden (centre) revealed she had given up her Botox appointments.

Lloyd Brackenbury, 31, who is accused of killing student Natasha Wild, 23, in Rochdale, in November, has been charged with murder and is due for a pre-trial preparation hearing in July.

A High Court judge has warned model Marilyn Levesque and commodities broker Damien Hancox that the pair should 'stop fighting over money' after the pair continue the bitter divorce dispute.

John De'Viana, 54, has been acquitted at Snaresbrook Crown Court of bullying his two daughters, whom he was alleged to have spent years obsessively trying to make into sporting stars.

Essam al-Tamimi gifted his wife Rouzin al-Charmaa the £7.8million Mayfair property next to the Saudi Arabian embassy, a smaller neighbouring property, and a £2 million Marylebone flat.

Kayden-Jayne Grimshaw said that her 'blood froze' when she saw the stranger walking off hand-in-hand with her five-year-old son who was leading him away from the infants school in Kent.

Zoopla made the findings after looking at the typical length of time between a home going up for sale on its website and the property listing changing to 'under offer', in 50 large towns and cities.

If Alan Smith, 35, steps foot on the school grounds of Dunkirk Primary and Nursery School in Nottingham to pick up his three-year-old daughter he will be prosecuted for trespassing.

The youngster was struck by a Renault Megane, which then crashed into a house in Saffron Walden, Essex. He was airlifted to hospital after the incident, and remains in a critical but stable condition.

Jane (pictured) and Les Gornall, of Aberystwyth were sent countless letters from Scottish Power, despite telling the company they were British Gas customers.

Timepieces seized from criminals are auctioned off

Ten of the top lots auctioned off - including a Rolex Perpetual Yacht-Master II (top left) worth £13,700 new that sold for £8,640 - cost buyers a total of £33,480. Other watches sold off by West Midlands Police include the Omega Seamaster Professional Planet Ocean (top right), which is worth £4,160 but sold for nearly £2,000. Meanwhile the Breitling Super Ocean Automatic (bottom right) which is worth £4,000 went for £1,872 and the £6,600 Rolex Submariner Date (top centre) attracted a price of £4,320. Another Rolex Submariner Date went for £1,872 but was worth £8,600 (bottom left), and the £7,100 Breitling Chronomat 44 Pan Freece Tricolori (bottom centre) went for £1,872. The watches seized at court and taken with the Proceeds of Crime Act and Police Property Act have been sold over the last few years at Aston Auctioneers in Dudley.

In a fit of rage Veronica Stewart, 23, and her sister Chantelle, 20, raced into the People's Church in Falkirk, Scotland just as a Sunday evening service ended at 8pm.

Chloe Booth (pictured), aged eight, was disappointed when one of her teeth fell out and washed down the drain at school. Not wanting to miss out, she penned a cheeky note.

This is the whopping guppy believed to be Britain's biggest goldfish - weighing more than a bag of sugar Rocky (pictured) is six inches long, four inches wide and weighs a staggering 2lbs 10oz.

Deputy First Minister John Swinney (left) was repeatedly asked if the party would go ahead regardless in an effort to secure a positive vote.

The Electoral Commission said the party had failed to record correctly a total of £275,813 at the 2015 general election won by David Cameron and three by-elections in 2014.

Some first date! Trump SNUBS Angela Merkel's attempt at Oval Office handshake, has no warm words about her country and gives a lecture on immigration 

President Donald Trump had his chilliest summit yet with a foreign leader as he met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel today for the first time. Talks began with a warm welcome outside the West Wing but turned cold as Trump and Merkel disagreed publicly on almost every major international issue. Trump opened up a joint news conference with a slap at Merkel over her open-door refugee policy. Declaring that 'immigration is a privilege, not a right,' Trump said his first priority is to keep the country safe. He also pushed for her country to live up to its NATO commitment, stressing the 'need for our NATO allies to pay their fair share' for defense. Merkel told him it has always been her belief that it is better to 'talk to one another and not about one another' - a reference to the many disparaging statements Trump made on the campaign trail about her leadership. As the press conference came to a close, Trump told Merkel that they have 'something in common, perhaps.' They were both wiretapped by the previous administration, he implied.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Shiite rebels accused the Saudi-led coalition of carrying out the attack. Most of the people in the boat were from Somalia. 75 men and 15 women survived.

'As far as wiretapping,  I guess – by this past administration – at least we have something in common, perhaps,' Trump said Friday as he and Merkel fielded journalists' questions at the White House.

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Right-wing tabloid-style daily Gunes, meaning 'Sun', labelled the German leader 'She Hitler' amid a bitter war of words between Ankara and Berlin.

VW has refused so far to offer any compensation to motorists in the UK – although financial compensation has been offered to drivers in the US, Belgium and Spain.

A British man and woman were among the group, which included a BBC film crew, that were hurt in the explosion, caused after lava flow hit snow on the slopes of the volcano in Sicily.

Authorities have expressed concern that some asylum-seekers from Arab countries are claiming to be from Syria in hopes of increasing their chances of staying in Germany.

Amazon tribe have the healthiest arteries ever studied

The Tsimane people, who live in the Bolivian Amazon, spend most of every day hunting, fishing, farming and gathering wild fruits and nuts, and follow a carbohydrate-based diet containing little protein and fat. Research has shown that nine out of ten tribes people are at no risk of heart disease.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Day after day, the already deeply tarnished reputations of the filth-peddling, tax-dodging, terror-abetting internet behemoths sink lower into the mire.

At the risk of sounding politically incorrect, I am afraid that they have yet to make their mark. Home Secretary Amber Rudd hasn’t made an impact, writes PETER OBORNE.

Standing outside the High Court on Wednesday was a shy, unassuming woman clearly unused to the media spotlight. It was Claire Blackman, wife of Sergeant Alexander Blackman.