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Oliver! star Mark Lester, 58, claims he acted as a sperm donor for his friend Michael Jackson (pictured together, inset) and is therefore the biological father of Paris Jackson, 19 (right). He claims that Paris has a similarity to his daughter Olivia (left), who is 23. Mr Lester, who described Paris as a 'bright and a great-looking kid' said he 'can't be bothered' to have a DNA test. He claimed popstar Jackson asked people in his 'inner circle' including actors Macaulay Culkin and Jack Nicholson if they would donate their sperm so he could have a child.

The writer, who died aged 62 on December 10 last year, decided to wed Nicola Formby, 52, after being diagnosed with cancer. He bequeathed nothing to his ex-wife, the Home Secretary Amber Rudd, with whom he had two grown-up children. Gill left an estate of £4,796,266, which was reduced to £3,417,878 after paying liabilities such as legal and funeral costs.

Journalist Douglas Murray (top right) writes in his new book The Strange Death Of Europe (bottom right) that our political leaders have knowingly colluded in the 'mass movement of peoples into Europe'. Second, he believes Europe's intellectual and cultural elites, including those in Britain, have 'lost faith in its beliefs, traditions and legitimacy'. Crippled with guilt, obsessed with atoning for the sins of empire, they have lost sight of the historic Christian values that their people expect them to defend. As a result of their deluded utopianism, Murray thinks, Europe is ceasing to be Europe.

A team of police, security officials and even sniffer dogs were spotted on the Englefield estate on Friday afternoon ahead of Pippa Middleton and James Matthews' wedding ceremony on Saturday. One officer (left) was snapped clutching a folder of paperwork - including a breakdown of the schedule for the run-through (right). Pictures of a flurry of activity around St Mark's Church revealed the heightened safety measures ahead of the ceremony, which will see VIPs descend on the rural spot before enjoying a lavish reception at a 140ft glass marquee at the Middleton estate (inset), where spectacular cherry blossom trees were visible on Friday.

The dress has been delivered, the posh portable loos polished and a gigantic greenhouse worth £100,000 built on the Middletons' back lawn. The details of tomorrow's proceedings are more closely-guarded than the Crown Jewels, but well-placed sources have given the Mail an exclusive glimpse behind the scenes of the society wedding of the year. The details include an 11.30am start time at St Mark's Church in Englefield, Berkshire (top left), Pippa wearing two dresses during the event (centre, top), military timing and ID checks in place for the guests (top right), Princess Charlotte as a bridesmaid (bottom left) and Prince George as a page boy, a glass marquee for the reception (centre, bottom) and a spitfire zooming over the celebrations (bottom right).

EXCLUSIVE: Princess Beatrice has become one of the first to congratulate her ex-boyfriend, Dave Clarke (together left), after he became engaged to his stunning new squeeze of just a few months, American Lynn Anderson (right and inset). What's more, friends reveal, she may even be there at his wedding. The Queen's grand-daughter, 28, was left devastated after she split from her long-term beau last summer, reportedly after she gave him an ultimatum to marry - although sources have also told the Mail that they were long drifting apart.

Cheryl has legally changed her name back to Cheryl Tweedy. The 33-year-old singer - who recently welcomed son Bear with partner Liam Payne - has reverted to her maiden name after taking the surnames of her former husbands, Ashley Cole and Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini, during her marriages. During an interview with BBC Radio 1Xtra's host A Dot, Liam was asked if he ever gets annoyed when people refer to Cheryl by her former husbands' names and he revealed she has legally switched back to her own name.

EXCLUSIVE: Pictured is room 1136 of the MGM Grand Detroit (inset) behind which rocker Chris Cornell (right) spent the last hours of his life before committing suicidehe same night after a performance. The room is listed as 'unavailable' for booking and has been hastily repaired after body guard Martin Kirsten kicked his way in. Kirsten, Heidi Klum's ex-boyfriend (ex-couple pictured left, in 2013), is the bodyguard who gave Cornell two Ativan pills just before his suicide and later found his body. He found Cornell dead in his bathroom with a band around his neck.

Ferne McCann is reportedly back in contact with her ex Arthur Collins, who was arrested and charged over an acid attack last month. According to The Sun, the 26-year-old has spoken to her ex on the phone as they 'felt there were things to discuss' - following the news Ferne had fallen pregnant with his baby, which emerged publicly two days after his arrest.

EXCLUSIVE: The Moors Murderer and his lover Myra Hindley meticulously planned their killings in a bid to evade detection, and documented every step with photos and recordings. Photos seized by the police and released for the first time today include some understood to have been taken by Brady from the back of the van the pair used to abduct their child victims. They show children at Manchester's Ryder Brow Secondary Modern (right) - the school Hindley attended. They also show Brady (left), his mother Margaret Stewart (inset right) and the house they shared (inset).

Sarah-Jane Cunningham (pictured), 38, was devastated after her husband Stuart's mistress - her former friend - reportedly sent explicit photos of them together. She was left heartbroken by the affair and confided in her friend Teresa Church in a phone call the evening before she died at home on July 23 last year. Mrs Cunningham, who suffered from 'severe anxiety' was admitted to hospital following overdoses in October 2015 and 2016. She spent three nights in hospital after the second overdose, before being released and taking her fatal overdose the next day. A mental health worker said Mrs Cunningham's death was a 'cry for help' following three bereavements, including her father in 2008. Her sister, Kim Dodd, 37, said Mrs Cunnigham had 'destructive' relationships with her husband and alcohol.

Julian Assange (top right) lectured Britain on human rights last night while showing no sign of leaving his embassy bolthole. 'I do not forgive or forget,' he said, blaming everyone but himself for his five years of self-imposed detention. The 45-year-old WikiLeaks chief has been free to leave his Knightsbridge sanctuary at any time and yesterday Sweden withdrew a warrant for his arrest on a rape allegation. Elisabeth Fritz, who represents Assange's accuser, said the woman was shocked by the decision and stood by her claims. 'It is a scandal that a suspected rapist can disregard the judiciary and thus avoid trial,' she added. The £13million farce is set to carry on because the US wants Assange for leaking secrets.

Two Swedish brothers who were accused of killing a four-year-old boy 19 years ago today demanded a police apology as they spoke about the case for the first time. Robin Dalén, 24, and Christian Karlsson, 26, were just five and seven years old (left) when Kevin Hjalmarsson was found dead near a lake in Arvika, Sweden, in 1998 (inset, a tree has the name 'Kevin' on it). The brothers (right) - who police believed at the time were responsible for the death of the toddler - have broken their silence on the infamous case. They were not publicly linked with the death and have now spoken on a Swedish television documentary called 'Kevinfallet', which translates to 'The Kevin Case'. It echoes the murder of James Bulger case, who was just two when he was murdered by two 10-year-old boys in Liverpool in 1993.

President Donald Trump has departed on a five-stop diplomacy tour through Europe and the Middle East that will cover 15,600 miles in the air over the course of nine days. The president, the first lady Melania Trump, Chief of staff Reince Priebus, Jared Kushner, and Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka, left the White House aboard Marine One just before 2pm Eastern. Fifteen minutes later, the group arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. The first couple stopped and waved as they boarded Air Force One. They are currently on a 12-hour flight to Saudi Arabia. The last four U.S. presidents kept their first international voyages confined to North America. Not so for Trump. He will deliver a high-stakes speech about Islam in the heart of Saudi Arabia, meet with both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his nemesis Mahmoud Abbas and take in an audience with Pope Francis. And that's before a NATO summit and a meeting of the G7 leaders. Trump said Friday, after a quiet morning at the White House he was 'getting ready for my big foreign trip.' 'Will be strongly protecting American interests - that's what I like to do!' he said.

An extraordinary feud has broken out between the pair: Sky News editor at large Adam Boulton (left) and Fiona Hill (right), Theresa May's co-chief of staff feared as something of a rottweiler. Boulton, 58, has publicly complained that Sky News is being frozen out of key interviews with ministers, as part of a furious retaliation against 'aspects' of Sky's political coverage. On Thursday - shortly before Mrs May launched her Conservative manifesto - he told viewers that he had asked for an interview with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. 'But the Conservative Party, or Mrs May's advisers, are blocking interviews to Sky News by senior ministers. Instead, he gave an interview to the BBC,' Mr Boulton said.

Theresa and Philip May, pictured right, were spotted in their local branch of Waitrose in Berkshire earlier this month with two packets of own-brand crisps and a dozen pink roses. Mrs May wore her leopard-print shoes and a navy suit, while her husband was casual in a bright checked shirt, black trousers and blazer. Last week on the BBC's One Show, the PM said 'there's boy jobs and girl jobs' when they were quizzed on chores.

Terminally ill Bradley Lowery celebrated his sixth birthday party surrounded by his football heroes - even as a vile troll said 'I hope he dies' about the youngster. The Sunderland fan, whose fight against neuroblastoma has touched people around the world, gave his idol Jermain Defoe a huge cuddle (main) at the big bash. He was surrounded by more than 250 family and friends (pictured bottom right, with his mother Gemma) at the event, which boasted fire-eaters, a funfair and a marquee in Bradley's village of Blackhall, County Durham. It comes as Twitter users trolled a teenage boy who wrote 'I hope he dies on his birthday, that would be the one way to make it even better' in a vile Instagram post.

Striking photos show actress Sheridan Smith's dramatic physical transformation in just a few weeks. Her personal trainer, former Olympian Sarah Lindsay, has helped Sheridan to shed the pounds. The Gavin & Stacey star, 35, now boasts an enviably toned figure to match her friend Sarah's. The actress's transformation since her appearance in Manchester, left, in February, compared more recent shots of her at the Audi Polo Challenge, right, and on a day out with Sarah, centre, is staggering.

Arthur Newey (right) has blocked attempts by Rotherham Council to acquire his house for 18 years. They want to force him out and knock it down so the A630 road can be widened. Mr Newey, who has six children, seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, has lived his entire life in Rotherham and bought the house around 40 years ago. Rotherham Council first attempted a compulsory purchase, where councils can seize land without the owner's consent, in 1999. Mr Newey appealed to then deputy prime minister John Prescott and in 2004 a public inquiry ruled in his favour.

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Angela Keenan, 31, was given a cool cot in a private room for her son Keelan to allow the family to say their goodbyes (pictured). Keelan's big brothers and sister sat with him, gently hugging him and talking to him. The family also took prints of his hands, which they've now stored in a special memory box. Miss Cook was 32 weeks pregnant and had initially thought she had cramp in her leg when she woke in the early hours of March 3 at home in Burry Port, Carmarthenshire. After she reached for a glass of water, however, it became clear that she was bleeding and the couple called an ambulance. But doctors at nearby Glangwili Hospital were unable to locate a heartbeat for Keelan, and the couple's son was stillborn - at 32 weeks and one day - at 5.48am, weighing 3lb 2oz.

Aidan McAteer (pictured, inset) killed Violet-Grace Youens (left) in a stolen car in St Helens, Merseyside, on March 24. McAteer, 23, admitted causing the youngster's death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury to her grandmother Angela French, who was with her at the time. Passenger Dean Brennan, 27, was jailed for six years and eight months after admitting the aggravated taking of a vehicle and assisting an offender. The court heard the stolen Ford Fiesta, which had cloned number plates, began travelling at speeds of about 80mph in the busy 30mph area after passing a police car on a roundabout - although officers were not in pursuit. The girl's heartbroken parents, Glenn and Rebecca (right), gave an emotional speech outside court.

Following its latest Ofsted inspection, Willenhall E-ACT Academy (inset) in Walsall, West Midlands, has found itself dubbed one of the 'worst schools' in Britain. While its GCSE exam results are poor enough - only 40 per cent managed a C or better in English and maths, well below the national average of almost 60 per cent - the main point of criticism was the shockingly bad behaviour of its pupils (stock photograph). Or, more precisely, the bad behaviour of those pupils who bother to turn up - one-third regularly play truant. Inspectors found that lessons were routinely disrupted and witnessed staff being belittled by those they were trying to teach. As for the children, many reported they did not feel safe in the school, such was the extent of bullying.

Few mothers were prouder of their little children than Grace Hemingway. The former opera singer loved to fill family photo albums with pictures of her twin daughters, so pretty in lacy dresses, pink bows and page-boy haircuts. The only problem was she didn't really have twin daughters - for one of the two in the picture was young Ernest Hemingway (centre). He had been forced to dress in gingham frocks and crocheted bonnets and wear his hair in a shoulder-length bob to match his older sister Marcelline. Ernest didn't get a haircut until he was six. Tough, independent women scared Hemingway, who preferred those who were more 'daughterly'. Hemingway is pictured left with third wife Martha and top right in 1950.

A young family of foxes was spotted cavorting in a back garden in Birmingham by wildlife photographer Pete Walkden. They were pictured scampering and scrambling in broad daylight, utterly unselfconscious as they tried out their sharp new teeth on each other, the occasional earth worm and - much to her irritation - their mother's ears, back legs and tail.

Former nurse Ann Cumberland-Quinn, pictured above with her pet Chihuahua Chanel, claims she is being forced to live in her car in Ely, Cambridgeshire, after her Personal Independence Payment was stopped in December. She was then dealt a further blow when her Employment and Support Allowance benefit was slashed to £250 a fortnight from £375 in February of this year under government cuts. Ann has been living in her car on and off with her dog Chanel since losing her social housing bungalow in June 2015.

The group (left), from Saltburn-by-the-Sea in Cleveland, are part of a pub syndicate and scooped £1,093,805 which they will share between them. The prize from the EuroMillions Mega Week draw on April 28 2017 had remained outstanding until one of the syndicate members discovered the ticket in a plant pot in his kitchen. Steve Row (pictured, top middle), a 38-year-old steel fixer, took the ticket to his local shop to have it checked and was amazed by what he discovered. The group, from the Queen's Hotel in Saltburn (top right) also included Rachel Henderson, Jo Fawcett, Emma Oxendale, Becky Caird (holding the plant pot in which the winning ticket was found) and Samantha Percival. One of the group could not make it to the celebrations.

Dion Leonard (left and inset with Gobi the dog) was competing in a 115-mile ultra-marathon in China when Gobi, a stray dog, appeared and started to run the race with him. After he finished the race, he decided to take her back home to Edinburgh - but several hurdles cropped up along the way, nearly preventing the pair from staying together. Here, Mr Leonard recalls the moment he met and fell in love with a stray dog, who is now 'part of the family'.

Stanislaw Skalski (left and right) is believed to have downed 22 enemy aircraft and became only the second ever Polish Operating Commander of an RAF squadron. Skalski had the distinction of being the first Allied ace of the Second World War, with a confirmed four individual and one shared victory during the Polish Campaign of 1939. In 1940 he fought in the Battle of Britain for 501 Squadron, where he shot down four planes. He was also shot down himself and bailed out with severe burns, which hospitalised him for six weeks. Skalski's wartime achievements, as well as his post-war persecution, make him arguably the most distinguished of all Polish airmen and an icon of the country's Air Force.

The video was captured on May 15 from the top of a high cliff in the Shetland Islands and shows the huge whale's body floating next to rocks. Researchers have said the precise cause of its death will never be known as they are unable to gain access to the body. Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary, which rescues, rehabilitates and releases seals and otters in Shetland, were called out to investigate the discovery.

Footage of the horrifying crash from three different angles shows the cyclist, above, crunch sickeningly into a bonnet before jumping straight to his feet in Severskaya, southwest Russia. In the short clip, a driver indicates left to make a turn off the main carriageway and onto a smaller road. The driver comes to a stop, pausing to let the traffic in the opposite lane clear so that he can cross the junction. He does not appear to see the cyclist travelling down the carriageway, and seems to hesitate before suddenly springing into action. As the cyclist comes level with the car, the vehicle makes his turn, ploughing side-on into the rider.