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The wife of Eighties singer Paul Young has tragically died at the age of 52 following a two-year battle with brain cancer. Stacey Young passed away peacefully surrounded by her family and children, her husband announced today (inset). Since 2016, the mother of four had been bravely fighting the disease out of the public eye with her partner by her side. She first met the Everytime You Go Away hit maker on the set of a music video in 1987 before the pair fell in love, married and started a family together. Posting to Twitter this afternoon, Paul paid tribute to his wife (pictured together, left) writing: 'Sadly Stacey has passed away today after a two year fight with brain cancer. She died peacefully at our home surrounded by family, friends and her four children: Levi, Layla, Grady and Jude (together, right).' Condolences poured in from across the music industry with the founding member of Spandau Ballet Steve Norman said he was shocked to hear the news and described Stacey as ‘such a character and so down to earth’. Comedian Julian Clarey added: ‘So sorry to hear that Stacey Young has passed away. She was so kind, funny and bright.’ The news comes just days after Labour peer Dame Tessa Jowell publicly revealed she was undergoing treatment for brain cancer.

Over the past 15 years, 18 patients have gone on to kill after being left at large by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. The list of victims includes a former midwife strangled by her daughter, a father beaten in an alleyway following a row in a pub, a man whose throat was slit by his neighbour and a householder brutally assaulted during a burglary. Jackie Craissati, the controversial psychologist whose report contributed to the decision to free taxi rapist John Warboys, worked at Oxleas as clinical director between 2010 and 2016. Victims pictured clockwise from left: Sally Hodkin, 58, Paul Geddes, 32, Ronald Parsons, 71, Richard Price, 23, Faridon Alizada, 18.

When it comes to uploading a selfie, Britain’s millennials are streets ahead of their parents. But asked to perform a traditional skills many are completely lost. A study of household skills by the Good Housekeeping Institute paints a depressing picture of Britons under the age of 34. The survey assessed the abilities of 2,000 people in carrying out 18 once-typical domestic tasks. And it suggests that, with many young adults living in the family home into their 20s and 30s, they have not needed to learn simple domestic skills.

Mario Testino (pictured right with Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss, and inset), the disgraced Royals' photographer accused of groping male models is married to a British woman called Carol-Anne Turner (pictured together with Testino left), who knew he was gay. The photographer has been accused of groping 13 male models and photographers. He has been dropped by Vogue and Burberry following the allegations. The day after the claims broke, Carol-Anne posted this message on Instagram, accompanied by a picture of Testino: ‘Shout out to my oldest friend. True friendship doesn’t judge. Mrs Testino.’

This incredible footage shows a Metropolitan police officer race through a Tooting supermarket in hot pursuit of a drug dealing suspect. The fast-pace video shows the bobby dodge trolleys and customers as he races through the store after the offender.  

The images show off the normal side to the Spanish monarch's life with him holding his daughter's hand while clutching her schoolbag in one image, as he takes her to school (left). In another his former television presenter wife Queen Letizia beams to the camera alongside their two daughters as a television plays the King's Christmas message in the background (inset). Felipe is also pictured joking with youngest daughter Sophia in between takes for his annual speech (top right).

This is the adorable moment a baby boy cries after he has his candle blown out for him on his birthday cake. The little boy is dressed in a charmingly dapper outfit made up of a black bow tie and matching braces as he sits in front of his huge chocolate treat. It is unclear where the footage was taken

A horrified landlord returned home to find a disgusting mess inside their property after a tenant left buckets of used toilet roll and dog poo on the floor. The property's horrors (pictured) included a bucket full of excrement, festering rubbish everywhere, and bin bags stacked in piles on top of the furniture. One particularly horrendous room may have been used to house a dog after most of the floor was left coated with dog mess. Sammi Watson recorded the footage at the house, believed to be near Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, which is owned by a friend. She posted the footage online and named the former tenant as a warning to other landlords. The video has been viewed more 2.5million times and been shared 33,000 times on Facebook.

This is the revealing 'uniform' young women were made to wear at a controversial men-only charity gala at which female 'hostesses' were groped. Model Carla Bellucci, who was not involved with the event, shows off the kind of dress the young women were given to wear, which revealed large swathes of thigh, buttocks and midriff. They were also required to wear high heels and matching underwear, while some wore red shoes instead of black to indicate they were available for 'extra duties'.

 A fire in Sejong General Hospital in the South Korean city of Miryang has killed 31 people and injured around 50 others.  The blaze suspected to have started in a first floor emergency room and the cause has not yet been determined. A fire station official claimed the situation was developing quickly and the death toll was expected to rise further. 

Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes in Paris amid a flood alert as officials prepare to evacuate priceless artworks from the Louvre Museum. The Seine reached more than 18ft on Thursday evening at the Austerlitz bridge in the east of the city. It was expected to keep rising, reaching 20ft by Saturday - as high as the June 2016 flooding when authorities were forced to close several monuments, including the Louvre Museum. Paris police said in a statement on Thursday that 395 people have been evacuated protectively from their homes along the banks of the river in the Paris region. Meteo France said that exceptionally high levels of rain this winter were to blame for the floods, with rainfall in Paris twice as high as normal. In addition to the capital, where the Seine river is expected to keep rising until Saturday, other regions are threatened in the north and east of the country. Thirteen departments across France remain on alert for floods as heavy rainfall continues to batter many areas.

At least four people are dead, 10 others seriously injured, and more than 100 have minor injuries after a packed commuter train derailed in Pioltello, around 40km from Milan, around 7am on Thursday. At least six people were trapped inside one of the carriages, with emergency services working to free them. The train was on its way from Cremona to the Garibaldi Port station in Milan when it derailed between Segrate and Pioltello, according to local media. Emergency services are investigating whether a coupling link between two carriages was to blame for the accident.

There was hysteria in shops around France as bargain hunters tried to get their hands on knockdown pots of the chocolate hazelnut spread. Some media reports in France said shoppers were behaving like 'animals' in scenes reminiscent of the Black Friday sales in America as they scrambled to secure the heavily discounted goods at Intermarche supermarkets.