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Novichok victim Dawn Sturgess was captured on CCTV (right) brushing past a small child to buy alcohol in a store in Salisbury less than 24 hours before she was taken into intensive after frothing at the mouth and collapsing. Ms Sturgess is seen on the footage entering the busy Charlie's Store at Old George Mall in Salisbury with a friend at around 2pm on Friday. Dressed in a dress and straw hat, she is seen brushing past a young child on her way to pay for a bottle at the till at the store, located close to where Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned in March. Another CCTV video (left), obtained exclusively by MailOnline, shows the blonde and gaunt addict smiling and laughing at an off licence at the bottom of Rollestone Street in Salisbury, where her homeless hostel is located, wearing the same dress at around 10pm the day before. Ozzy Hayatsu, the owner of the Best 1 Local off licence who sold her four cans of Karpackie beer for £6.99 on Thursday night, said: 'She seemed happy.' Ms Sturgess, 44, spent Friday shopping and drinking with friends in the centre of Salisbury before she collapsed at her boyfriend's home in Amesbury on Saturday morning.

Dawn Sturgess, 44, (top left) and her boyfriend Charles Rowley, 45, (centre left) became critically ill within hours of visiting Salisbury on Saturday - the site of the murder attempt on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March. The authorities are still searching for the container carrying the nerve agent, which could kill anyone who found it. A security source said: 'It could have been picked up by anyone, including a child. There's no doubt it will be contaminated still'. Today police evacuated, sealed and screened-off the homeless shelter where Dawn lived in Salisbury (main picture) and Charlie's home in eight miles away in Amesbury where they both collapsed. One friend of the couple, who were known to be drug users, believes they may have found a syringe believing it contained heroin rather than the deadly poison used by assassins Britain claims were sent by Russia.

Edward Senior, 22 (pictured at university main and on holiday inset) went onto a private message forum to tell close friends about an encounter with an attractive female student. But his friends decided to share the post with hundreds of other students as a joke, including the young woman mentioned. An inquest into his death today heard Mr Senior, also known as Ted, feared his dreams of being a doctor were over after being disciplined by university chiefs. He returned back to his family home in Monmouthshire, Wales in a state of distress and was found hanged in a nearby wood soon after. His mother Diana told the hearing at Newport Coroner's Court: 'There was a complaint in relation to a post on social media. This resulted in Ted being excluded from the majority of his lectures and from a charity event he had organised. It had a profound effect on him and he came home.'

Meghan Markle is a humanitarian. We know this because she never stops telling us. Indeed, her official Kensington Palace royal website is laced with copious details of her devotion to charitable work. I had first hand experience of how important this work is to her when we met in my local pub just before she started dating Harry. 'The thing I am most proud of in my life is my humanitarian work,' Meghan told me that night. Her eyes radiated with joy and excitement as she talked about a recent trip she had made to Rwanda for the United Nations. 'I have never felt as happy as I did on that trip. I was doing something meaningful, to help people less fortunate than me.'

NEW Company boss Maya Hartge (bottom right) is used to attracting attention when she's driving her Porsche 981 Spyder convertible - and never more so than during the current heatwave, when she's zooming around with the roof down. But for every person who casts an admiring glance or makes flattering comments about her expensive wheels, there are others who don't take kindly to seeing a woman driving such a high performance car.  And most often it's male drivers who don't even attempt to hide their resentment. While Maya aims to respond to putdowns with wit and charm, men who take on events director Henrietta Sauleek (top) are less amused when she's at the wheel of her bright blue £70,000 Audi RS4, which can go from 0-60mph in 4.1 seconds. Zipping around in her Porsche Boxter convertible, Ingrid Lewis (bottom left) frequently finds herself up against men keen to prove they are kings of the road. While the idea that a man might find it hard to cope with a woman driving a fancy car may sound dated, according to John Groeger, Professor of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, who has a particular interest in motoring, what Maya experiences is a common reaction.

London mayor Sadiq Khan's Greater London Authority has granted permission for the 20ft (6metre) inflatable, dubbed 'Trump Baby', to rise above Parliament Square Gardens for two hours on the morning of Friday July 13. Mr Trump is expected to arrive in the capital the evening before the planned stunt and is likely to visit Blenheim Palace, meet the Queen at Windsor, hold talks with Prime Minister Theresa May at Chequers, and travel to his golf courses in Scotland during the trip.

EXCLUSIVE: The Beckhams put on an extraordinarily loved-up display in London this week ahead of their 19th wedding anniversary. But according to leading behavioural experts, there is more to the loved-up pictures than meets the eye - with the couple's body language hinting at tension, confusion, hurt and 'conflict'. Clockwise from top left: Victoria's raised jaw betrays 'tension'; David is leaning away from his wife's PDAs; he gives no response as Victoria leans towards him; and the ex-Spice Girl gazes lovingly as her husband looks on.

Sanjay Naker followed the 18-year-old after she was thrown out of Number 1 club in London Bridge for being too drunk. The 28-year-old loitered outside the bar then slung the teenager over his shoulder and dragged her away from the busy street. Distressing CCTV footage released by the Met Police today (centre) shows the girl barely able to stand or walk in a straight line as Naker (left and right) pulls her along down the secluded alleyway. The teenager fell and banged her head and tried to 'claw her way along a wall' to run away from him. But Naker, an employee at Price Waterhouse Cooper in London, subjected her to a sickening 30-minute attack, forcing her to perform sex acts then repeatedly assaulting and raping her. Naker was found by a security guard at 4.45am, standing over his victim and zipping up his trousers, as she lay unconscious and half naked in a puddle of her own urine. He then took a minicab to the home he shared with his wife of two years and later searched the internet for the definition of 'rape'.

Cheryl has lead celebrity tributes to the NHS on its 70th birthday. The singer took to Twitter on Thursday where she cited her near fatal battle with Malaria in 2010 in an emotional tweet. The former Girls Aloud star was not the only celebrity to pay tribute to the National Health Service today. Katie Piper (top right) thanked the NHS for their life-altering treatment following her acide attack in 2009 and Richard Bacon (bottom right) who is currently being treated in hospital, was also quick to praise the service.

The pregnant sister of the Duchess of Cambrdige wafted into the grounds this morning, looking incredibly summery in a white broderie anglaise dress, accompanied by her brother James. Although she's already thought to be in the third trimester of her pregnancy, she showed just a hint of her baby bump in the pretty white frock which skimmed over her tummy. Meanwhile Alice Cook, the wife of Alistair Cook (seen together bottom right) who is expecting the couple's third child opted for the cool and casual look in a simple grey dress with a cowl neck.

Rescuers are beginning to pump oxygen into the chamber in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand, where the 12 boys and their 25-year-old coach have been trapped for days. A medical assessment has found that it is still too dangerous to try to move the youngsters, an unnamed source in the Thai Navy Seals. Two boys and the coach are suffering with exhaustion through malnutrition, according to a new doctor's report. It comes with rescuers facing a race against the weather to save the 12 children as it emerged volunteers accidentally pumped water back into the caves.

NEW The 16 year-old, who cannot be named because of his age, was a friend of victim Alesha MacPhail's family, it is understood. He is due to appear at Greenock Sheriff Court this morning after being kept in custody overnight. The little girl's body was found in woodland in the grounds of an abandoned hotel on Monday. Alesha (inset) had been staying with her grandparents at a seafront flat near Rothesay on the Isle of Bute. Main picture: police carry out searches of the shoreline near where she was found.

The sprawling 16th century home Gareth and his wife of 20 years, Alison (both pictured, celebrating at the win against Colombia), unwind in sits in 4.5 acres of land in North Yorkshire and boasts its own private cinema with reclining chairs (pictured, bottom-left). The mansion (pictured, top-right) combines aged beams with contemporary design (pictured, top-left, in the bathroom, and, bottom-right, in one of the six bedrooms). Suave Southgate has become renowned for his sophistication as he take notes in a waistcoat at the side of the pitch, but if that were ever in doubt he has only to point to his wine cellar and antique collection at the Grade I listed property.

NEW Hundreds of football fans turned out to welcome the Colombian national team as a police escort guided them past well-wishers two days after World Cup defeat. The team lost on penalties to be knocked out of the tournament on Tuesday, leaving England to progress to this weekend's quarter-finals. Streets teemed with sports fans waving the country's flag as a yellow bus waded through the masses under heavy security in Bogota (pictured). Concerns for the safety of the players were voiced this week as the world remembered the murder of footballer Andrés Escobar after he scored an own goal in the 1994 tournament.

Bride-to-be Megan Davison, 22, was spotted strolling through a St Petersburg park with Jordan's mother Susan Pickford (both left), after news broke of the hero goalkeeper's proposal. Megan (right) and Jordan, 24 (inset), who live together in Altringham, Cheshire, have been dating since she was 14 and he was 16 after meeting at school. Yesterday she posted a picture of herself sporting a massive diamond ring on her left hand following the match with the caption: 'Before and after... penalty shootout.' During Tuesday's tense match with Colombia, and with just one flick of his outstretched left hand, Pickford became a national hero.

These are the shocking scenes as two British female students were attacked by an angry man on a Slovakian train heading in the direction of Budapest in Hungary. The girls can be heard screaming after the man leaves his compartment and attacks the girls for a second time in the corridor. Local media reported police moved the man into a different carriage and fined him €40.

Rebecca Boyle, 32, (left and right) was discovered in her cabin aboard the La Polonia (top inset), which was moored in the Italian Riviera port of Imperia, after a night of heavy drinking with crewmates. Deckhand Jonty Brits (bottom inset), the last person to see her alive, claimed the 32-year-old fell because she was 'unsteady on her feet' from downing vodka from the bottle as she walked on to the £6 million yacht about midnight.

Afrim Xhekaliu (left), 41, made an emergency call to police in the early hours of January 31 this year when the boat he was sailing got lost after setting off from France. After searching for more than four hours, the RNLI eventually located the rigid-hulled inflatable boat (right) which was towed to Eastbourne in East Sussex. There were nine people on board, eight men and one woman. Xhekaliu, from Barnet, north London, was one of just two passengers wearing life jackets and the only one wearing a wetsuit. He was convicted of facilitating illegal immigration at Lewes Crown Court and sentenced to six years in prison today.

There's nothing like a puzzle to while away some free time - but you might waste more minutes than intended on this one. The illustration features a mass of green leaves punctuated by the odd red or orange flower, and - somewhere - a tiny brown creepy crawly. So can you find it?

Nine nurses at Trafford General Hospital in Greater Manchester, where health secretary Aneurin Bevan introduced the National Health Service in 1948, posed for the picture with uniforms from each decade of the NHS's history. Over the decades the pinafores, caps and dresses have been abandoned one by one, with today's nurses wearing comfy trousers and matching tunics. The nurses explained how caps went out of fashion in the 1990s over fears they would attract bacteria, while trousers have only been introduced in recent years.

Princess Stephanie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha married Jan Stahl in a civil ceremony in Gotha, Germany, on Thursday. Princess Stephanie, 46, was seen posing with shovels alongside BMW engineer Jan, who turns 50 in September, as they planted a tree to celebrate their union (seen right).

Banned from competing in dressage by officials, Wallace the mule was left with an understandably long face. But his rider Christie Mclean has a streak of stubbornness and refused to take No for an answer. And after she publicised Wallace's plight last week there was a wave of support for her 11-year-old mount.

£75million mega yacht Elandess has been spotted making her maiden voyage on the Thames in London days after the £113million Aviva sailed down the river. The brand new boat was only recently delivered and completed sea trials in Germany a few weeks ago, boasting a swimming pool, six cabins and a 'Nemo deck' with portholes below the sea line to give guests a view of the deep. Aviva, which belongs to Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis, is slightly larger than Elandess, built by the same German shipyard, and comes with a tennis court.

Barry Dierks and Eric Sawyer (pictured right) built new homes in the South of France for the rich and titled which attracted the likes of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson (pictured left) - before the outbreak of the Second World War. The stories of the parties on the Riviera before the war and the experiences of Dierks and Sawyer are highlighted in a new book titled Riviera Dreaming (pictured inset).

Mallory Harrigan and her boyfriend Cliff Russell (inset, above) were fishing four miles off mainland Labrador in William's Harbour, Canada, when they spotted what they thought was a baby seal stranded on an iceberg. However, upon closer inspection, they realized it was a starving and helpless Arctic fox. After the animal was rescued, the only food it would eat was a tin of Vienna sausages.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. This is the moment a driver jumps out of his sports car and attacks a delivery driver in a road rage dispute on a north London street. The ugly scenes took place on Tuesday afternoon in Highgate Village, a sleepy suburb in north London, home to celebrities including Kate Moss and Jude Law. The outraged driver gets out of his £30,000 Abarth Spider and begins hitting the side of the VW transporter van, incensed at the side on collision.

Never-before-seen photos of Adolf Hitler's Reich Chancellery (left) in ruins after the surrender of Berlin in the summer of 1945 are being put up for auction in Kent next week. They show how the once lavish interior of the Chancellery, including Hitler's private office (top right) and his top brass conference room, had been reduced to rubble by the Allies in the final days of the war. The fascinating photo album was compiled by one of the first British soldiers to enter Berlin at the end of the Second World War - a mystery member of the Grenadier Guards (seen far left in the photo bottom right).

Her Majesty, 92, was at Leuchars Station in Fife today to presented a new standard to the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards as Colonel-in-Chief of the regiment. The monarch looked elegant in pale blue coat and hat and was the picture of health after recovering from a summer cold. Her Majesty arrived with Colonel of the Regiment Brigadier H D Allfrey (top right) and later met with families at the base.

In a video filmed on June 30, couple Cheyenne and Lucas sit underneath a tree while sipping on beer in Fredonia, New York. Both look up, realizing that a branch of the tree is about to fall, and the two quickly run out of danger with their drinks in their hands. A person can be heard screaming in the background as a large branch comes slamming down on the table and benches that the couple had just been sitting on.

The two daughters of King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain will spend this month in America at a summer camp with other children, a statement issued by the Spanish palace read. Princess Leonor, 12, and Infanta Sofia, 11, will return to Spain in time for their annual summer trip to Mallorca. (Pictured: Princess Sofia, left, and Princess Leonor, with their parents King Felipe and Queen Letizia)

From New York to California, July Fourth festivities ranged from the lively to the lighthearted, with Macy's July Fourth fireworks and Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest. The day's events also were stately and traditional, with parades lining streets across the country and the world's oldest commissioned warship firing a 21-gun salute to mark the 242 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. However, the celebrations were a little muted in some Western states where the recent hot weather and wildfire danger forced communities to cancel fireworks displays. In New York, the Macy's fireworks show over the East River kicked off its 25 minutes of sparkle and ahhhh with the West Point Band and entertainers including Kelly Clarkson, Ricky Martin and Keith Urban on NBC's broadcast.