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Such enduring marriages are rare these days, but Andrew and Doreen's (left) was exceptional because they were a British mixed race couple - she a white girl from Godstone, Surrey, he a West Indian immigrant from Dominica, at a time when such matches were almost unheard of. Andrew and Doreen raised two children, Penny, now 60, and Chris, 52, (pictured as children right and inset) and sent them both to private schools. They overcame intolerance and bigotry, worked tirelessly and, against all odds, bought their own home in London. Andrew, who is now 86, still lives there with Chris. Their incredible story is told tonight on TV's 24 Hours In A&E;, which shows the couple in their impossibly moving last moments together.

In October, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are set to touch down in New Zealand, as one of four stops on their official tour for the Invictus Games. But this won't be the first time Meghan Markle (pictured left after hiking at Franz Josef Glacier, right with her travelling friends, and inset top after going swimming with dolphins) has visited the Land of the Long White Cloud. In 2015, the then-Suits actress and founder of lifestyle website The Tig took a two-week road trip through New Zealand in a camper van (bottom inset, visiting both the country's North and South Islands. Here, FEMAIL takes a look at how the Royal travelled way back when, and how different it might be this time around.

Railway signalman Peter Lee (right) was dismissed by Network Rail earlier this year when he insisted on a 20 minute break after working a shift that lasted longer than six hours. He said: 'I have given them 44 years of my life and now I'm done - they've taken everything from me.' Now rail unions are balloting to strike in a bid to get Lee's job back at Arundel Station in West Sussex (inset). On January 8, he was closing a signal box when two managers suspended him on the spot. Four days beforehand, he had noticed there was no one to replace him after his shift, and told his boss he would be taking a break as was his right. 'I found three people who could cover the break but they refused to use them,' Lee said.

A British oil executive's son has died on holiday in Greece after falling off of a speedboat. Toby Finnett (left), 15, was riding on a rigid inflatable boat when he fell off the back and hit the blades of the propeller. His father Paul Finnett (back centre), 53, a managing director at energy and mining company Aon, was at the helm of the boat when the tragic accident occurred. Mr Finnett from Littlehampton, West Sussex, jumped into the water and dragged his younger son on board the vessel, before heading to the nearest port.

Theresa May's government was saved by a handful of Labour Eurosceptics as they joined forces to defeat a vote to keep Britain tied to the EU. Amid dramatic scenes in the Commons, a dozen Tory Remainers defied warnings they would collapse the Government by siding with Jeremy Corbyn in a bid to preserve the customs union with Brussels. Analysis of the voting record later showed that five Labour MPs voted with the Government: former ministers Frank Field (centre bottom) and Kate Hoey (centre top) and backbenchers John Mann (top right), Graham Stringer (centre right) and Kelvin Hopkins (bottom right), who is currently sitting as an independent following suspension.

Homebuyers are being locked into controversial leasehold contracts on newly built properties with this type of sale soon set to be banned. Catherine Gale, 44, (pictured with sons Owen and Oliver) fears she faces a huge loss on her three-bedroom house outside Bolton. She says homes on the estate have sold at tens of thousands of pounds less than their original price.

Their son Brooklyn recently dropped out of university in New York City, reportedly because he felt too 'homesick'. So David and Victoria Beckham made sure their family spent some quality time together on Tuesday, as they enjoyed a relaxing day on the beach during a holiday in Croatia. The former footballer, 43, showed off his impressive physique in nothing but his swimming trunks as he joined his wife Victoria, 44, and their children Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper for an action-packed day of sunbathing and jet skiing. 

President Trump in the first major retreat of his administration said that he misspoke at his Helsinki summit when he said that he did not have 'any reason' to think that Russia meddled in the 2016 election. Trump spoke directly to cameras on Tuesday afternoon in an effort to blunt criticism of a press conference with Vladimir Putin at which he let the Russian president off the hook for election interference. Glancing at a printed statement that he had marked up with hand-written edits throughout his remarks, Trump said he accepts his intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the election - although it could be other people also - and said he meant to say yesterday that he had no reason to doubt the professionals within his administration. 'I accept our intelligence community conclusion that Russian meddling in the 2016 election took place,' Trump said. 'Could be other people also, a lot of people out there,' he added. 'There's no collusion at all.'

So what is the Russian military intelligence unit that is being accused by the United States of a hacking campaign meant to disrupt the 2016 presidential election? The GRU - an acronym which stands for Glavnoye razvedyvatel'noye upravleniye , or Main Intelligence Directorate - is at the center of the election meddling scandal. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team handed down indictments last week against 12 senior members of the GRU, alleging that they masterminded the hacking campaign against the Democratic Party. GRU special forces are seen left in North Ossetia in a file photo. Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen right.

The son of murderous ex-Ukip councillor Stephen Searle who discovered his father had been sleeping with his girlfriend has taken back his partner and says the trauma has 'brought us closer together'. But Garry Searle, 44, refuses to extend the same forgiveness to his father, who was yesterday found guilty of murdering Anna Searle, 62, who was found strangled at their £400,000 home in Stowmarket, Suffolk on December 30. Gary stood by his partner of nine years Anastasia Pomiateeva despite her infidelity, and hit out at his killer dad. He said: 'Me and Anastasia just love each other so much. We will be together for the rest of our lives, until we are old and grey'. Disowning his father, Garry said: 'When I found out it was ­heartbreaking. I just couldn't believe the man I absolutely idolised and worshipped had done something like that to me.' They were all pictured together at youngest son Stevie's wedding day in 2012 (main picture), before Stephen Searle tore the whole family apart last Christmas.

Leighanne Bromley (pictured left), 29, from Coventry, said her jaw hit the ground when she first heard the message about her autistic son Harley (pictured together right) last week. Now the disgusted mother has called for the staff heard abusing her son to be suspended from RNIB Three Spires Academy in Coventry. Headteacher at the special school, which has more than 50 percent autistic pupils, Robert Jones (inset) has issued an apology to the mother.

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. A drowned woman and child were found slumped on the remains of the wrecked migrant boat in the Mediterranean, 80 nautical miles from the Libyan coast, on Tuesday. A distressed sole female survivor was rescued from alongside their corpses (inset, above). Proactiva Open Arms, who saved the woman and took photos of the harrowing scene, have accused Libya's coastguard of abandoning the three migrants and sinking the ship after they refused to be returned to the North African nation.

While they are in the process of learning to read and write, it's common for children to make honest mistakes in their work - often with hilarious consequences (pictured). But instead of letting the innocent mistakes and creative answers fly by under the radar, thousands of amused parents have shared the entertaining 'homework fails' of their children on social media. While these youngsters will no doubt go on to bigger and better things, for now it's straight back to class to learn how to draw three ducks (centre bottom).

A former Olympic-standard showjumper who smeared insults in pig's blood on the walls of her Tory Lord lover's £1million flat after catching him in the arms of another peer's wife spoke out last night after avoiding jail for the attack. Scorned Lizzie Purbrick, 63, drew a three-foot penis in blood on the floor of the home she had shared with Lord Prior of Brampton, and daubed 'lady sl*t' and 'big d**k lord' on his walls. She admitted causing criminal damage at the 63-year-old peer's south London flat at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court yesterday before launching into a bizarre defence of herself on the steps of court. After praising the 'very nice judge' who led her walk free, Purbrick said: 'Everything starts in Norfolk. It is a hotbed of sex.'

Terrifying footage (main) has emerged from inside a vintage plane as it slammed into the ground in a horror crash that left two dead and a pair of Australian pilots fighting for life. Douglas Haywood (far bottom right) and Ross Kelly (bottom centre) were among 19 people aboard the Convair CV-340 aircraft when crashed into a dairy farm (top right) last week near South Africa's administrative capital, Pretoria. Confronting mobile phone footage, captured by a passenger sitting near the left wing, showed the plane's engine engulfed in flames just seconds before impact. 'This is getting bad. This is getting very, very bad,' the man said in the video before he and a female passenger began speaking in Afrikaans. 'Why are we shaking like this?' the woman asked, to which the man replied: 'They've got to cut the engine so we can reach the runway.' Just before the aircraft hit the ground, the man said: 'Geez, this is going to be bad.'

EXCLUSIVE: British first aid expert and qualified nurse Emma Hammett reveals her guide to common insect bites and stings, explaining how to tell different insects' marks apart and relieve them. She tells how wasp and bee stings (top left) or itchy chigger bites (bottom left) are often not cause for concern unless someone is allergic, but mosquito bites (bottom right) or flea bites (top right) could develop into something more serious.

Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott's GQ cover has been branded a 'cheap rip-off' of an iconic Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg photo shoot (left) by famed photographer Helmut Newton. The couple posed for a series of photographs for the men's publication but Twitter users were quick to point out the striking similarity to the 1978 image. One user wrote: 'Whoever shot that GQ cover tried to replicate that famous photo of serge gainsbourg and jane birkin.... tried.'

Drake released a new album earlier this month, along with a single called In My Feelings. Social media personality Shiggy posted a video of himself dancing to it outside a car door and has inspired others to follow suit. Will Smith, Ciara, and Odell Beckham, Jr. have joined in, sharing clips of themselves grooving to the song, though they all did so in a safe way. But some people have taken it a step further by dancing alongside a car while its still moving. The passenger door hangs open while someone records from the driver's seat.

Fed-up cat owners from around the world took to Instagram to share photos of their cheeky, misbehaving felines, snapping them in several hilarious positions and publicly 'cat shaming' them. The felines could be seen ruining board games (bottom left) and becoming stuck in blinds (bottom centre), while one adventurous cat managed to ruin the ceiling (top centre). Others were so desperate for attention that they pawed at their owner (bottom right) or nibbled them where it hurt (top right).

The ragged funnel cloud was spotted from both Brooklyn and New Jersey circulating over the water on Tuesday afternoon. The National Weather Service said in a statement that 'there was no apparent sign of the circulation touching the water'. There were no reports of damage. The rains stopped on Tuesday evening for much of the region as the storm moved off to sea, but not before delivering misery for air travelers and commuters, and threatening to delay the start of the MLB All-Star game.

River Country was Disney's first water park and when it opened in 1976 in Orlando, Florida, it was an instant success, attracting an average of 4,700 visitors per day in its first year of operation. But throughout the Eighties the park was dogged by problems, the first coming in 1980 when an 11-year-old boy died of a rare brain-eating infection caught from an amoeba in the water. Two more youngsters then drowned at the park in 1982 and 1989. Despite this, it kept operating until 2001 when it closed its doors for good amid a nationwide drop in tourist numbers following the 9/11 attacks.

A frightened labradoodle was captured on video as his owner carried him down an escalator at a mall in Georgia. The adorable pooch was apparently afraid to step on the escalator, forcing his owner to pick him up. In the video, the dog is seen clinging to his owner as the pair ride down the escalator. The scaredy-pup is seen looking around nervously as his owner holds him tightly. A bystander, who had just gotten onto the escalator behind the woman and dog, filmed the cute moment on Saturday around 1pm. The nine-second video was recorded in Helen, Georgia, but it's unclear which shopping center they were inside.

In the clip, British pianist Paul Barton explains that the 'gentle' old female elephant, named Lam Duan, has been blind for a number of years and that he wants to play her some music. Mr Barton then plays the classical Bach number while the 62-year-old elephant sways her head and trunk to the music, almost in a trance-like state. Lam Duan, which means 'Tree With Yellow Flowers', currently lives in Elephants World in Thailand, an animal rescue facility looking after sick, old, or disabled elephants.

Mairi Gordon, 45 and Rhys McLellan, 43, reconnected after a random encounter in 2015, fell in love and married in Edinburgh last year (pictured right). They dated in their twenties but parted ways in 1995 (pictured left) before jokingly pledging to marry if they were single at 40. While apart, neither Mairi or Rhys got married or had children - Mairi was in a longterm relationship till 2010. Make-up artist Mairi, said: 'I never forget the day we split up when we were young we said to each other if we are still single at the age of 40 we would get married. I still can't believe that we did it.'

Levon Drover was paddling off the coast of Ingonish, Nova Scotia on July 5 when he spotted two Beluga whales swimming right underneath his board. He later went underwater and the whales peacefully floated by as he filmed with his GoPro. Drover, a wildlife photographer, said the experience was one of the most incredible he's ever had.

It's been one of the driest summers on record that has led to hosepipe bans and parched reservoirs in Britain. And the impact of the longest heatwave since 1976 on the country was today revealed in stark aerial photographs of London's famous parks which have been turned from luscious lawns into arid plains. The pictures of Green Park, Hyde Park, St James's Park, Regent's Park and Clapham Common emerged a fortnight after the UK had its ninth driest June on record, with eight days of no rain recorded during the month. Rain showers over the past few days have hit parts of the North West of England where United Utilities will impose a hosepipe ban on August 5 for its seven million customers - but the prolonged dry spell is forecast to resume. Pictured: Hyde Park, Green Park and Clapham Common today (main images), along with how they looked in greener times (inset).