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They have taken pains to keep a lid on their romance since it was revealed last summer. But with a subtle hand resting on his shoulder, Lady Kitty Spencer gives the game away at last – in a gesture that publicly confirms her relationship with fashion tycoon Michael Lewis for the first time. The 28-year-old niece of Princess Diana was spotted in step with her beau (left and right) – who at 60 is more than twice her age – as they strolled through the streets of Manhattan. Wearing a pink polo-neck jumper and colourful trousers, she accessorised with a pair of mirrored sunglasses and an enormous diamond ring on her right hand. Pictured inset: Her ring.

The former Smiths frontman (main) sparked fierce backlash for himself and the late night host (top inset) as he was performing his cover of Jobriath's 'Morning Starship' - for his album 'California Son' - on Monday. For Britain is an anti-Islam group that was started in 2017 and led by far-right politician Anne Marie Waters (bottom inset). Their website calls for an 'end of Islamisation of the UK' and Waters has described Islam ' evil ' in previous interviews.

Camilla (right) 71, wore a white button down dress and feathered hat - matching them with a pearl necklace and earrings, for the party at Buckingham Place. While The Prince of Wales (left) 70,  looked dapper in a light grey suit and purple tie for the occasion, along with a top hat. Photographs from the sprawling event show guests jostling for position and raising their mobiles to snap a photo of the royals (inset).

Christine O’Connell was nearing five years in remission for breast cancer when she suffered a seizure while cycling in London last February. Now she is being treated with the new generation drugs having been diagnosed with a brain tumour. The business consultant, from south-west London, said: ‘Before the main option would have been chemo, but now all I have to do is take one pill every day, which is a much milder treatment. I see cancer as something I have to manage and learn to live with, rather than a terrifying diagnosis. It means instead of seeing secondary cancer as a death sentence, it is more of a chronic condition. There has been no sign of the tumour for over a year now.'

Denise Eccleston (pictured) 58, from the West Midlands, hadn't left the house for seven years because of her 40 stone frame, and had been bed-bound and reliant on oxygen for four years. She was desperate to get out of bed, so that she could spend some time with her husband, Eddie. However, moving her in a hoist (right) was so painful that she only managed to make it out of bed just once before she died.

Richard Austin was driving along a narrow road in Brentwood Essex on Saturday when he saw a black VW Golf in an apparent stand-off with a red Renault van because it was impossible for both vehicles to squeeze through the tight gap. To his disbelief, Richard then watched a uniformed traffic warden exit his van, march over to the Golf - which had been forced to stop on the double yellow lines - and slap a ticket on the dashboard. In a tweet, he also compared the parking attendant's ludicrous actions to a Dom Joly comedy sketch.

Doctor Gerard Cheshire, inset, from Bristol University, claims he cracked one of the world's most mysterious texts, the Voynich manuscript, a medieval text which has eluded scholars for years. The text was compiled by Dominican nuns as a source of reference for Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, the great aunt to Catherine of Aragon. The manuscript was written in an extinct and until this point unrecorded language, top right a symbol used in the text, as well as using an unknown writing system and with no punctuation marks. The translations reveal that the manuscript is a collection of information on herbal remedies, therapeutic bathing and astrological readings, left and below right.

MPs have today launched a probe into reality television following the death of Jeremy Kyle Show guest Steve Dymond, 63, whose body was found at his flat in Portsmouth on May 9. ITV chief Carolyn McCall (top) admitted it was 'the right time for the show to end' given the 'gravity of recent events' with MPs having previously urged the broadcaster to pull the programme. Mr Dymond took a lie-detector test on May 2 on the show hosted by Jeremy Kyle (left, pictured outside his £3million home in Windsor; and, right, on the show) to convince fiancée Jane Callaghan he had been faithful, but was told he had failed. His body was found in his Portsmouth flat a week later on May 9 where he had been dead for days. ITV has said it will continue to work with Kyle on other projects, but has not yet specified what those will be. He has previously presented shows such as The Jeremy Kyle Files and Good Morning Britain. But speculation is also mounting that Channel 4 or 5 could poach Kyle, who has a net worth of about £4million, for a revamped format of the show.

Pop star Oritse Williams (left, yesterday outside Wolverhampton Crown Court) was captured on CCTV slapping the 20-year-old fan's bottom as they danced together in a VIP area hours before she was allegedly attacked. The 32-year-old singer from Croydon, South London, is accused of raping the woman after plying her with alcohol and inviting her back to his Ramada Hotel room (top) in the early hours of December 2, 2016. Williams, who appeared on The X Factor with JLS in 2008 (bottom, second left) is on trial alongside his tour manager Jamien Nagadhana (right, last October), 32, of Hounslow, West London. Today, the jury saw CCTV footage from inside the city's Gorgeous nightclub, where Williams had just performed a solo gig. It showed the alleged victim and her friends clinking glasses as they necked shots with the star and danced together.

James Turner (inset) was jailed for two years at Ipswich Crown Court after he reversed over PC Amy Macaulay (pictured main) when she pulled him over while he was driving a stolen Nissan Juke Acenta. The officer had tried to confront Turner through the passenger door only to be knocked to the ground when he tried to drive away. He then reversed, trapping her leg beneath the wheels, before fleeing the scene and ripping off the front bumper of the vehicle. PC Macaulay sustained serious bruising to the bones in her foot and leg, but credited her police issue boot for protecting her from further harm.

Steve Barclay told a Lords committee this morning (pictured right) that failure to pass the Withdrawal Agreement Bill in June would leave Parliament facing a choice between a No Deal Brexit or not leaving at all. Downing Street announced last night that the Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB) in the first week of June after three failed attempts to get a deal past MPs. It came after Mrs May (pictured left, today) met with Jeremy Corbyn last night to discuss the stalled Brexit talks with Labour. Senior Tory Brexiteers and Mrs May's allies the Democratic Unionist Party all lined up to oppose it and Jeremy Corbyn is understood to have said Labour will not support it without a cross-party deal in place. DUP Westminster leader Nigel Dodds said: 'Unless she can demonstrate something new that addresses the problem of the backstop then it is highly likely her deal will go down to defeat once again.'

Kelly Snipes, 37, from Basildon in Essex, regularly woke up in the morning to find email receipts for miscellaneous items she unconsciously bought online during the night. Her nocturnal shopping behaviour started seven years ago, after the birth of her first child, when was found to suffer from a condition called parasomnia.

Leonora Da Costa (left), 50, says she and 91-year-old Harold Tickner were as close as 'father and daughter' before his death in 2015. But she says her boss' plans were 'turned upside down... in very strange circumstances' when a new will was made just two weeks before his death. In a 2014 will, he left Mrs Da Costa his £500,000 home in Harrow (inset), as well as £415,000 in assets. He also gifted her £45,000 while she worked for him. But just two weeks before his death in June 2015 a new will was made, he gifted his £500,000 house to his nephew Dennis Richard Germain and left Mrs Da Costa with nothing.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Soldiers' recovery from facial reconstruction surgery during the first world war was documented with these photographs taken at London's King George Military Hospital between 1916 and 1918. Pictured above: Before reconstruction. Pictured below: After recovery. Sir Harold Gillies used a technique called Tube Pedicle Flaps to take skin from the forehead or the chest and swing it in to place without cutting it entirely from the body. A British sailor named Walter Yeo had been horribly burned in combat. His nose was shattered and his eyelids removed. Using skin from Yeo’s neck and upper chest, Gillies made a mask of skin that he transplanted across Yeo’s face. This helped repair the damage that had been done, hiding his disfiguration and allowing him to close his eyes.

Verena Bahlsen (left, whose father Werner (inset) owns the Bahlsen company, has apologised after claiming the firm, which employed some 200 forced labourers during World War Two, 'did nothing wrong' then. Most of the forced labourers at Hanover-based Bahlsen (top right in 1929) were women, many from Nazi-occupied Ukraine. But Ms Bahlsen, 25, whose great grandfather Herman Bahlsen created the Leibniz biscuits (bottom right), has triggered uproar by claiming her company treated the forced workers 'well'. She had first dived headlong into controversy with her unashamed claim of being a capitalist who 'wants to make money and buy yachts with my dividends'. As critics reminded her on Twitter that her company profited from forced labourers during Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime, Ms Bahlsen, who is set to inherit a quarter of the family business, hit back.

Residents of an affluent Sydney suburb are being terrorised by a group of 200 children who have gone on a series of crime rampages while under the influence of alcohol and drugs. A group of 21 teenagers were found drunk and wandering the streets on Sydney's northern beaches last weekend and had to be collected by their parents. Northern Beaches Commander Superintendent Dave Darcy is so concerned about the problem that he was written a letter to principals from schools in the area pleading with them and parents to control their children. 'There has been a significant deterioration in the behaviour of young people in the area. Teens, ages ranging from 13 to 18, from local schools, are out at all hours of the night, fuelled up on alcohol and drugs, both illegal and prescription,' he wrote in the letter. In March, an off-duty police officer was caught up in a wild street fight on the northern beaches which resulted in three boys being led away in handcuffs (main, right inset).

The controversy was stirred when video clips emerged this week of the staff-only training drill that took place in western Pennsylvania's Penn-Trafford School District on January 21. The training was for teachers only, but students in the A/V Club filmed part of it, and recent posted the video online to show off their work. The video has now been removed, and the school district refuses to let news outlets publish it, saying it was never intended for the public. At issue is a teacher seen wearing a keffiyeh, a headscarf associated with Palestinians - though the district says it was part of a random disguise that also consisted of a long blonde wig and paintball mask.