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Julian Prieto reveals how changing the blueprint of his ground floor flat in Fulham, South West London, added another bedroom - and more than £250,000 in value. The house designer saw the ground floor flat of the Victorian terrace property as an investment opportunity when he snapped it up for £515,000 two years ago. (Pictured: 102 Harwood Road Fulham before and after his transformation)

Mehdi Didda (right and inset), 33, and Mohamed Safri, 34, were allegedly part of a gang who targeted wealthy Londoners for their valuables including watches and bags, a court heard. They are accused of working with Didda's brother Sofiane, 43, to sell the goods from a lock-up in Bayswater, London, and the jury heard their haul included a £700,000 Richard Mille RM 69 Erotic Tourbillon watch (left) which is just one of 30 ever made. All three deny the charges and are on trial at Southwark Crown Court.

A schoolgirl threw herself in front of a train on the day she was due to receive the grades for her GCSEs, an inquest has heard. Jasmine Bush (left and right) was a passionate photography student and had previously told her grandfather that she wanted to know her photography grades before she took her own life. The 16-year-old had been suffering with various mental health issues, including anxiety and had been on medication to help control the symptoms. The inquest in Surrey heard from the blonde-haired teenager's mother, Nicky Bush who courageously told the jury of the horrific moment when she realised her daughter had fled the house - before receiving a message on Facebook that someone had been found dead at a local train station (inset).

Tom Ray (pictured without his prosthetics right, and left with his wife Nic and inset on their wedding day in 1998) was fit and healthy and living in Rutland in the East Midlands before he contracted sepsis at the age of 38 in 1999. He spent three months in a coma during which time his wife Nic gave birth to their second child Fred, a brother for Grace. Due to his illness, the family lost their business and had to sell their home. Mr Ray's sepsis - caused by a cut to his gum during a trip to the dentist, combined with a chest infection - came on rapidly and led to vomiting and a high temperature. He fell into a coma and when he awoke he could not recognise his wife.

Adam Koszary (left) has cashed in on the success of a tweet he posted while working for Reading's Museum of English Rural Life, oriignally earning £24,000. Now he's becoming Tesla's Social Media Manager on £75,000. The extraordinary career move is thought to be down to just one tweet, showing a muscular Exmoor ram with the caption 'Look at this absolute unit', which he posted on the feed of Reading's Museum of English Rural Life last year. The meme (right), which showed a photo taken on a Devon farm from the 1960s, went around the world, amassing more than 110,000 likes and attracting the attention of Tesla boss Elon Musk (top right).

The Cambridges have released videos of themselves playing as a family in Kate's Chelsea Flower Show garden - and in one, Prince William appears to call Princess Charlotte 'mignonette' (pictured). The term is a diminutive form of the French 'mignon', meaning 'cute'. While many fans took to social media to swear they heard the affectionate nickname being used (inset), others think he was simply asking his daughter if she'd been on the rope swing.

Coralynn Sobolik, who was 22 months old (inset), was kissed goodbye by her mother, Meagan Sobolik, 29, who says, 'I'll love you forever'. In the tear-jerking video, doctors and nurses line the corridors to honour Coralynn while singing Amazing Grace. Coralynn, of New Hampton, Iowa, had been declared brain dead just one day earlier after a brief five-day battle with parainfluenza. Complications from the illness meant she suffered cardiac arrest three times before being declared brain dead. Three people will be saved by Coralynn, whose life support was turned off on April 29 before she donated her heart, liver and kidneys.

Location, Location, Location host Kirstie Allsopp, 47, pictured left, warned people to think twice about painting their homes grey on Twitter today, sparking a heated debate. The presenter said even the 'palest grey' paint should be carefully considered, adding: 'It seems to be very fashionable at the moment and I've yet to see it done successfully.' In response, dozens of Twitter users shared photographs of their own homes, all painted in a range of grey shades (pictured right). One even suggested Kirstie 'pop over' to hers so she could change her mind.

Workers at Whorlton Hall in County Durham were filmed calling one patient a 'fat c**t' while another described the privately-run hospital as a 'house of mongs'. The investigation by BBC Panorama also revealed another patient being told by her care worker at the NHS-funded centre that her family were 'f***ing poison'. Hospital owner Cygnet has now suspended 16 workers and Durham Constabulary has begun a probe following the findings, which will be shown on BBC One tonight. The investigation saw reporter Olivia Davies go undercover as a care worker for two months to investigate claims by whistleblowers of mistreatment and poor care. She filmed shocking scenes of staff using offensive language to describe patients.

The Queen was left intrigued by self-service checkouts during a visit to a pop-up Sainsbury's store this morning, asking a member of staff: 'You can't cheat, then?'. The monarch, 93, was shown the technology (top left and rugt) during a visit to the central London shop, which was built to celebrate the chain's 150th anniversary. During the visit the Queen also viewed counters (bottom left and right) designed to look like supermarkets of years gone by. The Queen is thought to have last visited a supermarket on a royal visit with Prince Charles in 2016.

Labour and the Brexit Party were also adamant that the UK should have cut ties with the EU by now. But because of the Article 50 extension, the government has been forced to proceed. Voters will elect 73 MEPs to represent them in the European Parliament for a five-year term - although their roles will cease to exist if the country leaves the EU before then. Unlike Westminster elections, a form of proportional representation is used, with seats allocated to parties depending on their share of the vote.

Elliott Mellor (pictured) from Oldham, believed to be in his early 20s, is a maths student at Manchester Met university, and has beat the top score of 150 - set in January this year by getting a score of 152 last Friday.Twitter users (inset) have been in awe all week and are amazed at just how quickly he solved the conundrums, with one even saying: 'Elliot is a robot.'

NEW Seyi Akiwowo (pictured left with the bride) from London took to Twitter (inset) to blast a former friend whose wedding she attended in Romania. She says the bride asked her to transfer money a day after the celebrations ended as her 25 euro contribution in lieu of a present wasn't enough to cover the cost of her attending with a friend (pictured together right). Seyi recalls how the bride had offered gift bags and treated guests to an open bar. The Twitter post received a flood of comments with many slamming the bride for expecting guests to cover the wedding costs.

Lee Heasman (right), 40, was playing with friends at the £1,025-a-year Tenterden Golf Club (centre) in Kent in October 2017 when a ball flew past them as they putted on the 14th hole. Angry about how no one had shouted the warning word before the ball was hit, he challenged property developer Adam Roffey (right), who was among the golfers behind. Accountancy consultant Mr Heasman, who has epilepsy, said company director Roffey quickly became violent as he put his hands around his neck and throttled him. Mr Heasman immediately walked off to the clubhouse and got his phone out to take photos of Roffey (this image, left), 31, so he could inform club bosses and police what happened. Folkestone Magistrates' Court heard how Roffey, of Ashford, then stormed over to Mr Heasman as he took photos and attacked him, causing him to fall over a golf trolley.

Manchester fell silent today as thousands of people came together to pay their respects (main and inset) to the victims who lost their lives (bottom) in one of the worst terror attacks in the history of the UK. Ariana Grande led tributes two years on from the atrocity in which 22 men, women and children were killed by suicide bomber Salman Abedi as he detonated an explosive in the foyer of Manchester Arena after her gig in May 2017. The pop star, 25, posted a picture of a single worker bee - the symbol of Manchester - on her Instagram story today, as others across the country followed suit. Scores of people have left floral tributes, drawings and messages of support in St Anne's Square in the city to remember the victims.

Davina McCall has reportedly found new love with longtime pal, Michael Douglas (seen together, right). The TV presenter, 51, who divorced her husband Matthew Robertson last year after 17 years of marriage, is said to have moved on to the hairdresser and celebrity stylist, 45 - who she has known for more than 20 years.  The presenter certainly looked in great spirits as she flashed a coy smile while on her way to work at ITV studios in London on Wednesday (left), as news of new romance broke.  

Boris Johnson (centre) has put his north London home on the market as he readies himself to fight to become the next Prime Minister of the UK. The 54-year-old has listed the Islington property (top left) for £3.75million, a rise in value of nearly £2million over the £1.9million the four-bedroom end-of-terrace house changed hands for in 2005. The property features a spacious kitchen (bottom right) as well as big living areas (top right and bottom left) which could be used to entertain guests.

A brazen woman driving a stolen RV led police on a wild 60mph chase through the streets of Santa Clarita, near Los Angeles in Southern California on Tuesday evening. The chase began around 7pm when authorities tried to pull the vehicle over but the reckless driver sped away, weaving in and out of traffic at high speed, crashing into passing cars and a palm tree before finally coming to a halt. After hitting the tree the passenger-side door was ripped off the camper and the vehicle sustained major damage to its hood with its windshield ripped off. She drove so wildly that two dogs were seen hanging out of jagged opening at the front of the RV and one dog successfully jumped out of the moving camper onto the street. Eventually the female driver lost control of the vehicle -  both she and her dog tried to make a run for it but were quickly tackled by authorities. The driver, described as a woman in her 40s, is being held on suspicion of several felony charges including hit and run and animal cruelty.

There have been plenty of examples where turning a footballer into a statue hasn't quite worked out and a sculpture of George Best has drawn awful reviews after being unveiled on Wednesday. A statue of the Manchester United legend has been erected outside Windsor Park in Belfast (left) and was presented by former internationals Pat Jennings and Gerry Armstrong on what would have been his 73rd birthday. Best, who made over 350 appearances and scored more than 100 goals for the Red Devils (right), died in 2005 at the age of 59 and his homeland have now attempted to pay tribute to him. But the effort drew some disparaging comments - being linked to the bust of Cristiano Ronaldo that was unveiled at Madeira Airport in 2017 (bottom inset). David Beckham was also the victim of a prank with a hideous bust (top inset).

Khuram Butt, 27, stabbed Geoff Ho twice with a 12-inch knife and tried to twist the blade to finish him off in Borough Market's Black and Blue restaurant. Mr Ho, City editor of The Sunday Express, had been watching the Champions League final with friends before Butt, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, forced entry. Giving evidence at the Old Bailey today, Mr Ho recalled seeing the terrorists approaching the restaurant making 'slow, deliberate, predatory movements'. Waitress Candice Hedge warned customers they were in danger before rushing downstairs to duck down in a seating booth. As one of the terrorists turned to leave them venue, he spotted her and 'immediately' plunged his knife into her neck, the Old Bailey was told. Pictured left: Mr Ho. Right: With Candice Hedge. Inset: Khuram Butt.

Dressed in black and riding scooters, the group of men were seen pulling up outside Amir Jewellery in Maida Vale, north London, before smashing their way into the shop. Members of the public desperately chased two of the attackers who were on foot as they brandished foot-long machetes. One managed to tackle a man to the floor before police came to arrest him. Two others were detained by armed police at Camden Market two miles away. A video posted on Twitter shows the robbery unfold as a panicked 999 caller says: 'Hello, burglary at Maida Vale Road Amir Jewellery, quickly they have a knife! They went inside they have a knife they're attacking people.'

Princess Eugenie, 29, (right) was all smiles as she spoke with Duke of Edinburgh Gold award recipients in the Buckingham Palace garden. The Princess wore a £1,900 sleeveless silk dress from her wedding dress designer Peter Pilotto for today's event. Also at the celebrations were the Countess and Earl of Wessex (pictured left and inset). Sophie, 54, wore a £895 floral dress from designer Suzannah and was seen chatting to dancer Darcey Bussell (together left). Prince Edward, 55, also looked smart for the occasion and accessorised with a white hat.

This is the heartwarming moment a baby seal is rescued by two kayakers when they cut a plastic string from around its neck. The bleeding youngster that had already lost an eye, possibly pecked out by a seagull, was slowly being strangled in the water when it was hauled into one of the kayaks. Shocking video caught on a GoPro in Walvis Bay, Namibia, shows a man cutting the string away before the animal is set free. It's a young cape fur seal, according to kayak instructor Schalk Louw who helped to rescue the distressed animal.

With plants in Port Talbot, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield, Britain was formerly the powerhouse of the world's steel production - seeing generations working throughout the country's 150-year-long history in the industry, producing battleships that bested Hitler along with railways, bridges and buildings and providing thousands of British families with jobs. Pictured top left: Workers in the washroom facility at a steelworks, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1964. Top right: An employee of the Abbey Steelworks of Port Talbot measures a roll of steel, October 1, 1961. Bottom left: George Goodwin, a steel potter in Sheffield, July 1949. Bottom right: Elizabeth, Duchess of York, later the Queen Mother (1900 - 2002) receives an enthusiastic welcome from a crowd of female workers during a visit to the Firth & Brown steelworks in Sheffield.

Dramatic new dashcam footage shows the moment a pilot ejected just before his F-16 fighter jet armed with live ammunition crashed into a warehouse outside March Air Reserve Base in California on Thursday. The pilot parachuted to safety as the warplane pancaked onto the 500,000-sq-ft building's roof and caused a fire. It was carrying live ammo needed as part of an alert mission to protect US skies post-9/11.

The rare pictures that were taken around the turn of the 19th century in the state of Colorado show 'soiled doves', girls in white dresses who came to boom towns such as Denver to keep the working men company. Other photos feature the infamous bordellos, showing madams, men, women, maids and even babies having a time of it in the Wild West. Left: Belle Binard's brothel on the Denver Row, circa 1885. Unidentified Denver prostitutes posing in the 1890s. Inset: Ed Chase's Palace Theater in Denver was another notorious establishment.

Demi Lambe, from Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, climbed into the tiny cupboard but quickly regretted her decision. Instead of helping her out, Ms Lamb's friend Annalise Oram decided to film her ordeal before posting it to social media, where it has racked up more than 200,000 views. In the clip, filmed on May 13, Ms Lambe and be seen saying: 'I can't get out, I can't get out, I can't f***ing get out,' before putting her head in her hands. Two boys try to pull her out but fail miserably. A second clip shows Ms Lambe still trapped inside while explaining to a staff member what had happened.

In 1945, the group of 300 children posed for a photograph (top) in the Old Town Square in Prague, in what was then Czechoslovakia, after they were freed from Theresienstadt concentration camp in the German-occupied country. Aged between three and 17 at the time, they were taken to the Lake District to recover from the Nazi horrors they had witnessed, and became known as the Windermere Boys. Now in 2019, 10 of them are still alive and have gathered on the same spot in Prague to take the same picture again (bottom) with hundreds of their relatives, singing songs in Hebrew and Yiddish in front of a statue of religious reformer Jan Hus.

A man who was left parlayed by motocross accident pops the question to his girlfriend with a tin can ring from his hospital bed. Craig (top right) from the South West of England, and his girlfriend Laura (top right), won the title of the best proposal in the UK. They were inundated with stories for their competition and other finalists included beach proposals (left) and even one Navy seaman (bottom right) who proposed to his pregnant girlfriend after he was at sea for 8 months.

Cristiano Braga, 28, an actor and model from Minas Gerais, Brazil, has been growing his hair since 2012. He claims women have told him it's 'unfair' that he has such luscious locks. He says it only takes him five minutes to wash his 26inch hair likened to The Little Mermaid's. Pictured left inset as a child and right inset as a teenager before he decided to grow his hair long.

Aquatic videographer Lucas Richter, 22, managed to capture the spellbinding clip while visiting Oxnard, California. It shows thousands of the creatures, who are only one to seven inches in size, as they gracefully drift through the waters. The moon jellyfish, also known by its scientific name aurelia aurita, is easily recognisable thanks to its four horseshoe-shaped reproductive glands. In this clip, their delicate tentacles can be seen moving with the currents.

Joseph Markovitch is pictured in various scenes around the area by local photographer Martin Usborne as he writes about humorous anecdotes from his life in the book 'I've Lived in East London for 86 ½ Years'. Mr Markovitch, who has left London only once, reveals how he was born in Old Street in 1927 and tells how 'some of the kids used to beat me up, but in a friendly way', adding: 'Hoxton was full of characters in those days.' He writes in the book, which was first published in 2013, about a mayor called Mr Brooks who was also a chimney sweep - but had died after falling off a ladder while putting up decorations before the coronation. Mr Markovitch also refers to a woman called Maria who was 6ft tall and 'used to attack people and put them in police vans', along with a man called Brotsky 'who used to kill chickens with a long stick'.