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NEW Richard Tice, the new eurosceptic party's chairman said the Peterborough by-election was 'close' and suggested there might need to be a recount to separate the two parties. Polls closed late last night in the historic vote called after the former Labour MP Fiona Onasanya was sensationally booted out of Parliament after being jailed for lying to police. It is pitching the Brexit Party's Mike Green, 54, a local business and self-made millionaire against Corbynite Labour candidate Lisa Forbes in the see-saw marginal.

The Duchess of Cambridge opted for a cream Catherine Walker coat and the Irish Guards gold shamrock brooch for the ceremony on House Guards Parade in Whitehall, London. Tonight's event, which is a major part of the Army's ceremonial calendar, will see three hundred musicians, drummers and pipers from the Massed Bands of the Household Division performing traditional military music and marches. It has taken place on House Guards Parade in Whitehall every year since 1966 and raises money for service charities. Kate is set to take the salute tonight, a role given to the Queen or another member of the royal family.

Brazil legend Neymar, Jr, arrived at a police station in a wheelchair before walking in unaided (pictured) to speak about the accusation. Najila Trindade Mendes de Souza, 26, (inset) accused the Paris Saint Germain forward last month of raping her at a hotel in Paris. De Souza from Darío Meira, in the state of Bahia, waived her right to anonymity on Wednesday this week to reveal more about the accusations in a TV interview. According to Brazilian news website GP1 , De Souza was ordered to pay a debt of 26,712 Brazilian Reais (£5,000) on May 14 - just one day before she came forward with the rape allegations. The fine was imposed because of unpaid rent and was said to have been comprised of three months rent and legal fees. De Souza, who is believed to work as a model and Instagram influencer, was also reportedly served with an eviction order by the court.

ROBERT HARDMAN: Nearly a century apart in age yet bound by their determination to remember; if this week's powerful and moving commemorations of the 75th anniversary of D-Day have had one over-arching theme, then it is embodied in the clutched hands of George Sayer, aged six, and D-Day veteran, John Quinn, aged 92. The two met yesterday at the main British commemoration of that world-changing moment on June 6, 1944 when the liberation of Europe finally began. Veterans, royalty and ministers had gathered in Bayeux where Mr Quinn had come to remember comrades buried in the Commonwealth cemetery. Young George had come with his family to remember his great-uncle, also George Sayer, who had been in one of the first landing craft to reach Sword Beach that morning. Sayer Snr survived the war but died in 2017. So George was wearing his beret and his medals yesterday.

Black and white photographs showing Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy have been brought to life in full colour by restoration artist Marina Amaral. The colourised images show General Dwight D Eisenhower addressing American paratroopers before D-Day, US forces storming Omaha beach, British paratroopers aboard an aircraft on their way to a drop site and solemn Allied forces recovering the dead on the French beaches. Operation Overlord was the largest seaborne invasion in history, culminating with British, American, Canadian and other Allied troops storming Juno, Sword, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches to push back Hitler's war machine from the west.

Melania, 49, flew to Normandy on Thursday with her husband Donald Trump to pay their respects to U.S. veterans of D-Day. The first lady was seen wearing a tailored black mid-length coat and matching black heels and sunglasses. She has received criticism online for keeping her sunglasses on during the commemoration, as many have branded her 'rude' and 'disrespectful'. One Twitter user said: 'Why is Melania wearing sunglasses? It's always about her looks. How disrespectful. The woman just has no class.' One person branded the First Lady 'classless and clueless' while another said 'how dare' she have kept her glasses on, branding her as 'rude' for doing so.

Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd (inset left) has today been jailed for another four years for bottling a barman in the face before he went on the run over his Tinder date's Thames death. The 31-year-old issued a grovelling apology to PTSD-suffering former soldier David Beech - who was shot in the head while serving in Afghanistan - after he brutally attacked him with a vodka bottle at the White Hart Hotel in Devon, on 16 March last year. The attack happened while father-of-one Shepherd was on bail after being quizzed by police over the manslaughter of 24-year-old Charlotte Brown (inset right) in a speedboat crash on the River Thames in December 2015. He is currently serving six years in prison for killing her but only began serving his sentence in April after fleeing to Georgia for 10 months to escape justice over her death. Appearing via video link, Shepherd this afternoon insisted he was 'not a violent person' and 'felt physically sick' after watching CCTV of the assault (main).

Depression and mental health issues are affecting more young people than ever, in every civilised country. The pressure of social media, constant testing at school, a relentless emphasis on appearance and instant messaging which leads to bullying and online abuse have all taken a hefty toll on the mental health of the next generation. JANET STREET-PORTER (left) discusses the recent deaths of Mike Thalassitis (right) and Noa Pothoven (inset) and how everyday life is affecting young people's mental health.

The sprawling mansion in Beverly Hills that Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston once shared is back on the market. The former couple were married in 2000 and lived at the historic property from 2001 to 2006 when they sold it the year after their divorce. Back in 2001 they bought it for $13.5 million and it how now been listed for over three times as much, a jaw-dropping $49 million.

The Fleetwood Town manager married Georgia McNeil (pictured together left, right on her hen do) at Aynhoe Park (top inset) in Banbury, Oxfordshire, which has proved popular with a number of celebrities in recent years. It recently played host to Ed Sheeran's birthday party and Mick Jagger's daughter Jade's wedding. The price for hiring out the entire house - which includes 28 bedrooms - for two days starts at £42,500. Use of the grounds for a marquee costs extra, beginning at £4,000. The ex-Manchester City midfielder, 36, had several groomsmen including Andrew Taylor (bottom inset) - who was previously convicted for battering a policeman to death.

Noticeably, the magazine's chart, Vogue 25, omits the Queen and Theresa May, the country's two most powerful women. Instead, it includes such figures as 21-year-old singer Jorja Smith - who Vogue praises for finding success despite not being signed to a major label - and BBC broadcaster Emily Maitlis (centre right). Vogue proclaims Meghan (far left) one of the country's most important women for the second year in a row, saying she is 'very much a modern princess'. Supermodel Naomi Campbell (centre left) made the list for her philanthropic work in Africa, while Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge (far right) made it for 'capturing a mood' and rising from relative obscurity to worldwide fame. They were joined by Oscar-winner Olivia Colman (centre).

New photos show Wikileaks founder in jail talking to fellow inmates in Belmarsh prison where he is serving a 50-week term before his possible extradition to the USA.. He was thrown out of Ecuadorian Embassy in London in April and jailed. He faces a possible 175-year term in the USA for crimes under the Espionage Act. His lawyers have said his mental health has deteriorated and he missed a planned court appearance by videolink last month.

Domenica Lawson, who has Down's syndrome, has been working at the Pavilion Gardens Cafe in Brighton since securing a job last month. Her mother Rosa Monckton, a close friend of the late princess (pictured with Domenica at her christening), is a campaigner for the right of young people with disabilities to work and set up the charity Team Domenica. Sharing a picture on social media of her daughter being handed her first pay packet (right), Miss Monckton wrote: 'Domenica receiving her first pay cheque. I could not be more proud. Thank you.'

Smiling broadly for the camera, Britain's most notorious hate preacher appeared delighted to be back at his home in Ilford, East London, when he was pictured there last month. Anjem Choudary declined to answer questions but commented that it was 'a lovely day' as he popped into a local shop to buy snacks and top up an electricity pre-payment card. Freedom certainly seemed to be tasting sweet to him after serving half of a lengthy prison sentence for inciting support for Islamic State. Despite severe restrictions on his movements - he's electronically tagged and effectively gagged - he's since been spotted out and about as late as 11pm.

Laura Brennan (inset right), from Ennis, Co. Clare, was diagnosed with the disease aged 24 in 2016, and became a passionate campaigner for the HPV vaccine, which helps protect young women against cervical cancer. In a bid to draw attention to the cause, Laura allowed a camera crew to document the final weeks of her life - and insisted the producers filmed her body lying in repose (seen main) in order to highlight the issue. Inset left, Laura with her family before her death in March aged 26.

Shelly Cohen, 41, from Warrington, Cheshire, pictured left, has been married to Paul, inset right, for 10 years. The mother-of-two felt he always prioritised football over their relationship. When a friend of hers spotted him on TV at a Manchester City game with a mystery blonde woman (pictured right), Shelly saw red. She dumped his £45K memorabilia collection (inset left), which dates back 60 years, in a box and sold it online for a fiver. The couple are still together, but Paul was furious about what she did and says he'll never forgive his wife.

Emma, the hotel manager of failing Rosehill House Hotel, in Burnley, pictured left, calls Alex Polizzi for help. Her father gave her an ultimatum - turn the family business around, or he'll turn it into houses. Alex's blunt words are hard to take for Emma, who's attached to the hotel (pictured top right) and doesn't want to change her mother's interior design. In one of the corners of the hotel, there is a creepy doll in an old-fashioned pram next to a fireplace (pictured).

Viewers tuning into the latest episode of the property show couldn't hide their frustration - along with presenter Phil Spencer - at couple Sam and Andy's high standards when it came to finding a family home. The parent-of-one deemed a a five-bedroomed Grade-II listed property in the West Midlands village of Balsall Common as not large enough 'for a playpen'. (Pictured clockwise from top left: The £775,000 West Midlands home rejected by Sam and Andy - inset. The property's lounge area, a bathroom, the spacious garden)

Hundreds have descended on the quaint village of Appleby for the first day of its famous annual horse fair (bottom left), which runs all weekend. Traveller families, horse breeders and Shetland pony lovers alike gather together in the Westmorland area of Cumbria for the event which attracts around 10,000 visitors every year. One tradition which had continued through the ages is the washing of the horses in the River Eden (main), which is undertaken in order to get the horses ready for their debuts and pictures today showed both riders and their horses enjoying a splash. This is while others were already riding round on horseback (top right and inset).

The 24 carat gold coin, known as an Aureus, has just one matching example in in the world which is in the British Museum and originally would have been worth 25 pure silver dinarii. The coin depicts a noble-looking Allectus on one face (right) and on the flip side has two captives kneeling at the feet of Apollo (left). An anonymous hobbyist found the coin in a newly-ploughed field near an ancient Roman road in Dover, Kent.

A non-descript keynote speech from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took a dramatic turn on Thursday when an animal-rights protester rushed towards him on stage berating the billionaire the conditions inside his company's chicken farms. The woman was first heard heckling Bezos from somewhere in the middle of the audience during his 'fireside chat' interview on the fourth and final day of Amazon's re:MARS conference. Bezos' speech was meant to be the headline act of the $2,000 per-head conference, but the protester, later identified to be from the group Direct Action Everywhere, stole the limelight with a dramatic stage invasion.

Cockapoo Indiana Jones took a liking to the black deep-pile rug that owner Vicky Shimwell, 39, from Lancaster, Lancashire, put down last year after redecorating her living room and regularly curls up on it to have a nap. But the poor pooch matches the luxurious rug so well that nurse Vicky and her family regularly lose track of him and accidentally trip over or step on him. Vicky said 'attention-seeking' Indiana isn't hurt during his disappearing dog act and seems to rather enjoy being the centre of attention.

Nicolas Mahut was left devastated after suffering a third-round defeat to Leonardo Mayer at Roland Garros on Friday. The French veteran,ranked 252 in the world, saw his hopes of reaching the last-16 for the first time - and the chance of a clash with Roger Federer - slip away in a four-set defeat.  But luckily he had moral support in the form of his son Natanel (centre, white cap) to help him finish this year's event in a 'beautiful way'.The seven-year-old left fans on court Simonne Mathieu, Mahut (top left, inset) and even Argentine opponent Mayer (top right, inset) in floods of tears after running on to the court console his emotional father.  

Oxford university students have showered fellow final year classmates with silly string, shaving foam, and confetti (top centre inset) to mark the end of exams on Thursday. While some were showered in Champagne and Prosecco (right), many kicked off celebrations by chugged it straight from the bottle (left). This comes after university bosses tried to discourage the festivities with its 'What a waste' campaign and £300 fines.

Chantal Jordan and Joey Janela fought in a 'falls count anywhere' bout on the streets of Coventry. Their fight carried on from the ring to a bus, a car bonnet and the city streets in front of their fans. The duo performed signature wrestling moves while a referee looked on in the bizarre scenes. At the end, they returned to the ring where Janela was declared the victor in the unusual contest.

The quartet of adorable bull terrier puppies from Kiev, Ukraine, wagged their tails in excitement as they lapped at the water, in footage taken by dog handler Valentyna Tolpiha. She said: 'I have been dealing with bull terriers for many years and they are really funny dogs. I would even call them clowns and these puppies really deserved it.'

A stunning double waterspout has been captured above a beach in Krabi, south Thailand, before sunset yesterday. Hundreds gathered to watch the incredible natural phenomenon in which two columns from the clouds to the water below were spinning like a vortex. Waterspouts are intense columns of swirling tornado clouds that form over a body of water. It is rare to see multiple columns but the nine vortexes seen above Lake Michigan in 2012 takes some beating.

Robbie Borthwick, 22, from Aberdeen, put most of the eight-inch blade down his mouth during the stunt, which has been slammed as 'irresponsible behaviour'. The labourer later posted footage on YouTube of the dangerous incident, which took place at a secret location in Scotland. Borthwick, who has only 79 subscribers on his YouTube channel, was seen in the clip with his friend Elvis Bogdanovs, 20, who has gained international infamy for climbing skyscrapers and cranes around the world. At one point, Bogdanovs runs the massive knife across the metal pylon before handing it down to Borthwick - who puts the blade down his throat, while closing his eyes, for several seconds as he hangs precariously. A spokesperson from Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks said: 'This is hugely irresponsible behaviour.'

Dramatic footage shows adventure runner Piotr Babis, from Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, pounding along the rim of Mount Bromo, a volcano crater in Indonesia. He can be heard panting heavily as he carefully makes his way around the narrow ridge, while smokes rises towards him. The volcano is part of the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park - and Bromo itself stands at 7,641ft (2,329 metres) above the plain, named The Sea of Sand.