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The former Countryfile star (left), 45, revealed his plans on Instagram (inset) earlier today, saying we 'owe it' to over-75s who have 'served their country in the armed forces, the NHS, the fire service etc'. It is not known how much Mr Fogle will be donating, but he did not feature on last year's list of BBC stars earning over £150,000. The news comes after Second World War prisoner Victor Gregg (right) blasted the BBC for axing free licences for 3.7million people over 75. Victor Gregg, 99, accused the broadcaster of 'robbing the piggy banks' of the generation who saved the world from Hitler, as a petition urging the government to take back responsibility for free licences hit more than 320,000 signatures.

Sherif Lanre (right) has broken his silence on his shock departure from Love Island, insisting he's 'all good' and has 'bigger things to come'.  The 20-year-old chef took to Instagram Stories on Wednesday, a day after the news broke, thanking his fans for their support.  He appeared on the show briefly on Tuesday, (left) but was otherwise edited out. The post comes as fans continued to ask show bosses why he had to leave the show without explanation, saying the 'rumours could be worse than the truth,' (inset)

Stunning images of forgotten holidays to Whitstable, Victorian era trips to Blackpool and festivals on the Isle of Wight displayed in Margate chronicle the rise and fall of Britain's coasts. The coastal holiday was first popularised by the Victorians (bottom right - 1850), who headed to the coast in their droves on Britain's rail network for the perfect summer holiday. British families kept visiting the coastline as the ideal summer getaway (left - family munching ice lollies on Whitstable beach, Kent, in 1959, and top right - family enjoying a Skegness day out in 1974) until the advent of cheap air travel. When the first all-inclusive package holiday flight took off from Manchester's Ringway airport for Spain's Palma de Mallorca on 5 May 1962 it signalled a major change in the British tourism market. Families do still visit the coast for summer (bottom right - Smiling family on Hastings' beach in 2005) but not in the numbers they once did.

NEW The unknown woman yelled 'p*** c*** at the male driver before lunging towards him and seemingly swinging a fist at his face in Manchester's Gay Village. She flew into a rage when the driver, who wishes to remain anonymous, refused to driver her to Gatley, Stockport, because she had not pre-booked the cab. But she suddenly turned nasty and spouted racist insults at the stunned driver before allegedly lashing out at the car with her high heels.

This is the moment a dangerous inmate weighing nearly 20 stone attacked prison officers during a 'rampage' that took 100 guards in riot gear to stop. The officers threw pyrotechnics and used Pava spray to distract the 6ft 2in convict as they attempted to bring him under control during a shocking eight-hour riot. The mayhem involved John Onyenaychi, 38, a knifeman who tried to kill two police officers in Ealing, West London, while on licence from prison in December 2010. Onyenaychi, whom police once described as one of Britain's most dangerous men, caused £15,000 of damage at the top-security HMP Full Sutton in East Yorkshire. Shocking footage filmed by CCTV cameras inside the jail shows Onyenaychi hitting an officer over the head with a pan from behind while he was unlocking a gate.

The influx of of photos taken at at the grounds near Pripyat in Ukraine come as the city has seen a sudden increase in tourism following the HBO smash hit series Chernobyl. Tourism agencies claim that they've seen a 30 to 40 per cent increase in the tours they've given in the ghost town. In one shocking picture (left), an influencer who boasts almost 4,000 followers poses in the exclusion zone half-naked wearing just an unzipped hazmat suit and a g-string.Another snap shows a heavily made-up woman in a safety mask and head cover. She has geotagged her shots to show her followers she's at the disaster site (right). A third shows an Instagram user showing off her perfectly-coiffed hair while staring up at the site's Ferris wheel.

Homes were evacuated today due to severe flooding after a week of torrential downpours and thunderstorms, which is set to continue with a further four inches of rain still on the way. The Met Office has issued a swathe of weather warnings over the next two days for the country, amid fears homes and businesses could be flooded and there could again be difficult driving conditions and road closures. The Environment Agency has issued 44 flood alerts for England,, and seven more serious flood warnings. The worst of the flooding today was seen within the Wrexham, Flintshire and Denbighshire areas of North Wales, where homes were evacuated, roads were closed, trains were cancelled and a school was shut. Pictured today: Flooding at Mancot in Flintshire (left), and Seal Sands in Teesside (top right) and strong waves at Seaham Lighthouse near Durham (bottom right).

Miss Symonds (pictured today), who is 23-years Boris' junior, appeared at a public event with her boyfriend for the first time today and will increase speculation he plans to make her the third Mrs Johnson when his divorce goes through. Carrie, a Tory aide who quit after their relationship emerged last September (together inset), has totally revamped Boris' image by encouraging a 'trendy' haircut, helping him lose several stone in weight by quitting alcohol and 'late-night binges of chorizo and cheese' and getting him out on his bike most days. Behind the closed-doors of their £1million 'love-nest' flat in south London, Carrie is said to call him her 'Bozzie Bear' - after Fozzie, the fluffy-haired Muppet. The former foreign secretary calls her 'Otter' - who are cuddly but have the thickest fur of all animals - a nod to his tough partner who rose to the top of the Tory party's PR machine by the age of 30. Her success also came after the ordeal of being one of the youngest victims of taxi driver rapist John Worboys when she was just 19. And now she is just weeks away from becoming entering No 10 as Mr Johnson's girlfriend.

Breakfast TV star Lorraine Kelly has made headlines this week after appearing to 'snub' her former GMTV colleague Esther McVey, now a Tory MP, live on air when she was a guest on Good Morning Britain. Kelly later said she was 'baffled' by the Tory leadership hopeful's claim that she was promoted above her at GMTV, and disagrees with her views on LGBT rights. Today, McVey (left) was asked by LBC presenter Iain Dale: 'What on earth did you do to Lorraine Kelly?' McVey replied: 'I don't know. I had a very fun time at GMTV.' Dale added: 'But she clearly can't stand you. Why do you think that is?' McVey said: 'Who knows?' Also today, Kelly (right) was again questioned about her relationship with McVey (inset, with Fiona Phillips and Eamonn Holmes in 1999) on Good Morning Britain and said 'there is something rotten at the heart of politics'.

They soared to icon status with starring roles in the Harry Potter franchise.  So fans will no doubt be delighted to see that a bevy of stars from the magical world united on Tuesday to attend the Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure Preview at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida. Leading the way was Evanna Lynch, who starred as the ditzy and loveable Luna Lovegood, as she was joined by co-stars Rupert Grint and Tom Felton, who played Ron Weasley and Draco Malfoy respectively, to launch the experience.

Coronation Street star Chris Quinten's stripper fiancée Robyn Delabarre, 21, has admitted her parents have struggled to deal with her engagement to a man 40 years her senior - and revealed her mother (right, with Robyn) is only 38 and her father is just 40. The brunette bombshell appeared alongside the actor, 61, on This Morning on Wednesday (left), where they spoke about their recent betrothal and the age gap between them. 'Chris is much older but we had such a nice connection we just got on well, we spoke a lot,' Robyn said of meeting the former soap actor, when he was managing the strip club she worked at. The couple got engaged after just seven months of dating and have revealed they are already planning a family together.

Thames Water engineers are at the scene, desperately trying to restore water supplies after a pipe burst at their water works in Hampton, south west London. But the situation has led to supermarkets being almost cleared out of their bottled water supply (pictured, Waitrose in Twickenham), and reports of 'fighting' over what little that is left. Local schools have also reportedly closed as a result. As have leisure centres and other businesses affected by the water outage.

The US women's soccer team has been slammed for wildly celebrating every goal (pictured left) in their unprecedented 13-0 demolition of Thailand - even as the plucky minnows from Asia lined up in tears at the end of the one-sided match (bottom right). The World Cup favorites thrashed their opponents in Reims, France, on Tuesday night and reacted to each goal as if it were their first, leaving commentators and fans on Twitter shocked, with one describing the American players as a 'disgrace to the game.' Even the substitutes joined arms and jumped up and down with wide smiles (pictured top right for the fifth goal), while Thai players could only look on in horror.

Kate, 37, arrived in the Cumbrian town of Keswick in £250 boots by See By Chloé (left and left inset), but later swapped the designer lace-ups for a more practical £150 pair by Berghaus for an afternoon on a rural farm (right and right inset). Both pairs were almost exactly the same colour and shape but the subtle difference was spotted by eagle-eyed royal watchers. It proved a practical move for the royal.

Queen Silvia, 75, and King Carl XVI Gustaf (right), 73, were joined by children Crown Princess Victoria (left), 41, and Prince Carl Philip (centre), 40, and their respective spouses, Prince Daniel, 45, and Princess Sofia, 34, at the Polar Music Prize ceremony in Stockholm last night. Princess Sofia was praised over her choice of a £4,000 D&G; chiffon gown (centre) while Victoria stunned in a frothy pink frock (left).

NEW Footage showed holidaymakers on a passenger ferry near Ibiza, Spain, looking distressed (right) as a larger vessel approached them at speed, while one woman is believed to have jumped into the sea (left) for fear that the two ferries were about to collide. The incident is said to have occurred just after midday yesterday in a busy shipping lane in an area known as Es Freus between Ibiza and Formentera. The captain of the Bahama Mama, which was travelling faster than the smaller vessel, is understood to have been told to shut down its engines to avoid a collision. The passenger who ended up in the sea, who was on the Kontiki II which is operated by a firm called Aquabus, has not been named but is said to be okay.

Police in Hong Kong today fired pepper spray, used batons and water cannons to beat back umbrella-wielding protesters who tried to reach the city's parliament as demonstrations against a controversial extradition bill turned violent. Clashes broke out shortly after 3pm (0700 GMT) - the deadline protesters had given for the government to abandon a controversial bill that would allow criminal suspects in Hong Kong to be sent for trial in mainland China. Police armed with riot shields, tear gas and batons have pushed back against protesters attempting to storm past barricades to get into the city's government headquarters. Earlier in the day, tens of thousands of black-clad demonstrators paralysed central Hong Kong, filling nearby streets and overturning barriers outside government offices where the bill was due for a scheduled debate. By late morning, with crowds swelling, officials in the Legislative Council said they would delay the second reading of the bill 'to a later date'. The fresh rally comes three days after more than a million people marched through the streets of Hong Kong to voice their objections to the proposed law.

NEW Dexter Bowker was born on November 29, 2016 at North Manchester General Hospital (centre) but never took a breath. Medics felt a pulse in his umbilical cord after his birth, but could not resuscitate him. At the time, his mother Katie Bowker (right, on Monday; and, left, with husband Steven and son Harvey), 39, was a midwife at Royal Oldham Hospital, which is also part of Pennine Acute NHS Hospitals Trust, and two colleagues had taken charge of Dexter's delivery. But an inquest at Manchester Coroner's Court found medics had failed to pick up a slowing in Dexter's foetal growth towards the end of the pregnancy. A community midwife who saw her at 26 weeks and at 38 weeks admitted she should have been sent for further scans. It also emerged that the midwife who helped her in labour was due to have refresher courses on aspects of midwife care including neo-natal resuscitation.

Sir Michael, 76, was awarded the gong today at Buckingham Palace by the Duke of Cambridge (right) for services to travel, culture and geography following his successful second career as a travel writer and television presenter. However, he is best known for his role in the Monty Python sketches, alongside John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and the late Graham Chapman. Sir Michael is seen on the left holding his honour outside the Palace.

The England cricket team is among 10 of the countries battling it out for the 2019 Cricket World Cup this summer, and their glamorous wives are sure to get them back on their winning streak. Seen left to right: Jos Buttler's wife Pilates instructor wife Louise with Jason Roy's wife Elle Winter; Captain Joe Root's wife Carrie Cotterell; Liam Dawson with his wife Sophie and their son; Eoin Morgan's wife Tara Ridgway, an Australian Burberry PR.

She married Chris Pratt at ultra-private San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito on Saturday. And Katherine Schwarzenegger looked every inch the newlywed princess as photos of her second wedding dress were revealed on Tuesday. The daughter of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger, 29, opted for a simple yet elegant strapless ivory number later in the evening as she said 'I do' in a traditional white gown with an impossibly long train for the daytime nuptials.

In the popular imagination, unlawful cowboys and bandits dominated the rugged landscape of the American frontier but it was also home to female outlaws, very different to the helpless dames typically portrayed in Hollywood. Although little known today, some of these women were legendary during their lives and shocked society with their ruthless and unladylike behaviour. Calamity Jane (left) was known for her sharp-shooting, whiskey-swilling and dare-devil ways. Rose Dunn (right) was known for firing a gun at US Marshals and Pearl Hart (centre and inset) earned widespread fame and notoriety for being one of the only female stagecoach robbers.

In this heartfelt elegy, Juliet Blaxland reveals how she is savouring every last moment in her coastal Suffolk home, which rests on top of a collapsing cliff top. To live here is to feel closer to something that the modern world has almost lost, she writes. The cliff is a wild place, bashed by raw nature, the landscape around it one of ever-changing readjustments. Where once there was a sand dune, now there is flat beach. Where once the reed bed met the beach, now there is a sandy bay from the night when the sea took the land. Where once there was a tree, with its bleached-out branches standing up in the sea, now there is no sign of it since it was washed away. Where once we walked a hundred paces to the edge of the cliff, we are the ones now on the edge.

Villa Guardamangia (left), a palazzo-style mansion on the outskirts of the Maltese capital Valletta, served as a royal residence during the early years of the Queen's marriage to Prince Philip - between 1949 and 1951 (right at the villa in 1950). Not yet Queen, Princess Elizabeth lived on the island while Philip served on HMS Chequers with the Royal Navy Mediterranean Fleet - offering them their only real taste of life as a relatively ordinary couple before her coronation in 1953. The period featured in the first episode of Netflix series The Crown, portraying the couple as happy during their time there. With six bedrooms, three bathrooms, a grand 'sala nobile' living room - not to mention 'various guest/servant quarters' - the property has 'great historical value', although it has since fallen into disrepair. Former Maltese president Marie Louise Coleiro presented the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh with a watercolour of Villa Guardamangia during a 2015 trip (inset). It has now been listed for sale by luxury estate agents Homes of Quality.

NEW Dog instructor PC Davie Morris was given a special send-off by his unit today after 30 years of service. His colleagues, humans and dogs, lined up in a guard of honour before surprising him by pelting him with tennis balls. The specialist instructor from Paisley, who has worked with the Dog Unit for 22 years, has trained many dogs how to sniff out drugs and explosives.

The Long Range Desert Group (LRDG), established in June 1940, was a highly successful and well-organised group of specialist soldiers who caused chaos for Britain's enemies in North Africa during the Second World War. The unit undertook many covert tasks such as reconnaissance patrols and intelligence missions from behind Italian lines, and used their knowledge of the desert to guide other forces such as the SAS on their own sorties. Striking images show one soldier manning a Vickers machine gun while hanging off the side of a heavily modified Ford truck (bottom left), as another depicts soldiers donning goggles against a sandstorm (top left). Other remarkable snaps capture the harsh and unforgiving conditions under which the elite soldiers operated, with intelligent-looking men seeking shade from the desert sun under the wing of an airplane (top right). The photos are included in Karl-Gunnar Norén and Lars Gyllenhaal's new book The Long Range Desert Group: History And Legacy - a thorough account of the men who lived deep behind enemy lines with little or no support.

Houthi rebels attacked the airport in Abha, a Saudi mountain resort city, with a rocket which fell on the arrivals hall, according to reports (pictured, the aftermath of the attack with emergency services at the scene in the early hours of this morning). The Saudi-led coalition which is fighting the Houthis in Yemen has said that the injured victims are of 'different nationalities'. Eight of those wounded at Abha airport were admitted to hospital, coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki said in a statement. Yemen's civil war has been raging since March 2015, with the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in the Middle East state.

NEW Tourists at Chicago's Willis Tower were left terrified Monday evening, when glass coating cracked beneath visitors' feet on the 103rd floor of the building's Skydeck.   One witness described hearing a 'boom', before noticing that the glass had 'splintered into thousands of pieces', according to CBS 2.  A mother and her two children were reportedly standing on the deck at the time. 

The new Time Out guide to London includes a 'Top 20' list of attractions - and 'a night out in Peckham' comes 19th, thanks to its tropical-themed cocktail bars and streets that 'buzz almost every night of the week'. The No1 spot on the list goes to the Victoria & Albert Museum, with 'street food' and the Houses of Parliament coming second and third. The Shard comes fourth in Time Out's list, being 'the undisputed kingpin' of the recent sprouting of skyscrapers across the capital.

The Must Farm site in Cambridgeshire (left) drew worldwide attention in 2016 when it was hailed as 'Britain's Pompeii' or the 'Pompeii of the Fens', containing many extraordinarily well-preserved artefacts including pots (bottom right). Now archaeologists from Cambridge University have come up with a definitive timeline for Must Farm's occupation based in part on analysis of the timbers preserved (top right)

Its mammoth size and bleached fur stood out among the greenery in Fran McGarry's garden in Peasedown St John, Somerset. She described it as 'about 25 per cent bigger than an ordinary squirrel'. Unlike an albino, which can be identified by its pink eyes, this black-eyed squirrel is thought to be leucistic. This means that its fur lacks pigmentation and results in the squirrel's white colour. There are around five million grey squirrels in Britain, but experts believe there are fewer than one in a million that have leucism.

Travel site momondo commissioned tattoo artist Mo Ganji for 'The World Piece', an artwork centered around the first single-line tattoo to link people from around the world. Participants then met in London to share their stories and stand shoulder-to-shoulder (pictured main), after getting their unique individual inkings (inset).

The two birds of prey scrapped and lunged at each other while flying inches off the ground in Poland, in what the photographer said was a 'power play' between the two eagles. The duel took place over grassy ground and above a pool of water, with other nearby birds watching cautiously and appearing to take evasive action. Dutch photographer Jessica Blokland van Diën said she had 'made it my mission' to capture the images, saying that in her home country it was unusual to see them so close up.