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Boris Johnson pledges Australian-style points system for migrants

Prospective migrants would have to have a firm job offer before travelling and demonstrate 'an ability to speak English' under Boris Johnson's proposed system. They would be unable to claim benefits until they had completed a qualifying period in work. The system will be based on the scheme used in Australia, where prospective migrants are scored on a points system to determine their value to the economy. Key factors include qualifications, skills and age.

Catterick woman, 58, arrested for controlling behaviour after asking husband to help

Valerie Sanders said that she begged her bodybuilder husband Michael, 58, (pictured on their wedding day in 2014) to clean the patio doors, hoover their home and workout less as well as stop shopping at Aldi or Lidl. She also claims that he took steroids - killing their sex life - and couldn't bear to touch his muscly body (right) saying: 'It was like cuddling an ironing board'. Mrs Sanders, from Catterick, North Yorkshire, was arrested and ended up facing charges of controlling behaviour - but her case was thrown out on Tuesday. The mother-of-two said today she was 'treated like a criminal' for asking her husband to do his bit around the house. She said: 'These laws were brought in to help protect vulnerable people - not to prosecute nagging wives'. The couple (inset) are divorcing.

The 44-year-old from Greater Manchester used his wife as a sex slave during their 24-year marriage. Judge Bernadette Baxter (pictured) said he treated his wife 'as a possession'.

Film critics are embroiled in a row about the new Pixar movie, but Afua Adom today told Good Morning Britain that those angry over Toy Story 4 had missed the point completely.

The Prime Minister and husband Philip touched down in Osaka, where world leaders are gathering for the G20 summit of powerful nations.

'Emily Maitlis is not to everyone's taste': How BBC bosses tried to throw host under the bus after Tory debate fiasco

A statement appeared on the BBC website last night saying that Maitlis (pictured top) was 'not to everyone's taste', but the critical comment was swiftly removed as the BBC insisted it was sent in error. The errant comment was a response to complaints about Maitlis's performance in last week's Conservative leadership debate (pictured bottom), which some viewers said she had 'failed to control'. Some critics said the debate between Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid and Rory Stewart In an updated message, the BBC defended Maitlis and said she had 'done a good job during this programme'. The BBC has already faced one storm over the June 18 programme, after it emerged that an imam who questioned the Tory candidates had sent anti-Semitic tweets.

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An article of 19 April 2018 about the University of Westminster students' protest against the Government's Prevent policy described a student as a 'cheerleader for the terrorist groups'.

Terrified patient, 29, who fell down the stairs after tripping over his dog is comforted by nurses as he waits to find out if he has been PARALYSED by the freak accident

A 29 year old man from South Yorkshire who fell down the stairs after tripping on his dog is rushed to hospital, after losing the ability to feel his feet in Channel 5's Casualty 24/7. Kevin is cared for by nurse Jade Melia who is in the final hours of her last shift at Barnsley hospital.

At Welton Primary School in Brough, East Yorkshire, pupils are divided into colour groups and must take part in a pre-set activity determined by the school at break times.

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Basil Thomas, 50, pictured, bombarded primary school headmistress Caroline Beaumont, 47, from Cheshire with gifts during a doomed attempt to rekindle their romance.

In a powerful speech, the head of the UK regulator Ofcom, Sharon White, said that news organisations have 'valid' criticisms of proposals to introduce age checks on websites (stock photo).

Glastonbury revellers inhale 'hippy crack' ahead of 91F sunshine

Glastonbury revellers have been pictured inhaling balloons of laughing gas as they prepare to bask in a 91F heatwave as this year's festival gets underway. Thousands of music lovers arrived at the Somerset farm yesterday before watching fireworks to celebrate the opening night. The five-day event, which is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world, will be headlined by Stormzy, The Killers and The Cure. Standard tickets for Glastonbury 2019 sold out in just 36 minutes. It is also set to be the hottest ever Glastonbury, with a heatwave sweeping in. Experts at the Met Office have predicted temperatures could hit record highs for June in the south of the UK - beating the previous record of 96F (35.6C) recorded in Southampton in 1976.

A study of screening programmes in 14 countries found levels of the two strands of HPV mainly responsible for the cancer fell 83% in girls aged 13-19 after five to eight years of vaccination.

Shocking dash-cam footage shows the moment a moped rider is caught riding a four-year-old girl along a busy road in London.

An SUV reportedly belonging to 59-year-old British man Martin Walker who has been missing since last month was found submerged in a reservoir in Caspe, Zaragoza, Spain.

An 18-year-old became London's 63rd murder victim of the year after being stabbed to death in the street in Shepherd's Bush last night.

RIBA National Awards for architecture winners are revealed for 2019

The 54 winners of the 2019 RIBA National Awards for architecture are revealed today. They include (clockwise from top left): London Bridge Station; The Painted Hall, in the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, southeast London; Preston Bus Station, in Lancashire; the Macallan Distillery and Visitor Experience, in Moray; The Royal Opera House, London; and, inset, Writ In Water, in Runnymede, Surrey. The 54 will be whittled down to a shortlist of around six in July - and then, from these in October, one will be awarded the RIBA Stirling prize for the UK's best new building.

In last week's BBC debate, the Tory leadership favourite was pressed on his No Deal Brexit policy. Here, JACK DOYLE breaks down his claims.

Amid growing fury about the scandal, the Foreign Secretary says he will ensure elderly people don't have to pay the £154.50 if he beats Boris Johnson in the race to become Prime Minister.

Libbie Walker, of Hull (pictured in hospital) has been left with a seven inch scar across her stomach after she suffered a perforated bowel when she swallowed the magnetic ball.

Jeremy Hunt reveals his baby sister died in a 'terrible accident' 50 years ago

Jeremy Hunt has spoken for the first time about losing his baby sister in a 'terrible accident'. The Foreign Secretary (pictured left as a schoolboy) revealed his sister died when she was just a few months old and he was aged two. The terrible episode emerged as Mr Hunt, 52, was interviewed as part of the Tory leadership contest on ITV's Peston programme last night (pictured right). A an apparently taken aback Mr Hunt said: 'I was too young to ever remember it, but I do know it affected my parents.' Posting on Twitter this morning, presenter Robert Peston (inset) admitted he had 'upset' viewers with the way he pushed Mr Hunt on the issue.

David Dimbleby's son Fred, 21, wins a place on ITV's training scheme 

Having just completed his finals in history at Keble College, Oxford, Fred, 21, (inset) says that he is looking forward to keeping up the family tradition. 'It's such a fantastic opportunity and I'm really excited to be joining the scheme and paving my own way in journalism,' he tells me. 'I can't wait to get started.' Fred's grandfather Richard was the BBC's first war correspondent during World War II, host of Panorama and the voice of state occasions - including the Queen's Coronation. His uncle Jonathan has just stepped down from Any Questions and his father David, 80, (main) stepped down from BBC One's Question Time in January after 25 years of fronting the flagship political debate show. David has covered every general election since 1979, as well as major events such as Princess Diana's funeral.

Family of missing zoology student Rosie Johnson join search

Glasgow University graduate Rosie Johnson (pictured left), whose disappearance is said to be 'totally out of character', vanished on Sunday evening from the island activity camp where she worked. Yesterday her parents, David and Julia, and her brother and sister were on the island to join the search after apparently flying from their home in Banchory, Scotland (some of her relatives are seen on the island last night, centre). The alarm was raised after she failed to turn up for her shift as a field studies instructor on Monday morning. But a search for the former zoology student (pictured in progress, top right) was not launched until almost 40 hours later. Yesterday, dozens of police, coastguards and volunteers, assisted by a helicopter, scoured the coast near Wootton Creek, where she was last seen. Residents were asked to check their outbuildings and boats as police said there was no evidence she had left the island. Miss Johnson lived in accommodation on the site of the PGL Little Canada adventure centre, as did her 'on-off' boyfriend Brendan Storer, 27. Pictured bottom right: a map showing where Miss Johnson vanished and where the search has been happening.

The study by a British-based firm found that job losses will be twice as high as those in higher-skilled regions, even in the same country.

The unnamed British soldier lost his forearm in the horrific accident in Paderborn, western Germany (pictured, police examine the rope swing which tore through the man's arm).

The dog and bird have become inseparable and the little jackdaw (named Bondi) even rides on Bowza's head. The pair live with their owner Don Cox, aged 72, in Ipswich, Suffolk.

Pensioner, 75, is left with a broken wrist after 'cowardly shoplifter' smashed into her before narrowly avoiding 18-ton articulated lorry as he fled store

This is the heart-stopping moment a suspected shoplifter knocks an elderly woman over before narrowly missing being hit by a lorry. The incident happened yesterday outside the Chadderton Shopping Centre in Oldham, Greater Manchester. Footage shows the driver of the 18-ton articulated lorry driving down the road, which was busy with pedestrians, due to the nearby shops. A man then runs out from the shopping centre, clutching what looks to be a large rucksack, darting past other shoppers before knocking down the old woman who was carrying her shopping bags and wearing a pink coat.

Boots is trying out medicine lockers in its stores to cut lengthy queues and waiting times for collecting NHS prescriptions.

Dog-mad Richard Remde, 46, of Silsden, West Yorkshire, decided that he wanted to recreate devoted cocker spaniel, Max, as he was deteriorating in old age.

The Food Standards Agency said the two apps featured 404 eateries with a hygiene rating of just one in Manchester, Birmingham and London - their biggest markets.

Keith Richards, 75, gets the hair dye out as the Rolling Stones make their stage comeback

His flyaway grey locks have been almost as much a fixture as his bandana and his wrinkles. But Keith Richards seems keen to get away from his image as an ageing rocker - by dyeing his hair brown. The Rolling Stones guitarist, 75, showed off his new chestnut style on stage in Chicago as the band began the delayed final North American leg of their No Filter tour.

Junior doctors will receive an 8.2 per cent pay rise over the next four years and increased weekend and overnight pay thanks to a £90million investment from the Government.

The community of St George's Barracks in Rutland, East Midlands, will eventually be home to 5,300 residents and has been dubbed Britain's first dementia friendly village.

Scotland Yard Commissioner Cressida Dick said 'I'm not proud' that fewer offenders are facing punishment amid rising crime.

Man who filmed himself stealing sheep and then drove it home and released it into suburban Derby is given 100 hours community service

Ali El-Aridi, 23, from Sheffiled, filmed himself chasing after a terrified sheep on the banks of Ladybower Reservoir in Derebyshire, before posting it to Snapchat. During the shocking footage, El-Aridi can be seen grabbing the defencless creature and bundling it into the boot of his car. El-Aridi was found guilty of possessing extreme pornography at Chesterfield Justice Centre and sentenced to a 12-month community order.

Labour MP Chris Bryant sent a letter to Philip Hammond yesterday urging him to take off the tax to reduce the number of people who develop the disease.

Jeremy Hunt said last night that the tragedy had not affected him emotionally as he was too young to ever remember it.

The number of £1million home sales reached a record high last year - despite a fall in London. There was also a slight fall in the number of houses sold for more than £2million, to 2,501.

Bjorn again! At 15, Borg's son is just like the five-time Wimbledon champion

This is not Bjorn Borg dashing across the tennis court in his heyday, however, but his son Leo in action in London yesterday. And the 15-year-old is already hoping to follow in the footsteps of his father, a five-time Wimbledon singles winner, by playing at SW19 next month. Leo was competing yesterday in the Aspall Tennis Classic at the Hurlingham Club in Fulham (left). Right: Bjorn Borg at Wimbledon in 1980

Nearby resident Wayne Moseley, 47, said Tom Penn (pictured with his wife) had received death threats after telling police and the press about the row in Camberwell, south London.

A poll of 1,000 nursery workers found that 95 per cent are not allowed to call children naughty and should use other ways to manage behaviour.

The 17 year old is seen sobbing and being comforted by his mother at home after he tried to stem the bleeding on his friend Yousef Makki's body in Hale Barns, Trafford, on March 2.

Innocuous nudge that led to 'murder': CCTV shows final moments of 'train rage victim before passenger stabbed him 18 times' - as victim's son, 14, says 'when someone says something to my dad he won't let it go'

Lee Pomeroy (bottom, centre right), was knifed to death by Darren Pencille (bottom right) just minutes after he and his son boarded a train from Guildford, Surrey, to London Waterloo on a day out in January. Pencille insists he was defending himself. The murder trial today saw footage (left and top right) of Mr Pomeroy and his teenage boy boarding the London-bound train before Pencille brushes past them. Pencille then jabs his finger towards the father and son. The court has heard he accused them of blocking the aisle. Mr Pomeroy then follows Pencille into another carriage and they continue arguing. The fatal blows were struck just moments later, leaving the father with stab wounds from which he would later die.

Hope Barden, 21, from Burton-on-Trent, died of asphyxiation after performing 'extreme and degrading' sex acts on herself while Cornwall pub landlord Jerome Dangar, 45, watched online.

Rev Peter McConnell (pictured) sexually assaulted an American student on a flight from Philadelphia to London in 2017 - after making 'sleazy comments' about sex acts, a court heard.

BA pilots on six-figure deals have threatened to inflict misery on passengers by launching protests at the height of the holiday season.

Extraordinary moment owner of two Staffordshire bull terriers begged forgiveness from sobbing 16-year-old girl after his dogs mauled her family's cat to death in the street 

This is the extraordinary moment a dog owner got on his knees and begged for forgiveness (top right) after his two Staffordshire Bull Terriers 'ripped apart' a family cat while off their leads. Sharon Boalch, 50, and her daughter Shakira Jefferies, 16, are bereft (bottom right hugging) after the fatal attack on their beloved Cleo, which Miss Jefferies saw out of the window of their Worcester home. CCTV shows the black and white cat being thrown around by the dogs with one of them clamping its jaws down and pinning her to the ground until dead (main picture). The owner can be seen trying to stop them as they struck outside the house next to a city park but he cannot prevent his dogs tossing the cat around and killing her. The video then shows the unnamed man getting on his knees and apologising to the distraught mother and daughter who break down in tears and collapse to the floor in grief. The attack has been reported to the police and the incident will be investigated and the family claim they don't know where Cleo's body is after the man said he would take it to a vet - but they claim no surgeries in the city have her.

The Airbus A320-200 was about to reach the top of its descent into Tenerife's airport when the crew reported fumes in the cockpit and issued an international urgency signal on June 23.

The Department for International Trade mistakenly used a picture of a Russian Sukhoi Su-30/33 fighter in a tweet promoting the Red Arrows upcoming tour of the US later this year.

Carl Beech, 51, is a convicted paedophile. His trial heard today that he was watching and recording clips of young boys even while telling police that he had been abused as a child.

Anushka Dixit, 11, from Barkingside, in London, scored 162 points, meaning she is well above the 'genius' score of 140 and two points higher than Stephen Hawking.

Toddler fell to his death from a first-floor window when his mother left him playing

Two-year-old T-Jay Dedman (left and right with mother Chelsey Wall), from Liverpool, suffered truamatic head injuries after falling from the first-floor window of a house in Tuebrook, an inquest has heard. Mother Chelsey Wall, 26, had left the toddler upstairs as she attendsed to her friend's seven-year-old daughter, who was making a gingerbread house, when T-Jay fell from the window. The toddler was rushed to Alder Hey Children's Hospital and died on November 23.

Boeing reveals how new RAF submarine-hunting P-8 Poseidons will look

The P-8A Poseidon, which will enter service with the RAF around 2020, is equipped with torpedoes, Harpoon missiles and mines to strike at targets both above and below the water's surface. The aircraft, which cost Britain £375million each, will be used for patrols, surveillance and search and rescue missions, as well as to strike at enemy targets. They are named after the Greek god of the sea and pictured (main, top right) for the first time in their official RAF livery.

London Bridge terror attack threat was 'obvious', says lawyer

Khuram Butt (inset), 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, mowed down and stabbed scores of victims before they were gunned down by police. The Isis fanatics ploughed into crowds crossing the River Thames in a rented Renault van (right) before launching a knife rampage in nearby Borough Market. Armed with 12-inch kitchen knives and wearing fake suicide bomb vests, they murdered eight people and left 48 injured on June 3, 2017. Dominic Adamson, representing the family of victim Xavier Thomas (left, with his girlfriend, Christine Delcros, who was with him at the time), 45, told the Old Bailey the attack on Westminster Bridge on March 22 was a 'game changer' and lessons should have been learned before the London Bridge rampage less than three months later.

Electrician Carl Shepherd died on the last night of a group holiday to Play d'en Bossa on the Balearic island in August 2017.

Simone Stapley became ill after she was bitten on the finger by her pet rat. She failed to visit her GP after the wound became infected and later suffered a cardiac arrest, Oxford Coroner's Court heard.

Staffordshire-based The Good Food Chain has been told by the Food Standards Agency it can resume production on its sandwiches following its link to the recent fatal listeria outbreak.

Euromillions winner who scooped £41m jackpot wins privacy damages against ex-lover

A Euromillions winner who scooped £41 million has won privacy damages against his former lover who penned a tell-all book about their relationship. Donna Desporte (left) titled the book 'Google me, no lies' after the famous chat up line winner Gareth Bull (right) had used on her when they first met at a bar. Mr Bull won the jackpot on the Euromillions in 2012 and embarked on a nine-month relationship with Ms Desporte (pair pictured together bottom centre), while he was still married to Catherine Bull. The High Court in London today awarded him over £12,000 of damages and an injunction restraining parts of the book from being published.

The woman was filmed on CCTV in a supermarket in Coventry with the pink stroller browsing the confectionery aisle.

RAF fighter jets stationed at Amari Air Base, Estonia, were sent out to escort a Russian AN-12 transport plane on Tuesday, before being scrambled again to escort SU-27 fighters and another transport.

Arthur Fellars (pictured) was walking home in Bristol when a schoolgirl jumped out from behind bushes and repeatedly shoved him over as two other boys allegedly shouted 'n*****' at him.

Drug dealer who shot his best friend dead at point-blank range is jailed for 18 years

Jordan Bassett, 25,(right) blasted Addison Packeer, 27, (top inset) with a 9mm pistol (bottom inset) while playing with the lethal weapon in a friend's flat in Coventry. Bassett, a convicted drug dealer, was today locked up after pleading guilty to gross negligence manslaughter. Bassett was 'laughing and joking' with the 9mm semi-automatic while he and Mr Packeer waited for food at a friend's house in Chepstow Close, Coventry, on December 7 last year. Extraordinary bodycam footage (still left) shows Bassett handed himself into police after shooting dead his friend.

Farah Koutteineh called for Westminster University's Yusuf Kaplan to be sacked for his involvement in Prevent, which tips off the security services about potential extremists.

The controversial new rules (pictured) have appeared on a poster at The Hen and Chicken pub in Bedminster, Bristol, and apply to children all the way up to the age of 18.

Retired Royal Marine Sgt Major Andrzej Szaruta, 63, was killed near Stonehenge. He stepped out of his car on the A303 and a driver mowed him down and fled. A man has been charged with murder.

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Tragic story of El Salvador father and daughter who drowned crossing Rio Grande

Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez , 25, and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria, died on Sunday after being swept away by the current. He had carried Valeria across the river from Matamoros in Mexico to the banks of the river in Brownsville, Texas, and had turned around to fetch his wife, 21-year-old Tania Vanessa Ávalos, from the other side.

Four month old puppy, Bella, survives 13 days without food or water after owner gets in

Michael Crocker was driving Bella (pictured) to her new home in Southern California when his silver GMC Denali rolled off the highway in Flagstaff, Arizona, on May 13. Crocker's car suffered a shattered windshield (inset), a totaled front bumper, missing windows and a busted front hood. The puppy was found nearly two weeks later under a bush (left). She was taken to a nearby vet where she was treated (right) for dehydration and received a blood transfusion from a greyhound. She was later reunited with her owner at his home.

Sheriff Tony said Wednesday that deputies Edward Eason and Josh Stambaugh were fired for their inaction at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018.

Desmond Amofah, inset, better known as Etika, was found in the East River on Monday. In April he shared a clip showing the moment cops broke down his door and shared erratic tweets, main.

Police and firefighters who were called to the scene inside Detroit airport's McNamara Terminal determined the unidentified man posed no threat and took him to a local hospital.

Incredible never-before-seen images of the Ground Zero clean-up operation

An otherwise undistinguished estate sale purchase yielded an incredible archive of never-publicly-before-seen photographs of the Twin Towers clean-up operation, providing a haunting glimpse of 9/11's immediate aftermath. Discovered on a series of damaged CDs, the some 2,400 image were captured on a Canon Powershot G1 by a currently unidentified member of the World Trade Center clean-up crew who has since died. Taken from above and on the ground, the cache of pictures in large show workers and heavy machinery submerged in a deep and ominous chasm of scorched iron, folded metal and the skeletal outlines of office floors which had, just days before, brimmed and bustled with a human pulse.

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