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Shane Watson has been named in Australia's squad for the T20 series against South Africa as he continues his comeback from injury. The 33-year-old all-rounder has not played for the national team since the World Twenty20 in April, but returned to club action for Sutherland on Sunday after ankle and calf injuries resulting from stepping on a ball in training in May. With the Test squad still in action against Pakistan when the T20 squad is due to gather ahead of the three-match series against the Proteas, there is room for a number of new faces, with Ben Dunk and Nathan Reardon getting their first calls. Shane Watson is recovering from injury and has been named in Australia's latest T20 squad . Aaron Finch (c), Sean Abbott, Doug Bollinger, Cameron Boyce, Patrick Cummins, Ben Cutting), Ben Dunk (wk), James Faulkner, Nic Maddinson, Nathan Reardon, Kane Richardson, Shane Watson, Cameron White. There are also places for New South Wales youngsters Sean Abbott, Pat Cummins and Nic Maddinson, while the likes of Doug Bollinger and Cameron White add some experience. James Faulkner has been named in the squad but his inclusion is subject to him being released from the Test squad in time. National selector Rod Marsh said: 'While the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 seems a long time away, the nature of short T20 series at international level means every match between now and then is a great opportunity for players to show what they're capable of against high quality opposition. 'This series of three matches provides new captain Aaron Finch the opportunity to really work with the T20 squad after commencing his tenure as captain with a win against Pakistan in the one-off T20 a couple of weeks ago. James Faulkner has been named but his inclusion is subject to him being released from the Test squad in time . 'The squad itself includes a good blend of youth and experience, providing Aaron with multiple options with both bat and ball. We've seen some good form in Matador One-Day Cup recently from players such as Cameron White, Nathan Reardon, Ben Dunk and Ben Cutting and they've been rewarded for those good performances. 'Shane Watson also returns from injury and we certainly know the destruction he is capable of causing in this format of the game.' The series begins on November 5.

Shane Watson has not played for the national team since April . He returned to club action for Sutehrland on Sunday after injuries . Ben Dunk and Nathan Reardon get first calls to squad .

Cost-cutting officials decided it would be too expensive to investigate concerns over gases coming from a landfill site now blamed for the death of a seven-year-old boy in last year’s floods. Experts flagged up a ‘high risk’ of contamination on land at the back of the home of tragic schoolboy Zane Gbangbola as early as 2010. But the internal report for the Environment Agency (EA) also discloses that Spelthorne Borough Council’s contaminated-land officer advised against testing the land on the grounds of cost. Scroll down for video . Tragic: Zane's devastated parents Kye and Nicole Gbangbola, pictured right, are still battling to find out the truth about their son’s sudden death last February . The shocking revelation is the latest twist in the battle by the boy’s grieving parents Kye and Nicole Gbangbola to find out the truth about their son’s sudden death last February. Zane was overcome by fumes while he slept as floodwaters rose in the basement of the family’s home in Chertsey, Surrey. His parents were also rushed to hospital and diagnosed as suffering from hydrogen cyanide poisoning, which has left Kye, 49, a paraplegic. A post-mortem into Zane’s death found he suffered ‘carbon monoxide poisoning’ after police suggested a gas leak from a petrol-driven flood pump was responsible – but no such pump was in use at the time. The home of Kye and Nicole Gbangbola during the floods in February where their son Zane died last year . The houses in Chertsey, Surrey, surrounded by flood waters close to the old landfill site (bottom left field) The EA commissioned a study of the site in April 2010 when it planned to build a cabin for workers next door to the Gbangbolas’ home. But when contamination fears were raised, the local council advised it was cheaper for the EA to simply protect its own property with a gas-proof membrane rather than carry out gas monitoring – and not warn neighbouring residents. Mrs Gbangbola, 37, said last night: ‘It sickens me that neither the EA or the council even warned us we were living next to a landfill site and there may be lethal gases. But to find out we were kept in the dark for financial reasons is devastating.’ An EA spokesman said: ‘We have worked with Surrey Police and await the coroner’s findings.’ Spelthorne Borough Council failed to respond.

Zane was overcome by fumes as he slept as floodwaters rose in Surrey . Experts flagged up ‘high risk’ of contamination on land at back of home . But Spelthorne Borough Council’s contaminated-land officer advised against testing the land on the grounds of cost .

(CNN) -- Attention, Upper East Siders: Headbands are back! If you're not a fan of "Gossip Girl," that reference was probably lost on you, but that doesn't mean you're unfamiliar with the CW series' impact on fashion, and one hair accessory in particular. Thanks to countless pleas from fans, costume designer Eric Daman is bringing back Blair Waldorf's (Leighton Meester) headbands. "We tried to (compensate) with the hats last year, but it didn't seem to have the same impact," Daman said. "I feel like the headband was such a thing for her when she was in high school. We wanted to segue out of it for a little bit." Going into its sixth and final, season, "Gossip Girl" would rather recycle an on-screen relationship than an outfit. While some characters have found themselves back in the arms of past lovers, "every handbag, every shoe, every accessory, every piece of clothing is only used for the scene that it's in," Daman said. With the exception of some of the men's suits and dress shirts, that is. Season six, which premieres October 8, will be no exception. In addition to Blair's headbands, Daman said, fans can expect a "rich fall color palette" complete with "deep sapphire blues, military olives, delicious aubergines punctuated by pops of fuchsia." And look for "neons and acidic yellows in the way of accessories, shoes and bags." Rather than the statement jewelry the characters have rocked of late, Daman said, it's all about delicate layering pieces this season. He called jewelry designer Meira T "one of this season's best discoveries." Fall TV fashion: Outfitting 'Revenge' Daman comes from "Sex and the City," where he was an assistant costume designer on seasons 2, 3 and 4. He said his reputation, from working alongside Pat Field on the HBO series, was one reason designers were excited about getting involved with "Gossip Girl" early on. "It's an honor and a privilege for me to be able to have access to all these amazing designers. ... If I tried to do the show on our budget, there'd be no way it would look like it does." Viewers should expect to see pieces by Valentino, Jonathan Saunders, McQueen, Prada, Marni, Gucci, Jenny Packham and Bottega Veneta on screen this fall. But outfitting a show like "Gossip Girl" isn't as simple as just plucking looks from the runway. Daman styles each ensemble, putting different pieces together to create something unique, like Serena van der Woodsen's (Blake Lively) Jimmy Choo bag and Marc Jacobs laptop case, which peeked out of the tote. It didn't take long before blogs were buzzing about the combo. Fall TV fashion: Outfitting 'Pretty Little Liars' "All the characters have really grown in story and in style," Daman said, "making statements and fashion headlines with their wardrobe choices on the way." Chuck Bass, played by Ed Westwick, has had a significant style transformation, Daman added: He's gone from "bad-boy billionaire to seriously suited business maven." Gordon Gekko -- Michael Douglas' character in 1987's "Wall Street" -- and Patrick Bateman -- Christian Bale's character in 2000's "American Psycho" -- both inspired Chuck's current style, Daman said. "(Chuck) can wear whatever he wants," Daman said. "He can wear a pink suit and an ascot and pull it off. ... When you have men wearing pastels, there's kind of a power behind the sexuality, I think. They're so confident." Blair and Serena have also come a long way from the Constance Billard School uniforms they wore for the better part of the show's first and second seasons. Fall TV fashion: Outfitting 'Scandal' "The challenge really was ... giving them each their own kind of identity," Daman said of accessorizing their uniforms. "Blair obviously started with the headband, and then it became giant ruffled bow blouses and fuller skirts. ... Whereas Serena was wearing her skirt from when she was a sophomore, which was a different plaid. ... It was a little shorter and just kind of worked with who her character was. And to make her more boho chic, she was wearing T-shirts and not proper blouses ... then we'd accessorize her with sparkly cardigans or great little leather vests." Giving the actors an identity through their wardrobe really helps them "generate who they need to be for their characters," he added. And while Daman notes many high points in his five years working on the series, his proudest moment came during season 2, when he watched his own creation walk the runway in "The Serena Also Rises." "It was a Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen) design that Serena (Lively) wore ... a green bubble dress she wore in an Eleanor Waldorf (Margaret Colin) fashion show," he said. "It fit Blake (Lively) like a glove, and it was just one of those moments where I was like, wow, that's really a great dress." Daman teased that there's a possibility season 6 will call for more original designs. In which case, viewers might get to see more from him. Either way, fans will see Daman channel a different decade on the '80s-set "Sex and the City" prequel, "The Carrie Diaries," which is expected to debut on The CW in January. Daman drew from his experience as an assistant costume designer on the original series to reinvent Carrie Bradshaw as a teenage girl. "As (Bradshaw, played by AnnaSophia Robb), grows up, we're going to see the development of her fashion style grow and understand where it all comes from," he said. In the meantime, Daman is excited for fans to see what he's got up his sleeves for the last season of "Gossip Girl." Given the state of the economy, he said, "people just enjoyed getting lost in the drama and the jewels and the sparkly-ness."

Eric Daman is the costume designer on "Gossip Girl," which is heading into its sixth season . Daman is bringing back Blair Waldorf's headbands after countless pleas from fans . Viewers can expect to see fall colors and delicate jewelry on season 6, Daman said . He's also outfitting "The Carrie Diaries," a "Sex and the City" prequel to air on The CW .

By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 11:29 EST, 17 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 13:30 EST, 17 January 2014 . Chloe Newman, 14, has been missing since January 7. She was last seen getting into a black car at Haywards Heath railway station in West Sussex . Two men and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of child abduction in connection with the disappearance of a 14-year-old schoolgirl who went missing 10 days ago. Chloe Newman, from Uckfield, East Sussex, was last seen getting into a black car at Haywards Heath railway station in West Sussex at 2.50pm on January 7. Yesterday, police searching for the missing teenager arrested a 33-year-old woman, 16-year-old boy and 22-year-old man. The trio, who are all of Newhaven, East Sussex, were questioned by officers before being released on police bail until April 11 while officers from Sussex Police carry out further inquiries to find her. Detectives are also searching a home in Newhaven as appeals continue for anyone who spots her to contact police urgently. Detective Inspector Gavin Patch, of Sussex Police, said: 'Chloe has been missing for more than a week and we are becoming increasingly concerned about her welfare. 'We are now treating her as a high-risk missing person because of her age, the length of time she has been missing and the fact that she has been associating with older people.' Officers are now treating the schoolgirl as a 'high-risk missing . person'. Several people have told police they think they may have seen . her since January 7, but none of the sightings have been confirmed. When she went missing, Chloe was wearing a pink hooded jacket with black sleeveless jacket, black trousers, blue Vans trainers and large earrings. She is slim and had her long blonde hair tied up in a ponytail. Anyone with information should call Sussex Police on 101, or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

Teenager Chloe Newman was last seen getting into a car on January 7 . Police have described her as a 'high-risk missing person' Officers questioned the trio and searched a house in East Sussex .

What is a new record for hosting a single show, Alex? "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek should be giving that answer himself -- since he's the man who set the record. On Friday, Trebek entered the Guinness World Records for "most game show episodes hosted by the same presenter (one show)" with a hefty 6,829. That's 30 seasons of the answer-and-question landmark, which will begin its 31st season in September. Trebek, 73, has hosted "Jeopardy!" since its return in 1984 as a syndicated program, and he's also hosted some prime-time incarnations. Before Trebek, "Jeopardy!" was part of NBC's daytime schedule and hosted by the late Art Fleming. A: This game show is celebrating 50 years. Q: What is "Jeopardy!"? Trebek, whose contract runs until 2016, said he's still enjoying the job. "It's an honor to hold the Guinness World Record for hosting 'Jeopardy!,' which I've often said is the best of reality TV," he said in a statement. In a video accompanying the Guinness announcement, he added, "It's a fun show to do, and it's a quality program that I never have to apologize for when I meet people. So there are no downsides." Despite his longevity, Trebek still has a ways to go to equal the man who holds the record for the most hours of TV hosted, period. That would be Regis Philbin, who has about 17,000 hours on American television, including talk shows, local-interest programs and the quiz show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." For the time being, he's the final answer on that question.

Alex Trebek has hosted almost 7,000 episodes of "Jeopardy!" He's been in charge of the show since 1984 . "Jeopardy!" will begin its 31st season in the fall .

By . Mia De Graaf . PUBLISHED: . 10:49 EST, 29 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:25 EST, 29 October 2013 . A grandmother has described the dramatic moment she fought off two masked robbers armed with a meat cleaver before chasing them out the shop with their own knife. The men ran into the garage and threatened terrified shop worker Trude Mian, 65, with the six inch blade and another knife. One of the robbers grabbed Mrs Mian's wrist and held her at knife point as they forced her to hand over £50 from the till, a court heard. But when they demanded to see the safe, plucky Mrs Mian told them they would have to get past her first before getting their hands on any more money. SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH THE CCTV . Armed raid: The masked man ran into a garage with an accomplice and threatened shop worker Trude Mian, 65, with the sharp butcher's tool . Planned attack: The pair, wearing black balaclavas, burst into Knowle Garage, in Braunton, Devon, on Saturday evening shortly before the petrol station was about to close . Today, a jury at Exeter Crown Court . watched CCTV footage of the shocking scenes in November last year before . hearing the defiant grandmother's account of her ordeal. The . footage show Mrs Mian, wife of garage owner Khaliq, pressing an alarm . button before picking up a knife left on counter as the robbers raid the . till. The final shots on the CCTV show her fighting back and chasing off the two men at knifepoint. Lee Prouse, 24, and his girlfriend Jordane Morris, 21, have pleaded guilty to the charge of robbery. Prouse is alleged to have gone inside armed with a knife while Jordane drove the getaway car. Jamie Latta, 27, has pleaded guilty and identified himself as the attacker wielding a meat cleaver. At the time all three were homeless, the court heard. 'Just before closing time two men came running into the shop,' Mrs Mian, the wife of garage owner Khaliq, told detectives in an interview played at Exeter Crown Court. 'I thought it was a Halloween joke until I saw the balaclavas and knives and they started shouting at me to hand over the effing money. Demanding cash: One of the men waves the six inch blade in the air while grabbing Mrs Mian's arm to force her to open the till. He then demanded to see the safe . Back at work: Trude Mian, 65, told the robbers they would have to get through her if they wanted more money . Weapon: Police have released an image of the attacker's 30cm-long meat cleaver with a 16-inch blade . 'One got behind the counter and stood next to me and I saw the phone and thought I would pick it up and dial 999. 'The chap with the cleaver leaned over and pushed me and I fell backwards against the cigarette cupboard and he started hitting the telephone with the cleaver. 'When he did that I thought ‘this is it’. The other chap came towards me and told me to open the till and I told him he was making me nervous. 'I opened the till and at the same time pressed the panic button and he said to the other chap that I had set off the alarm.' The robbers then demanded that Mrs Mian show them safe but she refused - telling them they would have to get past her first. The grandmother added: 'I saw he had left the knife on the counter and picked it up and said "you’d better go". I did hold the knife in a threatening manner and I ran after them. Mrs Mian then dialled 999. The man threatens the terrified attendant who escaped physically unhurt in the attack in Devon . The thugs brandished their weapons before grabbing £50 from the till and fleeing into the night . The pair, wearing black balaclavas, burst into Knowle Garage, in Braunton, Devon, on Saturday evening at 10pm on November 10. One carried the meat cleaver and the other a six inch knife, described by police as a Kitchen Devil chef's knife with an un-serrated edge, which Mrs Mian plucked off the counter. A police spokesman said the weapon was about 30cm long with a blade of around 16cm. Amazingly, Mrs Mian went straight back to work on Monday, despite being exhausted from her nightmare ordeal and a lack of sleep. The prosecution claims all three . planned and carried out the attack in which the two men wore balaclavas . and hoodies to cover their faces. They . escaped with around £60 and the Crown say Prouse and Morris are linked . to the raid by forensic and mobile phone evidence which puts them at the . scene at the time. The trial continues.

Two masked robbers threatened cashier with meat cleaver and a knife . Pair stole £60 from till but grandmother Trude Mian, 65, refused to show them the safe . The attackers fled as Mrs Mian picked up their own knife and chased them out . Lee Prouse, 24, Jordane Morris, 21, and Jamie Latta, 27, are on trial at Exeter Crown Court accused of robbing Knowle Garage, Braunton, Devon .

Tunis, Tunisia (CNN) -- As outrage mounted over the assassination this week of an opposition leader, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali vowed Friday to press on with his plan to form a caretaker government composed of technocrats. Speaking from his residence in the Tunis suburb of Carthage, Jebali denied his moderate religious Ennahda Party had anything to do with the shooting death Wednesday morning of Chokri Belaid. Jebali said he hoped to get approval for his plan from the Ennahda Party and other parties "because this is a guarantee or, let's say, more guarantees for the government. The government, I feel, is backed by a lot of people, mainly among ordinary people. I hope that political parties will translate the view of our people." Late Wednesday, Jebali sacked his Cabinet and called for new elections, leaving himself at the head of a caretaker government. However, a top Ennahda party official said Thursday that the call to dissolve the Cabinet and offer a new technocratic government was "not binding." The party's leaders were trying to decide whether to accept their prime minister's decision. As Jebali spoke Friday, thousands of Tunisians were demonstrating in the streets of the capital in outrage over the assassination, calling on Jebali to resign. Jebali denied that his party had anything to do with the killing -- the first assassination since Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution" -- and urged his fellow countrymen to act with restraint. "I already told them -- don't play role of the law, do not respond with violence," he said. "Otherwise, we are trapped, because the goal of those who shot Belaid is to make us react violently." Jebali said the weapons that killed Belaid were also taking aim at the Jasmine Revolution, which led to the ouster of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali two years ago and spawned the Arab Spring. "So, be careful of quick accusations, it will worsen the situation," he warned. Jebali defended the current leadership's role in supporting the changes effected by the revolution in this North African country of nearly 11 million people. "Tunisian people made the Jasmine Revolution for two goals: revolution against dictatorship and revolution against corruption, and they also wanted social justice," he said. Those goals have not been betrayed, he said. "The biggest proof is what is happening in the streets -- protests, free press. I don't think that another press in the world enjoys more than here in Tunisia. Beside, we are not corrupt people, but if people made a revolution against us, that's their right, and we will bow to the will of our people." Earlier Friday, tens of thousands of mourners followed Belaid's funeral cortege as his flag-draped casket was taken through the streets of the capital to a cemetery. A phalanx of uniformed soldiers escorted the coffin bearers into the cemetery. Protesters had clashed intermittently along the route with security forces, who fired tear gas into the crowds. A private TV channel broadcast the procession showed a car burning. Many of those mourning Belaid expressed anger at the government, which they accuse of allowing a climate of political violence to spread unchecked. On the capital's central Habib Bourguiba Avenue, a flashpoint for protests, dozens of demonstrators fled as riot police fired tear gas. Sporadic clashes also flared on side streets. The military has been deployed alongside police to try to rein in the protests. Belaid, a prominent secular politician, was shot dead as he left his home Wednesday morning for work. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Weeping Thursday beside his casket, his widow, Besma Belaid, was among those pointing the finger at the climate fostered by the governing Ennahda party, which is led by moderate Islamists. "It's an open invitation to violence," she said. "I can only accuse this party." Chokri Belaid had warned early this week that the government had given a green light to political violence. A general strike called by trades unions for Friday, the first such action in Tunisia in three decades, closed many shops, cafes and other businesses. The national airline, Tunisair, warned of possible flight disruptions. Protests have also erupted in the central towns of Gafsa and Sidi Bouzid, the birthplace of the revolution. Support for Belaid went beyond his party, the secular-leftist Democratic Patriots. He was also the voice of a coalition of secular opposition parties known as the Popular Front and decried violence. But Belaid routinely received death threats for his criticism of Tunisia's moderate Islamist-led government. He talked about the threats on his frequent television appearances but said he didn't fear for his life. Official investigators have yet to reach a conclusion on who may have been responsible. Amna Guellali, of the rights group Human Rights Watch, said the government itself bears some responsibility because of its "laxity" in failing to respond to a climate of rising political violence. "We warned the government that these incidents of violence should be investigated thoroughly and that people who have perpetrated these acts should be punished ... but we haven't heard anything back," she told CNN in Tunis. She cited calls by preachers in some mosques in July for the killing of certain Tunisian political figures and personalities, including Belaid, she said. "We didn't see the government reacting to these calls of clear incitement to murder," she said. "A government has to protect its citizens ... especially if there are clear threats against this person." Dan Rivers reported from Tunis, and Laura Smith-Spark wrote and reported from London. CNN's Brian Walker contributed from Atlanta.

NEW: "The government, I feel, is backed by a lot of people," Jebali says . His party has not yet decided whether to accept Jebali's edict . Protesters clash with security forces along the route of the funeral procession . Belaid's widow and others say the government allowed a climate of political violence .

A young Australian working as a combat medic for a terror group in Syria says he is still a 'true blue Aussie' despite condoning the brutal beheadings by ISIS. Speaking in a thick Australian accent Abu Ousama says he is missing home comforts like Coco Pops and says 'home is home', everybody is going to love their country'. Ousama is living among rebel fighters for Jund al-Aqsa and is one of the 100 Australians who have crossed over into Syria since the conflict began. Since the airing of the unverified footage Tony Abbott's office has referred the footage to Australian intelligence agencies, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Scroll down for video . Speaking in a thick Australian accent Abu Ousama says he condones the beheadings by terror group ISIS . Ousama is living among rebel fighters and working as a medic for Jund al-Aqsa, a group affiliated with ISIS . He says there is no difference between a missile killing 15 people and one man getting his throat cut . Australian jihadist Ousama spoke candidly to a British photojournalist about his experience in Syria . Tam Hussain spoke to Abu Ousama when he was living in a city north of Hama . He took part in the interview broadcast on 7News by British photojournalist Tam Hussain who lived with the 1000 strong Islamic battalion group that is independent of ISIS but supports their ideology. Ousama, who didn't say where he was from in Australia, told 7News: 'You have these beheadings and some people might call them barbaric, some people might have these names for them but what is the difference between a missile that hits into a house which kills 15 kids compared to a man dying getting cut by his throat.' He says the brutality of ISIS is a necessary part of establishing an Islamic State. 'ISIS have taken this role of protecting the innocent Muslims of this country, of this land. 'So, they have to do what they need to do to make their state. 'If they're blackmailing America or anybody saying don't shoot a missile which is going to kill 50 or 60 people for one bloke how can we even say that's equivalent to it being a wrong?' When Ousama is not fighting he works as a medic in a local hospital and he wants the Australian public to know that he would not pose a risk if he returned home. British photojournalist Tam Hussain spent weeks living and interviewing the Islamic terror group . Hussain was treated like a member of the group in northern Syria for his time spent with the group . Ousama says that ISIS have taken on its role to protect 'innocent Muslims' ISIS fighters now have strongholds in Iraq and Syria . Islamic State terrorists have raised the black flag of Jihad in Kobane, Kurdish forces have been trying to resist this for weeks . 'There is no hatred between me and Australia. Actually home is home, everybody is going to love their country,' he said. The young Aussie also reveals that there are no home comforts living in Syria and he has to pay 500 Syrian for a box of Coco Pops. 'Just because you miss home you feel like some Coco Pops,' he told 7News. Despite his positive memories about Australia he does not rule out fighting against troops who might invade. 'If they are going to come in with their aeroplanes and shoot missiles and kill innocents etc etc then how can anybody, you're forced to. 'I hope that Allah accepts the good we've done and blesses us with his reward if the highest paradise. This is the best. What more could you want, you know? 'I'm sad to see Australia taking that step to come into a place it doesn't need to be because it will cause a reaction, it will cause people to hate it,' he told 7News. Ousama says the brutal beheading of James Foley was 'necessary' for ISIS to develop the Islamic State . Despite his views Ousama says he does not hate his home country but is not scared to die in Syria . Living in Syria means this young Australian is missing home comforts like Coco Pops . A member loyal to ISIS raises the black flag of Jihad in Raqqa in June this year . Julie Bishop says she is 'appalled' at the statements from Ousama. Ms Bishop said intelligence agencies would look closely at the Seven Network video. Speaking in Hobart on Saturday, Ms Bishop said it was 'unfathomable' why Australians would want to take up arms and fight in a conflict on the side of an organisation that exults in beheadings and executions. 'I'm appalled by it,' she said. 'It's unthinkable that someone would believe that beheadings are part of a legitimate territorial aspiration. These are murderous cults and they are using Islam to cover up for their violent behaviour. 'This (footage) goes to demonstrate why we're so determined to prevent foreign fighters from Australia taking up arms with terrorist organisations such as ISIL in Iraq and Syria. 'In my mind we need to do all we can to work with communities within Australia, the communities from where these people are coming, so that we can convince them that taking up with terrorist organisations is not only unlawful but it cannot be in their interests.' It is against the law in Australian to fight with a terrorist organisation or support a terrorist organisation, with penalties of to 25 years imprisonment, Ms Bishop said. Ousama said he wanted Australians to believe he would pose no risk if he returned to Australia but said he was not afraid to die in Syria.

Abu Ousama says he is a 'true blue Aussie' despite condoning fighting in Syria . Despite living in Syria he says he misses home comforts like Coco Pops . The unverified footage has been referred to Australian intelligence agencies by the Prime Minister's office . The young man, whose face is covered by a mask in the video, is working as a combat medic north of the city of Hama in Syria for Jund al-Aqsa . He said: 'There is no hatred between me and Australia' but says he will fight against Aussie troops .

By . Mark Duell . PUBLISHED: . 05:47 EST, 13 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 08:53 EST, 13 September 2012 . After more than eight years in charge, Chris Moyles has certainly made a lot of friends as well as enemies along the way. And an array of stars were at BBC Broadcasting House today to help the departing Radio 1 breakfast host - known for his controversial outbursts on air - go out with a bang. Former Doctor Who star Billie Piper and Geordie comedians Ant and Dec were there in London, along with Moyles’s long-time friend Davina McCall, Pixie Geldof and fellow host Sara Cox. Friend: Doctor Who star Billie Piper was at BBC Broadcasting House in London today to pay tribute to Moyles . Old mates: Geordie comedians Ant and Dec arrived bright and early for the broadcast, Moyles's penultimate show . I predict a riot of stars: X Factor judge Gary Barlow (left) and Ricky Wilson from the Kaiser Chiefs were also spotted outside today . It came as the DJ told listeners he had joined with chart stars Rizzle Kicks in the studio to create a knockabout track in which they exchange banter, poking fun at each other's ages. The Mama Do The Hump hitmakers were also . guests on his show today as Moyles, 38, hosted his penultimate breakfast . slot in front of more than 200 listeners. Departing: Outgoing Radio 1 breakfast host Moyles has recorded a track with chart stars Rizzle Kicks . He welcomed a series of special guests . on the show and his team presented video montages looking back at his . period of more than eight years in charge of the prestige morning . programme. Ant and Dec . hosted a spoof edition of This Is Your Life on the show. And Channel 4's . Million Pound Drop Live presenter McCall said: 'I'd like to think I'm . your number one celebrity fan’. Actress Piper, who is soon to turn 30, . said she first met Moyles when she was just 16. ‘It's been a long time . and I love you,’ she said. Rizzle Kicks performed live - singing When I was a Youngster, with Chris dancing on stage - and Pixie Lott ended the show with a reworking of her hit All About Tonight, titled 'All About Chris Moyles'. Among the famous figures and past . guests from his stint on the show - the longest ever for a Radio 1 . breakfast host - was his predecessor Cox. She told him: ‘When I got fired, I wouldn't want anyone else to take over but Chris. In all seriousness, it was hard at first. ‘But . I've gone from a begrudging fan to a massive fan to a friend. I'm going . to miss you. You've been there through three kids and a divorce. For . lots of people you've been there for their own journeys.’ Moyles - one of the corporation's . highest paid presenters - joked that his departure would leave a huge . hole in the schedules, but would save the BBC a huge amount of money. Talking . about his track with Rizzle Kicks, he said it was supposed to feature a . series of joking insults which they traded about their relative ages. Famous friends: Take That star Gary Barlow (left) and Pixie Lott outside BBC Broadcasting House in London . Rock DJ: Edith Bowman (left) and Sara Cox (right) were in the studio to pay tribute to their fellow presenter . But Moyles said he struggled to think of any appropriate put-downs for the pair - who are both 20 years old. 'I'll never forget the memories we've shared. So best wishes from me and happy new chapter' Cheryl Cole . Recalling the recording he said: ‘”You're . so old that you're in black and white”, or whatever - and I go “you're . so young ....”. There's no you're so young jokes. ‘For literally ten minutes, they ripped me to pieces – “you're so young you've never heard of Morecambe and Wise”.’ Gary . Barlow, one of his fellow trekkers during a Comic Relief challenge to . climb Mount Kilimanjaro, also attended. He said: 'We had great fun but there was a really big girl amongst us – him (Chris).' Farewell party: Anthony McPartlin and Fearne Cotton (left) share a joke, while Moyles chats to Billie (right) Pastures new: Chris, who attends his last show as a BBC DJ tomorrow, is having two live shows full of celeb guests as part of a send off for him . DJs: Edith Bowman (left) and Davina McCall (right) were in the studio to pay tribute to their fellow presenter . And Cheryl Cole - another of the . stars from that trip - sent a message of support. ‘I'll never forget . the memories we've shared,’ the singer said. ‘So best wishes from me and . happy new chapter.’ 'I'm going to . miss you. You've been there through three kids and a divorce. For lots . of people you've been there for their own journeys' Sara Cox . Moyles . apologised to another guest James Corden for missing his stag party . recently. Corden said: ‘We had a very very nice time, but this isn't . about me. Shut up.’ He said he would miss the breakfast team like ‘a group of mates who you just happened to be in a car with’. But . Corden added: ‘Rather than being sad about it, we should just celebrate . that I don't know whether anyone else will do the breakfast show on . Radio 1 for this long.’ Paying tribute: Davina McCall tweeted this picture of her (left) with Billie Piper (centre) and Sara Cox (right) Familiar voice: Moyles poses with comedian Roy Walker - who provided the voice for regular slot Carpark Catchphrase and also made an appearance, joking that he 'only listened to the last five minutes' of shows . All smiles: Moyles pictured with Ant & Dec, who hosted a spoof edition of This Is Your Life on the show . Live performance: Pixie Lott sings on the Chris Moyles Show as Moyles hosted his penultimate show . Comedian Roy Walker - who provided the . voice for regular slot Carpark Catchphrase - also made an appearance and . joked that he ‘only listened to the last five minutes’. 'It's been a long time and I love you' Billie Piper . Recalling being asked by Moyles to . record his voiceover, veteran TV star Walker - former host of ITV's . Catchphrase gameshow - said: ‘He said to me: “Roy, there's not much . money in it” - and that was true – “but it will make you a legend”. ‘And he did. I managed to save your show - and now it's on to The X Factor,’ he joked, referring to the ITV1 talent contest's flagging ratings. Moyles will bow out from the show for a final time tomorrow. Fellow Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw is to take over the programme later this month. Special guests: (back left - front right) James Corden, former EastEnders star Dean Gaffney, Gary Barlow, Billie Piper, Davina McCall, and Sara Cox on the Chris Moyles Show this morning . Wrapping up: Moyles (left) and the team host his penultimate breakfast slot in front of more than 200 listeners . Colleagues: Moyles (centre) and the team pose for a line-up photo inside the BBC's Radio Theatre .

Billie Piper, Ant and Dec, Davina McCall and Sara Cox were all in London . Moyles has presented show for eight years; last broadcast is tomorrow . DJ, 38, also announced track with chart stars Rizzle Kicks .

By . Luke Salkeld . Last updated at 9:18 AM on 5th January 2012 . Estate agents will wax lyrical about even the most unassuming property – but this time, they really do have something to sing about. The country estate which inspired the classic hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful is up for sale. And the generations of children who have sung about ‘the purple-headed mountain’ and ‘the river running by’ have actually been giving the rather spectacular particulars of Llanwenarth House. Magnificent: The ivy-clad manor house in the Usk Valley near Abergavenny was the inspiration for the well-loved children's hymn . Stunning natural beauty: The 'purple-headed mountains' and 'river running by' refer to the beauty of the Usk Valley . Creatures great and small: Horses graze beside the river and drink from its calm waters . Cecil Alexander is believed to have written the lyrics while she was a guest at the 16th century manor, nestled in the Usk Valley in South Wales. The ‘purple-headed mountain’ in one verse of the 1848 hymn is thought to refer to  the nearby Sugar Loaf and Blorenge peaks, while ‘the river running by’ in the next line is the River Usk which winds along the valley floor close to the estate’s boundary. And the six acres of land it sits in would have offered plenty of space for the Irish poet to observe ‘each little flower that opens’ and ‘each little bird that sings’. These days, however, the £2.25million seven-bedroom manor is simply advertised as having ‘stunning views’, along with rather more modern additions of a high-ceilinged cinema room, ornamental raised Jacuzzi bath and remote-controlled mood lighting. The rooms in the manor house where Mrs Alexander stayed are bright and airy . Cecil Frances Alexander (nee  Humphreys) was a poet who also penned at least 400 hymns. She . was born in Dublin in 1818, and spent much of her later life in . Londonderry and Strabane with her husband, William Alexander, who became . Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. Mrs . Alexander was a keen supporter of the Oxford Movement, and in 1848 . published Hymns For Little Children, which include three of the most . popular hymns in the English language: All Things Bright and Beautiful, . Once In Royal David's City and There Is A Green Hill Far Away. The book was published in 69 editions and all the profits were given to Irish charities. She died in 1895 and is buried in Londonderry. The estate agent’s description of the former boutique hotel insists that ‘much of its character still remains’ but it ‘also embodies great comfort and ease of living’ in the village of Govilon, near Abergavenny. Still, when Mrs Alexander wrote her famous verses she could never have imagined the home’s selling points would one day include its proximity to top golf courses, Michelin-starred restaurants and the M4 motorway. It is also said to have an ‘exquisite interior’ and an ‘abundance of reception space’, and comes with Farrow and Ball décor, a detached coach house and an orchard. With some poetic licence of their own, the vendor even describes how ‘chandeliers reflect in gleaming white marble floors’ and boasts of ‘polished black granite work surfaces and gold inlay’. But Mrs Alexander, who also wrote Once in Royal David’s City, would no doubt be  comforted to know that the modernised house contains traditional wood panelling ‘in the style of Hampton Court’ and boasts ornate fireplaces. The poet, who died in 1895 at the age of 77, was married to the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, and included All Things Bright and Beautiful in her bestselling Hymns for Little Children. The tome proved so popular that 69 editions were published in the 50 years after it was written. Irish poet Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander, who wrote the hymn, stayed at the Elizabethan manor house in 1848 . It has been claimed that the hymn was . also inspired by countryside near Dunster in Somerset, and the poetry . of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The words in turn influenced the . works of James Herriot, who used the ‘all creatures great and small’ line as the title of his books about the life of a vet in the Yorkshire . Dales. A spokesman for Cardiff estate agent . Fine, which is marketing the property, said of its link to the famous . hymn: ‘Not many houses have such a selling point. ‘But it is easy to see why Mrs Alexander was so inspired. The scenery surrounding the house is magnificent.’

Irish poet was inspired by magnificent scenery surrounding South Wales mansion .

(CNN Student News) -- February 28, 2011 . Download PDF maps related to today's show: . • Libya • Chile . Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: February 28th: The month is just about over. But 10 minutes of commercial-free headlines are just getting started. I'm Carl Azuz. Welcome to a new week of CNN Student News! First Up: Crisis in Libya . AZUZ: First up, British officials say the best hope for Libya is for Moammar Gadhafi to leave. The Libyan leader is the focus of protests that have been going on for weeks. And the international community is getting involved in this. On Saturday, the United Nations Security Council voted 15-0 to punish Libya by putting sanctions, or restrictions, on Col. Gadhafi and his associates. Some experts say Libya has been under sanctions before; they haven't worked. The Security Council referred the crisis to the international criminal court, which could decide to investigate Col. Gadhafi for war crimes. The U.N. also acted to freeze Gadhafi's financial assets, which means he won't have access to some of his money. The United Kingdom made the same move yesterday. Back in Libya, thousands of people are trying to get away from the violence. The United Nations Commission on Refugees says a lot of those people have fled to the neighboring countries of Egypt and Tunisia. Quake Anniversary . AZUZ: Chilean President Sebastian Pinera says a little more than half of the reconstruction is finished, one year after a devastating earthquake hit Chile. President Pinera said more than 2 million people were directly affected by the quake. In the early morning hours Sunday, Chileans gathered for a candlelight vigil to mark the anniversary and remember the 521 people killed by the quake. President Pinera, who hadn't taken office yet when the tremor struck, called it the most destructive earthquake in the history of Chile. This file footage shows you scenes from the aftermath of the quake. It was tremendous, with a magnitude of 8.8. Thousands were left homeless. And now, even a year later, dozens are still missing. Budget Battle . AZUZ: Workers' unions are at the heart of a budget battle in Wisconsin. Republican Governor Scott Walker says his state is broke and unions block efforts that could save money. People protesting against Governor Walker's proposed budget bill say it's designed to break up unions by limiting collective bargaining. That's when unions negotiate working conditions for employees. Governor Walker talked recently about why collective bargaining should be limited. GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER, (R) WISCONSIN: Collective bargaining has a cost. It has a cost in terms of health care and pension contributions. It has a cost overall in terms of how our governments operate at the local level. And we've got to change that relationship so that we can preserve jobs and ultimately, most importantly, so that the corrections we make for this budget aren't one-time fixes or short-term fixes. AZUZ: Last week, the Wisconsin assembly passed the budget bill. The Senate hasn't voted yet, because Senate Democrats haven't come back; they left the state to keep the vote from happening. Governor Walker says layoffs could be coming if they can't reach an agreement soon. One leading Wisconsin Democrat says the governor and Republicans aren't listening to what people want. PETER BARCA, (D) MINORITY LEADER, WISCONSIN ASSEMBLY: Governor Walker and assembly Republicans are so out of touch that they are willing to resort to these extreme ends to achieve their political goals. Shoutout . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mrs. Brock's social studies classes at Sullivan Middle School in Fargo, North Dakota! Which of these is located about 220 miles above the Earth's surface? Is it the: A) Moon, B) Stratosphere, C) Hubble telescope or D) International space station? You've got three seconds -- GO! The international space station is orbiting the Earth about 220 miles above its surface. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout! Discovery Docks . AZUZ: And that's where the space shuttle Discovery is right now, too. The shuttle and its six-person crew, on a mission to deliver a science rig and other equipment and spare parts to the international space station. Discovery docked with the ISS over the weekend. This is the 13th time the shuttle's made its way up to the station, and also its last. The space shuttle program is winding down and this is Discovery's final scheduled mission. The Endeavour and the Atlantis are set to go up later this year. And every time a shuttle launches, it comes with costs and it comes with risks. And as John Zarrella explains, that has some people asking, why keep sending shuttles up? (BEGIN VIDEO) JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN MIAMI BUREAU CHIEF AND CORRESPONDENT: A moment to be remembered, historic. NASA ANNOUNCER: Space shuttle Atlantis now comes home to the Kennedy Space Center for the final time. ZARRELLA: It was over, the first of the three shuttles heads to retirement. Clean the tires, polish the metal. Hold on, not so fast. That was last May. Something happened on the way to the museum. BILL GERSTENMAIER, NASA ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR FOR SPACE OPERATIONS: If we didn't think we really needed this flight, I would not be recommending this flight. ZARRELLA: NASA, with Congressional backing, in fact urging, decided Atlantis had one more flight in her. Hold off on those moth balls. Once the shuttle program ends and until commercial companies take over, with rockets ten times safer than the shuttle, the Russians will ferry astronauts to the space station. Flying Atlantis shortens that gap and allows NASA to stock the station's pantry. GERSTENMAIER: You know, it can carry, you know, roughly five to ten times what one of these single other supply ships can carry. So, in one shuttle mission, you could think of me being able to carry at least five other vehicles' worth of cargo. ZARRELLA: But it's an expensive U-Haul trip. Shuttle flights cost about half a billion dollars. FRED GUTERL, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: The rule of thumb is whenever the space shuttle flies, it's a waste of money. The space shuttle is hugely expensive for what it does and it's not that safe, which is why it's being discontinued. So, to continue it for one more flight is not necessary. ZARRELLA: But NASA has what it needs to pull off the flight. There was one more external tank at the factory in Louisiana, and an extra set of booster rockets came in by train from Utah. But is this more about putting off the inevitable end and keeping shuttle workers employed than a real need? MIKE LEINBACH, NASA, LAUNCH DIRECTOR: This is our passion. This is what we do. I mean this is, this is how we support our families and how we support the American people and the international partners. It's not dragging it out, it's allowing us to continue doing what we do best. ZARRELLA: Atlantis is scheduled to lift off in late June, return in early July. This time, when the NASA commentator says... NASA ANNOUNCER: Space shuttle Atlantis now comes home to the Kennedy Space Center for the final time. ZARRELLA: ...He'll mean it. Probably. John Zarrella, CNN, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (END VIDEO) This Day in History . AZUZ: It's February 28th, and on this day in history in 1953, James Watson and Frances Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA. In 1983, the final episode of the show "M*A*S*H" became the single most watched episode in television history. In 1993, federal agents raided the compound of the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas. Ten people were killed, including 4 agents, in the unsuccessful raid. And in 1994, the Brady Law took effect, mandating a waiting period for people to buy handguns. It was named for former White House Press Secretary Jim Brady, who was wounded in the attempted assassination of President Reagan. Blog Report . AZUZ: Wrapping up Black History Month, this last day in February, we asked who you'd nominate for a national Black History Hall of Fame. And there were a few names that came up a lot. Those included President Obama, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman. Albert chose Carter G. Woodson, the father of black history, who laid the groundwork for black history month. Kody picks Jesse Owens because he was a great runner who won the Olympics against Nazis. Michael nominated Michael Jackson for being an amazing humanitarian, influencing music and the world. A lot of you agree with Jace that Jackie Robinson should be in the hall of fame. He shattered the barrier in baseball between black and white people; he was inspiring. Kevin nominates Bill Cosby because he's one of the few people who can be a great comedian by using clean humor. Kiara names Oprah Winfrey; she has cared and told about so many wonderful people. And Ryan says George Washington Carver transformed the way we use the peanut and inspired Ryan to become a great scientist! Black History Month Materials . AZUZ: Even though Black History Month is coming to a close, you can keep celebrating the accomplishments of African-Americans. Head to the Spotlight section at CNNStudentNews.com. You'll find the reports that aired on our show this past month and our Black History Month Learning Activities. It's all free and one click away at CNNStudentNews.com! Before We Go . AZUZ: Before we go, you know the saying "what goes up must come back down." And for this high-rise building in Atlanta, Georgia, it's time. At first, it looks like an indoor fireworks show. But once the first puffs of smoke start to show up, it doesn't take long for the whole thing to cave in on itself. Officials decided that demolition was the only option for this run-down relic. They even set up a special ceremony so folks could see how they were tearing something down... Goodbye . AZUZ: ...In order to pave the way for the future. And everyone who was there got to see a cool building implosion, but dust for a minute. Today's sign-off line from Facebook.com/CNNStudentNews comes from Austin, and it seems appropriate. "With great puns comes great responsibility." For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz.

The international community takes steps against Libya and Moammar Gadhafi . Consider the benefits, costs and risks of additional space shuttle missions . Hear who students think should be in a national Black History Hall of Fame . Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today's featured news stories .

HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) -- Hundreds of thousands of people packed a main square in the Cuban capital Sunday to witness a rare and ambitious concert that, despite its nonpolitical theme, drew criticism from some Cuban exiles in the United States. Colombian singer Juanes, creator of the "Peace without Borders" concert, performs at Sunday's event in Havana. Colombian singer Juanes -- a 17-time Latin Grammy winner -- brought 15 international artists to Havana for Sunday's "Peace without Borders" concert. All of the artists wore white as a symbol of peace. "I can't believe what my eyes are seeing," Juanes said on stage, describing the sea of people as a "beautiful dream." Sunday's event was Juanes' attempt to connect isolated Cubans with the rest of the region, including the United States. The decades-old U.S. embargo on Cuba is the most visible manifestation of the communist country's political isolation. The crowd cheered when Juanes said, "We are all brothers, and we all have to be connected." But the reaction in Miami, Florida, home to both Juanes and a large Cuban exile community, has not been entirely peaceful. Juanes has received death threats over the concert via Twitter, he said, and his home in Miami is under police protection. Some Cuban exiles in Florida have called the concert a declaration of war, smashing his records in a public anti-Juanes demonstration. Juanes sang with Cuban performers barred from visiting the United States, like Silvio Rodriguez. But missing from this concert were Cuban-American performers like Gloria Estefan and Willy Chirino, fierce critics of the Cuban government. "We asked the government and we asked Willy and we asked Gloria and we tried," Juanes said. "But at this time it's not going to happen. It's not in our hands. But we really tried." Chirino said Juanes' project will only benefit the Communist authorities. "The revolution is going to win," Chirino said, referring to the government established by Fidel Castro more than 50 years ago. "An old system that's dying already, you know, they're going to give it oxygen." Still, Chirino said, he respects Juanes' motives. "I think Juanes' idea is brilliant and it's full of love. Nobody is against an artist going to a country and bringing his or her work to the people," he said. Concert officials said more than 1.1 million people attended Sunday's event, though some other estimates were lower. What seemed certain was that this was the largest staged event at La Plaza de la Revolucion since Pope John Paul II said Mass here in front of an estimated 850,000 people in 1998. The concert was the second "Peace without Borders" show. A previous concert in Colombia aimed to ease tensions between that country and neighboring Venezuela. Juanes said the reaction to Sunday's concert neither surprised nor deterred him. "I mean, we knew that this was going to happen," he said in a statement on his Web site. "I have been living in Miami for seven years, and the first time I visited Miami was 10 or more years ago, so I know what happened in Miami with the Cuba issue and with all these things before [we decided] to go to Cuba to do this event. "I deeply regret having caused, let's say, this bad moment," he said. He said he had spoken to Cuban exile leaders in Miami to explain his motives. Both countries helped him overcome obstacles typical to big, free events staged by foreigners in Cuba -- a lack of visas and expensive sound and stage equipment. He told the official Cuban youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde that he would like to stage the same concert with the same artists in Miami. Thirty-six Cuban dissidents gave their blessing, signing a petition in favor of the concert. "We think Juanes' initiative is good because it can help bring about national reconciliation and unity among Cubans," Castro opponent Oscar Espinosa Chepe said. And Cubans seemed delighted by their first chance in decades to hear international top-caliber Latin stars. CNN's Soledad O'Brien and Shasta Darlington contributed to this report.

Concert appears to be venue's largest staged event since pope's '98 visit . Some Cuban exiles in U.S. criticized "Peace Without Borders" concert . Event was attempt by Colombian singer Juanes to connect Cuba, rest of region . Despite Cuban dissidents' opposition, 36 of them approved, signing a petition .

A sly fox attempting to catch a meal was left with its tail between its legs - after being chased away by a pair of angry birds. The cranes spotted it eyeing up their chicks and formed a barrier in front of their young before aggressively darting towards the fox. Mark Hughes, a photographer from Tewkesbury, captured the scene while visiting the WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire. Standoff: A crane holds it ground as a fox advances towards its young at the WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire . In a flap: the crane flaps its wings aggressively at the fox in a bid to scare it away from the chicks . The cranes form a protective barrier around their young to protect them from the fox . Relief: the cranes swoop down on the fox and manage to drive it away from their young . He was waiting inside a hide to take pictures of the oldest birds, who are fondly known to locals as Monty and Christine, when they returned to their nest after a forage. Mr Hughes, 46, then noticed the fox waiting to pounce out of the corner of his eye and grabbed his camera as the scene unfolded. He said: 'Suddenly, from the left, appeared a fox whose only intention was to find an easy meal. The cranes, who formed a barrier between their young and the fox at WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire managed to chase it away . The event was captured by photographer Mark Hughes, 46, who was hidden in a bird-watching hut . When the crane started advancing the fox made a speedy exit to the relief of Mr Hughes who was photographing the event from the distance . 'As the fox got closer the cranes began to show clear signs of distress and seemed to usher their chicks to a position where they stood as a barrier to the advancing predator.' 'There was a short standoff, then suddenly both birds launched themselves at the fox - determined to drive it away. 'On this occasion they were successful and there was a huge feeling of relief.' A crane looks after its chick. The birds' wings can grow to nearly two-and-a-half metres wide . Cute: These chicks paddle in shallow water which is a favourite nesting area for cranes .

A pair of fearless cranes protected their young from a fox . They formed a barrier around the chicks when the fox advanced . The cranes flapped their huge wings and managed to scare the predator off . Mark Hughes, 46, captured the event at WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre .

By . Kerry Mcqueeney . Last updated at 5:53 PM on 21st October 2011 . The BBC was forced to defend its 'ludicrous' staffing levels at Dale Farm after it was accused of outnumbering travellers and activists on the site towards the end of the protest. As the resistance at the travellers site, near Basildon in Essex, ended with a mass exodus yesterday, the Corporation was criticised for having more journalists and technical crews on site than there were remaining protesters. Travellers escorted their extremist . supporters to the exit gates before themselves leaving the illegal site . in a convoy of vans and caravans. The BBC was accused of having about . 30 staff on site - including television crews, local correspondents and . documentary makers - despite the numbers of travellers and demonstrators . dwindling, it was reported. A caravan being rented by the BBC at the Dale Farm site. After first denying the Corporation had hired the vehicle, a spokesman confirmed it was being used as a toilet . Part of the letter posted in the window of the caravan. A BBC spokesman said it was there because there were no toilet facilities on site . There . were also comments from the BBC's rivals on Twitter, with ITV News . reporter Damon Green tweeting: 'We have a tent, the BBC has a caravan at . Dale Farm. Delivering quality first.' Earlier today a spokesman for the BBC denied the Corporation rented a caravan for the eviction coverage, . stating the only vehicles used were two satellite trucks and two radio trucks for broadcasts and a power supply. However, photographs have since . emerged of a caravan with a sign in the window reading: 'This was rented . by BBC News for coverage of the Dale Farm eviction. It should not be . removed from the site.' It was signed by the news producer. When . told about the picture, the BBC spokesman then said there had been a . 'misunderstanding' and admitted the caravan had been rented for toilet . facilities because 'there weren't any on site'. He added: 'Or it could have been there for power supply.' The Corporation said the actual number of staff on site - 24 . - had been justified and added its news . gathering team included technical . crews and security. BBC Look East's Gareth George reporting live from the scene. He was part of a 21-strong news gathering team from the Corporation based on site during the eviction . Another report live from the eviction scene - footage which also appeared in the same news bulletin for BBC Look East . Broadcast: BBC's Radio 5 Live's Aasmah Mir also reported from the scene . A spokesman also said another three BBC employees were part of . non-news documentary team which had been on site for weeks making a . programme about the Dale Farm eviction. The BBC has refused to specify exactly which of their news gathering teams were reporting from the scene. However, broadcasts of the eviction have appeared on regional bulletin Look East, . current affairs programme Newsnight and Radio 5 Live, as well as other reports on localised bulletins. Liberal Democrat spokesman Don Foster said the staffing . levels were 'ludicrous'  and could affect public sympathy for the BBC's . proposed 20 per cent budget cuts, the Telegraph reported. A spokesman said: 'The eviction at Dale Farm has been a . major rolling news story and we had 21 people there including . reporters, producers, technical staff and security, covering the story . locally and nationally for numerous outlets for TV, radio and online. 'A small non-news documentary team has separately been on-site for some weeks.' Today, . Basildon Council officers - escorted by police and bailiffs - toured . the site serving 48-hour eviction notices to those travellers who stayed . at the camp overnight and pinning them to plots. The . notices inform residents what will be removed and includes . demolishing fences and walls to allow access, although these will be . reinstated. The BBC said the staff included television and radio news gathering teams along with their technical crews and security. It also said two satellite trucks and two radio cars were on site were for . the power supply and to enable reports to be broadcast. On the scene: Newsnight's Tim Whewell had also reported from the site of the Dale Farm eviction . The spokesman added: 'There were 21 . people there as part of the news gathering team. This included . television camera and radio crews and all their technical staff, sound . engineers and security. '(Local correspondents) would have been part of the overall news gathering team. 'There were also people from a documentary team . there, but this would have been no more than three members of staff, . bringing the total number of BBC staff up to 24. 'We also had two trucks on site which . wasn't for accommodation but for the power supply to put the TV reports . out. We did not have any accommodation on site.' And so it begins: A council official staples a notice to a fence on a plot. The notices inform residents what will be removed . The last remaining few: A little girl peers out of a window which now has an eviction notice stuck to it. Between 20 and 30 residents remained inside the site overnight - despite a mass walk-out . Dismantle: Bailiffs and council officials enter the Dale Farm travellers' site to serve 48-hour eviction notices on plots and to a few families that have remained . Eviction completed: Travellers and their supporters walk out of Dale Farm near Basildon after being driven off the land by police and bailiffs at the end of a two-day stand off . Final exit: A group of female travellers follow a caravan as it is driven from Dale Farm yesterday . An Irish traveller walks past the remains of a burnt out barricade in front of riot police .

Criticism after staff 'outnumber' travellers and activists . Corporation first denies it hired a caravan for eviction coverage... then admits it rented vehicle for 'toilet facilities' BBC says staffing levels were justified to cover the rolling story .

By . Becky Evans . PUBLISHED: . 04:38 EST, 6 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 04:38 EST, 6 October 2013 . It is usually Nessie who is making shockwaves around Loch Ness, but an earthquake struck the area at the weekend - which was felt over 15 miles away. The epicentre of the 2.4 magnitude tremor occurred about a mile south of Drumnadrochit at 8.49pm on Friday and at a depth of 2km. The British Geological Survey said it was felt by residents over a wide area all along the loch and is the latest in a series of quakes to hit the Highlands recently. The epicentre of the tremor was at Loch Ness (pictured) and it was felt by residents 15 miles away . The tremor is the latest in a series of quakes to hit the Highlands recently and had a depth of 2km . The BGS said that as well as people in Drumnadrochit, the quake was felt by residents in Inverness, Dores, Westhill, Errogie, Brinmore, Farr, Scaniport, Culduthel, Torness and Inverfarigaig. Some people described hearing a 'roaring sound; and the ground shaking. 'I felt the ground tremble and a roar like thunder,' said one woman from Inverness. 'It must have lasted a few seconds. Who knows - it might have been Nessie waking us up.' Situated at the head of Urquhart Bay on the northern shore of Loch Ness, Drumnadrochit is the home of the Loch Ness Monster mystery. The village is the home to the Loch Ness Centre, Nessieland Castle Monster Centre monster-spotting cruises, and nearby Urquhart Castle, beneath which is said to be the legendary underwater lair of Nessie. The quake came a day after the photograph hailed as 'the best ever taken of the Loch Ness monster' was revealed to be an elaborate hoax by its creator. Quake came a day after this photograph of the Loch Ness monster was revealed as an elaborate hoax . Cruise boat captain George Edwards said he has no regrets over his 'bit of fun' which fooled 'Nessie' experts. But critics have attacked his admission. The picture even fooled expert Steve Feltham, who has spent the last two decades hunting for Nessie. But now he says Mr Edwards is 'nothing more than a faker and a liar.' The famous 'Surgeon's Photograph' taken by Dr Robert Kenneth Wilson and published in 1934, which supposedly shows the monster's head and neck, also later proved to be a hoax. A million people visit the loch each year, creating £25million for the economy. There are roughly 200-300 quakes in Britain every year, but the vast majority are so small that no one notices them. However between 20-30 are over 2.0 magnitude which can be felt over a wider area. The largest known Scottish earthquake on land occurred near Loch Awe in 1880, with a magnitude of 5.2. UK earthquakes, particularly in Scotland, are most often attributed to glacial rebound. Until about 10,500 years ago much of the north of the UK was covered by a thick layer of ice - which pushed the rocks down into the underlying mantle. These rocks have been slowly rising back up ever since the ice melted, causing occasional earthquakes in the process.

Epicentre of the tremor occurred near Drumnadrochit, Scotland, on Friday . British Geological Survey said it was felt by residents 15 miles away .

Eric Garner's daughter believes it was not racism but pride that led officer Daniel Pantaleo to choke her father to death. Protesters chanting 'black lives matter' have stormed the streets of New York for days since a grand jury refused to charge Pantaleo over Garner's death last July. But his daughter Erica Garner dismissed the anti-racism chants, saying: 'This is not a black and white issue. This is a national crisis.' SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Pride not racism: Erica Garner said she thinks Daniel Pantaleo killed her father in a chokehold to be 'top cop' Protests: Thousands have taken to the streets to protest racism after a grand jury refused to indict Pantaleo . She continued: 'It was about the officer's pride. It was about my father being 6'4" and 350 pounds and he wants to be the top cop that brings a man down.' Pressed by CNN's Don Lemon on whether race played a part in her father's death, Erica responded: 'I really doubt it'. She said she will never forgive officer Pantaleo and called on him to admit guilt. The interview on Thursday came amid national outcry over the grand jury decision to indict neither Pantaleo nor Darren Wilson, who shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9 this year. And even former president George W Bush remarked that he felt it is 'it's sad that race continues to play such...an emotional, divisive part of life.' 'I thought how sad. The verdict was hard to understand,' Bush told CNN's Candy Crowley in a clip on an interview the network plans to air during Crowley's show on Sunday, adding that he 'hadn't seen all the details.' 'I really doubt it': Ms Garner dismissed suggestions of racism surrounding her father's death last July . Distraught: She said she will never forgive Pantaleo and called on the officer to admit guilt in the case . Police arrested 223 people in New York City on Thursday night and into Friday morning as protesters took to the street for the second night of demonstrations. Demonstrators also turned out in cities including Washington D.C., Seattle, Atlanta and Oakland a day after the decision not to charge Officer Daniel Pantaleo for his role in the July incident. Although there have been no reports of violence from protesters, police made a number of arrests as scores of demonstrators shut down traffic on the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. Many arrests were made in Times Square, where police pushed back against protesters just before 11pm, and others were later arrested at Eighth Avenue and 51st Street and at Madison Avenue and 57th Street, ABC7 reported. Anger: Police are bracing themselves for days, if not weeks, of continued unrest in New York and elsewhere . Mass outcry: The grand jury verdict came after a similar decision in Ferguson, Missouri, over Michael Brown . Eric Garner's case converged with the Ferguson shooting and investigations out of South Carolina and Cleveland to stir a national conversation about racial justice and police use of force. On Facebook, a page used to aggregate protests in New York City listed plans well into the days and weeks ahead. Two rallies and a candlelight vigil were planned for later on Friday, while Saturday featured a rally in Brooklyn against police brutality. The case and that of Akai Gurley, shot dead by a rookie NYPD officer in Brooklyn, has sparked national debate . Police arrested 223 people on Thursday night and into Friday morning on the second day of demonstrations . Saturday's plans included a rally protesting the case of Akai Gurley, an unarmed black man shot and killed by a New York police officer last month in the stairwell of a public housing project. The Brooklyn District Attorney said on Friday that a grand jury would look into the case. Police officials have said the officer's gun may have discharged by accident when he was patrolling a dark stairwell. More long term, plans call for 'a week of outrage' at Union Square Park starting on Monday and a march in Washington on December 13.

Erica Garner said officer Daniel Pantaleo 'wanted to be the top cop' She said she doubts racism drove him to choke her father Eric Garner . Comes amid anti-racism protests over jury verdict not to indict cop .

By . Alexandra Klausner . A 20-year-old man was arrested at John Wayne Airport in Irvine, California after he tried to board a Delta Airlines flight to Turkey with a fake passport so he could allegedly go to Syria to join the terrorist group ISIS, reports federal court documents. On July 2,  Adam Dandach, who also goes by the name Fadi Fadi Dandach, was stopped by FBI's Orange County Joint Terrorism Task Force just as he was about to board a plane to Istambul to allegedly pledge his allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or Isis, rebels, reports NBC. Adam Dandach is scheduled to be arraigned in a federal Santa Ana, California court on Monday. Adam Dandach allegedly tried to board a plane (not pictured) from John Wayne Airport in Irvine, California to Istambul, Turkey so that he could allegedly join the terrorist group ISIS . ISIS is an al-Qaida group overseeing Sunni militants in Iraq. 'What this man in Orange County was attempting to do is probably one the paramount security threats to the country,' said Adam Schiff, a member of the House Intelligence Committee. 'Americans and Europeans going to Syria, joining the fight, becoming radicalized, learning how to build bombs. And then coming back to try and attack targets here at home,' he continued. Federal court papers state that Dandach told law enforcement that, 'he was traveling to Syria for the purpose of pledging his alliance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, a known terrorist organization, that he would assist ISIS with anything that ISIS asked him to do, and that he believed the killings of U.S. soldiers are justified killings.' Dandach applied for a passport in June and told officials he accidentally threw his passport in the trash while he was cleaning. Authorities say that Dandach's mother allegedly hid his original passport in a closet so that he wouldn't fly to the middle east back in December. O.C. Weekly, who originally reported the story, explains that it's a felony to falsify a passport application and to obtain one by lying. Adam Dandach faces federal charges for passport fraud at John Wayne airport (pictured) to allegedly join ISIS .

Adam Dandach, 20, allegedly lied to obtain a passport so he could fly to Turkey and join the al-Qaida group ISIS . Adam Dandach is scheduled to be arraigned in a federal Santa Ana, California court on Monday for passport fraud . He allegedly told police that he needed a new passport because he accidentally threw his in in the trash while cleaning . Authorities say Dandach's mother hid his original passport in a closet because she didn't want him to fly to the Middle East in December . 'The killings of U.S. soldiers are justified killings,' Dandach allegedly told police .

London, England (CNN) -- Fugitive Raoul Moat, wanted for the shootings of three people in northern England last weekend, died early Saturday after shooting himself, police said. Moat, 37, shot himself around 1:15 a.m. (8:15 p.m. ET Friday), Northumbria Police said. No gunshots were fired by police, and Moat was pronounced dead around 2:20 a.m., they said. A spokeswoman at Newcastle General Hospital confirmed Moat died shortly after arriving there. His death brought to an end a week-long manhunt that had the small northern English town of Rothbury on lockdown and dominated national news headlines. Moat, released from prison last Thursday after serving time for assault, allegedly shot and wounded his former girlfriend and killed her new partner last Saturday. He allegedly shot and wounded a police officer the next day. Convinced Moat was hiding in the area, police launched a manhunt focused around Rothbury and found several sites where they believed he had been sleeping. British news outlets reported police found letters at those sites in which he made rambling threats to police. The large-scale search involved a number of police units across Northumbria in northern England, including specialist search teams, armed response units, helicopters and dog handlers, according to police officials. It came to a head Friday evening when police discovered a man fitting Moat's description near a riverbank around Rothbury, said Chief Superintendent Mark Dennett of the Northumbria police. "When he was discovered, he was armed," Dennett said. "Expert negotiators were brought in to speak to him, and spoke to him extensively for several hours." Speaking at a press conference Saturday, Temporary Chief Constable Sue Sim confirmed Moat had died after a single gunshot. She said no shots had been fired by police, but that officers had fired a taser. "Right up until that time police officers were striving to persuade Mr. Moat to give himself up peacefully. During this time, officers discharged a taser. However, this did not prevent his death," she said. Witnesses described seeing the man, believed to be Moat, with a shotgun-like weapon aimed at his neck while armed police gathered feet away to speak to him. Because police had contact with Moat before he died, the incident has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, which is standard in such cases, Northumbria Police said. "While the incident has been brought to a close, we must be mindful of the impact it has had on many lives," Sim said. "Our thoughts are with the family and friends of those affected." British news outlets reported Saturday that police had asked for a media blackout during the investigation because Moat had threatened the public. Among the details they were asked to keep secret was the discovery of a four-hour dictaphone recording in which Moat complained about media coverage of the manhunt, shootings, and his private life. He threatened to harm a member of the public -- perhaps journalists -- for every piece of information he perceived to be inaccurate, CNN affiliate ITN reported. Police were concerned that reports could anger Moat and trigger further violence, the Press Association reported. Police also asked for stories already published about his personal life to be removed from news websites, the PA said. They included stories about Moat's mother, Josephine Healey -- who hadn't seen her son in years -- saying he would be "better off dead," the PA said. In messages posted on his Facebook page after his release from prison, Moat said he was upset that his girlfriend was with a new partner, according to British news outlets. "Just got out the slammer," Moat wrote Friday morning, according to Channel 4 News, which said it had been given access to Moat's page. Eleven minutes later, Moat wrote, "Lost my business. Kids to (social) services. Gonna lose my home and lost my mrs of nearly 6 years to a copper. How did a guy who had it all end up in this situation." Police later said the man Moat killed -- his ex-girlfriend's partner -- was not a police officer. The most recent pictures police had of Moat were taken on surveillance cameras as he shopped at a building supply store on Friday evening. Moat's ex-girlfriend and the wounded police officer remain in the hospital.

Raoul Moat was wanted in the shooting of three people last weekend . He was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at a hospital . Moat had been on the run for a week .

By . Damien Gayle . PUBLISHED: . 06:45 EST, 28 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 07:09 EST, 28 July 2013 . Stabbed to death: Tyrell Matthews-Burton, 19, from East London, was pinned down 'execution style' and stabbed in the chest and back . British tourists will be penned into tightly controlled drinking zones to keep a lid on violence following the killing of a British teenager in Crete. The move follows the stabbing of Tyrell Matthews-Burton, 19, from Leyton, East London, in a mass bar brawl between dozens of British tourists in the resort town of Malia this week. Another Londoner, Myles Litchmore-Dunbar, from Catford in the south of the capital, has been charged with Mr Matthews-Burton's murder. In effort to stop visiting tourists turning Malia into a 'battlefield', the town's mayor, Zacharis Doxastakis, has vowed to clamp down on their 'wretched antics'. 'They can't just come to our country and run riot,' he told the Sunday Express. 'Just because our country is in crisis we don't need to accept such behaviour.' Special zones are being considered, he said, centred around 'clubs that will host young Britons where they can do everything they want to but in an area that is closely monitored.' Youths from across the UK have been flocking to Malia in recent years. Many are attracted by the resort's burgeoning hip hop and urban music scene. With them has come gang allegiances based around their home areas, with violence exported from the streets of London and other British cities to the nightclubs of Crete. Greek police first thought that Mr Matthews-Burton's ‘execution-style’ killing was sparked by a gang feud, but it is know believed that the teenager may have been killed after a trivial row over a woman. It is claimed that he was pinned down on the cobbled street outside Malia's Safari Club and stabbed in the back and chest. An ambulance arrived but the teenager died on his way to hospital. He was killed on his 19th birthday. Greek coroner Manolis Michalodimitrakis said: ‘He was clearly pinned down and killed execution-style – there were no defence wounds. The knife punctured his lung and heart. He lost almost half of his blood.’ Myles Litchmore-Dunbar, a model studying for a degree in economics at Northampton University, has been charged with murder and possession of a weapon. He is believed to have been arrested as he tried to leave the scene on a quad bike. Two other men have been charged with complicity in the murder. Facing trial: Myles Litchmore-Dunbar, from Catford South East London, who has been charged with Mr Matthews-Burton's murder in the mass brawl outside a nightclub in Malia on Monday night . Crime scene: Blood stains the floor outside the Safari Club where the fight happened . A further 16 British tourists arrested . in connection with the killing have been released without charge, amid . claims that police simply 'rounded up' everyone who had visited the club . that night. Mr Doxastakis on Friday told BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast that drunken British 'creatures' have given the resort a bad reputation. 'They . are very nice young guys during the day. You could not explain the . transformation in the night - they transform into other creatures,' he . said. 'The fights and disputes between them are over football or something else. We have no idea why this is happening. 'Those fights start somewhere else but then take place here so Malia becomes a battlefield. 'This is not fair because we have the bad reputation and all the problems but we can do nothing about it.' 'Creatures': Groups of young, mainly British tourists out on the town in Malia. New plans could see them corralled into special drinking zones where they can be closely monitored by local police to stop violence . The resort of Malia was the setting for the 2011 comedy film The Inbetweeners Movie, in which four young men went on a ‘lads’ holiday’. BBC DJ Tim Westwood, who had performed at the Safari Club on the night Mr Matthews-Burton was killed, tweeted about the death yesterday, calling the murdered teenager by what is thought to be his nickname, Sterling. He wrote: ‘Saddest nite in Malia. RIP Sterling – deepest sympathies to the family and friends.’

Move follows killing of Tyrell Matthews-Burton on Monday night . He was stabbed in his chest and back and died on his way to hospital . Mayor of Malia vows to clamp down on British tourists' 'wretched antics'

By . Erin Clements for MailOnline . Model Ginta Lapina has filed a lawsuit claiming that hair care company Schwarzkopf and her agency, Women Management, misled her into doing an advertising campaign, telling her the shoot was for Karl Lagerfeld. The 25-year-old, who has starred in campaigns for Anna Sui, DKNY and Jill Stuart, says she flew to Paris in July 2013 for what she was told was a photo shoot by Mr Lagerfeld that would accompany an interview with the legendary designer. She was surprised to discover that the images were actually used in an advertorial, and is seeking more than $1 million in damages as well as a court order prohibiting Schwarzkopf from using her pictures. Model behavior: Ginta Lapina has filed a lawsuit claiming that she was misled into doing an advertising campaign for Schwarzkopf after being told the shoot was for Karl Lagerfeld . She also alleges that Women Management arranged the deal with . Schwarzkopf without her knowledge or consent, and that she was paid . $19,700 for her time, but not compensated for the use of her images. 'The Schwarzkopf Look 2014 Trends advertorial was NOT [billed as] an advertising campaign, and therefore, the models were compensated only for their time for the photo shoot but not for the usage of their image,' says the suit, filed in Manhattan Federal Court. The Chanel creative director, who often shoots his own campaigns, did photograph the advertorial, which appears on Schwarzkopf's website. Status update: Ms Lapina, pictured in the advertorial (right), says the deal has 'diluted' her brand, because Schwarzkopf is not of her caliber . The Latvian-born model, who married 49-year-old businessman Adam Hock in 2012, says she is accustomed to being solicited for campaigns by clients 'willing to pay a model a high-six figure sum.’ Furthermore, the deal has 'diluted' her brand, because 'Schwarzkopf products and look of advertisement are not of the caliber normally endorsed by a model of plaintiff Ginta's stature in the industry.' 'In sum, Defendants conspired to obtain a top model for an advertising campaign without having to pay the usual and customary compensation that a top model commands,' claims the suit. Camera man: Karl Lagerfeld did shoot the advertorial, though Ms Lapina says she was told the photos would be used for an interview with the designer . The suit also notes that Models.com ranked Ms Lapina 27th in a list of the highest-earning models this year. Women CEO Sergio Leccese told the New York Daily News that he was 'surprised and disappointed' by the suit, adding: 'We deny any and all allegations of wrongdoing and intend to seek all appropriate remedies in connection with these issues.' MailOnline's request to Schwarzkopf for comment was not immediately answered.

Ginta Lapina alleges that Schwarzkopf is not of her caliber and has 'diluted' her brand, paying her far less than the six-figure sum she usually commissions . She has also accused her modeling agency, Women Management, of arranging the deal without her consent .

Mojave, California (CNN) -- Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson on Monday unveiled the winged rocket his company developed to give paying customers a brief taste of space. The 300 people who have given Branson's Virgin Galactic $20,000 deposits toward the $200,000 space-ride tickets were invited see SpaceShipTwo in its Mojave, California, hangar. CNN was given an early peek. The first flight in 2011 -- after 18 months of testing -- will launch from a spaceport under construction in New Mexico, Branson said. Another aircraft will carry the 60-foot-long SpaceShipTwo to 60,000 feet above the Earth, where "they will drop away and they will then go to 2,000 miles per hour in 10 seconds, where they get propelled into space," Branson said. Its hybrid rocket motor -- still under development -- will reach a suborbital altitude high enough to reach the edges of space and weightlessness, according to Branson. "Once in space, [passengers] will unbuckle their seats," he said. "There are enormous windows, which no spacecraft has had before, for them to look back at the Earth. They can float around and become astronauts." The cabin, which seats six paying passengers, is 90 inches -- nearly 8 feet -- in diameter, which provides "lots of room for zero-G fun," Branson's Web site said. The first voyage will carry Branson, his wife, mother and children, the entrepreneur said. "Actually, that's my mum on the side -- a younger version of my mum on the side of the spaceship," he said. After just a few minutes of space tourism, SpaceShipTwo will glide back to Earth, landing where it began the trip in New Mexico, he said. About 80,000 people have placed their names on the waiting list for seats on SpaceShipTwo and its successors. "What we want to be able to do is bring space travel down to a price range where hundreds of thousands of people would be able to experience space, and they never dreamed that [they] could," Branson said. He said he hopes the technology will lead to a new form of Earth travel, jetting people across oceans and continents faster through suborbital routes. "We would love at some stage, obviously subject to government approval, to take the engineers and start looking at shrinking the world," Branson said. The spacecraft was based on the technology and carbon-composite construction developed for SpaceShipOne, which won the Ansari X Prize in 2004 for the first privately funded human flight to the edge of space. The reusable spacecraft is a joint effort by aviation designer Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic, a space tourism venture that is a subsidiary of Branson's Virgin Group.

Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson unveils spacecraft . Media and prospective space-ride tourists get a peek at SpaceShipTwo . Virgin Galactic has deposits from 300 people toward $200,000 tickets . Branson says the first flight into space will launch in 2011 in New Mexico .

By . Becky Evans . PUBLISHED: . 08:26 EST, 5 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 04:08 EST, 6 November 2013 . Elite British sports stars have launched legal action against the World Anti-Doping Agency to ensure athletes caught using recreational drugs are treated 'sympathetically'. The Professional Players Federation want WADA to give a lesser punishment to players caught taking non-performance-enhancing drugs than those who cheat. The union, which represents more than 15,000 people including some of the biggest names in football, golf, rugby and cricket, says a proposed two-year ban is 'draconian'. The Professional Players Federation has launched a legal bid to ensure WADA bans athletes caught taking performance-enhancing drugs for longer than those who are found to have taken recreational drugs . It has today launched legal action in a Swiss court - the only judicial body to that has the power to review WADA decisions - to try to overturn the proposal. The union is challenging moves by WADA to punish offenders in the same way for a positive test, irrespective of whether they had used performance-enhancing or recreational drugs . The PPF said the focus should be on trying to help sports stars who take drugs like cocaine and cannabis. Simon Taylor, general secretary of the PPF, said: 'WADA’s treatment of recreational drugs is still stuck in the twentieth century. 'It is depressing that a group who refuse to even recognise the term "recreational drugs" is now seeking to undermine the good work that is being developed on mental wellbeing and rehabilitation for sportsmen and women with addiction problems. 'Recreation drug abuse has no place in professional sport but it would be naive in the extreme to think that it does not exist. England rugby international Matt Stevens (left) was given a two year ban for a positive cocaine test while a athlete Mark Lewis-Francis (right) was stripped of a medal after testing positive for cannabis in 2005 . 'Sport and WADA has a "duty of care" to provide appropriate support and treatment rather than just ruin players lives and careers with draconian two year bans that prevent athletes even training.' A number of British sport stars have been banned or cautioned in recent years for taking recreational drugs such as cocaine and cannabis. England rugby international and former British Lion Matt Stevens was banned from rugby for two years on February, 2009, after testing positive for cocaine. Sprinter Mark Lewis-Francis was stripped of his 2005 European Indoor Championship silver medal after he tested positive for cannabis. He was given a warning by UK Athletics after the body accepted he had not taken it for performance reasons. Other notable world stars to have been banned for recreational drug use include former Wimbledon champion Martina Hingis, who tested positive for cocaine in 2007; and former Chelsea stars Adrian Mutu and goalkeeper Mark Bosnich were both sacked from the club after the class A drug was found during tests. Former Wimbledon champion Martina Hingis announced her retirement from the sport in 2007 after testing positive for cocaine at the tournament - although she denied taking the Class A . WADA removed clause 10.4.3 (on substances of abuse) from the new 2015 World Anti-Doping Code, which expected to be ratified at the World Conference On Doping In Sport, beginning on November 12 in Johannesburg. The clause recognised that recreational drug abuse was wrong but was different from performance enhancing drugs so should have a lower tariff with a focus on rehabilitation as well as bans. WADA itself had previously noted 'a strong majority of stakeholder' in favour of clause 10.4.3.but it has been dropped. PPF lawyer Dr Lucien A Valloni has filed papers with the Swiss Federal Supervisory Authority seeking an urgent review of the decision. WADA's main media spokesman, who is based in the Canadian city of Montreal, was not available for comment.

Professional Players Federation challenging World Anti-Doping Agency . Wants WADA to ban athlete caught taking performance enhancing drugs for longer than those found to have used recreational drugs . Said proposed two year ban for using drugs like cannabis is 'draconian' PPF represents more than 15,000 people including elite athletes .

By . Damien Gayle . PUBLISHED: . 04:38 EST, 9 June 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 04:44 EST, 9 June 2012 . Proud: Princess Eugenie pictured on Tuesday following a service of thanksgiving to mark her grandmother's 60 years as Queen . Princess Eugenie has told how her grandmother the Queen would have found the final two days of the Diamond Jubilee 'quite testing' without Prince Philip by her side. The Duke of Edinburgh was taken ill on Sunday with a bladder infection, after standing for hours in the teeming rain as the Jubilee River Pageant made its way along the Thames. Nevertheless, the princess described her grandparents as a 'power couple who kind of astound people' as she gave the first interview by a royal following the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Princess Eugenie, 22, told Sky News: 'To see Granny and Grandpa standing for four hours, I mean, together, they are invincible. 'They are the most incredibly supportive couple to each other. Grandpa was unfortunately taken ill and for Granny to come and do that alone was probably quite testing and I think he is her rock really and she is his.' Yesterday afternoon Princes William and Harry visited the Duke of Edinburgh in hospital after the Palace confirmed he won't be be out in time celebrate his 91st birthday at home tomorrow. Philip had been planning to celebrate privately with his family and was not due to attend his next scheduled engagement until Tuesday, when the Queen hosts a garden party at the Sandringham Estate. His sudden illness marred the Queen's celebrations, but Princess Eugenie nevertheless described the four days of national celebrations as an 'unbelievable experience that will forever stay with me.' 'To see the showing that people gave (The Queen) is just unfathomable for me. I just think it's unbelievable and it makes me so proud,' she told Sky News. Eugenie and her sister, Princess Beatrice, travelled the length of Sunday's river pageant with their father, the Duke of York, aboard the historic Havengore barge. Her mother, Sarah Ferguson, who was not part of the celebrations, tweeted: 'Sooo proud of my girls smiling broadly, celebrating Granny with the Nation and Eugie with her flag and both happy smiles.' Princess Eugenie also told Sky News that one of her highlights of the Jubilee celebrations was the pop concert in front of Buckingham Palace. Treatment: Prince Philip's bladder infection could have been exacerbated by not taking enough toilet breaks during the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant . 'It was phenomenal,' she said. 'The . lighting, Madness on the roof, and the best was Robbie Williams doing . that shout out for me and my sister. 'The . whole thing was just an unbelievable experience that will forever stay . with me because I got to actually be there and take part and see and . hear everything. 'The amount . of people who came out to support was amazing and that exceeded my . expectations more than anything because it just showed how much everyone . loves my granny.' She was speaking on the eve of a . planned charity bicycle ride which she is doing to raise money for her . new Patronage, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. 'Unbelievable experiece': Princess Eugenie, left, and her sister Beatrice wave from a barge in a flotilla of 1,000 vessels, on the River Thames, during a river pageant to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee . Beginning at 1am tomorrow morning, the princess will ride 100km around London to raise money for the hospital and the Marylebone Cricket Club Foundation Appeal. When she was 12, Princess Eugenie herself underwent surgery at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital to put two 12in rods in her spine to correct curvature. She said that her experience of this procedure helped her to relate to other patients going through the same problems. And she admitted there were also lighter moments. 'It is sometimes quite fun because my friends can put magnets on my back and they kind of hang off,' she said. 'It's really weird!'

First royal interview since last weekend's Diamond Jubilee celebrations . Her highlight of the event was Robbie Williams's shout for her and her sister . Eugenie spoke ahead of a 100km cycle ride to raise cash for charity .

Lee Rigby's heartbroken fiancée and estranged wife both sobbed with relief today after one of his Muslim extremist killers had an appeal against his murder conviction thrown out in just 45 seconds. The soldier's future bride Aimee West said she hoped 'this is the last we will hear from them' as Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 23, also lost appeals against their life sentences for the 'barbaric' murder. Rebecca Rigby, who was married to the Fusilier and had his son Jack, said the family is 'relieved that this is over and justice has been done'. Adebolajo ran down the 25-year-old soldier in Woolwich south-east London in May last year before 'butchering him' with his accomplice. Both had denied murder because they were 'soldiers of Allah' but were found guilty at the Old Bailey last December. Members of the soldier's family, including his fiancée Aimee and also his estranged wife Rebecca Rigby, broke down as the High Court as their applications were rejected by judges. Quashed: One of Lee Rigby's killers, Michael Adebolajo, right, had his appeal against his conviction thrown out in 45 seconds today . Emotional: Rebecca Rigby, left, broke down as she and Miss West watched Michael Adebowale, who appeared in the High Court via video link . Adebolajo's legal team today claimed he should have his conviction quashed because he was 'at war' with Britain, before also failing to argue his whole life sentence should be reduced. His application for leave to appeal was rejected by Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas, sitting at the Court of Appeal in London with Lady Justice Hallett and Mr Justice Openshaw. They spent less than a minute explaining why they would not agree to it, and later called the argument pushed by his QC 'hopelessly misconceived'. Anyone in Britain who believes they have suffered an injustice when convicted of a crime can make an application to appeal the decision. If accepted a full hearing will be held at the Court of Appeal. The judges then heard argument on behalf of Adebolajo against a whole-life sentence which condemns him to die behind bars. Lawyers for his co-accused Michael Adebowale, who was jailed for life with a minimum term of 45 years, were also arguing for a reduction in sentence. But Lord Thomas said it was 'just' punishment for the 'horrific and barbaric' murder. Adebowale, who appeared from Broadmoor jail via video link did not react while Adebolajo, who is at HMP Frankland, had refused to appear for the hearing at all. Members of Fusilier Rigby's family gasped with relief and there were tears as the decision was announced. Bereft: Rebecca Rigby, the estranged wife of Lee Rigby and mother of his son Jack, was in court for the hearing, as was the soldier's fiancée Aimee West and both sobbed as the appeals were rejected . After the decision was announced, Fusilier Rigby's fiancee Aimee West said: 'I am relieved and thankful with the outcome of today's hearing. 'I hope that this is the last we will hear from them both, so that I can focus on rebuilding my life and keeping Lee's memory alive.' Choking back tears, Lee Rigby's estranged wife Rebecca said: 'I would like to thank everyone who made today's verdict possible. 'We are relieved that this is over and justice has been done. I would like to thank everyone for their continued support over the last 18 months and hope I can now build a future for my son Jack and ensure his (Lee's) memory lives on.' The British-born Muslim converts ran 25-year-old Fusilier Rigby down in a car before hacking him to death with a meat cleaver and knives in a frenzied attack in Woolwich, south London. They dumped the body of the father-of-one in the middle of the road near Woolwich Barracks in south east London on May 22 last year. Plot: Adebolajo and Adebowale lay in wait near the barracks and picked Fusilier Rigby to kill after assuming he was a soldier because he was wearing a Help for Heroes hooded top and carrying a camouflage rucksack . They dumped the body of the father-of-one in the middle of the road near Woolwich Barracks and then waited for armed police to arrive hoping they would be 'martyred' Adebolajo and Adebowale lay in wait near the barracks and picked Fusilier Rigby to kill after assuming he was a soldier because he was wearing a Help for Heroes hooded top and carrying a camouflage rucksack. After driving into him, the killers - who had armed themselves with eight knives, including a meat cleaver and a five-piece set bought by Adebolajo the previous day - butchered him in the street in broad daylight in front of horrified onlookers. Both men were shot by police in dramatic scenes captured by CCTV. They claimed they were 'soldiers of Allah' and were motivated by the plight of Muslims abroad to carry out the killing. Both were convicted of murder at the Old Bailey and sentenced in February. Explaining his decision to give Adebolajo a whole-life term, trial judge Mr Justice Sweeney said he was the leader of the murderous plot and had 'no real prospect of rehabilitation'. However, Adebowale's younger age, mental health problems and 'lesser role' meant that he escaped spending the rest of his natural life behind bars. Whole-life terms came under the spotlight earlier this year when judges at the Court of Appeal ruled that murderers who commit the most 'heinous' of crimes can be sent to prison for the rest of their lives. Those currently serving whole-life terms in England and Wales include Moors Murderer Ian Brady, who tortured and murdered children along with accomplice Myra Hindley, and serial killer Rosemary West.

Michael Adebolajo hacked to death Lee Rigby with Michael Adebowale . Judges took 45 seconds to reject Adebolajo's appeal against conviction . His QC said it shouldn't stand because he was 'at war' with Britain . Both murderers also failed in appeals to reduce length of prison sentences . Adebolajo was handed life with no parole, Adebowale given 45 years . Lee Rigby's family and widow were at the High Court for the hearing .

Robbie Keane may have won 138 caps for the Republic of Ireland but it seems the LA Galaxy striker still has some trouble recognising his country's flag. The 34-year-old proudly showed off his personalised boots for Sunday's MLS Cup final against New England Revolution on Facebook but failed to notice that they were adorned with the flag of the Ivory Coast. Both flags are made up of three colours - orange, white and green - but the version on Keane's Nike boots had orange instead of green on the left, meaning it actually represented the African nation. LA Galaxy striker Robbie Keane showed off his boots for Sunday's MLS Cup final on his Facebook page . Keane scores LA Galaxy's winning goal against New England Revolution in extra-time . Keane posted the image to his Facebook page on Saturday along with the message: 'Mine and Robert's boots are ready for Sunday. He will be leading the team out with me for the final - very excited!' And despite the flag mix-up, having his son by his side turned out to be a lucky omen for the former Tottenham striker as he scored the winning goal in California. Galaxy and Revolution battled to a 1-1 draw in normal time but Keane popped up in extra-time to squeeze the ball beyond Bobby Shuttleworth to seal a 2-1 win. The victory proved to be a fitting end to the career of USA legend Landon Donovan, who has decided to retire from football. Landon Donovan lifts the MLS Cup after finishing his career with a dramatic win against New England . Donovan celebrates on the pitch after completing his final game as a professional footballer .

LA Galaxy beat New England Revolution 2-1 after extra-time on Sunday . Former Tottenham striker Robbie Keane scored the winning goal . But there was a mix-up as his boots had the Ivory Coast flag on them . Keane has won 138 caps for the Republic of Ireland and scored 65 goals .

By . Laurie Kamens . PUBLISHED: . 17:44 EST, 22 June 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:47 EST, 24 June 2013 . Throughout the years Walt Disney has helped animate some of the . most beloved children’s characters, and during World War II he was enlisted . to help the American war effort by designing a Mickey Mouse gas mask. Fearing a chemical attack from the Germans the United States government distributed over 40 million gas masks to men, women, and children during WWII. However, since adult masks were too heavy and frightening for children to wear, Disney helped to create a mask for kids that looked like his popular cartoon character Mickey Mouse. During WWII Walt Disney helped to design a Mickey Mouse gas mask to protect children against chemical warfare. The mask pictured here is housed in The United States Army Chemical Corps Museum, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri . After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor . in 1941, Americans feared the threat of the war coming to their own . soil, namely in the form of chemical warfare. To protect against this threat the government massed produced non-combative gas masks. More... There could be 'hundreds' of Nazis still living in America, according to Simon Wiesenthal Center expert . Could there be anything more twisted than these Holocaust fantasists? How more and more people are making up memoirs about witnessing Nazi crimes . Amongst the masks made for children was a Walt Disney . designed Mickey Mouse gas mask, to reduce children’s potential fear of wearing . the possibly life-saving mask. The mask which looks like the Mickey Mouse’s face . attached to a branded air filter was designed to fit children aged . 18 months to 4 years old. ‘The mask was designed so children would carry it and wear . it as part of a game,’ Major Robert D. Walk of the US Army Reserve Command wrote . in his essay The Mickey Mouse Mask. ‘This would reduce the fear associated with . wearing a gas mask and hopefully, improve their wear time and, hence, . survivability.’ Disney's Mickey Mouse gas mask was designed to eliminate children's fear of wearing the chemical warfare preventative device . The production of the Disney gas masks began in 1942, a . month after the Japan surprised Americans and attacked Pearl Harbor. The Sun Rubber Company produced approximately 1,000 Mickey . Mouse gas masks with the company’s designer Dietrich Rempel and Disney’s stamp . of approval, Walk notes in his essay. The Sun Rubber Company’s war efforts earned them an . Army-Navy ‘E’ rating for excellence in wartime production in 1944. The protection of children during WWII against chemical . warfare produced efforts to make child-friendly gas masks in other countries as . well. In addition to its child-friendly appearance, the Mickey Mouse mask was designed to fit a smaller head and weighed less than the adult gas mask. Seen here it is being fitted to a dummy . The United Kingdom also manufactured Mickey Mouse gas masks, although . they were not designed to look like the popular cartoon character. The British version is just a blue and red gas mask but, the . name was retained for the product as part of the game designed to entice . children to wear it. In Germany a child’s gas protective crib was designed to . shield infants against chemical attacks and protective hoods were made for . toddlers and older children who could not fit into the adult-sized masks. As no chemical warfare ever befell the United States, many . of the gas masks were distributed to senior war officials at the end of the war as keepsakes or simply vanished over time, Walk writes. Today the few Disney gas masks that have survived are all . housed in museums across the country including The 45th Infantry Division Museum in . Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the US Army Chemical Museum at Fort McClellan, . Alabama. A deconstructed mask is also on display in The Walt Disney . Archives in Burbank, California.

Walt Disney helped to design children's gas masks that looked like Mickey Mouse during World War II . The child-friendly  mask was designed to help children overcome the fear of wearing a mask in the event of chemical warfare . The Mickey Mouse masks were never used and are now stored in military museums .

(CNN) -- Maybe marriage to Kate Winslet isn't all that bad. Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski star as a couple on the road in the comedy "Away We Go." After cruelly dissecting marital malaise in "American Beauty" and again, just six months ago, in "Revolutionary Road," Winslet's husband Sam Mendes takes a slightly more optimistic view of family life in the edgy comedy "Away We Go." Not that he's offering a whole-hearted endorsement of the institution. Burt and Verona (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph) aren't legally bound -- she staunchly resists his repeated proposals -- but nevertheless they're a couple about to go nuclear: She's six months pregnant. He sells insurance to insurance companies. She's an illustrator with a lucrative line in anatomical drawings. Nevertheless, they're struggling to make ends meet. "Are we losers?" wonders Verona (only she uses a more colorful expression). "We have cardboard windows... I think we must be." Insomuch as they have a plan at all, it hinges on the support they're expecting from Burt's doting parents. So it's a nasty wake-up call when Jerry and Gloria (Jeff Daniels and Catherine O'Hara) announce they're taking off for a new life in Belgium -- yes, even before the baby's out. There is a silver lining: Realizing they no longer have any reason to stay, Burt and Verona decide to widen their horizons. They could move to Arizona where Verona's sister lives. Burt has a job prospect in Madison, Wisconsin. Or they have college friends in Montreal. Their destiny awaits them, all they have to do is go out and find it. And away they go. Although the couple racks up a good few miles in their search for home, the movie doesn't betray much interest in location. Arizona is hot and arid. In Montreal they pour gravy on French fries. Don't expect cultural insights. It's never explained how these stragglers can afford such speculative wandering, and when they do find their dream home it's mystifying that it hasn't occurred to them before. Still, the movie's loose-limbed, spontaneous quality is a good part of its appeal, and a refreshing change of pace from other movies by Mendes, whose artfully designed compositions often seem self-conscious and painfully detached. In keeping with Indie-wood's vogue for shuffling snide satire and sentimentality (see "Juno" and "Little Miss Sunshine"), "Away We Go" presents its trepidatious travelers with half a dozen starkly contrasted parental figures, including Allison Janney's monstrously vulgar alcoholic, Maggie Gyllenhaal's radical earth-mother (who has shortened her name to "LN"), and Paul Schneider as Burt's rawly dumped brother, who wonders aloud if it would be wrong to tell his daughter her mom has been murdered. There's a level of bile here that some audiences may find alienating -- I can't see it being a big hit in Phoenix -- but Dave Eggers' and Vendela Vida's writing is a cut above the average, and it's performed with gusto. They may not be the most dynamic duo to hit the road, but the relationship between Burt and Verona feels touchingly true. Burt is a boy still trying on manhood for size (with a beard for extra emphasis), and though we've seen Krasinski do this before, he seems to have fine-tuned the performance to the point where he could very happily play it for the next two decades. Unlike his character, he's an actor who has found himself. Maya Rudolph is the joy of this picture. Give or take her role in Altman's "Prairie Home Companion," the "Saturday Night Live" star hasn't made much impact in movies before now. With her frazzled, freckled face, she's not the glamour girl who would normally be shoe-horned into the romantic lead, but she seizes her chance and runs with it. Mendes brings out a more thoughtful and nuanced presence than the brittle comedienne, and Rudolph makes you consider how rarely we see a real woman at the center of things. Even her occasional tentativeness works for the part. Verona is so fresh and alert, she can't help but doubt herself as they trail from one family disaster to the next and wonder what kind of parents they are going to make. It's an uneven picture about the bumps in the road, and not immune to the odd dramatic shortcut or jocular cheap shot. But it does catch an anxiety that will be acutely familiar to anyone contemplating imminent parenthood, and -- in a beautifully judged cameo by Melanie Lynskey -- the deep anguish of someone who has had that prospect snatched away. More often than not, and where it really counts, "Away We Go" hits home. "Away We Go" is rated R and runs 98 minutes. For Entertainment Weekly's review, click here.

John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph star as a couple expecting a baby . Their onscreen relationship feels touchingly true . Director Sam Mendes brings out a great performance from Rudolph . Movie's loose-limbed, spontaneous quality is a good part of its appeal .

Lady Ackers wrongly claimed almost £27,000 in benefits because she 'skim read' a booklet and didn't think she would remarry, a court heard . The wealthy widow of a controversial NHS chief wrongly claimed almost £27,000 in benefits because she 'skim read' a Government booklet and didn't think she would remarry, a court heard. Former magistrate Jayne Ackers had been receiving Widowed Parent's Allowance (WPA) from March 2008 - shortly after the death of her husband Sir James Ackers. One of the conditions was that the 56-year-old didn't live with anyone else but a court heard she began co-habiting with boyfriend James McMaster, 58, in October 2010. JPs were told Lady Ackers informed Lichfield District Council that her new partner had moved into the family's £280,000 home in Mile Oak, near Tamworth, Staffordshire, but didn't tell the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The nursery director claimed she wasn't aware she had to inform the Government about Mr McMaster until they were married. The court heard the couple tied the knot at glamorous Blair Castle in Scotland in 2012 but Lady Ackers mistakenly provided the information to HM Revenue and Customs instead of the DWP. During her trial at Burton Magistrates Court on Friday, the widow was shown an information booklet similar to one that would've been sent to her at the time her WPA claim began. But she told JPs: 'I was reading so much at the time that I must have skim read it. I remember reading about remarriage and thinking 'that won't be happening'.' Lady Ackers denied falsely claiming £26,980 by deliberately failing to inform the DWP she was living with Mr McMaster. And JPs took less than 10 minutes to find her not guilty - a verdict which was met by applause from the widow's family in the public gallery. Chairman of the bench Mrs Lesley Gilman said: 'Although she failed to declare information to the DWP we don't consider she did it knowingly.' The court heard Lady Ackers, who was a magistrate in the West Midlands between 1990 and 2011, met Mr McMaster in Austria in 2008 and gave him a maintenance job at her nurseries. She maintaining her innocence after being interviewed by police in December last year and JPs were told Lady Ackers has paid the money back in full. The court heard Lady Ackers and James McMaster tied the knot at glamorous Blair Castle in Scotland in 2012 but Lady Ackers  mistakenly provided the information to HM Revenue and Customs instead of the DWP . Lady Ackers informed Lichfield District Council that her new husband had moved into the family's £280,000 home in Mile Oak, near Tamworth, Staffordshire, but didn't tell the Department for Work and Pensions . Defending, Jonathan Challinor said at the time of Sir James's death, his widow had to take over his role as a director of a nursery, raise two children and make funeral arrangements. And Lady Ackers told the court: 'It was too much. I was trying to juggle all the balls.' Lady Ackers  is the director of Seesaws Day Nursery - a company which includes five nurseries, three pre and after-school clubs and two holiday clubs in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, West Mids. Businessman Sir James died aged 72 at their home in Mile Oak, near Tamworth, in 2008 . According to their website, she said up the business with her husband Sir James Ackers in 1994 because she wanted the best care for their son Nicky who they adopted from Romania in 1990. Businessman Sir James - who was chairman of the West Midlands Regional Health Authority (RHA) for over 10 years - died aged 72 at their home in Mile Oak, near Tamworth, in 2008. The NHS chief had a rollercoaster ride at the helm of the West Midlands RHA and resigned after a string of financial scandals in January 1993. Residents in the West Midlands raised a protest petition with more than 250,000 signatures after a House of Commons motion which called for his resignation over the controversies. Die-hard Tory Sir James's career was a textbook rags to riches story and in 1961 he took over the family business Ackers Jarrett started by his dad as a garage in Walsall, West Midlands, 54 years earlier. Under his control, it flourished to become one of the largest truck-hire companies in Britain with a fleet of 1,800 vehicles until recession struck in 1991. Sir James, who was born in Walsall, called receivers to the business in August 1991 but carried on as chairman of the West Midlands RHA. He was also a national figure as a member of the NHS policy board and a personal friend of ministers including Sir Kenneth Clarke. But during the later years of his chairmanship of the West Midlands RHA, Sir James had to continually resist calls for his resignation over a string of financial claims . One of the allegations was that consultants were charging the NHS as much as £350,000 in expenses and the £4 million cost to the RHA of an efficiency study by an American firm of consultants.

Jayne Ackers had been receiving an allowance after the death of her husband Sir James Ackers in 2008 . The former magistrate didn't tell Department for Work and Pensions that her boyfriend James McMaster moved in in October 2010 . The nursery director claimed she wasn't aware she had to inform the Government . She has paid back money and was found not guilty of falsely claiming cash .

By . Jill Reilly and Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 10:50 EST, 28 May 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:52 EST, 28 May 2013 . The laid-back lifestyle and good weather helped keep Australia ranked as the best place to live for the third year in a row. America was just narrowly shut out of the top five places, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's Better Life Index, which ranked the U.S. in sixth place. Sweden, Canada, Norway and Switzerland all beat out the U.S., as Denmark, the Netherlands, Iceland and the U.K. filled out the rest of the top ten. Winner: Australia is the best place in the world to live and work, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development . The survey featured 11 different criteria for each country, including income, jobs, housing and health. Overall, Americans rank in the middle of most of the surveyed countries on issues like safety, civic engagement, the environment and the all-encompassing life satisfaction. 1. Australia                      6. United States2. Sweden                       7. Denmark3. Canada                        8. Netherlands4. Norway                        9. Iceland5. Switzerland              10. United Kingdom . One of the categories where the U.S. ranked among the worst countries was work-life balance, as average Americans work 1,787 hours per year as opposed to the OECD average of 1,776 hours per year. That said, the hard work seems to be paying off on the whole as the household net-adjusted income for Americans is $38,001, which is significantly higher than the overall survey average of $23,047 per year. Other criteria found that Americans are more satisfied with their lives than the OECD average, with 83 per cent of people saying they have more positive experiences in an average day. The vast majority- 90 per cent of Americans- believe that they know someone they could rely on in time of need, in line with the OECD average. The life expectancy birth in the United States is almost 79 years, one year lower than the OECD average of 80 years - women live to an average 81 years, compared with 76 for men. Down: The life expectancy birth in the United States is almost 79 years, one year lower than the OECD average of 80 years - women live to an average 81 years, compared with 76 for men . In spite of the Americans' best efforts, Austrialians still came out on top with higher rankings nearly across the board. The two areas where Americans beat Austrialians was in income and surprisingly they even managed to get a lower score when it came to the work-life balance. In general, Australians are more satisfied with their lives than the OECD average, with 84 per cent of people saying they have more positive experiences in an average day. Positive feelings were qualified as feelings of rest, pride in accomplishment, and general enjoyment. On the opposite end of the spectrum, negative feelings included ones of pain, worry, sadness, and boredom. Feeling . good: In general, Australians are more satisfied with their lives than . the OECD average, with 84 per cent of people saying they have more . positive experiences in an average day . Austrailia's 87 per cent of 'positive feelings' came in higher than the OECD average of 80 per cent. And 94 per cent of people believe that they know someone they could rely on in time of need, higher than the OECD average of 90 per cent. The life expectancy is an additional two years in Australia, at 82 years. Despite the satisfaction rating, almost 14 per cent of employees work very long hours, much higher than the OECD average of 9 per cent, with 21 of men working very long hours compared with just 6 per cent for women. Number 10: In Britain, 95 per cent of people believe that they know someone they could rely on in time of need . In Britain, the survey shows the average household net-adjusted disposable income is higher than the OECD average, but there is a considerable gap between the richest and poorest – the top 20 per cent of the population earn nearly six times as much as the bottom 20 per cent. In terms of employment, about 12 per cent of employees work very long hours, more than the OECD average of 9 per cent - 18 per cent of men work very long hours compared with just 6 per cent for women. Three quarters of adults aged 25-64 have earned the equivalent of a secondary school degree, close to the OECD average of 74 per cent. In terms of health, life expectancy is 81 years - for women it is 83 years, compared with 79 for men. In Britain, 95 per cent of people believe that they know someone they could rely on in time of need. Briton's are more satisfied with their lives than the OECD average, with 85 per cent of people saying they have more positive experiences in an average day.

United States ranked sixth on annual review of happiness levels by country . The criteria included income, jobs, housing and health .

A man robbed three gas stations carrying a gun - and wearing a Halloween mask. The attacker was caught on CCTV threatening cashiers across Benton Township, Michigan, disguised as the Gothic character Frankenstein. Police have now released an image of the man in the hope that a member of the public can identify him. Halloween raid: Police are looking for this man pictured raiding a Michigan gas station in a Frankenstein mask . The sheriff’s department says the man attacker the first gas station at about 12:40 am on Monday and got away with an undisclosed amount of money. Around five hours later at 6am he stormed a second but minutes later fled with nothing. At 6:20am, he robbed a third and made off with cash. Investigators say they believe the man is white and about 5'6" tall. Police ask anyone with information on the robberies to contact the Berrien County Sheriff's Office at 269-983-7141. Attacks: The man is suspected of robbing three gas station in the area at gun point, including Pri Mart (above)

Man captured on CCTV robbing three gas stations in Halloween mask . He demanded money from cashiers and threatened them with a gun . Police have released a still of surveillance footage in appeal to find him .

(CNN) -- Yemen's largest opposition coalition blamed President Ali Abdullah Saleh's ruling family for causing chaos in the town of Radda, Baitha province, and said the family intentionally eased the way for al Qaeda militants to take over the town. The Joint Meeting Parties (JMP) said this strategy was used in an effort to delay the presidential elections and halt the power transfer from taking place. "Only Saleh would hand over a town to terrorists. He does not care for Yemen or its people," said Ahmed Bahri, a senior JMP leader. Numerous tribal chiefs told CNN that the suspected al Qaeda militants are now in control of the Sawadia Republican Guard's base in Radda and entered the town without a fight. Saleh's eldest son, Ahmed, runs the guards. "Everything was handed over to the militants. What other explanation can there be? Hundreds of Republican Guard forces suddenly evacuated the base without a fight," said Abdullah al-Barraki, a tribal chief in Radda. CNN was able to independently verify that the militants were now in control of the base. Radda, located just 107 miles southeast of Yemen's capital Sana'a, has been without any security presence for more than six days, according to residents. Tribal chiefs in the town are negotiating with the militants to leave the town without bloodshed. This comes as thousands of anti-Saleh protesters marched in the streets of Radda on Wednesday, condemning what they say was an act of treachery by relatives of Saleh. "Saleh's nephew and son handed over the town to the militants. They wanted al Qaeda to take over the town to raise the tension in the country," said Sameer Ashtal, a youth protester in Radda. He added, "Saleh is willing to destroy to the entire country for the sake of himself, and that is why he has to leave power." Marchers in Radda chanted, "Saleh's family sold Radda. He will stand trial for this crime." Last week, dozens of militants loyal to Tareq al-Thahab, an extremist militant, took over historical sites in Radda and called for the implementation of Sharia law. Khaled al-Thahab, a prominent tribal leader and brother of the al Qaeda leader in Radda, said that the National Security Forces assisted his brother in taking over the town. The national security sector is directly run by Ammar Mohammed, the nephew of Saleh. The JMP warned the international community that certain factions will be seeking to halt the power transfer deal worked out with the Gulf Cooperation Council. "The JMP are completely abiding (by) the GCC power transfer deal while Saleh's ruling family is doing otherwise," said Mohammed Qahtan, a senior opposition Islah official, and former spokesperson for the JMP. CNN contacted the office of Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to clarify the reasons behind the growing tension, but they refused to comment. Saleh signed away executive powers to Hadi on November 23, allowing him to keep the title of president for 90 days but officially ending his rule. Hadi is expected to win the February 21 presidential elections and be the country's next leader. Jamal Ben Omar, the United Nations envoy to Yemen, insists that presidential elections will not be delayed. "There is no space to negotiate the delay of the Yemeni presidential elections," he said. Ali al-Amrani, Yemen's minister of information, told CNN that an immunity bill for Saleh is expected to be passed on Saturday after differing factions met at Hadi's residence on Wednesday and finalized most differing points. The bill has been the core of controversy between the opposition and the president. The bill, if passed, will grant Saleh immunity from prosecution for all crimes and violations committed during his 33 years in power.

JMP: Saleh's family has handed town of Radda over to al Qaeda militants . Protester: "Saleh is willing to destroy to the entire country for the sake of himself" Tribal chiefs are negotiating with the militants to leave the town peacefully . Militants loyal to Tareq al-Thahab took over historical sites in Radda last week .

This is the moment an escaped elephant crushed a car by climbing on top of it during mating season at a Thai national park. The silver vehicle, carrying a family, was making its way through the Khao Yai National Park near Bangkok on the way to National Children's Day celebrations nearby. However, the driver of the car was forced to stop as the male elephant wandered out into the middle of the road and approached the car. The silver car was making its way through the Khao Yai National Park, when an elephant approached the vehicle and tried to sit on it . Footage shows the elephant putting its front legs on the vehicle before bringing up its hind legs and standing on the bonnet . After a few seconds the elephant then appears to jump off the car leaving the front of the vehicle badly dented and with a cracked windscreen . Footage filmed by a mobile phone from within the vehicle, then shows the animal getting extremely close to the car before resting its trunk on the bonnet. Then the elephant can be seen putting its two front feet on top of the bonnet before bringing up its hind legs and almost sitting on the front of the vehicle. The giant creature then jumps off the car on to the ground and walks away leaving a badly dented bonnet with a cracked windscreen. Before climbing on top of the car, the elephant approached the vehicle after wandering out into the middle of the road . The animal appeared to rest its trunk on the bonnet before going on to stand on top of the car. Vets believe the elephant may have been stressed due to mating season . Fortunately the family inside the vehicle were unharmed. It is the second such incident this month involving an elephant inside the park after one damaged another three vehicles on New Year's Day. It is unclear if the same elephant was involved in both incidents. Patarapol Maneeorn, a government veterinarian told the National that elephants do not usually approach cars, but this particular creature might be stressed due to mating season. Earlier this month, an elephant also damaged three cars within the same national park, although vets are unsure if it was the same creature . He said: 'In the mating season, the elephant might have developed some stress. Moving vehicles might have added to the tension.' Male elephants are usually forced out of their herd when they reach reproductive age so they do not mate with their blood relatives. It is thought this is why the elephant has escaped and people driving through the park are being told to be extra vigilant.

Family were driving their car through Khao Yai National Park near Bangkok . Driver was forced to slow down after an elephant wandered into the road . Creature then approached the car and rested its trunk on top of the bonnet . It then put its front legs on the vehicle, standing on it before jumping off . Passengers were unharmed but car was dented and windscreen cracked . Experts believe the elephant may have been stressed due to mating season .

Andy Murray and Roger Federer will need little reminding that the clock is ticking relentlessly on their careers. The Wimbledon champion is turning 27 and playing in the third round of the Italian Open, while his predecessor will be back at home with his rapidly expanding family, having lost early at his main preparatory event for the French Open. Murray has no celebratory plans, just the focus of taking on Austrian Jurgen Melzer for a place in the last eight, a match he earned with an impressive 6-2, 7-5 victory yesterday over Spain’s Marcel Granollers. Brit of all right: Andy Murray will face Jurgen Melzer in the third round in Italy after beating Marcel Granollers . Up for the battle: Murray was in good form as he attempts to put together a decent run ahead of Wimbledon . Federer’s . visit to the eternal city turned out to be brief, mounting a third-set . comeback before ceding a late match point to lose 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 to . Frenchman Jeremy Chardy. The . great Swiss’s career is far more advanced than Murray’s and afterwards . he dwelt on how much a defeat can hurt him these days, especially at . such a contented time when his twin boys have just arrived. ‘At . this time I know how much a defeat hurts and how much it doesn’t, when . it’s good when it hurts and when it’s not. This one is totally OK if it . doesn’t hurt,’ he admitted. ‘I . tried everything; you can’t do more than that on the court. Sure, it . wasn’t fun leaving the court, walking through the corridor and thinking . what happened out there, so maybe I was angry and disappointed and . frustrated but then I was like: “OK, let’s just do the press conference . and go home, let’s not waste too much more time.”’ Yellow peril: Marcel Granollers was soundly beaten in Rome by the British No 1 on Wednesday . Heading home: Roger Federer departs after losing in three sets to Frenchman Jeremy Chardy . It . was a particularly painful reverse for Federer, 32, who led 6-5 in the . tiebreak when Chardy pulled out a freakishly good forehand passing shot. Two more points and Federer was off to the airport where a private jet . got him home for bathtime. Murray’s . French Open prospects will start to look a whole lot rosier if he can . beat Melzer, a left-hander against whom he holds a 5-0 record. Having . fallen to a listless defeat in Madrid last week, he cut a totally different figure, calmly handling  atrociously windy conditions and . playing smartly within himself for a creditable win against the world No . 31. Murray . was also unrecognisable from the player who met the same opponent a . year ago in the same round, having to pull out at a set all with back . problems that forced him out of Paris. He has come here without any . specialist physio in his team. Like Federer, he was also reflective . about the passage of time. Relief: Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates as he comes through a tough test against France's Gilles Simon . ‘Birthdays for me are not the same as when you’re 12 years old, really.  I don’t look forward to them,’  he said. ‘No . plans. If I go home for a couple of days (before Paris) I’ll do . something. No girlfriend or family or friends here this year...well, not . that I know of. Maybe they’ll surprise me.’ A win for Murray over Melzer will probably see the Scot go on to face Rafael Nadal in the quarters. The Spaniard laboured again on Wednesday night, but ultimately saw off Frenchman Gilles Simon 7-6, 6-7, 6-2.

British No 1 wins 6-2, 7-5 in his Rome Opener . Murray plays left-handed Austrian Jurgen Melzer in third round . Roger Federer loses to Jeremy Chardy in three sets . Rafael Nadal survives a tough test from Gilles Simon .

The man who allegedly beat to death the 'secret' son of Minnesota Vikings' star Adrian Peterson has a history of domestic violence, it was revealed today. Joseph . Robert Patterson, 27, the mother's boyfriend, was charged on Friday with aggravated assault and aggravated . assault on an infant. The two-year-old boy, named locally as Ty, passed away on Friday at a South Dakota hospital after being . admitted on Wednesday. The football star's father Nelson confirmed that . the boy who died was his grandson. Patterson appeared in court on Friday to be arraigned on the felony charges. Additional charges may be added now that the child has died, South Dakota State’s Attorney's office said. Charged: Joseph Robert Patterson, pictured in court today, left, is charged with aggravated battery of an infant and aggravated assault. It emerged in court that he had previously been charged over domestic violence . Requests for privacy: NFL star Adrian Peterson, pictured at a press conference today, acknowledged that he was dealing with a 'private matter' but said little else. It is believed that his 'secret' son died today after being beaten by the boyfriend of the child's mother . The little boy was brutally beaten on Wednesday while in Patterson’s home at Platinum Valley Apartments, Sioux Falls where he had recently moved with his mother. Patterson was the sole caregiver at the time. Initially, . police were told that the child had choked on candy. Only later did it . emerge that his brain injuries were the result of being violently shaken. The arrest was made . after police found the little boy with injuries 'consistent with . abuse'. Patterson is being held in Minnehaha County Jail, South Dakota on $750,000 cash bond. He is scheduled to appear in court on October 23 but a grand jury indictment is expected before then. South Dakota State’s Attorney Thomas Wollman filed motions on Friday ordering Patterson to serve two year-long sentences that had been suspended on prior domestic assault charges. Patterson had pleaded guilty in 2012 to simple assault in an incident involving an ex-girlfriend and her three-year-old son. The woman requested a protection order saying that Patterson had spanked her little boy so hard that she had to ice the welts on his buttocks, according to the Argus. She also said that he choked and punched her, threatened her with a knife . and held her in the bedroom against her will, according to records. She asked for the protection orders prior to the birth of the son she has with Patterson. As part of his prior charges, Patterson was ordered to undergo family violence training and to stay . away from the woman until completing it. A different woman requested a protection order against Patterson in 2004 in Jackson County. Remembered: Vanja Srdie shares a memory about Minnesota Vikings' Adrian Peterson's two-year-old son during a candlelight vigil at Sertoma Park in Sioux Falls . Family, friends and well-wishers gather to say goodbye to the little boy who was killed, allegedly by his mother's boyfriend . It is believed that Patterson only recently began a relationship with the mother of the child he allegedly killed. A candlelit vigil was held in Sertoma Park, Sioux Falls to remember the little boy on Friday. One woman told the Argus Leader that Ty 'was a spunky boy full of life, who was ''always running, jumping and into everything... but whose big brown eyes made it hard to be mad at him'. Another attendee, Vanja Srdic, 27, described the two-year-old as 'very happy, very strong-willed, so much potential, a go-getter little boy. His mom was his world'. Following the news of his son's death, NFL star Peterson tweeted: 'Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support. 'The NFL is a fraternity of brothers and I am thankful for the tweets, phone calls and text messages from my fellow players. Peterson added: 'God Bless everyone and thank u so much.' Peterson has been . pictured publicly with his son Adrian Jr, who is two, but it was another two-year-old boy who died on Friday. The football star, who also has a ten-year-old daughter Adeja, was spotted in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on Thursday. Joseph Robert Patterson posted this picture on his Facebook page, believed to be him with his biological son. Patterson has been charged with the aggravated assault of his girlfriend's son on Friday . Joseph Patterson, who is charged with aggravated assault and aggravated battery on an infant, leaves the Lincoln County Courthouse on Friday . Other sports stars quickly offered their condolences following the child's tragic death. Basketball . star LeBron James tweeted: 'My deepest condolences goes out to Adrian . Peterson and his family! Sending prayers up for you homie! Nothing I can . say can help u through.'. Baseball player Bryce Harper wrote: . 'Prayers go out to @AdrianPeterson and his family! What a cruel world we . live in! Truly unbelievable! #GodBless' A friend of the boy's mother in Sioux Falls told CityPages . that the mother of the child had a casual relationship with the NFL . star when she lived in Twin Cities but had since moved to South . Dakota. A recent paternity . test revealed that Peterson was the little boy's father. The child has . his mothers' last name and the father is not identified on the birth . certificate. Peterson knew that he was the father of the child before he was tragically killed. In a phone interview with the Pioneer Press, Nelson Peterson said the injured boy is not Adrian Jr., but is his grandson. Minnesota Vikings player Adrian Peterson pictured this summer during a training camp with his two-year-old son Adrian Jr . Family: Adrian Peterson's two-year-old son Adrian Jr., lives at home with the footballer . 'All . I can say is, we are asking for prayers and for respect for our family . as we deal with this tragic situation,' Nelson Peterson said. Adrian Peterson spoke to the media on Friday afternoon and thanked everyone for their support. He told reporters he was dealing with the situation and has asked for privacy. 'I really appreciate all the support that I’ve been receiving from fans, the Vikings organization,' he said. 'This . is a private matter and I would ask you all to please just respect my . privacy and not ask at all about the situation at hand. Thanks.' Patterson was charged with assault in 2012 and ordered to undergo family violence training . Asked . about his mindset, Peterson said: 'Football is something I will always . fall back on. It gets me through tough times. Just being around the guys . in here, that’s what I need.' He said that he will be playing for the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday in a home game against the Carolina Panthers. However a Viking source told ESPN that following his son's death that 'could change'. Sioux Falls Police Department spokesman Sam Clemens said many people have asked about the identity of the boy's father. 'At . this point, we're not going to confirm anything. Who the father is does . not come into play in this investigation, so we’re not going to be . releasing any information as far as that goes,' he said. 'We're . not here to talk about the parents of this child,' said Lincoln County . Attorney Thomas Wollman. 'We wouldn't talk in a normal case about who . the parents are.' Lincoln County State's Attorney Tom Wollman asked that people respect the family's privacy. 'The parents and extended family are suffering greatly,' he said. Minnesota . hosts the Carolina Panthers this weekend at the Metrodome and Peterson . has insisted he will be fit and ready to play in the starting lineup . Sioux Falls Police Department spokesman Sam Clemens said many people have asked about the identity of the boy's father. 'At this point, we're not going to confirm anything. Who the father is does not come into play in this investigation, so we’re not going to be releasing any information as far as that goes,' he said. 'We're not here to talk about the parents of this child,' said Lincoln County Attorney Thomas Wollman. 'We wouldn't talk in a normal case about who the parents are.' State's Attorney Tom Wollman asked that people respect the family's privacy. 'The parents and extended family are suffering greatly,' he said. Minnesota hosts the Carolina Panthers this weekend at the Metrodome and Peterson has insisted he will be fit and ready to play in the starting lineup.

Joseph Robert Patterson, 27, is . charged with aggravated assault on an infant - he has a history of . domestic violence. Additional charges are possible, according police . said on Friday . Two-year-old boy, named locally at Ty, died at a South Dakota hospital on Friday . Victim is believed to be the secret son of Minnesota Vikings star player Adrian Peterson . The football player has another two-year-old son Adrian Jr . Adrian Peterson has a $40m contract with Minnesota Vikings .

Despite boasting world-class players James Rodriguez and Radamel Falcao, Monaco’s average gate last season was 8,906 – fewer than MK Dons in League One. Rodriguez, the leading scorer at this summer’s World Cup, has since escaped the empty spaces of the Principality with a £65million move to Real Madrid. And If Falcao has his way, he’ll be next. Despite the trappings of Monaco – hot sunshine, low tax, you get the picture – he finds it soul-destroying to perform in front of meagre crowds, even when finishing runners-up in the French League to Paris St Germain. Fed up: Radamel Falcao is seeking a move away from Monaco as he grows tired of life in France . In action: Falcao returned from injury recently to face Arsenal in a pre-season game at the Emirates . Embrace: The forward hugs fellow South American Alexis Sanchez ahead of the game . Liverpool are reported to be keen and with super-agent Jorge Mendes directing operations and Brendan Rodgers still needing to fill the space vacated by Luis Suarez with a genuine A-lister, it could add up. Certainly, Falcao has the quality and goals to be a hit at Anfield. Importantly, he also possesses the physical strength to succeed in the Premer League. For him, hearing a rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone from thousands of Koppites will be a marked contrast to the wide gaps he encounters at the Stade Louis II. Until a year ago, AS Monaco was best known for being the launchpad of Arsene Wenger’s career. The Frenchman even persuaded Glenn Hoddle to join him. Last year, a new high-roller tried to recapture the magic. Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, owner of Monaco, went on a huge spending spree and landed Rodriguez and Joao Moutinho from Porto for £60million. Then he gazumped Manchester City and Chelsea to capture Falcao for £50million after the Colombian striker scored 32 goals in La Liga for Atletico Madrid. But now the dream has turned sour for the 28-year-old striker who is getting to the age now where trophies are more important than an already-healthy bank balance. Moved on: His former Monaco team-mate James Rodriguez signed for Real Madrid this summer . Rubbing shoulders: And he is now training with the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo on a day-to-day basis . VIDEO Falcao quiet over possible Madrid move . The Colombian was devastated to miss the World Cup with a knee injury and is in no mood to tread water in the French Riviera for another 12 months. Now back in action, he is aware of the interest from Liverpool, who were possibly less upset about missing out on Loic Remy because they knew Falcao was an option. Manchester City have also been mentioned as a possible destination because of injury to Alvaro Negredo though the club have done nothing to encourage the link. Former Rangers, AC Milan and England striker Mark Hateley, who won a French championship under Wenger, says working and living in Monaco is a surreal experience for a footballer. ‘In Milan, it was very intense, I couldn’t go shopping or to a restaurant without getting mobbed. Monaco was a different way of life, you could go for a stroll without anything,’ he said. ‘Boris Becker lived next door. Ayrton Senna was in the same apartment block. We got friendly with the royal family, and all the sportsmen would go out to lunch. The motor racing drivers wanted to be footballers and vice-versa!’ Frustrated: Falcao was desperately upset to miss the World Cup with Colombia through injury . Finisher: But he showed he still has an eye for goal with his finish against Arsenal on Sunday . It all sounds idyllic in one sense but it hasn’t given Falcao enough professional pride. With debate about the Monaco tax laws and the importance of financial fair play, even the compensation of the sky-high salaries may soon be a thing of the past. Falcao is a late developer which may help Liverpool who usually buy young. He was 23 when he left South America for Europe and started in Portugal. He was in his mid-twenties before he played in one of the top leagues, for Atletico. Waiting for his chance didn’t harm Falcao. He scored 52 goals in three seasons for Atletico and helped them win the Europa League and Copa del Rey in successive seasons. Last summer, every big club owner in Europe wanted him, including Roman Abramovich and Sheikh Mansour. On that occasion, he chose the trappings of Monaco. This time round, with his pal Rodriguez gone and strike partner Dimitar Berbatovn not known for doing his share of the workload, he’s tempted by the passion of the Premier League. CLICK HERE to start picking your Fantasy Football team NOW! There’s £60,000 in prizes including £1,000 up for grabs EVERY WEEK… .

Radamel Falcao is hoping for a move away from Monaco this summer . His fellow Colombian James Rodriguez has already moved on from the club . Monaco's average attendance last season was less than 9,000 . Liverpool are reportedly keen on the 28-year-old forward .

The Supreme Court has thrown a hitch into President Obama's new health care law by blocking a requirement that some religion-affiliated organizations provide health insurance that includes birth control. Justice Sonia Sotomayor late on Tuesday night decided to block implementation of the contraceptive coverage requirement, only hours before portions of the law would have gone into effect on New Year's Day. Her decision, which came after federal court filings by Catholic-affiliated groups from around the nation in hopes of delaying the requirements, throws a part of the president's signature law into temporary disarray. Bronx-born U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who started the countdown clock for the Times Square New Year's ball, temporarily blocked a key Obamacare provision Tuesday . At least one federal appeals court agreed with Sotomayor, issuing its own stay against part of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Sotomayor acted on a request from an organization of Catholic nuns in Denver, the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged. Its request for an emergency stay had been denied earlier in the day by a federal appeals court. The government is 'temporarily enjoined from enforcing against applicants the contraceptive coverage requirements imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,' Sotomayor said in the order. Sotomayor, who was in New York on Tuesday night to lead the final 60-second countdown and push the ceremonial button to signal the descent of the Times Square New Year's Eve ball, gave government officials until 10am EST Friday to respond to her order. A decision on whether to make the temporary injunction permanent or dissolve it likely won't be made before then. 'The government has lots of ways to deliver contraceptives to people,' lawyer Mark Rienzi said. 'It doesn't need to force nuns to participate.' Under the health care law, most health insurance plans have to cover all FDA-approved contraceptives as preventive care for women. That means the coverage is provided free of charge. Churches and other houses of worship are exempt from the birth control requirement, but affiliated institutions that serve the general public are not. That includes charitable organizations, universities and hospitals. The requirement prompted an outcry from religious groups, which led the administration to try to craft a compromise. Under that compromise, insurers or health plan administrators must provide birth control coverage, and the religious institution itself is not responsible. But the administration's compromise did not satisfy some critics, who called it a fig leaf. The Supreme Court is likely to take up the birth control mandate later this year . The nuns would have to sign a form authorizing their insurance company to provide contraceptive coverage, which would still violate their beliefs, Rienzi said. 'Without an emergency injunction, Mother Provincial Loraine Marie Maguire has to decide between two courses of action: (a) sign and submit a self-certification form, thereby violating her religious beliefs; or (b) refuse to sign the form and pay ruinous fines,' Rienzi said. The White House did not comment on the order Tuesday night. The Little Sisters operate homes for the elderly poor in the United States and around the world. They were joined in their lawsuit by religious health benefit providers, Christian Brothers Services and Christian Brothers Employee Benefits Trust. Sotomayor's decision to delay the contraceptive portion of the law was joined by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which also issued an emergency stay for Catholic-affiliated groups challenging the contraceptive provision, including the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., and Catholic University. But one judge on the three-judge panel that made the decision, Judge David S. Tatel, said he would have denied their motion. 'Because I believe that appellants are unlikely to prevail on their claim that the challenged provision imposes a ''substantial burden'' under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, I would deny their application for an injunction pending appeal,' Tatel said. The archdiocese praised the appeals court's action in a statement. 'This action by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is in line with the rulings of courts all across the country which have held that the HHS mandate imposes a substantial and impermissible burden on the free exercise of religion,' the archdiocese said. 'These decisions also vindicate the pledge of the U.S. Catholic bishops to stand united in resolute defense of the first and most sacred freedom - religious liberty.' The Supreme Court already has decided to rule on whether businesses may use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover birth control for employees. That case, which involves Hobby Lobby Inc., an Oklahoma City-based arts and crafts chain with 13,000 full-time employees, is expected to be argued in March and decided by summer.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted temporary injunction allowing Catholic groups to not cover birth control . New Obamacare regulation was set to take effect on New Year's Day . Decision is a blow to President Obama's health care law and could foreshadow Supreme Court decision later in 2014 . Government must respond to injunction by Friday .

This is the view across the Pennines to be savoured should you be lucky enough to scale the heights of the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, the Emley Moor Transmitting Station, near Kirklees in West Yorkshire. The 1,084ft tower is the fourth tallest tower in the European Union and world's 23rd tallest tower at 70ft taller than London's 1,014ft Shard skyscraper. At 493ft taller than the capital's 591ft Gherkin, 21ft higher than the Eiffel Tower and more than six times taller than Trafalgar Square's Nelson's Column, the concrete structure hides in plain sight as one of Britain's best kept secrets, believes site manager Paul French. Scroll down for video . Emley Moor Transmitting Station, near Kirklees, is the UK's tallest freestanding structure and overlooks the Pennines . The view from the spectuacular 1,084ft concrete structure in West Yorkshire as the snow slowly melts away after a recent downfall . Site manager at Emley Moor Transmitting Station, Paul French, works on his laptop with what must be the best office view in Britain . 'It's probably one of the best kept secrets around,' says French, 54. 'Most people I tell seem to think that the Shard in London is the tallest (in Britain), but I'm sure a lot of people definitely don't know that it is in fact Emley Moor.' It takes a full eight minutes to take the elevator from the bottom to the top in a journey not for those squeamish about heights and on a clear day it is said you can see for 40 miles. Far from a mere view point, more than 1.5million people rely on the mast at its top to beam hundreds of channels of digital television to them from Greater Manchester 40 miles away to Scarborough on the east coast. The TV mast, known officially as The Arqiva Tower, can be seen for miles and features a control room at 892 feet with a stunning view across the Pennines. 'I'm not scared of heights but there is a trap door at the top that has just fresh air underneath so that is a cause for concern,' says French, who has worked at Emley Moor for 32 years. The snow-dusted rural landscape of the West Yorkshire area that is home to the massive TV transmitter official called The Arqiva Tower . A car passes what French, who has worked at the same site for 32 years, believes the tower is one of the nation's best kept secrets . The signal from the Emley Moor Transmitting Station stretches from Greater Manchester, 40 miles away, to Scarborough on the east coast . French, 54, who has worked there for 32 years, works at the helm of the tower that deliver more than 1.5million people their digital TV signals . The original 450ft tower was erected in 1956 and entered service for ITV on November 3 that year, before it was replaced by a 1,265ft version in 1964. But on March 19, 1969, the building spectacularly collapsed under the weight of ice and high winds, leaving debris strewn across fields and knocking out TV service for millions of viewers. After years of temporary masts, work on the new tower that now stands, began later that year and was completed in 1970. Paul said: 'We didn't have a colour television at the time but I remember we lost ITV for four days. French surveys the view from the control room at 892 feet of what is officially known as The Arqiva Tower, overlooking the Pennines . A helicopter lands alongside the tower as it is silhouetted by the sun (left) and looking up at the tower from the inside (right) The original 1,263ft tower was erected in 1956 and entered service for ITV on November 3 that year but it collapsed on March 19, 1969 . Under the weight of ice and high winds, millions lost their TV service - work on the tower as it now stands began later that year . 'The old tower effectively caved in on itself so it was a miracle that no one was injured. 'In fact, the only thing that happened was that a guide rope slashed through the nearby Methodist church and gave a fellow practicing on the organ a bit of a fright.' Emley Moor is dwarfed by Tokyo Skytree, which stands 2,080ft and took over the Canton Tower as the world's tallest tower in 2011. It stands only behind the 2,722ft Burj Khalifa as the second tallest building in the world. But none of them boast such stunning country views.

Emley Moor Transmitting Station, near Kirklees, is the UK's tallest freestanding structure at 1,084ft . It is higher than The Shard and the Eiffel Tower, and boasts spectacular views over the Pennines . More than 1.5million people rely on the mast at its top for their digital TV channels .

Philadelphia (CNN) -- Philadelphia prosecutors say they may seek the death penalty against abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who is charged with murder after allegedly performing illegal late-term abortions at a dirty facility. Authorities allege that some of the infants were born viable and alive during the sixth, seventh and eighth months of pregnancy and then were killed with scissors, which were used to cut their spinal cords. Prosecutors "did preserve the right to seek the death penalty at a later date by giving a notice of aggravating circumstances in court today," said Tasha Jamerson, spokeswoman for the district attorney's office, in a statement released Wednesday. The circumstances in this case are the deaths of people under age 12 and multiple murder charges . Gosnell, 70, faces eight counts of murder in the deaths of seven babies and a 41-year-old woman. Karnamaya Mongar died November 19, 2009, after overdosing on anesthetics prescribed by the doctor, according to Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams. Gosnell's defense attorney, Jack McMahon, appeared in court Wednesday for the formal arraignments. Gosnell's presence was not required, and he was not in court. McMahon promised to "vigorously defend" Gosnell against the charges. Last month, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett fired a half-dozen employees and announced changes in two departments, calling state oversight of an abortion clinic where the deaths occurred "despicable." The Department of Health and the Department of State have primary oversight over such clinics. "This doesn't even rise to the level of government run amok. It was government not running at all. To call this unacceptable doesn't say enough. It's despicable,'' Corbett said. Seven employees from the Department of Health, as well as the Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, a branch of the Department of State -- are no longer employed by the state, having either resigned or been terminated since the situation came to light, Corbett said in statement. In addition, four other former employees named in the grand jury investigation had previously resigned. District Attorney Williams earlier called the facility "a house of horrors" that performed "botched and illegal abortions" and was full of containers of fetuses' body parts. Six other defendants face charges. All had some role at the Women's Medical Society clinic, which was run by Gosnell and served mostly low-income minority women, Williams said. A grand jury investigation determined that health and licensing officials had received repeated reports about Gosnell's practices for two decades, but had taken no action, even after learning that women died during routine abortions, Williams has said.

Prosecutors may seek the death penalty against abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell . Gosnell faces murder charges for seven babies and one 41-year-old woman . Authorities allege infants were born alive and then killed with scissors .

San Diego, California (CNN) -- When you refuse to acknowledge a group of people in all their nuances and complexities, or depict them as predictable and one-dimensional, or dictate for them a code of acceptable behavior, it is a blatant sign of disrespect. It would be offensive for someone to suggest that all Italian-Americans think a certain way, all Irish-Americans behave a certain way or all African-Americans vote a certain way. So it is with 50.5 million Hispanic Americans, who come in every variety imaginable. You might know this from what you consume daily in the form of political messaging, media images and advertising campaigns from Madison Avenue. What better time to assert the right of Hispanics to be unpredictable and complicated human beings than Hispanic Heritage Month, which gives Americans the chance to learn more about, and pay respect to, the nation's largest minority. In 1968, Congress set aside one week each year to honor the contributions and culture of Hispanics. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation expanding the period to 30 days: September 15 to October 15. A generation or two ago, the challenge for Hispanics was simply to get noticed by corporations and political parties. That happened. Ten million votes cast in a presidential election, and roughly $1 trillion in buying power, is hard to ignore. Today, the new challenge is to get those same corporations and political parties to see Hispanics as they really are as opposed to how others want them to be or assume them to be. For example, in the past several weeks, I've been asked often on radio and television interviews to predict where the Hispanic vote will go in the 2012 election. My answer: Just about everywhere. Will Hispanics take a chance on the Republican presidential nominee -- especially if it is Texas Gov. Rick Perry who has a record of attracting Hispanic support to the point of being attacked by Republican rivals who mistakenly cast the immigration debate as "us" vs. "them" and put Hispanics in the "them" camp? Or will they double down by sticking with President Barack Obama who, while earning two-thirds of the Latino vote in 2008, also heads an administration that has repeatedly lied to and manipulated Hispanics by promising immigration reform but delivering only record numbers of deportations -- more than 1 million since Obama took office? My answer: Yes. Both those things will happen. And more. This is not a monolith. The Hispanic population in the United States is made up of conservatives, liberals, middle-of-the-road moderates, Republicans, Democrats, independents and everything in-between. It's true that most Hispanics are registered Democrats, just like they have been for the past five decades dating back to the "Viva Kennedy" clubs in 1960. But it is also true that Hispanics have -- in gubernatorial, congressional and presidential races over the years -- been willing to cross party lines and support moderate Republicans who eschew anti-Hispanic nativism and craft a message that appeals to them. You see that sort of thing much more often at the local and state level than you do in the federal arena. But it happens everywhere. The list of Republicans who enjoyed significant Hispanic support in their political careers is long and distinguished. It includes George W. Bush, John McCain, Jeb Bush, Rudolph Giuliani, Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and two former Arizona governors -- Fife Symington and Jane Hull. Of course, among Hispanics, there are differences in geography, economic status and educational attainment that help shape how they see the world and their place in it. There are also ancestral differences. According to the 2010 census, about two-thirds of those 50.5 million people are Mexican or Mexican-American. The other third is made up of Puerto Ricans, Cuban-Americans, Salvadorans, Brazilians, Guatemalans, Hondurans, Colombians, Venezuelans and others. Sen. Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American and self-described "son of exiles" who is being talked about as possibly landing on the 2012 Republican presidential ticket, is the darling of South Florida. Yet, if Rubio were on the GOP ticket, he is likely to be very unpopular in the Southwest where many Mexican-Americans resent Rubio's hard line on illegal immigration. It's easy to talk tough about border security or oppose "amnesty" when you represent a community in which came here on the red carpet of the Cuban Adjustment Act, a relic of the Cold War that makes it almost impossible to remove Cuban immigrants once they arrive on these shores. But besides those differences, there are also similarities. Regardless of their backgrounds or biographies or biases, Hispanics want what the rest of their countrymen want: The chance to work for a brighter tomorrow, the right blend of rights and responsibilities and the respect that comes from being seen as individuals and not just part of a group. And why not? That's the American way. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ruben Navarrette Jr.

Ruben Navarrette: Don't stereotype Hispanic Americans . He says Thursday marks beginning of Hispanic Heritage month . People ask which candidates are going to get the Hispanic vote? Navarrette: America's 50 million Hispanics aren't a single bloc .

A convicted cop killer could be released from jail after 19 years because of 'deeply flawed forensic evidence' leading to a substantial miscarriage of justice at his trial, an inquiry has found. David Eastman was convicted in 1995 for the murder of federal police assistant commissioner Colin Winchester, who was shot twice at close range as he moved to get out of his Ford car on his neighbour’s driveway in Canberra, in 1989. The man in charge of the six-month inquiry, former Northern Territory chief justice Brian Martin, says Mr Eastman did not receive a fair trial and was denied a fair chance of acquittal. Scroll down for video . David Eastman was convicted for murdering federal police assistant commissioner Colin Winchester in 1995 . A retrial, almost two decades after Mr Eastman was jailed, is no longer possible because so many of the original witnesses have died since the crime was committed. And so, in an extraordinary twist, it has been recommended that Mr Eastman be freed. 'The verdict was reached in circumstances where significant material was not disclosed by the prosecution, critical evidence was seriously flawed, evidence of a threat to kill was not properly tested,' Justice Martin says in a 477-page report released on Friday. The Australian Federal Police tried to stop the report being released on Friday but failed. Overturned: His conviction was quashed because there was a substantial miscarriage of justice at his trial . Mr Winchester (left) was shot dead in the driveway of his Canberra home in January 1989 and David Eastman's lawyer John Masters (right) leaves the Supreme Court in Canberra, Friday, May 30 . 'For these reasons I recommend that the conviction of the applicant on November 3, 1995, for the murder of the deceased be quashed,' Justice Martin concluded. Despite finding many problems with the trial, Justice Martin believes Mr Eastman, an angry sacked public servant, committed the crime. 'I am fairly certain that the applicant is guilty of the murder of the deceased, but a nagging doubt remains,' he says. However, the substantial miscarriage of justice should not be allowed to stand uncorrected, he says. Mr Winchester was shot dead on a summer's evening by his Canberra home in January 1989, a hit initially blamed on Italian organised crime figures he had been investigating. But it was a former treasury official, David Eastman, who had threatened Mr Winchester weeks before the murder, who faced trial. Mr Winchester was shot dead next to his white Ford in the driveway . Detectives inspecting the crime scene in Canberra. Justice Martin has found Mr Barnes' gunshot evidence lacked proper scientific basis . Crucial evidence related to tiny particles of gunshot residue from the boot of Mr Eastman's car . He was convicted in 1995 and sentenced to life imprisonment. The trial was marked by constant disruptions as Mr Eastman, a colourful and erratic character, sacked and rehired lawyers, sought adjournments and abused the judge and his own legal team. The prosecution case was circumstantial. Crucial evidence related to tiny particles of gunshot residue from the boot of Mr Eastman's car, which Victoria Police forensic scientist Robert Barnes testified was consistent with those found at the murder scene. Justice Martin found Mr Barnes' gunshot evidence lacked proper scientific basis. The funeral: Mr Winchester is the highest ranking police officer ever to be shot in Australia . 'Unknown to the defence, Mr Barnes, who gave critical evidence connecting the applicant's car to the scene of the murder, was far from independent and objective. He regarded himself as a police witness and was biased accordingly,' his report says. Mr Eastman's guilt was determined on the basis of deeply flawed forensic evidence, Justice Martin said. It's now up to the ACT Supreme Court to decide whether or not to order Mr Eastman's freedom, 19 years after he was locked up. Mr Winchester remains the highest ranking police officer ever to be shot in Australia. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.

David Eastman was convicted of killing federal police assistant commissioner Colin Winchester in 1995 . Mr Winchester was murdered outside his Canberra home in January 1989 . Justice Martin has found gunshot evidence lacked proper scientific basis . But is still 'fairly certain that the applicant is guilty'

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama drew big laughs at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday, taking jabs at his administration, his Republican rivals and even himself. President Obama delivers some one-liners at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday. "I would like to talk about what my administration plans to achieve in the next 100 days," Obama said. "During the second 100 days, we will design, build and open a library dedicated to my first 100 days." He added later, "I believe that my next 100 days will be so successful, I will be able to complete them in 72 days -- and on the 73rd day I will rest." The Democratic president poked fun at the Republican Party, saying it "does not qualify for a bailout" and conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh "doesn't count as a troubled asset." Watch Obama deliver laughs at dinner » . Obama touched on a few gaffes during his short time in office, from Vice President Joe Biden's verbose tendencies to an unfortunate Air Force One photo op that frightened New Yorkers -- playfully pointing his finger at his young daughters. "Sasha and Malia aren't here tonight because they're grounded," he said. "You can't just take Air Force One on a joyride to Manhattan -- I don't care whose kids you are." Watch celebrities mingle before dinner » . As the world shakes off swine flu fears that started in Mexico, Obama noted his old rivalry with former Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, who now serves as secretary of state. "We had been rivals during the campaign, but these days we could not be closer," the president said. "In fact, the second she got back from Mexico, she pulled me into a hug and gave me a big kiss -- told me to get down there myself." Gallery of celebrity guests » . Obama even took on former Vice President Dick Cheney, who wasn't in attendance: "He is very busy working on his memoirs, tentatively titled, "How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People." Obama took a somber tone, though, when specifically addressing the reporters in the room -- noting the financial struggles that have afflicted the newspaper industry. Watch reporters arrive for dinner » . "Across the country, there are extraordinary, hardworking journalists who have lost their jobs in recent days, recent weeks, recent months," he said. "I know each newspaper and media outlet is wrestling with how to respond with these changes. ... Not every ending will be a happy one. "It is also true that your ultimate success as an industry is essential to the success of our democracy -- it's what makes this thing work," Obama said.

Obama delivers zingers at White House correspondents' annual dinner . President jokes Republican Party "does not qualify for a bailout" Obama also pokes fun at Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Clinton . Obama says journalism industry's success is essential to democracy .

For the first time ever, celebrities are being replaced with 'everyday heroes' to take part in a special series of Strictly Come Dancing. Six men and women from across the UK - including a Royal Marine who joked 'Well, there go my dancing days' after losing his leg in a blast in Afghanistan - will take a turn under the glitterball for the Comic Relief episodes. The first People's Strictly, from which any cash raised by public voting will go to charity, will air on BBC1 on February 25 at 9pm. The People's Strictly contestants are ready for their close up, (L-R) Michael Pattie, Anna Kennedy OBE, Cassidy Little, Heather Parsons, Phillip Barnett and Trishna Bharadia . The contestants - dubbed 'everyday heroes' - were chosen out of 11,000 hopefuls who all have inspirational stories. Viewers will be able to watch, and vote for, Canadian-born Lance Corporal Cassidy Little, a former Marine medic, who despite losing his right leg in an explosion in 2011 went on to help other Marines through rehab, performing with partner Natalie Lowe. Buckinghamshire resident Trishna Bharadia, who is dancing with Aljaz Scorjanec, suffers from Multiple Sclerosis and has campaigned tirelessly to help other people with the chronic illness. Cornish man Phil Barnett, who set up the children's youth theatre group Kidz R Us, which has helped more than 2,000 children in the area, many of whom come from disadvantaged backgrounds, will be dancing with Janette Manrara. Anna Kennedy OBE, who will be pairing with Robin Windsor, set up schools for those with Autistic Spectrum Disorders after discovering the lack of provisions for her two sons who suffer from ASDs. Heather Parsons who, after contracting a flesh eating bug whilst on a skiing holiday and nearly dying, set up a charity to help those in intensive care and their families dancing with Ian Waite. And Michael Pattie, from Dumfries, who after tragically losing his son to Meningitis has raised more than £300,000 for charities to help others who contract the disease. Michael will be dancing with Strictly favourite Aliona Vilani. There will be a four-part special show which will follow the contestants in their daily lives and then see them go behind the scenes at Strictly. In the fourth episode, the contestants will face a dance off in front of the public, and will be all vying to win the much coveted glitter ball trophy. The show will be presented by the regular hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman and the lucky contestants will get to travel around the UK and Europe learning the origins of their dances. Here's who to look out for... Marome Medic Cassidy looks smart in his uniform as he gears up to take part in The People's Strictly . Name: Cassidy Little . Age: 33 . From: Peterborough (born in Canada) Hero Qualities: Cassidy is a Marine Medic who helped other Marines through rehab, despite his own injuries . Dance Partner: Natalie Lowe . Lance Corporal Cassidy Little is a former Royal Marine medic, who lost his right leg below the knee during a tour of Afghanistan in the summer of 2011. An Improvised Explosive Device was triggered, resulting in three fatalities and five seriously injured Marines including Cassidy. Despite his own horrific injuries Cassidy selflessly attempted to tend to his colleagues on the ground after the attack. Following the incident, Cassidy spent a week in an induced coma, and two months in hospital. He then undertook intensive rehabilitation with his fellow injured Marines, who commented that it was Cassidy’s optimism and sense of humour that helped them through an incredibly tough time. Major Steve McCulley, who spent more than two years in rehab with Cassidy, stated: 'Every single seriously injured service person goes through very dark periods and were it not for Cassidy, those dark periods would have been far longer and far harder for many to deal with, me included.' And it wasn’t just Cassidy’s upbeat attitude that helped his colleagues – but his love of dance too. Previously an avid dancer - and with a degree in music and dance - Cassidy taught fellow Marine JJ Chalmers, how to Waltz whilst out in Afghanistan, so JJ could impress his fiancée at their first dance for their wedding. When Cassidy was being airlifted to Camp Bastian following the incident, JJ said Cassidy joked: 'There go my dancing days!' - But how wrong he was! Campaigner Trishna looks nervous at the prospect of dancing with her professional partner Aljaz Scorjanec . Name: Trishna Bharadia . Age: 35 . From: Buckinghamshire . Hero Qualities: Multiple Sclerosis and disability fundraiser and awareness campaigner . Dance Partner: Aljaz Scorjanec . Trishna was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2008, at the age of 28. She has since worked tirelessly to help and support others with MS, putting aside her own health issues to help raise awareness and inspire others with the illness. She has worked particularly hard within the Asian community, where she feels that disability is often hidden away and discriminated against, as well as with young people who have been diagnosed with MS. Trishna volunteers with several MS charities, including the MS Society, Asian MS and the MS Trust and in 2013 she was named ‘Volunteer of the Year’ at the MS Society Awards. As well as fundraising, Trishna is also Editor of the Asian MS quarterly newsletter; writes for MS and disability-awareness magazines, blogs and speaks at both local events and large pharmaceutical conferences about MS – something which was initially very hard for her due to her shyness and fear of public speaking. She is keen to put a ‘face’ to MS, rather than being viewed as a statistic. Hailing from St Ives Phil set up a Youth Theatre Company called Kidz R Us . Name: Phil Barnett . Age: 54 . From: St Ives . Hero Qualities: Founder of Youth Theatre Company, Kidz R Us . Dance Partner: Janette Manrara . Twenty years ago, hairdresser and amateur-dramatics enthusiast Phil gathered a small group of local kids for a one-off concert in aid of charity Save The Children. Following its success, he decided to give up his full-time hairdressing business and set up ‘Kidz R Us’, a Youth Theatre Company for six to 24 year olds in St Ives. Through practical engagement in the performing arts, the company aims to build confidence in its young members, providing them with a hobby, a goal and a safe family environment. Since it started, Phil estimates that 2,000 children have been through its doors, half of those being from disadvantaged backgrounds. They have also raised more than £2m through their 50-plus shows and events. Anna's two sons were both diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorders as young children and were turned away from many mainstream schools . Name: Anna Kennedy OBE . Age: 54 . From: Uxbridge, London . Hero Qualities: Set up schools and support for people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders . Dance Partner: Robin Windsor . Anna’s two sons, Patrick, 24 and Angelo, 20, were both diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorders as young children. The severity of their condition meant that they were turned away from 26 local mainstream schools, as they couldn’t cater for their individual needs. Both boys were finally offered just five hours of home tuition per week. Anna decided something had to be done for her boys, and with the help of her husband Sean, took on the challenge of founding a school themselves. They relentlessly fundraised and re-mortgaged their home to raise the £627,000 needed, and in 1999 The Hillingdon Manor School finally opened its doors in their home town. It started out with just 19 pupils but has since grown to over 150, and is now the largest school of its kind for Autistic children in Europe. Anna has since set up another specialist school, an autism awareness charity and a respite home for adults. She provides training for the NSPCC and Childline and also runs various other fundraising and awareness events throughout the year. Heather Parsons is 53 and set up a charity to help support those in intensive care and their families . Name: Heather Parsons . Age: 53 . From: Southampton . Hero Qualities: Set up a charity to support intensive care patients and their families . Dance Partner: Ian Waite . In 2002, Heather was on a skiing holiday with her son Will, who was seven at the time, when she contracted Necrotising Fasciitis - a flesh-eating bug - that left her in intensive care. Her body’s immune system did not fight the infection and her organs began to fail. Her kidneys stopped working, she suffered a heart attack and her breathing had to be supported. She was in a coma for two weeks, hospitalised for six, and underwent 15 operations. At one point her family were told that her chance of survival was just 30%. When she woke from her coma, it was the thought of Will at home that helped Heather to pull through, but following her release from hospital, it wasn’t easy for her. Convinced that intensive care patients and their friends and families needed greater emotional support upon recovery, Heather left her job and re-mortgaged her house in order to set up the charity ‘Where There’s A Will’ to help to provide this support. Since then she has been volunteering her time daily at the Intensive Care Unit at Southampton General Hospital offering what she calls, 'TLC; tea, listening and compassion'. Heather and son Will recently also developed an app to help ICU patients who can’t speak to communicate with staff. This is now in medical use. After losing his son Dave to Meningitis Michael has tirelessly fundraised for the Meningitis Research Foundation . Name: Michael Pattie . Age: 57 . From: Dumfries . Hero Qualities: Meningitis Research Foundation fundraiser and awareness campaigner . Dance Partner: Aliona Vilani . In 1999 Michael tragically lost his 13-year-old son Dave to Meningitis. Since his death, Michael has been tirelessly fundraising for the Meningitis Research Foundation and has raised over £300,000 – some of which contributed towards the development of a ground-breaking new Meningitis B vaccine, available on the NHS. The majority of this £300,000 has been raised through an idea that came to Michael in front of the TV ten years ago: putting on local Strictly Come Dancing events. These fundraisers, called ‘Strictly for Charity’ have now been running for a decade and, as well as generating funds, have provided a vehicle for the Dumfries community to come together. Michael also leads outreach and awareness events; speaking at local schools and parent toddler groups to teach people the Meningitis symptoms to look out for. Michael’s contribution to the Meningitis Research Foundation has been praised by Scotland’s manager for MRF, Mary Millar, who says: 'Michael’s work has saved lives and he is the best fundraiser we have ever had in Scotland. We are incredibly grateful to him.' In 2013, Michael was named Scottish Charity Champion.

Six members of the public have been announced for The People's Strictly . The four-part show will raise money for Comic Relief . Contestants were chosen for their work to help the lives of others . They include fundraisers and the owner of a youth theatre group .

Editor's note: The U.S. Marshals Service last week launched one of the largest weeklong fugitive sweeps in the southeastern United States. CNN takes you inside the operation. Authorities received a tip that a convicted child molester was living here. He was captured at a hardware store. ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The trail for the convicted child molester seemed to grow cold as the police combed his empty apartment. James Maurice Robinson, 25, a confessed sex offender, had been on the run for more than two years, and it looked as if he would elude capture yet again. The authorities huddled in a nearby parking lot to discuss Plan B, an air of disgust hanging over them. James Ergas, the U.S. Marshal helping to lead this operation, acts on a tip. He pulls out his cell phone and calls a hardware store where the suspect may be working. Using a ruse, he begins speaking to the manager and, at one point, Robinson himself gets on the phone and unknowingly talks to the very man trying to catch him. Gotcha! Authorities now know exactly where their man is. He's seven miles away, on the other side of town. It's 11:02 a.m. Ergas guns his unmarked sport utility vehicle at 95 miles per hour through downtown Atlanta, zipping in and out of the city's notorious traffic congestion. Hear cops bang door, see raid on a home: "Get down!" » . "I've got no place in my heart for pedophiles," he says, pressing down harder on the gas. The vehicle thrusts forward. Ten minutes later, he whips his SUV into the store's parking lot. The suspect's car, a burgundy, four-door Pontiac Grand Am, sits near a back stairwell. "When we go in there, he's going to run out the back," Ergas says. He parks near the front of the building and alerts his backup. Within minutes, the full team arrives. Two take position near the back stairwell. Ergas and other team members, dressed in black flak jackets, enter the front door at 11:19 a.m. Robinson doesn't have a chance. He tries to run, but slips. Ergas points his Taser and prepares to zap him. Robinson knows his gig is up. He surrenders peacefully. "He saw the Taser," Ergas says, with a smile. "Nobody wants to be Tased." More than 100 miles away, the man who first arrested Robinson in March 2004 gets word of the capture. "Anytime we can get a pervert off the street like that, it's going to make me happy," said Robert Tate, a detective with the LaFayette Police Department in northwest Georgia, near the Tennessee border. Robinson had been accused of exposing himself to a 10-year-old boy in a Wal-Mart bathroom and masturbating in front of him. Police records indicate the boy was so petrified he was afraid to leave the stall for 15 minutes afterward. Robinson pleaded guilty to one count of child molestation on May 26, 2005, according to the Walker County District Attorney's Office. But he skipped town and never made his sentencing hearing on February 14, 2006, authorities said. A warrant was then issued for his arrest. Robinson now faces five to 20 years in prison, the DA's office said. Robinson was one of 1,250 fugitives busted in Georgia last week as part of Operation Falcon, a nationwide sweep to arrest some of the most violent offenders. Of the arrests in Georgia, 724 came in metro Atlanta; two were suspected killers, authorities said. Multiple sweeps like these have already taken place in other cities in recent weeks as part of Falcon. More are coming to undisclosed regions of the country. Authorities would not release further details about the nationwide hunt due to the ongoing nature of the operation. "Our primary focus when we do this operation are violent offenders, sex offenders and gang members," says Keith Booker, the commander of the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force leading this sweep that included 115 federal, state and local agencies. The fugitives were wanted on felony charges ranging from murder and aggravated assault to rape and armed robbery to child molestation and an array of parole violations. On this day, while Ergas and his eight- to 10-member team hit multiple spots where fugitives were believed to be living, another 150 agents, investigators, detectives, officers and deputies were working other parts of metro Atlanta. Of the 700-plus arrests made around Atlanta, authorities smashed through 154 doors. Not every suspect was captured, but the hunt generated leads that will be followed up. The work involved grueling and dangerous 14- to 18-hour days, but the officers still found time to laugh. There was one who Tasered himself while running after a suspect, and another who held up a bag of oregano thinking it was pot and quizzed his subjects. Both provided fodder for the watercooler. Then, there was the suspect wanted for aggravated assault who authorities said tried to jump over a 30-foot wall, breaking several bones when he landed. "He didn't want to go to jail. Instead, he went to jail crippled," Ergas said. The police kept close tabs on the six different teams' arrests, an internal competition to see who could bag more wanted felons. Team Vulture beat out Team Osprey with 147 arrests to 132. At the end of the operation, about 80 officers crowded into a large conference room and were briefed on the final results. "You prevented a lot of victims this week," Booker told them. Law enforcement studies, he said, indicate the typical fugitive commits an average of 13 crimes while they're on the run. If that's true, more than 15,000 potential victims have been spared. "These people can't commit crimes against other people while they're locked up," Booker said.

U.S. Marshals carry out massive fugitive sweep, nab 1,250 fugitives in Georgia . The operation was part of a larger nationwide hunt called Operation Falcon . One sex offender surrendered peacefully in hardware store: "He saw the Taser" Authorities message to those on the run: We're coming after you .

Millie Mackintosh is no stranger to the fashion industry. The 25-year-old has modeled for fashion labels such as Lipsy and jewellery treasure trove Claire's Accessories and is a regular on the front rows of London Fashion Week. But now - finally! - the stylish Chelsea socialite and business woman has released her very own clothing line. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO . Millie Mackintosh has today launched her first collection for her clothing line.  Here Millie wears the patterned shift dress £90 . Today sees the launch of Millie's first ever fashion collection - Millie Mackintosh. Following eight months of design and development the capsule collection consists of 40 unique pieces including dresses, tops, jumpsuits and jackets. Millie who certainly has a keen eye on the industry, and has had a hands-on approach from the label's beginnings says it has been a hectic couple of months to get the collection ready. Millie has taken inspiration from her own wardrobe for the collection. Left Millie wears . Millie has included a few investment pieces to be worn season after season  such as this jacket £250 . 'I have been working on it for eight months.' Says Millie, 'Usually designers take years before they launch a collection but we wanted to create a capsule line. 'We originally only wanted to do 20 pieces but we have ended up with 40 so it has been a bit of a whirlwind.' Millie's collection doesn't look dissimilar to her typical outfit choices and that's because it isn't. When it came to design inspiration Millie says she looked no further than yours truly. 'I wanted the collection to represent me and I created it for myself really. It features a lot of embellishment which I love and we have some faux leather look pants and shorts. 'I really love the whole 60s and 70s look and that is reflected in the collection. It has quite a boho and vintage style, I wanted it to be quite young and fun.' Model behaviour: Millie models the entire collection herself . The capsule collection is made up of 40 pieces and took Millie 8 months to design and develop . Millie hopes that her clothing line will attract the likes of Cheryl Cole and Abby Clancy. High-slit maxi skirt £59 . For Millie versatility was hugely important in her range. She wanted pieces that would stand the test of time so that her customers weren't forking out for a new wardrobe each season. 'I wanted the collection to be quite timeless so that women could get a lot of wear out of them. There is that investment feel with a few pricier pieces. 'We have some really lovely blouses in black and cream that you can dress up in different ways. I wanted it so that you could take it from the office to the dance floor.' For the fashion fanatic her collection has been a long time coming having always dreamt of owing her own boutique and creating her own clothes with a sewing machine as a child. 'This has always been my dream since I was little, to have my own shop. But we have been really lucky in getting it out there on the high street.' Mrs Professor Green is thrilled to finally be able to show off her designs after months of planning and says that the initial reaction has been really positive. Millie says that having her own clothing line has been a lifelong dream. Here she wears the double breasted lurex waistcoat £140 . 'It is so exciting but it is also so surreal to finally have it out after just working towards it. Up until now I have only been allowed to tease people but I have had a great response from my friends which I always think is the most important. 'I was really worried about showing them because if your friends don't like it then you haven't got a chance! But they were really impressed so that was great.' Millie's is a style that many try to emulate themselves with the Internet flooded with blogs instructing fans on how to get her look. When it comes to who she wants to see in her collection Millie has high hopes. 'Someone said to me today that they could see Cheryl Cole wearing it which would just be amazing! She would make the collection sell out! I could see Abby Clancy wearing it because the collection has a glamorous and girly feel.' Other than celebrity aspirations Millie is looking forward to being able to wear the range herself after having to keep it under wraps for months. 'I haven't been allowed to wear my collection until now! I have only just been allowed to have the samples that have been stored at the factory. 'We were worried that people would see pictures of me wearing them and cheaper designers would create knock-offs really quickly which we really didn't want. I am in New York this week to see a few shows so it will be great to finally have my clothes to wear for that.' Despite her busy year, it appears that launching a clothing line isn't enough for ambitious Millie who also has plans to add author to her résumé. 'I have my lifestyle book coming out next year but I actually need to write it! I have a lot of travelling plans though so there will be no champagne and movies on the flight and instead I will just have to work and write the thing!' For now though having finally realised her life long dream Millie says she couldn't be happier. 'I love my work. People always say love what you do for a living and I absolutely do, I am living the dream and it is a dream come true.' Millie Mackintosh's clothing collection is available in sizes 6-16 and  is available to purchase at www.millie-mackintosh.com as well as other major UK retailers from the October 15. Visit @MillieMClothing on Twitter and Millie_Mackintosh_Collection on Instagram.

Millie Mackintosh has launched her own range after several collaborations . She says the line takes inspiration from her very own wardrobe . The collection launches today and is available in sizes 6-16 . Millie will be showing off her designs at New York fashion week this week .

A private intelligence outfit which helps defence firms and paid for Adam Werritty’s jet-set lifestyle has doubled its profits since Liam Fox became a minister. G3 Good Governance Group gave £15,000 to Pargav Ltd, the company set up by Dr Fox’s best man and former flatmate, which helped fund his globetrotting and extravagant spending. The revelations prove a direct link between the defence industry and Mr Werritty’s globetrotting with the Defence Secretary. Dr Fox’s allies tried to say that Mr Werritty’s backers were ideological allies of the Defence Secretary. Proof: Intelligence firms invested in the company of Liam Fox's best friend Adam Werritty (front red tie), financing his trips with the Defence Secretary like this one to Dubai . But it is another example of  how some of them had commercial interests in the defence industries – a fact which made his position untenable. G3’s accounts show that the firm has enjoyed huge commercial success over the last two years. After making a loss of £33,026 in 2009, between 2010 and 2011 it doubled its turnover from £6million to £12million and raised its profits from £1.3million to £2.4million. G3 works hand in glove with a firm named C5 Capital, which describes itself as ‘an independent investment company, focusing on the global security sector’. One of C5’s employees is Lt General Sir Graeme Lamb, the former director of UK Special Forces. On C5’s website the firm reveals: ‘We are closely associated with the Good Governance Group, which includes G3, a leading strategic advisory consultancy. ‘Through G3, we have unparalleled access to in-depth sector knowledge and to an extensive network of specialist advisers.’ Funded by tycoons: Jet-set spending of friend who was always at minister's side . G3 and C5 work so closely together that they are based in the same London premises, 40 George Street in Marylebone. The two companies also share a director, Andries Pienaar, a South Africa-born security expert, who was once a managing director of the secretive private intelligence company Kroll. Eric Morris, G3’s geopolitics specialist, once taught at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. G3 said it gave money to Mr Werritty’s company because it had believed the donation of £15,000 was ‘intended to go towards charitable work’. But it ended up paying towards Mr Werritty’s stays in  five-star hotels around the world, first-class flights, lavish meals and even £2,000 suits. G3 also funds what it describes as a ‘charitable organisation’ – Universal Exports Charity Foundation, which is named after the company used as a cover for MI6 in the James Bond films. Universal Exports Charity Foundation is administered and run by Laura Tantum, who Sky News reported to be the daughter of Geoffrey Tantum, a former MI6 Middle East director. In a further twist, it emerged that the address at 40 George Street was formerly used by the Sri Lanka Development Trust, a group which Dr Fox helped to set up. The trust, along with the Sri Lankan government, paid for Dr  Fox to fly to Sri Lanka on three occasions. Its chairman is Chester Crocker, a former assistant secretary of state under Ronald Reagan. The trust was designed to help Sri Lanka rebuild its infrastructure following the civil war, using private finance and charitable projects. But Dr Fox’s involvement led to irritation in the Foreign Office, which has tried to keep its distance from the regime in Colombo accused of brutality against the Tamil minority. Despite this collection of security and defence groups using the same address, G3 has categorically denied any involvement with the Sri Lanka Development Trust or Liam Fox. On Thursday, a spokesman explained away the connection as a ‘coincidence’ and claimed to have no knowledge of who operated from the premises before G3. The Mail attempted to contact G3 yesterday but no one was available for comment. Other Pargav sponsors appear to include Michael Lewis, a millionaire with close links to Israel who helped fund Dr Fox’s Tory leadership campaign in 2005. The 52-year-old investor was  vice-chairman of Bicom until 2007, and last night insisted he was ‘not connected with globetrotting by Fox and Werritty’. Disappointed: Poju Zabludowicz says he was tricked into funding Werrity's globetrotting . One of Adam Werritty’s billionaire backers claimed yesterday that he was tricked into funding his globetrotting with Liam Fox. London-based Poju Zabludowicz – a former arms dealer who owns much of Las Vegas and helped bankroll David Cameron’s campaign to become Tory leader – was said to be ‘extremely disappointed’ to discover the truth about Mr Werritty. Mr Zabludowicz, 58, heads the Tamares Group of investment companies, based in Liechtenstein. The firm paid £3,000 to Mr Werritty’s company Pargav Ltd, which funded his first-class travel to meet Dr Fox on lavish foreign trips. Jonathan Hawker, a spokesman for Mr Zabludowicz, said: ‘He is just extremely disappointed. He is now learning that his money was not all used in the way he thought it was. ‘He is passionate about promoting dialogue to promote the Middle East peace process, and he donated £3,000 a year to [Mr Werritty’s  other company] Security Futures  for that purpose. ‘Then his office had a call from Werritty saying his annual contribution was due, and that the invoice would be from Pargav Ltd but that it was effectively the same thing. He took it at face value.’ In 2005, Mr Zabludowicz’s firm paid £15,000 to Mr Cameron’s campaign to lead the Conservative Party, and last year donated £131,805 to the party itself. Tamares is said to own approximately 40 per cent of the property in downtown Las Vegas, including numerous casinos, plus property in Washington DC and New York’s Times Square. Mr Zabludowicz fiercely guards his privacy and does so with much success despite counting Madonna and other A-list celebrities among his close friends. His wife Anita, 50, is a  renowned art collector, . The billionaire’s father Shlomo was an Auschwitz survivor who moved to Finland and built up the Israeli arms company Soltam. After Shlomo’s death in 1994, his son took over the business and sold most of the defence interests in favour of property. However, he is still chairman of a U.S. firm which manufactures ammunition for the military. Mr Zabludowicz, worth an estimated £2billion, is also a key  figure in Bicom, the British Israel Communications and Research  Centre, which is the UK’s major pro-Israel lobby and one of the common threads running through Mr Werritty’s network of political friendships. Mr Hawker added: ‘For many  years, Poju Zabludowicz has helped fund not-for-profit organisations, not individuals... [to] promote  peace and understanding  between the U.S., Europe and the Middle East.’

Investor G3 Good Governance Group gave £15,000 to the company set up by Adam Werritty and between 2010 and 2011 it raised its profits from £1.3million to £2.4million .

Leicester boss Nigel Pearson insists the start of the managerial merry-go-round has not put him under any more pressure. Newcastle visit the King Power Stadium in the FA Cup on Saturday with Magpies assistant John Carver at the helm with Alan Pardew poised for a return to Crystal Palace. The sacking of Neil Warnock at Selhurst Park was followed almost immediately by the dismissal of Alan Irvine at West Brom and Pearson would appear to be the one now most under threat with his side bottom of the Premier League and four points from safety. Nigel Pearson, pictured on the touchline against Liverpool, admits he could be sacked by the club's owners . Leicester's Jeffrey Schlupp celebrates scoring his side's equaliser against Liverpool on New Year's Day . A cup game is probably the last thing he wants having taken an important four points from their last two matches but knows his future will not be decided on whether Leicester are successful in the knock-out competition. And the fact Newcastle are currently in a state of flux will not affect his planning for the game. 'I probably won't change my approach at all,' he said. 'Unfortunately before Christmas there were none and now there are three of four (managerial) changes. 'Football has been blighted with too many changes - this season has been slightly different, but one goes and it seems to be a signal for changes. 'I can't spend too much time analysing how that works out as I am sure John Carver will be preparing his home town side very well. 'All I can do is focus on our own situation. I will always do the job I feel is correct for us but it is inevitable as a manager you will lose your job. Everton fan David Nugent scored a stunning goal for Leicester against Liverpool at Anfield . Pearson will come up against Newcastle caretaker boss John Carver in the FA Cup on Saturday . 'What I know about our owners is we have a very good personal and working relationship and their decision will always be based on what is right for the club. 'I am in no position to argue any different to any other manager. They will do what is right. 'Clearly our priority is the Premier League.' Pearson will make a number of changes for the cup match as he tries to lessen the effect of four matches over the festive period. While a win against Newcastle would provide an important confidence-booster the Foxes boss believes his side have already shown they can compete against established Premier League clubs. 'It is fair to say we have made a number of changes through this period of games but there is no right or wrong way to do it,' he said. 'To play against Newcastle at home gives us the chance to build on some decent results but it is inevitable there will be changes. Leicester fans celebrate in the background after Schlupp's impressive strike against Brendan Rodgers' side . 'But throughout the season I don't think you've heard me talk about disappointing performances. 'It is never easy to sell the idea to people that the belief and commitment is there and we think we are good enough. 'It is about results and we had a testing second half to 2014 and we have to see what we can do for the remainder of the season. 'As a side coming up it is never easy to compete at the same level against established Premier League clubs but all the sides who were promoted last season have shown ability over the last few weeks to get results. 'We have to try to build on that. We are still not in a great position but we have to build on the positives we have had and not concentrate on what people are saying. 'It is important to stay in touch but at the same time we have to make up ground.' Â .

Leicester City are bottom of the Premier League after 20 games . Nigel Pearson is relaxed about his position despite mounting pressure . Neil Warnock and Alan Irvine have both been sacked recently . Pearson says he could be sacked despite getting on well with the owners .

(CNN) -- The AGA Rangemaster may be a quintessentially British cooker, but demand has slumped amid the UK's recession. Now, the cooker that has been at the heart of British kitchens since the 1930s, is looking overseas for its profits. Britain's troubled housing market hit sales of the sturdy oven hard, the company's chief executive William McGrath told CNN. Sales fell and the company cut jobs. Read more: Patek Philippe boss: Quality is more important than growth . "The level of housing transaction is well under half the level it was back in 2007 and 2008, so, really we have seen a flat-lining period," McGrath said. "There is a correlation between house sales and purchases for your kitchen; indeed, you are most likely to spend money on your kitchen in the six months or so after you move house," he said. Read more: Europe's new threat: Slow decay . In 2012 sales dipped 2.5%, but with some rigorous cost-cutting the company has managed to post a 12% jump in pre-tax profit. "From the peak we have lost around 600 people," McGrath told CNN. The move has saved the company around $27 million, but to sustain profits they're looking to new markets. The company sells 37% of all its products to North America, but it expects this number to increase to half of all its sales. It also plans to launch in the Chinese market. Read more: Auto industry revs up recovery on Spain . "In China there are very few cookers," says McGrath. "The cooker doesn't really exist as a product category, so we're talking about the potential for a whole new product category which will hopefully take China by storm." Moulding the Chinese consumer into one with British tastes is an ambitious strategy. The Chinese buyer, used to steaming, boiling and frying food on a gas burner, may need some persuading to consider a giant cooker complete with roasting and baking ovens. Read more: GE Europe chief eyes investment in Germany . Chinese houses could also cause issues for the company's strategy. Chinese kitchens are often small and in high-rise buildings -- creating a squeeze for a cooker which is between 90 and 110cm wide and weighs around the same as a baby elephant. But McGrath is optimistic, demonstrating to CNN how a wok can be used to stir-fry on the rangemaster's hot plate. "As we found in Britain in the 1930s, there's the evolution in the nature of the Chinese kitchen, maybe moving from a galley kitchen to something's that is more the heart of the home," McGrath said. Home is where the heart is, and increasingly this will be overseas for AGA Rangemaster. While it weathers the storm in Europe, it'll try to cook up a storm in China.

Britain's troubled housing market hit sales of the sturdy oven hard, CEO William McGrath told CNN . In 2012 sales dipped 2.5%, but with cost-cutting the company has managed a 12% jump in pre-tax profit . AGA Rangemaster looking to China -- the world's second-largest economy -- as next growth market .

By . Michael Zennie for MailOnline . A U.S. marine who murdered a prostitute in Hawaii by stabbing her in the head with a lipstick knife has been sentenced to life in prison after a military court martial. Nathaniel Cosby, 39, claimed he killed Ivanice 'Ivy' Harris, 29, in self defense in his hotel room on Waikki after she slashed him in the arm with the knife. He then panicked and dumped her body on the beach on May 16, 2013. Harris, a Las Vegas prostitute, was on vacation in Hawaii with her pimp and two friends. Cosby was a marine master sergeant ordinance disposal technician who has been temporarily assigned for duty in Hawaii. Nathaniel Cosby, 38, was a marine master sergeant who was on temporary duty in Hawaii when he killed a prostitute he had taken back to his hotel room . Ivanice 'Ivy' Harris, 29, was on a Las Vegas prostitute who was on vacation in Hawaii with her pimp and two friends when she was murdered . Cosby's defense lawyer claimed the victim Harris pulled out a lipstick knife and slashed Cosby. Cosby then grabbed the knife and stabbed her in the temple (stock image) In April, a military jury convicted Cosby of murder and obstruction of justice and recommended a life sentence. Last week, U.S. Marine Corps Pacific commander, Lieutenant General Terry Robling, who has ultimate say on the case, agreed and upheld the sentence. He will also be dishonorably discharged. Cosby's lawyer said Cosby had been drinking for 10 hours when he met Harris at a bar and took her back to his hotel room. At some point, Harris woke Cosby up and said 'you need to pay me.' When Cosby tried to push her out of the hotel room, Harris pulled out a razor blade knife hidden in a lipstick tube and slashed Cosby across the arm, defense attorney Lieutenant Colonel Clay A. Plummer told a jury, according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Cosby claimed he stabbed Harris in the temple with a lipstick knife in self defense after she slashed him in the arm when he refused to pay her . Harris' friends reported her missing the next day after she didn't return from Cosby's apartment. She had just celebrate her 29th birthday . Harris' body was found in a bush near the beach, where Cosby dumped it . 'When that knife slid across his arm, he reacted,' Lt Col Plummer said, according to the newspaper. He grabbed the knife and stabbed Harris in the temple. He then took her body to a beach on the Waianae Coast and dumped her in the bushes. Harris' friends reported her missing the next day. The case will go for appeal at the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Review in Washington, D.C, which is standard procedure. Cosby is currently being held at the U.S. Military Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the Pentagon's maximum security prison.

Nathaniel Cosby, 39, says he killed Ivance 'Ivy' Harris is self defense after she slashed him in the arm with a lipstick knife . Harris, a Las Vegas prostitute, had been on vacation with her pimp and two friends to celebrate her 29th birthday . Cosby stabbed Harris in the temple with the knife in his hotel room on May 16, 2013 .

By . Press Team Scotland . PUBLISHED: . 07:18 EST, 24 February 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 10:48 EST, 24 February 2014 . Billy Connolly discovered he had Parkinson's disease after a chance encounter with an Australian fan who spotted him walking strangely, the comedian has revealed. The 71-year-old Scottish star told how a Tasmanian doctor diagnosed him on the spot after seeing him walking through a hotel lobby. The man approached the comedian and told him to see his doctor right away as his gait suggested he was showing early signs of the illness. Health issues: Billy Connolly was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer but has survived the cancer (pictured in January in New York) Last September, Connolly announced that he had had surgery for prostate cancer and was being treated for early symptoms of Parkinson's, a degenerative brain disorder. Speaking in detail for the first time about his health battles, Connolly insisted he never considered dying. He told how he was staying at a hotel in Los Angeles preparing to appear on Conan O'Brien's chat show when he met the concerned fan. In a US radio interview, he said: 'It was the strangest thing of all. 'I was doing Conan O'Brien's thing and they put me up in the Sportsmen's Lodge in Los Angeles. 'I was walking through the lobby and every time I had gone through there was a crowd of boys and girls and a couple of adults. 'It turned out they were dancers from Australia. 'The guy who was in charge of them came over to me one day and said 'Billy, I'm a big fan, I'm from Tasmania'. 'He said, 'I'm a surgeon and I have been watching you walking, you have a strange gait'. That was the way he put it. Enjoying life: Billy seen watching a football match between Celtric and Hearts in Glasgow with Rod Stewart in 2010 . 'He said 'You're showing distinct signs of early onset Parkinson's disease, see your doctor'. 'I think it was the way I held myself when I was walking. 'Then they did blood tests and various other little bits and pieces and told me I had it.' Connolly also told how his prostate cancer was diagnosed during a routine examination. He had surgery in America and was given the all-clear in December 2013. He said: 'It was found by the routine finger up the bum test. 'When I was told by the doctor I had cancer I said to him, 'I've never been told that before'. Usually you are only told once. 'The doctor in the hospital, the one who operated on me, said to me 'the good news is you're not going to die'. 'I said that it never crossed my mind that I might. It's that arrogance thing, I think I'm going to live forever.' The Glaswegian comic said he was taking a relaxed approach to his illness and joked that he had always suffered from memory loss, a symptom of Parkinson's, during stand-up routines. He added: 'I prefer not to give it any notice. I don't see much shaking going on and I have always had a sh**** memory anyway. 'I have forgotten things my entire career. I was taking drugs to control the Parkinson's but I'm not on them anymore. 'The doctor said the side effects were stronger than the effects. I never noticed any side effects but he told me they could include a deep interest in sex and gambling. 'In terms of treatment I think some of the stem cell stuff is very promising but they have a lot of problems legally getting it through.' Connolly is due to return to the stage next month when he plays five gigs in America before undertaking a tour of New Zealand in April and May. He has vowed to continue performing and said he has no plans to retire. Last week, Connolly insisted he didn't want to get involved in the Scottish independence debate and said he would not vote as he would be in New Zealand when the vote is held.

The Australian doctor, who was a fan, told Billy his gait suggested he was showing early signs of the illness . Billy went for blood tests afterwards and was diagnosed . Connolly was also diagnosed with prostate cancer but had surgery and was given the all clear in December .

PYONGYANG, North Korea (CNN) -- North Korea handed over its long-awaited nuclear program declaration to officials from China on Thursday. Workers remove fuel rods on the reactor floor at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear facility this year. President Bush, who once branded North Korea as part of an "axis of evil," welcomed the move and said he intends to remove the communist nation from the U.S. list of states that sponsor terrorism. "The declaration says: 'We are not now engaged in any [uranium] enrichment activities or [nuclear] proliferation activities and will not engage in them in the future,'" U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley said in Washington. "It is a good first step in getting the kind of disclosure and transparency into North Korea's nuclear activities as part of and a step toward their disablement, dismantlement and termination of those activities," Hadley said. North Korea handed over the declaration to officials from China, which led the six-nation talks that hammered out the conditions of the agreement. In addition to China and the United States, the talks included South Korea, Japan and Russia. Watch what's still unknown after Pyongyang's declaration » . Bush said he will call for the lifting of sanctions against North Korea under the Trading With the Enemy Act and notify Congress that he intends to take Pyongyang off the terror list. That move will take 45 days. But North Korea will have to end its nuclear activities in a "verifiable" way, Bush said in the White House Rose Garden. "The United States has no illusions about the regime in Pyongyang," he said. "We remain deeply concerned about North Korea's human rights abuses, uranium enrichment activities, nuclear testing and proliferation, ballistic missile programs and the threat it continues to pose to South Korea and its neighbors. "Yet we welcome today's development as one step of a multistep process." According to a senior U.S. State Department official, the 60-page declaration, written in English, details several rounds of plutonium production at Yongbyon, North Korea dating back to 1986. North Korea acknowledges producing roughly 40 kilograms of enriched plutonium -- enough for about seven nuclear bombs, the official said. The nation already has tested one nuclear bomb, which would have used about 6 kilograms of plutonium. After the declaration's submission, representatives from the United States and other members of the six-party talks will begin a process of verifying whether Pyongyang's declarations are true. Analyst John Wolfsthal of the Center for Strategic and International Studies said experts needed to be on the ground, taking samples and analyzing data. "We don't trust North Korea; we don't take them at their word," said Wolfsthal, who has followed the secretive country for about two decades. "We need to put together basically a jigsaw puzzle from pieces of data without really seeing the cover of the box," he said of North Korea's nuclear program. Hadley said the declaration also should provide details on how much plutonium North Korea says it has produced, which will allow the U.S. to calculate the size of Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal. Hadley said that information is not included in the declaration. Watch why the plutonium question is so important » . The United States also needs to learn more about Pyongyang's previous nuclear activities, including the spread of nuclear technology and information to other countries, Hadley added. "We have concerns about their past activities," Hadley said. "We have made those concerns clear. The North Koreans acknowledge those concerns. That is what is ahead of us. "In order for this process to go forward ... we are going to need to be able to get to the bottom of these issues, with respect to plutonium, enrichment, proliferation," he said. The easing of U.S. sanctions on North Korea will have little practical effect. "North Korea will remain one of the most heavily sanctioned nations in the world," Bush said. The agreement includes additional monitoring to assure that Pyongyang receives promised economic and energy assistance in exchange for dismantling its nuclear program. Under the agreement, leaders in Pyongyang agreed to provide a full accounting of the plutonium, "acknowledge" concerns about its nuclear proliferation and uranium enrichment activities, and continue to cooperate with a process to ensure that no further activities are taking place. During negotiations, the United States ultimately softened demands that North Korea admit to having a highly enriched uranium program and supplying Syria with nuclear technology, sticking points that had stalled the talks for months. U.S. officials said the final deal wasn't perfect but offered Washington its best chance to learn about North Korea's nuclear activities. "Multilateral diplomacy is the best way to peacefully resolve the nuclear issue," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. "North Korea should seize this moment of opportunity to restore its relationship with the international community." On Friday, North Korea is set to implode a cooling tower at its Yongbyon nuclear reactor. Nuclear experts have begun dismantling the plant's main reactor, but the destruction of the cooling tower is expected to be a powerful public symbol. And it is a step that would take North Korea more than a year to reverse, according to U.S. State Department officials. In a rare move, North Korea has invited international news organizations, including CNN, to witness the tower's destruction. The United States put North Korea on its state-sponsored terror list in January 1988 after its alleged involvement with the 1987 bombing of a South Korean airliner. The Korean Air Lines flight crashed into the Indian Ocean, killing all 115 people on board. CNN's Zain Verjee, John Vause and Christiane Amanpour contributed to this report.

North Korea gives documents on nuclear activities to Chinese officials . President Bush welcomes decision, warns North Korea still has work to do . North Korea expected to continue preparations to dismantle a nuclear reactor . Bush says he'll remove North Korea from list of state sponsors of terrorism .

(CNN) -- Like thousands of other female applicants to Indonesia's National Police, 24-year-old Sari (not her real name) submitted to the mandatory "virginity test" that the authorities require women -- but not men -- to take as part of the application process. In a police hospital in the city of Makassar in 2008, Sari says that she and 20 other fellow police recruits were told to undress, lie down on a table and allow a physician to perform a "two-finger test." Six years later, Sari says she is still traumatized. "I feared that after they performed the test I would not be a virgin anymore. It really hurt. My friend even fainted because...it really hurt, really hurt." Indonesia's National Police have imposed these abusive and degrading tests on thousands of female applicants since as early as 1965, despite the fact that they contravene National Police principles that recruitment must be both "nondiscriminatory" and "humane." Meanwhile, the tests have been recognized internationally as a violation of human rights, particularly the prohibition against "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" under article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and article 16 of the Convention against Torture, both of which Indonesia has ratified. Indeed, last month, the World Health Organization stated unambiguously that "There is no place for virginity (or 'two-finger') testing; it has no scientific validity." Indonesia's National Police can't feign ignorance of the tests, nor the opposition to them within police ranks. High Commissioner Sri Rumiati, a police psychologist who now teaches at the Graduate School of Police Sciences in Jakarta, underwent the virginity test in 1984 and subsequently advocated for their abolition. Those efforts prompted colleagues in police recruitment teams in 2010 to defend "virginity tests" as a means of preventing "prostitutes joining the police." Indonesia's National Police has responded to Human Rights Watch's exposure of this abusive practice with defiance. A senior police official, Inspector General Moechgiyarto, on November 18 confirmed that the National Police required the test for female applicants. But rather than condemning the practice and promising its abolition, Moechgiyarto defended it as a means to ensure the "high moral standards" of the police and reportedly suggested that failure of the test was simply proof that applicants were sex workers. "If she [a candidate) turns out to be a prostitute, then how could we accept her for the job?" he said. There also are alarming indications that the use of virginity tests extends to other parts of Indonesia's security forces. On November 19, Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law and Security, Tedjo Edhi, told reporters that such tests have long been obligatory for female military recruits as well. Sadly, this isn't the first time that Indonesian government officials have advocated such tests for women. In August 2013, H.M. Rasyid, education chief of Prabumulih district in Indonesia's south Sumatra, reportedly sought to impose mandatory "virginity tests" on female high school students to tackle perceived problems of "premarital sex and prostitution." After Indonesian civil society organizations attacked Rasyid's proposal as "against human rights" and then-Indonesian Education Minister Mohammad Nuh, skewered the idea as "degrading and discriminatory," Rasyid backed off, insisting that he had been misquoted by domestic media. But that same month, the semi-official Indonesian Ulema Council in East Java urged the local government to impose "virginity tests" as a requirement for all girls entering the city's high schools. "Virginity tests" and the Indonesian government's tolerance of such abusive practices are not an isolated attack on women's rights. Instead, they are but one of many far wider-reaching abuses of constitutionally-guaranteed women's rights that have been occurring across the country in recent years. One of the most obvious of those violations is a growing number of discriminatory regulations -- more than 300 -- imposed by local governments since 1999. They range from local bylaws requiring women to wear the hijab to a local government's prohibition against women from dancing. The failure of Indonesia's central government in protecting women's rights is symbolized by the stalled passage of a gender equality bill which has been in draft form since 2009. Former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who left office in October after a decade in office, deserves a portion of the blame for the erosion of basic rights of women and girls. Yudhoyono is seen by many as having traded political support from the Indonesian Ulama Council, Indonesia's top Muslim clerical body, for a commitment to backing fatwas. Such government tolerance for abuses of women's rights must end. President Joko Widodo, who replaced Yudhoyono in October, has an opportunity to send an unambiguous message in the first weeks of his administration that he will not ignore women's rights or undermine them for political gain. Widodo can begin by instructing the National Police to prohibit "virginity tests" and ordering local governments to abolish local regulations that violate constitutionally-guaranteed women's rights. These moves would send a much-needed message that the government and its security forces are committed to protecting the rights of women, rather than violating them.

Indonesia's national police force reportedly requires "virginity tests" for women . Phelim Kine: Tests recognized internationally as violation of human rights . Kine: New President much send message on protection of women .

By . Ruth Styles . It was a family day out for Zara Phillips today as she joined her mother Princess Anne and father Mark Phillips at an equestrian event. But she didn't have to travel far, for the Festival of British Eventing is held at the Princess Royal's Gatcombe Park estate - where Zara also lives. As a result, all three looked relaxed and happy, with Captain Phillips throwing a protective arm around his daughter, while Princess Anne cracked a joke before rubbing her nose. Scroll down for videos . Giggles: Captain Phillips extends a protective arm towards his daughter as Princess Anne tweaks her nose . Looking good: Zara opted for a simple white shirt and a pair of indigo skinny jeans for the event . Zara, who was pretty in indigo skinny jeans, a cream shirt and a pair of tan loafers, is currently in training for the World Equestrian Games in Normandy later this month but took a break to spend time with her parents and sister-in-law Autumn Phillips. She also allowed herself a rare day off yesterday, when she joined racing fans for Ladies Day at Glorious Goodwood yesterday. There, she joined Charles Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara and his wife, Janet, in their box, where she was later seen chatting animatedly to unlikely racing fan, Tom Cruise. Although an unexpected guest, the actor, 52, appeared to quickly get the hang of racing and looked positively delighted when he was serenaded with the Mission Impossible theme tune by the Band of the Yorkshire Regiment. Out and about: Zara's sister-in-law Autumn Phillips was also at the event in a pretty sea-green top . Close family: Princess Anne, Captain Phillips and Zara burst into laughter as they enjoy their day out . Horse loving family: All three have or have had successful eventing careers - including Olympic medals . Today's outing was an altogether more low-key affair but offered her the rare chance to spend time with both parents, particularly as Captain Phillips, who is currently Chef d'Equipe for the US eventing team, is spending a considerable amount of time on the other side of the Atlantic. His time there hasn't been without scandal, however, after he left his second wife Sandy for an American showjumper 30 years his junior. Captain Phillips' relationship with Lauren Hough, 37, is still thought to be going strong two years after it was revealed, and appears to have had little impact on his career. Like his first wife Princess Anne and daughter Zara, he has enjoyed enormous success in the world of equestrianism, beginning with his gold medal winning appearance at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Day out: Zara shares a joke with Tom Cruise during a day out at the Glorious Goodwood race meeting yesterday . Day off: Zara, who wore a pretty Ted Baker dress, has taken a couple of days out from training . As well as Olympics success, Captain Phillips won the Badminton Horse Trials in 1971 and 1972 riding Great Ovation, in 1974 on Colombus, and in 1981 on Lincoln. After he retired from the Army, he continued to style himself Captain Mark Phillips - which was allowed as junior cavalry officers whose civilian work involves equestrianism may continue to use their rank. While Zara is yet to win Olympic gold, she will be hoping for a good performance in Normandy later this month, with Team GB selectors for Rio 2012 expected to be in the crowd. She will, at least, have the support of her London 2012 teammates William Fox-Pitt, Tina Cook, Nicola Wilson and Mary King, who are also expected to compete in France. Not so good: Tom looked less than impressed when his horse failed to come up with the goods . Exciting stuff: The unexpected appearance of Tom Cruise left the usually calm racegoers in a tizzy .

Zara, 33, was at the Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe Park . She was joined by Princess Anne and her father Captain Mark Phillips . He threw a protective arm around his daughter's shoulder as they walked . Captain Phillips, 65, is currently the Chef d'Equipe of the US eventing team . Yesterday saw Zara enjoy a day out with Tom Cruise at Glorious Goodwood .

West Brom head coach Tony Pulis has warned any suitors for Saido Berahino he is not prepared to do a deadline-day deal. The Hawthorns boss will not leave himself short of firepower as he tries to steer the Baggies away from relegation trouble. Pulis does not want to sell the 14-goal striker, although he has admitted Albion would consider a huge bid for the England Under-21 international. West Brom manager Tony Pulis has insisted star striker Saido Berahino won't be sold on deadline day . The Baggies boss says only a massive bid would persuade the club to sell their star asset this January . Liverpool and Tottenham have been linked, although neither side have approached the Baggies, and chairman Jeremy Peace this week insisted they want to keep Berahino. And with West Brom in a Barclays Premier League relegation fight Pulis is not prepared to gamble with their top-flight future if he has not signed a replacement. 'I would have to decide and take into account what we've brought in and what we've been left with,' he said, ahead of Saturday's FA Cup trip to Birmingham. 'Staying in the Premier League is vital. What's it worth next year? Hundreds of millions. 'We've not been offered any money yet. 'You have to sit down and think about it and you'd have to look at how strong the squad was he was leaving to agree to it. The England Under 21 international has scored 14 goals so far this season for West Brom . The forward curls home one of his four goals against non-league side Gateshead in the FA Cup third round . Berahino has moved from the Under 21s to the fringes of Roy Hodgson's first-team squad this season . Pulis believes that selling Berahino would imperil West Brom in their Premier League relegation fight . 'If the squad wasn't strong enough it would be very difficult to say yes, although you still might take a chance. 'The important thing is that he keeps doing what he's been doing. He's been brilliant around the place.' Pulis is revamping his squad this month and has already given the green light for wingers Silvestre Varela and Sebastian Blanco to go along with Georgios Samaras. Wigan's Callum McManaman remains a target, with Albion having bid twice for the winger, and Pulis has held talks with Manchester United midfielder Darren Fletcher. 'We've spoken to Darren and had a chat with him. He'll let us know. The timeframe will be deadline day,' said Pulis, who confirmed Nottingham Forest's Michail Antonio was on his radar. Pulis is still keen on signing the Wigan Athletic midfielder Callum McManaman (left) Talks have also been held with Manchester United regarding Darren Fletcher (left) 'I'm not sure about United, that might be one of his options. He's a fantastic lad. 'I'm not sure (if there is a fee involved), he'll make a decision where he wants to go and then the clubs will get involved in negotiations.' Pulis has also brought in former Bristol City Under-21 coach Mark O'Connor to his backroom staff, while he is also yet to appoint a goalkeeping coach. 'Mark's worked with me, I played with him at Bournemouth and took him to Gillingham. He know me and I know him, he's a good coach,' he added. 'Technically, he'll be very good for the younger players.'

Tony Pulis won't be prepared to do a deadline day deal for Saido Berahino . Liverpool and Tottenham among those interested in West Brom striker . Berahino has scored 14 goals this season for the Baggies . Pulis says he is too important to their Premier League chances to sell . But he admitted a massive offer could persuade them to reconsider .

Sid Caesar, the prodigiously talented pioneer of TV comedy who paired with Imogene Coca in sketches that became classics and who inspired a generation of famous writers, died early Wednesday. He was 91. Caesar died at his home in the Los Angeles area after a brief illness, family spokesman Eddy Friedfeld said. In his two most important shows, Your Show of Shows, 1950-54, and Caesar's Hour, 1954-57, Caesar displayed remarkable skill in pantomime, satire, mimicry, dialect and sketch comedy. And he gathered a stable of young writers who went on to worldwide fame in their own right - including Neil Simon and Woody Allen. Golden Age: Sid Caesar was one of the driving forces of what many television critis refer to as 'the Golden Age of comedy' 'The one great star that television created and who created television was Sid Caesar,' said critic Joel Siegel on the TV documentary Hail Sid Caesar! The Golden Age Of Comedy, which first aired in 2001. While best known for his TV shows, which have been revived on DVD in recent years, he also had success on Broadway and occasional film appearances, notably in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. If the typical funnyman was tubby or short and scrawny, Caesar was tall and powerful, with a clown's loose limbs and rubbery face, and a trademark mole on his left cheek. But Caesar never went in for clowning or jokes. He wasn't interested. He insisted that the laughs come from the everyday. 'Real life is the true comedy,' he said in a 2001 interview with The Associated Press. 'Then everybody knows what you're talking about.' Caesar brought observational comedy to TV before the term, or such latter-day practitioners as Jerry Seinfeld, were even born. In one celebrated routine, Caesar impersonated a gumball machine; in another, a baby; in another, a ludicrously overemotional guest on a parody of This Is Your Life. He played an unsuspecting moviegoer getting caught between feuding lovers in a theater. He dined at a health food restaurant, where the first course was the bouquet in the vase on the table. He was interviewed as an avant-garde jazz musician who seemed happily high on something. The son of Jewish immigrants, Caesar was a wizard at spouting melting-pot gibberish that parodied German, Russian, French and other languages. His Professor was the epitome of goofy Germanic scholarship. Some compared him to Charlie Chaplin for his success at combining humor with touches of pathos. Legend: Two-time Emmy Award winner Sid Caesar died Wednesday at age 91 . 'As wild an idea as you get, it won't go over unless it has a believable basis to start off with,' he told The Associated Press in 1955. 'The viewers have to see you basically as a person first, and after that you can go on into left field.' Caesar performed with such talents as Howard Morris and Nanette Fabray, but his most celebrated collaborator was the brilliant Coca, his "Your Show of Shows" co-star. Coca and Caesar performed skits that satirized the everyday - marital spats, inane advertising, strangers meeting and speaking in clichés, a parody of the Western Shane in which the hero was Strange. They staged a water-logged spoof of the love scene in From Here to Eternity. The Hickenloopers husband-and-wife skits became a staple.'The chemistry was perfect, that's all,' Coca, who died in 2001, once said. 'We never went out together; we never see each other socially. But for years we worked together from 10 in the morning to 6 or 7 at night every day of the week. What made it work is that we found the same things funny.' Caesar worked closely with his writing staff as they found inspiration in silent movies, foreign films and the absurdities of `50s postwar prosperity. Your Show of Shows: Caesar's sketch comedy partner Coca (right) says the two worked well together because they 'found the same things funny' Among those who wrote for Caesar: Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart, Simon and his brother Danny Simon, and Allen, who was providing gags to Caesar and other entertainers while still in his teens. Carl Reiner, who wrote in addition to performing on the show, based his Dick Van Dyke Show - with its fictional TV writers and their temperamental star - on his experiences there. Simon's 1993 Laughter on the 23rd Floor' and the 1982 movie 'My Favorite Year' also were based on the Caesar show. A 1996 roundtable discussion among Caesar and his writers was turned into a public television special. Said Simon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: 'None of us who've gone on to do other things could have done them without going through this show.' 'This was playing for the Yankees; this was playing in Duke Ellington's band,' said Gelbart, the creator of TV's M-A-S-H and screenwriter of Tootsie, who died in 2009. Increasing ratings competition from Lawrence Welk's variety show put 'Caesar's Hour' off the air in 1957. In 1962, Caesar starred on Broadway in the musical Little Me, written by Simon, and was nominated for a Tony. He played seven different roles, from a comically perfect young man to a tyrannical movie director to a prince of an impoverished European kingdom. 'The fact that, night after night, they are also excruciatingly funny is a tribute to the astonishing talents of their portrayer,' Newsweek magazine wrote. 'In comedy, Caesar is still the best there is.' Pioneer: Caesar helped launch the careers of legendary comedians and TV writers like Mel Brooks and Larry Gelbart . His and Coca's classic TV work captured a new audience with the 1973 theatrical compilation film Ten From Your Show of Shows. He was one of the galaxy of stars who raced to find buried treasure in the 1963 comic epic 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and in 1976 he put his pantomime skills to work in Brooks' Silent Movie.But he later looked back on those years as painful ones. He said he beat a severe, decades-long barbiturate and alcohol habit in 1978, when he was so low he considered suicide. 'I had to come to terms with myself. "Yes or no? Do you want to live or die?'" Deciding that he wanted to live, he recalled, was 'the first step on a long journey.' Caesar was born in 1922 in Yonkers, N.Y., the third son of an Austrian-born restaurant owner and his Russian-born wife. His first dream was to become a musician, and he played saxophone in bands in his teens. But as a youngster waiting tables at his father's luncheonette, he liked to observe as well as serve the diverse clientele, and recognize the humor happening before his eyes. Emmy: Caesar, seen here with Bob Hope (seated) and Milton Berle won two Emmy Awards over the course of his 60-year career . His talent for comedy was discovered when he was serving in the Coast Guard during World War II and got a part in a Coast Guard musical, Tars and Spars. He also appeared in the movie version. Wrote famed columnist Hedda Hopper: 'I hear the picture's good, with Sid Caesar a four-way threat. He writes, sings, dances and makes with the comedy.' That led to a few other film roles, nightclub engagements, and then his breakthrough hit, a 1948 Broadway revue called Make Mine Manhattan. His first TV comedy-variety show, 'The Admiral Broadway Revue,' premiered in February 1949. But it was off the air by June. Its fatal shortcoming: unimagined popularity. It was selling more Admiral television sets than the company could make, and Admiral, its exclusive sponsor, pulled out. But everyone was ready for Caesar's subsequent efforts. Your Show of Shows, which debuted in February 1950, and Caesar's Hour three years later reached as many as 60 million viewers weekly and earned its star $1 million annually at a time when $5, he later noted, bought a steak dinner for two. RIP: Caesar, whose wife of 67 years died in 2010, leaves behind three children . When Caesar's Hour left the air in 1957, Caesar was only 34. But the unforgiving cycle of weekly television had taken a toll: His reliance on booze and pills for sleep every night so he could wake up and create more comedy. It took decades for him to hit bottom. In 1977, he was onstage in Regina, Canada, doing Simon's 'The Last of the Red Hot Lovers when, suddenly, his mind went blank. He walked off stage, checked into a hospital and went cold turkey. Recovery had begun, with the help of wife Florence Caesar, who would be by his side for more than 60 years and helped him weather his demons. Those demons included remorse about the flared-out superstardom of his youth - and how the pressures nearly killed him. But over time he learned to view his life philosophically. 'You think just because something good happens, THEN something bad has got to happen? Not necessarily,' he said with a smile in 2003, pleased to share his hard-won wisdom: 'Two good things have happened in a row.'

Sid Caesar inspired dozens of legendary writers including Woody Allen and Neil Simon . Caesar died at his home in Los Angeles after a brief illness . Caesar is most well-known for his sketch comedy shows Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour .

By . Helen Lawson . PUBLISHED: . 13:41 EST, 30 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:55 EST, 30 March 2013 . Brazilian advertising regulators have warned a brewer over an advert for beer-flavoured ice cream, claiming it could tempt children to drink. The advert for Skol ice cream shows a yellow tub that looks like a beer can, with the tagline: 'Shall we go to the bar to have an ice cream?' The ice cream, launched in November, does not contain alcohol and is only sold in bars in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, meaning children should not be able to buy it. The advert for Skol-flavoured ice cream appeared on the brand's website and Facebook page . It can only be sold to people over the age of 18 because it is linked to a beer brand. The National Council for Self-Regulation fears that the campaign, which appeared on Skol's website and Facebook page, could make drinking seem attractive to children - especially as the social networking site does not restrict what under-18s can see. The council does not have legal powers to force Ambev, Skol's owner, to take the advert down and said it was only a warning to be more careful in the future. Ambev, Latin America's largest brewer, refused to comment on the council's warning, reported AFP. Last year Ambev was warned by the council over a Skol advert for beer-flavoured Easter eggs.

Skol is selling flavoured ice cream in tubs that look like beer cans . Advert appeared on the brand's website and Facebook page . The National Council for Self-Regulation fears it makes drinking attractive .

This year saw football fans treated to a plethora of enthralling competitions and memorable matches typified by an enthralling World Cup in Brazil. With each calender year that passes, a handful of truly memorable goals are scored by some of the biggest names in sport as well as some of the lesser known talents across the globe. From Robin van Persie's gravity-defying header against Spain to Rogelio Chavez's 60-yard strike for Mexican side Cruz Azul, there were some beauties. Here, Sportsmail picks 10 of the best goals from 2014. JAMES RODRIGUEZ – COLOMBIA 2-0 Uruguay (World Cup, 28/06/14) One of the most iconic moments of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil produced by the star of the tournament. A neat, cushioned header was played to Rodriguez who was facing away from goal. The Colombian set himself, positioned his body to chest-control the ball, before turning and unleashing an unstoppable left-footed volley into the top corner of the net from 25 yards. Utterly incredible. James Rodriguez fires Colombia into a 1-0 lead against Uruguay during the 2014 World Cup . The Colombia forward was one of the standout performers during the World Cup in Brazil . ROBIN VAN PERSIE – Spain 1-5 HOLLAND (World Cup, 13/06/14) This goal gets a place in the list because it really was quite extraordinary. In terms of the context of the match, Van Persie’s header totally changed it in the favour of the Dutch – who roared back to demolish the defending champions 5-1. But the technique itself was also exquisite. A long, diagonal ball was played in behind the Spain defence and Van Persie, after just arriving in the box, arched his back and completely threw himself off the ground to lob a header over the top of Iker Casillas and into the net from 16 yards. A quite unique finish. Robin van Persie scored with this memorable header during Holland's 5-1 World Cup win against Spain . Van Persie's header pulled Holland level and sent his team on their way to a 5-1 victory . AARON RAMSEY – Galatasaray 1-4 ARSENAL (Champions League, 09/12/14) This goal produced a one of those ‘Oh my goodness – did that actually just happen?’ moments. Joel Campbell’s corner was extremely poor and was headed towards what appeared like relative safety by the Galatasaray defence. However, Ramsey caught the ball on the half-volley and arrowed an unstoppable effort from 30 yards into the very top left-hand corner of the net. The accuracy and precision of the shot was masterful. An absolute bullet. Arsenal players celebrate Aaron Ramsey's stunning strike against Galatasaray earlier this month . ANGEL DI MARIA – Leicester City 5-3 MANCHESTER UNITED (Premier League, 21/09/14) Many people questioned the logic in Manchester United paying £60million for another attacking midfielder last summer when it was their defence they needed to focus on, but Di Maria proved his class in this one goal alone. Picking the ball up in his own half, he advanced 25 yards before passing to Wayne Rooney. After continuing his run to the edge of the box, Di Maria received a return ball from Rooney and, with two Leicester defenders closing him down, dug his foot under the ball from just inside the area and deliciously chipped Kasper Schmeichel, who was three yards off his line. Quite audacious. Angel Di Maria brings the ball towards goal during Manchester United's clash against Leciester in September . Di Maria makes the perfect connection with the ball with his left foot with Kasper Schmeichel out of his goal . Schmeichel can only look on as the ball floats over his net and looks set to double Manchester United's lead . Di Maria scored arguably his best goal in a United shirt so far with the delightful chip against Leicester . The Argentina midfielder has scored three goals since joining United from Real Madrid in the summer . JONJO SHELVEY – SWANSEA CITY 4-1 Aston Villa (Premier League, 26/04/14) Brad Guzan will not remember this one fondly, but Shelvey certainly will. Aston Villa keeper Guzan had thrown the ball out to his defence and certainly did not expect it to be in the back of his net just moments later. Despite Villa’s deficiencies leading to this goal, nothing can be taken away from Shelvey’s strike though. After controlling the failed clearance on his chest a fully 50-yards out, the midfielder waited for the ball to bounce back up before belting a shot with the outside of his right foot that swerved and dipped into the top right-hand corner of the net. Brilliant for Shelvey, embarrassing for Villa. Jonjo Shelvey chested down a Brad Guzan clearance before volleying home from 50-yards . The midfielder wheels away in celebration of his wonder striker against Aston Villa . Villa goalkeeper Guzan had no chance of saving Shelvey's strike at the Liberty Stadium in April . MOTAZ SALHANI – Al-Ramtha 0-1 AL-WEHDAT (Jordan Premier League, 15/03/14) This goal is so unique that it is actually quite hard to describe. Salhani was running forward and was halfway into the Al-Ramtha half before a chipped through-ball was seemingly played too far behind him. The Al-Wehdat forward was not put off, however, and stuck his right leg behind his body, flicking the ball into the air and it flew over the top of the Al-Ramtha keeper and into the net from 25 yards. Was it intentional? Possibly not, but it was still exceptional. FABIAN KWOK – Albirez Niigata 4-2 GEYLANG INTERNATONAL (S.League, 08/05/14) Kwok will never, ever hit a ball more sweetly than this. There seemed to be little danger as the Albirex Niigata goalkeeper cleared the ball to Geylang International’s Kwok during this match in Singapore, but suddenly the ball was in the back of the net. With the ball still travelling at some speed in the air after the goalkeeper’s clearance, Kwok smashed a right-footed volley from inside the centre circle. It went high into the air and then dipped into the left-hand corner of the Niigata net, with the goalkeeper sent sprawling. It seems to have been just a one of those ‘swing it and see what happens' shots, but credit where it is due. AITOR ASPAS – Celta Vigo B 3-1 CORUXO FC (Segunda B, 18/01/14) All Liverpool fans will be thinking after seeing this is, if Iago Aspas’ cousin can score wondergoals like this, have the Reds bought the wrong family member? After picking the ball up in his own half, Aspas suddenly decided he was going to have a go against Celta Vigo B. He advanced past two players, then another couple, weaving in and out exquisitely, before breaking through the defence and gently chipping a shot over the advancing goalkeeper. In total, Aspas beat seven players and travelled more than 60 yards with the ball before scoring. How Liverpool fans long to see that from Iago... BLAISE MATUIDI – FRANCE 2-0 Holland (International Friendly, 05/03/14) Sometimes goals are special because they look bizarre, and this is one of those occasions. Mathieu Valbuena had attacked down the right-hand side for France against Holland before playing a chipped cross into the box. The ball was slightly behind Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Matuidi, but the Frenchman arched his body and then jumped into the air, both feet off the ground, before meeting the cross with the inside of his right foot as he feel backwards the other way. It flew into the back of the net and was a very unusual example of a bicycle kick. Certainly not your orthodox, everyday goal anyway. Blaise Matuidi connects with his unique version of a bicycle kick during a friendly against Holland . ROGELIO CHAVEZ – Queretaro 1-3 CRUZ AZUL (Liga MX, 22/02/14) This is surely the finest goal scored in Mexico in 2014. Chavez was five yards into his own half taking and throw-in and, after a Queretaro midfielder managed to win the header, it flew back towards the Cruz Azul right back. Despite being practically on the halfway line and just two yards from the side of the pitch, Chavez had spotted the Queretaro goalkeeper off his line and decided to launch both feet off the ground and smash a left-footed effort which looped high into the air, before fooling the Queretaro goalkeeper – who could not tip it over – and bouncing in via the post. Audacious, ambitious and utterly brilliant.

Sportsmail select the top 10 best goals from 2014 . James Rodriguez tops the list with stunning strike against Uruguay during 2014 World Cup . Robin van Persie's diving header against Spain also features . Aaron Ramsey earns top 10 spot with 30-yard finish against Galatasaray . Swansea's Jonjo Shelvey scored stunning volley against Aston Villa .

By . Anna Edwards . PUBLISHED: . 10:41 EST, 9 January 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:34 EST, 9 January 2013 . It would mean no last-minute scramble to rush for the train to work in the mornings. But the owner of this house might have to put up with train passengers peeking through their window. Commuters have been given the chance to buy the house of their dreams - on the platform of a busy train station. It could be just the ticket for the lucky buyer who will be able to open their back door and walk straight onto their morning train to work at the unmanned station. Beat the commute: The lucky buyer will be able to open their back door and walk straight onto their morning train to work . The train station which is up for sale in the town of Pemmaenmawr, near Bangor, North Wales and has views of the sea . Meet the neighbours! The Grade II-listed Victorian railway station house will be surrounded by commuters in the morning . The Grade II-listed Victorian railway station house sits on the main London to North Wales line where more than 20 trains stop every day. But the new purchaser is guaranteed at least six hour's undisturbed sleep - no trains run between midnight and 6am. Estate agent Hugh Steele-Perkins said: 'It is a commuter's dream house - you can step out of your bedroom and immediately be on the train. 'There's even a small window in the side of the property so you can see trains coming down the tracks. 'Just think - no more waiting on the platform on cold and wintery mornings.' The house in the seaside town of Penmaenmawr, near Bangor, North Wales, is a three-and-a-half hour commute from London. The station house has been used as an antiques shop with a three-bedroomed flat on the top floor . The owner will be based in the pretty town of Penmaenmawr, near Bangor, North Wales . The distinctive property, which is built of heavy granite, has 2,220 sq ft of floor space and two basement rooms . Penmaenmawr railway station serves the small town of and is located on the Crewe to Holyhead North Wales Coast Line. The station is a request stop. The line was built between 1844 and 1850 by the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company. It was of huge importance because in 1801, when the Act of Union was passed, all of Ireland became integrated with the United Kingdom. As mail had been exchanged on horse drawn cart and boats, a train would provide a speedier service for communication between Ireland and the United Kingdom. But whoever buys the £127,500 three-bedroomed house is going to be chuffed. Mr Steele-Perkins, director at Jacksons Commercial, in Llandudno, said: 'It's a busy station because it's on the main Euston to Holyhead line. 'It also has wonderful sea views from the top floor.' The station house which was built in 1850 has been used as an antiques shop with a three-bedroomed flat on the top floor since it was de-commissioned by British Rail in 1986. The property - built of heavy granite - has 2220 sq ft of floor space, two basement rooms and the former ground floor station ticket office and waiting rooms. Mr Steele-Perkins added: 'What the future holds for the station house is now in the hands of the buyer. 'With its history of mixed residential and commercial use, the possibilities would seem endless.'

Owner will be able to walk through their back door and straight on to the train at unmanned station which was converted into house . Grade II house is located in the seaside town of Penmaenmawr, near Bangor, North Wales .

(CNN) -- It can happen to anybody -- forgetting your glasses are on the top of your head, or not remembering a loved one's birthday after celebrating it for decades. Most of us simply laugh off these short memory lapses. But for a former professional football player, memory lapses can be a scary thing. They can be a sign of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a disease that has been found in the brains of many athletes who suffered repeated hits to the head during their career. Quarterback Brett Favre played 321 straight games in the National Football League before retiring. He recently told Sports Talk 570 in Washington that he can't remember his daughter participating in youth soccer one summer, even though she played several games. That, and other memory lapses, have worried him. "For the first time in 44 years, that put a little fear in me," he said. "God only knows the toll." Favre discusses impact concussions have had on his life . The only way to diagnose CTE is after death -- by analyzing brain tissue and finding microscopic clumps of an abnormal protein called tau. Tau has been found in the brains of dozens of former NFL players, including Junior Seau, Dave Duerson, Terry Long and Shane Dronett, who all committed suicide. It was also found in the brain of Mike Webster, who died in 2002. Scientists are working to identify some common symptoms of the brain disease in living players. Experts say athletes with CTE often struggle with memory and decision-making. Some exhibit mood and behavior problems such as depression and hopelessness, or violent, explosive behavior. A few show no symptoms at all. "There is no specific order of changes in CTE; it's on a case-by-case basis," Robert Stern, co-founder of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, told CNN. "It could be that some people have more initial changes to (brain) areas that are more responsible for mood and aggression and impulse control." In August, thousands of former football players and their families reached a settlement with the NFL in a lawsuit that put concussions, and their impact on the brain, under the microscope. The deal called for the NFL to pay $765 million to fund medical exams, concussion-related compensation, medical research for retired NFL players and their families, and litigation expenses, according to a court document filed in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. "My hope is that any players or ex-players that are suffering, or begin to suffer, from symptoms of dementia, will be taken care of in a respectable manner through this settlement," said Chris Dronett, one of the plaintiffs, whose husband Shane Dronett committed suicide in 2009 at age 38. Scientists found evidence of CTE in Shane's brain after his death. At the heart of the lawsuit was plaintiffs' allegations that the NFL led a deliberate misinformation campaign -- primarily through its Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee -- to deny scientific data being presented in the medical community about concussion risks. The suit alleged that misinformation, which included studies by the committee suggesting no correlation between concussions and long-term brain damage, trickled down to players so that they did not realize the true risks they were taking while playing. The NFL didn't comment about the settlement, but a league spokesman previously said, "Any allegation that the league sought to mislead players has no merit ... and stands in contrast to actions it took to better protect players." In recent years, the NFL has attempted to strengthen rules that govern player conduct on the field and added sideline medical staff -- unaffiliated with the teams -- in an effort to evaluate more independently injured players. What is most important, said Jamal Anderson, a former player and plaintiff, "is to bring attention to the plight of thousands of players and the importance of taking concussion and head trauma seriously." Concussions result from blows to the head, such as when a player collides with another. "In a football game, when someone takes a hard hit, the helmet does a pretty good job of protecting the skull from getting a skull fracture," Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon and CNN's chief medical correspondent, told Bleacher Report. "But what is really happening when someone is running down the field and ... they get hit -- the brain keeps moving inside the skull." It's not so much the hit, although that's important, but the sudden acceleration and deceleration of the brain that causes the concussion, Gupta said. Confusion, nausea, headache and loss of consciousness are some of the immediate symptoms of concussions, but they can also have longer-lasting effects. Severe impacts to the head can lead to bleeding or permanent nerve damage. Research suggests repeated concussions can lead to CTE. High schools tackle football concussions . CNN's Elizabeth Landau, Nadia Kounang and Bleacher Report's Mike Chiari contributed to this story.

Quarterback Brett Favre says memory lapses have worried him . Lapses could be a sign of CTE, a brain disease that can only be diagnosed after death . CTE was at the center of a recent settlement between NFL and thousands of players .

Watch out, Barbie! There's a new doll on the block - and she's dressed head-to-toe in some of the world's most coveted designer clothes. Luxury fashion houses such as Dior, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Lanvin have each designed a one-off doll kitted out in the finest fashion and it's all in the name of charity. Each of the stylish dolls will go under the hammer at a UNICEF auction on December 2 and are expected to raise an estimated grand total of 200,000 euros (£166,000). Designer dolls: A set of dolls have been released by the likes of Chanel (L) and Chantal Thomass (R) and will go under the hammer for charity . The figurines are on display at Paris's Petit Palais until December 1. Each year, designers create bespoke dolls for the annual Frimousses de Créateurs event, now in its 11th year. Each of their designs is inspired by . their idea of 'Wonderful Paris' and this year has seen 42 fashion houses . and new designers getting involved. All proceeds will go towards providing vaccinations for children in the Darfur region of Sudan. Big money: The stylish dolls by Dior (L) and Dolce & Gabbana (R) are expected to raise a grand total of 200,000 euros (£166,000) C'est la vie: Each of their designs by designers such as Gucci (L) and Jean Paul Gaultier (R) is inspired by their idea of 'Wonderful Paris' and this year has seen 42 fashion houses and new designers getting involved .

Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Gucci and . Lanvin have each designed a one-off doll . Expected to raise £166,000 for UNICEF . Inspired by designer's vision of 'Wonderful Paris'

By . Anna Edwards . DJ Dave Lee Travis, 68, is charged with the indecent assault of 11 girls and women between 1976 and 2008 . Dave Lee Travis today admitted being quizzed by bosses over allegations he had touched a female colleague’s legs despite telling police he could not remember the incident. But he denied tailoring his evidence to fit the facts telling jurors he is 'not exactly Sherlock Holmes'. The DJ was being quizzed over claims he rubbed the legs of a woman at Chiltern Radio station and thrust his hand up her skirt. Southwark Crown Court heard in his police interview Travis originally said he could not remember any sex complaint being made against him at the station, where he had a show on Classic Gold FM. But as he was being questioned in the witness stand for the fourth day, Travis admitted he remembered being led into his boss’ office and told a female colleague had complained he touched her leg. The former Top of the Pops presenter admitted he could have brushed against the woman’s leg during a heated argument. But he branded claims he molested the woman were '100 per cent fabricated'. He said: 'I’m clever enough to be a DJ and do my own stuff on the radio and television. 'But I’m not exactly Sherlock Holmes, and can’t work out the best way of telling a story. My best way of telling anything is telling you the truth. 'I’m telling you the truth now. I can only tell you the truth. I’m remembering it.' He added: 'I haven’t been sat here listening to witnesses and saying that’s what I’ll say there. 'I’m trying to give you my account, my true account of what I recall.' Travis, 68, admitted he was a very tactile person and would often hug women, kiss them on the cheek and given them a shoulder massage to say hello . Ms Moore QC, prosecuting, put it to Travis that 'You are tailoring what you are saying because what you are saying in interview simply doesn’t stand up.' But Travis insisted he was not changing his story to fit other witnesses accounts that back up the allegations. He said: 'I’m not tailoring anything, I’m simply telling you the truth as I know it. 'I’m not changing anything, I’m not exaggerating anything, I’m simply telling you what I remember.' Travis, 68, admitted he was a very tactile person and would often hug women, kiss them on the cheek and given them a shoulder massage to say hello. But he furiously denied rubbing a female colleague’s breasts as he gave her a bear hug when they were introduced. Travis said he was left 'shaky' when police quizzed him over the allegations because he had never been arrested before . And he branded claims he groped two women at the station, who were both in their 20’s, 'completely false'. The court had earlier heard that a woman 'went ballistic' and branded him a pervert when he allegedly stuck his hand up her skirt. But Travis angrily denied the claims saying 'Completely 100 per cent fabricated. 'I didn’t do something to her. I was standing with her having an argument, I may have touched her legs with my leg or knees but it is not something I did to her. 'It is something that happened because I’m in close proximity.' And he rubbished claims that women at the station would lower their gaze when he walked into a room to avoid his unwanted attentions. He said: 'Nobody ever put their heads down when I walked in the newsroom. Ever.' Travis said he was left 'shaky' when police quizzed him over the allegations because he had never been arrested before. And he said this might explain the discrepancy in his account. He said: 'Everytime I’ve been with the police it has been a time of stress and strain. 'I’ve never been arrested in my life so I consider I was feeling a little bit shaky about that.' He is accused of four counts of indecent assault against two women at the station between 2000 and 2003. The court broke for half an hour to allow Travis, who has back problems, time to rest. Travis denies 13 indecent assaults and one sexual assault involving 11 woman and spanning 30 years. The case continues. Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.

Travis admitted being quizzed by bosses over allegations he had touched a female colleague's legs . Told police he couldn't remember incident, but denies tailoring evidence . Admitted he could have brushed against woman's leg during an argument . Branded claims he molested the woman were '100 per cent fabricated' Denies 13 indecent assaults and one sexual assault involving 11 woman .

By . Sam Webb . A pub has apologised after a barman refused to serve a group of local election campaigners because they supported Ukip. Stonegate Pubs have also offered a free meal to the stunned half dozen at the Rectory in Purley, south London, after a member of staff called them 'disgusting'. Local candidate Georgina Guillem was campaigning with Kathleen Garner and four supporters in the run up to May’s local elections, when they decided to have a drink. The group, five aged over-65 and one man in his 30s, took off their rosettes and packed their stuff away before going inside the high street pub. Spat: A barman at this south London pub refused to serve a group of local election campaigners because they supported Ukip, even calling them 'disgusting' Ms Garner said: 'Georgina walked up to the bar to get some drinks and he just said, "You are Ukip, you are disgusting", and refused to serve her. 'I could not believe it and went up to the bar and he said to me again "you are disgusting". 'It is the thought police and even if it is legal, it is certainly not an acceptable way to behave. You should certainly not be able to discriminate against people on grounds of their politics. 'The way you think is the way you think and life is going to become very unpleasant if people are going to discriminate against you for that. 'And it is not even how you think - but the way others think you think.' She complained to Stonegate Pubs, which last week offered an apology and a free meal. A Stonegate spokesman said an investigation had taken place and added: 'We would like to make clear the company has no affiliations to any political party.' He added that the member of staff was disciplined. Ms Guillem polled just 552 votes in the local vote and came third.

Georgine Guillem went into the south London pub with campaigners . The barman called them 'disgusting' and refused to serve them . The pub chain has apologised and offered the Ukip supporters a free meal .

The Football Association turned down the chance to interview Pep Guardiola for the England manager’s job last year, appointing Roy Hodgson instead having made a policy decision to hire an English manager. The revelation will stun many fans because Guardiola, 42, is viewed as one of the world’s best coaches, having overseen serial successes at Barcelona, including two Champions League wins, three La Liga titles and multiple cups. But an FA insider insists former chairman David Bernstein was right to ‘go English’, not least because it would send the right message concerning home talent. You could have had me: The FA turned down the chance to interview Pep Guardiola for the England job . Successful: The FA picked Roy Hodgson after deciding to appoint an English manager . Sources say Guardiola was interested in talking to the FA when Fabio Capello resigned in February last year and an intermediary contacted the governing body to let them know. He had decided to leave Barcelona at the end of the 2011-12 season but was not 100 per cent  certain he would take a sabbatical. It is understood a message was sent to Guardiola by the FA that the new man would need to be in place for Euro 2012, but the FA did not follow up further with him. The insider says the FA were contacted by representatives of multiple ‘top managers’ but only English candidates were considered seriously. Glittering: Guardiola won three La Ligas and two Champions Leagues at Barcelona . Change: Guardiola is now in charge of Bayern Munich and he began his reign by beating Chelsea in the Super Cup . Guardiola announced on April 27 last year that he would take the 2012-13 season off but he has subsequently returned to management this season with Bayern Munich. The FA appointed Hodgson, 66, as manager on May 1 last year. An FA spokesman said on Saturday: ‘This was a confidential process. We made it clear from the outset the preference was for an English manager and appointed the best man for the job, based on the outline set out by David Bernstein at the time.’

Guardiola expressed interest in managing England after leaving Barcelona . But the FA decided not to interview the Spaniard, 42, because they wanted an English manager after Fabio Capello quit . Roy Hodgson was eventually appointed to lead the team into Euro 2012 .

Chinese authorities have seized almost 8,000 rolls of toilet paper and another 20,000 packages of tissues embossed with unflattering images of Hong Kong's pro-Beijing chief executive. The items  - featuring Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying - were to be sold at a market in Hong Kong during Lunar New Year celebrations later this month. They were bought by the Hong Kong Democratic Party, which is said to have made HK$100,000 (£8,500) selling 4,000 rolls of the same toilet paper last year. The party's Vice Chairman Lo Kin-hei said it planned to earn more cash this year by selling the products during the island's Lunar New Year fair. Scroll down for video . Hong Kong Democratic Party Vice Chairman Lo Kin-hei shows off rolls of toilet paper and packages of tissue paper printed with images of pro-Beijing Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying . Chinese authorities have seized almost 8,000 rolls of the toilet paper and another 20,000 packages of tissues embossed with unflattering images of Hong Kong's pro-Beijing chief executive . The seizure came after Hong Kong was shaken by a massive pro-democracy movement in which demonstrators demanded greater electoral freedom than Beijing is willing to grant. During the demonstrations, protesters expressed anger at chief executive Leung Chun-ying, calling him a puppet of Beijing, and asked him to step down. No reason was given for the seizure of the 12,900 dollars worth (£8,500) of goods in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, Mr Lo said. 'I guess (the Chinese authorities) don't like people mocking government officials, especially high-ranking government officials, after the movement. They have become more cautious about criticisms about them,' he said. The party's 4,000 rolls of toilet paper with Mr Leung's image sold out at last year's seasonal market, and it decided to get more this year from a factory in Shenzhen, Mr Lo said. The images of Mr Leung see him bearing two fangs, and another has the word 'lying' on his forehead. The sickle-and-hammer symbol of the Communist Party of China also appears on some products. The images of Mr Leung are cartoonish and unflattering. One has him bearing two fangs, and another has the word 'lying' on his forehead. The sickle-and-hammer symbol of the Communist Party of China also appears on some products . The order was placed under the name of a friend to obscure the party as the true buyer, and all communications were done through the friend instead of the party, Mr Lo said. He declined to reveal the factory's name and said he had no information on the whereabouts of the factory owner. 'We are worried about what has happened to him,' Mr Lo said. Mr Lo said the seizure indicates further tightening by Chinese authorities on freedom of speech, which is guaranteed in Hong Kong's constitution. 'Many productions in Hong Kong rely on the mainland. This kind of tightening means in the future it will be more difficult to make products in the mainland. 'It's alarmful for Hong Kong people that they keep suppressing freedom in Hong Kong. We will become the mainland if this kind of mocking will be not allowed in Hong Kong.' Leung Chun-Ying, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The seizure came after Hong Kong was shaken by a massive pro-democracy movement in which demonstrators demanded greater electoral freedom than Beijing is willing to grant . Protesters carrying yellow umbrellas, the symbol of the Occupy movement, play with a roly-poly toy mocking Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying during a march in Hong Kong on February 1 . The march is the first large-scale demonstration since the Occupy Central protest ended last year as the government started a second round of public consultation on democratic reform. The banner reads: 'No fake democracy, I want genuine universal suffrage'

Items were for a market in Hong Kong during Lunar New Year celebrations . The rolls feature Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying in unflattering images . Comes after Hong Kong shaken by a massive pro-democracy movement . Images see him bearing two fangs, another has word 'lying' on forehead . 4,000 rolls with Mr Leung's image sold out at last year's seasonal market .

(CNN) -- Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system is figuring prominently in the unfolding aerial conflict with Hamas' military wing in Gaza. Iron Dome is being credited with protecting Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities by blocking some of the rockets fired from Gaza. Over the past three days, 737 rockets from Gaza were fired upon Israel: 492 landed, but 245 were intercepted by the system, Israel Defense Forces said Saturday. Israel and Hamas: How the conflict reignited . What is it? The name Iron Dome evokes an image of a protective bubble over a city. In practice, Iron Dome is a defense against short-range rockets and mortar shells: the system targets incoming rockets and fires an interceptor missile to destroy them midair. Each battery has a firing-control radar to identify targets and a portable missile launcher. The system is easily transportable, with just a few hours needed to relocate and set up. The missile is highly maneuverable. It is three meters, or almost 10 feet, long; has a diameter of about six inches; and weighs 90 kilograms, or 198 pounds, according to the security analysis group IHS Jane's. The warhead is believed to carry 11 kilograms, or 24 pounds, of high explosives, IHS Jane's said. Its range is from 4 kilometers to 70 kilometers -- or 2.5 miles to 43 miles. What the violence means . What are the origins of Iron Dome? Israel began developing the ground-based system in 2007. After a series of test flights in 2008 and 2009, the first deployment of a battery occurred in southern Israel in 2011, according to IHS Jane's and the IDF. The Israel Air Force reported an interception success rate of 70% in 2011, IHS Jane's said. Israel credits "breakthrough technology" and the system's radar. Iron Dome confronts multiple threats simultaneously, in all weather conditions, the Israeli military said. "The radar detects a rocket launch and passes information regarding its path to the control center, which calculates the predicted point of impact," the IDF said. "If this location justifies an interception, a missile is fired to intercept the rocket. The payload of the interceptor missile explodes near the rocket, in a place that is not expected to cause injuries." Each Iron Dome battery costs $50 million, IHS Jane's said. A missile costs at least $62,000, Israeli officials said. iReport: Photos from inside the protests in Israel . Is the United States involved in Iron Dome? Yes. The initial development was solely by Israel's defense technology company Rafael, but the system has since been heavily sponsored by the United States. In May 2010, the U.S. House approved a plan to allocate $205 million for Iron Dome. In July, President Barack Obama announced $70 million in U.S. funding. "This is a program that has been critical in terms of providing security and safety for Israeli families," Obama said of the system. "It is a program that has been tested and has prevented missile strikes inside of Israel." Beginning of ground attack? How important is Iron Dome? Israel has deployed five Iron Dome batteries, but in March, a defense ministry official told CNN that Israel would need up to 13 batteries to cover all its borders. Israel plans to deploy a total of nine batteries by 2013, Israeli media reported. The system is considered a game changer, Israeli officials said earlier this year. "Eliminating the ability to hit strategic targets may lead Hamas to rethink the efficiency of acquiring the rockets it has used in the past," former Israeli ambassador to the United States Dore Gold said in March. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that same month: "The Iron Dome system has proven itself very well and we will, of course, see to its expansion in the months and years ahead." Other countries have expressed interest buying the system, including the United States, South Korea and several NATO countries in Europe with military forces in Afghanistan, the Jerusalem Post reported in March. What is Hamas?

Israel's missile system targets rockets fired from Gaza . In 2011, Israeli military said Iron Dome had 70% success rate, IHS Jane's says . The system is highly mobile and can be set up in hours . The United States has allocated a total of $275 million for Iron Dome .

(CNN) -- Egypt has agreed to allow two Iranian warships to cross through the Suez Canal in a move that puts the country's new military regime in a prickly position with its Israeli neighbor. The post-Hosni Mubarak caretaker government gave the green light to the Iranian warships Friday, state media reported. They are expected to be the first Iranian warships to sail through the Suez since the Islamic republic's 1979 revolution. The canal is an internal body of water, and as such, Egypt has sovereignty over it. But Egypt also is bound by the 1978 Camp David Accords, which guarantee the right of free passage by ships belonging to Israel and all other nations on the basis of the Constantinople Convention of 1888. Before that, Egypt did not allow Israeli ships to sail through the canal. Last week, Egypt's newly empowered military government said it would honor all its international treaties. That would include Camp David. "This is awkward -- at a minimum," said David Schenker, director of the Program on Arab Politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Schenker said the Iranians had asked for a frigate -- the Alvand -- and a military supply ship -- the Kharg -- to cross into the Mediterranean. Both are armed with missiles, he said, adding that their passage would create more uncertainty in the region. "It's destabilizing. It raises tension, particularly in this time of transition in Egypt," Schenker said. "This is typical of Syrian-Iranian opportunism." Egypt's decision, analysts said, could show the direction that the military caretakers intend to take the Arab world's most populous nation. "It does raise an unwelcome political issue that has to be resolved," said Cmdr. James Kraska of the U.S. Naval War College in Rhode Island. Iran said earlier that the flotilla was on a yearlong intelligence-gathering and training mission to prepare cadets to defend Iran's cargo ships and oil tankers from the threat of attack by Somali pirates, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency. Asked about Iran's assertion that the ships are going to Syria for training, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Friday, "My initial response to that would be we're highly skeptical of that." Asked whether he was concerned about the ships' travel plans, he said, "It's not really about the ships. It's what are the ships carrying, what's their destination, what's the cargo on board, where is it going, to whom, for what benefit. We have, you know, ongoing concerns." Those concerns were shared by the White House, where Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One, "We're monitoring that, obviously, but we also would say that Iran does not have a great track record for responsible behavior in the region, which is always a concern for us." Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Israel's allies should pay close attention to the situation. "We expect the international community to act speedily with determination against the Iranian provocations, designed to deteriorate the situation in the area, and put the Iranians in their place," he said. The Israeli Defense Ministry said it was monitoring the movement of the Iranian ships and alerted its allies. The Suez Canal is a key waterway for international trade. It connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, allowing ships to navigate between Europe and Asia without having to go around Africa. Millions of barrels of oil move through the Suez every day en route to Europe and North America.

Egypt agreed to allow two Iranian warships to cross through the Suez Canal . They're expected to be the first such ships to sail through the canal since 1979 . Both ships are armed with missiles, analyst says . The canal is an internal body of water over which Egypt has sovereignty .

(CNN) -- Gavin DeGraw is a New York state native who now calls Nashville home. That is, when the singer/songwriter's not on the road -- which is rare these days. DeGraw is currently out on tour to promote his new album, "Sweeter." When he does get a break from touring, he heads back down South to Nashville. He took a little time out to share a few suggestions on what to do if you find yourself in Music City. Robert's Western World . On downtown Nashville's main drag, this live music venue -- where there's never a cover charge -- bills itself as "Nashville's undisputed home of traditional country music." "(It's) my favorite honky tonk on Broadway. Music and atmosphere is hard to beat. Just show up at any random time. ... Some of the best musicians on the strip play on that stage," says DeGraw. Robert's Western World is open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 a.m. and Sundays from 12 p.m. to 3 a.m. Loveless Cafe . "This place is a must," DeGraw says. "You feel like you are eating at your grandma's house when you walk into this place. Anything you order is going to feel like your grandma made it. The biscuits are a must!" The Loveless Cafe was originally a motel and cafe owned by Lon and Annie Loveless. While it has grown significantly since 1951 and given up the motel end of the business, the cafe still serves its famous fried chicken and Annie Loveless' secret recipe biscuits that DeGraw loves so much. The Pancake Pantry . Just like the Loveless Cafe, The Pancake Pantry has long been a Nashville staple. The popular family-owned eatery opened in 1961. In addition to its famous pancakes -- from orange-walnut to pigs in a blanket and chocolate sin -- the pantry boasts about its secret recipe syrups. DeGraw has a tip for visiting this popular Nashville landmark: "The key here is to go in the middle of the week or you're going to be waiting for hours. Another great place to catch up with friends and family and even though they are always busy, they never rush you out." Tootsies Orchid Lounge . This Broadway honky tonk is also a DeGraw favorite. "This place has so much history. So many of the legendary country artists have performed and hung out at Tootsies ... Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Mel Tillis, Kris Kristofferson, Roger Miller, Patsy Cline," says DeGraw. Tootsies, like Robert's Western World, holds a place in Nashville honky-tonk history. Legend has it that original owner Tootsie Bess used to slip $5 and $10 bills to struggling songwriters and that she kept a box of IOU's behind the counter to make sure that they could drink and eat as well. At the end of each year a group of Grand Ole Opry performers would come and pay the IOU tab so Tootsie wasn't out the money. Losers . The dive bar Losers will draw a much more local and diverse crowd than Tootsies and Robert's Western World. It's also very close to Vanderbilt University, so it's popular with the college crowd. "I like this place because this is a local musician joint that is not necessarily country," DeGraw says, explaining why it's on his list of favorites. "My musician friends who aren't on the road stop into this place from time to time, as do I."

Singer/songwriter Gavin DeGraw is a Nashville resident . He offers visitors five ideas for a classic Music City experience . Robert's Western World and Tootsies are his favorite honky tonks .

By . Tracey Cox . 'Living in sin' turns out to be just . what's needed for a happy marriage, according to results of a major . study, released last week. The American study upturned previous research - that couples who live together . before marriage are more likely to split - with quite the opposite . result. The study revealed relationships can last eight years longer, if you cohabit before walking down the aisle. Studies show that living together before marriage can make a relationship last eight years longer . This is great news for those considering moving in - but you still need to do a reality check first. Push emotion to the side, put on your objective hat and see how many of the following you can honestly say 'yes' to. If . you can't answer 'yes' to the majority of these questions, I'd strongly . advise you to give it a bit more time - or rethink entirely. Absolutely must answer yes to: . 1. Do they make you feel good about yourself and are you happier since you met them? 2. Are you able to be yourself? 3. Have . you seen how they behave in all sorts of different situations: day to . day, happy events, under pressure at work or from their family or . friends? Did they cope well with these crises? 4. Are you similar in tastes, views, what you like doing? 5. Do . you connect on at least three of these crucial connection points: . chemistry (you fancy the pants off each other), compatibility (you share . similar backgrounds and interests), common goals (you both want the . same things from life), pace (you move at the same speed and are both . 'fast' or 'slow' people) and timing (you're both ready for commitment)? 6. Do you communicate well (or at least think you'll learn to in time)? If the majority of your answers are 'no' Tracey smells trouble . 7. Do . you trust them to be faithful? If they go out alone or with mates, do . they reassure you with details of who they saw, where they went, who . they ran into? 8. Do you . get on with each other's friends and families? If neither of you can . bear each other's significant others, it's not a great sign. 9. Do . you both want the same things from life at around the same time? Do you . have similar aspirations and thoughts on marriage, kids and the future? 10. Does your gut instinct tell you it's right? 11. Do you like as well as love them? Important to answer yes to: . 1. Are they reliable? 2. Do you make decisions together? 3. Have . you had a few arguments and happy with how you resolved them? The . amount of arguments you're having isn't as relevant as how well you . solve them. 4. Are you both able to admit when you're wrong? 5. Are . they reasonably sorted psychologically? If they're excessively jealous, . overprotective or battling with substance abuse (alcohol or drugs), . solve the problem before moving in. 6. Are you both happy with the level of intimacy? Make sure sharing secrets, feelings, desires and anxieties isn't lopsided. 7. Do you laugh together, share the same sense of humour and can laugh at each other and yourselves without getting huffy? 8. Are you compatible sexually? If your libidos don't match, have you worked out a compromise you're both happy with? 9. Are . you both happy with the amount of time spent together and apart? Is . there a good balance between 'us' and 'me' on both sides? 10. Do . you trust each other to keep promises? Not just to be faithful but to . be trustworthy with money, stick around during bad times and generally . do the right thing? 11. Can . you live with each other's faults? Everyone has the odd annoying habit . but if it really, really irritates you now, it's only going to get worse . once living together. 12. Are . you with each other because you want to be, not because you're . biological clock is ticking or you're worried no-one else will want you? Were . the majority of your answers 'yes' or 'no'? Start packing if it's yes, . hold off signing that rental agreement if there were more than a . smattering of 'no's'. For more helpful relationship advice, follow Tracey's blogs on traceycox.com. Read more of Tracey's MailOnline blog here.

Studies show living together before marriage will make a relationship last . FEMAIL sexpert Tracey Cox has set a quiz to see if you're really ready...

By . Marcus Townend for MailOnline . Kingman’s place in the line-up for the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on October 18 has been thrown into doubt after Khaled Abdullah’s colt picked up a throat infection. The John Gosden-trained four-time group one winner could be re-routed to the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Santa Anita in California if he is forced to swerve the big mile race on British Champions day which is now a target for Sunday’s Freddie Head-trained Prix du Moulin winner Charm Spirit. Gosden, whose Pomology was second in the Prix Vermeille, said: ‘It is annoying. He is the only horse in the stable affected and has never had a sore throat before. His chances of running depend on how long he is on antibiotics.’ Kingman, ridden to victory by James Doyle at Goodwood in July, is in doubt for the Queen Elizabeth Stakes . Pomology (right) on the way to second behind Baltic Baroness in the The Qatar Prix Vermeille in Paris . Richard Hannon’s Prix du Moulin runner-up could run in the longer Champion Stakes rather than the QE II Stakes if he goes to Champions day after jockey Richard Hughes advised upping the colt in distance. After consulting the Queen on Sunday night, royal racing adviser John Warren could formally announce on Monday that her Estimate will not go for the Melbourne Cup. Brown Panther, trained by Tom Dascombe and part-owned by Michael Owen, won Sunday's Irish Leger by six and a half lengths. Brown Panther, part-owned by Michael Owen (left), was the Irish Leger by six and a half lengths . Gleneagles is 14-1 for next year’s 2,000 Guineas after winning the Group One National Stakes for Aidan O’Brien.

Khaled Abdullah’s colt could miss Queen Elizabeth Stakes through illness . Kingman picked up a throat infection and being treated with antibiotics . Trainer John Gosden said Kingman's run in the Stakes will depend on how long the horse is on medication . The Queen's Estimate is not likely to go for the Melbourne Cup .

An ancient carnivorous reptile with teeth shaped like steak knives has been named. Nundasuchus roamed the Earth 240 million years ago and had bony plates on its back like a crocodile, with legs underneath its body like a dinosaur. The skeleton, which has taken more than 1,000 hours to reconstruct, may help experts to fill in gaps in the ancient reptile family tree. What a find! Palaeontologists have discovered an ancient carnivorous reptile with teeth shaped like steak knives. Nundasuchus roamed the Earth 240 million years ago and was heavy-bodied with limbs under its body like a dinosaur. An illustration of the 9 ft (3 metre) reptile is shown . The nine foot (three-metre) reptile was one of the larger reptiles that lived before dinosaurs roamed the planet. ‘The full name is actually Nundasuchus songeaensis,' Sterling Nesbitt, an assistant professor of geological sciences at Virginia Tech explained. The name means ‘predator crocodile’ with ‘unda’ meaning predator in Swahili and ‘suchus’ a reference to a crocodile in Greek. A distant relative? The ancient reptile had bony plates on its back like a crocodile (a stock image is shown) with legs underneath its body like a dinosaur. Its name means ‘predator crocodile’ with ‘unda’ meaning predator in Swahili and ‘suchus’ a reference to a crocodile in Greek . Name: Nundasuchus songeaensis . Meaning: Predator crocodile, with 'unda' meaning predator in Swahili and 'suchus' a reference to a crocodile in Greece. The later part comes from the town, Songea, where the bones were found. Age: The reptile lived 140 million years ago . Distinctive features: It had bony plates on its back like a crocodile, with legs underneath its body like a dinosaur, as well as teeth that have been likened to steak knives. Skeleton location: It was found in Songea, south west Tanzania. Importance: The bones may help experts to fill in gaps in the ancient reptile family tree. 'The "songeaensis" comes from the town, Songea, near where we found the bones,' Professor Nesbitt said. ‘The reptile itself was heavy-bodied with limbs under its body like a dinosaur, or bird, but with bony plates on its back like a crocodilian.’ The 32-year-old academic has discovered seven reptiles and dinosaurs in the past decade, and was involved in naming 17. He discovered the partial skeleton in 2007 when he was a student but it has taken years to piece the bones together, which were in thousands of pieces. While a large number of skeleton bones were found, most of the skull was not recovered. Nundasuchus was discovered close to a town in southwestern Tanzania while Professor Nesbitt and a team of researchers were looking for prehistoric relatives of birds and crocodiles. ‘There's such a huge gap in our understanding around the time when the common ancestor of birds and crocodilians was alive - there isn't a lot out there in the fossil record from that part of the reptile family tree,’ he said. ‘This helps us fill in some gaps in reptile family tree, but we're still studying it and figuring out the implications.’ Nundasuchus was found while Professor Nesbitt (pictured) and a team of researchers were looking for prehistoric relatives of birds and crocodiles. Here, he collects bones at the site . The bones were collected in Songea, southwestern Tanzania (shown on the map) in 2007. Its skeleton was found in thousands of pieces and took more than 1,000 hours to reconstruct . Professor Nesbitt said that he realised very quickly what he had found. ‘Sometimes you know instantly if it's new and within about 30 seconds of picking up this bone I knew it was a new species. ‘I had hoped to find a leg bone to identify it, and I thought, “this is exactly why we're here” and I looked down and there were bones everywhere. ‘It turns out I was standing on bones that had been weathering out of the rock for hundreds of years - and it was all one individual of a new species.’ The reptile was recorded in the Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology. Prehistoric crocodiles were able to run around like dogs to escape the jaws of predatory dinosaurs. This is according to a study published last year that showed, for the first time, how the reptiles evolved in a dinosaur dominated world. Today, most modern crocodiles live in freshwater habitats and feed on mammals and fish, but their ancestors ran around on land like dogs while others adapted to life in the open ocean, imitating the behaviour of whales. Today, most modern crocodiles live in freshwater habitats and feed on mammals and fish. But their ancestors (pictuerd) were very different creatures, with some running around on land like dogs while others adapted to life in the open ocean, imitating the behaviour of whales . The study, by Bristol University, revealed how the jaws of the ancient crocodiles evolved to enable the fierce animals to survive in vastly different environments. The team examined variation in the shape and biomechanics function of the lower jaws in over 100 ancient crocodiles during the Mesozoic - a period which began 251 million years ago and covered over 170 million years. The study revealed that ancient crocodiles invaded the Jurassic seas and evolved jaws built primarily for water efficiency to capture agile prey, such as fish. Sample of jaws from the Mesozoic crocodile record . The research also found that variation peaked again in the Cretaceous period- 142 million years ago - where ancient crocodiles evolved a great variety of lower jaw shapes as they adapted to a diverse range of food. The research also found that variation peaked again in the Cretaceous period- 142 million years ago - where ancient crocodiles evolved a great variety of lower jaw shapes as they adapted to a diverse range of food. After the devastating end-Triassic extinction event, crocodile ancestors invaded the seas and evolved jaws primarily built to efficiently swim in the water to catch agile prey such as fish. They also evolved a great variety of lower jaw shapes during the Cretaceous Period - about 145 million to 65 million years ago - as they adapted to a diverse range of niches and environments alongside the dinosaurs, including eating plants. Surprisingly, the lower jaws of Cretaceous crocodiles did not have a huge amount of variation. Instead, the fossil record points towards novel adaptations in other areas of their anatomy, such as armadillo-like body armour.

Nundasuchus songeaensis had bony plates on its back like a crocodile . Name means ‘predator crocodile’ with ‘unda’ meaning predator in Swahili . Ancient reptile also had legs underneath its body like a dinosaur . Its skeleton was discovered in Songea, south west Tanzania . Despite missing a skull, it took over 1,000 hours to piece bones together .

Miami, Florida (CNN) -- From the custom-made, hand-beaded white dress to silver-studded high-heeled shoes, diamond jewelry and tiara, Jenny Ferro is preparing for a day she's dreamed about since she was 3 years old. "I'm really excited," says Jenny, eagerly nodding her head. "Really, really, a lot!" She isn't getting married. The 15-year-old is preparing for her quinceañera, a coming-of-age ritual in Latin culture, marking a young girl's entrance into womanhood. The centuries-old tradition began as a ceremony to introduce girls to society on their 15th birthday and signified that they were ready for marriage. Today, many quinceañeras have become much more elaborate. Jenny and her mother, Marlene Ferro, have worked out every detail of the party well in advance, from the rehearsal to the reception to the flower girl and the music. The theme of the party is bedazzled. First, there is the dress, which Marlene had designed specially for her daughter. It cost about $800. Then there are the shoes, high-heeled and silver to match the dress. During the party, the high heels will be ceremoniously slipped onto her feet to replace her flat shoes -- a symbolic transition of her journey from childhood to womanhood. "It makes her look like a princess," gushes Marlene Ferro. Quinceañeras are becoming increasingly popular in the United States. One reason for their popularity is a greater acceptance of Latin culture in America, according to Michele Salcedo, author of "Quinceañera!" a comprehensive guide to the celebration. "The 15th birthday, culturally, is a milestone. It doesn't have to be celebrated with a party at all, but it is generally marked by something quite special," Salcedo says. Experts believe the quinceañera is rooted in Mayan, Aztec and European traditions. Today, many coming-of-age ceremonies resemble lavish "Sweet 16" celebrations. Beyond the elaborate apparel, food and festivities, modern quinceañeras often feature a court of 15 people, typically consisting of family and friends. As the event continues to grow in popularity, the makeup of the court has also changed. "It has gone beyond Latinos, so that a lot of Latino girls will have not only family members in court but they will reach out to non-Latino friends," says Salcedo. "So it's a way of reaching out and extending social ties and bringing people in who might not otherwise have an opportunity to know a Latino family and to know the culture." Family plays the largest role in the quinceañera, leading up to and during the party. Mothers, fathers, grandparents and godparents can spend years preparing a night to remember for the young girl. The tradition is just as important to the family as it is to the young woman. The large, extravagant celebrations often symbolize a family's hard work and success. How has America changed Latinos? Marlene Ferro, who emigrated from Cuba as a child with her parents, says Jenny's quinceañera was a gift to both of them. The 43-year-old, single mother of three, saved for years and estimates that she spent at least $20,000 on her daughter's quinceañera. "I was able to accomplish something that I had been looking forward to for 15 years," says Marlene Ferro. The parties can be as big and expensive as a family can imagine and costs can escalate into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to Salcedo. She recommends that families manage expectations before the party planning even begins. iReporter Alexis Fernandez's quinceañera was a big event in Alaska . "Sometimes people go way overboard and [spend] much more on the celebration than they can afford and that's the downside of the quinceañera," says Salcedo. "Because when it's done right it can be a beautiful family celebration and a celebration of a milestone that a young girl goes through." Quinceañeras have changed over the years. Even though her tiara was taller than her daughter's, Marlene says her quinceañera was simple. It was a small gathering at her sister's apartment with family and friends. She wore borrowed jewelry from a family member, had a homemade cake and danced with her father. Marlene Ferro's 15th birthday present was a telephone in her bedroom. "I didn't have a big quince party. I chose to have a small party with my friends," she remembers. "My dress was really easy ... I didn't have an option. It was this one or that one. Now, we give our kids the option." iReporter Diamond Ramirez's mother, grandmother never had quinceañeras . There's a spiritual element to these celebrations as well, says Salcedo. The church plays a role in helping to prepare teenage girls for this transition to womanhood. Ceremonies and classes before the coming-of-age celebration teach the young women that with adulthood come certain responsibilities, both physical and spiritual. "When it's done in the spirit that it probably should be, the girl has certain responsibilities and by the end of the process, she's met them and she has showed her mother that she can, in fact, be responsible and she does acquire ... a bit more maturity then she [had] before," says Salcedo. As the celebrations become more popular in the United States, they also offer an opportunity for more Americans to participate. "It's a way to push back a lot of the negativity that a lot of Latinos feel is directed at Latinos," says Salcedo. "It is a way for people who have recently arrived, or maybe not so recently arrived, to say 'I have done well here' ... I'm throwing this party for my daughter and I'm inviting all of you to partake of my generosity so that you can see exactly how well we've done."

Quinceañeras, or 15th birthday celebrations, mark a girl's transition to womanhood . Jenny Ferro, 15, has been preparing for her celebration since she was 3 years old . Marlene Ferro estimates she spent $20,000 on her daughter's quinceañera . Expert: The elaborate parties are a way for Latinos to say 'I have done well here'

(CNN) -- The Food and Drug Administration has warned a company that markets caffeine and vitamin B as "breathable energy" it could face regulatory action over "false and misleading" labeling. AeroShot comes in a lipstick-shaped dispenser that puffs out the white powdery mixture. Pre-filled devices can be purchased online or in convenience stores in New York and Boston for about $3. AeroShot's website says the product "gives you a higher level of freedom and control that you can only get from airborne energy." However, elsewhere it explains, "the powder in AeroShot reaches your mouth where it is swallowed and ingested." "Your labeling is false and misleading because your product cannot be intended for both inhalation and ingestion," the FDA charges in a letter to the manufacturer Breathable Foods. "Consumers may attempt to inhale your product, causing it to enter the lungs. FDA is concerned about the safety of any such use." The AeroShot packaging says the product is "not recommended for people ... under 18." But the FDA noted that the AeroShot website refers to "hitting the books" and "studying in the library" as activities that presumably could be enhanced by using the product. "These activities are commonly performed by children and adolescents," the letter says. "Indeed, your reference to these activities seems to target this population." The FDA also expressed concern over AeroShot's posting of news clips on its website that refer to the mixing of the product with alcohol as a party drug. "Even though these news items express health concerns about taking AeroShot while drinking alcohol, your posting of the news items on the website where you promote and sell AeroShot publicizes such use," the letter states. "We plan to work closely with the FDA to meet their requests for information and labeling changes to ensure compliance with dietary supplement requirements," Tom Hadfield, CEO of Breathable Foods, said in a statement. "AeroShot delivers a mix of B vitamins and caffeine to the mouth for ingestion and is not 'inhaled' into the lungs. AeroShot is not recommended or marketed to persons under 18 or for use with alcohol." The FDA is giving Breathable Foods 15 working days to respond to the warning letter. "You should take prompt action to correct the violations cited above," the agency said in the letter. "Failure to do so may result in regulatory action without further notice. Such action may include, but is not limited to, seizure or injunction." In February, product inventor David Edwards told CNN it was safe and "thoroughly tested" before it was introduced. "There are energy shots on the market that have 10 times the amount of caffeine in a single energy shot than we have in the AeroShot. ... The fact is we don't have that much caffeine in the product," he said. One AeroShot contains 100 milligrams of caffeine dispensed in three to six "puffs." "For most healthy adults, moderate doses of caffeine -- 200mg to 300mg, or about two to four cups of brewed coffee a day -- aren't harmful," according to The Mayo Clinic. It warns that more than 500-600 milligrams daily can cause problems such as insomnia, elevated heart rate, muscle tremors and stomach upset. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, sent a letter in December urging the FDA to examine the safety and legality of AeroShot. "The bottom line is this product asks more questions than we have answers, and to have it on our shelves before those questions are answered is a serious, serious, serious mistake," he said in a news conference in February. AeroShot falls under FDA regulations for dietary supplements. Those products include vitamin C pills, some weight loss products and certain energy drinks. The company making them is responsible "for determining that the dietary supplements it manufactures or distributes are safe and that any representations or claims made about them are substantiated by adequate evidence to show that they are not false or misleading," according to the FDA website. It's rare for the agency to prohibit a supplement. In 2004, it stopped the sale of the diet supplement Ephedra, but only after deaths and other serious side effects were reported.

AeroShot's labeling is "false and misleading," FDA says . Marketing seems to imply supplement can be inhaled, FDA says . Breathable Energy says product is ingested, "not 'inhaled' into the lungs" FDA gives company 15 working days to respond or face possible regulatory action .

A Chinese teacher has been drawing on his experience to help students learn more about the world around them. Middle school geography teacher, Wang Boming, is one of the world’s best free-hand map drawers. He uses his unique talent in his classes to sketch incredibly accurate maps of the world by memory in an incredible four minutes, Shanghaiist website said. Wang Boming, a former art education major from Sha'anxi province, said he practised sketching out countries and continents all the time while he was in middle school. Now every day he continually sits in his office studying the globe and practising his drawing skills, so that he can make his maps perfect and precise. Scroll down for video . Wang Boming begins sketching his map of the world on the blackboard . Teaching a class of 60 students at his school in Ningxia, China, Wang starts his lesson by drawing a map of the world on the blackboard. While drawing the map he speaks to his students about each country or continent he’s drawing. Four minutes later a complete map of the world is on the blackboard, a feat that drew gasps and a round of applause from his students. 'I used to think that geography was boring but when he drew the map it made the class livelier,' one student, Li Yedan, said. 'Following his map was like travelling around the world. It showed us how interesting how geography can be.' Only after a minute of sketching he is already well on his way to completing the task . After three minutes' work he just has to add the final touches . Another student, Liu Junhao, agreed and thought that Wang’s unique style of teaching helped to make classes more interesting. 'He shows us the world and helps us to understand more about our planet,' Liu said. Wang explained that one of his former teachers always drew maps in class, which gave him the inspiration to do the same for his students. It takes him four minutes to draw a map of the world in his classroom . “I find drawing maps to be a more direct and engaging way to interest students in geography. It grabs their attention and makes them more interested in the subject. This makes them enjoy the class even more,” he said. But Wang still thinks he can do better. In his office he has a globe of the world on his table, and he spends time daily studying the globe and practising his drawing to make them even more accurate. By continual study Wang believes he can draw his maps even more precisely . 'I still practice a lot and compare my work to original maps so I can be more precise,' he said. Students said Wang was able to weave together knowledge to broaden their perspective. When drawing his maps Wang also often talks about world news and the goings on in each country he is drawing. As a result of his impressive map drawing skills Wang is attracting attention outside the classroom . It's a novel approach that brings his students on a trip around the world without ever leaving their classroom.

Middle school geography teacher, Wang Boming, uses amazing free-hand sketches to teach his students . His quick-fire drawings of the world keeps his pupils always interested . 'I used to think that geography was boring but when he drew the map it made the class livelier,' one student said. Wang still spends time daily studying the globe to improve his drawings . When drawing his maps Wang also often talks about world each country .

By . Tim Shipman . PUBLISHED: . 08:50 EST, 14 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 20:22 EST, 14 November 2013 . David Cameron last night condemned the ‘appalling’ and ‘chilling’ slaughter of innocent civilians in Sri Lanka as he and Prince Charles arrived there for the Commonwealth summit. The Prime Minister flew into a diplomatic firestorm after demanding that President Mahinda Rajapaksa hold a new inquiry into his regime’s human rights abuses. But Mr Cameron’s hosts hit back, accusing him of behaving like a colonial bully. Scroll down for video . Prime Minister David Cameron and Witham MP Priti Patel, walk through Kolkata, India, where they visited the Howrah Bridge which was built by the Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company . The Prime Minister is due to defy Mr Rajapaksa today by becoming the first world leader to visit Jaffna in the Tamil north of the country since Sri Lanka became independent in 1948. He will then meet Mr Rajapaksa and warn that he has ‘serious questions to answer’ about the murder of 40,000 civilians at the end of the civil war in 2009. Mr Cameron has faced pressure to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital. But he seized on footage smuggled out of Sri Lanka, which showed the regime shelling civilians in a supposed no-fire zone and the execution  of prisoners. David Cameron is visiting India for a two days before travelling to Sri Lanka for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting . 'These are chilling images of appalling acts and they need to be properly investigated,’ he said. ‘There are legitimate accusations of war crimes that need to be properly investigated.’ He said the footage screened by Channel 4 has been ‘verified’ as true by the United Nations.Mr Cameron added that the Tamil Tiger terrorist group, which specialised in suicide bombings, ‘did appalling things as well’. But he said the onus was on Mr Rajapaksa to come clean ‘about how the long war ended and the appalling scenes we’ve seen on television of thousands of innocent civilians being killed at the end of that war’. Mr Cameron added: ‘Part of my message to President Rajapaksa is he should be seizing the opportunity to win the peace.’ Mr Rajapaksa hit back, insisting he has ‘nothing to hide’ and seeking to justify the killings on the grounds that violence has now ended. ‘I will be meeting him and I will also have to ask some questions,’ he said. ‘If anyone wants to complain about a human rights violation in Sri Lanka – whether it be torture, whether it be rape – we have a system. ‘People were getting killed for 30 years. At least after 2009 we have stopped it. There is no killing in Sri Lanka today.’ Sri Lanka’s information minister said the Prime Minister only condemned human rights abuses there in order to pander to Tamil voters in the UK. Keheliya Rambukwella added: ‘We are a sovereign nation. You think someone can just make a demand from Sri Lanka! We are not a colony. We are an independent state.’ Mr Cameron denied that he was lecturing a former colony. ‘We are two sovereign governments, this is 2013, and we should have these sorts of frank conversations,’ he said. Mr Cameron is due to visit a refugee camp and a Tamil newspaper that has suffered censorship and oppression by the regime, but Downing Street aides believe Sri Lankan officials may try to prevent him going to the north of the country. Prime Minister David Cameron meets staff at Air Radio in Kolkata, India .

President wants to meet Prime Minister to defend his country . Mr Cameron speaking ahead of Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka . Visited Indian radio station while on two-day trip before talks .

Britons pay one of the highest proportions of property tax in the world, it has been revealed. Researchers have found that £1 in every £8 which is paid to the taxman is levied on people’s homes and business premises. This includes stamp duty, inheritance tax, council tax and business rates and has risen from £1 in every £12 in 1990. Startling figures show the Government raked in almost £65billion in property taxes in 2012 – an increase of £6billion in just three years. As a proportion of the total tax received, UK property tax is higher than in any other country analysed by The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The figures will put pressure on Labour to quash its plans for a mansion tax, which would place an additional levy on those with homes worth more than £2million. The OECD looked at 34 mostly rich nations, from Japan to the United States, and found that, on average, £1 in every £18 of tax paid was on property. In Austria the figure was just £1 in every £77, while in Australia and France it was £1 in £12. UK taxpayers also pay the highest property taxes as a proportion of the country’s economic output, or GDP, according to the OECD. Startling figures show the Government raked in almost £65billion in property taxes in 2012 - an increase of £6billion in just three years. Stock image used . Property tax in Britain is the equivalent of 4 per cent of GDP compared to an average of 1.8 per cent across the other 34 nations – and just 1 per cent in Germany, Sweden and Chile. Britons also hand over a higher proportion of income tax than the OECD average, but a lower percentage of national insurance contributions. The figures come just days after the Treasury unveiled reforms to stamp duty in a bid to reduce the tax burden on people buying homes. Chancellor George Osborne replaced the much-hated ‘slab structure’ with a gradual system, which he claimed would benefit 98 per cent of house-movers. Only those buying a home for more than £937,500 will find themselves paying more under the new rules, he said. Responding to the OECD figures last night, Paula Higgins, of the HomeOwners Alliance, said: ‘These are quite shocking statistics. ‘Taxation of people’s property is a tax on the aspirations of hard-working families and removes the incentive to buy a home.’ The figures come just days after Chancellor George Osborne (pictured) unveiled Stamp Duty reforms designed to reduce the tax burden on homebuyers . Jonathan Isaby, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘From business rates to council tax, the Treasury uses punitively high taxes on bricks and mortar to fill the holes in the coffers. ‘The Chancellor took some promising steps in the right direction with his reform of stamp duty, but there remains much more to do on that, and other taxes, before British taxpayers get a fair deal.’ Property tax includes business rates, which retailers pay on shops they rent. Critics say this puts bricks and mortar stores at a disadvantage compared with online retailers. Stephen Herring, of the Institute of Directors, welcomed a review of business rates announced during the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, saying it should focus on reducing the burden for small and medium-sized firms. Last night a Treasury spokesman said: ‘Reforms in the Autumn Statement mean we have cut stamp duty for 98 per cent of people who pay it and the tax bill for the average home is more than halved. This is a fairer system. ‘The UK’s property taxes are at the right level when compared to other developed economies.’

Britons are paying the highest proportion of property tax in the world . This includes stamp duty, inheritance tax, council tax and business rates . It has risen from £1 in every £12 in 1990, to £1 in every £8 today . Experts call it a major hurdle for everyday aspiring homeowners . It is likely to put further pressure on Labour's proposed mansion tax .

David de Gea's last gasp saves helped Manchester United secure another vital three points. The Spain international has been in fine form for club and country, renewing calls for him to sign a new contract with the Old Trafford club. Louis van Gaal has hailed his goalkeeper's contribution to United's upturn in form and Twitter wanted to say thanks too. David de Gea's impressive performance earned his a reaction on Twitter, including this Matrix mock-up . De Gea's performance sparked a reaction on Twitter after a string of fine saves against Stoke . De Gea mocked up in this image which was posted on Twitter after Manchester United's win . '70% of the earth is covered by water, the rest by David de Gea,' reads this meme after United's 2-1 win . De Gea mocked up as Superman after United's win to remain in fourth in the Premier League . De Gea produced a string of important saves for Manchester United against Stoke .

David De Gea produced a string of important saves against Stoke . Manchester United beat Stoke 2-1 at Old Trafford on Tuesday night . They remain in the Premier League's coveted top four .

By . Lucy Crossley . PUBLISHED: . 10:43 EST, 5 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:48 EST, 5 December 2013 . Sacked: Leanne Phillips, 31, has won her unfair dismissal case against My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding dressmaker Thelma Madine, who fired her following a heated argument . A dressmaker who starred on the hit show My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding unfairly dismissed her head designer after a heated row, a court has ruled. Thelma Madine, 61, sacked Leanne Phillips, 31, last Christmas following a shouting match which ended with the employee calling her boss 'a horrible b****'. However, a tribunal described her action as 'unreasonable' and criticised her for making it based on personal rather than business reasons. Employment tribunal judge Vincent . Ryan also described the atmosphere at the bridal shop as 'volatile', and . that much of this atmosphere was down to a need to provide added drama . for the reality television show. Miss Phillips brought the case against Ms Madine last December, after she was sacked from Nico Bridal Company in Liverpool, where she had worked for six years. Channel Four star Ms Madine once praised Miss Phillips for for taking her business 'to another level'. However she fired her former pal allegedly following a shouting . match which ended with Miss Phillips calling her Ms Madine a ‘horrible . b****’. Judge Ryan ruled that Ms Madine, who Miss Phillips described as 'like an aunt', had reacted to the insult 'as a friend', rather than an employer, and not for a reason relating to her work. Ms Madine, who rose to fame designing opulent dresses for traveller brides has now been ordered to pay Miss Phillips £1,200, and faces having to fork out more money in compensation. The judge upheld Miss . Phillips' claims that she was unfairly dismissed by Ms Madine, that she . was owed wages, was provided with no written contract of employment and . that her employer failed to follow ACAS guidelines when conducting the . disciplinary procedure. In his judgement ruling Mr Ryan said: 'All things and . personalities considered, the atmosphere in the place of work was . volatile and loud rows would erupt. 'Staff shouted at each other and could be abusive on occasions. 'This . informality and volatility was tolerated by the respondent and to an . extent, particularly when filming of the television documentary, was . actively appreciated by the respondent so as to avoid the risk of the . film footage being perceived to be boring.' Ruling: My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star Thelma Madine, left, has been ordered to pay Miss Phillips £1,200 in back pay by the employment tribunal. The tribunal heard how prior to Miss Phillips losing her £400-a-week job at Nico, she and Ms Madine had been firm friends. Miss . Phillips had known Ms Madine since she was just four years old, and her . former employer had even bought her a car for her 30th birthday. 'The respondent was very generous to the claimant and they worked closely together,' said the judgement. 'The . claimants appeal against dismissal was not dealt with promptly and . there was considerable delay in the holding of the appeal hearing. 'The investigation into the matter was flawed. 'The . claimant was dismissed for personal reasons of the respondent that . related to the claimants personal conduct towards her and not for a . reason that related to conduct having a bearing on her work. Unfair: Tribunal Judge Vincent Ryan upheld Miss Phillips' claims that she was unfairly dismissed by Ms Madine, who rose to fame on the Channel four show . 'The respondent reacted to an insult from a friend in personal circumstances, rather than as a reasonable employer. 'The matter was personal and not business.' Ms Madine was ordered to pay back the . £1200 that had been deducted from Miss Phillips's wages, and a . compensation package will be agreed at a remedy hearing next year. During . the tribunal Miss Phillips had claimed that there were regular . arguments at the business which nobody else was punished for and that . there was no discipline structure. Employment: Ms Madine paid Leanne Phillips £400 a week to design dresses for Nico Bridal Company, based in Liverpool . Her . mother Pauline Wooley also gave evidence suggesting Ms Madine, who rose . to fame on the Channel Four series about the traveller community, . routinely mistreated her staff. Ms Wooley, who is currently suspended from her role as Assistant Manager . at the company, told the court hearing in Liverpool that she was . 'treated like a dog' by her employer, who had also been a close friend . for more than 20 years. However, Peter Maratos, an employment expert speaking on behalf of Ms . Madine, said that Miss Phillips was 'spoiled' and 'over-reacted' after . the publicity from featuring on the TV programme had 'gone to her head'. Speaking about the result, Ms Phillips said: 'I am over the moon with the outcome. It has been a long process, coming up to a year since I was dismissed, and I am really pleased. 'I knew that there was only ever going to be one verdict. 'Judge Ryan saw through all of the lies - thank god he did.' Miss . Phillips has now launched her own fashion business - Leanne Alexandra - . and has been flooded with orders for christening and communion dresses . from the gypsy community. She added: 'It is onwards and upwards from here for me. 'I am concentrating on my business. 'I have had plenty of orders already and everyone has been so supportive of me.' Ms Madine, who denied the claims made at the tribunal, was unavailable for comment. Miss . Phillips's solicitor Stephen Pinder said: 'It was one of the most . overwhelming decisions I have seen in favour of the claimant. 'Leanne is delighted with the outcome and looks forward to continuing her new business.' After the success of the Gypsy Wedding series, Ms Madine went on to appear in spin-off Thelma's Gypsy Girls . The . court case came just one year after Ms Madine published her autobiography, . Tales of The Gypsy Dressmaker, in which she praised Miss Phillips. She . wrote: 'Leanne is now the head designer at Nico and is starting to . oversee parts of the process that I had to do, which is great, because . it means that I can concentrate on other parts of the business. 'I used to feel that every one of my . dresses was like my baby and that no one could do them as well as me but . I know now that the future of Nico is in Leanne's hands. 'Since . she started working for me, Leanne has taken Nico to another level. Not . only that, she also inherited her mum Pauline's determination and . loyalty. 'And I have to admit that she reminds me of me at her age, full of imaginative ideas and passion for the task in hand.' Fame: Thelma Madine became known for her incredible dress creations on hit show My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding . Collaborators: Ms Phillips, left, and Ms Madine, right, posing with a dress made of hair .

Thelma Madine ordered to pay former head designer Leanne Phillips £1,200 . Miss Phillips, 31, will also be awarded compensation for unfair dismissal . Designer was paid £400 a week to work at Ms Madine's wedding boutique . Ms Madine rose to fame designing frocks for Channel Four show .

(CNN) -- Felix Baumgartner jumped from the edge of space. James Cameron plunged to the ocean's lowest depths. Baumgartner broke the sound barrier. Cameron discovered an "alien world." Call them daredevils, explorers, neither or both. No matter what, their record-breaking solo feats, backed up by teams of specialists, literally raised and lowered the bar for human achievement. So, for others aspiring to chart new terrain, what's next? We asked for your ideas. Journey to the center of the Earth . Martin Samuels and John O'Connor wrote us on Facebook, saying it's time to work on getting lower. Way, way lower. "Journey down in to the center of Earth," wrote Samuels. O'Connor added, "Jules Verne for real!" That may be a very, very, very long way away, but downward steps are already being taken in that direction. A new $1 billion mission plans to drill 3.7 miles beneath the sea floor to reach the Earth's mantle, a nearly 1,900-mile-thick layer of slowly deforming rock between the crust and the core, which makes up the majority of the planet. What we learn below can go a long way toward showing us what's above. The deepest crack found in the Earth's crust, on the Caribbean Sea floor, included signs of life -- which could indicate that alien life could exist on other planets, according to NASA. Walk on Mars . "Obviously, the first person to set foot on Mars is the next big story," wrote Matt James Tiberius Kazan. Again, a far jump (ha ha) from anything Baumgartner and Cameron have done, and more in the realm of astronauts' incredible achievements -- but, again, a big new goal explorers are working on. In fact, it could happen within 20 to 30 years, according to Charles Elachi, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "I think engineering-wise, we know how to do it to some level. We still need a lot of development and a few inventions to do that," Elachi told CNN. "So at the end it would become a question of national will if we want to keep our exploration, expand our vision and expand our exploration in the next 20 to 30 years." In the meantime, NASA is celebrating the success of the Mars rover Curiosity. Individual Atmosphere Re-entry . Much closer to home, Andrew Creech writes, "the next step is individual atmosphere re-entry. That would be an amazing feat!" It would -- and Baumgartner's jump may have gotten experts closer to making that happen. "The long-term hope is that we can one day develop a suit that would allow a human to reenter the atmosphere from space without the help of a spaceship," Forbes wrote. In a blog post before Baumgartner's jump, Forbes said if the event was successful it would "be a big step forward." Re-entering Earth's atmosphere can be like splashing into a lake, the Federal Aviation Administration explains. It's "a dense, fluid medium, which, at orbital velocities, is not all that different from a lake's surface." Astronauts have to hit the atmosphere at a precise angle and speed to avoid "a big 'splash,' which would mean a fiery end," or a too shallow entry, which could send them skipping "off the atmosphere and back into the cold of space. This subtle dance between fire and ice is the science of atmospheric re-entry." Baumgartner's 100-pound pressurized suit and helmet helped him survive the lethally thin atmosphere and intense cold of near-space. One day, the hope is, a suit could help save the lives of astronauts forced to bail out of a malfunctioning rocket on its way to space. Politicians cooperate . To little surprise, some of our social media responses focused on politics. Politicians should "go where no one has gone before and start cooperating with each other," wrote Andreas Bojesen. "A third party nominee ascends to the presidency!" wrote Michael J. Simmons. The tech behind the Stratos jump . What ideas do you have? Post comments below or join the discussions at Facebook and Twitter.

You said: Journey to Earth's core, go to Mars . Felix Baumgartner jumped from the edge of space . James Cameron traveled to the ocean's lowest depths . NASA official says a person could be on Mars in 20 to 30 years .

By day he was an Amazon delivery driver, in his free time he transformed into a self-styled 'zombie hunter' who patrolled the streets in a decommissioned squad car. Now he is accused of being a killer who murdered random women for thrills. New details have emerged about the life of Bryan Miller who is accused of stabbing two Phoenix women to death in 1992. One of the women's body was found decapitated. Miller was an horror-obsessed fantasy enthusiast and a regular at events such as Comic Con and 'zombie walks' where he would indulge his alter ego. He was arrested in the cold-case killings of two women in1992 on Tuesday - and it has now emerged that he stabbed another women he met in 2002, but was let off when he claimed it was in self defense. Melissa Ruiz-Ramirez was out walking in Everett, Washington, on May 23 when she accepted a ride from a man whom she recognized from a friend's apartment complex. During the car ride, they talked about how some of the trails and pathways near that complex were dangerous, before Miller allegedly took Ruiz-Ramirez to his work and stabbed her in the back with a 12-inch serrated knife. Scroll down for video . Alter ego: Bryan Miller would patrol the streets of Phoenix as the 'zombie hunter' Violent past: Bryan Patrick Miller, 42 - who was arrested Tuesday for a 22-year-old grisly double murder case and had a Facebook page calling himself 'The Arizona Zombie Killer' (pictured) - was acquitted of a separate stabbing in 2002, it has been revealed . Strange: Miller, a 'zombie hunter' and compulsive hoarder, was busted in connection with two horrific murders of young women that terrified the Phoenix area in 1992 and 1993 . Arrested: Miller, a father-of-one, lists himself on Facebook as a driver for Amazon who loves zombies . However the charges against Miller were dropped after he argued that Ruiz-Ramirez had tried to rob him. He moved back to Arizona shortly afterward and quietly resumed his life. That is until his dramatic arrest on Tuesday. It has also been revealed that, in high school, Miller randomly stabbed a woman at a Phoenix mall but only served time until age 18, Phoenix police Sgt. Trent Crump said. The Washington state case didn't require him to submit a DNA sample because he was exonerated. Miller, who was reportedly obsessed with horror and fantasy, had a decommissioned police car he acquired in Washington and would drive around Pheonix calling himself 'The Arizona Zombie Hunter'. He set up a Facebook page specifically for his hobby, which he described as: 'Keeping Arizona safe from the things that go bump in the night. Also available for your event.' DNA evidence recently collected by undercover officers now ties the divorced father to the slayings of Angela Brosso, 22, and 17-year-old Melanie Bernas. The women disappeared 11 months apart while riding their bikes through Phoenix. Miss Brosso was killed in November 1992 and her body was found shortly after she went missing. Her decapitated head was found 11 days later in the Arizona Canal. Bernas' body was discovered about 1 ½ miles away floating in the water in September 1993. Her turquoise bodysuit was discovered nearby. She had also been riding near the canal. Unsolved: Angela Brosso, 22, and 17-year-old Melanie Bernas were murdered 11 months apart while riding their bike through Phoenix Arizona in the early 1990s. Police finally made an arrest this week . Scene: Phoenix Police Crime Response Unit members inspect the house of a Bryan Patrick Miller, the suspect of at least two 1992 murders of two young women in Arizona . New evidence: Police are expected to spend several days combing through Miller's home . Investigation: Miller's alleged victims had both disappeared riding bikes near the Amazon Canal in Phoenix . Social media: According to Miller's Facebook page he is a father of one, works as a driver for Amazon, likes Zombie films and conventions and recently embarked on a relationship . Investigators took six months to link the killings through forensic evidence and failed to make a breakthrough until Tuesday, when they Miller on two counts of first-degree murder and kidnapping and one count of sexual assault. Police said they tied the case to Miller through DNA, but refused to say how they obtained the sample. Police continued to comb through Miller's home near North Mountain Park on Thursday and are likely to be there for several days. So far, there is no evidence that Miller knew either victim, Crump said. A bike was found in a shed in Miller's backyard, but Crump said it wasn't immediately clear if it belonged to either victim. Neither of the women's bikes - Brosso's purple, 21-speed Diamondback nor Bernas's green SPC Hardrock Sport - has ever been found, suggesting the killer may have kept them as trophies. Miller appeared in court Wednesday without an attorney. According to police, he denied any involvement in the killings during a police interview. He acknowledged living in the vicinity at the time of the murders and that he rode his bike on the bike paths. Jason Brosius, who worked with Miller at the time of his assault arrest in Everett, said he never saw Miller exhibit any strange behavior. 'He was kind of a quiet person but he wasn't anymore quiet than anybody else,' said Brosius, who still works at the same company, a provider of truck accessories. 'He didn't show any crazy, weird flags to me. He seemed pretty square.' Brosius recalled how Miller moved right after his acquittal without saying much to anyone. Crime scene investigators admit they were traumatized by the sheer brutality of the 1990s murders. 'It's the most brutal murder we've probably ever had,' said William Schira, a Phoenix detective on the cold-case squad . Archive: The murders in Phoenix in 1992 and 1993 - crime scene pictured here - terrified the city . Shocking: The disappearance and then discovered of the two victims bodies frightened the area . Shocking: Angela Brosso, 22, was killed in November 1992 and her body was found shortly after she went missing. Her decapitated head was found 11 days later in the Arizona Canal . 'He came back here, collected his personal stuff and that was the last anybody saw of him,' Brosius said. 'He said he was going back to Arizona, and that was it.' Police said the killer probably had special military training due to the speed and brutality of the women's executions. 'It's the most brutal murder we've probably ever had,' said William Schira, a Phoenix detective on the cold-case squad said in 2012. Phoenix police and the Cold Case Homicide Unit launched a fresh appeal for information that year, hoping someone who lived in the area may recall anything unusual among their neighbours. 'We're calling on the public who lived in that area at the time to think: 'Who had specialized training and might have seemed a little off?',' said Phoenix police Sgt Troy Hillman at the time. It is not known whether Miller's arrest was made as a result of that inquiry. Zombie Hunter: Miller appears to have been obsessed with horror and fantasy and would attended fan conventions in a decommissioned police car, which he called 'The Arizona Zombie Hunter' According to Miller's Facebook page he is a father of one, works as a driver for Amazon, likes Zombie films and conventions and recently embarked on a relationship. A recent posting read: 'I have had to deal with some if the worst rejections you can imagine and some that were exceptionally cruel.. I am awkward when it comes to a lot of social aspects of my life'. Another in October last year read: 'My birthday is on friday and normally I dread my birthday because of well 'reasons', but this year I have decided to celebrate my birthday the entire month of October. Seeing friends, concerts, food, car-related events, and just trying to enjoy things more, and this weekend I have the zombie walk and an extra day off and then next week is Halloween and Fearcon.'

Bryan Patrick Miller, 42, was arrested Tuesday in Phoenix for a double- murder cold case . Angela Brusso, 22, and Melanie Bernas, 17, killed in Phoenix 22 years ago . Miss Brusso's head was discovered in Arizona canal in November 1992 . Miss Bernas's body was found in the same canal in September 1993 . Records show Miller was charged with a stabbing in Washington in 2002 . He was acquitted after arguing the female victim tried to rob him . He also served time for stabbing a woman in high school . Investigators say he was linked to the murders through DNA evidence . Miller drove around Phoenix in a decommissioned cop car dressed in a cyber punk costume calling himself 'The Arizona Zombie   Hunter'

Family and friends of the Indiana aid worker beheaded by ISIS extremists were joined by politicians and prominent figures in the Muslim community at a memorial service Sunday. Abdul-Rahman Kassig, the former Army Ranger who was 26 at the time of his death, was remembered for his commitment to aid work at Butler University two days after his funeral services. 'We're not here because of how he passed,' said Hazem Bata, executive director Islamic Society of North America in Plainfield. Humanitarian: Abdul-Rahman Kassig, the 26-year-old former Army Ranger, was remembered for his commitment to aid work at Butler University . 'We're because of how he lived. We're here because of the type of man he chose to be. We're here because of his selflessness.' Kassig landed in the hands of ISIS extremists last year while delivering aid to Syrians caught in the crossfire of a ghastly civil war. At the time he was working as part of Special Emergency Response and Assistance, or SERA, a relief organization he founded in 2012 and which suspended operations after his kidnapping. His parents learned of his capture last year, though the information was not made public at the time. When Kassig appeared in a beheading video of a British aid worker, his parents recorded a video pleading for his release to ISIS militants. Kassig, who converted to Islam and changed his name from Peter during his time in captivity, inspired the Muslim community to come to his family's side. Memorial: After speeches by politicians and members of the Muslim community, photos remember Kassig's life were shown . Comfort: At funeral services held Friday, friends spoke to Paula, Kassig's mother, who had pleaded with ISIS extremists for the release of her son . The Indianapolis Star reports that at a funeral service Friday, Muslim leaders denounced ISIS violence, citing the Quran's prohibition of Muslims killing other Muslims. 'The question is, is this Islam? Definitely not. Does this group belong to Islam? No, it does not. Islam is a religion of love, mercy and peace,' said Syrian Imam Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi. 'Encouraging killing is not Islamic,' added Imam Al-Yaqoubi. At Clowes Hall at Butler on Sunday, public figures who hadn't known Kassig got up to speak about his legacy. 'It's the spirit of believing things can get better. That together we can make a difference,' said Indiana senator Joe Donnelly about Kassig's commitment to humanitarian work. 'He was an extraordinary in every way.'

During services held at Butler University on Sunday, speakers touched on the humanitarian legacy of Abdul-Rahman Kassig . Kassig, a 26-year-old former Army Ranger, was beheaded by ISIS extremists last month . He was kidnapped back in 2013 while delivering humanitarian aid in eastern Syria .

George Ford has warned Wales that he is not England's weak link as he steels himself for the onslaught he knows is coming at the Millennium Stadium. The rookie Bath fly half has the vision to unlock Wales when the RBS 6 Nations opens in Cardiff on Friday night, but his light frame means doubt persists over his defence despite solid outings against Samoa and Australia in the autumn. British and Irish Lions centre Jamie Roberts will be the main battering ram directed at Ford, but roaming wings George North and Alex Cuthbert, as well as the home back row, are sure to test his courage. England's fly half George Ford insists he's not the weak link ahead of the Six Nations opener with Wales . As the likely focal point for the Welsh power game, the 21-year-old Ford is ready to roll up his sleeves to halt the heavy traffic coming down his channel. 'I know what's coming. It happens in most matches you play as a 10 - you get targeted,' said Ford, who will be making only his third Test start. 'They look for you defensively and want you to make you tackles. It's something you expect and prepare for. The Bath player knows he'll be targeted by the Welsh but he's ready for the upcoming battle in Cardiff . Ford (centre) is known for having a brilliant rugby brain and has the vision needed to cause Wales problems . 'They want you to make as many tackles as possible to take other aspects of your game away, whether that's your attack, kicking game or game management. 'I like that part of the game - I like the responsibility of making my tackles because I want to contribute in defence as well as attack.' Ford has been among of the beneficiaries of 'Hymns and Arias' being played at full volume over the loudspeakers during training at the squad's Pennyhill Park base on Wednesday in preparation for the noise and passion that await at the Millennium Stadium. England have insisted on the roof not being closed, opting not to fall into line with the wishes of Wales in the hope of diluting the hostile atmosphere that will greet their attempt at making a triumphant start to the Six Nations. Jamie Roberts (left) and George North were identified as Wales' danger men ahead of Friday's clash . Only eight of the matchday 23 have played in the Welsh capital before and Ford, who shoulders the goalkicking duties on his first visit to Cardiff, is grateful for the meticulous preparation. 'It was good training with the speakers on. They were obviously very loud, but it was definitely something we needed to do because of the atmosphere and noise that will be there on Friday night,' he said. 'Communication will be massive so to practice under those conditions will definitely be worthwhile. I'm glad we did it. Ford impressed in his first two matches for England and knows he needs to exceed those levels in Cardiff . 'I'm excited about this game, about playing in front of a passionate Welsh crowd. I'll enjoy it and embrace it. We'll try to quieten them as much as we can. 'I haven't really thought about the goalkicking aspect. Either way, you've still got to kick and go through your pre-shot routine. 'You've still got to get the ball through the posts so whether it's loud or quiet, it shouldn't really affect you anyway. Northampton Saints Luther Burrell (left) will partner Ford in the centre after his impressive season . 'If it's like that you've got to get on with it. It doesn't really make it easier or harder if it's noisy anyway because you're in your own little bubble, concentrating on the kick.' Ford will be looking to unleash Bath team-mate Jonathan Joseph on Wales with England boldly opting for the in-form but inexperienced outside centre to partner Luther Burrell in midfield. 'Jonathan has been world-class in attack and his defence has been brilliant as well - he leads that at the club,' Ford said. Captain Chris Robshaw will be hoping to lift the Six Nations with England for the first time since 2011 . England's players train at Pennyhill Park ahead of their Six Nations opener against rivals Wales . 'Jonathan has that ability to create something out of nothing with an outside break or his off-loads with one hand. 'In attack he offers something different with his speed, agility and outside break. It is our job, at the right time, to get him into the right positions to show what he can do. 'There aren't many players around who can create things like that and to play with him is massively exciting. 'He always wants the ball in his hands in attack, but he is also good at the things people don't see, like his kick-chase and his communication about when to kick and so on.' Burrell (centre) charges through the England line during training at Pennyhill Park . Danny Cipriani (centre) has earned a spot on Stuart Lancaster's bench after a solid season with Sale Sharks .

George Ford has warned Wales he is not England's weak link in the squad . The fly half knows he'll be targeted but is ready for the stern test ahead . Ford was named in Stuart Lancaster line-up for the Six Nations opener . Click here for all the latest Six Nations news .

A man who collects DeLorean cars has transformed the classic Back To The Future vehicles into a monster truck, a limousine, a hovercraft, a convertible and a Time Machine Replica. Rich Weissensel, a software engineer from Chicago, Illinois, is fanatic about the two-door sports car and owns five custom creations - including a stretched DeLorean Limousine - and three stock DeLoreans. The 50-year-old has re-modeled the stainless-steel shape of the iconic cars into bizarre and brilliant automotive creations in an ongoing, 14-year series of projects. Scroll down for video . Fanatic: Rich Weissensel, a software engineer from Chicago, Illinois, is fanatic about the two-door sports car and owns five custom creations (pictured) Stretch of the imagination: The DeLorean limousine stretches the length of a school bus with six distinctive gullwing doors and uses parts from as many as six different damaged cars . Monster motor: Rich's first custom creation - a huge monster-truck, dubbed the D Rex, is based on a 1981 DeLorean's body but mounted onto the running gear of a 1979 Chevrolet K5 Blazer SUV . The projects started after Rich met the car's founder John DeLorean at the Cleveland DeLorean Car Show in 2000 and showed him some of his ideas and sketches. Rich's first custom creation - a huge monster-truck, dubbed the D Rex, is based on a 1981 DeLorean's body but mounted onto the running gear of a 1979 Chevrolet K5 Blazer SUV. The huge hybrid is fitted with custom wheels and 44-inch tall tires, twice the size of the average cars and a V8 motor. The Time Machine Replica: The car enthusiast will only use damaged DeLoreans for his projects, as there were under 10,000 of the DMC-12 model ever made before the company went bankrupt. The convertible: He said, 'I have so many different ideas for custom DeLoreans, I'm not sure if time, money or age will stop me from building them but as long as I'm able I'll continue to build them' Rich said: 'Even though the monster truck is a huge project, it actually only took me and my team a month to build it. 'We married the two vehicles together, DeLorean body and 4x4 chassis, and then we did a few monster-sized upgrades.' The car enthusiast will only use damaged DeLoreans for his projects, as there were under 10,000 of the DMC-12 model ever made before the company went bankrupt. The DeLorean limousine stretches the length of a school bus with six distinctive gullwing doors and uses parts from as many as six different damaged cars, all on a custom fabricated, stainless steel stretched frame. His hero: The projects started after Rich met the car's founder John DeLorean at the Cleveland DeLorean Car Show in 2000 and showed him some of his ideas and sketches . The original: His DeLorean obsession pre-dates the Back to the Future movies to when he first saw the DeLorean prototype as a young man in the 1980s (pictured, in a scene from 1990's Back the the Future III) It is 26 feet long and it took Rich several years to acquire all the parts needed from numerous damaged DeLoreans. Rich said: 'It's got three pairs of gull wing doors, so we have six fully operational doors on there, and having six standard-sized gullwing doors has never been attempted, as far as I know, on any kind of limousine. 'Probably for good reason, since gullwing doors are very difficult to try to align exactly right.' Rich from Chicago, Illinois, built a custom hovercraft using the stainless steel panels of the DeLorean and a hovercraft cushion which allows the DeLorean to float over any surface. His DeLorean obsession pre-dates the Back to the Future movies to when he first saw the DeLorean prototype as a young man in the 1980s. Rich said: 'My friends all know me as the guy with the DeLorean, all my co-workers know me by the guy with the DeLoreans. 'My family obviously knows I've been rather obsessed with DeLoreans since I bought my first one back in 1985. 'I have so many different ideas for custom DeLoreans, I'm not sure if time, money or age will stop me from building them but as long as I'm able I'll continue to build them.'

Rich Weissensel, from Chicago, Illinois, customised 5 DeLorean creations . They include a monster truck, a limousine, a hovercraft and a convertible . And his fifth is a Back to the Future-style 'Time Machine Replica' Only 10,000 of the DMC-12 models were made before company went bust .

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (CNN) -- Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are well aware of what's at stake in Ohio. Mike Milburn, left, and Dan DeGarmo are skeptical about what both candidates bring to the table. No Republican has ever won the White House without winning Ohio, a state that has received more visits from the candidates and their running mates this year than any other. Inside the bellwether state is the bellwether town of Chillicothe, a town that often mirrors the state's election results. Voters there are divided. With less than a month to go until the election, it's concerns about the financial markets and the economy that dominate the airwaves at the town's radio station. "The only other people that've experienced something like what we're experiencing now are our grandparents or our great-grandparents," host Dan Ramey said on his radio show on WBEX-AM. At Carl's Townhouse, the outlook among the breakfast crowd was gloomy. "I think that the money they just passed in Congress is just postponing what's going to happen in the future, which I think is going to be another Depression," said resident Mike Milburn. Milburn said he lives paycheck to paycheck to support his four kids. For Dan DeGarmo, it's the same -- his fourth child is due soon. "I don't see how either of those candidates offer any solid solutions that give Americans comfort," he said. Watch more on Ohio's bellwether town » . Both men are registered Republicans. Milburn said he might not vote at all, while DeGarmo said he plans to vote for McCain. Jeff Ragland, a cement worker, said he's voting for Obama. "I feel like he's more for the people that are people like me," he said. People like Theresa Hall, an undecided Independent, are the targets of both candidates as they enter into the final weeks of campaigning. "It seems like when you watch them, they're pretty much just at each other. He says this, he says that," Hall said. Along Chillicothe's Main Street, buildings in need of repair provide reminders that this once booming industrial town has seen better days. Obama's troops are trying to make inroads among the population of 22,000 that went for George Bush in the past two elections, and team McCain is working to keep the county red. Right now, people say the town is divided -- and so are the predictions. "This community seems to just be enough Republican to help [McCain] out," WBEX's Ramey said, adding that his gut feeling is that will be the case this year. DeGarmo, however, disagreed. "Honestly, I think Obama is going to win," he said. Weighing sentiments like those is one way to get a pulse on how this town might vote in November. But in one indication of the town's importance, McCain has already visited, and Obama is scheduled to stop by on Friday.

Chillicothe, population 22,000, is considered a bellwether town in Ohio . Voters at local restaurant are skeptical about the upcoming election . The town voted for George Bush in the past two elections . John McCain has visited Chillicothe; Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Friday .

(CNN) -- A federal jury in Pennsylvania on Wednesday ordered Marvell Technology Group, Ltd., to pay $1.17 billion in damages after finding it infringed on two patents held by Carnegie Mellon University. A lawsuit filed in 2009 by the Pittsburgh university claimed that Marvell infringed on its patented technology fundamental for "increasing the accuracy with which hard disk drive circuits read data from high-speed magnetic disks," according to a press release from K&L Gates, the law firm representing Carnegie Mellon. The damages could be increased by as much as three times by U.S. District Court judge Nora Barry Fischer since the jury found chipmaker Marvell's infringements were willful, according to K&L Gates. The jury also found Marvell sold billions of chips incorporating the university's technology without a license to do so, according to K&L Gates. Marvell has denied the claim. It did not immediately reply to messages left Wednesday by CNN. In a statement, Carnegie Mellon said, "We felt the evidence we submitted was compelling, and the jury agreed. Protection of the discoveries of our faculty and students is very important to us."

Jury finds chipmaker infringed on university's patents . Carnegie Mellon hails verdict . Company denied claim .

Usually airline passengers side with flight attendants when it comes to safety, but in the case of a US Airways flight Wednesday night, passengers rallied around a blind man and his guide dog and disembarked en masse. All 35 passengers on US Airways Flight 4384 walked off the plane after Albert Rizzi, a blind man from Long Island, and his dog, Doxy, were escorted off the flight after a heated exchange between Rizzi and a flight attendant about where his dog was placed, according to Rizzi. Although he was first to arrive on the tarmac for the flight from Philadelphia International Airport to MacArthur Airport on Long Island, Rizzi said he and his dog were the last to be seated on the small plane. He was seated in the middle of the back row looking onto the aisle with no seat in front of him for Doxy to lie under. Shortly after boarding, Rizzi said a flight attendant told him the dog would need to go under a seat for safety reasons. Several passengers in Rizzi's row offered to have the dog lay under their seats, and he was placed under the seat of the woman to his left, according to Rizzi. The plane was then delayed nearly two hours. While the plane was sitting on the runway, Doxy got up to reposition himself a few times, ending up under Rizzi's seat against the back of the plane, Rizzi said. The flight attendant asked Rizzi to control his dog and keep him underneath his neighbor's seat, according to Rizzi. After a heated exchange between Rizzi and the flight attendant, the pilot announced the plane would be returning to the gate, Rizzi said. Rizzi and his dog were then escorted off the plane by airport security, according to Rizzi. School opens 'investigation' after airline kicks students off plane . After Rizzi and Doxy were removed from the plane, passengers demanded that the flight attendant be removed from the plane and Rizzi let back on, said passenger Kurt Budke. He said that all 35 passengers banded together in support of Rizzi, and after realizing the passengers would not budge, the pilot announced the flight was canceled. If the flight attendant had tried to make alternate accommodations for Rizzi, Budke believes that the situation could have been avoided completely. "US Airways is sorry for the inconvenience, and we are looking into the situation to see if it was handled properly," US Airways spokeswoman Liz Landau said Thursday. She added that the pilot and the flight crew elected to return to the gate due to the safety concerns caused by the actions of the dog and said Rizzi was verbally abusive to the flight attendant. Landau said that the pilot and flight crew didn't feel that it was safe to operate the flight after seeing how upset the customers were at the incident and said that the pilot asked everyone to disembark once it reached the gate. US Airways then provided free buses from the Philadelphia airport to the Long Island airport, Landau said. "This became the most wonderful experience, out of the most horrible experience. I found that humanity does exist, and people can do the right thing," Rizzi said, referring to the actions of his fellow passengers. Rizzi said he has not been contacted by US Airways since the incident and is considering legal action. "They picked the wrong guy to mess with," Rizzi said. He is active in the blind community and sits on the disability advisory board for Suffolk County, where he resides. Rizzi became blind eight years ago after surviving meningitis and has had Doxy for seven years. Rizzi said Doxy is short for Doxology, meaning "praise to God" and "a new beginning." When they were matched seven years ago, Doxy was just beginning his service as a guide dog and Rizzi was just beginning his life as a blind man.

Albert Rizzi, who is blind, boarded a US Airways flight with guide dog, Doxy . Rizzi says he got into a heated exchange with a flight attendant over Doxy's placement . Rizzi and Doxy escorted off the plane; other passengers followed in support . US Airways says it is investigating and that the pilot canceled flight for safety .

Former Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland has found himself at the center of an alleged mistaken identity scandal . Police who thought they had arrested former Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland have been left with egg on their faces - after it was revealed they had in fact been duped by a bold lookalike. A man who was arrested for burglary and drug possession on July 26 managed to convince cops he was the famous rocker for a month - and the truth only came out after the real deal posted a video of himself in the recording studio on his Facebook page. The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department even went so far as to give gossip website TMZ a release stating that they had the 46-year-old singer in custody, and it was the resulting story that led Weiland to prove the only place he was locked up was in the studio. The written statement, titled 'Celebrity . Arrest', read: 'The suspect, former Stone Temple Pilots band member . Scott Weiland (46 years of age), was taken into custody for burglary and . possession of a controlled substance.' The department confirmed last night through analysing fingerprints that the man was in fact a 44-year-old man named Jason Michael Hurley, who is believed to bear an uncanny residence to Weiland. 'It's a lie,' said Weiland in the video, as he sat . flanked by backup singers The Wildabouts. 'I've actually been . touring, writing and recording my new album.' Weiland's imposter was arrested for stealing razors from a Rite-Aid in Beverley Hills, and was also charged with felony possession of a controlled substance when police found methamphetamine on him. Scroll down for video . 'It's a lie': Former Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland posted a video proving that he is not currently in jail for drug possession and burglary . Hurley was stopped by a security guard when he was caught allegedly stealing the razors and other toiletry items, but escaped before being caught by officers, who then also found the drugs. The charge was upped to burglary from . simple theft because Hurley allegedly carried an insulated bag that . wouldn't set off sensors, indicating the act was premeditated. He gave police the name and birth date of his famous lookalike, which resulted in TMZ reporting that Weiland had been in jail for the last four weeks, with the bail set to $95,000. After being found out, police said Hurley could now also face charges of giving false information to officers. Back in day: Weiland was fired from the Stone Temple Pilots last year by his band mates for breach of contract and using the group's name to promote his solo career . Weiland . has faced legal troubles in the past, mostly drug- and alcohol-related, . and has been in-and-out of rehab over the years. But he told Canadian reporter Rudy Blair early last month that he has overcome his 'demons.' 'Past . demons are past demons; that's stuff that I dealt with 14 years ago,' he said. 'I mean, I guess Keith Richards gets asked about [his past drug . use], so why shouldn't I? But it's not something that I think about, . ever. Those days of my dope abuse, and use, are long since by me.' In . 2013, he was fired from Stone Temple Pilots and was sued by his former . band mates for using the group's name to promote his solo career. He filed a $7 million countersuit, alleging his co-founders were not legally authorised to remove him from the band. Record: . According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department website, a man . with the name Scott Klein Weiland, born on October 27, 1967 - the same . name and birthdate as the star - was arrested on July 26 at 10.13am and . charged with a felony .

Los Angeles Sheriff Department told TMZ they had arrested Scott Weiland . Believed he was in prison for a month for burglary and drug possession . But singer posted video on Facebook proving he was in studio . Police now admit they were duped by a man named Jason Michael Hurley .

By . Ryan Gorman . and Associated Press Reporter . A Connecticut man who assaulted acclaimed Irish author Colum McCann last month outside a hotel after the author tried to help the man's wife following a domestic dispute has been charged. Michael Mott, 34, of Oxford was charged with assault in the June 28 incident outside the Study Hotel in New Haven. Mott confessed to assaulting McCann, 49, and turned himself in Monday evening, police said. They declined to elaborate. McCann, the author of 'Let the Great World Spin,' was treated for significant facial injuries at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Witnesses suggested McCann had tried to help a woman who was involved in a dispute in the hotel lobby, police said. Charged: Michael Mott, pictured, allegedly assaulted award-winning novelist Colum McCann outside a hotel in June after McCann tried to help Mott's wife . Police said Mott had a dispute with his wife after hotel staff told the couple the credit card Mott used didn't have sufficient funds to pay for the room. ‘What we . believe happened is that the victim tried to intercede in what appeared . to be a domestic dispute between a man and a woman,’ Assistant Police . Chief Archie Generoso told the New Haven Independent last week. ‘He saw a woman pushed to the ground. He tried to assist the woman. ‘He asked the woman if she wanted him to call the police. He urged her to do so. She said she didn’t want to call the police. The . guy said, ‘It’s your decision.’ He turned around, began to walk away, . and he was assaulted.' McCann went outside where he was attacked, police said. Police say Mott punched McCann, who lost consciousness. Mott was also charged with family violence breach of peace for the altercation in the lobby, police said. 'This was a particularly disturbing case because Mr. McCann was specifically targeted after he tried helping another victim,' Chief Dean Esserman said in a statement. McCann ended . up with a concussion, a broken cheekbone and some broken teeth from the . 'shocking, cowardly attack in broad daylight on a busy street,' he told . the Irish Times in a statement. Critically acclaimed: Colum McCann's 2011 novel Let the Great World Spin won him awards around the world . First responders arrived to find McCann on the sidewalk bleeding from the head, police told the Independent. He was taken to the hospital, released later that night and returned home to New York City. ‘I was trying to help someone out,’ his statement said. ‘I was cold-clocked without warning. I had a severe concussion, a broken cheekbone, some broken teeth and a spirit that has been temporarily bruised. ‘But I am recovering quickly and I’ve been overwhelmed by the generous response from friends and strangers alike.’ He credited an nearby off-duty paramedic with rushing to his aid as his attacker fled the scene. McCann told the Times he was in New Haven to attend a conference on empathy at Yale University for Narrative 4, a non-profit organization he is involved in. He was forced to pull out of an event because of the attack. Where it happened: McCann was knocked out on this sidewalk just outside The Study, a hotel just off campus . ‘I suffered a few injuries but nothing that can’t be quickly healed,’ he continued. ‘If anything, I was shaken out of the ruts of my ordinary perception, and I have been struck the genuine caring nature of people asking about how they can help out.’ The award-winning author then used the opportunity to call attention to ‘others who suffer far worse violence. ‘It could have happened anywhere in the world. The fact that it happened on the edge of one of the world’s foremost colleges campuses simply highlights how prevalent this sort of situation is,’ said McCann. New Haven, where Yale University is located, does have an above-average crime rate, but it is not as common for attacks like this to occur on or near the campus. McCann is home recovering and should be back to normal within a few weeks. McCann is . from New York City. He just released the story 'Gone' through the online . publisher and subscription service Byliner. It's his first short story . in a decade. He has written six novels, including . 2011’s 'Let the Great World Spin' – which earned him international acclaim . and several awards including the International Impact Award and many . other honors.

Author Colum McCann was attacked outside the Study Hotel in New Haven, Connectiut . Michael Mott, 34, confessed and was charged with assault, police said . Police said Mott had a dispute with his . wife after hotel staff told the couple the credit card Mott used didn't . have sufficient funds to pay for the room . McCann reportedly saw the woman pushed to the ground and asked if she was okay and needed police assistance . After the woman said she was alright, Mott allegedly punched McCann as he turned away . McCann said he ended . up with a concussion, a broken cheekbone and some broken teeth . The author was in New Haven attending a summit on empathy .

By . Mark Duell and Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor . PUBLISHED: . 06:22 EST, 7 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:36 EST, 7 February 2013 . Flies Undone: Former Foreign Secretary David Miliband, 47, was caught out while travelling on the London Underground last month . In one of his more unguarded moments, former foreign secretary David Miliband has been spotted taking a nap on the Tube. Labour's Mr Miliband, 47, was caught out while travelling on the London Underground’s Piccadilly line at 3pm last month between Leicester Square and South Kensington. Electrician Francis Janjua, 28, got on the train and sat opposite the MP for South Shields, who was reading a book - but minutes later he began snoozing with his trouser fly gaping open. Mr Janjua, of west London, said: ‘Pretty much as soon as the train set off, he closed his book and put his head on his hand and dozed off. 'He was properly asleep, I reckon. I was laughing to myself about it anyway, until I noticed his fly was down - then it was just hilarious.’ Mr Miliband dozed in a priority seat designated for disabled people and those less able to stand, although the Tube was not busy at the time when he was travelling - at 3pm on a day last month. He dozed until the train stopped at South Kensington, where he disembarked - without noticing his zipper was still undone. Mr Janjua, who was travelling home . from work, said: ‘I couldn't believe his fly was down. It kind of takes . the credibility away from him a little bit. But he's still got more . credibility than his brother.’ Meanwhile Boris Johnson urged senior ministers to follow Mr Miliband’s example and use the Tube. The London Mayor was a caller on . Deputy PM Nick Clegg’s weekly radio phone-in today, and demanded top MPs . got out of their chauffeur-driven cars to experience life on public . transport. Mr Johnson said: ‘I just want to ask you . when are you going to get all those Government ministers out of their . posh limos and onto public transport like everybody else? Praise: London Mayor Boris Johnson urged senior ministers to follow Mr Miliband's example and use the Tube . ‘How can we possibly expect Government to vote for increases in infrastructure spending which we need in this city and upgrading the Tube, which we all need, when they sit in their chauffeur-driven limousines - paid for by the taxpayer - rather than getting down on public transport with the rest of us? Nick, get them out of their limos! Boris, over and out.’ Mr Clegg, hosting his show on LBC 97.3, insisted the coalition had slashed spending on cars by around 70 per cent but backed the need for investment in infrastructure. This week Welsh Secretary David Jones was branded ‘lazy’ and ‘shameful’ after he used a chauffeur-driven Jaguar to travel 100 metres from his office to Downing Street and then back again. Mr Miliband was beaten to the post of Labour leader by his brother Ed, 43, in September 2010 and has since taken a far less public role in the party, as a backbench MP and business consultant. He has made almost £1million on top of his MP's salary since losing the leadership election. A spokesman for David Miliband told MailOnline today: 'David would like to thank everyone at TfL (Transport for London) for making his journey a pleasant and relaxing one.'

Former Foreign Secretary David Miliband spotted on train last month . Electrician sat opposite MP for South Shields on Piccadilly line at 3pm . Miliband spotted travelling from Leicester Square to South Kensington .

A Melbourne woman with a rare skin condition which makes her appear bright red has labelled Halloween costumes with facial disfigurements 'offensive'. Blogger Carly Findlay has urged Trick or Treaters not to wear 'scary face' costumes, such as Freddy Krueger and devil masks. 'I'd like to see scary face ruled out as a Halloween costume,' she wrote in an article, 'My Face Is Not A Halloween Costume', published on the website Blogher this month. Scroll down for video . Carly Findlay has ichthyosis, a rare skin condition which causes her skin to appear flushed and scaly . Ms Findlay is saddened that some children are frightened of her appearance . Ms Findlay has Ichthyosis, an incurable condition which affects some 10 to 20 people per million. It causes her skin to shed rapidly and she often appears flushed and scaly. Sometimes, children find her appearance frightening, hiding behind their parents' legs, which she said made her sad. 'I don't want to scare people,' she wrote, before pinning the blame on scary masks and frightening film and TV characters. 'I think that it's because they've not seen people with visible differences before,' she continued. 'But I also believe it's because they have seen masks and screen characters who are depicted as evil.' Talking to Daily Mail Australia, she singled out monster costumes as perpetuating negative stereotypes. 'They portray people who have facial differences in a really negative way,' she said on Thursday. 'You know, they’re villains, they’re scary, something to be feared.' Halloween decorations with scary faces are beginning to appear on homes throughout the world . Horror scene: Halloween is held on October 31, 2014 . Ms Findlay said characters in films who look different were 'never' cast as the hero, but 'always the villain'. Many others with the condition have encountered similar stigma, she said. 'A lot of people I know with my skin condition, they're asked whether they've put on make-up on Halloween. 'They can get quite offended.' 'In my Facebook feed, I’ve seen three or four parents say their (children have) been asked about their "Halloween costume".' The spooky festival has become increasingly popular in Australia in recent years. C for Carly: Ms Findlay has won awards for her writing on her blog, Tune Into Radio Carly . 'Dress up at Halloween,' Ms Findlay told Daily Mail Australia. 'But maybe consider doing it respectfully and creatively' Ms Findlay said keen trick or treaters should choose more creative and appropriate Halloween gear. For instance, by dressing up as athletes, scientists or positive role models. 'I mean, have fun,' Ms Findlay said. 'Dress up at Halloween.' 'But maybe consider doing it respectfully and creatively without offending someone's culture or appearance.' A popular blogger, Ms Findlay has become a vocal advocate for raising awareness with people with conditions that affect their appearance . Ms Findlay has been a vocal appearance diversity advocate in recent years. Last year, she was ridiculed in a cruel post in the 'WTF' forum on Reddit. But she fought back, penning a fiery riposte and finding hundreds of supporters. 'I knew the day would come that someone would create a Reddit thread about me, using my photo, having a laugh at my appearance,' she wrote. 'For years, that fear was why I didn't share photos of me online. But now, after gaining confidence and support through years of blogging, I couldn't care whether they call me a lobster or silly putty. 'The love I have around me and success I have had through telling my own story to break down stigma like these Reddit threads is stronger than any of those words. 'Yes I have Ichthyosis. Yes that picture is me. 'Don't fear it and don't criticise it. I am proud of the way I look, what I have achieved and for telling my story.' Her principal tormentor ultimately apologised and Ms Findlay was widely praised by punters online and in the media. 'The level of kindness shown in these situations is always greater than the level of hate,' Ms Findlay wrote. You can read Carly Findlay's piece about scary faces and Halloween on BlogHer. You can find out more about Carly at her blog, Tune Into Radio Carly.

Some children find Melbourne blogger Carly Findlay scary . She has an extremely rare skin condition, Ichthyosis . It causes her skin to appear red and scaly . Ms Findlay wants 'scary face' Halloween costumes 'ruled out' 'They portray people who have facial differences in a really negative way'

David Cameron’s former university college has been hit by an outbreak of mumps, it has emerged. Students at Brasenose College in Oxford started to fall ill with the virus last week, just as summer exams began. This afternoon, the University has said 17 students at the college - where Prime Minster David Cameron studied - have been affected. Students at Brasenose College in Oxford (pictured) started to fall ill with the virus last week, just as summer exams began, and it is thought at least 30 students have been affected by the highly infectious virus . A university nurse confirmed the outbreak . by sending a message to all undergraduates warning about the highly . infectious virus - which causes painfully inflamed glands and swelling. In some cases, mumps can lead to viral meningitis if it moves into the outer layer of the brain. It can be especially dangerous for men - as it can cause swelling of the testicles which can affect fertility. Despite the outbreak, the Junior College Room still held a boozy ‘bop’ - a party at the hall for around 100 students on Saturday. College entertainment officer Liam Langley sent an email to all the students reminding them about the party. His email was sent just two days after College Nurse Kate Tempest warned students about the mumps outbreak. Mr Langley’s email said: ‘Hey everyone. Just a reminder that despite the mumps situation the arts week bop will still be taking place tonight [Saturday]. ‘The theme is literary characters and as usual proceedings will start dtb [down the bar] before moving over to the new Babylove, the castle tavern, at around 11. ‘It promises to be a great end to arts week and I hope to see you all there!’ A university nurse sent a message to all undergraduates warning about the highly infectious virus - which causes painfully inflamed glands and swelling - last Thursday . One third-year English student, who asked not to be named, described the outbreak as a ‘crisis’. They said: ‘It’s absolutely ridiculous. ‘We got an email from the college nurse telling everyone to be wary of mumps and then two days later we had a massive party. ‘This place is like a ghost town - so many people have either gone home because they don’t want to get sick, or are lying in bed ill. ‘This is exam season - these are the most important exams of my life, so I really don’t want to get ill. Prime Minister David Cameron is just one of many famous former Brasenose students . ‘It’s so irresponsible for the JCR not to cancel the bop on Saturday night. ‘I didn’t go but I know quite a few people that went and have now come down with mumps. ‘There are about 200 people at the college and I reckon at least 30 are already ill. ‘It’s a crisis - if any final year students get ill now, they may have to wait a year to take their final exams. ‘I don’t want to have to do that - we should have a quarantine, rather than more parties.’ Cases of mumps have also been confirmed at St Hilda’s and Corpus Christi colleges, both in Oxford. In an email to Corpus students, the welfare dean Judith Maltby wrote: ‘It has been brought to our attention that there are several cases of mumps within the University and there have been two confirmed cases within Corpus. ‘If it is confirmed that you have the virus you will be encouraged to go home (where possible) for five days.’ Oxford University said today: 'There have been 17 cases of mumps reported at Brasenose College, Oxford, over the last five days and all students are being cared for at home or in the College. 'The College is working with the college nurse and doctors and taking advice from Health Protection Agency to ensure that the best advice and information is provided to students, including the signs and symptoms to look out for. 'The College is advising any students who suspect they might have mumps-like symptoms to stay in their room and phone the college nurse or GP for advice.' They refused to comment on about the party organised by the JCR mumps-hit Brasenose College. The Prime Minister is just one of many . famous former Brasenose students who also include Monty Python comedian . Michael Palin and Olympic rower Andrew Lindsay. Mumps, as well as measles and rubella, . is vaccinated against using the MMR jab. A full course of the MMR . vaccine requires two jabs. The . vaccine was first introduced in the UK in 1988 as a single injection . for children under the age of one - with the necessity for a second . injection only becoming apparent eight years later in 1996. The second jab is administered between the ages of three and five. Taking this in to account, this means some of the older students at the college are at a heightened risk of getting mumps. In . 1998, a paper claiming there was a link between the vaccine and autism . was published by Dr Andrew Wakefield. A . great number of parents therefore decided their children should not . receive the vaccine. Their children would be around the age of 16 now. According to statistics released by the Health Protection Agency, the percentage of MMR uptake in the UK fell from 88.3 per cent in 1998 to a low of 79.9 per cent in 2003. Andrew . Wakefield's work has since been completely discredited, however. He has . been struck off the register as a medical professional in the UK in 2010. Studies since have not found any such link between the vaccine and autism or bowel disease.

Outbreak of highly infectious mumps virus at Brasenose College in Oxford . 17 students have been affected by virus ahead of exams, University says . Outbreaks at two other colleges in Oxford - St Hilda's and Corpus Christi .

By . Natalie Clarke . PUBLISHED: . 18:07 EST, 2 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 04:53 EST, 3 December 2012 . An interesting poser has been exercising the Reverend Sally Hitchiner over the past week. She has posted several tweets on her Twitter page — where she describes herself as an ‘Anglican priest, faith adviser, broadcaster... and finder of funny things’ — on the subject of ‘the theology of fashion’. She was so preoccupied by it that she even conducted a Facebook debate on the subject. So we shouldn’t be too surprised then, that this weekend, the 32-year-old Church of England vicar took her theological studies even further forward, posing for a fashion shoot for a Saturday broadsheet magazine under the headline: The Vicar Wears Prada. More Dior than Dibley: This weekend, Rev Hitchiner posed for a fashion shoot for a Saturday broadsheet magazine . In the main picture, Rev Hitchiner is reclining on a leather chair wearing a £480 black leather jacket by Frances Leon, a £505 Prada top and tight silver leather trousers by the Mother label that come in at just over £1,000. She also wears £535 leopard print Christian Louboutin heels, that rest on a leather stool. In one shot, a heavily kohled eye gazes sultrily at the camera beneath a £239 Andrew Wilkie leopard skin hat set at a flirtatious angle, covering her other eye. Her blood red lips pout above her sharply white dog collar. In another picture, the vicar poses in a £1,025 blue, back and cream Stella McCartney top, accessorised again with her dog collar. Another uber-trendy picture sees Rev Hitchiner in a £646 black skirt by Graham & Spencer, £209 Sandro top, £355 shiny blazer by The Kooples and £995 ankle boots — again by Louboutin. Few of her flock can afford to wear such clothes — though in fairness, Rev Hitchiner borrowed them for the shoot. On her modest vicar’s stipend, her label of choice is the fashionable but infinitely cheaper Top Shop. But Rev Hitchiner certainly enjoyed herself. ‘Wearing a dog collar in a fashion shoot was quite a powerful experience,’ she declared afterwards, in a game attempt to give her day of dressing up in designer gear some sort of theological perspective. The fashion shoot appears to be some sort of response to last month’s vote by the Church of England’s governing General Synod, which decided against allowing women to become bishops. After agreeing to ordain women priests back in 1994, it has taken until now for the vote for women bishops to take place. As a consequence of its failure, the schism between CoE  ‘traditionalists’ and ‘progressives’ is wider than ever. There is no need to spell out whose side Rev Hitchiner, who had been mooted as a future bishop, is on. After all, would a ‘traditionalist’ wear Louboutin leopard print heels? Work attire: Sally Hitchiner has held the post of co-ordinating Anglican Chaplain and inter-faith adviser at Brunel University in Uxbridge for the past six months . Exactly. It’s a look that hasn’t been . received quite so well by the Church’s more traditional followers. But . Rev Hitchiner believes she is not alone in the clergy in enjoying the . frivolities of fashion. Explaining . that many priests like to ‘accessorise’, she says: ‘Everything in life . has two sides. It’s not that the Church of England is perfect and that . twinsets and pearls are perfect. ‘It’s . not that some supposedly frivolous areas in life are not worthy enough . for God. The fashion industry is important. Obviously, Nietzsche said a . lot of things about God I don’t agree with, but there’s his theory that . beauty makes you good, that engaging with things that are beautiful is . an antidote to the ugly and the difficult. ‘Historically, . the arts have been honoured by the Church as a spiritual gift, and the . first spiritual gift mentioned in the Bible is craftsmanship.’ Indeed. The great cathedrals of Europe, the Renaissance painters, . Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. The list is a long and fine one. Now to add to it we have Christian Louboutin’s leopard print heels and a Stella McCartney top. ‘I’m in awe of Stella McCartney,’ she says. ‘I think she’s got a gift from God, although I’m not sure she would agree with me.’ Woman of the cloth: A shot from Rev Sally Hitchiner's Facebook page . Rev . Hitchiner’s unusual clerical style is apparent, too, on her Twitter and . Facebook pages. For her Twitter page, she selected a photograph of . herself wearing a tiara-style hair clip. In one picture on Facebook, she . is winking at the camera. Confronted . by all this attention-seeking, one is duty bound to ask the question . Rev Hitchiner is presumably dying for us to ask: is this really fitting . behaviour for a woman of the cloth? She has her own theory on this: ‘There . is that perception that religion is in a box with everything . middle-aged and that everything else is in another box; or (as far as . the clergy goes) that God is interested only in middle-aged men. ‘But why shouldn’t a priest be interested in Prada? I dress in a way that reflects my personality.’ Last . Monday, Rev Hitchiner tweeted: ‘Thinking fashion theology: Jesus said . consider flowers if you’re stressed “how much more beautifully will God . clothe you”.’ But it would . be unfair to suggest that Rev Hitchiner became a priest simply because . she thought wearing a dog collar might make her look groovy.Her . parishioners say she is hard- working and committed, and as Rev . Hitchiner says on her Twitter profile: ‘She loves many things: God, . anthropology, The West Wing, good food with good friends, mostly God . though . . .’ For the past . six months, she has held the post of co-ordinating Anglican Chaplain and . inter-faith adviser at Brunel University in Uxbridge, West London. Before that she was the vicar at St John’s Church in West Ealing. When . she left last June, parishioners held a ‘Mad Hatters’ Tea Party’ in her . honour to say goodbye. So . what led Rev Hitchiner on the path to serving God — and the fashion . industry — as the Church of England’s most style-conscious vicar? By her own account, she was brought up in Toxteth, Liverpool, the eldest of three daughters born to middle-class Christian parents who hoped to make ‘a difference’ to the then troubled neighbourhood in a way they believed the Anglican Church had failed to do. Her mother was a midwife, her father worked in the civil engineering department of the local council, specialising in drainage systems. At the age of 12, Rev Hitchiner, who attended an all-girls’ private school in Liverpool, became interested in religion and began going to church. She read the Gospels. ‘I recognised aspects of me: I felt like I was looking at somebody else’s holiday snaps and looking at places that I had been.’ Precisely what she means by this is not entirely clear. A future topic, perhaps, for her Facebook page. Fingers crossed: Rev Hitchiner attended Church House on November 20 for the General Synod vote. She wore her favourite tiara clip and a leather jacket . After school, she  studied social . policy at York University, then spent three years working for a charity, . for which she became a chaplain working in boarding schools. It . was during this time that she decided to become a priest. She studied . theology at Oxford University and was ordained in 2009. As an ordinand . (a priest in training), she spent two months shadowing the future . Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, when he was a canon at Coventry . Cathedral. In response to a . rumour that Abi Johnston, curate in the BBC comedy series Rev, is based . on her, she says: ‘I hope not. She’s really obnoxious and annoying. And . whining.’ Rev Hitchiner . lives in West London and prefers to keep her private life private. It is . not known if she is in a relationship; she has no children: ‘I wouldn’t . be doing what I’m doing if I’d had children. And I’m very happy with . the way things are.’ Over . the past few months, Rev Hitchiner’s profile has grown as she has . appeared on various programmes on television to discuss the issue of . women bishops. During one interview on breakfast TV last month she wore . her pretty tiara clip in her hair. This prompted a response from one . internet blogger who might be said to represent the ‘traditionalists’ within the Church of England. ‘This . is the sort of spectacle traditional Anglicans feared when they allowed . the ordination of women,’ the blogger wrote. ‘We wouldn’t expect a . policewoman to accessorise her uniform like this — nor do her hair up . like she’s off to a ball. ‘She seems rather too vain  to hold offices which require quiet dignity.’ With . other female clergy, Rev Hitchiner attended Church House on November 20 . for the General Synod vote. Again, she wore her favourite tiara clip, a . leather jacket, black leather boots and a fashionable mustard- coloured . bag. Sadly, it wasn’t enough. The vote in favour of women bishops failed. Rev Hitchiner says she was ‘shocked’ and ‘sad’, but adds that the issue has become an ‘unstoppable train. It is bound to happen . . . As a feminist, I believe that women shouldn’t be held back from anything. Women have worked very hard, whether they’re religious or not, to make sure that is the case.’ However, she says she believes it would be unwise for the State to intervene: ‘I also think that if the Church is dictated to by society or the State, it ceases to be a church.’ Yesterday, it was business as usual for Rev Hitchiner. She gave a  sermon to mark the beginning of Advent at St John’s Church in  Central London, then returned in the evening for a carol service clad in traditional vestments and platform heels. One parishioner, 81-year-old Pamela Binns, was supportive of her. ‘Why shouldn’t she dress like that? She’s young and it might bring people into the church,’ she said. Fittingly, then, the theme of her sermon was hope and expectation, a traditional homily from the vicar who just happens to wear leopard print Louboutins.

Rev Sally Hitchiner posed in tight silver leather trousers worth over £1000 . Shoot was response to vote for women bishops that took place last month . Rev Hitchiner: 'Why shouldn't a priest be interested in Prada? I dress in a way that reflects my personality.'

Judge Mrs Justice Hogg has allowed doctors to withhold chemotherapy from a terminally ill teenager with weeks to live . A judge has allowed doctors to withhold chemotherapy from a terminally ill teenager with weeks to live despite desperate pleas from his mother to continue treatment. The 18-year-old, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour by the time he was one, is now unable to walk or talk as his condition has deteriorated 'rapidly', according to doctors. His parents launched a 'fight for his life' at a hearing in the Court of Protection in London saying he was a 'miracle child' and urging judge Mrs Justice Hogg not to rule that he 'has to die'. The judge described the case as 'tragic' but she decided specialists could lawfully stop providing chemotherapy, end 'neuro-surgical intervention' and not resuscitate. She ruled that neither the teenager, who lives in the south of England, nor the hospital trust responsible for his treatment could be identified at a hearing which ended at midnight on Friday. Trust bosses made an emergency application to the court late on Friday and asked Mrs Justice Hogg to rule that doctors could lawfully stop providing treatment. The teenager's father had travelled to London to be at the hearing, but returned to his son's bedside when doctors said the teenager had taken turn for the worst. The 18-year-old's mother pleaded with the judge from the hospital where he is being cared for - via a telephone link to the court room. She told the judge: 'I don't want to hear you say he has to die. I don't want to be part of that. I'm afraid I can't.' Mrs Justice Hogg at one point ordered a break in the hearing to allow the woman to go to the teenager's bedside . Doctors had said they feared that the teenager had no more than two weeks to live. A neuro-surgeon told the judge that 'active treatment' was 'futile', saying the teenager should be allowed to end his life in as much 'dignity and comfort' as possible. Mrs Justice Hogg heard that the teenager had been diagnosed with a brain tumour by the time he was one, and was registered blind. But he had been able to go to school, travel and play some sports. 'He has shown particular resilience and courage,' said the judge. 'His mother ... has fought every corner for him. And he has fought a few corners for himself.' Doctors said his condition had deteriorated recently and the cancer had spread. They said he could not walk or talk and could only lift his limbs with difficulty. The neuro-surgeon said the teenager was 'going in and out of coma'. All clinicians involved in his care had concluded that further chemotherapy and neurosurgical intervention was futile and not in his best interests, the judge was told. But the teenager's parents disagreed, his mother telling the hearing: 'I am fighting for my child's life. 'He is a sick child but he is coping. (He) is not dying.' The teenager was diagnosed with a brain tumour at the age of one, but a neuro-surgeon told the judge that providing any more 'active treatment' was 'futile' She questioned the neurosurgeon and a cancer specialist who gave evidence at the hearing. 'Give him a chance. Maybe chemo will work. If (he) goes he goes. But he may not. He may have months to live,' she said. '(He) may not be able to do martial arts but he talks, he walks. He is a pleasure to be with.' The woman said he son had a 'normal life' for a child who had a brain tumour. 'It's just seems you want him to die. The sooner the better,' she told one doctor at the hearing. 'It makes me worry you are not acting in his best interests. You just want it to get over and done with.' She added: 'We may be lucky and he will live a few months or a miracle will happen. You just have to believe he will pull through.' The woman said he son still got a 'lot of enjoyment' from his family and told the judge that they 'absolutely adored' him. 'He is a miracle child and has survived things you thought he would not,' she said. 'He deserves a chance.' She added: 'Doctors should treat the patient to the very end. That is how I see it. He deserves the right to be treated. He is still your patient.' The neurosurgeon told the woman of his sorrow, saying: 'I am so sorry for what you are going through. It is such a terrible time.' He added: 'I am finding this very difficult ... I don't like to see children die.' Barrister John McKendrick, for the teenager's father, said his client also wanted chemotherapy to continue. Mrs Justice Hogg said she understood how difficult the situation was for the teenager's parents. 'The parents want everything to be done to keep (him) alive,' she said. 'The mother is clearly very passionate. The father follows suit.' But she said she had to base her decision on the evidence and decide what was in the teenager's best interests, and made no criticism of doctors or medical staff. 'The evidence shows that (he) is in the last phase of his life,' she said. 'The doctors ... say the time has now come for palliative treatment only.' She added: 'I am satisfied that chemotherapy should not be resumed.' And she said there should be no resuscitation and no neuro-surgical treatment. She said the teenager should get as much palliative treatment and care as could be offered. The judge had concluded that the teenager lacked the mental capacity to make decisions about treatment, or to litigate. He had been represented at the hearing by court-appointed lawyers and a barrister had questioned doctors on his behalf. Mrs Justice Hogg said she had asked herself what the teenager would want, adding that it was a difficult question because there was no 'real evidence' from him.

The 18-year-old boy was diagnosed with a brain tumour at the age of one . Doctors said condition has deteriorated rapidly and he has weeks to live . Judge ruled specialists can stop chemotherapy at Court of Protection . Parents launched fight for his life saying he deserves a chance to survive .

(CNN) -- A Connecticut woman pleaded for police to "please hurry" to save a friend from an attack by a pet chimpanzee, according to emotional 911 recordings released Tuesday by Stamford police. Police say Travis, seen here as a younger chimp, was like a child to his owner, Sandra Herold. "He's ripping her apart," Sandra Herold, 70, tells dispatchers about her pet, Travis. With the chimp squealing in the background, Herold cries out, "He's killed my friend!" The victim, Charla Nash, 55, remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after the chimp, once featured in television commercials for Coca-Cola and Old Navy, attacked her Monday afternoon, police said. Nash had just arrived at Herold's house when Travis jumped on her and began biting and mauling her, causing serious injuries to her face, neck and hands, according to Stamford Police Capt. Rich Conklin. Conklin said the attack was unprovoked, but he described it as "brutal and lengthy." Watch how owner made frantic call to police » . Herold had called Nash to her house to help get 14-year-old Travis back inside after he used a key to escape. While her friend was being attacked, Herold was unable to pull the primate off. She then called 911 before stabbing the chimp with a butcher knife and hitting him with a shovel. Neither fazed Travis, who police said had been like a child to Herold. A Stamford police officer later shot the chimp multiple times after the primate went after him inside a police cruiser, Conklin said. Travis returned to the house, where police found him dead. Conklin estimated that Travis weighed close to 200 pounds. Conklin couldn't confirm media reports that the chimp had Lyme disease, though he did say investigators were taking their time with the case to determine what may have provoked Travis to attack Nash. Animals often do not exhibit symptoms of Lyme disease, caused by the bite of certain types of ticks, although aggression is a possible symptom, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Conklin said Nash had recently gotten a haircut that changed her appearance significantly. Conklin said the chimp had been acting "rambunctious" earlier, prompting Herold to put Xanax in a cup of tea for him to drink. He did not know if the animal had been prescribed the medicine or if Herold had ever given her pet such a mixture before. Watch wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin talk about the dangers of chimps » . Conklin added that his department is not used to dealing with cases such as this, and they were trying to familiarize themselves with laws and regulations before deciding if charges will be filed. Conklin said this isn't the first interaction his officers have had with Travis. The chimp, who was well known and liked in the community, escaped in 2003 and "wreaked havoc" on the streets of Stamford for a couple of hours, Conklin said. Travis' body was removed from the home and taken to two locations: His head was taken to the state lab for a rabies test and the body was taken to the University of Connecticut for an animal autopsy. Conklin said this is standard procedure. The chimp, who was known to walk around town, sometimes without a leash, also liked to surf on the Internet and was able to change the TV channel with a remote, according to a Stamford Advocate article. The paper also reported that Travis watered plants, was able to feed hay to his owner's horses, ate at a table with the rest of the family and sometimes drank wine from a stemmed glass.

Chimp squeals on 911 tape as owner cries out, "He's killed my friend!" Pet was acting strange throughout the day, woman gave him Xanax in tea . Owner had called friend to get chimp inside after he escaped using key . Charla Nash, 55, remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries .

London (CNN)An out-of-this-world collection of vintage NASA photos -- including the first "selfie" taken in space and a rare image of pioneering astronaut Neil Armstrong on the Moon -- are to go up for sale in London. The treasure trove of more than 600 images, including some of the most significant moments in lunar exploration, was put together over decades by a dedicated collector. The pictures will go under the hammer at Bloomsbury Auctions in London on February 26, where they are expected to sell for between £300 ($465) and £10,000 ($15,525) -- a total of upwards of £500,000. Among the highlights of the sale is a photograph snapped by Buzz Aldrin -- later the second man to step onto the Moon -- during the Gemini 12 mission in November 1966, which is believed to be the first space "selfie." It is tipped to sell for £600 to £800 ($932 to $1,242). Aldrin also features in perhaps the most famous image in the sale: the so-called "visor photograph" showing him on the Moon on July 20,1969 during the Apollo 11 mission. A spokesman for Bloomsbury Auctions said the picture, taken by Armstrong just minutes after he had made his "one small step" speech and featuring the pioneering astronaut reflected in his colleague's helmet visor, was likely to excite a lot of interest from bidders. "A picture like that still has enormous power today," the photography expert said. There's also an extremely rare picture taken by Aldrin showing his fellow explorer Armstrong on the lunar surface. Most of the photos from the Apollo 11 landing were taken by Armstrong himself, so there are very few of him actually on the Moon. "It is very rare to find a vintage print of that because it wasn't recognized by NASA at the time," explained the Bloomsbury Auctions spokesman. "They didn't realize it was Neil Armstrong, so they didn't release it to the press. It was found years later, and very few people have seen it, it hasn't been widely published, so that one is of obvious historic significance." But the collection is not limited to photos from the 1960s heyday of the space program. The oldest image in the sale is one dating all the way back to 1946; shot by a camera strapped to a V-2 rocket, it is the first to show the earth from space. In addition to photos of astronauts, there are also landmark mosaics and panoramas showing the lunar surface, and shots looking back at Earth from the darkness of space, including the iconic "Earthrise" image taken by Apollo 8's William Anders in December 1968, which Sara Wheeler, head of photographs at Bloomsbury Auctions, said "changed man's relationship with the cosmos forever." The auction house spokesman said previous sales of NASA images had proved hugely popular, both with space enthusiasts and photography aficionados. "Four years ago in 2011 we sold a private collection of NASA photos and I was surprised by the range of people who did buy them -- I'd say about half were interested in the aesthetics of the image, and the other half were looking for the significant moments in space history -- the classic images: the first 'earthrise', the first picture of the whole earth and so on." He said the fact that the pictures were vintage prints, dating back to the days of the space race only added to their allure. "They represent a golden age in the history of photography, when a few men went to the unknown to bring back awe-inspiring pictures," said Wheeler. The From the Earth to the Moon: Vintage NASA photographs sale takes place at Bloomsbury Auctions in London on Thursday February 26.

Treasure trove of more than 600 NASA images from the space race are up for sale at auction in London. Photographs include the first "selfie" in space, and an extremely rare picture of Neil Armstrong on the Moon.

Sportsmail reviews the action from the third day of the 2014 French Open at Roland Garros. French teenager Laurent Lokoli left the . court in tears after going down to American Steve Johnson. After making . such a splash in the pre-event charity day with his exhuberant dancing . on court with Gael Monfils he had been poised for an unlikely victory . when leading by two sets and 4-2 – but he was to lose in five. Crying game: Laurent Lokoli was reduced to tears after losing to Steve Johnson in Paris . Remember . the name of 18 year-old American Taylor Townsend. Cut from US Tennis . Association support over concerns about her weight she is nonetheless as . clean a ballstriker as has emerged for a long time. She played . wonderful match to beat 20th seed Alize Cornet 6-4 4-6 6-4. Not . much has gone right for Germany’s Sabine Lisicki since her surprise run . to the Wimbledon final last summer. On Wednesday she slipped and hurt her . wrist while playing compatriot Mona Barthel and had to retire in the . second set. It does not augur well for her return to SW19. Down and out: Sabine Lisicki was forced to retire after falling against Mona Barthel . By . making the second round (in which he lost to Milos Raonic) 20 year-old . Czech Jiri Vesely should enter the world’s top 80. Meanwhile the Brit . who beat him in the 2011 U.S Open final, Oliver Golding, has left the . LTA set-up to branch out on his own to try and break through from his . contrasting ranking of 333. Bookmakers . frantically have had to frantically reset their odds on the women’s . singles after the upsets of top seeds Serena Williams and Li Na. Maria . Sharapova becomes clear favourite at 7-4, with Simona Halep at 5-1 and . the resurgent Ana Ivanovic, the 2008 champion, at 9-1. Front runner: Maria Sharapova is the women's favourite after a series of shock upsets .

Laurent Lokoli was reduced to tears after losing to Steve Johnson . Taylor Townsend got over weight concerns to beat Alize Cornet . Sabine Lisicki was force to retire after slipping against Mona Barthel . Maria Sharapova has been installed as the new women's favourite .

By . Alex Greig . PUBLISHED: . 19:13 EST, 10 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 19:55 EST, 10 January 2014 . Fewer than 10 days into his term as New York City mayor and Bill de Blasio is already defending himself after his first scandal: being caught eating his pizza with a knife and fork. A photograph of de Blasio using utensils spread across Twitter and prompted mock outrage among New Yorkers on blogs and news sites. Responding to the pizza palaver, de Blasio defended the approach, saying that his Italian ancestry is behind his decidedly un-New York pizza-eating style. Put a fork in him: de Blasio earned the disapproval of New Yorkers when he ate a slice with a knife and fork at Goodfellas, Staten Island . 'In my ancestral homeland it is more typical to eat with a fork and knife. And I have been in Italy a lot and I’ve picked up the habit for certain types of pizza,' he said. It's a method New Yorkers have variously described as 'blasphemous,' a 'cardinal sin,' and 'unacceptable' on Twitter. As any New Yorker knows, the preferred method for eating a slice of pizza is to fold it in half and eat it with your hands. The incident, already dubbed 'Forkgate,' happened at Staten Island pizza joint Goodfellas Friday, where de Blasio stopped in for lunch with local business owners. The owner of Goodfellas, which was a favorite spot of former mayor Rudy Giuliani, wasn't sold on the mayor's method either. 'I think he’s just trying to be polite,' Scot Costentino said. 'We’ll talk to him on the side about that,' he added. Hand it to him: de Blasio did eventually pick up his slice . Proving he is not a complete heathen, though, de Blasio explained that he likes to use his hands too. His method is a combination of the Italian and New York styles, he said, describing it as 'very complicated.' 'I often start with a knife and fork. But then I cross over to the American approach and  pick it up when I go farther into the pizza,' he told a reporter who questioned his methods, adding that the inquiry was a 'very important question.' Charles Greinsky witnessed the incident and is not letting his longstanding friendship with the mayor get in the way of what's right. One of us: Conservative pals Donald Trump and Sarah Palin made news in 2011 when they stepped out of Trump's presumably gold-plated apartment in Trump tower for a slice of pizza and proceeded to use a knife and fork . The American way: Both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama would win approval from New Yorkers with their pizza approach . He told The New York Times he loved having de Blasio in his home borough but could not approve of his genteel pizza-eating. 'No,' he told The New York Times. 'No. It's blasphemy.' Relenting a little, he added, 'He's from Boston. He doesn't know any better.' For the record, de Blasio ate three slices of smoked mozzarella and sausage pie.

Mayor Bill de Blasio had lunch at Goodfellas Pizza in Staten Island on Friday afternoon . He was photographed eating his pizza with a knife and fork . Twitter users expressed faux horror at the method after the picture went viral, with some using the hashtag '#forkgate' and others the more dramatic '#impeach' De Blasio defended his methods as traditionally Italian and says he begins with a knife and fork and then picks up his slice later .

Warning: More than 150,000 adults aged under 25 were diagnosed with chlamydia in 2010 alone . Chlamydia - the world's most common sexual infection - is a more cunning and highly evolved bacterium than thought, scientists say. Researchers analysed the entire genome of Chlamydia trachomatis and discovered that exchanges of DNA between different strains of the disease to form new versions are more common than believed. But current screening methods do not differentiate between the different strains, reports Nature Genetics, meaning the bacteria have the potential to become anti-biotic resistant without anyone realising. Across the world there are around 100 million new cases of chlamydia each year, making it the most commons STI in both the UK and globally. Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute found that if two strains of the disease infect the same host they are able to exchange DNA and create an entirely new strain. This can happen even when the strains are in different parts of the body, they say. Dr Simon Harris explained: 'Scientists recently discovered that if two Chlamydia strains co-infect the same person at the same time, they can swap DNA by a process called recombination. 'This was originally thought only to affect a few 'hotspots' within the genome. We were very surprised to find recombination is far more widespread than previously thought.' Prof Ian Clarke of the University of Southampton added: 'Despite this being the most important sexually transmitted infection in the world, until now it's clear that there are major gaps in our knowledge of the strains that are currently circulating, their evolution and natural history.' Because current tests do not distinguish different strains, if a patient tests positive again after anti-biotic treatment it is not known whether the drugs have failed or they have picked up a second infection. This photo micrograph reveals what chlamydia looks like up close . This means that if anti-biotic resistance did occur in the general population, it would not be detected by current diagnostic procedures.No strains of resistant bacteria have been seen in patients, although they have been created in the laboratory, said Dr Nicholas Thomson, of Wellcome. He said: 'Until now a person treated with antibiotics with a reoccurring infection of C. trachomatis was assumed to have been re-infected. 'The current gaps in our understanding of the population makeup of Chlamydia limit our ability to implement health policies, because we do not fully understand how Chlamydia spreads within our population.' The findings are also important for the treatment of African Chlamydia, a form of the bacteria that can cause eye infection trachoma or blindness. These strains also use recombination to avoid the immune system, said Dr Martin Holland, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He said: 'For many years various groups have observed co-circulating strains of Chlamydia causing trachoma. In our study we have shown that some strains appear to have swapped only their surface coat. 'This provides real clues as to how this bacterium is able to avoid the human immune system and cause disease.' More than 150,000 adults aged under 25 tested positive for chlamydia in England in 2010. However, most people don't noticed any symptoms and so don't know they have it. The STD is treated with anti-biotics. However, the NHS warns it can cause problems such as pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility if left untreated. Anyone under 25 in the UK can get a free and confidential chlamydia test. Visit chlamydiascreening.nhs.uk for more information.

More than 150,000 people aged under 25 in England tested positive for chlamydia in 2010 . Study provides insight into how chlamydia avoids the human immune system .

(CNN) -- A Washoe County, Nevada, jury Wednesday sentenced a Nevada pipe fitter to death for the killing of a 19-year-old student in a string of attacks that rattled the university community in Reno two years ago. James Michael Biela, 28, was convicted last week of first-degree murder and sexual assault in the death of Brianna Denison. He also was convicted of two counts of sexual assault for attacks on two other women and of one count of kidnapping relating to one of those attacks. The jury spent three hours behind closed doors Tuesday night and resumed deliberations Wednesday morning. On Tuesday, Denison's mother, Bridgette, told them to show no mercy for the man who killed her daughter and sexually assaulted two other college coeds. Denison, a sophomore at Santa Barbara City College in California, was last seen alive on her friend's couch on January 20, 2008. Three weeks later, her body was found in a field near her friend's home. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled. A pair of panties that did not belong to Denison were found near the body, in what police said was a "calling card" that helped them connect Biela not only to Denison but to the other assaults. From the witness stand in Biela's capital murder trial, one of the women recounted how she was attacked on the University of Nevada-Reno campus. She said her assailant threatened her with a gun, raped her and took her panties as a souvenir. The defense challenged the identification because she earlier told a friend she could not describe her attacker to police. The second woman, a student at the university, testified she was abducted outside her apartment and driven to a dark area and raped in the attacker's vehicle. The woman testified that her assailant asked for her panties and took them with him. The trial began with emotional testimony from Denison's mother and her boyfriend, and a video showing her with friends at a diner just a few hours before she was abducted. Denison was visiting friends in her hometown of Reno. After they attended a concert, she slept on the living room couch in a friend's off-campus apartment. While she slept, someone crept into the apartment and snatched her, police and prosecutors said. Her case triggered a flurry of national media coverage and thousands of tips, including the one that led to Biela's arrest. Police released a photo of the panties near Denison's body and a description of the pickup. A friend of Biela's girlfriend saw the photo of the panties and thought she recognized the truck police described. She told investigators that a friend's boyfriend had a truck similar to the description and that her friend had seen women's panties inside it. Detectives immediately followed up on the tip and, with permission from the girlfriend, took DNA samples from Biela's 4-year-old son. Lab tests showed that the boy's father -- Biela -- was almost certainly a match for the DNA found on the doorknob and at the crime scene, police said. DNA obtained from the other victim's rape kit matched Biela's, according to testimony. Biela's defense attorneys challenged the DNA testing method, claiming that it was not accurate. CNN's Emanuella Grinberg contributed to this report.

James Michael Biela was found guilty last week . He was convicted in death of Brianna Denison, attacks on two other women . String of attacks rattled Reno, Nevada, university community . Death sentence came after deliberations Tuesday night, Wednesday morning .

A juror in the George Zimmerman trial claims the case ruined her life and says she's had death threats made against her children, lost friends, her job and will soon lose her home as a result of it. The juror, a 36-year-old mother of eight who only identified herself as Maddy during an interview on Inside Edition Thursday, was the only juror who showed her face when she appeared on Good Morning America in July.Since then, Maddy says, she's lost her job as an aide at a nursing home and she and her husband have had to sell most of their possessions. Ruined: The juror known only as Maddy says her life has been ruined as a result of being part of the jury that found George Zimmerman not guilty . Maddy, who is of Puerto Rican descent, was the only minority juror on the all-female panel that found George Zimmerman not guilty. On the July episode of Good Morning America, she told host Robin Roberts that she believed Zimmerman was guilty of murdering teenager Trayvon Martin. 'My first vote was secondary murder,' she said. 'I was the juror who was going to give them the hung jury. Oh, I was. I fought to the end.' Poverty line: Maddy says she lost her job since going public as juror B-29 and has had to sell her possessions, including the family's dining table . Homeless: Maddy and her husband may soon lose her house; she says it's because she was a juror on the Zimmerman trial . She said that she and the rest of the jury were unable to prove Zimmerman intentionally killed Martin, and that under law they had to acquit. 'George Zimmerman got away with murder. But you can't get away from God,' she said. Now, Maddy says that going public as a juror on the divisive case has resulted in ruin. 'My whole life has fallen apart,' she told Inside Edition's Les Trent. First appearance: When Maddy went on Good Morning America she said, 'George Zimmerman got away with murder' She and her husband have slowly sold off their possessions, including their bedroom suite and the family's dining room table. They now sit on the floor of the kitchen to eat their meals.'As we sold one thing, we paid one bill, another bill came,' she said. The Florida mom, who was a full-time nurse's aide, says she kept calling for weeks but wasn't given any work. Divisive case: Slain teen Trayvon Martin's death and the subsequent trial of George Zimmerman made news around the world . Her friends began to shun her and strangers even threatened her children. 'On Facebook, someone wrote I'm gonna the feel same pain as Travon Martin's mom. Which means I'm gonna lose my son. All this blame was put on me. No one is looking at George Zimmerman. He's the one who killed the child,' she said. When asked whether she regrets serving as juror B-29 in the George Zimmerman trial, Maddy's response was unequivocal. 'Yes, I do.'

Juror B-29, identified only as Maddy, says her life has been ruined since she went public as a member of the jury . Maddy says she's lost her job and will soon lose her home as a result of the trial . The mother-of-eight says her children have been threatened and she has been shunned by friends .

A 2-year-old girl was accidentally shot and killed by her 5-year-old brother while he was playing with a child-size rifle given to him as a gift, authorities in Kentucky say. Caroline Starks, a blonde, blue-eyed girl, was fatally shot in the chest by her brother's .22-caliber rifle only minutes after her mother says she stepped outside their home in Burkesville on Tuesday. The single-shot weapon fired is a rifle specifically marketed to children as 'My First Rifle' by company Keystone Sporting Arms, according to authorities. Worst nightmare: Authorities say Caroline's older brother, pictured with her here, fired the single shot from his .22-caliber rifle called a Cricket, fatally shooting her in the chest . Killed: Caroline Sparks, 2, was killed on Tuesday when her 5-year-old brother accidentally shot her in the chest with his rifle . Tragic dwelling: The dilapidated home in Cumberland County, Ky, where a 2-year-old girl was shot by her 5-year-old brother . It was given to the 5-year-old as a gift last year, Cumberland County Coroner Gary White told the Lexington Herald-Leader. 'It's a Crickett,' White identified the weapon used. 'It's a little rifle for a kid. ...The little boy's used to shooting the little gun.' 'Accidents happen with guns,' he continued. 'They thought the gun was actually unloaded, and it wasn't.' 'It was god's will. It was her time to go, I guess,' Caroline's grandmother, Linda Riddle, told Lex18 on Wednesday. 'I just know she's in heaven right now and I know she's in good hands with the lord,' Riddle said. Weapon: The 5-year-old boy shot dead his sister with a Crickett .22 caliber rifle (like the one pictured) that he was given a year ago . Tailored for youngsters: Keystone Sporting Arms also makes guns for adults, but most of its products are geared toward children. The smaller guns come in all sorts of colors, including blue and pink . Starting them young: Children fire rifles at a shooting range in pictures shown on the crickett.com website . The company, Keystone Sporting Arms, produced 60,000 Crickett and . Chipmunk rifles in 2008, according to its website. It also makes guns . for adults, but most of its products are geared toward children. The . smaller guns come in all sorts of colors, including blue and pink. The company's slogan is 'my first . rifle' and its website has a 'Kids Corner' section where pictures of . young boys and girls are displayed, most of them showing the children at . shooting ranges and on bird and deer hunts. The smaller rifles are sold . with a mount to use at a shooting range. The . shooting highlights a cultural divide in the gun debate. While many . suburban and urban areas work to keep guns out of the hands of children, . it's not uncommon for youths in rural areas to own guns for target . practice and hunting. Controversial: The crickett.com website carries the slogan 'My First Rifle' and sells a range of weapons . Popular: The website has a 'Kids Corner' section where pictures of young boys and girls are displayed, most of them showing them at shooting ranges and on bird and deer hunts . Showing off: The 'Kids Corner' section has dozens of images of children and even babies (left picture, far-right image on second row) posing with rifles at home and on the range . 'Down in Kentucky where we're from, . you know, guns are passed down from generation to generation. 'You start . at a young age with guns for hunting and everything,' White said on . Wednesday. What is more unusual than a child having a gun, he said, is 'that a kid would get shot with it.' 'The goal of KSA is to instill gun . safety in the minds of youth shooters and encourage them to gain the . knowledge and respect that hunting and shooting activities require and . deserve,' the website says. The coroner said the gun was kept in a corner and the family didn't realize a shell was left inside it. It's 'just one of those crazy accidents,' White said. Accident: The Cumberland County Coroner maintains that the girl's death was an accident as the child's family now mourns her unexpected loss . Heartbreak: The girl's grandmother said she's coping with the loss through religion while personally assured that she's gone to a better place . In . a brief news release, state police said the shooting occurred when the . boy was 'playing' with the rifle, but did not elaborate. It is not clear whether any charges will be filed, said Kentucky State Police spokesman Trooper Billy Gregory. 'I think it's too early to say whether there will or won't be,' Gregory said. An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday. Burkesville is a small town, with a population of just under 1,800. Tragedy: The 2-year-old victim was transported to the Cumberland County Hospital in Burkesville, where she was pronounced dead . It is located in foothills of Appalachia.  The median household income in 2009 was estimated to be $17,747. Bill McNeal and his son Steve McNeal decided to make guns for young shooters in the mid-1990s and opened Keystone in 1996 with just four employees, producing 4,000 rifles that year. It now employs about 70 people, according to their website. No one at the company answered the phone on Wednesday. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: .

Caroline Starks, 2, was fatally shot in the chest after the children's mother stepped outside for a few minutes according to police . Firearm was a Crickett designed for small kids with slogan 'My First Rifle' Maker Keystone Sporting Arms produced 60,000 Crickett and . Chipmunk rifles in 2008 . Its website contains dozens of images of boys and girls brandishing guns at shooting ranges and on deer hunts . Kentucky sheriff: Not unusual for children to have a gun .

Los Angeles (CNN) -- The leader of a promising rock band, Lights Over Paris, allegedly funded his "lavish lifestyle" of travel and a luxury bus by submitting false documents for millions of dollars in bank loans, prosecutors said Friday. Robert Brandon Mawhinney, whose stage name is Robb "TaLLLLL" University, has been ordered held without bond because he was deemed a flight risk by U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles F. Eick in Los Angeles, prosecutors said. Mawhinney, whose 30th birthday was Friday, travels abroad frequently and has sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to Cyprus, said spokesman Thom Mrozek of the U.S. Attorney's Office. Mawhinney, who appeared in federal court on Thursday, was arrested earlier this month at Miami International Airport after he returned from Buenos Aires, prosecutors said. Mawhinney is charged with making a false statement in a loan application, authorities said. He allegedly applied for loans by submitting phony brokerage statements showing he had almost $9 million in assets, but the real statements showed less than $10,000 in the brokerage accounts, authorities said. His attorney wasn't available for comment Friday. A Comerica loan officer and her supervisor visited Mawhinney in a Burbank, California, studio to assess his creditworthiness, and Mawhinney falsely told them he owned the studio with friends Jason and Matthew Salazar, court papers said. Those two friends are brothers who owned the studio, and they were charged Thursday with conspiracy to commit loan fraud, authorities said. The brothers are planning to plead guilty, according to their attorney and prosecutors. Mawhinney told the bank representatives that he was a successful ghostwriter for various artists, the documents said. He protrayed the studio as a side business and said his real passion was writing music, court papers said. Mawhinney needed the loan for equipment purchases and finishing the recording room in his studio, court documents said. The bank representatives told him they would need his tax returns and financial statements, court papers said. Mawhinney is accused of falsely stating he had $9 million in a Charles Schwab savings/brokerage account in May 2010, court papers said. "At the center of this case are the false documents (such as the Charles Schwab brokerage statements) that the defendant gave to the banks to frustrate their efforts to verify that he was credit-worthy, that there was sufficient collateral for the loans," Assistant U.S. Attorney Ranee A. Katzenstein told CNN in an e-mail. In August 2011, Mawhinney left a voice mail for the bank loan officer saying he would take care of his outstanding loan payments, but he was in a lot of pain and on heavy medication after having been in a car accident, court papers said. Mawhinney's tax returns showed a Culver City, California, certified public accountant as having prepared the returns, but the CPA told authorities he never heard of Mawhinney, court papers said. Lights Over Paris was deemed an up-and-coming band by Billboard.com in August 2010, when it ranked its "Turn Off the Lights" album at No. 6 on the "heatseekers albums" chart, which is composed of top-selling albums by new or developing acts. The band describes itself on its website as "a mix of melodic rock hooks with pulsating dance rhythms and a taste of hip hop." "Their headlining 52-city 'Turn Off The Lights' tour electrified audiences and inspired new fans with their unrivaled style and eclectic approach," the band's website says. Mawhinney allegedly obtained four loans amounting to $6.25 million from Comerica Bank and then defaulted, prosecutors said. The bank lost about $6 million, authorities said. JP Morgan Chase, Zions Bank and Bank of America also lost money on loans to Mawhinney, prosecutors said. Mawhinney used the loans "to pay for travel, entertainment and a luxury tour bus that cost well over $750,000," the prosecutor's office said. If convicted, Mawhinney faces up to 30 years in prison. He will be arraigned February 11. He lives in the luxury WaterMarke Tower in downtown Los Angeles, authorities said. In the related case involving Mawhinney's two associates, Matthew Salazar, 29, of Valley Village, California, and his brother, Jason Salazar, 28, who has California addresses in Grover Beach and Fresno, have agreed to plead guilty, authorities said. The brothers own Matt Salazar Recording Productions of Burbank, California, and are part owners of LA Sound Gallery, also in Burbank, authorities said. "They admitted in court documents that they provided false documents to Bank of America, Greystone Bank and Huntington National Bank to obtain about $1.7 million in loans for their music business," the prosecutor's office said. If they plead guilty, each brother would face up to five years in federal prison, the prosecutor's office said. Their Los Angeles attorney, Mark Werksman, said the brothers have been cooperating with federal investigators and will enter guilty pleas "sometime in the near future." "They committed these offenses at the direction of Mr. Mawhinney," Werksman said.

NEW: Band leader told bank loan officers he was a successful music ghostwriter . NEW: Two brothers who were his associates will plead guilty, their attorney says . Band leader is Robert Brandon Mawhinney, who goes by Robb "TaLLLLL" University . He's accused of falsifying loan applications to get bank loans to fund a "lavish" life .