Two women and two children have tragically died in a fire at a house on Hamilton Road in Bexleyheath, south-east London on Thursday night, the London Fire Brigade said.

According to witnesses, members of the public walked out in disgust during the performance by a youth music group funded by the Arts Council in the Museum's foyer on November 11.

Margaret Porter, 67, thought Nelson the chestnut gelding, who lives in the village of Scruton on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, was 'sad looking' and decided he was under-fed.

The Duchess of Cambridge sported a daring new hairstyle - and recycled a stylish dress - as she dazzled at the Royal Variety Performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London last night.

Dr Irfan Halim (pictured), 45, a devoted husband and dad to four children under the age of 12, was a skilled surgeon at Swindon Hospital in Wiltshire.

Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School in Richmond has cancelled Winston Churchill and JK Rowling as house names for not being diverse - prompting 'cancel culture' accusations from parents.

There is now no bigger celebrity hypocrite on the planet than David Beckham, a bloke who will virtue-signal at every given opportunity and then throw his morals out the window, writes DAN WOOTTON.

A new Met Police policy on handcuffing sparked by complaints black people were being disproportionately restrained expects officers to ask themselves 44 questions.

The question, which was partly about revelations of alleged racism directed at cricketer Azeem Rafiq, was asked to three white MPs, psychologist Jordan Peterson and former prosecutor Nazir Afzal.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN Back in the year 2000, I invented a spoof game show called ASYLUM! after an Afghan airliner was hijacked and diverted to Stansted.

Footage taken on Tuesday - the same day that 1,000 migrants made it to the UK - showed migrants, including children, clapping as they managed to restart their boat's engine on a Calais beach.

Thirty forlorn-looking migrants stood on the deck of French navy warship Flamant as she sailed proudly into Calais yesterday morning.

In the image, the little boy is seen feeding chickens in the garden of his parents' $14million home in Montecito, California , whilst wearing jeans, a grey t-shirt and yellow Peppa Pig Hunter wellies.

The charities regulator in England said today it had opened the investigation into the Mahfouz Foundation, which is run by billionaire Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz.

Leanne Wallace (pictured), 40, targeted weak and vulnerable Leslie Rushworth, 84, as he lay seriously ill with problems including pneumonia and anorexia at University Hospital of North Tees.

The blaze, which has sent huge plumes of smoke into the air above the studios, in Slough, Berkshire, began in a workshop at around 9pm on Thursday evening.

The 40-year-old mother-of-two appeared on her close friend Ellen DeGeneres' talk show today, when she took part in a prank that saw her approaching street vendors in the lot where the series is filmed.

Proof of a booster jab will soon appear on the travel section of the NHS Covid pass on the app, potentially helping Britons in countries where it is required.

The group said they would protest outside the Royal Courts of Justice tomorrow in 'solidarity' with protesters being jailed, despite the court complex being closed at weekends

The unnamed 67-year-old American man suffered painful headaches for 12.5 years and had tried everything from medication, to cutting out certain foods and yoga, in his quest to end them.

In fresh advice issued today, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) warned the notorious markets were a 'source of infection'.

There were another 199 Covid deaths registered today, marking a 2% increase on the toll last week. Latest UK hospital data shows there were 799 admissions on November 14, down 9%.

Conservatives MPs and local leaders joined a brutal backlash as the PM tried to defend his 'ambitious and unparalleled' overhaul of inter-city links.

For Jemma Bere, 38, babies are not on the cards. She vowed not to have them after adopting her brother and sister - then aged just 11 and nine respectively - when she was in her early 20s.

TOM UTLEY: Try to imagine a future in which it will be impossible to tell a lie without being found out. This may sound like science fiction, but this week it came a great deal closer to reality...

Tougher laws taking effect early next year will make phone use while driving in Britain illegal in almost all circumstances.

England's greatest monarch - you might think it's a penalty shoot-out between the two Elizabeths and Victoria. But then there's the Henrys V and VIII to consider.

The Cabinet Office's Civil Contingencies Secretariat, responsible for co-ordinating an emergency response, had put 56 of its 94 staff on preparing for a No Deal Brexit, the National Audit Office says.

ITV has accused the BBC of buying up expensive US shows to 'maximise' younger audience viewing figures.

Brexit minister Lord Frost (pictured) has been ramping up threats to trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol in order to suspend EU customs checks he says are disrupting trade.

Home Secretary railed against Europe's lack of border checks - the Schengen zone - which has allowed thousands of migrants to sweep across the Continent to northern France.

Kobina Essel, known by the gang name Aggro, stabbed Jamie Simpson three times with a 10in knife while he and three others tried to steal £30,000 from a Matalan in Hackney, London in 2008.

Royal Navy servicemen are working with the Americans to recover the F-35B Lightning II from more than a mile below the surface.

Sir Geoffrey Cox received £1,209 for every hour he put in for international law firm Withers - which also pays him £400,000 a year as a 'consultant global counsel'.

Poor pensioners will be hardest hit by a watering down of social care reforms, the architect of the original cap Sir Andrew Dilnot warned last night.

HENRY DEEDES: Mr Shapps currently stands head and shoulders above other ministers with his Commons performances. He is fluent, sharp and far more assured than any of his Cabinet colleagues.

A young woman involved in a head-on car crash was made to walk across the border just hours after being discharged from a Gold Coast hospital. She later stopped breathing in surgery in a NSW hospital.

ROSS CLARK: Last night many Tory MPs and local leaders turned on the Prime Minister, accusing him of a great betrayal of the North after scrapping eastern leg of HS2 from the West Mids to Leeds.

Former Yorkshire spin bowler Azeem Rafiq, 30, has apologised for using anti-Semitic slurs in a series of messages to fellow cricketer Ateeq Javid on Facebook a decade ago.

Meghan Markle took her political lobbying campaign to TV as she used her interview with close friend Ellen DeGeneres on Thursday to renew her calls for compulsory paid family leave in America.

Mr Corbyn described Hamas as 'friends' in 2009 and later invited members to Parliament. Afterwards he said he regretted using the term.

The 40-year-old Duchess of Sussex shared several childhood photos during an interview on the Ellen Show on Thursday, while opening up about a past hairdo.

A new report claims the first known case of COVID-19 occurred in a female seafood vendor at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan on December 11.

The Remembrance Sunday bomb was packed with shrapnel and could have caused many casualties had it exploded properly outside Liverpool Women's Hospital, sources said yesterday.

The Chinese military is now at or near the capability to invade Taiwan, according to a congressional report.

JAN MOIR: Yesterday the Duchess of Sussex appeared on The Ellen Show and spoke about returning to California, her new life in her £10million mansion and of course her children's book.

The Duchess of Sussex, 40, made the revelations during a surprise talk show appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The interview is set to air in the US today.

Alec Baldwin appeared care-worn as he emerged from his Manhattan apartment building to take his children to school on Thursday, a day after being sued by a Rust crew member.

Home surveillance footage shows Zac Stacy, 30, attacking the mother of his child in front of their five-month-old son on Saturday at her Florida home.

For defence analysts, Russia's widely condemned move this week move showed the Kremlin's determination to flex its muscles and open a new front in space.

The fortress was destroyed and burned by Jewish rebels who were fighting to reclaim their land from a Greek dynasty, which is part of the Hanukkah story that honors the revolts.

During business questions in the Commons on Thursday, the MP for Coventry South, Zarah Sultana drew the ire of Commons Deputy Speaker Dame Eleanor Laing.

The Duchess of Cornwall, 74, opted for a flowy blue trouser suit with frilly detail as she attended a reception with Prince Charles, 73, at the 9 Pyramid Lounge in Cairo this evening.

Oil prices sank about 4 percent to a six-week low following reports about Biden's request and China's decision to release some crude reserves, before recovering some ground later in the day.

The Hollywood actor and producer, 61, met with Ukrainian military service personnel as he visited positions near the frontline with Russian-backed separatists in the Donetsk area.

Anam Ausaf found herself at the centre of a suspected 'love triangle' dispute which resulted in a vicious altercation in a Sherbourne residential building on the Warwick University campus.

Spine-chilling CCTV footage from Blue House Pub in Hendon, Sunderland shows the moment a mischievous 'spirit' knocked over a full pint of beer from the bar of a pub.

Boris Johnson delivered a mea culpa to his own MPs last night admitting he 'crashed the car' with the extraordinary bid to save the ex-minister by pausing the Commons standards regime.

New York billionaire financier Leon Black, 70, who quit his job over links to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has bought a Grade II listed home in London's Belgravia for £21million.

Chinese state TV service CGTN published the English-language email Wednesday, which they claimed was written by Peng and says: 'I'm not missing, nor am I unsafe. I've just been resting'.

As temperatures drop, 'a few spells of rain showers and even some patchy snow showers' may hit the UK, mainly in Scotland, with winds also experiencing an uptick as the week progresses.

Dana Twidale (pictured) has to repay one victim just £1.74 after scamming brides and bridegrooms across Yorkshire out of their wedding savings between August 2017 and July 2019.

Apple is accelerating the advancement of its electric vehicle project and wants the 'holy grail' option for its oft-rumored autonomous car by 2025: no human intervention.

In a troubling sign for Democrats, President Joe Biden's approval rating dropped to 36 per cent in a new poll out Thursday and most voters said they want to see Republicans take control of Congress.

A genomic analysis of the evolution of various mammal species - looking specifically at the receptors that SARS viruses bind to - was performed by researchers from Princeton University.

Samantha Mills, 31, and Reece Schofield, 24, died and four others were left injured after two mattresses and a chair were 'deliberately' set alight at an unoccupied property in Huddersfield.

Humaira and Farooq Shaikh's dream trip to Seville, Spain quickly turned into a nightmare after they boarded the wrong Ryanair flight at Stansted Airport and ended up in Greece.

Meghan Markle told her friend Ellen DeGeneres that she and Prince Harry wanted to have 'one fun night on the town before it was out in the world that we were a couple' in Toronto in 2016.

EXCLUSIVE: The site where migrants appear to have spent their last night in France is hidden in sand dunes under the noses of patrolling French police near Wimereux, around 20 miles south of Calais.

Paul Shakespeare, 66, of Carlisle, threatened the teenager with a sharpened stick that had a nail driven through it, whilst she was walking her dog on a footpath in Cheltenham in April 1990.

Speaking to Paris Match , the Duchess of York, 62, described Her Majesty as 'an extraordinary woman' and said that her divorce from Prince Andrew, 61, was the 'hardest thing she's ever done'.

Out of 4,915 cases flagged to Prevent in the year ending March, 25% related to suspected extreme right-wing beliefs and 22% to Islamist ones.

The UK Health Secretary has agreed to postpone the proposals after they left doctors furious because they felt 'singled out' from other medical professionals.

Police had to break into the £10million Kensington home of the ex-wife of a jailed former Russian senator and business mogul - where they found her dead inside.

Nazir Ahmed went on trial at Sheffield Crown Court accused of sexual offences against a boy and a girl dating back more than 40 years.

The Prime Minister confirmed he enjoyed the facilities at the Windsor Suite - which gives guests their own personal butler - before he and wife Carrie jetted off to Marbella with their son Wilfred.

The Russian president said US ship drills in the Black Sea and bombers flying near his borders were 'escalating' the Ukraine situation and show his 'red lines' are not being taken seriously.

Roger Clifford, 73, slammed Cornwall Housing's 'ridiculous' attempt to ban his family from putting up their annual Christmas display in the village of Feock.

The PM said on a isit to Selby, North Yorkshire (pictured), it was 'absolutely right' women feel they can make complaints with confidence.

EXCLUSIVE: Nottingham-based Monarch Acoustics Ltd, owned and run by Stuart and Sophie Hopkin, does not appear to have had PPE manufacturing experience prior to the pandemic.

Lord Frost today warned the EU that a threat to unilaterally tear up post-Brexit border rules in Northern Ireland is still 'very much on the table'.

Dame Vera Baird QC's fiery speech mentioned Britain's most hated policeman Wayne Couzens, who used his position to abduct, rape and kill Sarah Everard, shattering trust in the Met.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer people sought out care for pink eye as COVID inspired social distancing, and more handwashing University of Washington researchers found.

While countries like the UK, Spain, Italy and Belgium bore the brunt of fatalities early in the pandemic, rates of deaths from all causes have slowly shifted East, ONS data shows.

Richard Dexter, 37, from Waterlooville, Hampshire, posed as a 'successful businessman' to convince victim Amrita Sebastian to hand over £141,000.

The police watchdog has said one Met officer should face gross misconduct proceedings over a video which appears to show him punch a black teenager in the face during a search in Tottenham.

The Guardian has lodged a legal challenge against the decision to bar the media from a secret hearing at which it was determined Prince Philip's will should remain private for 90 years

The 58-year-old Guardian columnist from Oxford told ITV's Good Morning Britain today: 'I have two children and every day, I think 'Did I do the right thing?' - before starting to cry.

The Deputy Prime Minister confirmed ministers are looking at the idea of an overseas processing centre for migrants who travel to Britain illegally, but declined to comment on specific locations.

Professor Tim Spector said that he was now 'cautously optimistic' about Christmas. It was a change of tune from previous weeks where he has called for Plan B to be imposed in England.

Andrew Dilnot, who conducted a major review a decade ago on how to improve the care sector, had rejected such an approach as unfair and today he said he was 'very disappointed'.

Many of the migrants, including families with children, who were evicted from their squalid camp in Grand-Synthe, had only a short distance to travel to their new home in the field next door to the old camp.

Speaking to Monaco-Matin yesterday, Prince Albert, 63, confirmed his wife Princess Charlene has left the principality but would not reveal her location in order to protect her privacy.

The daughter of the late Robert Maxwell, who is currently in a New York jail, studied at Balliol College at the same time as Boris and Ms Johnson were also students there in the 1980s.

The former UK health secretary's post looking for a communications officer was ridiculed on social media (pictured) over his affair with Gina Coladangelo.

Emad Al Swealmeen, who was baptised and confirmed at Liverpool's Anglican cathedral in 2017, was seen worshipping with Muslims during Ramadan and before the attack.

At just 12ft 9in x 10ft 9in, this West London studio flat (pictured) at £875 a month is described as a 'good size living space' on Rightmove. It features a bed inches from a kitchen, with no sign of a toilet.

Almost one in five Brits are not planning normal Christmas and New Year's celebrations amid lingering fears over the coronavirus crisis, according to a new poll.

Some 49 per cent of voters polled say that the recent surge in gas and electricity bills is more of a concern that the pandemic, as the cold of winter approaches.

Smallpox was eradicated with a successful mass vaccination campaign after it killed an estimated 300 million people in the 20th century alone. Samples are only supposed to be in two labs in the world.

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Esther Afrifa, 28, who has been jailed for 14 years, bought a litre of sulphuric acid from the Internet and left it by her bedside ready to attack 29-year-old Kelvin Pogo at their home in Wembley.

Dashcam footage shows the 13-year-old boy, who is wearing earpods, ride out in front of driving instructor Martin Philbrick's car during a lesson in Gillingham, Kent.

Details of the lewd messages emerged on Friday afternoon, prompting the Australian cricket captain to step down and issue a tearful apology to his loyal wife.

Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst is the favourite to take the safe Tory seat of North Shropshire in a by-election triggered when Mr Paterson quit amidst a sleaze row.

Footage posted online showed James Mizuki and Jacob Arevalo cooking lobsters they had caught at a nearby beach out the back of their truck in California when they were approached by a 'Karen'.

The ship, which is off the coast of Egypt where Charles and Camilla are on tour, is currently circling an area of the Mediterranean Sea as they try to find and recover F-35B Lightning II plane.

Home surveillance footage shows Zac Stacy, 30, attacking the mother of his child in front of their five-month-old son at her Florida home on Saturday.

A creative video shared to TikTok on Thursday, shows her driving throughout a town in New Zealand with a pile of keys stacked on the passengers seat in order to get revenge on a cheating ex.

The child, aged just 13, was shot in the back as he walked down a street at around 7pm in Birmingham, West Midlands, last night.

Natalya Maslennikova, 20, was ordered to report to the FSB security service after baring her rear in view of a church in Kaluga and now faces a £3,000 fine or community service.

Officer Willie Adams IV and Officer Marcus Todd arrived at the scene in Atlanta, Georgia in the early hours of Sunday morning where they dragged Jaylyn Turner, 26 from his burning car.

The cost of servicing the debt mountain hit £5.6billion in October, up from just £1.8billion in the same month of 2020.

A passionate anti-vaxxer has infuriated scores of Byron Bay locals after setting up a protest van near the local high school gates on Thursday. Tom Barnett said he wanted to 'change minds' about jabs.

Nathan Marsh, 26, from Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, was forced to spend four weeks resting in bed and six weeks in a cast.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps flatly denied that promises had been broken after the HS2 extension and Northern Powerhouse line to Leeds were abandoned.

Ashes hopeful Travis Head was chatting to journalists in Adelaide on Friday when he was floored by the news Tim Paine was stepping aside immediately as Test captain of Australia.

Chef Steven Ruiz provided the text conversation to the Tampa Bay Times, which verified the phone number, after he fell out with the NFL player, who he says owes him $10,000.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said retail sales volumes rose by 0.8 per cent last month compared to September, following no movement between September and August.

Peter William Hayles, 57, was sentenced in Adelaide District Court for unlawful sex with a minor earlier this month.

A slip of the tongue from a recent television news report about the now disgraced Test cricket captain Tim Paine is getting a hilarious second life on social media.

NRL star Mitchell Pearce admitted he has survived 'the worst year of my life', after a sexting scandal that saw his wedding to a barre instructor called off.

Craig Anthony Wheatman, 29, admitted to storming a 92yo woman's Concord home in January but claimed to have no memory of his attack, a court has heard on Friday.

The sellers of a $965,000 home in Queensland have insisted they were not 'greedy' after keeping a couple's $75,000 deposit when the bank missed their settlement cutoff by hours.

As Australian captain Tim Paine steps down as a the result of a four-year-old sexting episode, it's timely to remember the genteel game of cricket has been no stranger to scandals over the years.

Police have seized a piece of cloth on the bank of a stagnant pool of water near Area 1 of the William Tyrrell dig site and taken it away for forensic analysis.

Luci Ellis, an assistant governor on economic policy with the Reserve Bank, has revealed why Australian workers are too afraid to seek a pay rise despite job vacancies being at a 13-year high.

Australia's Test cricket captain Tim Paine has stepped down amid a shock sexting scandal where he sent a lewd photo to a female staffer.

UK ministers want to insert a clause clamping down on arranged marriages into drafted legislation that raises the legal age to wed from 16 to 18.

A former landfill site worker in 2019 made a deathbed confession, claiming that his father in 2008 told him he had buried Jimmy Hoffa on the dump in New Jersey.

Hannah Gittings, 25, went to the protest with her boyfriend Anthony Huber because he was a friend of Jacob Blake, the black man whose police shooting triggered the unrest.

Former and current NFL players have voiced their outrage on social media after a video surfaced of former NFL running back Zac Stacy assaulting her ex-girlfriend in front of the couple's baby.

A man in a black quilted jacket is being hunted by NYPD in the Bronx after he stabbed a woman in the back when she rejected his advances, and then fled on a passing train.

Maddison Johnston, 13, a student at St James' Anglican School in Perth, was blocked from playing cricket alongside boys - but the school has since backed down.

Animal Justice MP Andy Meddick said his daughter was attacked because he supports Daniel Andrews' controversial proposed laws to manage pandemics.

The extremely raunchy text messages Australia test cricket captain Tim Paine sent to a female colleague have been revealed, with the married father-of-two stepping down on Friday.

Amanda Martinez, 31, (inset) was booked into the Bell County Jail on Wednesday. A viral Tik Tok  reportedly shows her throwing hot soup at a restaurant manager's face.

A 49-year-old man has died in hospital on Friday after he lost control of a chainsaw while on a ladder trimming tree branches at a Footscray property in Melbourne's inner north.

Four teen suspects are being hunted by NYPD after allegedly shooting two victims in the face with BB gun pellets in the Bronx earlier this month in two separate instances.

An alert has been issued after a white shark was spotted up to eight times in the last three days lurking in the waters of Scarborough Beach in Perth, Western Australia.

Australian-born Mandarin pop star, Kimberley Chen, collaborated with controversial Chinese-Malaysian rapper, Namewee, in new song banned by the Chinese Communist Party.

Police at the William Tyrrell dig site have drained the creek after installing a pump to reduce the water level and expose areas to fossick through for evidence of the missing toddler.

Australian Senator Claire Chandler is launching a parliamentary fight to 'save women's sport' by amending laws that make it illegal for transgender athletes to be excluded from female teams.

The man ate 41 oysters in the Coffin Bay seafood region of South Australia and 30 hours later he began to have terrible abdomen pains started and he begin to shake 'uncontrollably'.

Murdaugh, 63, reportedly paid Curtis Smith, 61, $155,970 through 17 cashier's checks that Smith cashed in throughout South Carolina from October 2020 to May 2021.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called on President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to leave any 'myths and prejudices aside' and to open borders further.

The father-of-two tearfully resigned as the captain of the Australian cricket team on Friday afternoon, a short time after he learned the sexting scandal would be made public.

On a visit to the New South Wales south coast town of Cobargo in January 2020 several residents refused to shake Mr Morrison's hand, angry that he had been on a secret holiday in Hawaii.

Australian Federal Police officers arrested two men on Thursday, aged 38 and 41, after they allegedly used an encrypted communications platform to plan the 314kg shipment from Thailand.

Fired Maryland cop Robert Vicosa, his accomplice Tina Bynum and his two young daughters, Aminah and Giana were found dead in a crashed car in western Maryland on Thursday afternoon.