Aristocrat Charles Villiers, a distant relative of the Duchess of Cornwall, was reportedly found dead in a London hotel room having taken his own life last week amid one of Britain's longest divorce battles.

MAILONLINE LIVE BLOG: Follow live as GCSE results and grade boundaries for leading exam boards OCR, AQA and Edexcel are released.

The former chancellor said it had been a mistake to 'empower' the Government's scientific committee Sage, whose doom-laden forecasts drove Britain into a series of damaging lockdowns.

BBC TV star Shabs Ahmad had warned Sadiq Khan to address the spate of violent crime continuing to hit the capital. It comes as a woman in Chelsea was held at knifepoint in attempt to 'steal her watch'

PHILIP FLOWER: For a child to be killed by a gun-wielding hitman chasing his prey into a family home is a damning indictment of the state of society and modern policing.

Mr Kent paid £8,000 for new speedbumps to be put along the narrow private street in Whitstable, Kent, which is just over 100 yards long.

More than half a million UK teenagers will pick up their results - and almost a quarter of a million fewer entries are expected to get at least a 7, or 'A', compared with last year.

EXCLUSIVE: Our analysis shows all ten boroughs with the lowest booster vaccine uptake are located in the capital, with Newham in East London faring the worst (58 per cent).

A study of nearly 4,000 people in Denmark shows that cigarettes also lead to thicker and weaker hearts that struggle to pump blood around the body.

UK teenagers are expressing their nerves online this morning ahead of finding out their GCSE results this morning. Grade boundaries are also set ot be released throughout the day.

A Burmese pythong, pictured, escaped from a house in Chandler's Ford in Hampshire before trying to break into another house through an open window.

Mums and dads who spend too much time on their smartphones are more likely to be bad parents, a study has claimed.

After just one episode of Welcome to Wrexham premiered on FX Wednesday night, the show has already created some soccer fans in the United States.

Exeter University has put a 'trigger warning' on Mark Twain's classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Staff described the representation of a slave as 'problematic in a number of ways'.

When Princess Diana was on vacation in St Tropez in July 1997, a former bodyguard claims in his memoir Protecting Diana: A Bodyguard's Story, she was planning to move to the United States.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney face a daunting job. They've bought Wrexham FC, vowing to see it promoted.

Jennifer Flavin filed for divorce from Sylvester Stallone on Friday. The former model, 54, was spotted pulling into the driveway of the estranged couple's  Palm Beach estate today.

Boris Johnson (pictured) has warned that UK households must endure soaring energy bills for the sake of Ukrainian civilians, who are 'paying with blood' for Vladimir Putin's aggression.

RICHARD EDEN: As the BBC's highest earner, Gary Lineker acts as if he's untouchable. But one of the corporation's toilers has bravely taken him on over his blatant anti-Tory bias.

Sales of Salman Rushdie's controversial novel The Satanic Verses have soared after the author was attacked on stage. The 75-year-old was stabbed multiple times this month in New York state.

Red Arrows pilots reportedly played 'Met roulette', in which they drank alcohol well into the early hours of the morning if a display was at risk of being cancelled due to poor weather conditions.

More thunderstorms will hit parts of England today - but fear not, the Bank Holiday weekend will be dry and sunny. Temperatures could climb to as high as 30C (86F), the Met Office said.

The Sun claims that the WAG, 36, will now be set to earn more than her former England footballer husband Wayne, also 36, after reportedly inking the deal following a bidding war.

The band English rock band are reportedly reforming ahead of the 30th anniversary of the release of their famous album Parklife in 1994.

Olivia was gunned down by a balaclava-clad gangster who also wounded the nine-year-old's mother Cheryl while chasing a drug-dealing rival into her family home on Monday

The chief judge of New York State Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled that Weinstein can appeal his conviction, which saw him sentenced to 23 years in prison.

French authorities have been mounting fewer patrols to tackle Channel migrants because gendarmes are on holiday, it emerged yesterday.

Thousands of holidaymakers have been stuck in queues in Calais, France for more than six hours trying to get back to Dover. Fed-up passengers claim the UK Border Force is causing delays.

EXCLUSIVE: Yagmur Ozden, 33, was a passenger in the 4x4 when it crashed through a fence and into a parked Tesla before landing on the tracks at Park Royal Underground station.

STEPHEN GLOVER: No incoming PM has faced such stupendous problems since Winston Churchill took up the reins of power in May 1940. Talk about a baptism of fire!

Priti Patel is launching a 'rapid removal' scheme to deal with a surge in Channel crossings by Albanian migrants.They will be 'fast-tracked' back to their country.

The Duke of Sussex's tell-all book had been due out in time for Christmas, but it is claimed the release date is now 'up in the air'.

Ryan Giggs admitted last week in court he has never been faithful to a woman. Amanda Platell has revealed the giveaway signs of a cheater in light of this

When her devoted spaniel Yogi tumbled 100ft off a cliff, Emily thought it was the end. But the plucky pet scrambled on to a ledge and an RNLI lifeboat crew took him back to shore.

JULIE BURCHILL: In a world that's increasingly overflowing with snowflakes, we tough, amusing narcissists are a much-needed antidote.

Sadie Nicholas speaks to the ordinary families that have moved into castles. UK-based writer finds a couple who paid just over £500k for a tower-style castle

Jennifer Flavin has filed for divorce from Sylvester Stallone.

Cyclists Sir Chris Hoy and Dame Laura Kenny left messages of sympathy with Katie Archibald, following the tragic death of her partner, Scottish mountain biker Rab Wardell.

Meghan Markle's new Spotify podcast has been slammed by critics who said it was 'almost entirely preposterous' and 'just another way she can talk about herself'.

The alleged victim, 22, was the first of three women who claim they were raped by the French defender at a two day pool party at Manchester mansion.

Archie, then four months old, was not in the room in Cape Town when the heater began to smoke - but the incident left the Duchess of Sussex 'shaken' and 'in tears'.

The tennis player, 40, shared a black-and-white snap which saw her cosy up to Meghan, 41, who looked chic in a coat which she layered over a denim outfit.

Joanne Shreeves (pictured) allegedly caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage to Trevor Dempsey's luxury property in London, including fence, garden flowers and a custom-built potting shed.

Adam Peaty and Eirianedd Munro announced they had split in an Instagram post on Wednesday morning with the Olympic swimmer saying sorry for 'letting her down.' 

During a conversation with Serena Williams, the Duchess of Sussex recalled how Archie  narrowly escaped a fire in his bedroom on the Sussexes' royal tour to South Africa in 2019.

Frankie Boyle is set to present a documentary about the Royal Family after previously coming under fire for a 'foul' joke about the Queen.

Former Environment Agency manager Kevin Legge, 50, is taking legal action against the body claiming he was a victim of discrimination for not being a feminist

Lancashire Police force is scrapping its gender-neutral US-style baseball hat. Instead the force is spending £40,000 on new headgear on bowler hats for women and white flat caps for men.

Home Secretary Priti Patel is facing a legal challenge from a trade union which represents thousands of her own Border Force officers. Scheduled hearings will scrutinise the lawfulness of the policy.

Detectives investigating the murder graduate Ashley Dale (pictured), 29, in her own back garden in Liverpool in the early hours of Sunday morning have released CCTV of a car they want to trace.

EXCLUSIVE: Jewellery store manager Rida Al Mousawi had only recently bought the super-charged 4x4 when it careered off the road at up to 120mph, smashed onto the tracks at Park Royal tube station.

GP surgeries and hospitals in England are recording higher than usual levels of patients with colds and stomach bugs that normally don't rear their ugly heads until the depths of winter.

False widow spiders are set to descend on the UK this Bank Holiday as temperatures soar across the country. The venomous spider can bite humans and trigger allergic reactions.

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As hundreds of thousands of UK pupils get results, the plunge in top grades will affect an estimated 75,000 - with about 50,000 fewer getting at least a basic pass in six GCSEs.

Olyvia Cowley, 24, who lived on the Gold Coast in Queensland, died while on a trip to Bali on August 19.

East Anglia and London faced heavy rain today, with Andrewsfield in Essex seeing 55.2mm (2.2in) of rain between 4am and 6am - almost exactly the monthly average.

The ex-chancellor and his rival Liz Truss, who is widely expect to win the race for Number 10, will tonight face their penultimate hustings in front of Conservative members.

A 58-year-old British woman has died after plummeting off a steep hillside whilst riding an electric scooter in Benidorm. The accident happened yesterday at about 4.15pm.

The boy was killed when a missile struck his house in Chaplyne and dozens of people died later when rockets hit the rural town's railway station and set fire to five train carriages.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday said canceling student debt would have more of an impact on Black and Hispanic borrowers as he laid out his plan to ease the burden.

Russian engineers have drawn up detailed plans to cut off the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant from Ukraine's power grid and instead connect it to the Russian network.

​Oriini Kaipara has called out a viewer who has repeatedly complained about her traditional chin tattoo. The Māori Newshub presenter hit back at the man who said it was a 'bad look'.

The Double Bay salon owner, 36, said she 'can't fill vacancies' and has now called on the government to do more to allow foreign workers into the country to fill roles.

A Sydney woman groomed and sexually abused by her physical education teacher in the 1980s says she was dehumanised into an object for her abuser's pleasure.

The offence took place in 2019 while Adelaide man Anthony Dennis Stokes was staying at the home of a female friend, the court heard.

New analysis revealed eight new luxury houses have been built in the Ch'angkwangsan Compound, a secretive estate at the heart of Pyongyang (new properties are pictured)

Unions have slammed Apple for rushing staff into an 'un-Australian' workplace agreement which could see employees of the tech giant work up to 60 hour weeks.

An inquiry into puppy farming in Australia's biggest state has come up with 18 recommendations, closing in on animal abusers. A partial ban on 'baby-faced' breeds is one possible result.

The plunge in top grades will affect an estimated 75,000 pupils, while about 50,000 fewer are expected to get at least a basic pass in six GCSEs. Sixth forms usually ask for at least four passes.

Fruit and vegetables will come down in cost this Spring as farmers begin to cover last season's losses. Fruit jumped by 3.7 per cent and vegetables jumped 7.3 per cent in last months.

Queensland man Dale Liston only found out that Oracle Homes, who were building his house, had collapsed while browsing Facebook. Mr Liston said the builder had told him 'everything was fine'.

The Russian leader's Aurus limousine and cavalcade was seen driving at high speed to the Russian seat of power in the highly unusual move.

Footage shows the moment an attempted car thief tried to drive a Mitsubishi Outlander out of a Brisbane car dealership as workers threaten to break the window and drag him out.

A Melbourne woman who tried to recruit extremists to join Islamic State and exchanged letters with her gay lover known as the 'tiny terrorist' will be released from jail back into the community this week.

Police are appealling for public assistance in finding a young Sydney mother and her newborn child with the pair missing since last Wednesday.

As a major construction company collapses ABC host Lisa Millar lays into 'confident' building CEO who bragged about how homeowners have nothing to worry about and that he expected it to be worse.

Steve Mickenbecker, a Canstar finance expert, said a borrower who was able to get a $600,000 loan in April, before interest rates rose, would now only be able to get a $500,000 mortgage.

The Health Secretary summoned the bosses of the six worst-performing NHS trusts for a dressing down over ambulance handover delays.

Mack Rutherford, a Belgian-British dual national, landed on an airstrip west of Bulgaria's capital, Sofia, to complete his mission and to claim two Guinness World Records in the process.

Alisha Jane Fagan has been freed on bail after a tearful appearance in front of a magistrate, despite being accused of killing grandfather Sedat Hassan while on bail for separate charges.

A truck driver who killed four police officers in a crash on Melbourne's Eastern Freeway will have his prison sentence reduced by three-and-a-half years.

Colorado resident Ann Clark's son, Brant, experienced cannabis psychosis and killed himself after smoking a bong. She now campaigns against America's rapid legalization of the drug.

The New York Police Department has issued new guidance saying officers cannot 'congregate or engage in unnecessary conversation' unless it is a 'police necessity.'

A Qantas customer has spoken about the moment he found his bag torn up and wrapped in plastic on the baggage carousel as he now tries to get compensation from the embattled airline.

Daniel Campbell, 20, who hit a teenage boy with his car and fled the scene in the Hamptons was spotted working at his mother's business just one day after it was revealed he would serve no jail time.

Rashays founder Rami Ykmour explained what led up to his 2021 arrest during a pandemic compliance check as businessman Mark Bouris said today 'no-one gives a s***' about Covid.

Anthony Albanese's partner Jodie Haydon has taken over as the chief patron of the National Portrait Gallery. She is replacing Jenny Morrison in the role.

Queensland Police has made a breakthrough in the case of Andrew Walsh, whose remains were found encased in concrete in a south Brisbane suburb, with two men now charged with murder.

Gregory Gumucio, 61 (left), Haven Soliman, 33 (right), and Michael Anderson, 51 were arrested as investigators said they ran the entire business as a tax scam.

Beau Jackson, 17, from NSW's Central Coast was confronted by a 53-year-old man who he claims was trying to attack him, as he warned motorists of nearby speed cameras.

A small-town Queensland newsletter has been reported to Australia's media watchdog after publishing a joke disrespecting domestic violence victims.

Maxine Davey, 59, was given a criminal conviction for outing paedophile Edward James Thomson who returned to live in the Queensland town of Calliope after being released from prison.

Dr Patrick Toohey approved the treatment for Jay Langadinos before later giving the go-ahead for surgeries to remove her breasts, uterus and ovaries.

The threshold of $53,900, which has not been increased since 2013, will be discussed at next week's jobs and skills summit.

Cast and crew members who worked on axed movie Batgirl are viewing the film in secret 'funeral screenings' before the studio can possibly destroy the the copies for a tax write-off.

Embattled Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has revealed an underlying loss of $1.9billion, blaming Covid travel restrictions. He also admitted the service 'simply wasn't good enough'.

Photos have emerged showing Jennifer Flavin, 54, without her wedding ring 11 days before she filed for divorce from Sylvester Stallone, 76.

Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night ridiculed Harvard for hiring Bill de Blasio to teach at the university, saying the former mayor 'oversaw the resurgence of the bubonic plague in New York.'

A furious Perth tradie has unleashed on clients who 'break the rules' by asking if he can do a job cheaper for cash and then ask to transfer the money when the jobs complete.

The $300,000 digger had to be dragged out of the water at Rose Bay Beach after it veered off course and quickly started to sink.

MItch Wilson and Penny Davies were set to move into their new Gold Coast home ahead of the birth of their second child when they were targeted by hackers and robbed of their home and savings.

A 12-year-old girl in New Orleans was arrested after she was recorded brandishing a gun following an altercation on a school bus, and her mother took to social media to defend her.

Daily Mail Australia can reveal Rick Thorburn, 62, was escorted back to Wolston Correctional Centre in Brisbane.

The lawyer for a Katoomba girl raped in a two-hour assault has read her heartbreaking impact statement to the press, as she considers suing their high school over the attack.

The prime minister on Thursday outlined details of the inquiry into the scheme which wrongly sent automated debt notices to more than 400,000 Australians.

NBA legend Dennis Rodman will no longer travel to Russia to seek the release of the WNBA star Brittney Griner after being strongly discouraged by the US State Department.

Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said that the outlook for housing sales is even more grim than the Fed has said, and the 'worst is yet to come' for home prices.

The pandemic lockdowns took a toll on mental health, according to a new report, which could further cost the New South Wales economy billions of dollars as the state deals with the health crises.

The details of a royal commission into the controversial Robodebt scheme are set to be unveiled by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a press conference in Sydney on Thursday.

A former Ashley Youth Detention Centre inmate said he was raped and sexually abused 50 times by prison staff. He claims they manipulated him into sex by withholding vital medication.

Donald and Ivana Trump's youngest child, Eric, 38, was at his late mother's mansion on the Upper East Side on Wednesday to oversee the removal of her belongings.

Scientists claim there is a one in six chance of a mega-volcano to occur before the end of the century and as history shows, it would have terrifying consequences for mankind.

New Zealand solider Dominic Abelen took pay without leave to help defend Ukraine. A fellow soldier described him as 'hardcore' and 'handsome' in a tribute but said he was 'anything but scenery'.

Timothy Lee Wilson, 36, was convicted in June on charges of aggravated child abuse, aggravated child abuse with a weapon, child neglect, and false imprisonment.

The Uvalde school board voted unanimously on Wednesday to fire Pete Arredondo as the school's police chief.

The Justice Department on Wednesday released the unredacted 2019 memo that concluded nothing President Donald Trump did amounted to obstruction of justice in the Mueller investigation.

Marco Coreño and Erick Muñoz, Mexican soccer aficionados and best friends, have stop wagering money and instead make bets that they will remember for a lifetime.

Rishi Sunak was last night warned that his 'petulant' attacks on Liz Truss's tax-cutting plans risk handing the next election to Labour. He has been accused of pursuing a 'scorched earth' policy.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Unlike some of our European neighbours, Britain was wise not to end up dangerously hooked on Russian energy.

Former Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis has accused the BBC of caving in too fast to Government complaints over her speech about Dominic Cummings's lockdown Barnard Castle trip.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Despite holiday staff shortages at ITN, up and coming reporter Willem Marx fortuitously wasn't assigned coverage of Meghan Markle's anti-royal Spotify podcast.

It's the home of Extinction Rebellion and Britain's first organic coffee shop - so it's no surprise that opening a Starbucks in Stroud would spark a backlash.

The Greens are calling for a nationwide two-year rent freeze to allow incomes to catch up with surging prices.

Hattie, the best friend of Olivia Pratt-Korbel, has shared a heartbreaking tribute to her 'big sister' who she will 'miss so much.' Nine-year-old Olivia was shot dead at her home on Monday night.

The devastated family of little Olivia Pratt-Korbel who was senselessly murdered in her home in Liverpool at bedtime today tore into the 'scum' and cowardly gunman who callously shot her dead.

Keir Starmer has demanded his shadow cabinet divert donations made to their personal offices to Labour HQ amid concerns about the party's financial affairs.

Cricket legend Ian Botham was part of a legal hunt that was forced to abandon its shoot on Snailsden Moor in the Peak District last week after saboteurs disrupted the party.

The parents of a Marine killed in a suicide attack at Kabul airport say it is a 'slap in the face' every time Biden administration officials say the Afghan withdrawal was a success.

A massive snake appeared to hijack a couple's holiday by winding itself through the open door of a caravan in Mackay, Queensland - but they've revealed why they are ok for it to stay.

A world-first loneliness study has revealed elderly Australians living through Victoria's Covid-19 lockdowns frequently cried, were suicidal and suffered despair and a loss of identity.

The vendors Alberto and Ernesto claimed the girls yelled racial slurs at them and took hundreds of dollars of clothing, which they sold to keep their families afloat.

Several reports have since linked the boat to Russian oligarch Gennady Ayvazyan. The 54-year-old, worth an estimated $500million, reportedly took ownership of the boat in 2019.

Social care campaigners yesterday cautiously welcomed plans by Liz Truss to divert £13billion raised by the health and social care levy from the NHS to social care.

Gary Busey asked police to talk women who accused him of sexual assault at a convention out of pressing charges, an affidavit claims.

Judge Recorder John Hardy QC said sentencing powers for dangerous drivers were 'wholly inadequate' while jailing repeat offender Carlos Lester (pictured), 27, also sentenced in 2019.

William Orbit, a music producer for pop sensation Madonna, claimed that he spun tunes for Her Majesty for her Christmas staff party at the Palace - and she was 'evidently fascinated'.

Coles have announced a $1billion profit for the 2021-2022 financial year as millions of Australians continue to struggle with the cost of living crisis.

The decision by CF Industries to halt production at its Billingham plant in Teesside could spark food and drink shortages. The firm supplies roughly 40 per cent of the country's CO2.

Centrica boss Chris O'Shea has pledged £12million to help its poorest customers this autumn with grants of up to £750 to be made available as the cost of living crisis continues.

Mexican parents want justice after doctors ruled her daughter was dead, August 17. A funeral was held the next day when he three-year-old moved her eyes and had a pulse and then died at a hospital.

MCCAIN: I don't believe that listening to one of the most privileged, wealthy women on the planet wax poetic about how hard her life is will make an average American woman relate to her.

It was revealed Wednesday that Jennifer Flavin filed for divorce from Sylvester Stallone after 25 years of marriage.

Two men have been arrested after they allegedly tried to stab police officers with a screwdriver.

Black pastor arrested by cops while watering his neighbor's flowers' while they were out of town, feared they would 'put a bullet in his back' when he walked away,' his son said.

The pictures were taken by the finalists of the Weather Photographer of the Year competition which is being run by the Royal Meteorological Society, in association with AccuWeather.

Black pastor from Alabama accused police of racial profiling him in a discrimination lawsuit, after he was unlawfully handcuffed for watering his neighbors flowers while they were out of town.

Far out in the Bay of Biscay, the notoriously treacherous expanse of water between Western France and Northern Spain, the towering waves threatened to capsize the tugboat Adherence II.

Officer Muhammad Chowdhury was attacked by a group of thugs and left with a skull fracture on Tuesday.

The 2021 Porsche Carrera 4S Paul Pelosi wrecked in his May drunk driving crash is now up for auction for nearly $170,000 on Copart.com.