A Kent couple who spent thousands of pounds on their dream garden are seeking compensation from the council after a new road left it in six inches under water.

In what was described as Scotland Yard's 'darkest day', a string of MPs, including the chairman of the women and equalities select committee, said Dame Cressida should go.

Five serving officers, three of whom work for the Met, and one former officer, allegedly shared horrific content with Sarah Everard's killer on a WhatsApp group months before the murder.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid said 40 new 'one stop shop' diagnostic centres for cancer scans, tests and X-rays will open in community locations across England.

The Metropolitan Police's deputy commissioner said warrant cards may no longer be enough for officers to prove their identity. An extra 650 officers will also be deployed across London.

A former police chief has spoken out in the wake of Wayne Couzens' kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard to advise people of their rights if they are suspicious about an officer.

Dave O'Donnell, who runs Portsmouth Truck Stop in Hampshire, claimed thieves stole £45,000 worth of fuel from his station by draining his fuel tanks in the early hours on Saturday.

A staggering 383 riders were injured in accidents last year - and one was killed. This year, Shakur Pinnock, 20, died in June six days after he was involved in a crash with a car in Wolverhampton.

An insider told MailOnline that friends have been trying to contact the former glamour model, 43, yet since her arrival at the famed rehabilitation centre

RICHARD KAY: For more than three decades John Clunies-Ross ruled over the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean with all the authority of a benign but absolute monarch.

JAN MOIR: Sarah's mother spoke of how every night, at the exact moment Sarah was abducted, she silently screams: 'Don't get in the car, run for your life.' This is not just wrenching, but unforgettable,

He hired a Vauxhall Crossland from a rental garage after plotting for over a month, because the car looked similar to an undercover police car.

Detectives investigating one of their own as they unraveled the harrowing murder of Sarah Everard uncovered hours of footage including from cars, buses and even a doorbell to nail her killer.

From 1 November, Heathrow will become the latest UK airport to slap a drop-off zone fee on motorists, with a £5 charge introduced.

The situation is improving in the North East but the South East continues to suffer as the Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) suggested the easing of the situation has stalled.

The woman said she was working at a drive-thru on the A20 near Swanley in Kent at the start of February when she saw Couzens pulling up by the order hatch with his trousers down.

Carrie Johnson, 33, has been named guest of honour at the Conservative Party's Pride reception in Manchester.

Everyone can now agree that Wayne Couzens, who murdered Sarah Everard, 'should never have been near a uniform', to quote a senior detective on the case who has since left the Met.

Jerome Dangar, 45, of Cornwall, was being investigated on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of part-time carer Hope Barden, 21, who died of auto-erotic asphyxiation

It would be utterly preposterous to have Wonder Man replace Wonder Woman, just as it would be to utterly preposterous to see James Bond turned into Jane Bond.

Magazine editor Tina Brown's The Palace Papers: Inside The House Of Windsor - The Truth And The Turmoil will be published in April - just months before Prince Harry's tell-all memoir.

Council tax will soar over next three years - adding £500 to average yearly bills. Extra £8bn needed to keep social care services at the same quality as present.

The report estimated that 17.4 per cent of children aged six to 16 in England had a 'probable' mental disorder now compared to 11.6 per cent, or one in nine, in 2017.

Ark All Saints academy in south London has drawn up a list of phrases that pupils must avoid in class and in written work. Banned words include 'long', meaning boring, or 'bare', meaning very.

Wales will become the first UK nation to make it compulsory for children to learn about ethnic minority history with the new curriculum framework is due to be introduced from September 2022

The strike was carried out on September 20 in the Idlib province of Syria, where a vehicle traveling on a rural road was struck, but the identity of the target was not confirmed until Thursday.

Roads in Britain have become gridlocked in the past week as motorists hunt for stations that have fuel, with some carrying petrol cans, plastic jugs and water bottles to stock up.

The raiders broke into Le Royal Monceau by scaling down from the roof on the outside of the building.

A sequinned and resplendent Duchess of Cambridge swept down the red carpet at the world premiere of No Time to Die in London in jaw dropping fashion, writes DAN WOOTTON.

Meteorologists believe snow could fall in parts of the UK in the coming weeks with more rain and wind on the way first.

Research of 700 Britons revealed giving both injections in one visit raised no safety concerns and still produced a strong immune response, a study led by Bristol University researchers has found.

Pumps at a Texaco garage in Vauxhall, south London, were closed off for seven hours on Thursday morning while film crews worked on the forecourt.

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The first lockdown in 2020 was a 'live social experiment' that showed men are less likely to accept their movement being restricted, a study that analysed people in Austria showed.

A tiny village is to become the centre of a 'revolution' in the global energy industry and be connected to Morocco - with the world's longest undersea cable costing £16billion.

ROSS CLARK: Britain now has an estimated 4-6 million CCTV cameras. They do important work, and without them, policing would be put back years and murderers and rapists would be harder to snare.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was handed a 12-month sentence by a judge after being found guilty of illegal campaign financing in the 2012 election.

Home Secretary Priti Patel was left 'amazed' by delays at Grant Shapps' Department for Transport, which is running the Government's legal response to protesters' actions, it is understood.

Polling shows that the public regards the media as responsible for the fuel crisis, ahead of the government and oil industry. The messenger is an easy target.

Will Iredale gives recognition to the Pathfinders in a new book. The special corps of highly skilled flyers were responsible for lighting up the target for bombers attacking Germany.

Amid an overwhelming political clamour for action to better protect women and girls, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab yesterday vowed that the issue was his 'number one priority'.

Company directors are more pessimistic about the future than at any time since early February, at the height of the third lockdown, according to a survey from the Institute of Directors.

In an open letter on Wednesday, the workers groups warned that fragmented and inconsistent pandemic restrictions around the world have thrown global shipping into chaos.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle flew home from NYC on Saturday on a private jet owned by company Guthy-Renker, sparking speculation that Meghan could be planning her own product lines.

Wayne Couzens, 48, was nicknamed The Rapist by colleagues and had an obsession with 'brutal porn' before committing the gruesome murder in Kent on March 3.

At its peak a third of all employees were being paid to stay at home under the scheme and forecasters, including the Bank of England, are warning of a rise in unemployment as it ends.

Katie Price's, 43, recently-commissioned BBC documentary Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next has been axed in the wake of her drink-drive crash, according to reports.

Another 36,480 Britons tested positive for Covid, a drop of 0.6 per cent compared to the 36,710 infections spotted last Thursday, data from the Department for Health shows.

Zoe Billingham, from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, said that she could not say 'with certainty' that the murder of a woman by a police officer in Britain would not happen again.

Rishi Sunak said the funding would provide a 'lifeline' as the country faces a cost of living crisis over the winter, with supply chain chaos sending inflation and energy bills into overdrive.

The Public Health England study will put the cost to the economy at £1.2billion in 2019/20 in England alone - including debts of problem gamblers and costs to the police of gambling-related crimes.

The wife of killer cop Wayne Couzens silently watched him be jailed for the rest of his life remotely on a court camera feed.

The Rocket Club on Broad Street was subject to an emergency licence review after a member of the public, not believed to be the victim, reported the incident to West Midlands Police.

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke said the huge bailout - which has cost the taxpayer more than £68billion - 'has to end at some point'.

Sarkozy was sentenced in his absence at a Paris court today after being found guilty of breaching campaign finance rules during the 2012 election, which he lost to Francois Hollande.

Robert Lacey, British author of the best-selling book Battle of the Brothers, told People that the Duke of Cambridge, 39, is now one of the top three figures in the Royal Family.

Professor Christina Pagel, who is also a maths expert at University College London, called for face masks to be brought back in schools 'now' during a briefing at the Royal Society of Medicine.

Mr Corbyn told fans that the murder of Sarah Everard 'proved' that lockdown laws were only about 'giving people the powers to execute crimes' and 'nothing to do with controlling the virus'.

Tankers intended for business fleets have been ordered by Government officials to go to garages and service stations instead, it emerged today.

Irmgard Furchner, 96, who served as secretary of a Nazi death camp, was declared on the run by a court in northern Germany this morning after failing to turn up for trail but was found a few hours later.

In 'Going There' , Katie Couric describes how Prince Harry, then 27, stank of cigarettes and alcohol when they met in Belize in 2012, during his tour to mark the Queen's diamond jubilee.

MailOnline spoke to several meteorologists about what makes the UK's weather so 'unique', as one put it, and whether any other country in the world compares.

Nine activists from Insulate Britain were arrested after targeting junction 30 of the M25 near Thurrock in Essex from about 8am today as they continued to defy a High Court injunction.

A security flaw discovered in iPhones allows hackers to make a a £1,000 contactless payment without knowing the user's passcode, researchers have found.

Climate change levies currently added to domestic electricity will be axed and new payments added to gas to entice people to replace their central heating boilers and cookers.

Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet, which was released today, is the first publication in Duke of Cambridge's decade-long global environmental competition.

Paramedics are among the one million Britons with Category C licenses that have been asked to become HGV drivers by the Department for Transport.

The prominent Brexiteer shared his ordeal on Twitter in a jibe at government ministers who claimed that the crisis is 'easing'.

Retail analyst Clive Black warned turkeys could be replaced by nut roasts and many people will ask 'what the hell is this' when they look at their plate on Christmas Day.

The contemporary four-bedroom property, located in the highly-sought after area of Salcombe in Devon, is the ultimate retreat for those looking to enjoy a luxury seaside getaway.

The Duke of York, 61, had been hiding out at the Queen's Scottish estate for three weeks to escape the legal row but was all smiles as he left Balmoral today.

Danielle Holmes, 26, believes she was spiked after visiting her local haunt in her hometown of Wetherby, West Yorkshire, when the night spiralled out of control and she was rushed to hospital.

The troubled glamour model, 43, is mum to Junior, 16, and Princess, 14, who she shares with Peter Andre, as well as Jett, 8, and Bunny, 7, with Kieran Hayler and Harvey, 18, with Dwight Yorke

Beer could be in short supply, shelves will be empty and must-have toys will be harder to find than ever, Britain's biggest retailers predict.

Wayne Couzens stopped Sarah Everard on the street and used Covid laws as a ploy to 'arrest' the marketing executive before driving her 80 miles to her death in Kent.

Clarkson, 61, was left dumbfounded on Tuesday morning when he arrived at his Diddly Squat farm in Chadlington, Oxfordshire, to find an 'eco-mob', who turned out to be actors for Saturday Night Takeaway.

At a meeting of Cornwall Council yesterday (Thursday), it was revealed almost 62% of business support claimed by second home-owners went to landlords living outside the county

The Bentley Flying Spur, bought recently by the Cristiano Ronaldo, was seen pulling into a Shell garage in Wilmslow, Cheshire, at around 2.20pm on Wednesday.

The DVLA is facing a 54,000 HGV applications backlog, although the body says that 50,000 of the outstanding applications are for renewals and not new drivers.

Appearing on Good Morning Britain today, the Opposition Leader said: 'I don't have a favourite Bond, but I do think it's time for a female Bond.'

Jean-Pierre Pont, a member of Emmanuel Macron's party for the coastal town of Boulogne-sur-Mer, made the threat on Wednesday, saying UK politicians should 'be warned'.

Paul Bennett, 46, was jailed for eight years and seven months at York Crown Court after climbing in the back of his crashed Renault van and leaving his friend, Simon Maving, to die in the wreckage.

Latest figures from July showed 1.6million jobs still being propped up by the UK scheme. Numbers had dipped by 340,000 by the end of the month and Chancellor Rishi Sunak said he was pleased.

Scientists behind the research have called for the UK to reconsider its current rollout, which will see 12 to 15-year-olds only given a single injection of Pfizer.

Insulate Britain told they will be served papers by High Court enforcement officers over their series of protests - which saw the activists glue themselves to junctions on the M25 and A20 near Dover.

Irish Covid patient Joe McCarron, 67, was encouraged to leave hospital by his anti-vaxxer 'friends' on Sept 14, but was rushed back suffering from breathing difficulties and later died.

Couzens, 48, used his Metropolitan Police-issue warrant card and handcuffs to snatch Ms Everard as she walked home from a friend's house in Clapham, south London.

Dominic Raab said that some of the record one million job vacancies across the UK could be filled by offenders who are allowed out on day release or have just finished their jail sentences.

Beyhan Mutlu, from Inegol in the north-western province of Bursa, had been drinking with friends when he wandered off into the woods.

Medi Abalimba, 32, conned Claire Henry out of more than £50,000 earlier this year after raiding her Coutts and HSBC accounts to stay at the Corinthia Hotel in Westminster.

In recent days, Pyongyang offered conditional talks with Seoul while performing its first missile tests in six months and stepping up its criticism of the United States.

The abuse was carried out by Congolese and international workers between 2018 and 2020, including on a 13-year-old girl.

Tickets were sold at £265 each plus a £5 booking fee, with ticket holders paying a £50 deposit in 2019. Those attending must pay the balance in March but with an increase because of inflation.

Claire Morton, 31, complained of a 'bad headache' before a series of seizures at a hospital in Cambridge and died from a bleed on the brain after her daughter was born in April 2019 (stock image).

GCSE and A-level exams will return next summer, but it will be harder than last year to get an A or A* grade, officials have confirmed.

In an explosive intervention, French General Frantz Tavart said that if Home Secretary Priti Patel goes through with her pledge to cut UK-taxpayer support he will call off nightly patrols.

Ambitious mother-of-two Elizabeth McKenzie, 44, was sent into a 'downward spiral' after being put on furlough when the coronavirus pandemic struck, an inquest heard.

Rainer Cocq, a retired Danish businessman who owned the 'miracle' holiday home on La Palma with his 80-year-old wife Inge Bergedorf, has confirmed that it has since been destroyed.

Kate was all smiles today as she held a tarantula named 'Charlotte' during a trip to Ulster University's Magee Campus' petting zoo with Prince William during their whirlwind Northern Ireland visit.

Rashpal Singh Mondair made the shocking comments while chair of the Professional Conduct Committee of the General Dental Council (GDC) - which investigates misconduct.

In his first in-person conference speech after Covid, Keir Starmer faced chants of 'Oh, Jeremy Corbyn' and shouts about his Brexit policy being to blame for the crushing election defeat in 2019.

Ex-Blue Peter presenter Richard Bacon, 45, was slammed online after his new campaign would see Halloween sweets replaced with bizarre alternatives to tackle the 'childhood obesity crisis.'

Emma Rhodes, from Dorset, wrote bogus emails to show to her partner that she was doing well in her job and was entitled to £89,000 bonuses to stop him becoming suspicious.

Dan Rosenfield, who replaced the fired Mr Cummings in Downing Street last year, was at the Royal Albert Hall last night for the UK unveiling of No Time To Die.

Sarah Everard's family stared down her killer in court this afternoon - as her mother revealed each night at the time she was kidnapped she is haunted by her death.

Elie Taktouk, 46, failed to attend Southwark Crown Court in south London last Thursday after suffering a 'breakdown' and was jailed for seven years in his absence.

Glen Newton, 55, was furious after losing his membership at Woolley Park Golf Club, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. He destroyed the greens using weed killer.

Over 100,000 people in the UK are waiting for an allotment, with a green-fingered resident in the London borough of Camden waiting 6690 days before he got his own plot.

The remains of 13-year Royal Marine veteran John Dick, 38, were recovered by Essex Police from a building site near Harwich Port and along the coastline near Bathside Bay.

The statue to Betty Campbell, who died in 2017 aged 82, was unveiled early this afternoon in front of hundreds of spectators in Cardiff.

Celebrity seer Claire Stone, 38, failed to foresee her losing a High Court trademark battle with rival psychic Alexandra Wenman - who had used the 'Archangel Alchemy' tag for over 10 years.

PC Lee Scott, of Northumbria Police, faced six allegations of gross misconduct over comments he posted on Facebook following the murder of George Floyd in the US in May last year, and subsequent protests.

Sir Keir Starmer today delivered his eagerly anticipated speech to the Labour Party's annual conference in Brighton.

The two trees, believed to be around 80 years old, stand on the edge of a recreation ground between Poole Harbour and luxury homes that sell for between £2million to £3million each in Dorset.

Some 1,650 pupils were told to stay at home at short notice after The Duston School in Northampton closed its doors due to a suspected false widow spider outbreak.

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Lauren Blaney, 29, was seen smashing a window at the address of her ex, James Campbell, 48, at a ground floor flat in Rowsley Grove, Aintree, causing more than £2,000 worth of damage.

PC Sean Ford, 49, posed as a 'knight in shining armour' after visiting the woman's home to interview her following the allegations of abuse, the hearing at Dorset Police headquarters heard.

Gina Miller took to Twitter yesterday to sarcastically ask where the Prime Minister was amid the fuel shortages and a severe lack of delivery drivers leaving shelves empty across the UK.

Roy Staunton, 45, had taken charge of the project after he and his wife won planning permission to place the property next door to their home in Hale, near Altrincham, Greater Manchester.

Four years after his death, 'Bradley Lowery Way' can be found in the town of Blackhall Colliery, in County Durham, close to where the England mascot lived his short life. Bradley died in 2017 aged six.

The suspect, aged 25 and from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, was held on Wednesday for alleged offences linked to Islamist extremism.

Most cases involving men who had worked in the police were homicides of partners, according to The Femicide Census, which keeps track of women killed by male perpetrators in Britain.

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Just six per cent of those who backed Boris Johnson and his party in the election two years ago did not feel that the Tory shires were being taken for granted.

Irmgard Furchner, who has been dubbed the 'secretary of evil', had been due to stand trial in Itzehoe Regional Court on September 30 on charges of assisting in the deaths of 11,412 prisoners

In yet more humiliation for the police and Home Office, Insulate Britain have shut down the M1 and M4in more misery for drivers who have also spent the past week queuing for fuel.

Biden suffered an embarrassing setback for his multitrillion dollar spending plans on Thursday night as Democrats abandoned a vote in Congress amid a looming party civil war.

The Guangzhou International Health Station in the Asian country's south has been built in only three months in an attempt to keep returned travellers away from densely-populated cities.

John Paulson, 65, and Alina de Almeida, 33, were spotted attending a wedding on the shores of Lake Como days after the hedge funder announced his high-profile divorce from his wife Jenny, 50.

Glady Berejiklian's shock resignation as NSW premier will throw the state's emergence from three months of lockdown into chaos because ICAC couldn't wait six months to rake her over the coals.

City councillor Thomas Morlock said at the inauguration of the parking spaces that the aim was to help people who feel 'a special need for protection' with a 'conspicuously colourful symbol'.

Peter (left) and his twin brother, Thomas, arrived with their mother and sister at Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland in July 1944.

The institution in Fife, Scotland, which topped the Good University Guide this year, said prospective pupils (pictured during the traditional Pier Walk) had to accept 'personal guilt'.

The popular New South Wales Liberal leader who was widely hailed for the way she handled the Covid-19 pandemic has ultimately been brought down by a poor choice in men.

Scott Morrison said vaccinated Australians will soon be able to return home and travel overseas as 80 percent vaccination targets are met. 'The time has come to give Australians their life back'

Katie Couric admits she 'heard the whispers' about Matt Lauer's inappropriate office behavior in her new book Going There which detailed her experiences at the Today Show

This significant move will boost the university sector by allowing international students from China and India to re-enter the country.

A shortage of butchers means that farmers believe have to 'throw pigs in a skip' because they can't be slaughtered and carved - with 150,000 animals under threat.

The Brit, thought to be aged around 40, got into trouble in the water at Albufereta beach, near Alicante, shortly before 5.30pm Thursday with fishermen raising the alarm.

Benjamin Elliott, 17, from Katy, Texas, has been charged as an adult with murder for allegedly stabbing to death his twin sister, Meghan, which he claimed to have done in his sleep.

Distraught Liberal voters have left flowers and balloons at Gladys Berejiklian's house after the popular NSW Premier resigned on Friday.

Allies of Sir Keir Starmer are urging him to conduct a post-Labour conference shake-up of his top team amid calls for Ed Miliband to be demoted.

Jacob Rees-Mogg has said the UK is 'taxed as highly as the country can afford' in a warning shot to Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak before the Budget later this month.

Taliban Prime Minister Hasan Akhund's order followed recent public statements by Taliban officials hinting at plans to improve organization and marshal fighters.

General Tannya Varela said Ecuador police fully recaptured Litoral prison, in the port city of Guayaquil, late Thursday after three days of rioting that left 118 dead and 86 injured.

Energy regulator Ofgem has hired City firm Teneo to step in if any major energy supplier collapses after nine energy suppliers serving 1.7million customers went bust in September.

All professional athletes across Victoria will be required to receive their first Covid-19 vaccine dose by October 15 and their second by November 26 - and if they refuse, they won't be playing.

Gladys Berejiklian's resignation as Premier of NSW as she faces an investigation by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) came as a shock to many.

Annastacia Palaszczuk has been accused of avoiding a new lockdown in her state just so the NRL Grand Final can go ahead this weekend, but the real reason is not that cynical.