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Sarah Brown's tears for Gary: PM's wife backs Mail campaign to stop extradition of man who hacked Pentagon

Sarah Brown, the Prime Minister's wife, wept yesterday as she pledged her support to Gary McKinnon's mother Janis Sharp.

The Queen's £1,375 council tax bill (that's £400 cheaper than her neighbours in the next borough)

The Queen pays the tax on the most prestigious address in the country to Westminster City Council, which has the second lowest rates in the country.

Woman, 85, lay dead in her flat for FIVE YEARS before anyone noticed

Isabella Purves' body was only found after a downstairs neighbour noticed water dripping through the ceiling of her tenement flat and reported it to the local council.

Six dead, including three children, in towering inferno at high-rise

Three adults and three children, including a six and seven-year-old and a three-week-old baby perished in the massive blaze, police have confirmed.

Charles' heartbreak: Royal salute, but was Colonel R left vulnerable to Taliban bomb?

The Prince of Wales spoke yesterday of his heartbreak and horror at the loss of the most senior British officer to die in Afghanistan.

The licence fee could go, admits BBC boss: Cost of watching TV might be put on council tax bill

Mark Thompson’s comments have been taken as an admission that the growing use of new technology to watch programmes will make the licence fee obsolete.

Six years for drunk who left girlfriend to die in car blaze

Six years for drunk who left girlfriend to die in car blaze

Mourners use snooker cues as weapons in mass brawl at funeral over dead man's property

Mourners use snooker cues as weapons in mass brawl at funeral over dead man's property

Who finally got to give Tony Blair a black eye?

Who finally got to give Tony Blair a black eye?

Shattered in the shadow of death: We join troops on biggest ever assault against the Taliban

Shattered in the shadow of death: We join troops on biggest ever assault against the Taliban

Blind man sees wife for first time after having a TOOTH implanted into his eye

Blind man sees wife for first time after having a TOOTH implanted into his eye

Teacher battles to save her job... after sending students home with DVD sex tape

Teacher battles to save her job... after sending students home with DVD sex tape

Tory blueprint for the family: Tax deals for the married, tougher laws on divorce and prenup deals

Tory blueprint for the family: Tax deals for the married, tougher laws on divorce and prenup deals

Baby girl faces liver checks after Tesco pharmacist mistakenly prescribes huge dosage

Baby girl faces liver checks after Tesco pharmacist mistakenly prescribes huge dosage

Swine flu toll rises to four as youth, 19, dies

Swine flu toll rises to four as youth, 19, dies

The battle over Boadicea's gold: Treasure hunters fall out over who deserves £500,000 reward for coins found in field

The battle over Boadicea's gold: Treasure hunters fall out over who deserves £500,000 reward for coins found in field

'My hamster's escaped!' Police fury as woman dials 999 to report rodent on the run

'My hamster's escaped!' Police fury as woman dials 999 to report rodent on the run

Children STILL at risk in Baby P borough

Children STILL at risk in Baby P borough

Rider overcomes handicap hurdle: Ten-year-old succeeds with two broken arms

Rider overcomes handicap hurdle: Ten-year-old succeeds with two broken arms

'Double jeopardy' thug jailed for life after confessing murder of girlfriend to new lover... who he then tried to kill

'Double jeopardy' thug jailed for life after confessing murder of girlfriend to new lover... who he then tried to kill

Schools bar parents from sports day... to keep out paedophiles

Schools bar parents from sports day... to keep out paedophiles

Knives out for Phillips: Equality chief faces axe after complaints over 'weak' leadership

Knives out for Phillips: Equality chief faces axe after complaints over 'weak' leadership

Couple's £1m dream home to be demolished... because print-out of plans was wrong size

Couple's £1m dream home to be demolished... because print-out of plans was wrong size

Mother who used false address to get son into top school will NOT be charged

Mother who used false address to get son into top school will NOT be charged

Prisoners on the run can't be named in case it breaches their human rights, says government

Prisoners on the run can't be named in case it breaches their human rights, says government

Gay minister accuses Tories of being 'plagued by homophobia'

Gay minister accuses Tories of being 'plagued by homophobia'

Why self-help mantras leave you unhappier than before

Why self-help mantras leave you unhappier than before

Waterboarding at the Met and why the force faces the biggest police scandal in decades

Nigerian immigrant David Nwankwo claim that he was tortured by police is part of wider allegations of corruption, theft and brutality that dog the Met.

Conspiracy fever: As rumours swell that the government staged 7/7, victims' relatives call for a proper inquiry

Families of the dead victims and an increasing number of 7/7 survivors claim there are inconsistencies and basic mistakes in the official accounts that need explanation.

Put middle-class children at the back of the queue, says top grammar school head

A leading grammar school head is calling for children from poor homes to be given priority over the middle-classes in admissions to top state schools.

Hundreds of men 'wrongly convicted of being paedophiles after becoming victims of identity theft'

Britain's biggest online paedophile inquiry is being challenged in the court of appeal, raising the spectre of a miscarriage of justice for hundreds of convicted child abusers.

Prison opens top-class restaurant... just don't ask for porridge

The food could grace an upmarket restaurant in London's West End, with decor to match... but the panic alarms and the plastic cutlery show all is not as it seems.

Don't look down: Terrifying view from glass box balcony jutting out from skyscraper's 103rd floor

Not content with having the tallest building in America, the owners of Sears Tower in Chicago have installed glass box viewing platforms which stick out of the building 103 floors up.

Pictured: Is this a UFO flying over theme park?

An American writer believes the circle she caught on camera floating above a Virginia theme park is a space ship - and UFO investigators say she may be right.

Are they brave or mad? Office workers go naked to boost team spirit

A group of office staff have discovered they work better together when they are NAKED.

Elf n' safety warning: You could die laughing at these amazing pictures of the Nanny State stating the obvious

A sample of ludicrous signs put together by the Manifesto Club, a campaign group opposed to over-regulation.

Solved by the Mail, the riddle of the revolting 'alien' creature in a sewer that became an internet hit

They are slimy pulsating sacs clinging to crevices of a sewer. As light shines on the mysterious creature, it recoils in displeasure. Is it a new life form?

He's behind you! Diver's close encounter with enormous shark

Looming from the depths, this huge creature looks as if it is about to swallow diver Sam Bester whole.

Is the Turin Shroud really a self-portrait by Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci?

Using computer scans American artist, Lillian Schwartz found that the face on the Turin Shroud and a self portrait of Leonardo da Vinci share the same dimensions.

Gardens are buzzing with greenfly as searing June weather causes worst aphid plague in 25 years

The sizzling temperatures and scorching sunshine has triggered the worst plague of greenfly for more than 25 years.

Mother strangled and set on fire by jealous boyfriend after she planned new life with boss

A jilted martial arts expert was facing life behind bars last night for strangling his girlfriend after she revealed she was leaving him for her married boss.

How believing in Fred Flintstone 'can help to spread creationism'

Children as young as five should be taught about evolution to prevent them mistaking Fred Flintstone for scientific fact, an academic has claimed.

The Golden Girls: Four sisters, each happily married for more than 50 years

In an age when half of marriages end in divorce, and an online service has been set up to advise warring couples how to part, the McAleney sisters are the perfect antidote.

AMANDA PLATELL: Gays, political spivs and the question: Who'll help families?

AMANDA PLATELL: Gays, political spivs and the question: Who'll help families?

JAN MOIR: The fatal lure of fame. Never have so many hungered to be famous - yet never has fame caused so much tragedy

JAN MOIR: The fatal lure of fame. Never have so many hungered to be famous - yet never has fame caused so much tragedy

ROBIN PAGE: 'I grew up with gipsies (I'm even mistaken for one), but this land theft by 'travellers' sickens me...'

ROBIN PAGE: 'I grew up with gipsies (I'm even mistaken for one), but this land theft by 'travellers' sickens me...'

QUENTIN LETTS: Bercow's too young ... he needs deputies who have grey hair

QUENTIN LETTS: Bercow's too young ... he needs deputies who have grey hair

TOM UTLEY: After godforsaken Glastonbury, my sons are ready for the age of austerity

TOM UTLEY: After godforsaken Glastonbury, my sons are ready for the age of austerity

HARRY PHIBBS: Councils should NOT be spendingyour money on promoting homosexuality

HARRY PHIBBS: Councils should NOT be spendingyour money on promoting homosexuality

STEPHEN GLOVER: Mr Cameron should tell us whether - and how - he will deal with immigration

STEPHEN GLOVER: Mr Cameron should tell us whether - and how - he will deal with immigration

QUENTIN LETTS: The boot-licking fake who sparked Commons collapse

QUENTIN LETTS: The boot-licking fake who sparked Commons collapse

PETER OBORNE: Our Right Honorable liars and the debauching of democracy

PETER OBORNE: Our Right Honorable liars and the debauching of democracy

British homeowners reduce their mortgage debt by record £23bn in a year as interest rates fall

Britain's mortgage payback boom is continuing as homeowners repay a record amount of their property debt, figures show.

The council 'cronies' paid £800 a minute

The amazing sum is paid with taxpayers' money to council meeting chairmen at Tower Hamlets in East London.

Pope Benedict clears way for Cardinal John Newman to become first English saint in 40 years

Pope Benedict XVI today announced the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman.

The real Talented Mr Ripley: Conman jailed for life after bludgeoning gay lover to death

Former British Airways steward Glenn Rycroft, 33, searched websites for killing methods before battering Gareth Mac-Donald to death with a fire extinguisher in a hotel room.

Disappeared: Police search for young mother who has gone missing with her two children

Detectives said 26-year-old Hayley Waite had never gone missing before, and there was no indication of why she had vanished.

Sarah Palin to run for President? Pitbull in lipstick quits as Alaska Governor

The surprise announcement has raised speculation that Palin will now focus on a run for the White House in the 2012 race.

Berlusconi 'asks topless model-turned-minister to replace wife at G8'

The divorcing Italian Prime Minister is understood to have asked Mara Carfagna to look after the partners of the world’s top leaders at the summit.

Berlin to pardon 30,000 Germans branded 'traitors' by the Nazis

Twenty thousand were executed, often for crimes as trifling as writing a diary entry criticising Hitler. The other 10,000 were sentenced in wartime but not executed.

North Korea launches its first ever beer advert

North Korea launches its first ever beer advert

Hundreds of British troops seize Helmand canals in U.S.-led 'Strike of the Sword'

Hundreds of British troops seize Helmand canals in U.S.-led 'Strike of the Sword'

British embassy staff could be put on show trial in Iran

British embassy staff could be put on show trial in Iran

Madoff's wife kicked out of £4.3m penthouse with just a straw bag as officers tell her she can't even take her fur coat

Madoff's wife kicked out of £4.3m penthouse with just a straw bag as officers tell her she can't even take her fur coat

Bad start for Briton who won Best Job In The World as he makes embarrassing error on his second day

Bad start for Briton who won Best Job In The World as he makes embarrassing error on his second day

David Carradine 'did not commit suicide' says pathologist, fuelling speculation actor died during sex game

David Carradine 'did not commit suicide' says pathologist, fuelling speculation actor died during sex game

Taliban captures 'drunk' U.S. soldier in Afghanistan and sells him to militant clan

Taliban captures 'drunk' U.S. soldier in Afghanistan and sells him to militant clan

'I felt something like electricity': Only survivor of Airbus ocean crash that killed 152 tells of her ordeal

'I felt something like electricity': Only survivor of Airbus ocean crash that killed 152 tells of her ordeal

Doomed Air France flight did not blow apart mid-air but fell vertically into the ocean, says first official report

Doomed Air France flight did not blow apart mid-air but fell vertically into the ocean, says first official report

Pictured: The crafty sea lion who tried to make a quick getaway... by hijacking a police boat

Pictured: The crafty sea lion who tried to make a quick getaway... by hijacking a police boat

Horror as two-year-old girl is strangled to death by 8ft pet python

Horror as two-year-old girl is strangled to death by 8ft pet python

Osborne to face sleaze probe over second home expenses claims - yet complaints against Darling rejected

Osborne to face sleaze probe over second home expenses claims - yet complaints against Darling rejected

Michael Martin will become a peer behind closed doors

Michael Martin will become a peer behind closed doors

JOHN HUMPHRYS: Inside a Pakistani school where children are being brainwashed into terrorists

The BBC reporter sends a disturbing dispatch from inside a school in Karachi where intelligence chiefs say children are being taught terror techniques.

LITTLEJOHN: Mob grief proves Britain is more wacko than Jacko

When the head of RCA Records was told that Elvis had died, he is said to have remarked: 'Great career move.'

PETER MCKAY: What does Dave stand for? Getting rid of Brown

There is another attempt today to launch the good ship Gordon Brown after mutinies among the crew and near sinkings.

PETER OBORNE: This reveals both moral and economic bankruptcy

Thirty years ago, the Labour Prime Minister Jim Callaghan found himself in almost exactly the same predicament Gordon Brown does today.

MAIL COMMENT: Compassion that crosses the party divide

MAIL COMMENT: Compassion that crosses the party divide

Amazing pictures of the seal who narrowly escaped becoming a snack for a killer whale

These dramatic pictures reveal the stunning hunting skills of a killer whale and show the extremes the mammals will go to in order to catch its prey.

Life without limb-its: The astonishing story of the man born without arms or legs... who plays golf, surfs, and swims

Nick Vujicic was born with no arms or legs - but he doesn't let the details stop him. The brave 26-year-old - who is mainly torso - plays football, swims, and surfs, despite having no limbs.

I share my home with 11 cats - four cheetahs, five lions and two tigers

Riana Van Nieuwenhuizen bought her first cheetah, Fiela in 2006, after realising the big cats were in trouble and heading for extinction with only 1000 left in Africa.

Cornwall? I'm looking for the prairies (or how North American prairie dog appears to have travelled 4,000 miles)

The North American prairie dog was photographed in Cornwall by two walkers 13 miles from Bodmin Moor - home to the fabled Beast of Bodmin.

V is for very exciting as Red Arrows and Virgin put on a colourful flypast for 100,000 aviation fans

A Virgin Atlantic jet took to the skies with the Red Arrows for a flypast to mark the airline's 25th anniversary.

On sale soon: The mobile aimed at four-year-olds

The brightly coloured Firefly handset has just five buttons - including two which call Mum and Dad directly.

Meet Kobian - the emotional humanoid robot who can show joy and disgust

A robot that can display seven different emotions including joy and disgust, has been unveiled at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan.

'Missing' three-year-old who sparked two hour hunt is found at home asleep in suitcase

Two hours after raising the alarm that his daughter was missing, Austen Hapenga's ordeal came to an end when the toddler was found asleep in a suitcase at home.