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NEW Harry and Meghan have chosen an image showing them with their arms wrapped around each other's waists on their wedding night for their Christmas card, while William and Kate have opted for an autumnal photo with their children on a tree trunk. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex shared the new photo from their evening wedding reception, showing them hand-in-hand as fireworks erupt in the grounds of Frogmore House, a 17th century royal residence in Windsor near Frogmore Cottage, where they will live from early next year.

Festive revellers stumbled out of bars and pubs dressed as Santa and his elves as Christmas party season swept the nation last night. Celebrating the Yuletide with your colleagues, over a glass of cherry or two, is as traditional as roast turkey and the Queen's speech for most Britons. As the big night approached, workers pulled on their Christmas jumpers, donned the silliest costumes they could find and headed out for a night on the town. Smiling party-goers were spotted enjoying themselves all the way from Newcastle (left and inset) down to Bristol and across to Swansea (right), with many happy to pose for pictures as they painted the town red and green. After a long night of dancing to festive hits, many looked slightly worse for wear as they walked arm-in-arm with friends or tucked into a late night snack on their way home.

Lauren Smith (pictured with her son Ben right) was travelling at 65mph in her Ford Ka along the A120 dual carriageway when she suffered an attack. The 27-year-old started to shake and her hands gripped to the steering wheel as the vehicle began to smash and scrape the central reservation during the incident. Her son, Ben Hedges, leapt from his front passenger seat and took hold of the wheel, before guiding the out-of-control car across two lanes and safely onto a grass verge (left) next to the hard shoulder. 

Tis the season to watch re-runs of the most famous yuletide films but while Kevin in Home Alone and Sam in Love Actually remain timeless on our screens, the child stars of the best Christmas movies have gone on to lead very different lives. (Pictured from left: Johnny Galecki in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Miffy Englefield in The Holiday, Olivia Olson in Love Actually, Mara Wilson in Miracle on 34th Street, Thomas Brodie Sangster in Love Actually and Karolyn Grimes in It's a Wonderful Life)

Leanne Mill had a sex change in Hove, East Sussex aged 34. She is speaking out to 'warn others of the reality of being a transsexual' but says she doesn't regret her surgery. She says that since her surgery she has lived in a twilight world. Leanne said that she has had a string of dead-end jobs despite being bright. Left, Leanne pictured shortly after her surgery in 1979. Inset, Leanne pictured as boy aged 11. Right, Leanne as she looks today.

James Acourt, 42, pictured right, was beaten to the floor in Wandsworth prison days into his sentence for drug smuggling after pleading guilty at Kingston Crown Court last week. He is one of five men suspected of the 1993 stabbing of Stephen Lawrence (inset). Fellow inmate Tyrone Archer, 39, pictured left, has refused to discuss his motives for attack. Archer was 13 at the time of the murder and grew up in south-east London.

Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in London has launched an appeal to find forever homes for some of its longest standing residents, who have lived there for longer than the average 38 days it usually takes to find new homes for dogs. Clockwise from top left: Mistletoe, a two year-old Lurcher; Six-year-old mongrel, Prince; Lucas, a six year-old, Staffordshire Bull Terrier; Dean, a five year-old greyhound; Bear, a two-year-old mongrel and Magic Mike, an eight year-old Shar-Pei.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: When within moments of Theresa May's victory on Wednesday, the pale features of Jacob Rees-Mogg (pictured outside Parliament yesterday main) loomed into view on the television screen, I was fascinated to see how he would react. A gallant loser would have congratulated Mrs May (pictured in Brussels yesterday inset) on her result, pointed out that there were nevertheless 117 Tory MPs who disagreed with her and said something about sticking to his principles but working together in the national interest.

Angela Mason (pictured), 57, from Willenhall, West Midlands, says she won last month - soon after Eric Walker, 56, of Sheffield was also refused the top prize for the same scratchcard. The gran-of-four claims to have matched the correct number of symbols on the Pharaoh's Fortune card last month - meaning she's entitled to the prize. Desperately excited with her supposed win, she ran to the Post Office but was told the win could not be verified. And after emailing Camelot, was reportedly told her win was not genuine and that she had not scratched the card properly. She was instead told coordinates she thought were an F5 were actually an E5 (inset is a MailOnline mock-up of her scratchcard).

The £250,000 paid by members of the Shah family was a combination of fines, costs and a confiscation order after a raid on their £500,000 property in Wembley. Council officers found the Indian migrants were forced to sleep in shifts as night workers would swap with those who had daytime hours. Enforcement officers from Brent Council also found a woman living in a tarpaulin-covered shed (top right) in the back garden (top left) with no light or heat after a raid in 2016. Also pictured: Two of the rooms stuffed full with bunkbeds (bottom left, bottom right) and Sanjay Shah, (inset) one of the property's owners.

Mother-of-two Sue Potter, who emigrated to the US after surviving Nazi Germany, died at 87 in Denver in 2015 In 2000, she thought she had a year to live so she pledged her body to the University of Colorado. She wanted to be embalmed, sliced up and digitized for the purpose of teaching. But she ended up living 15 years and in that time recorded herself so students understand the woman behind the medical records. She regularly visited the lab to see how her body would be sawed up and photographed, the fridge where she'd be kept, and to meet the students. Now, National Geographic has published an inside look at her 15-year journey in the January 2019 issue of the magazine. Pictured: Dr Vic Spitzer about to pry her titanium hip replacement from Sue's frozen body (top); a cross section of Sue's head, encased in polyvinyl alcohol for stability (bottom right); and Sue, in her final years, shopping in her wheelchair which bears a sticker saying 'God Bless America'.

A picture collection shared by Bored Panda shows images of fans with stars. While most pictures with celebs are asked on the street, these show the humorous side to some prominent stars. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Queen Elizabeth II (top left), Prince Harry (top middle), Dwayne Johnson (top right), John Krasinski (bottom left), Michael Cera (bottom middle), and Ken Jeong (bottom right) have made an appearance in funny photobombs. Most of the fans were surprised to find these celebs in the back of their pictures.

Eliza Dushku was reportedly slated to become a full-time cast member on Bull before she reported comments made to her by lead actor Michael Weatherly (top right). The network agreed to pay Dushku (left and bottom right with Weatherly in Bull) a confidential settlement of $9.5million. The details of that settlement have been revealed amid a broader investigation triggered by allegations of sex abuse against former CBS exec Les Moonves (inset).

Sir Paul McCartney (inset) put the drama of his recent burglary behind him as he joined the likes of Noel Gallagher and Chris Martin at Mick Jagger's party on Thursday night in London. The Beatles star, 76, cut a stylish figure for the evening celebrations as he represented his daughter Stella McCartney's fashion label. From left: Poppy Delevingne, Nicky HIlton, Sally and Ronnie Wood, Lily Cole and Lady Mary Charteris.

RIP The Kardashians. It is with great lack of even a molecule of sadness that I have to report the demise of the world's most vacuous, grasping, sleazy, stupid and annoying family. Ratings for the season finale of Keeping Up With The Kardashians on Sunday night crashed to just 851,000 viewers in the US. After 11 long, tortuous years, it appears America's finally grown sick and tired of watching this tiresome freak-show. Because Kim once made a sex tap, they are everywhere, permeating every pore of our waking life with their tweets, Instagram posts, fashion lines, perfumes, makeup lines and topless selfies.

David Dimbleby, 80, received a standing ovation from the audience at the recording of his final BBC Question Time in Southwark last night (inset top). The veteran broadcaster (left, right, and inset) will be replaced by Fiona Bruce from next week. Politicians, former panellists, audience members, journalists and cameramen have praised Mr Dimbleby's professionalism, unflappability and courtesy during his quarter-century at the helm.

British glamour model Chloe Ayling (left and right with boyfriend Lewis G) has been mocked for claiming she is too vulnerable to attend her alleged kidnapper's trial. The 21-year-old said she is too 'worried' to testify at the trial of Michal Herba (inset), who is accused of helping his brother Lukasz kidnap her in Italy in July 2017.  But his lawyers say she can't be vulnerable because she's been flying all over the world for photoshoots and sharing snaps of her jetset life on Instagram.

Roy Moore's lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen lifts the lid on how the comedian and makers of Who Is America? repeatedly get guests to make a fool of themselves. In a recent filing he exposed how by making interviewees sign consent of appearance agreements by founding 'made-up' networks and creating false characters, Cohen, Showtime Networks and CBS are able to dupe guests. It emerged in response to a motion to transfer a lawsuit from Washington DC to New York on Wednesday as the judge sues the three parties for $95million.

FEMAIL rounded up a selection of this year's best gadgets from online and UK High Street stores to gift tech lovers for Christmas. Top picks include Google Mini, Nescafe Dolce Gusto Lumio, Amazon Fire 7, NutriBullet Pro 900 Series Blender, electriQ 3D VR glasses all for under £50 (pictured top row left to right). Centre left to right: Lightfoot dashboard; Fitbit Ace; Royole RoWrite; Siesta Charge, Mambo drone. Bottom left to right: FES Watch U; Samsung The Frame TV; Bose SoundSport Free; SUS ZenBook Pro and Canon EOS 200D.

NEW A fascinating collection of images from the American Civil war representing both armies have been brought to life via colorization giving further insight into the most studied episode of U.S. history. The selection of images taken over the course of the war which ran from 1861 to 1865, show some famous faces including General George A Custer, a commander who rose to fame as an officer during the war. In of one of the historic photographs, a young Custer sits alongside Confederate prisoner Lieutenant James B. Washington, who was one of his classmates at U.S. Military Academy West Point before the conflict broke out. 

Shocking footage has emerged of two hunters in Kazakhstan biting and eating the raw heart of a dead wolf. The hunters had slaughtered a pack of wolves after they killed their sheep overnight, but widespread condemnation online has accused the hunters of being the beasts. A few dozen villagers from an unspecified location in Kazakhstan were involved in the slaughter.

The latest viral prank to take over China's social media involves mischievous shoppers, expensive jewellery and panicking sales assistants. The prank, which has recently taken off in China, involves 'potential buyers' trying on necklaces and bracelets at a jewellery store before suddenly making a run for the exit. As bewildered shop assistants leap over the counter and give chase, the practical jokers stop short of the door to admire themselves in front of a mirror, as if they never intended to steal anything - leaving the employee red-faced and flustered.

Controllers at Cranfield Airport in Bedfordshire have begun using live footage from high-definition cameras to direct take-offs and landings. The technology replicates what can be seen through the windows of the traditional ATC tower via a live feed of panoramic views displayed on 14 screens in an operations room at the airport. It provides the ability to zoom in on aircraft and locate them in times of poor visibility. Pictured (inset) is the air traffic controllers working in the old tower at Cranfield Airport.

Online retailer Carvana opened the all-glass tower (pictured main) yesterday in Indianapolis with the motto 'Because car buying shouldn't suck'. The structure can hold 26 vehicles at one time and is the first of its kind in the state. Customers can shop more than 10,000 vehicles on Carvana's website and quickly schedule to pick it up from a vending machine or have it delivered to their home. Those who choose the vending experience will meet a Carvana employee at the tower, who'll give them an oversized novelty coin which they insert into a slot (top right). Within minutes, the car is released and they can immediately drive away.

NEW A luxury £2million flat in London's exclusive district of South Kensington is being raffled off for £10 a ticket. Property developers Jonny Jackson and Harry Dee (bottom left) decided to make the unusual offer on the property - located on the famous Exhibition Road next to the Victoria & Albert Museum - due to a drop in the housing market. The pair wanted to guarantee the two-bedroom flat, which also moments away from the Science Museum and Hyde Park, they had just renovated would sell while at the same time as giving a lucky punter a 'lottery win'. Mr Jackson and Mr Dee are aiming to sell a minimum of 300,000 tickets to make the project viable. The £3million revenue would cover the price of apartment itself as well as stamp duty, VAT, and legal and marketing costs.

The unnamed thrill-seeker hits an icy rut, loses his grip and falls off while riding his 02 Polaris Edge 800 machine along crisp snow in the foothills of Grace, Idaho. His GoPro helmet camera then shows the multi-thousand dollar snowmobile make its rider-less way down the very long slope. After it crashes into some trees, an enormous repair bill-sounding thud can be heard.

Zack Collie, from Newport Beach in California, lost all movement from the neck down after injuring his spine in a swimming accident at the age of 15. He and his mother, Amber, 46, can be seen smiling and hugging in the moving video which gives a behind-the-scenes look at his morning routine. The 24-year-old admits he never imagined he would be trapped in 'a body that no longer works' but that his injury has brought him closer to his family.

Mum-of-four Rebecca Wooldridge (inset with her girls and their dad, David, 49), 44, from Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, could only watch in dismay as one of the girls, Etta, pulled at a bauble before the huge tree came crashing to the floor - almost landing on her and sisters, Amelie and Maya-Albertine (the triplets are seen left with the tree intact, and right in the aftermath).