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Dexy Leigh Walsh (right) discovered 18-month-old Connie Rose's lifeless body in her bed with the giant teddy bear on top of her. Despite desperate efforts to revive her, the baby (left) was pronounced dead by paramedics who arrived at Miss Walsh's home in Dundee. The 23-year-old said she had stuffed a narrow gap between Connie Rose's bed and the wall with soft toys to stop her falling through and injuring herself. But when she entered the bedroom which the baby shared with her five-year-old sister Dior, she found her underneath the large, 3ft-tall teddy and no longer breathing.

Britain is enjoying sizzling temperatures as high as 84F (28.9C) today – almost making it the hottest April day in nearly 70 years and as hot as Dubai. The South East of England will enjoy the hottest of the weather (top right), while most parts of England and Wales will bask in temperatures at least in the low 20s, the Met Office confirmed. There is a possibility than Northern Ireland will hit temperature of 66F (19C) while Scotland could hit 68F (20C). The temperatures far exceed the average for this time of the year, which is 53F (11.4C). The only time Britain was hotter in April was in Camden Square, London (pictured inset) in 1949, when the mercury reached 85F (29.4C). Meteorologist Alex Burkill said: 'There's a fairly good chance of 28C, there's about a 60% chance. A young woman is pictured sunbathing in her bikini on Bournemouth beach (bottom right).

Paul Hollywood's young lover has broken her silence over her relationship with the Bake Off star to say their 30-year age gap doesn't worry her. Speaking for the first time of her love for the 52-year-old TV chef in an exclusive interview with MailOnline Summer Monteys-Fullam, 22, said: 'Last November I was emotionally drained - but now I'm loving life.' Summer, pictured today out food shopping in Canterbury, Kent, said she came into Hollywood's life after his 19-year marriage to wife Alexandra had already ended. Hollywood whisked her off on a romantic £1,000-a-night holiday in Mauritius last month (inset)

A smitten Meghan opted for a dress named after the iconic First Lady as she joined her fiancé at a Commonwealth reception hosted by Boris Johnson (inset) at the Royal Aeronautical Society. The couple, who are due to tie the knot next month, are meeting representatives from charities and organisations working to promote global gender equality through girls' education - a cause close to Meghan's heart. Meghan, a passionate advocate for women’s rights and self-proclaimed feminist, looked chic in the £266 dress from little-known LA label Black Halo, teamed with a pair of pointed stilettos and delicate spiral diamond earrings from Canadian jeweller Birks.

The Queen has told foreign dignitaries of her 'sincere wish' that they pick Prince Charles to take over as leader of the Commonwealth during a large summit at Buckingham Palace. Her majesty and heir to the throne (shown together, left) have welcomed heads of states to the palace for the formal opening of the two-day Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Addressing the assembled dignitaries inside the palace's ballroom, the Queen, who turns 92 on Saturday, said she hoped her son would be able to 'carry on the important work started by my father in 1949'. The position is not hereditary, but Prince Charles, who is also the heir to the thrones of 16 Commonwealth nations, is expected to get the nod, despite some unease among ardent republicans. Today's spectacle of pomp and pageantry was staged to welcome guests, with a guard of honour and flag bearers displaying the flags of the Commonwealth's 53 member states outside the palace grounds (shown inset, Prince Harry watches on as his grandmother makes a speech).

JANET STREET-PORTER: In 2018, the Commonwealth can't re-inforce the stereotype of a Regal head, someone who dishes out patronage and attends meaningless ceremonies and military events all over the world. The Commonwealth includes countries who still enforce the death penalty, who are not receptive to gay rights and who don't think women should be allowed abortions. Navigating all that and pushing for change requires diplomacy, tact, and people skills- something which the Queen possesses in spades. To succeed her, a career politician or a charismatic leader is required. The only downside? They might not own palaces, sycophantic staff or be able to afford champagne and swanky canapes. Is Prince Charles (shown left, on tour in Australia) truly the best candidate? He rarely looks at ease in these situations, his life has been spent waiting on the sidelines, being indulged and spoilt, and his relationship with his children has only recently improved.

Dean Gallagher, 29, faced a barrage of ridicule online after his five day diary went viral, with many comparing him to fictional TV and radio presenter Alan Partridge. Mr Gallagher, a public relations associate director at Weber Shandwick Manchester, was teased for comments like 'Last thought of the day: Syria...' and 'The team are still buzzing from yesterday's results. Legends, one and all. Next.' Martin Walsh said: 'Are you sure this isn't really Dean Partridge? And user Will Orchard said: 'If Partridge were an agency director.'

These unseen family photos show Dale Winton before he was famous - including heartwarming snaps of him with his glamorous actress mother who committed suicide. In one photo (left), a young and happy Dale Winton, aged three, was pictured with his parents Gary and Sheree Winton before his life was touched by tragedy.

NEW Paul and Paula Hopwood revealed in Channel 5's Bad Tenants Rogue Landlords series that they had rented out their Prestwich home, just outside of Manchester, to beauty vlogger Okaylaaa aka Kayla Jenkins (right and inset). But they claim the 24-year-old, who has amassed over 600,000 subscribers to her channel and over 100,000 followers on Instagram, had racked up months of rent arrears leading the couple to go to court to get an eviction order. After Kayla left the property, the couple entered only to find that her glamorous online lifestyle was a far cry from the state of the home she was living in, leaving a soiled mattress (left), dog faeces, broken furniture, and bin bags piled up in the back garden.

Shocking footage shows a 15-year-old girl hiding from a gang of eight men, some with baseball bats. She climbs over a garden wall and hides to avoid detection from the yobs in Tipton, West Midlands. Police are now appealing for information into the attack. The offenders are believed to be in their twenties and local to the Tipton area.

David Copperfield, appearing in court in Las Vegas (top left), didn't acknowledge responsibility for injuries British man Gavin Cox (bottom left) claims to have suffered when he fell during the illusion (right) in 2013. But the celebrated magician did say it might be his fault if an audience volunteer who was participating in a trick got hurt. Cox, from Kent, claims lasting brain and body injuries and more than $400,000 in medical expenses. The court has heard how practiced stagehands with flashlights hurried randomly chosen participants through dark curtains, down unfamiliar passageways, around corners, outdoors, indoors and through an MGM Grand resort kitchen in time to re-enter the back of the theater for their 'reappearance' during the show finale.

This is the shocking moment a passerby pushed a police officer off his motorbike and into the path of a car. The footage, believed to be filmed in Essex, started with two officers in high-vis jackets who were seen driving motorbikes down a busy street in front of a police car. All three vehicles had their blue lights flashing and sirens blaring. But as the bikes waited to allow the police car through stopped traffic, a passerby - seen in a light coloured T-shirt and beige trousers - suddenly sprinted out into the street and pushed the officer from his bike.

Andrew Needum, 34, was on board Southwest Airlines flight 1380 with his two children, his wife and his parents. They were on their way home to Texas after a family vacation to New York City where they'd celebrated his parents 39th wedding anniversary. He was in row seven and Jennifer Riordan was in row 14 when she was sucked out of the window after it was smashed by shrapnel from an exploding engine. Needum, a trained firefighter, ran back to help her after hearing a 'commotion' and after being given an approving 'look' from his wife Stephanie, he said on Thursday. He and Tim McGinty, a farm hand, were able to bring the 43-year-old's body back into the aircraft. Needum and retired nurse Peggy Phillips then performed CPR until the plane made an emergency landing in Philadelphia.

Shimmi Munshi, from Bolton, has never had surgery and doesn't spend a fortune on beauty treatments but is regularly mistaken for her now 20-year-old son's Ameen's girlfriend or sibling, she says (they are seen together inset and right). The mother-of-one puts her youthful looks down to good genes, avoiding alcohol and going to the gym as well as drinking lots of water.

Ryusei 'Ryuji' Imai, from Nara, matches the Kung Fu routine of Bruce Lee perfectly in this incredible clip. The little boy is known as 'mini-Bruce Lee' and lives up to his name in this video, filmed the day before his eighth birthday,  as he perfects the moves from the iconic nunchuck scene of martial arts movie 'Enter the Dragon'. Ryusei has been watching Bruce Lee movies since he was one and he started training to become like him when he was four. The eight-year-old shares pictures of himself training and appreciation of Bruce Lee online to his 31,000 followers.

McKayla Maroney is the latest Larry Nassar victim to reveal that the pedophile doctor used food as part of his grooming process. 'I think I would've starved at the Olympics if I didn't have him bring me food,' Maroney tells Savannah Guthrie in a preview for a special episode of Dateline airing on Sunday. 'Your coaches are just always watching you. And wanting to keep you skinny,' explained Maroney, before adding: 'And there's just other things about the culture that are also messed up that he used against us.' When asked by Guthrie what exactly Nassar did, Maroney gleefully replied: 'Buy me a loaf of bread.' This was similar to remarks shared back in January by Nassar victims Jamie Dantzscher, Jeanette Antolin and Mattie Larson on The Story With Martha MacCallum .

Six of the eight men who boarded the Titanic (pictured) in April 1912 survived the sinking. Five escaped on lifeboats and one was rescued while clinging to a wooden plank out at sea. Filmmakers Arthur Jones and Steven Schwankert explore their story in The Six. They discovered that the men were immediately sent away from the US despite surviving due to the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Matteo Messina Denaro (pictured right) vanished in 1993 and he is wanted for a range of crimes including dozens of murders. Police say the arrests were made near the Sicilian city where his crime empire is based. The arrests are part of an investigation that allowed authorities to uncover a system of paper notes, or 'pizzini', that Denaro uses to give orders to his underlings. Among those arrested are, clockwise from top left, his brother-in-law Rosario Allegra, Marco Buffa, Filippo Dell'Aquila and Nicola Accardo, who are all pictured being led out of the police headquarters in Palermo. A former hitman, who once reportedly boasted that he could 'fill a cemetery' with his victims, the 55-year-old Denaro is believed to have become the 'boss of bosses' following the death of Salvatore 'The Beast' Riina in November.

Terrifying  footage shows children deliberately dicing with death as they flock from across the country to throw themselves from cliffs and 'play chicken' with thunderous waves. The deadly activities in Devon come with the warm weather but coastguards have repeatedly warned against them, which has seen a thrill seekers paralysed or killed. One shocking clip shows kids taking ‘serious risks’ with their lives when they get close to the huge waves crashing from a slipway, which easily drags objects into the water below. Meanwhile others have have been videoed risking their lives by tombstoning at a notorious site known as Dead Man's Cove nearby.

Furniture maker Peter Marigold (seen left), from London, is behind the multi-purpose, pocket-sized piece of plastic that becomes completely malleable when placed into boiling water. He explained how it can then be fashioned into anything from a replacement lid (seen right), to a safety cover for sharp tools, or even a make-shift stand for a smartphone during a 90-second pitch on the new Channel 4 show Buy It Now. He landed almost £74,000 worth of orders from bosses of major UK retailers (inset) who were won-over by his sales pitch.

The world's largest plane could be just months away from its first flight. Stratolaunch has a wingspan longer than a football field and comes equipped with two cockpits, 28 wheels and six engines normally used to power 747 jumbo jets. Eventually will be used to transport rockets carrying satellites and people into the Earth's upper atmosphere, where they will blast off into space. At the 34th Space Symposium in Colorado, Stratolaunch revealed that it hoping to conduct the monster plane's first flight this summer. It has already gone through two taxi tests in the past few months, with top speeds if 28mph (41km/h) and 46mph (74km/h).

EXCLUSIVE The 'poster girl' police sergeant who shared holiday snaps while off sick may face a new probe over a series of modelling shots - including one of her kissing another girl's bum. Sergeant Leanne Carr (inset), Lincolnshire Police, has appeared in several online adverts for extreme sports company, Alutius. The brand is owned by her millionaire boyfriend Luke Westen (with Sgt Carr left). Mr Westen's Instgram account shows a jet-set lifestyle of him posing in front of Porsches and Bentley cars. But in modelling shots for his firm his lover Sgt Carr appears on all fours wearing a white bikini and bunny ears while kissing the bum of another model sitting on top of a giant fluffy rabbit (right)

Whiskey, a four-year-old Hungarian Vizsla, loves to travel with her owner, Adele Ng of Vancouver, Canada. Three years ago, Adele started an Instagram account for Whiskey, which shows stunning photos of the adventurous canine posing at the top of mountains and exploring logs and lakes, and since it has gotten more than 78,000 followers. But followers or not, Adele believes Whiskey couldn't be happier because she gets to do her favorite thing: explore. Adele said: ''She's my muse, my best friend, and adventure buddy! Unless it's absolutely forbidden, I'll always bring Whiskey along.'

The writing (top and bottom right), which appeared above Phoenix yesterday, was designed to attract attention to computer networking firm Cisco, which is currently hosting its annual conference in the city. Five jets worked to write a number of messages in the sky, promoting Collaboration Summit 2018, using a technique called skytyping (explained left). The promotional stunt has generated a buzz on Twitter, with witnesses and others taking to the site to share their thoughts and images with followers (bottom insets).

Charlotte Debieux (pictured top left before becoming ill), 25, believed to be from Southampton, was mortified when she was asked if she had been drinking when she collected her daughter Poppy (pictured bottom left), three, and found herself unsteady on her feet. A month later, after suffering numbness and back pain, single mother Ms Debieux, who was hoping to join the army, was diagnosed with Guillain Barré Syndrome. After spending a month in hospital (right), Ms Debieux gradually regained movement, with a moving home video capturing her wriggling her toes after weeks of being immobile.

Hawaii native and top surfer Bethany Hamilton (top right), who lost her arm 15 years ago in a shark attack, is the subject of a new film charting her journey from a childhood in Hawaii dreaming of professional surfing to adapting to life - in the ocean and on land - without a limb to motherhood (inset); she and her husband Adam (main) are now the parents to two young sons. In the documentary Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable, the surfer candidly talks about her hopes, dreams and relationships, even sharing that, while she always wanted to be a mother, news of her first unexpected pregnancy was difficult to come to terms with. She wants to inspire other young girls, showing the rewards of hard work and perseverance, and director Aaron Lieber (bottom right) hopes the film will show viewers that they can be 'unstoppable' in their own lives, as well

Phoebe the fox cub is thriving after being taken in by Betty and Bella the badgers, who were found wandering at the roadside. The unlikely friendship was formed at Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary after staff feared the two-month-old cub would become too reliant on humans. Now, the trio eat, sleep and play together.