Home

ALISON BOSHOFF: Gazing flirtily into the camera wearing a black bra and vampish red lipstick, in her last Instagram post Caroline Flack was the image of joyful self-confidence. At 40, she had never looked more beautiful. Yet two days after posting these pictures to her 2.6million followers, in what friends believe was a final Valentine's message to boyfriend Lewis Burton, the presenter took her own life. They say the prospect of standing trial over an alleged assault on the 27-year-old - who she considered to be her soulmate - after a jealous row is what drove her to this desperate act. 'I think that the fact that she did this so soon after being told that the prosecution was going to go ahead is significant,' said a friend. The fact that it had been Valentine's Day and she had been apart from her boyfriend also was a factor I believe.' For behind the deceptive gloss of social media, there was a different story than the happy one Caroline had struggled to maintain. Hers was a tale of crippling low self-esteem, depression and anxiety that dated back years.

Two men have been left in a life-threatening condition and a further two injured after a spate of stabbings across north and east London. The latest incident involved a man in his 30s. The man suffered stab and slash wounds after police were called to a fight between two men on New North Road, Illford, at 5.44pm (top right). Police were called to Brooke Road, Hackney, at 5.15pm and the man has been taken to hospital where he remains in a life-threatening condition (bottom right). Police were called to Sandringham Road, Barking, after reports of a stabbing at 4.24pm (left).

Andrew Sabisky, (right) a self-described 'super-forecaster', answered Number 10's call for 'weirdos and misfits' but has prompted fury with his extreme views. In 2014, he wrote on Mr Cummings's (left) website that to stop unplanned pregnancies there should be legal enforcement of contraception. He wrote: 'One way to get around the problems of unplanned pregnancies creating a permanent underclass would be to legally enforce universal uptake of long-term contraception at the onset of puberty. Vaccination laws give it a precedent, I would argue.' On another blog post discussing female genital mutilation, he claimed: 'It is still unclear to what extent FGM represents a serious risk to young girls, raised in the UK, of certain minority group origins. Much of the hue and cry looks more like a moral panic.' And in another post being circulated on social media, Mr Sabisky claimed black people were more likely to have an 'intellectual disability' and had lower IQs than white people (inset). In another tweet, Mr Sabisky said: 'I am always straight up in saying that women's sport is more comparable to the Paralympics than it is to men's.'

Mary Fellowes (inset) has styled the likes of Suranne Jones, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth McGovern and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (pictured left to right). The fashion industry veteran who has an office in Central London, argues the industry ignores middle-aged women, as she reveals the challenges she's had to overcome when dressing stars and royalty. Mary claims all women can look their best in classic, loose tailored clothes.

ITV presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby (centre) paid tribute to friend and former colleague Caroline Flack (left) on Sunday evening as they opened the latest instalment of Dancing On Ice. The tribute came after it was announced that ITV had cancelled this evening's Love Island, with the show returning to screens tomorrow night. Flack, 40, was found dead inside her London home by her father Ian yesterday, after taking her own life while the friend who was staying with her 'popped out to the shops'. In an emotional opening scene, a visibly devastated Schofield choked back tears while remembering Flack. He began: 'We’d like to begin tonight's show by taking a moment to remember Caroline Flack in light of yesterday's awful news. We wanted to say that our hearts go out to her family and friends.' Contestant Joe Swash (right), who worked with Caroline on ITV2 show I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp had shared his own tribute just hours earlier, admitted it had been a 'tough day' preparing for his routine after learning of her death. 

Questions have been raised about the Crown Prosecution Service's decision to pursue a court case against the former Love Island presenter following her death on Saturday. Her death came just hours after she found out she would face trial over the alleged assault of her boyfriend Lewis Burton, 27 (pictured right, together) - despite him not wanting to press charges. Nazir Afzal (inset), a former CPS prosecutor for the North West, posted a series of tweets hitting out at online trolls and explaining why the CPS decides to prosecute cases, even when the complaint has been withdrawn (inset left). Mr Afzal said there were 750,000 reports of domestic violence last year to police, but only 75,000 were prosecuted, and 75 per cent of those convicted.

Americans have started leaving a quarantined coronavirus cruise ship in Japan to board chartered flight home to the United States after the number of new cases diagnosed on the vessel jumped to 355. The evacuations from the Diamond Princess started on Sunday, or early Monday local time, after the cruise ship was placed in a 14-day quarantine in early February after a former passenger tested positive for the virus. U.S. authorities announced on Saturday they would offer Americans on board the option to leave the ship and fly home where they will face another 14-day isolation period. 

A vet has shared video of the touching moment in which a koala that lost its mother in the bushfires reached out to embrace a grey teddy bear. The orphaned marsupial was being cradled by a woman in a veterinary office when the toy was held out in front of the koala. She gripped onto the soft toy, nuzzling at it with its face in a tender moment that showed the instinct to seek comfort with what it thought was an adult koala. The young marsupial had just lost its own mother in the bushfires in Victoria's south-west.

George Eustice (inset) warned the nature of climate change means extreme weather events such as this weekend's deluge are becoming more common, advising: 'We have to live with that fact.' But he insisted the Government is investing billions in flood infrastructure and had done 'everything that [it] can do with a significant sum of money'. He said 600 flood schemes, protecting more than 200,000 homes, had been introduced over the past five years and roughly £2.5billion had been spent on flood defences. He denied the Government had been caught off guard by this weekend's floods. Pictured: Rescue operations in Nantgarw, Wales (left), as well as flooding in Pontypridd, Wales (top right) and Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire (bottom right).

The First Couple arrived at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday to attend to Daytona 500, NASCAR's most prestigious race. Donald Trump came in hot with a dramatic, low Air Force One flyover of the Daytona International Speedway, where around 100,000 fans are gathered for the annual race. The flyover was aired live. He took his campaign to the race to fire up voters in the swing state of Florida as he takes a lap around the race track in his presidential limousine 'The Beast' along with some of the other iconic presidential vehicles.

The Hobbit actor, 48, said that he had smacked his children twice and sworn at them more than twice despite it being banned at home by his former wife actress Amanda Abbington, 45 (They are pictured together at the Los Angeles premiere of The Desolation of Smaug in December 2013 and, inset, Freeman in the movie).

A female high school runner has beaten a transgender competitor just two days after she and other students families' filed a lawsuit to block athletes with male anatomy competing because they have an 'unfair' advantage.  Canton High School girl Chelsea Mitchell (left and right) won the Class S 55-meter dash title on Friday with her time of 7.18 seconds. She beat Bloomfield High School student Terry Miller's (left) 7.20 seconds.  Mitchell also came first in the 300-meter dash, while Miller was 16th, and Mitchell won the long jump. 

Meghan Markle donned a stylish Everlane tote bag for her first appearance with Prince Harry at at an official royal event. The Duchess is also a fan of the brand's £53 skinny jeans and £121 slingbacks. Everlane are now revealing to shoppers where each of their items were made and the cost of materials as part of their 'radical transparency' policy. British style expert Sarah Rainey, picked out a selection of items (pictured) currently available on the brand's website.

Shocking footage taken outside an illegal rave in London shows police brutally dragging youths from the scene while others are filmed being held down by officers in riot gear. Witnesses at the scene in the Neasden area said they had 'never seen anything like it' after officers descended on the event at around 10.30pm on Saturday night. Hundreds of youths (left inside the warehouse) had been in attendance at the unlicensed music event which had been hosted at a newly-refurbished building in the area. One officer was caught on camera on top of one reveller and was holding their head down with their hand (right).

Dick van Dyke had two roles in the eponymous film Mary Poppins starring as cheery chimney sweep Bert and cantankerous banker Mr Dawes Sr. The star - then aged 39 - hid himself under make-up and silver hair for the sneaky cameo and was credited in the 1964 film as Navckid Keyd, an anagram of his name. Pictured left: Dick Van Dyke backstage after a performance of The Last Ship aged 94. Right: Dick Van Dyke as Mr Dawes Sr in Mary Poppins, 39. Inset: Dick Van Dyke in the 1960s.

Lindsay Duncan (top right) shot dead his ex-wife Cheryl Sanders, 59, and her new husband Reed Sanders, 56, (main) outside of his Ohio home on Wednesday after the couple ambushed him and his new wife Molly. The former married couple is believed to have been engaged in a long-standing, vicious feud over their two daughter's college trust fund and Lindsay had previously told police his ex-wife was trying to have him murdered. Lindsay Duncan is not being charged with their deaths as police believe he acted in self-defense. Cheryl Sanders was a former stunt woman who doubled for Jessica Alba

Sir Elton John ended his Auckland, New Zealand concert early on Sunday. Breaking down in tears, the 72-year-old told the crowd at Mount Smart Stadium, that he 'can't sing' and has 'got to go', before being escorted off stage by a medic. Early on in the show, the Tiny Dancer artist revealed he was diagnosed with 'walking pneumonia' - a bacterial virus that affects the upper and lower respiratory tract. 

Amy Lefevre (inset), 25, says she refused to don the 'racist' accessories (like those worn by the model on the left at that same show) during a February 7 runway show staged by the Fashion Institute of Technology at Manhattan's Pier59 Studios. 'I stood there almost ready to break down telling the staff that I felt incredibly uncomfortable with having to wear these pieces and that they were clearly racist,' Lefevre told the New York Post. 'I was told that it was fine to feel uncomfortable for only 45 seconds.' Lefevre, who has been modeling on runways for four years, said it was the worst experience of her young career. 'I was literally shaking,' she told the Post. Lefevre continued to work the runway during that show (right) but left immediately after the event was over.

J.J. Watt has tied the knot with fiancee Kealia Ohai after three years of dating. The couple married at The Ocean Club, a Four Seasons Resort, in the Bahamas on Saturday night with bride Ohai stunning in a beaded Berta gown. On Sunday the Houston Texans defensive shared numerous snaps from the big day on his social media accounts, gushing: 'Best day of my life. Without question.' 

Porto striker Moussa Marega had to be restrained as he tried to leave the pitch when he was racially abused by Vitoria SC fans after scoring his side's winner on Sunday. Marega celebrated his goal by pointing to the colour of the skin on his forearm, which prompted monkey noises and chairs to be thrown from the stands.  Despite making light of the situation by celebrating with one of the chairs chucked his way, the abuse continued, forcing Marega to take a stand and try to walk off the pitch.

Naomi Campbell, Jourdan Dunn, Alessandra Ambrosio and Winnie Harlow (pictured left to right) looked incredible as they took to the runway at the glittering Tommy Hilfiger presentation during London Fashion Week on Sunday. Supermodel Naomi, 49, covered up her gym-honed frame as she donned a neon and white tracksuit and box fresh trainers as she commanded attention on the TommyNow runway -showing off the Tommy X Lewis Hamilton collection.

Eery images of abandoned buildings and overgrown vegetation (pictured) in the city of Varosha, Cyprus, which has been derelict since a Greek-inspired coup in 1974, have emerged. The city formerly attracted stars like Brigitte Bardot and Elizabeth Taylor. After decades of neglect, high-rise hotels and apartments, restaurants and residences are seen destroyed.

Stumpy the golden labrador (left with owner Elly Pittaway) became a dog blood donor after his deformed leg prevented him from becoming a guide dog. Stumpy's owner Elly Pittaway said she was delighted her beloved pet had been able to help so many others. The 43-year-old vet from Coventry told the Daily Mail: 'Stumpy obviously has no idea what he's doing it for but I'd love to think he did and I'm sure he'd be very proud of himself.' Inset: A blood donation from Stumpy. Right: Stumpy giving a donation.