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Writing in AirMail, Rachel Johnson reveals there's a 'story going around' that George and Amal Clooney confessed they didn't know the Duke and Duchess of Sussex moments before the royal wedding. Hollywood actor George, 39, and human rights barrister Amal, 42, reportedly made the revelation to Carolyn Bartholomew, Princess Diana's former flatmate and Prince Harry's godmother.

Wag and businesswoman Dawn Ward, 47, (right) who lives in a £15million mansion with her husband, ex-premiership footballer Ashley Ward (together left), is accused of the racially-aggravated harassment of Jewish brothers Jake and Sam Jacobs at Euston Railway Station in London on October 29 last year. She has also been charged with possession of cocaine - a Class A drug. 

Allies of Rishi Sunak (left) furiously hit out at suggestions that he was responsible for blocking the extension of the free school meals scheme last night. Instead, they pointed the finger at Gavin Williamson (right), the Education Secretary, who they insisted had not put forward a spending proposal for approval. It came as Mr Sunak became the target of online attack adverts which blamed him for the Government's refusal to perform a U-turn.

The events of the past 48 hours and the brutal attacks unleashed on social media will have bemused the former Goldman Sachs banker - but they certainly won't have fazed him, writes ANDREW PIERCE. If anything, they add yet more lustre to the legend that Sunak and his team are nurturing. Few voters had heard of Sunak when Boris Johnson promoted him to the second most powerful job in Government last February. His City career makes Sunak one of the wealthiest members of the Cabinet in his own right - with a £7 million London home, a £1.5 million estate in Yorkshire and a holiday home in California. He is also married to billionaire's daughter Akshata Murthy. That makes him an easy target for Labour apparatchiks such as Adam McNicholas with his One Rule For Them campaign (pictured).

President Trump called me for a chat on Saturday. It was our first conversation since he unfollowed me on Twitter in April after I wrote a Mail column telling him to 'Shut the f*ck up Mr President,' because he suggested people should be injected with bleach to cure coronavirus. Since then, I have relentlessly hammered him for his woeful handling of the pandemic that has now led to over 220,000 Americans dying from Covid-19, by far the worst death toll in the world. So, when the White House switchboard rang to say 'Mr Morgan, we have the president for you', I was bracing myself for some full-bore Trump bombast of the 'loser!' and 'idiot!' type he unleashes on anyone who dares to criticize him. But instead, we ended up having a cordial free-rolling 25-minute exchange which gave me a fascinating insight into the mindset of the world's most powerful man as he heads into the biggest week of his life.

Donald Trump has mocked 'Sleepy' Joe Biden for forgetting who was the president and saying 'we need to stop four more years of George.' 'Joe Biden called me George yesterday. Couldn't remember my name. Got some help from the anchor to get him through the interview. The Fake News Cartel is working overtime to cover it up!' Trump tweeted this morning. Biden was last night addressing a virtual concert when he said: 'Four more years of George, er, George, er, he - we're going to find ourselves in a position where, if Trump gets elected, we're going to be in a different world.' The 77-year-old appeared to receive a prompt from his wife Jill who was sitting beside him, muttering 'Trump' under her breath. Many speculated that Biden was thinking of George W. Bush, president from 2001-09, or perhaps George H.W. who was in office from 1989-93. The blunder will once again raise questions about the 77-year-old's mental capacity - a topic President Donald Trump has repeatedly referenced in the run-up to the election. 

Sooty puppeteer Matthew Corbett first experienced symptoms of Covid-19 when he popped down to the cellar to fetch a bottle of wine on his birthday. As he came up the stairs on March 28, just days after the start of lockdown, the 72-year-old started to sweat, feel dizzy and was suddenly convinced there was a huge party going on in his home. Pictured: Matthew Corbett in 2015 (left) and with Sooty in 1990 (right).

Carys Ann Ingram, 22, (left) failed to quarantine on arrival to Jersey from Manchester on October 12, visiting a restaurant, a friend's house, and shopping, a court heard. She was seen in the seafront area of First Tower on the island and then at El Tico restaurant (right) in St Ouen's Bay, where she shared a pictured to her social media.

Sales of all non-essential items have been banned under Wales's firebreak lockdown in a bid to discourage people from spending more time than necessary in shops and be fair to retailers who have to shut. However, the restrictions have caused outrage after alcohol is deemed 'essential' but school uniform, vacuum cleaners, hairdryers are not. And today, images from a Tesco store in Cardiff (left) showed a shelf stacked with baby formula milk by a sign saying 'non-essential' items cannot be sold. Mother-of-two Michelle Morgan-Davies, 31, (inset top) said: 'Formula milk is the definition of essential. Stirring up worry like this will only cause mums to panic buy in the shops that are selling it.' Another image showed sanitary products caged off from members of the public in a Tesco store today (right). Labour leader Mark Drakeford (inset bottom) and his team have risked compounding the chaos by saying that shops can now use their 'discretion'.

Churchgoers filled the packed church yesterday despite 'firebreak' rules banning gatherings including religious ceremonies from taking place. Naomi Mclennan filmed the moment officers entered the New Hope Community Church in Llanrumney, Cardiff, and told worshippers they had to leave. The video shows a police officer telling the congregation that members of the public have told them about the alleged breach of coronavirus regulations.

The video shows a man accusing a Kent Police officer (right) of 'discrimination' as he is herded off the premises of Bluewater shopping centre in Dartford (bottom inset). The man, a musician known as Danny G (left), was filmed repeatedly offering to show his exemption to officers and security staff during the altercation last Thursday. However, they warn him he is 'trespassing' and say he 'needs to go' because he is 'an aggressive problem' who is 'disregarding a police officer'. Danny can be heard saying that he has a medical exemption for not wearing a face mask, which is mandatory in shopping centres and stores as well as licensed premises and hospitality venues, public transport, railway stations and airports. Official Covid-19 guidance provides legal exemptions from not wearing masks, and says that people with an 'age, health or disability reason for not wearing a face covering should not be routinely asked to give an written evidence of this'.

Like Icarus in a Pringle sweater, he had flown too close to the sun. Or, to be precise, too close to the News of the World, which in 1988 revealed Frank Bough's participation, clad in female lingerie, in a string of parties featuring cocaine and prostitutes. And then, suddenly, he was no longer respectable and was gone from our screens for ever, although he was never abandoned by his faithful, long-suffering wife, Nesta (pictured together left circa 1980). Bough was the consummate broadcaster who emerged from a more gentle sporting age. Today, rolling news and sports coverage are wallpaper to our lives. But it was Bough, who died last week aged 87, (pictured recently, inset) and a handful of other presenters who blazed a trail in live TV with his ability to hold our attention through those long, wet afternoons.

Following the death of Frank Bough, FEMAIL reveals what happened to the stars pictured in this photo (left) taken after the first episode of BBC Breakfast Time wrapped on 17 January 1983. Pictured: 1. US TV presenter Jane Pauley; 2. Weatherman Francis Wilson; 3. Newsreader Debbie Rix; 4. Future Crimewatch presenter Nick Ross; 5. Frank Bough, who died last week at the age of 87; 6. Co-presenter Selina Scott; 7. Sports news presenter-turned-conspiracy theorist David Icke; 8. TV astrologist Russell Grant.

It was a ten-hour standoff at sea that culminated in nine minutes of ruthless, military precision. Special Boat Service commandos used a classic pincer movement to storm the Nave Andromeda. Two heavily-armed squads, wearing night vision goggles and thermal imaging equipment, rappelled down ropes from choppers at either end of the tanker before converging on seven Nigerian stowaways who quickly surrendered. As police continue to question the suspects, the Mail charts the build-up to Sunday night's flawless operation.

John 'The Flying Fish' Bream, 34, set a world record for highest freefall into water from an aircraft after leaping 131ft from a helicopter into the sea off Hayling Island, near Portsmouth, on Monday. Former paratrooper Mr Bream, who shares his surname with a freshwater fish, reached speeds of 75mph as he fell into the Solent's waters today. He said: 'If my arms were out when I landed then they would break.'

CCTV footage shows the man hoisting his pet off the ground as the cat launches her attack in the Bagcilar neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey. As the cat, who staff at the nearby cafe, have named Azrael, claws her way up the dog walker's body she pulls down his trousers and exposes his backside, while he struggles to keep his pet out of harm's way. The cat is thrown to the ground several times but continues leaping at the dog cradled in the man's arms. He manages to yank up his trousers and hold onto his pet before onlookers rush to his aid and see off the territorial feline.

Jamie Foxx has revealed his little sister, DeOndra Dixon, has died. She was 36-years-old. 'My heart is shattered into a million pieces... my beautiful loving sister Deondra has transitioned... I say transitioned because she will always be alive...,' Foxx wrote in an emotional Instagram tribute on Monday. Dixon is said to have passed away on Monday, October 19th, according to a source that informed PEOPLE .

You have to wonder why Hugh Grant does it. The 60-year-old has been declaring airily for decades that he detests acting, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS. It's his favourite headline-grabber whenever an interview is flagging. 'I hate it quite a lot, all acting,' he bragged to Vanity Fair back in 2003, and last year he was still saying it - telling fellow thesp Matthew McConaughey: 'It's so boring. I'm a miserable human being on a film set.' What he particularly loathes, he says, is the way 'I repeated myself almost identically about 17 times in a row'. Yet here he is again (main alongside Nicole Kidman), in The Undoing (Sky Atlantic), playing a loveably flustered Englishman. The drama is pacy, suspenseful and resists the temptation to leap back and forwards through the story, instead letting events build to nerve-racking cliffhangers. Whether she's fussing with the food blender, power-walking to a meeting or just taking a shower, Miss Kidman (also pictured right) cannot be bettered as the ultra-competitive mother who cannot switch off her perfectionist instincts.

JAN MOIR: Some naysayers claim daytime is a cultural desert, a place where brain cells go to die. According to the comedian Michael McIntyre, daytime television is a wasteland of Activia yoghurts, Michael Bublé and anti-chafing cream - and let's just hope that these three things are in no way related. The reality, however, is that much-mocked daytime television is booming - attracting bigger and bigger audiences far beyond the stereotypical bored housewives drinking gin from their teacups and jobless graduates. However, is just one measly Bafta enough to reflect the many splendours of daytime TV? It rather smacks of tokenism. That's why I have introduced my very own JANNIES (Jan's Academy of Nobodies Nattering In Entertainment Siberia) to honour this world. (Pictured left: Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield; top centre: Kym Marsh and Gethin Jones - presenters of the BBC's new show, Morning Live; top right, Lorraine Kelly; bottom centre: A Place In The Sun host Jasmine Harman; bottom right: Judge Rinder.)

Michael Roe (right), 33, said he landed hard on eight-week-old Holly Roe (left with her mother Tiffany Tate) around an hour before calling paramedics. He only told police six months after her death as he was scared of what people would say, Lewes Crown Court in Hove heard. Post-mortem examinations found premature Holly suffered at least three separate brain injuries and 12 rib fractures before she died. Roe, 33, and his former partner Tate (left and top inset), 22, both deny murdering Holly. They are both also accused of allowing the other to kill her.

The island of Poveglia has been deserted and closed to visitors for decades, its dilapidated hospital buildings frozen in time, its imposing fort now abandoned and its rumoured mass graves still hidden. Its grisly past covers both the thousands of plague victims thought to have died there and the lobotomies reputed to have occurred there when the hospital served as a mental asylum in the 1920s. The island at the gateway to Venice was one of those used to shield the city from the plagues which wiped out millions over the centuries, most notably in the 1340s Black Death which killed as much as half of Europe's population.

The 13-year-old dog, called Titan, stands in his backyard as the curious insect flies round his head in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Footage shows Titan, a rescued brown Doberman, holding his head still as the orange butterfly lands on the tip of his nose. His owner says: 'Titan be good' as the dog throws his head back and tries to bite the insect in midair. The curious butterfly doesn't seem to mind the huge animal, and continues to hover round it, landing occasionally.

Kash Popat, of Harrow, pictured, a contestant on ITV's Family Fortunes, left everyone speechless after her answer to 'something you put in you mouth but don't swallow' was bleeped on the family friendly show last night. Shocked viewers took to Twitter to try to decipher her reply. And even Kash herself seemed shocked at the answer she'd blurted out.

Two people were rushed to hospital after a Range Rover appeared to pull out of a junction and smash into the front of a bus in Burnley on Sunday afternoon. Dashcam footage shows a blue SUV pulling onto the A682 Manchester Road just after 1pm yesterday. The vehicle is spun 180 degrees after colliding with the double decker bus, which is sent careering into a nearby wall. Two air ambulances were sent to the scene, while a wife of the bus driver said he is 'beaten up but breathing'.

Six police cars arrived at the Jalalabad Jame Masjid Mosque on Leagrove Road in Luton, Befordshire, to quell the disturbance on Friday afternoon. Footage of police breaking up the altercation emerged on social media on Monday. The video (main) shows many worshippers shouting as they flout social distancing rules by mingling close together during the altercation.

Unimpressed diners from around the world have shared very misleading PR images (pictured top row) found at eateries, along with the disgusting dishes (pictured bottom row) they were actually served. One example includes a cheese plate which promised an array of items artistically displayed - but only included four meats slapped onto a board and a Babybel. Collated by Bored Panda, another photograph showed a juicy-looking grilled salmon next to the burnt version the customer was actually given.

Surveillance video from a home dated Friday shows an Amazon worker slipping and falling twice as he attempts a package drop-off at a US home. He also staggers to the floor of the porch, moaning in pain and cursing. As he finally leaves the packages at the door, he says: 'Might be broken. That's your problem now.'

A woman from Oklahoma has shared a picture of a bizarre piece of jewellery with the Facebook group That's It, I'm Ring Shaming, featuring a very rude interpretation of The Frog Prince. The seemingly normal ring was adorned with a golden frog carved on its top. However, a cheeky design of a prince with an erect penis could be found underneath the frog when the ring was shown upside-down (right). .

A house that once belonged to the author of Mary Poppins for more than 15 years has gone on the market for £3.5million (pictured bottom left: The exterior of the property). Pamela Lyndon Travers lived in the Grade II listed home in London's upmarket Chelsea area between 1946 and 1962. The five bedroom property (pictured top left: A living room area) even has a blue plaque, added in 2018, to mark it as the one-time home of the much-loved children's author (pictured top right: The plaque outside the property), who wrote the classic children's books featuring the magical English nanny (pictured centre: Mary Poppins). After leaving her Smith Street home in 1962, Ms Travers moved a stone's throw away to nearby Shawfield Street - which went on the market last year priced at £4.4million. As well five bedrooms, the 18th century home features a large private garden, with lots of character throughout the house such as a fireplace in the lounge (pictured bottom right) and a vaulted entrance between two of the rooms.

This year's prestigious Siena International Photo Awards have provided some stunning shots from around the world. One of the most breathtaking among the collection shows a volcanic eruption tempest in Chile, illuminated by lightning as a huge plume of ash reaches up into the sky and over a forest. In another, Seals weave in and out of a floating iceberg in Antarctica, a dog and New York's Flat Iron building are reflected perfectly in a puddle, and a small fish protects himself by hiding inset a jellyfish. Snapper Greg Lecoeur won overall photo of the year at the prestigious Siena International Photo Awards 2020 with his picture, Frozen Mobile Home.

The moggy, spotted in the Chinese city of Suzhou, spent a few minutes trying to descend the moving stairway which was heading up, according to the eyewitness who filmed the footage. A 25-second clip of the cat's funny action has amassed more than six million clicks since it was posted online yesterday. Impressed viewers have flocked to share the philosophy they learned from the short clip.

Golfer Charlie Smith, 30, trying to line up his drive at Bromley Golf Centre, on aptly named Magpie Lane in Kent, but a cheeky bird has other plans. Footage shows the magpie laying claim to the tee box at the sixth hole, and repeatedly pecking the ball off every time the golfer tries to put it on the peg. A bemused Smith warns the magpie to behave, but the bird has no interest in obeying in the video taken on October 10.

Paul Harvey, 80, from Sussex, pictured, was visibly overwhelmed after hearing his moving piece played by BBC Philharmonic (top inset) - and broke down in tears (right) after he was surprised with a video message from his hero, fellow composer Stephen Sondheim. The emotional segment moved BBC Breakfast hosts Louise Minchin and Dan Walker to tears (bottom inset), while dozens of viewers took to Twitter admitting they were in floods at 6:25am. 'Paul's Tune' will be released as charity single next week with the proceeds going to two charities - the Alzhiemer's Society and Music for Dementia.