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Britain's highest paid university vice-chancellor claimed 58 first-class train journeys and three first-class flights on expenses in just over a year, figures show. Controversial Dame Glynis Breakwell has already announced she is leaving her role following a row about her £471,000-a-year salary. It has now emerged the University of Bath vice-chancellor claimed 58 first-class train journeys and three first-class flights between August 2016 to the end of November 2017. This is contrary to the university’s own regulations on travel costs,...

Thousands of people could be in Cambridge today (sat) to witness the funeral of world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking.

The Daily Express has been accused of making the Cliffs of Dover whiter in their nationalist front-page splash to mark the one year countdown to Brexit. Photographer Justin Foulkes, who took the original photo of the cliffs, highlighted the difference in a tweet today. In his image the cliffs are noticeably greener. But the dark shades seem to have been touched out of the version used in The Express, which was overlaid with a Boris Johnson quote just one day...

Brexit has given people license to be openly racist according to Baroness Lawrence. Speaking to LBC this morning the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence said instances of racism are on the rise in Britain, and the Brexit vote is to blame for bringing it to the surface. Stephen Lawrence was killed in a racist attack in Eltham 25 years ago, the murder that led to the Macpherson Report which revealed an institutional racism in the Metropolitan Police. According to the latest...

Police investigating the Hatton Garden robbery have made another arrest - almost three years after the massive heist. Flying Squad detectives investigating the April 2015 raid have nicked a 57-year-old man. They arrested the man at an address in Islington, north London, on Tuesday morning, on suspicion of non-residential burglary. A Met Police spokesperson said: "The man was arrested after a search warrant was carried out at an address in Islington at approximately 07:30hrs. "A number of items were seized...

Sue Ann Cornwell, 52, led mum-to-be Miriam Finch, 21, to safety and laid on top of her to shield her from bullets as gunman Stephen Paddock gunned down 58 concertgoers

Britain's biggest butterfly faces being wiped out by climate change, say scientists. The Swallowtail is only found in the fens and marshes of the Norfolk Broads - making it the rarest in the UK. Global warming is placing it at risk of extinction - along with the picturesque county's bees, bugs, birds, trees and mammals, a groundbreaking study warns. David North, head of People and Wildlife at Norfolk Wildlife Trust, said: "The likely impacts of climate change on our wildlife...

A crime scene investigator has been accused of sexual assaulting a victim while working for the police. Kevin Dowley, 61, will appear before Basildon Magistrates' Court on Thursday charged with two counts of sexual assault. The charges relate to allegations about conduct while undertaking his work for Essex Police in July and August 2016. He has worked for the force since 2013 and previously worked as a police officer for the Metropolitan Police. Dowley, of Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, was suspended from...

An Oxford student who was spared jail after stabbing her boyfriend in a drug-fuelled rage has been denied permission to appeal her sentence. Lavinia Woodward, 24, who has a history of cocaine and MDMA abuse, was given a suspended sentence after plunging a bread knife into Thomas Fairclough's leg but challenged the judgement. The appeal was denied, however the aspiring heart surgeon can still apply to have her case heard by a full court of two or three judges. Woodward...