Gabby Lamplugh thanks reflexology after 3 miscarriages

Gabby Lamplugh, pictured with baby Georgia, from Cheshire, was devastated after she and husband James lost their unborn babies one after another.

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PE teacher 'had inappropriate lesbian relationship with girl, 16'

Nicola Webster, who taught at the Abbey School, Faversham, Kent, allegedly started a relationship with a Year 12 pupil during a school ski trip. Another member of staff reportedly saw Miss Webster kissing the girl.

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Press watchdog could mediate in libel claims

Ken Clarke’s Justice Department is considering sending claimants to the Press Complaints Commission for arbitration before they take their case to court.

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Fathers spend a year as taxi driver to the kids

They dedicate more of their time to ferrying their children than almost anything else apart from work and sleep, according to new research.

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Boris Johnson aide resigns after shoplifting boasts

Tom Campbell, the capital's cultural strategy manager, said he often stole from major retailers as a form of protest against their stranglehold on the High Street.

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Can Sir Mervyn King fight off rate rise hawks?

The newly knighted Sir Mervyn King finds himself at the vortex of the greatest struggle over the direction of interest rates since the Bank of England was given its independence by Gordon Brown in 1997.

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Public sector strike: Up to 1m workers to walk out over pension cuts

The country's largest civil service union today voted to strike - setting up a co-ordinated walkout by one million public sector workers on the same day later this month.

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Post-crash economy 'faces seven lean years' warns Governor of the Bank of England

In a speech at Mansion House, London, Sir Mervyn King said the Government must not waver over tackling the huge budget deficit.

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Bin collections: If only politicians were on the side of ordinary people

About a year ago, Oxford City Council kindly gave me a slop bucket. It has sat unused outside our back door. It was a bridge too far for me.

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Breast cancer patients too old to save: Thousands denied life-saving surgery as doctors base treatment on age

Some doctors look at a patient's age in their notes - and decide on a treatment plan before they have even met them, experts warn.

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Government Equalities Office: Where women earn 8% more than men

Its role is self-evident, but it seems the Government Equalities Office, formerly led by Harriet Harman, pictured, may have gone too far.

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Barbara Broccoli

Further to our August 15 and 16 articles "Axed film quango gave �70m to own members" and "Charity that really must start at home", we wish to clarify that it was never our intention to suggest that Barbara Broccoli had awarded herself a huge grant or indeed any grant of public money or had misused any funds. We accept that the grant was properly made to a registered youth film-making charity, First Light, of which Ms Broccoli is unpaid chair of trustees. We apologise to Ms Broccoli for any embarrassment.

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Don't let union bullies wreck the recovery

Any lingering doubts about whether our Antediluvian union leaders are prepared to recklessly put their own self-interest ahead of the fragile economic recovery have been dispelled.

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Private firms hiring 1,100 workers a day: Biggest jobless fall for a decade brings ray of hope

Between February and April, the jobless total dropped by 88,000 to 2.43million, the best improvement since 2000.

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No this isn't Afghanistan: Stunning field of opium poppies that is actually in DORSET

The striking display of colour was on show at an estate owned by a Conservative MP Richard Drax who has given up his land to grow the flowers for the NHS.

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BA turns girl away because she has Down's Syndrome

Heather Saunders, 49, had phoned the airline to book her 12-year-old daughter Alice on a flight from Gatwick to Glasgow.

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Racy texts of millionaire company director to his lover he dubbed "reassuringly expensive" 'were posted online by her scorned husband'

Plumber Ian Puddick, 41, from North London, also bombarded his love rival Timothy Haynes set up a host of websites to broadcast details about their affair, it is alleged.

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Ed Miliband: Shades of the acting at a primary school play

Ed Miliband opened his eyes wide in appalled wonderment at the answers being produced by David Cameron. He shook his head in theatrical dismay at the PM’s policies.

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Naughty nurses ordered not to show cleavage as 'patients complain'

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is threatening disciplinary action against staff who wear clothes exposing their 'midriff' or 'excessive cleavage'.

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Schoolboy, 11, raped boy, 9, after Sunderland City Council ignored danger signs

The leader of Sunderland City council Paul Watson (pictured) offered a full apology for mistakes - including ignoring two warnings from a psychologist - before the boy subjected his victim to the attack.

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UK steel and chemical industries could be driven out of Britain if Coalition doesn't axe some green taxes, claims CBI boss

John Cridland, director-general of the CBI, pictured, says the latest carbon levies are 'counterproductive' and will make the UK industries less competitive on the world stage.

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London 2012 tickets: Hundreds have been handed to Gaddafi's son Muhammad

In a rare move, the International Olympics Committee blocked Libyan dignitaries from attending after Gaddafi’s eldest son Muhammad requested up to 1,000 tickets as head of his country’s Olympic committee.

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Serious criminals could STILL get 50% off jail terms

A deal in principle has been agreed between the duo and Nick Clegg that will hand increased discounts to some offenders who plead guilty early.

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Lunar eclipse: Moon turns blood red

The intensity of the colour depends on the amount of ash and dust in the atmosphere. Luckily, there was plenty of ash in the air so the moon appeared orange or red, especially in Asia.

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Girl, 15, who leapt to her death with 14-year-old friend had lost boyfriend to drugs overdose

Niamh Lafferty, pictured, and Georgia Rowe fell more than 100ft from the Erskine Bridge into the River Clyde in October 2009.

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Nick Freeman's daughter Sophie pictured in mini-dress and heels

Racy photographs emerged last night of Sophie Freeman, 20, in a thigh-skimming black lace mini-dress and skyscraper heels.

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MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: We need a real Opposition, not Cain and Abel

Somebody always has to be in Opposition. For those whose lives are devoted to the quest for office, this can be a hard role to fill, utterly deprived of power.

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�Affair� mystery of the MP accused of groping aide after drinking session

Claims have been circulating for weeks in Westminster that Andrew Bridgen was in a relationship with Deborah Regal, 36, his former Commons adviser.

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PETER HITCHENS: Blessed are the Spongers? That's not what St Paul said, Archbishop

I don’t mind bishops intervening in our national life. That’s what they are for. But they are not there to act as reinforcements for the Liberal Democrats.

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Scampi shortage means popular pub snack could be off the menu this summer

Leading scampi suppliers around the country have warned stocks of the popular fishy treat, pictured, are already running low and prices are set to rocket.

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Japan tsunami: Eerie underwater images show lives swept away

When the massive tsunami slammed into Japan entire towns and villages were left submerged, forgotten and frozen in time.

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New York 'Maids' Rally': If only Britain had solidarity like this

I was certainly jolted when I saw the hotel workers of New York stand proud in their uniforms at the Dominique Strauss-Kahn hearing last week.

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�50,000 'wasted' in rent EVERY day on new fire service buildings which lie empty

The buildings were part of a �1.4billion project by the previous Labour government to close fire control centres and build larger sites, which the coalition has abandoned because of mounting problems with computer systems and other costs.

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Children of six suffering strokes due to obesity and doctors see babies weighing three stone

An epidemic of obesity is leading to babies being treated in hospital because of their weight and children as young as six are suffering strokes. One in three kids is obese.

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'I saw image of James Bulger and thought the worst': Mother's horror as daughter, 3, is abducted during shopping trip

The girl was snatched from under her parents' noses as they shopped at a mobile phone store in Hull city centre last year.

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Campaigner arrested after filming council meeting says police 'completely over-reacted'

Jacqui Thompson, 49, of Llanwrda, near Carmarthen, West Wales, arrested and handcuffed after filming a council meeting may take action against police.

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England cricketer Monty Panesar 'arrested by police over row with wife in pub car park'

The England cricketer Monty Panesar was held by police and questioned after an alleged public argument with his wife, it has been reported.

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Benefits cheat who claimed thousands because he could 'barely walk' worked as a courier and a supermarket shelf stacker

Nigel Barnes worked as a courier and stacked shelves in Asda. The 48-year-old and his wife Linda, 58, were handed two-year community orders after fraudulently claiming almost �30,000 in benefits they weren’t entitled to in Lancaster.

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Boom in foreigners coming to live in UK led by Eastern European countries... but more citizens from Malta are leaving

Shock figures reveal 49,000 Slovakians came to live here in 2010 a jump from the 8,000 who arrived in 2004 - a staggering increase of 513 per cent.

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Chancellor 'to kick off sale of nationalised bank Northern Rock'

Northern Rock was nationalised in February 2008 after it collapsed amid the credit crisis, sparking the first run on a UK bank for 150 years.

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Woman, 28, found dead near her five-year-old daughter died as a result of hanging

Clare White was found hanged by a friend who had just discovered the woman's five-year-old daughter dead at their home in Stratford, Warwickshire.

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Eclipse of David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg

All of our leaders appear to be in darkness. None of the big three enjoys the full approval of his own side, far less the general population.

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And relax... Why do most people 'let themselves go' at the age of 41?

Many over-40s begin to eat too much, put on weight and cut down on the amount of daily exercise they take, according to new research.

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Foreign patients pay �1m for liver transplants at top NHS hospital

They were treated ahead of British patients who had been waiting longer, because of rules specifying that the sickest on the waiting list are treated first.

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Maker of Smirnoff and Guinness controversially sponsors training of 10,000 midwives to advise pregnant women on dangers of drinking

Diageo – behind Guinness, Baileys and Smirnoff Ice – will pay �4m so midwives can tell expectant mothers what most already know: to avoid alcohol.

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Flower delivery man run over and killed trying to stop thief stealing his van

Charles Bunyasi, 49, was delivering flowers for a small firm to boost his income on a day off from his job with a local council in Coulsdon, Surrey.

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Calm down, golfers - help is at hand for the 'yips'

It's the bane of all golfers, from top professionals to weekend hackers. The yips - an involuntary twitch - can make even the world’s best miss the shortest putt.

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Savers 'misled by the banks over where to invest their nest eggs'

An investigation found a financial adviser at the Royal Bank of Scotland wrongly suggesting that a customer ‘could not lose’ on a proposed �50,000 investment.

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One in 4 councils charges up to �113 for green rubbish

Out of 267 councils that responded to a Daily Mail survey, 64 charge for a collection service. Fees range from �15 to �113 a year.

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Disgraced MP Morley spotted in his prison gear after he was 'fast-tracked to open prison'

The former Labour minister has been moved to an open jail only a month after his conviction for expenses fraud.

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