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Dave Prowse, a former bodybuilder, was best known for playing the iconic super-villain in the original three George Lucas movies. He has died at the age of 85 after a short illness.

The entrepreneur, 49, tied the knot with Doug, 55, at their Isle of Man mansion on Saturday, with the star unveiling her breathtakingly elegant gown on Instagram.

Temur Akhmedov, 27, faces a deeply painful showdown with his mother, Tatiana Akhmedova, 52, at the Royal Courts of Justice.

The tasty fruity drops were invented by British student Lewis Hornby after his grandmother Pat was rushed to hospital suffering with severe dehydration.

The male suspect was captured on smartphone footage putting the racist symbols around downtown Fairfax, Marin County, Tuesday.

The PM has attempted to head off a revolt by up to 100 Tory MPs this week by offering a second vote on the tough localised curbs in January, and a 'sunset clause' so they automatically expire.

The professional dancer, 39, made a triumphant return to the Strictly Come Dancing judging panel on Saturday night, following her two week hiatus.

EVE SIMMONS: It's 7am on a Tuesday and I'm in the kitchen. Nineties fitness guru Mr Motivator is bellowing 'WORK IT!' at me, while I swing tins of baked beans above my head.

Prince William and Kate Middleton split up briefly in April 2007, but instead of retreating into the shadows, Kate remained in the public's eye with high profile trips to Mahiki nightclub in London.

John Crilly, 49, was devastated when Jack Merritt - his mentor on a prisoner rehabilitation scheme - was stabbed to death by jihadist Usman Khan in the London attack a year ago today.

Newham councillors have called for Transport for London to review the name over alleged links to slavery during a discussion over electoral ward names in the borough.

Sir Keir Starmer and his team will meet the Government's Chief Scientific Officer and Chief Medical Officer before deciding whether the Labour Party will support the three tier plan.

The minister added his voice to mounting concern that fabricated scenes were so damaging to the Royal Family that viewers should be warned at the start of each episode it was not 'fact'.

Mr Morgan met Prince Charles four years ago when the scriptwriter was presented with a CBE for his services to drama after being named in the Queen's New Year Honours list.

A Deltapoll survey puts Labour on 38 per cent, with Mr Johnson's Tories on 37 per cent - the first time the party has scored below 40 per cent in the company's polls since last year's General Election.

SARAH VINE: No doubt like many of you, I have spent the last few days trying to get my head around the Government's latest response to coronavirus.

MP TOM TUGENDHAT: The UK has known danger before. We know there are risks in life and that freedom demands sacrifice. We simply want to know that what's being asked is worth it.

Senior Treasury ministers are waiting until the UK is past the worst of the coroanvirus pandemic before looking at tax rises, The Telegraph reported.

Their flagship show I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! has lost four million viewers since the new series began a fortnight ago.

She was the poshest of the Spices, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that Victoria Beckham's well-stocked larder in Oxfordshire boasts an array of the finest condiments.

Some UK students could be given grades with asterisks next to them to indicate to higher education colleges that they should look kindly on certain applicants.

Reporters spent weeks communicating with a 'fixer' in Turkey before catching a 'courier' on camera in London picking up what he thought was a £4,500 donation to the terror group's cause.

Mairead Philpott, who killed her six children after burning down the family home in Derby in 2012, was 'delighted' at being given her earliest possible release date.

Face-to-face negotiations resumed yesterday after EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier arrived in London, a week after one of his team tested positive for coronavirus.

Hundreds of drinkers enjoyed a pint in London's busy Borough market ahead of next week's Tier 2 lockdown rules which will see pub-goers having to order a 'substantial meal' with their drink.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: In an age when many know nothing of the past, a TV series such as Netflix's The Crown is in danger of becoming the official version of events.

From the outset, The Crown has set out to sensationalise and distort the story of the Royal Family.

Feminist groups say they were 'disappointed' by the scant public attention given to an official day for the 'elimination of violence against women' last Wednesday.

The festive period won't be lonely and miserable, after all, thanks to the Prime Minister's 'Christmas bubbles' - allowing three households to congregate between December 23 and 27.

MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: We were promised an end to chopping and changing only a week ago. Yet the Government continues to swerve and switch its position.

DAN HODGES: Did you hear that in Tunbridge Wells? In Bishop Auckland? In Batley? If you're not out of Tier 3 in two weeks, it's your own fault. You just haven't seized your destiny.

The British branch of the La Leche League (LLLGB) is offering to provide breastfeeding support to transgender women, who were born male.

Mr Johnson 'looked askance', one source said, as Mr Gove called for London to be subject to tier 3 restrictions, despite the savage impact it would have on the capital's economy.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has told Scotland Yard to double its target for new BAME recruits from 19 per cent to 40 per cent by 2022 to better reflect the capital's population.

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN: A thoroughly unscientific multi-generational poll shows more than 50 per cent of those I asked about this would not take the vaccine. At least, not yet.

JON SOPEL:When Donald Trump flew to meet Kim Jung Un for their historic meeting in June, 2018, the one thing I'm told the president obsessed about was what it would all look like.

In March, British doctors had to adapt to new ways of working after the Government urged practices to increase the use of phone and video appointments.

Deborah James has inspired countless patients by sharing her experience of the disease on Radio 5 Live. However, after being told she was disease free in January, further tests showed it has returned.

Sir Philip's Arcadia Group, which is owned by his wife Tina, is expected to call in administrators tomorrow morning, putting the future of up to 500 shops and 13,000 jobs in jeopardy.

TALK OF THE TOWN: They've been together for nearly 25 years and have four children - and now former model India Hicks and partner David Flint Wood have at last decided to make it official.

Will Knowland, who taught English at the £42,500-a-year school in Berkshire for nine years, was dismissed over a lesson which questioned current radical feminist orthodoxy.

TALK OF THE TOWN: When Jeremy Paxman split up from the mother of his three children and later embarked on a relationship with Canadian Jillian Taylor, the couple lived at his Notting Hill flat.

TALK OF THE TOWN: In the iconic TV series Sex And The City, Sarah Jessica Parker's character Carrie Bradshaw was notorious for her love of Manolo Blahnik heels.

TALK OF THE TOWN: The fitness guru moved his family into a luxury five-bedroom property in August and has teased his millions of Instagram fans with a glimpse of the interior.

Aseel Muthana left Wales for Syria in 2013, aged 17, following his brother Nasser and another friend in joining the jihadist group. Now, he is saying he should be allowed to return to the UK.

Daniel Mateola, 49, had to abandon his congregation in the 'sinister' incident at the Kingdom Faith Church in Milton Keynes last week.

The Crown star Emma Corrin, inset, made her first screen kiss starring in a Cambridge University production in 2016 of Brian Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Boris Johnson has written to Conservative MPs offering them a second vote on England's tier system early next year as he seeks to head off a backbench rebellion in the Commons this week.

CHARLES WALKER MP: Since May, we have understood that Covid-19 poses the greatest risk to the elderly and people with underlying health conditions.

The couple reunited in 2007 having previously dated for four years, however the world had to wait until November 2010 for the news that Prince William and Kate Middleton were engaged.