A novice trader made £9 million after a account he was using to learn how to trade turned out to be active on the open market -  and now he’s suing for the profits. 

Harouna Traoré, who’s based in France, opened a £17,000 account with British brokerage Valbury Capital after completing a trading course. 

The 41-year-old believed he was trading in a dummy account, that allow traders to place deals without losing any cash, while mirroring what happens in the real market. 

According to reports, it wasn’t until Traoré ran up almost £880m of futures - amassing a debt of more than £880,000 - that he realised he was trading on the open market. 

Panicked, Traoré continued to trade hoping to clear his debt, eventually amassing a profit of £8.8million.

“I could only think of my family,” Traoré, who is married with two children, told the FT. “I was stressed.”

Having salvaged his initial investment and made a hefty profit, Traoré informed Valbury Capital who then told him he was in breach of contract and his positions were “void and cancelled,” the newspaper reported.

Traoré is now suing the company for the £8.8m profit he says he earned, citing breach of contract and negligence.

His lawyers are said to believe the company’s position is wrong as Traoré made most of his profits after realising the account was live, and that Valbury had failed to impose any limits.

Robert Falker, the lawyer representing Valbury in the legal proceedings, made the following comments to the FT: “We are familiar with the spurious allegations made by the French arcade trader Mr, Traoré (a seasoned market risk analyst formerly employed by Reuters) which are strongly denied as wholly without merit and will be vigorously contested.”

It is yet to be determined if Traoré case will be heard.

‘Love Island’ paid tribute to late former contestant Sophie Gradon with an on-air dedication on Thursday night. 

The ITV2 reality show opened its latest episode with a tribute, after it was confirmed she had died at the age of 32. 

Before viewers saw the latest action from the villa, a picture of Sophie was displayed along with the message: “In loving memory of Sophie Gradon.”

Bosses had previously released a statement saying: “The whole ITV2 and Love Island team are profoundly saddened to hear the news about Sophie, and our deepest sympathies and thoughts go to her family and friends.” 

Presenter Caroline Flack also shared her own tribute to the series two contestant.

She tweeted: “So very sad . Such a beautiful soul .... such a beautiful smile ...thoughts and love with friends and family.”

Narrator Iain Stirling also shared one of his favourite Sophie moments during her time on ‘Love Island’ in 2016, writing: “This will forever remain on of my favourite Love Island moments. Dearest Sophie, I truly hope you are now at peace. Stay shapey x.”

Many of Sophie’s fellow Islanders, including Olivia Buckland, Cara De La Hoyde and Malin Andersson also tweeted in memory of Sophie. 

Katie Salmon, who Sophie made history with by becoming the first - and so far only - same-sex couple on the show, also shared a heartfelt tribute, writing: “Your smile will be remembered forever.

“My thoughts are with your family, friends and loved ones at this horrendous time,” she continued. “Too young, too sweet. Too kind. Am sending all my love, I truly am, to everyone who had the pleasure of being in her company.”

Sophie’s cause of death is yet to be confirmed, but police have said it is not being treated as suspicious. 

A London tube station was locked down during Friday rush hour after a man on the tracks claimed to have a bomb. 

Commuters are being advised to avoid Charing Cross station which has been “evacuated as a precaution” and remains closed. 

At 7.47am the Met tweeted to say a man had been arrested at the scene by British Transport Police and that no one had been injured. 

It earlier said the man had been “acting suspiciously”.

A British Transport Police spokesman later added that the arrested man, 38, was being “held under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act and taken to a place of safety”. 

Shortly before 8am the Met said it was working to reopen the station and confirmed the man had claimed “to have a bomb”.

“We are now working to reopen the station as soon as possible would like to thank passengers and rail staff for their patience and understanding during this incident,” the Met said on Twitter. 

Police dogs and fire engines remain at the scene which has been cordoned off. 

The incident comes days after a man was arrested over an explosion at Southgate Underground station that left five people injures and passengers fleeing in mass panic.

A 23-year-old man was later held by police on suspicion of “doing an act likely to cause an explosion to injure or damage property”.

British Transport Police said on Wednesday that the small blast at the Tube station in north London was believed to have been caused by a faulty drill battery.

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I just got schooled by a twelve-year-old.

A large group of us were on holiday together, including twelve-year-old Sara.

As is the way at holiday resorts, kids seem to seek each other out and form fast friendships. After introducing himself, one child asked Sara, “Who are you here with?”

Overhearing their conversation, I started to wonder what Sara would answer.

Who’s Sara to me? Well she’s my mum’s partner’s daughter’s boyfriend’s child from a previous relationship.

Or you could say Sara is my step-dad’s daughter’s step-daughter. Or maybe my step-sister’s partner’s child.

There are many different ways to describe who me and Sara are to each other and how we ended up on holiday together.

But her explanation was the simplest and most accurate: we’re family. “I’m here with my family,” she told him.

Hearing her say that, stopped me in my tracks. I hadn’t thought how to describe our relationship before. It was what it was. Put on the spot to explain, long streams of ‘proper’ labels had sprung to my mind.

But with families taking more and more diverse forms nowadays, labels can be more of a hindrance than a help.

Step-this and half-that - not only is it a bit outdated, it doesn’t even begin to cover all the different people we may now count as family.

For the little ones in our family, they currently each have about three or four sets of grandparents, not two - gran and grandma doesn’t begin to cover it!

Our growing family wasn’t all born in the UK. We speak a fair few different languages. Some of us look related, some of us don’t. In fact, I look more similar to my step-sister than my biological sister.

That’s the thing about labels. Once you call someone your ‘step’-sister, you feel compelled to differentiate between that and your biological ... ‘blood’… ‘full’… ‘real’… ‘actual’ sister.

Rather than bringing us closer together by allowing us to describe who we are to one another, they create separations, different ‘degrees’ of family and inferred importance.

Sara is important to me. She’s a person I spend Christmases and holidays with. Someone I’ve seen grown from child to tweenie.

We may not be siblings or cousins, or even step/half anythings, but Sara was right - we are family.

One of my favourite quotes about family is from Sandra Bullock. She’s been a mum for eight years, having adopted Louis in 2010 and Laila in 2015.

She isn’t big on labels either: “Don’t say ‘my adopted child.’ No one calls their kid their ‘IVF child’ or their ‘oh, s***, I went to a bar and got knocked-up’ child. Let’s just say, ‘our children.’”

Let’s follow Sandra Bullock’s example. Let’s follow Sara’s lead. Let’s just say ‘my family’.

Family are the people we lean on when shit happens. Family are the people that know the good and bad sides of us and love us anyway. Whoever does that for you, that’s your family.

Embracing a broader definition of family can only be a good thing — more people to love and care for each other, to have your back. At the risk of sounding like a bit of a hippy, more love sounds pretty good in the era of Trump and Brexit.

I’m pretty proud of my mum’s, partner’s, daughter’s, boyfriend’s child Sara. I’m proud of all my rambling, multilingual, but universally noisy family and everyone that’s a part of it.

Films featuring scenes of rape or sexual violence could be restricted to adults following growing public concerns in the wake of the #MeToo movement, reports suggest.

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is said to have conducted preliminary research showing increasing concerns around the depiction of sexual violence and its availability to teenage audiences, The Times reported on Friday. 

The initial finding were said to have been outlined on Thursday by the BBFC’s chief executive, David Austin, at a conference organised by the NSPCC.

If the finding is confirmed during the next stage of research, the newspaper said, the BBFC board will raise its age rating for films, DVDs and websites that deal with rape, from 15 to 18.

The board is consulting with 10,000 people to check that its classifications reflect public opinion, something it does every five years. 

The Times said the first part of the survey asked panels of adults and teenagers to view scenes from two 15-rated films that feature rape themes.

One was Wind River, a contemporary western that includes a scene showing the rape and murder of an 18-year-old woman.

The other is, The Innocents. The French film is set in a Polish convent in 1945 where several of the nuns were raped by Russian soldiers.

“The response was [that those surveyed] think perhaps 18 should be the appropriate classification for such content,” The Times quoted Austin as saying.

The BBFC has not yet responded to a request for comment. 

ABC has announced plans for a ‘Roseanne’ spin-off series that will not feature Roseanne Barr.

The new programme has the working title ‘The Connors’ and will star the rest of the ‘Roseanne’ cast, including Sara Gilbert, John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf.

Barr will have no financial or creative involvement in the 10-episode series. In a statement issued late on Thursday night, she said: “I regret the circumstances that have caused me to be removed from ‘Roseanne’.

“I agreed to the settlement in order that 200 jobs of beloved cast and crew could be saved, and I wish the best for everyone involved.”

It is not clear how the remaining characters will address the absence of Barr’s character.

‘Roseanne’ was axed by network ABC when its star tweeted a racial slur Valerie Jarrett, who served as one of Barack Obama’s senior advisers.

Barr apologised to Jarrett via Twitter and Bob Iger, the chief executive of Disney, which owns ABC, also called her to do so.

This prompted a response from the President (who Barr openly supports), who tweeted: “Bob Iger of ABC called Valerie Jarrett to let her know that ‘ABC does not tolerate comments like those’ made by Roseanne Barr.

“Gee, he never called President Donald J. Trump to apologize for the HORRIBLE statements made and said about me on ABC.

“Maybe I just didn’t get the call?”

Go to any town or city across the UK and you’ll quickly find a mother and child group, but for dads with babies, toddlers and young children, there aren’t always similar opportunities.

Dan Flanagan who lives in Worthing, West Sussex, is hoping to change that with a new father and child social group called Dad La Soul. The volunteer-run group aims to eradicate social isolation experienced by dads and give them a fun, welcoming environment where they can spend time with their kids. 

“Being a dad can be quite a lonely life, but men don’t like to talk about that,” Dan, 44, tells HuffPost UK. “But once you get over those initial barriers and have conversations, these common themes keep coming up, such as ‘I had to miss the parents evening or sports day because I couldn’t get home from work’ or ‘I only get to see my son at bedtime and I don’t know what to do’. When you open up those conversations, you start to realise there’s a different side to blokes - we don’t just want to talk about beer and the World Cup.”

Dan, who is dad to six-year-old Natty, left his corporate job three years ago after becoming frustrated by the long commute, which meant he would barely arrive home before his son’s bedtime.

The death of his own father made him revaluate his life and he set up his own businesses - dad magazine Don’t Believe The Hype and child-friendly “rave nights” TotRockinBeats - in order to spend more time with his family. 

“When I became more of a stay-at-home dad I had access to mother and toddler groups, but there were very few dads there and we were not made made to feel very welcome,” he says. “There are questions you have to contend with like ‘why haven’t you got a proper job?’ and ‘are you here just to have an affair?’”

The only other option open to Dan was visiting soft-play centres, where he says he was “surrounded by people sitting on their phones” so, out of sheer frustration, Dad La Soul was born.

The group meet monthly on a Saturday and the dads take it in turns to lead the session and teach the group a new skill. So far they’ve had classes on beatboxing, robot-making and film production, and all dads are welcome, whether they are stay-at-home dads, have busy working weeks, only get to see their children at weekends or stepdads looking to forge deeper bonds with their stepchildren.

The first four sessions have been held at different locations in the local area, but from this week the group will have a new home at Guildcare, a day-care centre supporting local older people Monday-Friday, which is usually closed at the weekend. Men who attend the centre on weekdays have been invited to join Dad La Soul as “wannabe Grandads”, and Dan has also invited members of Men in Sheds, an organisation for retired men. 

“There’s some lovely old folks who can’t come out because they don’t have families. And we have families, but we can’t go out because we don’t have babysitters. So I thought we could solve the problem in one afternoon,” Dan jokes. 

Sessions are kept to a tight, not-for-profit budget in order to keep them accessible, with entry costing £5 for adults and kids, and £3 for OAPs, while babies are allowed to attend for free.

Male friendship is at the heart of the concept, because Dan believes as men get older, they often become trapped in very small social circles. Although Dad La Soul will only meet monthly to start, Dan says members have already begun making friends, with some meeting up for a drink or organising play dates of their own. 

The sheer existence of the group is reassuring for members like dad-of-two Tyler Slade, 37, from Worthing. 

“I’m in a good place right now, but I do have a part of me worried that unless I ensure I keep socialising with my mates  - apart from catch-ups at weddings and Christenings, which inevitably will be more few and far between as I get older -  I’ll start to feel isolated myself,” he says.

“I want to make sure that I can hang out with my kids without being a burden and see my mates regularly and not just at the next wake!”

Dan has big plans for the group and hopes to expand to towns and cities across the UK and beyond in the next few years. Eventually, he’d like to work with social services so children without male role models, particularly those in care, can come to the sessions and find a mentor in one of the dads. 

“What I’m looking to do is build a ‘Dad’s Army’ of these clubs,” he says. “As we grow, we’ll have a national, if not international, network of dads and that could have a hell of an impact.”

For more information on joining ‘Dad La Soul’ visit www.totrockinbeats.com or email dan@totrockinbeats.com. 

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We all have moments in our lives that help define us. Personal milestones, significant dates and experiences we always carry with us.

For me, one of those moments came on November 8th 2017. Having been stuck in a deep depression for several months I decided that I was going to end my life.

Being forty and having suffered from depression since my early teens, suicide is a concept I’ve become very familiar with. But it was always something of an abstract idea I never believed I’d ever act on.

November 8th was different. I was in a state of such overwhelming despair and hopelessness that I would do anything to end the pain.

I’ll always remember lying in bed with my laptop researching how to kill myself. An hour was all it took to plan my own death. Meticulously, down to the last detail. The where, the when and the how.

At the time I couldn’t comprehend just how morbid this whole process was. All I cared about was ending my suffering.

I was just about to put my plan into action, but something stopped me. It was fear, plain and simple. I was terrified to die. I was stuck. I was in such emotional pain that I didn’t want to go on living but at the same time I was afraid to die.

In that moment I did the only thing I could do: I sent my wife a message telling her I was scared I was about to do something insane. Thankfully, she came home and took charge of the situation.

The next 48 hours were a blur. I saw my psychiatrist who recommended I be admitted to a hospital for my own safety. I was reluctant to take that step. At the mere mention of a psychiatric hospital, I instantly began conjuring up memories of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. A bunch of broken people in white pyjamas shuffling aimlessly around a broken down ward.

It was one of the hardest decisions of my life, but one look at my wife with tears streaming down her face was enough to convince me.

That choice saved my life.

People have asked me what it was like to be an inpatient. Honestly, I think there are a lot of misconceptions out there. Some of my friends even thought that there would be straightjackets and padded rooms.

I was expecting an overcrowded, sterile and cheerless environment. Instead it was more like a Travelodge with nursing staff.

After settling in I was given a timetable of classes and therapy that I could attend. It was all voluntary but the staff did a great job of gently encouraging participation.

Having that structure and support in place was vital. Rather than spend all my time brooding, I interacted with therapists and patients.

The hospital provided me with a safe and secure space. I also received a good education in the fundamentals of mental health and how to focus that towards understanding and dealing with my problems.

The lessons on the various therapies (CBT and DBT) were fascinating. I also learned about the importance of simple things like sleep and nutrition and how they can affect your mood.

After two months I was discharged and I continue to make progress, even if sometimes I struggle to see it. Depression can affect your perceptions in a negative way. I still have bad days, and to me these bad days make it hard for me to remember all the good days that came before. But I’m so much better at recognising that now, and in recognising it I can deal with it.

I still suffer from depression and I most likely always will, but now I have the tools and the knowledge to lessen its impact on my life.

Through it all I’ve learned the most important lesson of all: You should never be afraid to ask for help. Suffering alone can only ever lead to more suffering. Whether it’s seeking professional help, going to see your GP or even just talking to your friends and family, it can make such a big difference.

Overall my time as a psychiatric patient was life changing.

And through it all my amazing wife has been the lifeline I so desperately needed in the darkest days. One of my strongest fears was that my illness might destroy our marriage. But I believe that going to hell and back has only made us stronger. She continues to inspire me every day.

And that brings me to another significant moment in my life - 29 May 2018.

I’ve always wanted to be a comedian but fear of failure and ridicule had always stopped me. So, after being through a breakdown I wanted to prove to myself that maybe I could make people laugh. I signed up for a stand up slot at an open mic night and performed in front of 50 people. It was a success! I actually got people laughing.

It’s given me so much hope for the future. And the fact that I can actually imagine a future at all is proof that depression doesn’t have to win.  Life really is a fight worth winning. 

In ‘What Works For Me’ - a series of articles considering how we can find balance in our lives - we talk to people about their self-care strategies. If you’d like to contribute your story, email us.

The moment Rosie Connell lifts her trombone to her lips, she’s transported away from the intense pressure of her job as a junior doctor on the NHS. It’s a crucial moment of escapism.

“When you’re busy at work, and bad things happen or sad things happen, you’ve always got your bleeps going off, you’ve always got the next job to do –  it’s very easy to bottle things up,” Rosie, who is from Poole in Dorset, explains.

“On the drive home you start thinking and reflecting on your day, thinking about the people whose lives you’ve been part of. I think a lot [of emotion] can come out then. But for me, playing the trombone takes me away from all that.”

Rosie’s job as a junior doctor means it’s not uncommon for her to pull 12-hour shifts – sometimes even longer. If a patient becomes unwell or she needs to break bad news, she says it’s her duty to stay. “You can’t just drop what you’re doing and leave,” she says. “So the hours on paper don’t always reflect the hours at work.”

She began training to become a doctor in her thirties and is currently one year into her role as a junior doctor, which can see her carrying out a variety of tasks including caring for the elderly, covering medical admissions, providing cancer services, ploughing through paperwork and attending emergencies. The 39-year-old also lives at home with her parents. “They’re both quite elderly, dad has Parkinson’s disease and he’s blind, and mum is disabled,” she says, adding that this can make life “quite stressful”.

For Rosie, there’s only one way to switch off: through the power of music.

She began playing the trombone when she was 17 but stopped playing when she started nurse training. During this time she didn’t play her trombone for about 10 years – it was only when she went to medical school in her thirties that she picked it up again and the passion was reborn. “I’d forgotten how much I loved it and needed an outlet outside of the day-to-day stuff,” she says. “I class the years in between as my ‘lost years’.” 

Rosie is now a member of Bournemouth Concert Brass Band and Westbourne Orchestral Society, both of which she counts as family. 

“No matter how tired you are you know that you’ve got a commitment to a rehearsal, a commitment to the other musicians in a brass band or an orchestra,” she says. “And so you have to get in, have a shower and get in your car to rehearsal.

“Once you’re there you escape everything. You’re in the zone of music, you have to concentrate to follow the part, keep in time to play your solos and it becomes about that. After a couple of hours of rehearsing and chatting to people who work in all sorts of jobs, suddenly I’m just a normal human.”

She says music really helps her switch off because there’s simply no room in her brain for other things. In fact she says counting the bars before she has to come in and play her part is almost like a form of meditation.

“If you’re playing something amazing with a wonderful group of musicians, you can get really lost in the moment,” she adds. “It takes you away from everything that’s been going on.”

Rosie appears on ‘Britain’s Best Junior Doctors’ which starts tomorrow [25 June] on BBC Two at 7.30pm

Game of Phones: Every week I’ll pick a game for iOS or Android that’s perfect for long journeys, the commute or just when you want to switch off from the outside world.

Back in 2015 no-one could have anticipated the success that Fallout Shelter would become. Released as a free-to-play game for iOS and Android, the humble building-management game has now been downloaded a staggering 120 million times.

Based on the hugely successful Fallout series of video games, Fallout Shelter is at its core incredibly simple to play. You’ve been presented with one of the nuclear bunkers that appear in the Fallout series and then charged with growing it both in size and population.

To accomplish this you’ll need to build new living quarters, mess halls, gymnasiums, educational facilities and power stations in order to keep the lights on.

You’ll also need to do all of this while managing three key resources: energy, food and water. If any of them drop below the required level your residents will start to get unhappy.

It’s a surprisingly difficult balance to maintain, and it’s one that will start ruling more of your life than you’ll feel comfortable with.

Keep all three resources high enough though and your residents will grow stronger, strong enough in fact that you can start sending them off into the radioactive wilderness.

For those of you who stopped playing after a year (myself included) Fallout Shelter has since been transformed into a game with surprising depth.

Yes, you still need to keep your vault workers happy but exploration is now as much a part of the game as staying at home. This makes the balance all the more difficult to maintain and in turn actually makes the game even more addictive to play.

Fallout Shelter isn’t hard, it’s just really really addictive. You’ll make a few tweaks to your vault and then an hour later go straight back in and make some more tweaks. It’s infuriating, and yet glorious.

It’s also not desperate for your money either, which is probably why it has been so successful.

In short, if you’re one of the 12 people who hasn’t tried Fallout Shelter, try it immediately and if you’re someone who left it, return immediately.

Fallout Shelter is available on iOS, Android, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch and PC.

Upskirting, or taking a picture under a woman’s clothing without her consent, will soon become a specific criminal offence after the government agreed to a bill on the issue.

But experts are now saying that other sexual offences should be included in the bill too, arguing that other digital forms of abuse against women should also be addressed. 

This includes something one law professor is calling “image-based sexual abuse”, such as “deep fake” pornography, where a person’s face is photoshopped onto explicit material, and cyber-flashing, where explicit images are shared via bluetooth to unsuspecting recipients. 

Blogging for HuffPost UK, Clare McGlynn, a law professor at Durham University pointed out: “Neither current voyeurism laws, nor this new [upskirting] Bill, cover what happens when any upskirt images are then distributed without consent.”

In such cases, the authorities tend to fall back on the so-called revenge porn laws in the 2015 Criminal Justice and Courts Act, although this isn’t always successful. 

For instance, under this act, distribution of up-skirt pictures is only covered where the perpetrator has a direct intention to cause distress to the victim.

If an up-skirt images is shared for sexual gratification or financial gain, it is not covered by the Act.

While upskirt victims will be entitled to automatic anonymity if they make a complaint, McGlynn adds: “This right to anonymity does not extend to victims to other forms of image-based sexual abuse, such as revenge porn.

“So, if a perpetrator takes an upskirt image without consent, you are entitled to anonymity. But if, without your consent, someone hacks your iCloud and distributes an intimate image of you, or shares a sexual image you sent them – you have no automatic right to anonymity.”

A spokesperson for Women’s Aid echoed this point, telling HuffPost: “We want the legislation to go further to ensure anonymity for victims in court for all image-based sexual offences.” She added that the legislation could also cover sextortion and the sharing of hacked images. 

Prof McGlynn added: “It’s not actually that difficult to draft a law which covers all forms of image-based sexual abuse,” citing the Australian Crimes Amendment (Intimate Images) Act 2017, which criminalises all non-consensual creation and/ or distribution of intimate sexual images, as well as threats to do so.

Other image-based sexual abuses include: 

Deepfake Pornography

A practice which uses now readily available face-swap technology to create pornography using images of celebrities… and of everyday people.

Last month, a worker at a top investment management company was jailed for 16 weeks after posting photoshopped pictures of a female intern to porn websites after she rejected his romantic advances.

Davide Buccheri, 25, was also ordered to pay £5,000 in compensation to his victim after he was convicted of harassment.

Cyber-Flashing in public places

Last year HuffPost UK revealed that the problem of cyber-flashing on public transport, using the Apple AirDrop functionality, is being hidden from crime figures because women are not reporting it to police.

A HuffPost reporter was sent more than a hundred sexual images via Apple’s AirDrop function over a WiFi connection while travelling on the London underground.

Despite a growing body of anecdotal evidence, Laura Thompson, a lead researcher at City University, told HuffPost UK she believes the problem is widespread but going unrecorded.

She said: “There are no crime statistics on it, as you’ve found, and there is next to no academic research on cyber-flashing. Certainly, there are no large-scale surveys I know of that ask women specifically whether they have received such an unwanted image.”

Thompson also believes the medium is opening the floodgates to a larger group of perpetrators.

She added: “Technology has opened it [the problem] to people who would never have considered standing on a street corner in a trench coat”, because of the risk involved, the lack of anonymity and greater potential for social and legal consequence, “I think there is probably a whole new bunch of offenders.

“With the digital age and more and more platforms coming out, people always find a way to weaponise them.”

The move to adopt upskirting legislation as a Government Bill to improve its chances of becoming law comes after Tory MP Sir Christopher Chope blocked its progress

Sir Christopher stopped the Voyeurism (Offences) Bill from completing its second reading in the Commons on Friday by calling out “Object”. Since then his parliamentary office has been adorned with knickers in protest.

Without a specific law, victims in England and Wales must seek prosecution of upskirting through other legal avenues, such as outraging public decency or harassment.

But just because campaigners say they have cross-party support it does not mean the Bill will sail through the legislative process, particularly because it is a Private Member’s Bill – not one included in the Conservative Party manifesto at the last general election.

Natasha Kaplinsky and her daughter are recovering after being involved in a boating accident near the Island of Corfu. 

The former BBC newsreader and ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ champion and her eight-year-old daughter, Angelica, were injured after their boat caught fire. 

They were rescued by local fishermen, who helped them put out the blaze on the boat. 

After being seen by medics in a local hospital, they have since returned home to continue treatment, as Angelica’s burns are reported to be severe, although not life-threatening. 

Natasha and Angelica were on board with other members of their family, as they have a villa on the Island, and a third person was also injured. 

Corfu Port Authority confirmed to The Sun: “Three people were injured after a fire on a boat.

“The vessel suffered a mechanical failure which caused a fire in the engine room, which was immediately extinguished by the people on the boat.”

A spokesperson for Natasha also said: “Natasha and her family were involved in an accident in Corfu.

“They came home early to receive treatment and are making a good recovery at home.”

It is believed the boat only suffered superficial damage in the blast, with the cause of the accident now being investigated. 

‘Game Of Thrones’ stars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie are now officially husband and wife. 

The pair tied the knot in a Scottish ceremony on Saturday at her family’s castle in Wardhill, Aberdeenshire. 

The pair were photographed leaving the castle as a married couple, as they were congratulated by guests. 

Many of their ‘Game Of Thrones’ co-stars, including Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams were all in attendance, as were fellow actors Malin Akerman and Ben Aldridge.

Kit and Rose began dating back in 2012, while she was still playing Ygritte in ‘Game Of Thrones’, in which he continues to star as Jon Snow.

The pair announced their engagement in a very traditional way last September. 

They took out an advert in The Times’ Births, Marriages and Deaths page, with the notice reading: “The engagement is announced between Kit, younger son of David and Deborah Harington of Worcestershire, and Rose, middle daughter of Sebastian and Candy Leslie of Aberdeenshire.”

During an appearance on ‘The Jonathan Ross’ show following their engagement, he detailed his proposal, which saw him “blow his load early”. 

He said: “I did have some plans to do it, I was going to string up some lights in some trees and do all the romantic stuff but we were in the country and we were under this beautiful night sky and had a log fire burning and red wine and I blew my load early. Sorry that’s a really bad expression!

“I was meant to do it the day after with the lights. What I meant to say was, I popped my question a bit early. Not blew my load.” 

A 15-year-old boy has been stabbed to death following a birthday party at a community centre in Romford, attended by more than 100 people.

Officers were called to Clockhouse Lane at 9.05pm on Saturday following reports of a large fight following a birthday party, with early reports suggesting that groups were fighting and the centre was being damaged by youths.

The victim was treated at the scene by paramedics but was pronounced dead a short while later. 

Three teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murder, police said.

Police said that officers and London Ambulance Service were “confronted by a large number of youths” when they attended the scene.

A bus driver aged in his fifties was treated for a head injury at the scene. There are no other reports of injuries.

Detective sergeant Gurj Singh said: “Response officers who attended the initial calls were confronted with up to 100 youths leaving a birthday party gathering at a community centre.

“There appeared to be fighting and tragically a teenager has been found with fatal injuries.”

Local MP Andrew Rosindell said after visiting the area that it was “devastating” that a young life had “so tragically been cut short on our streets tonight”.

Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward, as well as any video footage or images of the violent aftermath to the party.

Barbara Windsor has been through “a real dip lately” amid her battle with Alzheimer’s disease, according to one of her former ‘EastEnders’ co-stars. 

Rita Simons, who played Barbara’s on-screen niece Roxy Mitchell, spoke of her devastation at seeing the screen legend’s deterioration. 

Speaking to the Daily Star, she said: “From what her husband Scott Mitchell said to me, she has had a real dip lately.

“What I have seen is more confusion, which is really devastating to watch because she always had her marbles together and was always the life and soul of the room.

“It is an incredibly sad thought that my Aunty Peggy, which is what I’ve always called Barbara, isn’t herself.”

Rita added: “From what Scott says there are some dark days but they still have good days, too.”

Barbara’s husband Scott revealed her Alzheimer’s diagnosis last month, admitting she had actually been living with the disease since 2014. 

After the news went public, the Peggy Mitchell actress vowed to “carry on” in a recorded message played on ‘Loose Women’. 

Her close friend Christopher Biggins also said she had been feeling “pretty low” about her deteriorating health, claiming that she was down about her declining short-term memory.

Barbara was visited by her on-screen son Ross Kemp earlier this week, who praised her braveness. 

Speaking on ‘Good Morning Britain’, he said: “Put it this way, I went round for a cup of tea and I was there for three-and-a-half hours.

“I think what she’s done is very brave, she has a great husband in Scott [Mitchell], he’s been very supportive.

“Honestly, I had five cups of tea, three shortbread biscuits - which is not good for my diet - and I laughed a lot.

“She’s got that great ability, when you walk through the door, she’s ‘on’.”

He added: “It was like seeing my second mum.”

Taylor Swift fans got a surprise from Robbie Williams at her gig on Saturday night. 

The singer joined Taylor on stage for rendition of his hit ‘Angels’, as she played her latest show at Wembley Stadium.

Fans were blown away by the performance, which was hailed as a real “moment” on social media. 

However, it is not the first time she has brought on a surprise guest during her ‘Reputation’ tour. 

On Friday, former One Directioner Niall Horan came out to duet on his single ‘Slow Hands’ with her. 

Taylor’s tour has made a number of headlines since it kicked off at the start of May, initally surrounding the huge snake statues the set features, in reference to her feud with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. 

More recently, she was hit by reports of poor ticket sales for her UK stadium shows, which has been blamed on high ticket prices. 

Meanwhile, Robbie is said to be gearing up for a judging role on ‘The X Factor’. 

It has been rumoured he and wife Ayda Field will be joining the panel for the show’s 15th series later this year, replacing the departing Nicole Scherzinger and Louis Walsh. 

While nothing has yet been confirmed, Robbie remained coy about the claims during an appearance on ‘This Morning’ last week. 

He said: “If there is an ‘X Factor’ in my future, whether it be this year or next year or never, I’m scared for my own safety and health but not because of the people out there, the public, Twitter or Instagram, my wife. She is an A+ student from Beverly Hills, incredibly square, she is like ‘why would you do that?’ 

“She is supposed to be doing it with me. I have read those reports too. I would say…as it happens people say that every year and we say ‘no comment’. Yeah, there is a lot of me that would love to do it too. But as it happens, people are talking nothing has been signed. But watch this space.” 

New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern and her partner Clarke Gayford have revealed the name of their daughter, saying they want her to grow up in a world where she can make choices about her family and career based on what she wants.

Ardern made her first public appearance on Sunday since giving birth to her daughter, Neve, on Thursday.

Ardern’s pregnancy has been international news since it was first announced on January 19 - shortly after she won office - with the Labour Party leader vowing to be “prime minister and a mum”.

The 37-year-old answered a few questions from reporters while holding her baby at Auckland City Hospital on Sunday before she planned on returning home.

The prime minister will take six weeks of maternity leave before returning to work.

Ardern is just the second elected world leader to give birth while holding office. Many hope she will become a role model for combining motherhood with political leadership.

She said the couple struggled for months trying to choose a name and decided to wait until the baby was born to figure out which one fitted best.

The baby’s full name is Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford.

Ardern said Neve means “bright” and “radiant” as well as “snow”, which was fitting because the baby was born on the Southern Hemisphere’s winter solstice.

Te Aroha means “love” in New Zealand’s indigenous Maori language, and Ardern said that name reflected the amount of love and generosity that people had shown the couple even before the baby arrived.

She said she hoped that one day having a baby while leading a country would not be seen as a novelty.

“So I hope for little girls and boys that actually there’s a future where they can make choices about how they raise their family and what kind of career they have that are based on what they want and what makes them happy,” she said. “Simple.”

She said that having a child would likely make her view the world differently and enhance political views that were already focused on children.

The last leader to give birth while holding office was late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who had her daughter Bakhtawar in 1990.

New Zealand’s deputy prime minister Winston Peters has taken over as the acting prime minister until Ardern returns to work.

Ardern said that while she is on leave, she would be finding her way as a new parent.

“We’ll do what every other parent does and learn the little nuances of the way that Neve wants to work,” she said. “And just figure things out as we go.”

Ed Sheeran’s bladder failed him as he took his tour to Cardiff on Saturday night. 

The singer was forced to stop his sell-out show, not once, but twice so he could go to the toilet. 

After singing his hit ‘Galway Girl’, he dashed off stage telling the 60,000-strong crowd he “needed a pee”. 

Then later in the show, he was mid-way through ‘Photograph’ when he halted his performance to relieve himself again. 

“I’m so sorry Cardiff!” he said. 

Well, when you’ve gotta go, you’ve gotta go, we suppose. 

After returning for a second time, he told the crowd: “I’ve been gigging since I was 14 and I’ve never done that, and now I do it in front of 60,000 people!”

Ed is currently over a year into his ‘Divide’ world tour, with Saturday’s show at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium marking his third date of his four-night residency at the venue, as well the the penultimate date of the second UK leg. 

He is set to take it around Europe again before setting off to North America for a second time. 

By the time he finishes up on 10 November, he will have played 206 shows over 20 months. 

Jeremy Hunt has attacked Airbus for making “completely inappropriate” warnings about the Theresa May’s Brexit strategy

In his interview on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, the health secretary said the government should ignore “siren voices”.

Also on this morning’s Sunday shows, Liam Fox said he would be happy with an extension to the transition period if it was needed. Lord Digby Jones said a ‘no deal’ Brexit would be a “catastrophe”. And Nia Griffith defended Jeremy Corbyn for not attending yesterday’s pro-EU march in London.

Hunt was the main guest on this morning’s shows, and he used his appearance to sound pretty Brexity.

The health secretary’s comments will not do much to dampen chat that he has one eye on the leadership. Remember he considered running to replace David Cameron in 2016 and advocated a “Norway-plus model” for the UK after it left the EU.

Airbus, which employed 14,000 people in Britain, threatened to quit the UK in the event of a no-deal Brexit and demanded that any transition period if a deal is struck be longer than that currently proposed, which ends in 2020.

“I thought it was completely inappropriate for businesses to be making these kinds of threats for one very simple reason,” Hunt said this morning.

He told Marr: “We are at an absolutely critical moment in the Brexit discussions and what that means is that we need to get behind Theresa May to deliver the best possible Brexit – a clean Brexit.

“What businesses want… is clarity and certainty and the more that we undermine Theresa May the more likely we are to end up with a fudge, which would be an absolute disaster for everyone.” 

Over on Sky News’ Ride on Sunday, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox also told British businesses that “no deal” off the table during Brussels negotiations would weaken the UK’s bargaining position.

But Fox told Ridge the he would not mind if the Brexit transition period was extended.

“I wouldn’t have a major problem with that as long as it was very time limited and there was a unilateral mechanism for Britain to pull out of it if we thought that we were being kept in the European Union against our will,” he said.

But he warned he did not feel the same about extending the Article 50 process itself. “I wouldn’t find that politically acceptable and I couldn’t support it,” he warned.

This morning former chancellor Lord Lawson, ex-environment secretary Owen Paterson, Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin and Sir Rocco Forte were among signatories of a letter to the prime minister urging her to issue orders to departments to accelerate planning for Britain to operate under World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules if a deal cannot be done.

On BBC Radio 5′s Pienaar’s Politics, Lord Digby Jones, the former Director General of the CBI, said the “civil war” in the UK over Brexit was damaging the negotiations.

“If the whole country had come together on this right at the start, if Barnier and Berlin were presented with a united front in Britain at the start, then walking away would not have been a catastrophe,” he said.

“But if what we do is we are at civil war in Britain, which we are, and at the same time you’ve got an EU who, or should I say Germany, who are going to play this right the way down to midnight on the 29^th March -  why wouldn’t they, why wouldn’t they – then what you’ve got is, yes you’re right, falling off the edge will be a catastrophe.”

Yesterday tens of thousands marched through the streets of London to demand a referendum on the terms of Brexit on the second anniversary of the EU vote.

During the demonstration, crowds chanted “where’s Jeremy Corbyn”. The Labour leader’s refusal to back a second referendum has frustrated many Remainers.

Nia Griffith, the shadow defence secretary, defended Corbyn’s absence. And stuck to the party line of refusing to back a second vote. The Labour leader, she noted, has been in Jordan visiting refugees.

“Of course people in a democratic country can do what they like and have marches, and that’s good and they should express their opinions,” she said.

“But the important point is that we had a vote two years ago, the vote was for Brexit. So what we have said all along, absolutely consistently, is that we accept the result of that vote, but what we want is a Brexit that works the best way possible for the economy and for jobs. And what we’re not getting from this government is any certainty. That’s why you’ve got the likes of Airbus getting very upset.”