University of Buckingham vice-chancellor James Tooley, 65, who denies the claims, is reported to have been temporarily stood down from his £229,000-a-year post at Britain's leading private university following allegations regarding a woman in her twenties from India. The accusations are said to have come from his 42-year-old wife Cynthia, 42, handing over copies of diaries penned by the younger woman. The Times quoted her as saying she was 18 when she first met Prof Tooley, then in his fifties, and their sexual relationship started when she was aged 21.

A grieving carer has decorated his home with thousands of sparkling festive lights in an adoring tribute to his Christmas-loving partner.  Paul Bibby, 59, from Chelmsford, Essex, with an astonishing festive display for nearly two decades.  The 59=year-old has strung up over 30,000 lights with 70,000 colourful bulbs, as well as several inflatable festive figures including a snowman and Santa Claus.

Privately educated Leigh Voysey, 45, claimed Maureen Renny left her entire estate to her former pupil, including a plush £2.25million seven-bed house, to stop the teacher's family selling it to developers. Mrs Renny died in January 2020 aged 82. Her family, suspecting foul play over the 2019 will, reported the former Barn School pupil to police and she was found guilty of fraud and forgery charges in October. Along with a criminal record, mother-of-one Voysey has now been left with a six-figure bill - half of which has to be paid upfront - after a judge decreed that an earlier will favouring the teacher's relatives was the real deal.

Storm Darragh was officially named by the Met Office today as Britain prepares for 80mph gusts and 70mm (2.8in) of rain to hit from tomorrow afternoon until Sunday. The UK will be battered by four consecutive days of heavy rain and strong winds from today with 60 flood alerts activated before Darragh sweeps in at 3pm tomorrow.The Met Office has issued one yellow warning for up to 30mm (1.2in) of rain in the North West between 2pm and 6pm today, and a second for 70mph gusts across much of England, Wales and Northern Ireland from 3pm today until 3am tomorrow. A third yellow warning for both 80mph gusts and 70mm (2.8in) of rain for the whole of England and Wales then comes into force from 3pm tomorrow to 6am on Sunday. And an amber 'danger to life' warning for damaging winds has been issued for Saturday from 3am until 9am for Northern Ireland and the western coast of Britain. Storm Darragh is the fourth storm to be named so far this season and the third in a fortnight - following on from Connall on November 27 and Bert on November 22.

Just 3.67million babies were born across the 27 nations in the Bloc in 2023. This was down 5.5 per cent on 2022, marking the biggest percentage drop since records began in 1961. Double-digit percentage falls were recorded in the worst-affected countries, with Romania experiencing a 13.9 per cent decrease. Freefalling birth rates have triggered doomsday warnings about an impending population collapase, which experts believe will cripple western economies. Immigration will be needed to avoid the devastating consequences in Britian and the US, demographers delving into the topic have warned.

This is the terrifying moment a train smacked into a pick-up truck at a level crossing after it had ignored red warning lights and blaring sirens. Shocking footage shows how driver Ivan Nicol, 51, entered the crossing, disregarding the restrictions as an Inverness-bound train came hurtling down the 70mph track. Debris can be seen flying through the air on impact as the two-carriage train continues for a while down the Scottish countryside before the video comes to an end. Miraculously no injuries were sustained following the crash which took place on January 31 last year involving the 12.36pm service train from Elgin to Inverness. Pick-up driver Nicol has now appeared in court and been found guilty of dangerous driving and fined £1040.

The incident happened at a Sainsbury's Local store in Stroud Green Road, Finsbury Park, just a stone's throw away from Arsenal's Emirates Stadium. Video footage, captured by another shopper, shows the alleged thief calmly choosing which bottles he wanted, as one member of staff attempted to stop intervene. The member of staff bravely tried to pull down the hood on his coat to capture his face on CCTV. But the man carried on regardless and brazenly walked out of the store despite being surrounded by employees. Locals reacted in shock at how bold the man was, as Calvin McDonald fumed: 'Wouldn't be happening if I was there.

The Monarch, 76, told supermarket staff he is 'so glad' the company has kept its meat counter, while others have been forced to close. Tesco announced it was axing its remaining 279 fresh food counters back in 2022, while Sainsbury's was forced to cut 3,500 jobs after shutting all of its deli, fish and meat counters from 2020. But Morrisons has retained many of its butcher's in store, where shoppers can get their hands on a selection of freshly prepared cuts of beef, lamb, pork, turkey and chicken. The King revealed his delight at the supermarket's commitment to keeping the counters open while meeting aid volunteers and supporters of the Disasters Emergency Committee at St Peter's Church in Notting Hill on Wednesday.

His story sounds like a film script: a child who ends up in an orphanage after losing his sickly mother and gangster father when barely out of infancy. He lives through the most devastating battle in a dreadful war, witnessing horrific atrocities - only to be kidnapped by the enemy, taken into the heart of its regime and forced into a foster family headed by one of its most senior figures. Yet this defiant teenage boy remained devoutly loyal to his country - even when threatened with being sent into a psychiatric hospital by a wanted war criminal or forced into the military to fight against his own side. Finally he is freed after two failed escape bids on the day before he is old enough to be drafted by the army - his brave refusal to forsake his nation aided by a crusading woman lawyer who gambled on going public with his plight.