25 Şubat 2013 Pazartesi

As Cara Delevingne hits the Burberry runway in her umpteenth show for London Fashion Week, FEMAIL tracks the Queen of the Catwalk's best LFW moments

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Looking very much the ethereal English rose, Cara Delevingne encapsulated all that is Burberry while walking for the British fashion house today.
You'd have never guessed she'd been walking endless shows and out partying afterwards every day during this London Fashion Week as she walked on, fresher than a daisy, in a cheeky rubber pencil skirt and heart top.
She also modelled a black belted trench and black tube dress, with metal belting accents.
  Metallic accessoriesMetallic accessoriesBurberry goes risquéBurberry goes risquéTube dress is toughenedTube dress is toughened   Cara in the Burberry Beauty Boothnot quite so glamorous Cara showing us all the expressions she can do in the Burberry Beauty Booth and not quite so glamorous arriving at the showFeaturing in 11 New York Fashion Week shows Cara's now approaching her seventh show in London, and there's still a whole day left.
Cara appeared at Matthew Williamson’s show last night at the Royal Opera House in three different outfits and opened for Topshop Unique where she modeled two looks.
She also closed for Mulberry in a ladylike ensemble of long leather opera gloves and fur.
Saturday saw her walking for Sibling and Issa - then partying with Rihanna and fellow model Jourdan Dunn at trendy London night spot, The Box.

 
With influential fashion website Who What Wear claiming she ‘can do no wrong’, and Sam Cameron’s sister Emily Sheffield, the deputy editor of Vogue, declaring Cara looked like ‘the super [model] she is’, it was certainly a big weekend for the young British model of the moment.
As Femail's Nicole Mowbray said, not since Kate Moss has the fashion world been so captivated by a single model.
We've not seen everything this elfin party girl has to offer yet.
cara1cara2cara2 Issa's girl: Model of the moment Cara owned the catwalk despite being shrouded in voluminous Navajo cape and feathered, wide-brimmed hat
 Cara walks for Sister By SiblingCara walks for Sister By SiblingShe walked for Jason WuShe walked for Jason WuCara for Peter PilottoCara for Peter Pilotto  On the catwalk during the Peter Pilotto Autumn/Winter 2013 London Fashion Week showOn the catwalk during the Peter Pilotto Autumn/Winter 2013 London Fashion Week show On the catwalk during the Peter Pilotto Autumn/Winter 2013 London Fashion Week show
 Cara dazzles for Topshop UniqueCara dazzles for Topshop UniqueRocking knife pleats at Matthew WilliamsonRocking knife pleats at Matthew WilliamsonMetallic magic at Williamson againMetallic magic at Williamson again 
 Cara shows off her Peter Pilotto beauty lookRocking fetish at Topshop Unique Cara shows off her Peter Pilotto beauty look, left, and right, rocking fetish at Topshop Unique
   Cutie: Cara Delevingne walks the Runway at the Sister by SiblingCutie: Cara Delevingne walks the Runway at the Sister by Sibling show Cara closed the show for Mulberry Rocking stripes and a sporty look at Matthew Williamson Cara closed the show for Mulberry, left, and right, rocking stripes and a sporty look at Matthew Williamson

Revealed: The jobless mother of 11 getting a six-bed home on the council owns a HORSE (and you're paying £200 a month for its paddock fees, food and vets' bills)

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axpayers have already paid for the upkeep of her 11 children and for a purpose-built six-bedroom home to move them all into.
And yesterday it emerged the state is also providing jobless Heather Frost with enough money and time to keep her own horse – something that many families can only dream of.
Miss Frost, 37, apparently has the means to keep a grey mare called Annie, which she bought last year.
The paddock fees, food and vet bills are estimated to total around £200 per month.
'Scandalous': Mother-of-11 Heather Frost is having a six-bedroom 'mansion' built for her by the council because she can't cope in her current home Horse Annie Benefits: Heather Frost, left, does not work but makes enough money to keep a horse named Annie, rightAnnie lives in a field around a mile from the current Frost family home in Churchdown, Gloucestershire.
A worker at the paddock claimed Miss Frost had recently arranged to buy two more horses but the deal fell through at the last minute.
 
She is understood to pay £65 a month in paddock fees and had negotiated a deal last month where she could stable a total of three horses for £175.
The worker said Miss Frost bought Annie ‘about eight months ago’, adding: ‘Horses are expensive. I know, I’ve had them all my life.
'Nightmare': The jobless 36-year-old currently lives in two houses (pictured) in Churchdown, near Gloucester which were knocked through five years ago to accommodate her massive brood'Nightmare': The jobless 36-year-old currently lives in two houses (pictured) in Churchdown, near Gloucester which were knocked through five years ago to accommodate her massive brood Rubbish strewn: The back of the properties in Churchdown, Gloucester, where Heather Frost is living with 11 children. She is being given a 6 bedroom custom made council house in nearby Tewkesbury to accommodate her large broodRubbish strewn: The back of the properties in Churchdown, Gloucester, where Heather Frost is living with 11 children. She is being given a 6 bedroom custom made council house in nearby Tewkesbury to accommodate her large brood‘Annie has breathing difficulties, so the vet has to come out quite often. They must spend at least £200 a month on her.
'They were going to buy two more horses recently, but that deal fell through. It’s sickening to think that she can afford what most people would consider a luxury at the expense of the British taxpayer.’
Miss Frost refused to discuss the horse yesterday – but her 16-year-old daughter Angel took to a local website to defend her mother after it was revealed the family were being handed a six-bedroom, three-bathroom newly built home worth £400,000.
She wrote: ‘My mum has nothing to be ashamed about.’
At the family’s current home which comprises two terraced houses with a connecting door, her mother said: ‘I will not talk about my horse or my kids.’
Tewkesbury Borough Council bosses have sold a plot of land in Northway Lane, Tewkesbury, to Severn Vale Housing for around £210,000. In return, the housing provider is building Heather's six-bed super-house along with 12 other homesDeal: Tewkesbury Borough Council bosses have sold a plot of land in Northway Lane, Tewkesbury, for around £210,000. In return, the housing provider is building the six-bed super-house along with 12 other homesGrand designs: The plans for the family's plush new eco-home which the council has agreed to buildGrand designs: The plans for the family's plush new eco-home which the council has agreed to buildShe lives with her children  Sophie, 22, Toby, 19, Daisy, 18, Angel, 16, Jay, 14, Chloe, 13, Paige, 12, Emily, ten, Beth, nine, Ruby, seven and Tilly, two.
But her local council has arranged for a 1,850sq ft property to be built on a new housing development in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, which is due for completion in June. The eco-home features the latest in energy-saving design.
Frost also lives with partner Jake, who the neighbours say works as a lorry driver, Sophie’s two-year-old daughter Ashley, and Toby’s son Tyler.
The family’s neighbours were yesterday outraged by the revelation that Miss Frost has enough cash to keep a horse.
One said: ‘It’s disgusting. Owning a horse should be a luxury reserved for people who work and can pay for it themselves.
‘I don’t pay my taxes so some jobless baby machine can have a horse.’
A commentator using the name ‘Charlie76’ wrote on a Gloucestershire news website: ‘What an absolute joke! How can she afford horses? I can barely afford my dog and I work and have kids. Bloody disgraceful!’
The six-bedroom house in Tewkesbury half way through construction for the large familyThe six-bedroom house in Tewkesbury half way through construction for the large familyAnd a spokesman for the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: ‘Benefits are there to provide a safety net when people fall on tough times, not fund an enormous house and a pony.
‘Many families are struggling even to pay their daily bills and afford a decent home for their own family, so they will find it staggering if they are paying to stable someone else’s horse.
‘Welfare should not pay for claimants to enjoy a lifestyle most hard-pressed taxpayers cannot afford themselves.’
Miss Frost’s daughter Angel defended her mother on a local news website.
Spacious: The house comes with six bedrooms, two living rooms, a kitchen/ diner and two bathroomsSpacious: The house comes with six bedrooms, two living rooms, a kitchen/ diner and two bathrooms
Money-saver: The new house will boast an energy efficient design to help keep Heather's energy bills downMoney-saver: The new house will boast an energy efficient design to help keep Heather's energy bills down
Controversial: Councillor Derek Davies said it was a 'great example' of how the council works with housing providers to ensure affordable housing is provided for all our residents' housing needsControversial: Councillor Derek Davies said it was a 'great example' of how the council works with housing providers to ensure affordable housing is provided for all our residents' housing needsUsing the name ‘AngelFrost’, she wrote: ‘Heather is my mum, she doesn’t work, but my father did, and he left, so why are you blaming my mother?
‘How could she possibly work with 11 children, you people have no right judging us. My mum has nothing to be ashamed about, the house we are mooving (sic) to in is smaller then the one we live in now, so its far from a mansion.
‘All us kids are as happy as could be, full of joy and full  of life, and as for thinking we are all going to be following in her foot steps (sic) you can think again.’
She said she was proud of her mother and blamed her absent father for failing to support the family.
'Womb like a clown car': Frost (pictured with one of her sons) first fell pregnant at just 14, to a 23-year-old boyfriend who ended up in prison, and has gone on to have ten more children'Womb like a clown car': Frost (pictured with one of her sons) first fell pregnant at just 14, to a 23-year-old boyfriend who ended up in prison, and has gone on to have ten more children What a state: Frost's current home is blighted by a bashed-up minibus, two battered cars and a skipWhat a state: Frost's current home is blighted by a bashed-up minibus, two battered cars and a skip

Cheaper BA flights if you only have hand luggage as airline takes on budget rivals

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British Airways is to follow budget airline rivals by charging less if passengers travel with just hand luggage. 
The airline said the cheaper fares – which will initially be offered on flights from Gatwick Airport to five European destinations – will give passengers ‘more choice’.
Holidaymakers who travel with luggage they wish to check in will not pay more to compensate for the lower ‘hand baggage only’ fares, the airline said.
British Airways will offer customers 'more choice' when they travel by charging less for hand luggageBritish Airways will offer customers 'more choice' when they travel by charging less for hand luggageIt is a move likely to be viewed as an attempt by BA to compete with low-cost airlines such as Ryanair and Easyjet that charge more for passengers to check in baggage, effctively charging less for those who don’t.
Peter Simpson, director of Gatwick for British Airways, said: ‘The introduction of our hand baggage only fare is all about giving our customers more freedom to choose the kind of flying they want.
 
‘Many British Airways customers on Gatwick short-haul breaks choose not to check in a bag as they’re already taking advantage of our generous two-bag hand luggage policy. 
BA plan on taking on their budget rivals, such as Easyjet, that encourage only taking hand luggageBA plan on taking on their budget rivals, such as Easyjet, that encourage only taking hand luggage‘Those who still want to check in a bag will simply pay the same price they do now.’
The flag-carrier said it will initially offer a discount for those travelling with just hand luggage from Gatwick to five short-haul destinations including Amsterdam, Dubrovnik, Jersey, Tunis and Turin in Europe.
The size of discounts will vary depending on the route but will range from £9 to £15.
Passengers can start benefitting from the lower fares from Tuesday (February 26), with starting prices ranging from £39 one-way to Amsterdam to £69 one-way to Turin.
Bob Atkinson, a travel expert at Travelsupermarket.com, said it was a great opportunity for passengers to have the full ‘BA offering’ of food and reward points while being handed a ‘generous hand luggage allowance’. 
He said: ‘This is an interesting move for BA which is clearly looking at other ways to position its offering to price-sensitive customers.
‘However passengers who take up the offer to travel without checked luggage will still benefit from a generous hand luggage allowance plus free on board food and drink.’
The move comes after Dutch airline KLM decided to begin charging customers who check in luggage on short-haul flights.


Is there a black sheep in your family's past? Now you can find out as old crime records are put online

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One strangled babies, another drowned his wives in the bath, and then there was a nurse who poisoned seven of her patients.
They were hanged a century ago – and now their criminal records are among millions put online to help Britons who might want to find the ‘black sheep’ in their family history.
For the first time, a national archive of the records will be publicly available.
criminal recordsIt follows the separate discovery of the earliest mugshots, taken 150 years ago and revealed in the Daily Mail last week.
The project allows people to search for villains lurking in their family tree.
 
More than 2.5million records from 1770 to 1934 have been put online, chronicling the fates of fraudsters, counterfeiters, thieves, murderers and drunkards.
Examples include baby killer Amelia Dyer, a Victorian who strangled up to 400 adopted infants with dress tape in the 1880s.
Catherine Wilson, a Lincolnshire nurse, gave elderly patients poison after asking them to leave her money in their wills in the 1860s.
PughPughA bigamist and serial killer named George Joseph Smith – dubbed the ‘brides in the bath’ killer – is among the first examples of a crime solved by forensic pathology, in 1915.
The collection covers England and Wales, and is published by family history website findmypast.co.uk and The National Archives. Debra Chatfield, a historian at findmypast.co.uk, said: ‘These records provide an amazing opportunity to trace any villains and  victims in your own family. We have  painstakingly published registers containing mugshots of habitual drunks with incredible descriptions of appearance, demeanour and identifying marks.
‘The newspaper articles available provide unparalleled detail and show how crimes were reported when they were committed.’
The collection contains scanned images of court documents and letters of appeal written by friends and relatives begging for clemency, usually in vain.
Justice was brutal and often led to the hangman’s noose.
There are also Edwardian ASBOs,  banning ne’er-do-wells from pubs – including one served on a 78-year-old ‘habitually drunken’ woman.
People can search for ancestors whose crimes caused them to be sent to Australia or housed on prison ships known as ‘hulks’.
Paul Carter, a records specialist at The National Archives, said the files ‘record the intimate details of hundreds of thousands of people’.
To find villains in your family, type your surname into the ‘crime  and punishment’ section of the  findmypast.co.uk website.
All criminal records in that name from 1770 to 1934 will be listed, along with National Archives data.
Crimes are catalogued by name, age, occupation, court date, area, victim’s name and sentence.
A further click of the mouse takes you to scanned images of the original handwritten records.


Told you next time you leave, house goes up with me. Boom': Chilling message sent by man jailed for 10 years for killing boy, 2, in huge gas blast

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A man who blew up his house when his girlfriend left him, killing his neighbours’ two-year-old boy, was jailed for ten years yesterday.
Unemployed joiner Andrew Partington, 28, sawed through gas pipes then sent his girlfriend a text message warning ‘gas pipe cut, already filled up, boom’.
The following morning, Partington lit acigarette, igniting the gas and causing a huge explosion. Toddler JamieHeaton, who had been watching his favourite television programme, PeppaPig, was killed next door.
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Jamie Heaton, two, who died in an explosion in Oldham when his house went up in a massive gas blastJamie Heaton, two, who died in an explosion in Oldham when his house went up in a massive gas blast Andrew Partington was jailed for 10 years for death of Jamie Heaton Andrew Partington was jailed for 10 years for death of Jamie Heaton Andrew Partington (right) was jailed for 10 years over the death of toddler Jamie Heaton (left) His distraught mother Michelle escaped injury only because she was outside hanging up washing.
A passing policeman crawled through the rubble to reach Jamie, but he had already been crushed to death.
 
Partington was pulled from the wreckage of his house in Shaw, near Oldham, with 40 per cent burns and abroken back. He admitted manslaughter.
Jailing him at Manchester Crown Court,Mr Justice Hamblen said his reckless actions had in effect produced ‘a bomb that you created and detonated’, killing Jamie and wrecking the lives of his parents.
Afterwards Mrs Heaton and her car salesman husband Kenny, 37, said: ‘No sentence imposed would ever bring Jamie back nor would it ever give us satisfaction.’
Drunken texts then tragedy The court heard Andrew Partington (left) and Tanya Williams had a stormy relationshipThe court heard Andrew Partington (left) and Tanya Williams had a stormy relationship Aerial picture of the scene of the gas explosion which flattened three houses in the Shaw area of Oldham, Greater ManchesterAerial picture of the scene of the gas explosion which flattened three houses in the Shaw area of Oldham, Greater Manchester Emergency workers at the scene of the gas blast in the Shaw area of Oldham, Greater ManchesterEmergency workers at the scene of the gas blast in the Shaw area of Oldham, Greater Manchester Jamie, who had been diagnosed with autism, should have been at nursery on the day of the blast last June but was poorly. Mrs Heaton, 32, stayed home from her job at Boots to look after him.
Hard-drinking Partington and his girlfriend, Tanya Williams, had moved in four months before the blast.
He regularly beat her and shortly before the explosion had been given a conditional discharge for common assault. Miss Williams, 28, has five children, the two youngest by Partington, who has a daughter from a previous relationship.
On June 25, the court heard, Partington had been drinking heavily and rowed with Miss Williams, calling her ‘fat’ and ‘ugly’.
She left, taking the children. Partington bombarded her with angry messages from his BlackBerry phone.
One read: ‘Told you next time you leave me, house goes up with me. You left your kids with no Dad, no home, goodbye, boom, gas pipe cut, already filled up, boom.’ He also called her a ‘bitch’ and said he loved his two sons by her.
Partington, who had cut the gas pipes in two places, then apparently fell into a drunken stupor.
The cut gas pipe in the house of Andrew Partington that caused the blastThe cut gas pipe in the house of Andrew Partington that caused the blast Andrew Partington was sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter and destruction of propertyAndrew Partington was sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter and destruction of property
Tragic: Michelle Heaton, the mother of Jamie Heaton, two, with a picture of her sonTragic: Michelle Heaton, the mother of Jamie Heaton, two, with a picture of her son
Jamie had been watching television in the lounge with his mother doing housework and his father out at workJamie had been watching television in the lounge with his mother doing housework and his father out at workThe following morning, the defence claimed, he changed his mind, turned off the gas and opened windows.
National Grid was alerted to the leak after a neighbour reporting a smell of gas at 10.42am. Engineers were minutes from the scene when at about 11.15am Partington lit a cigarette,causing the catastrophic explosion that police said left the street ‘like a war zone’. It was ‘sheer luck’ that no one else was killed or seriously injured.
The external wall of Partington’s end-of-terrace home was torn from its foundations, slamming into the Heatons’ house, from which it was separated by an alley, and causing theroof to cave in.
Mrs Heaton told how her first thought was that her sonwould be terrified by the deafening blast.
‘I knew Jamie would be frightened, but I couldn’t get back in the back door,’ she said.
The Heatons – who also have a son, Jack, nine, and daughter Jodie, five – said of Jamie: ‘He was a beautiful, healthy and loving little boy who was full of life. Above allhe was great fun.
Kenny and Michelle Heaton arrive at Manchester Crown Court for the trial of gas fitter Andrew Partington. The couple's son Jamie died in a gas explosion at their home in Oldham last yearKenny and Michelle Heaton arrive at Manchester Crown Court for the trial of gas fitter Andrew Partington. The couple's son Jamie died in a gas explosion at their home in Oldham last year‘The fact that [the explosion] was deliberate and totally avoidable has made the grieving ever harder to manage.’
They have set up a charity, Jamie’s Something Special, in his memory to raise funds for children’s play equipment.
Several other families lost homes and possessions in the blast, which damaged seven houses beyond repair and left an estimated bill of £1.2million.
A fund to support victims of the blast has so far paid out £207,000 to 91 households.
Partington admitted eight charges of destroying houses and received concurrent seven-year sentences for each.

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Al Pacino's costume from The Recruit on display...

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In 2003's The Recruit a brilliant young CIA trainee (Colin Farrell) is asked by his mentor (Al Pacino) to  help find a mole inside the agency.
Outfit worn by Al Pacino as Walter Burke in The RecruitRecruit Al Pacino movie costumeRecruit Al Pacino movie costumeRecruit Al Pacino movie costumeRecruit Al Pacino movie costumeBeatrix Aruna Pasztor was Costume Designer on the action thriller and this outfit worn by Al Pacino was photographed on display at the London Film Museum on May 15, 2012.
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