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The five women, whose sex was previously unknown until the Duchess (left with Prince Harry in January) today revealed it, were named as the sources of a People Magazine article in 2019 (inset) in legal papers submitted by Meghan to the court last week, although their identities were not made public. The article lies at the heart of her privacy and copyright case against the Mail on Sunday because it was the first time the existence of a letter the Duchess had written to her father Thomas was revealed. The Mail On Sunday claims that revelation and the misleading impression it gave of the letter gave Thomas (right last year) the right to publish more of the handwritten note in the Mail on Sunday to defend himself after their relationship became hopelessly estranged in the wake of Meghan's marriage to Harry in May 2018. But Meghan insists that she had no idea any of her friends had spoken to People magazine until after the fact. All five of the women now face the prospect of being hauled to the High Court in London next year to testify in the explosive privacy trial. They will be asked to confirm on oath that the Duchess had no prior knowledge that they were going to speak to People.

Sam Atkinson (bottom right), 28, and his mother Jacqueline Atkinson (top right), 63, survived but June Harvey died during the tragic incident in Bow at 2pm yesterday (left and inset). Specialist firefighters are today working to recover her body from the first floor of the house after it was crushed by the huge rig. A construction worker is also in a critical condition in hospital and almost 100 people have been evacuated from their homes. The crane, which had been working on a new block of flats, smashed through the roofs of two terraced homes in Compton Close at about 2pm on Wednesday. The body of the machine was mangled over the top of the unfinished apartments, while the end of the structure lay across back gardens. Swan Housing Association, which was using the crane to build the flats, said this morning it would work with Health and Safety Executive in its investigation.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak's attempt to save British jobs has failed to take off today after Boots, John Lewis and Rolls Royce announced thousands of redundancies. Yesterday Burger King's UK CEO warned up to 50 restaurants could close. Earlier today Boots announced it was making at least 4,000 redundancies, mostly from its Nottingham support office, while 1,300 John Lewis workers' jobs are at risk after it announced it was closing eight stores. The announcements came just a day after Mr Sunak delivered a desperate £30billion package designed to keep people off the dole queue that included a £1,000 'jobs retention bonus' for business who bring workers back off furlough, and half-price meals out funded by the government.

National Obesity Forum chairman Tam Fry (pictured left) savaged the government's plan to offer cut-price meals branding it a 'green light for junk food' (pictured bottom). Chancellor Rishi Sunak (pictured right in Wagamamas) announced yesterday up to £10 a head will be cut off the bills of people eating out in August. He also revealed a 15 per cent VAT cut for the hospitality sector that could make prices even cheaper. But as names like Burger King confirmed themselves as part of the scheme obesity campaigners questioned the timing of the meal deal bonus. It came on the same day England's deputy chief medical officer urged people to lose weight ahead of a potential second coronavirus wave in the winter.

The Government spent an extra £48.5 billion on public services over the coronavirus pandemic, including an astonishing £10 billion on the failed test and trace programme. Another £31.9 billion went to the NHS, including £15 billion on personal protective equipment (PPE). The huge sum - which was spent on gloves, aprons and masks for hospitals and care homes in just over three months - is more than the annual budget of the Home Office. It reflects not only the amount of protective equipment that was required at the last minute, but also the exorbitant cost charged by some suppliers. The Government was criticised at the start of the coronavirus pandemic when it emerged that despite warnings, it had failed to stock up on PPE. Now, campaigners have also blasted the 'enormous waste' of public money after PPE and the bungled testing and contact tracing programmes accounted for almost four-fifths of extra health spending.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Johnny Depp (top centre) drew graffiti in his own blood (right) after severing his finger (top left) while allegedly launching a savage attack on Amber Heard (top centre) in which she 'feared for her life' while he filmed Pirates of the Caribbean in 2015. Depp is on the stand at the High Court for a third day today and was questioned about the incident after he previously claimed the injury was sustained when Heard threw a vodka bottle at him during the fight in Australia. The 34-year-old actress alleges in her statement that she was subjected to 'a three-day ordeal of physical assault which left her with injuries including a broken lip, swollen nose, and cuts all over her body.' In a witness statement submitted by Heard, she says: 'The Claimant [Depp] shoved Ms Heard into a ping pong table, threw bottles through the window panels ofa glass door, then grabbed Ms Heard and tore offher nightgown. The Claimant grabbed Ms Heard by her hair and choked her against the refrigerator in the kitchen.' It says that Depp then 'grabbed Ms Heard by the neck and collarbone, slammed her against the countertop, and strangled her. Ms Heard's arms and feet were slashed by the broken glass on the kitchen countertop and floor. She was scared for her life and told the Claimant, 'You are hurting and cutting me''.' Depp 'vehemently' denied the allegation and branded it 'pedestrian fiction' and 'fabricated and vicious'. The court was also shown images of graffiti drawn by Depp on a bathroom mirror after the fight with Heard. He admitted that some of it was done with his blood and some with paint. He is being cross-examined on the third day of his libel trial as he sues The Sun after it described him as a 'wife beater' following claims by his ex-wife Heard that he repeatedly attacked her.

Charlotte Carter-Dunn, 24, from Gloucestershire, will replace Captain Birdseye's iconic branding, putting a woman on the frozen food label for the first since in its 53-year history. The foster mother wowed judges to be crowned the new captain by showing off her ideas for frozen food. She said: 'I can't believe I will be replacing the iconic Captain Birds Eye on packs - it's all very surreal.' Most recently the captain has been played by Italian actor Riccardo Acerbi (right).

British tourists face being the pariahs of Europe after a survey of 1,000 people suggested families in Spain, Italy, Germany and France wanted them to stay away. Polling company YouGov questioned members of the public across popular EU holiday destinations, many of whom expressed disquiet about a large number of Britons arriving to their shores(pictured bottom-right). Only people from the United States or China were more unwelcome. From today, English residents can visit 59 countries and return without having to go into quarantine upon their return (pictured top-right, passengers at Heathrow last month). However, despite the loosening of coronavirus restrictions in Britain, many Europeans are reluctant to fully open their borders (pictured main, a packed St. Sebastian beach in Barcelona). The findings come as Stormont ministers are to consider a report warning that travellers from the rest of the UK present the greatest risk of bringing Covid-19 into Northern Ireland.

The Office for National Statistics published its lowest estimates so far for the number of coronavirus cases circulating in the general population in England, with just 14,000 people infected. This is just 0.03 per cent of the population of the whole country, or one in every 3,900 people - down from 0.04 per cent last week and 0.09 per cent a week before. Separate data, from King's College London, suggests the outbreak in England has stopped shrinking - but its estimate is lower than the ONS's at around 1,200 new cases per day. Professor Tim Spector, a King's College epidemiologist who set up the app project, said: 'It is disappointing to see that the number of daily new cases are no longer falling like they have been in previous weeks.'

A couple who used their life savings to transform wasteland into a garden have been ordered to return it to its original condition. Adam and Barbara Keatinge spent £22,000 on the land next to their house and set about transforming it into a private area for their family to enjoy. The couple, who have lived in the detached property in Livingston, West Lothian, for eight years, erected a fence and landscaped the garden. They paid £22,000 for the plot in February last year believing they would not need planning permission for any work, but were left stunned when the local council said otherwise.

A university student has told how she discovered a perverted housemate had been secretly filming her in the bathroom after finding his iPhone hidden inside a metal box. Aubrey, which is not her real name, was left horrified when she found the Peeping Tom had been covertly recording her and others in the toilet at the property shared by 15 students. The University of Lincoln undergraduate had become suspicious after noticing the container placed in the bathroom of their student digs had a tiny hole in the corner, which reflected back when a bright light was shone into it.

Ed Sheeran has slowly been accumulating the land around his home in Suffolk, turning it into what has become known as 'Sheeranville'. And reports from the area have claimed the pop star, 29, wants to secure three homes on the outskirts of his £3.7 million estate because their gardens encroach on his land. The crooner has been building and adding onto his estate for the last five years, with the land now featuring a pub, swimming pool and hot tub, orchard, walled kitchen garden, greenhouses, an underground cinema, a gym, a recording studio, a wildlife pond and an area for goats, sheep and chickens.

PC Timothy Brehmer, 41, pictured left, today denied murdering Claire Parry, pictured right, who he was said to have had a ten year affair with, in Dorset in May, but admitted manslaughter. A provisional trial date was set for October 12 with a further case management hearing to be held on October 6. The trial is expected to last seven days. The horrific incident occurred in a car park outside the Horns Inn in West Parley. A post mortem examination showed Mrs Parry died from a brain injury caused by compression of the neck.

The number of archaeological objects officially unearthed in Britain has reached the 1.5million mark - with the discovery of a seal belonging to a 13th century pope (pictured top right). The medieval find, which is more than 750 years old, was a seal of Pope Innocent IV and may have links to an English monarch. Born Sinibaldo Fieschi, Pope Innocent IV, whose papacy began in 1243, used the lead coin-like object to confer political and religious favours. Experts believe the seal, which was discovered by a metal detectorist in Shropshire, may have ended up there because the Pope was trying to obtain Henry III's support in his claim for Sicily. The object is the 1.5 millionth to be discovered in the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), which has included finds such as the Vale of York hoard (pictured left) and the Staffordshire hoard (pictured right). The scheme was created in 1997 so archaeological objects found by the public can be recorded to help advance knowledge of the past.

Rose Jeans (left and right and inset with her father Andrew Jeans), from Cefn Hengoed, Swansea, Wales, was diagnosed with an Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumour just a few weeks before she passed away on February 13. The baby girl, who has been described by her parents as a 'little gift', was just six months old when doctors diagnosed her with a dairy intolerance. However she was later admitted to hospital where doctors found several masses on her brain. Following several MRI's, CT scans and three brain surgeries, Rose was transferred to Ty Hafan hospice and died just two days after her first birthday, on February 13 in her mother's arms.

Police fired tear gas at protestors on the second day of protests in Belgrade after Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic today backtracked on plans to reinstate a coronavirus lockdown in the capital this weekend. Thousands of protesters fought running battles with police and tried to storm the National Assembly Building today and yesterday.

Phillip Blanks, 28, top right, ran to the home in Phoenix on July 3 barefoot to try and help. He was  able to save Jameson Long from the flames on the third floor balcony, left. 'There wasn't much thinking. I just reacted. I just did it', he said Wednesday. Blanks, who now works in the security industry, is a former wide receiver and said the boy was 'twirling in the air like a propeller' as he fell. 'I know how to catch. I've learned how to catch a football', he added. The boy's 30-year-old mother Rachel Long died in the blaze; Blanks said: 'She's the real hero of the story because she made the ultimate sacrifice to save her children'. Rachel is pictured with son Jameson, daughter Roxxi and husband Corey bottom right.

Locals and neighbors who have spoken to the media in the wake of Ghislaine Maxwell's arrest have described Bradford, New Hampshire as 'the middle of nowhere' and as a place where everyone keeps to themselves and stays out of 'other people's business.' The remote neighborhood, particularly East Washington Road (top right) where Maxwell's home is located behind a metal gate, has little cellphone reception and is a 25-minute drive from the nearest supermarket (bottom right). Neighbor Lisa Morris, who lives across the street from Maxwell's $1million property (center) said she hadn't seen anyone at the house other than a gray-haired 'skinny' man whose car got stuck on the snow-covered driveway late last year.

Sisters Ervina and Prefina (pictured with their mother Ermine Nzotto before surgery, left, and after surgery, right) who were born with their heads attached and sharing critical blood vessels around their brains have successfully been separated by doctors at the Bambino Gesu (Baby Jesus) Paediatric Hospital in Rome, Italy. The twins, who were born in 2018 in Mbaiki, Central African Republic, were finally separated following their third and final surgery which took 18 hours and involved 30 doctors and nurses, on June 5. Following the procedure Ms Nzotto said she never went to school but hopes her daughters would study to become doctors.