What happened to the bed-hopping hedonism of past generations? Our parents fell in and out of love with ease, yet we twentysomethings seem incapable of having any sort of normal relationship.

This year, the celebrities seemed determined to outdo one another in terms of who could wear the least, as stars stripped down to some of their raciest looks to date.

The Five Stones in Primrose Valley Holiday Park, Filey, Yorkshire, welcomed its first customers this weekend as pubgoers went to get Spoons on their staycations.

Britain’s chaotic asylum system is struggling with a waiting list of 130,000 people from nations across the globe. The Government admitted it had granted asylum to 62,000 people last year.

Society darling Hum Fleming, and great niece of James Bond creator Ian Fleming, grabbed the attention of many this week as she was spotted wining and dining with the Lord in a Mayfair haunt.

Australia has sweltered through it’s third-hottest summer ever recorded, cracking a grim climate record above the country’s 30 year average.

Repeated opportunities were missed to stop Couzens leaving him able to stay a cop despite being a serial sex offender with a reputation for disturbing behaviour that led to his nickname ‘the Rapist’.

The supermodel, 53, and the Saudi Arabian multimillionaire, 37, were most recently seen together at the BAFTAs earlier this month.