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Cunning and resourceful, the fugitive had more than an hour to melt away before police caught up with his escape truck. Officers finally pulled over the Bidfood lorry four miles from the prison. By then, all that was left to find was the makeshift strapping that Daniel Khalife used to smuggle himself out of prison clinging to the underside of the 18-ton vehicle. Yesterday police were frantically gathering and scouring hours of CCTV footage from along the winding route the truck took through south London.

The BBC's disinformation correspondent is facing claims that she lied about her experience on her CV. Marianna Spring (pictured), who has shot to prominence with her reporting on the way social media has been used to peddle false information, is facing the embarrassing allegation that she gave misleading information to try to secure work. According to a report, about five years ago Ms Spring was trying to get work as a freelancer in Moscow for US-based news site Coda Story, when the misleading claim was made.

Birmingham this week became the seventh local authority to go bust since the turn of the century, having made a series of costly expenditures, including £184m towards last year's Commonwealth Games. In recent years, town halls have begun declaring bankruptcy at an unprecedented rate, with Conservative-run Thurrock council issuing a Section 114 notice, which freezes all non-essential spending, in 2022, followed by Lib Dem-led Woking earlier this year. Labour-run Croydon and Slough also issued notices in 2022 and 2021 respectively, after Tory-led Northamptonshire's hand was forced in 2018, the first bankruptcy in nearly two decades following the demise of Labour-run Hackney in 2000. MailOnline can today reveal the remarkable spending that was allowed to be unleashed at these seven councils.

Rishi Sunak, whose wife Akshata is the daughter of an Indian billionaire, said the Asian country is 'very near and dear to me' ahead of touching down in New Delhi. But despite the warmth Mr Sunak is facing tricky discussions about trade when he meets counterpart Narendra Modi at the gathering of powerful nations. Hopes a bilateral deal would be finalised this week have been dashed by tensions over visas. Currently Indian students are allowed to stay in the UK for two years after graduating, but Mr Modi wants to enshrine that in an agreement after Home Secretary Suella Braverman suggested the rules could change. Mr Sunak will also urge India to take a firmer stance against Russia's invasion of Ukraine - and swiped at Vladimir Putin for refusing to attend and be held 'accountable' by other leaders.

REBECCA ENGLISH: Princes William and Harry are spending the first anniversary of their grandmother's death in the same country - but still couldn't be farther apart. Yesterday the brothers were less than 100 miles from each other, undertaking public engagements, but have no plans to meet before Harry heads to Germany tomorrow. Amid the poignancy of the occasion, their continuing rift is a sad reminder of the pain Harry's actions caused Queen Elizabeth in the latter years of her life. Her death is being marked with an unprecedented tribute from King Charles to the family's much-loved matriarch, who passed away at Balmoral exactly a year ago at the age of 96 after 70 impeccable years of public service.

Daily Mail writers and royal experts relive the unforgettable drama and reveal never-before-seen text messages and insights into how the news of The Queen's death unfolded one year ago today. See their moving recollections in an exclusive video on the Daily Mail's YouTube channel.

Prince Harry returned to Britain for the first time in three months today to attend a charity awards ceremony on the eve of the anniversary of the Queen's death. The Duke of Sussex is celebrating the achievements and resilience of seriously-ill children and their families who are supported by WellChild at the event in London. He told the audience at the ceremony: 'I was unable to attend the awards last year as my grandmother passed away. As you also probably know, she would have been the first person to insist that I still come to be with you all instead of going to her. And that's precisely why I know, exactly one year on, she is looking down on all of us tonight, happy we're together continuing to spotlight such an incredible community.' The awards ceremony is taking place on the eve of the first anniversary of the death of their grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II . The UK's longest-serving monarch died at Balmoral in Scotland on September 8 last year, aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.

AILSA ANDERSON: For the most famous woman in the world, there was an extraordinary - and very becoming - sense of modesty about Queen Elizabeth II. Perhaps one of the most telling examples I witnessed was during a visit to Berkshire and Buckinghamshire as part of her Golden Jubilee tour in 2002. The Queen was on a walkabout. The crowds lining the streets were ten-deep and in raptures, waving flags and bunting and cheering. She visibly brightened and turned to me afterwards to ask: 'Are all these people really here for me?'

As Netflix prepares to air the final series of Top Boy, the gritty locations that make up the fictional drugs turf in east London are enjoying a boom in visits from fans. Since its beginning in 2011, the fictional 'Summerhouse' estate in Hackney has played host to rival drug dealers Dushane Hill (played by Ashley Walters) and Gerard 'Sully' Sullivan (Kane Robinson) as they rise through the ranks. The show's first two seasons, each just four episodes long, aired in 2011 and 2013 and were met with critical acclaim under the helm of creator Ronan Bennett. Such was its impact that in 2017, Canadian rapper Drake successfully lobbied Netflix to revive the series and served as executive producer as the cast and crew returned. Now on its fifth and final run of episodes, we look back at the humdrum London spots that have lit up on the TV screens of millions of viewers worldwide.

The 43-year-old actress and former socialite is said to be a 'shell of her former self' following her husband Danny Masterson's jailing for two rapes committed in 2003. Phillips left through the back exit of the courtroom Thursday, and she was still wearing her wedding ring as she wore dark sunglasses, a blue shirt and white pants. The actress and former socialite, 43, is 'a shell of her former self' following Masterson's conviction in May, as a close friend revealed to DailyMail.com that she is now 'really trying to be strong for her daughter' that she shares with the disgraced actor. As she was approached by the media after the proceedings, she was seen clutching the arm of a one of those she walked out with in an attempt to hide her face.

When Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller was modelling in the 1920s, she likely never expected that one day she would find herself sitting in Adolf Hitler's bathtub. But, in 1945, on the same day as the Nazi dictator's suicide, that is what she did when she visited his abandoned Munich apartment (left). Now, ahead of the release of a film about her life starring Kate Winslet , some of her most famous images are revealed in a new book. At the peak of her modelling career in the late 1920s, the photojournalist was displaying her talents in American Vogue. But, after going on to train as a photographer in Paris in the early 1930s, Miller found herself in London when the Second World War began. After documenting the Blitz in the UK capital, in 1944 she covered the final year of the war in Europe for British Vogue, documenting the war crimes committed by the Nazis. Above: Miller (right) at the entrance to St Malo fortress in Brittany, France, in 1944; a piano (inset top) covered with rubble in London following a bombing raid in 1941; women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (inset bottom) operating a searchlight battery at South Mimms, Hertfordshire.

The North's official Korean Central News Agency said the vessel - named 'Hero Kim Kun Ok' - is designed to launch tactical nuclear weapons from underwater but did not specify the number of missiles it could carry and fire. South Korean officials were sceptical that the submarine would work as North Korea described and said it likely wasn't ready for operational duty. But its launch underscored the North's commitment to extending the range of its nuclear arsenal with systems that are harder to detect in advance. Based on Kim Jong Un's comments and photos by North Korean state media, it's likely the submarine is the same one Kim inspected in 2019 while it was under construction, which experts then assessed as an effort to convert an existing Romeo-class submarine. The submarine appears to have at least 10 launch tubes - four of them apparently larger than the other six - that are possibly designed for missiles.

The Taylor family, from Wigan, made the decision after father Steve saw motorhomes while camping and began fantasising about quitting his job and going travelling with his family for 10 months. Steve quit his job as a project manager and Jess quit her work as a commercial administrator to set off on the adventure of a lifetime. Meanwhile they pulled their children out of school for the year, claiming it was 'much cheaper to live' and it has helped their kids 'come out of their shells'.