Experts have warned that slavery is more profitable than ever with traders making 30 times more than in the 18th and 19th century.

Human rights researcher Siddharth Kara calculated that nowadays each victim makes an average of £3,030 a year for those who exploit them - with some making more than 10 times that figure.

Meanwhile sex trafficking makes up half of the profits of the illegal industry despite those victims only accounting for 5% of modern slaves. It can bring in profits of more than £27,000 per person.

Mr Kara told The guardian human life has become more expendable than ever.

'Slaves can be acquired, exploited and discarded in relatively short periods and still provide immense profits for their exploiters.

He added: 'Unless slavery is perceived as a high-cost and high-risk form of labour exploitation, this reality will not change.'

Kara's calculations were based on data from 51 countries recorded over a 15-year period as well as thousands of victims of slavery.

According to experts the scale of slavery has dramatically increased - with approximately 21 million people being exploited worldwide compared to the 13 million people who were sold as slaves between the 15th and 19th century. They were identified by police, charities and welfare experts as potential victims of so-called modern slavery, which includes human trafficking and forced labour.

But the figure could merely be the 'tip of the iceberg', with many more unreported cases, the study by the Children's Commissioner for England warns.

Anne Longfield has urged politicians to stamp out the 'horrendous exploitation' of youngsters by adults.

She said slavery was just one of several serious issues that forced millions of children across the country to live 'vulnerable or high-risk lives'.

Her report cites the latest figures from the Government's national referral mechanism (NRM), the official framework for identifying and helping victims of slavery and trafficking. Some 1,204 children aged up to 17 were referred to the NRM last year for suspected domestic servitude, labour or sexual exploitation in England – an increase of a third, from 901 in 2015.

British nationals were the biggest group at 247, with 209 of them feared to have been caught up in sexual exploitation.

They were followed by 223 Albanian youngsters, of whom 150 were referred for potential labour exploitation. The third highest source of referrals were 200 Vietnamese children, with 101 of them feared trapped in forced labour.

Nigerian children also made up 40 of the NRM referrals in 2016, with 18 of these for suspected domestic servitude.

However, the report says there are many 'invisible children' who may be 'particularly vulnerable' due to gaps in identification.

These youngsters may 'have been victims of modern slavery but not reported to the national referral mechanism'.

A 16-year-old boy was today found guilty of killing a Polish man with a single 'Superman punch' after mocking his English in an attack outside a takeaway. 

The defendant, who was 15 at the time of the attack, had denied the manslaughter of Arkadiusz Jozwik, but was found guilty by a jury at Chelmsford Crown Court.

Mr Jozwik, 40, had been drinking vodka with two friends and had just bought a pizza when he was set upon outside a row of takeaway shops in Harlow, Essex, shortly after 11.30pm on August 27, 2016.

He died two days later in hospital from head injuries.

Rosina Cottage QC, prosecuting, earlier told the week-long trial that the defendant moved behind Mr Jozwik, jumped up from the ground and used the 'whole force of his body' to hit Mr Jozwik with a 'Superman punch'.

The defendant, who was in The Stow shopping precinct after going to a kebab shop, said he hit Mr Jozwik, who was known to his friends as Arek, 'to defend my friend. Ms Cottage said laughter could be heard during the incident, and the defendant agreed with her description that this was 'around the time he (Mr Jozwik) was saying 'fight me' and weaving around'. 

He also agreed with Ms Cottage's description that this was because Mr Jozwik 'looked such an idiot'.

Ms Cottage said: 'If you didn't like it, you could have scarpered, couldn't you?'  The defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, replied: 'Yeah.'  

The court also heard there was some laughter 'about their English' (of the Polish men) and the defendant moved behind Mr Jozwik before striking him. 

The defendant will be sentenced on September 8 at Chelmsford Crown Court.

A terrorist who infiltrated the British military has been jailed for 18 years for supplying bombs to dissident Irish republicans. 

Former Royal Marine Kiaran Maxwell stashed anti-personnel mines, mortars, ammunition and 14 pipe bombs - four of which were later used - in 43 purpose-built woodland hides at eight locations in Northern Ireland and England.

Bomb-making materials were found in barrels and buckets buried in the ground as well as an adapted Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) pass card, a PSNI uniform and a police stab-proof vest.

Maxwell was driven by 'republican sympathies and a hostility to the UK' and the lasting effects of a sectarian attack that left him with a fractured skull when he was 16, the court heard.

Questions have now been raised as to how someone with a background of Republican sympathies passed vetting for the Marines - as police admit it is likely that more of his bombs remain in the hands of senior Continuity IRA members.   

The 31-year-old, who is originally from Larne in Co Antrim and was with 40 Commando based at Norton Manor Camp in Taunton, Somerset, at the time of the offences, pleaded guilty to preparation of terrorist acts between January 2011 and August last year, possessing images of bank cards for fraud and possessing cannabis with intent to supply.

Sentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: 'I'm sure that you were and will remain motivated by dissident republican sympathies and a hostility to the UK. Father-of-one Maxwell had researched 300 potential police, government and military targets before his plot was foiled when members of the public stumbled across his weapons hides by chance, the court heard. His defence barrister had previously told the court Maxwell 'feared violence' on a daily basis as he grew up as a Catholic in his hometown of Larne.

In 2002, he was 'beaten by golf clubs, iron bars and hammers' and 'left for dead in a field' by loyalists.

A doctor's report said Maxwell had suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the immediate aftermath, which persisted into his 20s.

However a prosecutor said there was 'no direct evidence' Maxwell's offending was motivated by the beating.

Police still haven't found all the lethal devices constructed by Maxwell during his years of treachery in the ranks of the Royal Marines.

The Republican terrorist spy amassed an astonishing arsenal as he seemingly plundered military stores and ranges at will. 

Only one other person has been arrested over the conspiracy and there are fears those who encouraged the bombmaker may never be brought to justice. 

Senior male doctors get four times as many bonuses as their female counterparts, a report has revealed.

The latest figures show that more than 52 per cent of 43,856 NHS hospital consultants in England received some kind of merit-based award ranging between £17,000 and £77,000.

However, out of those receiving them for the first time in 2015 just 65 were women while 252 were men. Yet the research by the Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Award also found that women were at no disadvantage when it came to actually receiving the bonuses they applied for - both male and female consultants had a 26 per cent success rate.

Clare Marx, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, believes the report shows that women are receiving less bonuses because they are less inclined to ask for them.

She told The daily telegraph : 'We find that women are unlikely to put themselves forward unless they feel they can tick all the boxes – whereas by and large men are more likely to just give it a whirl. 

'It's the same for new jobs, it's the same for job promotions. But the other issue that concerns us is that they are less likely to be encouraged. 

'A lot of the conversations about future careers happen in the men's changing rooms, women just aren't there when these chats are going on. Of the 96 staff who were paid more than £150,000 by the organisation last year, just 34 were women.

Sir Philip Hampton, who is currently co-chairing a review aimed at increasing the women in senior roles in finance, blamed the female presenters themselves for the pay gap claiming that they 'let it happen'.

The City grandee also said that in his experience he had 'never, ever had a woman ask for a pay rise'.

He told the London evening standard Thursday: 'How has this situation arisen at the BBC that these intelligent, high-powered, sometimes formidable women have sat in this situation?

'They are all looking at each other now saying: "how did we let this happen?" I suspect they let it happen because they weren't doing much about it.' 

An off-duty police officer and paramedic were sprayed in the face with an unknown corrosive substance after stopping to help at the scene of a major car fire.

The pair joined other 'Good Samaritans' in lending a hand after a stolen car was involved in a serious collision with a lorry at around 7pm on Friday night.

The vehicle crashed into the a metal barrier at the side of the M11 near Chigwell and Loughton in Essex, before bursting into flames.

Just minutes before collision, police had been alerted to the blue VW Golf being stolen from outside a nearby shop.

The victim in the car theft, a man in his 20s, reported that one of the men held a knife in his hand. Less than 10 minutes later, the stolen car collided with the lorry on the M11, southbound, between junctions 5 and 4.

The car caught fire and after seeing the incident, passing drivers stopped to help.

Following the collision, the drivers of the stolen car left the vehicle and sprayed an unknown substance in the faces of two people who were among those who had stopped to assist.

One was an off duty paramedic, the other, an off duty police officer.

The suspects then stole another car - a white Vauxhall Astra - at the scene of the collision to make their getaway.

This car was later recovered in Dagenham, East London.

Police said medical treatment was received by the two people who were sprayed with the unknown substance, and it is not believed they will suffer from any long term effects.

Two ambulance crews, a rapid response vehicle and response car from Essex and Herts Air Ambulance were dispatched to the scene. Both men sprayed with the substance were taken to hospital for further care.

Their conditions are not believed to be serious or life-threatening. The driver of the lorry was uninjured.

Kevin Brown, Director of Service Delivery at The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST), said: 'This unprovoked attack on two Good Samaritans who were trying to help at the scene of a road traffic collision is deplorable.

'Sadly they were in the wrong place at the wrong time and we wish them a speedy recovery.'

The crash caused disruption to drivers, but the lane reopened later that evening following forensic recovery of the vehicles.

One suspect was described as Asian, and between 25 to 30 years old. He had a dark beard, and was wearing a baseball cap, a navy blue buttoned top, and dark coloured bottoms. He also had a small, black leather bag with him.

The other suspect was described as white, with short dark hair.

The Spanish judge probing five Britons over the death of Scottish holidaymaker Kirsty Maxwell may never be charged, internal court documents suggest. 

She was asked to remand four of the men in prison on Wednesday by Kirsty's family lawyer - but rejected the request saying there was 'no new evidence' of the men's participation in the death of the victim.'

Ana Isabel Garcia-Galbis said she was still awaiting another police report but her comments, contained in a two-page internal court document drafted after the Brits' court appearance in Benidorm earlier this week, shows they may never be charged. An initial police report on Kirsty's April 29 fatal fall from their Benidorm holiday apartment, after a hen do, places a fifth man in connection with the death.

The report says Joseph Graham had taken so much cocaine before Kirsty, 27, walked into their tenth-floor apartment by mistake that his nose was bleeding. 

He was quizzed in court after her death at the spot she plunged from because an untouched cigarette like the ones he smoked was found on the floor.

Police conclude in the 39-page report that she panicked after finding herself in the wrong flat and probably tried to jump into the swimming pool ten floors below after an alcohol binge because she thought it was her 'only escape route. The report adds Mr Graham, who has not been charged with any crime but is still under investigation 'in his state of drunkenness and under the effects of cocaine, probably said something obscene to Kirsty and/or approached her in a way which made her feel seriously intimidated.' 

The £49,000-a-year Amazon worker, from Nottingham, has protested his innocence.

The four men questioned in court on Wednesday, all born in Nottingham and named as Ricky Gammon, 31, Anthony Holehouse, 34, Callum Northridge, 27, and Daniel Bailey, 32, have also angrily denied any involvement in Kirsty's death. 

A mother-of-three forced to spend £70,000 every three weeks on cancer treatment in Germeny to stay alive claims she was told she 'doesn't have enough cancer for UK trial treatment.

Louise Gleadell, 38, from Leicester, was first diagnosed with cervical cancer last February.

But the aggressive disease spread and she was told it was incurable in January.

Desperate for other alternatives, Louise attempted to participate in an immunotherapy trial through the NHS

The treatment would increase her life expectancy but Louise claims she was denied access to the because because she didn't have 'enough' cancer.

Despite being ravaged by an aggressive cancer, Louise claims she still wasn't eligible for treatment and says she there was no further options available.

Refusing to die without a fight, Louise took it upon herself to find other alternatives, and has been spending up to £70,000 every three weeks to receive treatment at the Hallwang Clinic in Germany.

After relying on savings and fundraising from her family and friends, Louise is able to enjoy the time she has left thanks to treatment abroad. Louise, a former holiday business owner, said: 'I initially tried to join an immunotherapy trial in the UK, but I was told that I couldn't because I didn't have enough cancer. 'So we've had to use all of our savings so that I can get treatment in Germany.

'The first time that I went to Germany, I had to be there for eight days, and that alone cost £70,000.

'My second time, just three weeks later, cost £66,000 and now every three weeks I have two days' worth and that's £32,000. 'And I have to keep having these treatments every three weeks or my tumours will continue growing and I will die.'

Louise was diagnosed with cervical cancer in February 2016 after doctors mistook the disease for post-natal symptoms.

Due to several rounds of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, Louise's cervical tumour shrunk – but it had started to grow in her neck and after and she suffered a haemorrhage, she was told it was now terminal. Louise added: 'I lost all of my hair from the repetitive rounds of chemo, but that was just a small price to pay for my life.

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Police have warned parents that thousands of children are being used as 'money mules' by criminal gangs to launder stolen money in their bank accounts.

Officers in London are telling parents to monitor their children's accounts amid concerns they could be falling victim to such crimes either through force or when offered payment.

This kind of fraud usually sees the young person allowing their bank account to be used to move criminal money, making it harder for the authorities to track. Criminals will offer children cash, sometimes as little as £50, to transfer 'dirty money', according to The times. 

Figures from fraud prevention service Cifas show the number of 'misuse of facility' frauds involving a person under 21 has risen year-on-year.

Cifas said there were 4,222 such cases in the first half of 2017, compared with 2,143 in the first part of last year.

It also reported that 65 per cent of the 17,040 incidents of that type in the UK in the first six months of this year were committed by people aged under 30. It was earlier reported that high street banks are losing the battle against fraud as criminals switch tactics to directly target customers. Efforts by lenders to bolster their IT defences against hackers have simply encouraged fraudsters to bombard individual customers with scams, according to Financial Fraud Action UK.

Despite investing millions in tackling fraud, losses from fraud rose last year as banks became less effective at preventing scams.

Losses from fraud on cards and credit cards jumped by 9 per cent to £618million last year – while total fraud including online scams – increased 2 per cent to £768.8million. 

Police in Birmingham have arrested two men after a 14-year-old girl was raped twice at a railway station.

The suspects, aged 35 and 27, are both from the Birmingham area and are being held on suspicion of rape. 

It comes after police released images of two men who were being sought in connection with separate incidents, in which the young girl was raped twice in the same night.

Detectives said the teenager was first assaulted in a secluded part of Birmingham Wilton railway station, near the Aston Villa football ground, some time between 8pm on Tuesday and 2am the following morning.

The 14-year-old victim had walked to the station with her friend, but was led away after being approached by two men.

She alleges she was led to a secluded area of the station and reportedly raped by one of the men. Shortly after that attack, the girl walked out of the station at about 2am and flagged down a passing vehicle to ask for help. However, after getting in the car she says she was then raped a second time.

Detectives continue to appeal for information regarding the second rape in the vehicle on Wednesday morning. 

DCI Tony Fitzpatrick from British Transport Police said: 'Overnight there have been significant developments after we released CCTV images of two men we would like to speak with.

'I'd like to thank the public and the media for the overwhelming support in sharing this appeal.'

DCI Fitzpatrick added: 'Both these arrests relate to the first incident at Witton station on Tuesday evening this week.

'Our investigation into the second incident in the vehicle continues at a pace. The young victim was raped for a second time in a vehicle close to Witton station at approximately 2am.

'I am still looking to hear from anyone who lives locally to Witton and saw a young girl walking by herself during the early hours of Wednesday morning. 'If you saw any vehicle or any person acting suspiciously then please get in touch as soon as possible.'

The man sought over the offence in the vehicle is described as thick set man, approximately 5ft 6in with large biceps. 

Anyone with information can send a text to 61016, or call 0800 40 50 40 quoting reference 65 of 26/07/2017.

A former member of the dance group Diversity has been killed in a car crash. 

Robert Anker died in the collision in Canada yesterday, where he moved last year to marry his fiancée. 

The 27-year old performer from Essex was a founding member of the world-famous dance troupe Diversity, which won Britain's Got Talent in 2009.  

He also appeared on Strictly Come Dancing, ITV shows The X Factor and Take Me Out and in music videos alongside singers Jessie J, Paloma Faith and Peter Andre. Robert had also starred in the West End show Thriller and recently flown out to Cape Town to be involved in the latest Bring It On film.

Social media has been flooded with tributes to the star. Choreographer Dean Lee tweeted: 'Rob Anker. I have no words to speak after hearing of your passing. This is truly heart breaking. Thanks for the memories. Shine bright.'

His cousin Rochelle Hanson has since set up a Just Giving page in his memory. 

On it, she paid tribute to the 'amazing and talented dancer'. 

She wrote: 'The family are devastated. He only just got married in September 2016 to a lovely Canadian girl and they were starting their new life out there. 'He's been in Diversity, the West End show Thriller and various TV Shows and music videos as well as be part of the new Bring It On film. He was an amazing and talented dancer.'

'We are raising funds for his family to be able to cover all costs for their trip to go and arrange his funeral in Canada. We would love to ensure that his family don't worry or stress about money at this time.'

British street dance troupe Diversity formed in 2007 in London. 

They shot to fame after winning the third series of Britain's Got Talent in 2009, beating singer Susan Boyle in the live final. 

Eleven-month-old Charlie Gard, whose short life captured the hearts of the world, has died a week before his first birthday. 

Charlie suffered from a rare genetic condition which saw him in hospital for the majority of his short life.

His parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, fought a lengthy and emotional legal battle to take their severely ill baby son to the US for treatment, but were denied by judges.

Charlie's mother, Connie, said tonight: 'Our beautiful little boy has gone, we are so proud of you Charlie.'

Yesterday courts denied his parents the chance to bring their son home to die and he was taken to a hospice. Charlie's plight has seen hundreds of supporters - called Charlie's Army - lending their voices and money to see the child given treatment, with £1.35 million raised on an online fund-raising site.

Pope Francis and US president Donald Trump weighed into the debate, with the Vatican saying the pontiff prayed for 'their wish to accompany and treat their child until the end is not neglected'. The protracted legal battle saw the couple take their case to the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court - all of which ruled life support treatment should end and Charlie should be allowed to die with dignity. Judges at the European Court of Human Rights refused to intervene in the case - and the couple said they had been denied their final wish to be able to take their son home to die and felt 'let down' following the lengthy legal battle.

The couple, of Bedfont, west London, ended their legal battle on July 24, in what they called the 'most painful of decisions' and their son was moved to a hospice on July 27 . 

Charlie, who was born on August 4 last year, has a form of mitochondrial disease, a condition that causes progressive muscle weakness and brain damage.

Described as 'perfectly healthy' when he was born, Charlie was admitted to hospital at eight weeks and his condition has progressively deteriorated. The couple said they wanted to take their son across the Atlantic for nucleoside bypass therapy, but specialists at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, where Charlie was being cared for, said the treatment was experimental and would not help.

They paid tribute to their 'absolute warrior' less than a fortnight before his first birthday on the steps of the High Court, with father Chris saying: 'Mummy and Daddy love you so much Charlie, we always have and we always will and we are so sorry that we couldn't save you.

'We had the chance but we weren't allowed to give you that chance. Sweet dreams baby. Sleep tight our beautiful little boy.'

Charlie's parents added they believed their son might have been saved if experimental therapy had been tried sooner.

Ms Yates said time had been 'wasted', adding 'had Charlie been given the treatment sooner he would have had had the potential to be a normal, healthy little boy.'

Doctors at Great Ormond Street did not agree, with lawyers representing the hospital saying the 'clinical picture' six months ago had shown irreversible damage to Charlie's brain.

They said the 'unstoppable effects' of Charlie's rare illness had become plainer as weeks passed. The syndrome is an inherited disease which starts to show symptoms in infancy.

Most patients are born after a normal pregnancy and appear healthy at birth.

Symptoms usually begin to appear in the first few months of life.

It causes progressive muscle weakness, decreased muscle tone and kidney problems.

It also causes patients to lose motor skills such as standing, walking, eating and talking.

Eventually the muscles that control breathing become weak and respiratory failure is the most common cause of death.

Intelligence is not usually affected.

Children with severe forms of the condition usually survive for less than a year.

It is not yet fully understood what causes the condition but both parents of the child have to carry the gene mutation.

It is recessive meaning a child has a 25 per cent chance of suffering from the disease if both their parents carry the mutation.

Waterloo Road actress Holly Matthews has spoken of her heart-wrenching grief as she sits with her husband Ross Blair in a hospice during his final days.

Ross, son of ex - Aston villa player Andy Blair, was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour in 2014. 

The father-of-two is being cared for at the Myton Hospice in Coventry, where Holly has stayed with him day and night for a month.

Holly, who has also starred in Doctors and Casualty, has written a candid Facebook post as she sits as Ross's bedside in his final hours.

'What a reality to be waiting for one of the people you love most in the whole world to die and even hoping that it will come soon,' wrote Holly.

'That is a weird space to be in, but a space that I and his family are living in.

'Grieving before they have gone, waiting for the last breath, half knowing it's best if it is, half relieved when it's not.

'None of this feels real at all and I keep having moments of happend what the  'how did we even get here?!' Ross, who is just 32, was diagnosed with a rare grade-4 primitive neuroectodermal tumour (PNET), and underwent brain surgery and chemotherapy.

At the time doctors gave him the devastating diagnosis that he had a 50/50 chance of surviving more than five years.

But Ross, a property developer, responded well to the treatment and the tumour remained stable for two years.

Things looked hopeful, and the couple - who have been together for nine years - were able to continue lives as normal, making happy memories with their daughters Brooke, now six, and Texas, four. But in 2016 a scan revealed that the tumour had grown, and on August 4 Ross underwent a second operation at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, where 75 per cent of the tumour was removed.

It was followed by radiotherapy and a year of chemotherapy tablets.

Again, Ross responded well, and the couple were able to go about their lives as normal, enjoying making memories with their family.

In May the family travelled to the Caribbean for a holiday, where Ross was feeling good. 

But just two days after they returned Ross suffered a seizure, and since then Holly said his health has rapidly deteriorated.

He was taken to hospital, then after a brief spell at home, he has been transferred to the Coventry hospice where Holly remains at his bedside. 'Nearly a month on, living in Myton Hospice and my amazing husband is still holding on,' said Holly.

'Of course he's now in a deep sleep, not eating, drinking, or conscious of his surroundings, but his strong body is fighting for him and sadly at this stage it is kind of working against him. 

A double manhunt has been launched after a 15-year-old girl was raped by two different men in the same day.

The teen was first assaulted in a secluded part of Witton railway station, in Birmingham, between 7pm on Tuesday and 2am the following morning.

She had walked to the station with her friend, but was led away by a man who approached her. Shortly after that attack, the girl walked out of the station and flagged down a passing vehicle to ask for help.

However, after getting in the car she was then raped a second time by another man.

A major investigation, involving detectives from both British Transport Police (BTP) and West Midlands Police, is now under way to try to identify both attackers and appeal for witnesses.

The first attacker is described as Asian with light skin, brown eyes, was of a skinny build and about 6ft tall.

He was wearing a track suit top and bottoms, black trainers and was in his early 20s. The second attacker is also described as Asian, in his early 20s, 5ft 6/7ins tall, of large build with a tight-cropped beard and was wearing a blue jumper and black jeans.

BTP Detective chief inspector Tony Fitzpatrick said: 'This was a horrifying ordeal for this young girl and we have specially trained officers supporting her.

'It is now vitally important we investigate exactly what happened on Tuesday morning as well as identifying offenders for both of these awful incidents.

'My detectives are currently examining all available CCTV in an effort to identify the offenders and whilst these enquiries are made, we are keen to speak with any potential witnesses.

'Whilst this incident happened during the early morning and there may not have been many people around, I would be keen to speak with anyone who may have been in the area at the time.

'If you were passing by the station and saw two girls walking with an older man, then please get in touch immediately.

'Likewise, if you saw any suspicious vehicles close to Witton station close to 2am then please get in touch as soon as possible.

'Your information could prove vital in our inquiries to identify the perpetrators.' 

Mr Fitzpatrick added: 'We are now doing all we can to trace the people responsible and bring them to justice.' 

The ringleader of the London Bridge terror attack was filmed telling a former Muslim he should 'be killed' for leaving the religion less than a year before the bloody massacre.

Khuram Butt was wearing a Superman hoodie and smiled as he threatened another man in Hyde Park corner, the BBC reports.

The altercation is believed to have happened in August last year, nine months before eight people were murdered in the Saturday night attack on London Bridge.

The man who filmed Butt has now said he wishes he had gone to police with the footage.  The witness, from north west London, told the BBC: 'He came up and said "I want top have a discussion". 

'He turned suddenly and got personal and started threatening that I'm going to kill you.

'He was just threatening and very aggressive. I was scared, he said "if you do not honour my religion you should be killed".                                                        

• Khuram Butt was wearing Superman hoodie as he argued with people in London
• London Bridge terror attack ringleader told former Muslim he should 'be killed'
• The altercation is believed to have happened in August last year 
• Man who filmed Butt said he wishes he had gone to police with the footage 

Heroic Grenfell firefighters have said they were willing to die in the inferno as they desperately struggled to rescue everyone inside.

They relived their experiences of tackling the horrific fire in a new ITV documentary series exploring the challenges the brigade face every day.

A London Fire Brigade commander said as they battled flames they had 'no intention' of coming out until they had rescued everyone they could, despite their fear the burning building was on the verge of collapse. Commander Welch was one of the first senior officers to arrive at the scene and he described how the flames kept raging as more and more firefighers arrived.

He added: 'Initially they had six machines. Then they asked for eight, and then 10, and then 15, 20 and 25.'

Commander Welch said it very quickly became clear that they needed to declare a major incident .

Commander Pat Goulbourne, who was also at the scene, added that he knew Grenfell Tower and had be there before, reports the Mirror.

He said: 'I just knew we had the job of our lives on the go because already I could see fire from the lower floors and I could not believe I was looking at fire to the top floor. 'I've never seen anything like that. The fire was changing, it was moving rapidly. You could hear people screaming for help. There were people making signals for help. It was dreadful.' 

Commander Goulbourne described 'men, women and children' coming out of the building 'fully sooted'.

The men worked from a bridgehead post two floors below where the fire started on the fourth floor.

Commander Goulbourne said it was the busiest bridgehead he had ever seen.

The June 14 fire, which claimed at least 80 lives, is featured in the ITV series: Inside London Fire Brigade. TV crews followed the London Fire Brigade for 12 months, showing the diverse challenges they face.  

Commander Welch described the logistical problems the firefighters faced when they arrived at the 24-storey building in the early hours of the morning.

'We had our hoses going up the staircase, he said. 'We had people trying to get out coming down the staircase.

'We've got firefighters going up the staircase and the staircase was filling with smoke.

'The priority was really to try to reach the flats we knew had people in. The issue we had was the intensity of the fire'. 

A High Court judge has given Charlie Gard's parents until midday tomorrow to reach an agreement with Great Ormond Street Hospital on arrangements for the end of his life.

Mr Justice Francis said the 11-month-old will be transferred to a hospice where his ventilation tube will be removed if doctors and his parents fail to reach a compromise about how he should be cared for in his final moments.

Charlie's parents Connie Yates and Chris Gard had said it was their final wish to take him home to 'slip away' in his cot before his first birthday.

Both his parents and doctors have now conceded that he should move to a hospice - but continue to disagree over the detail of care plans.

Miss Yates and Mr Gard wanted to spend a week at a hospice with Charlie before he died.

But Great Ormond Street bosses said they were not satisfied that a properly-qualified specialist would be in control under the parents' plan, and said life-support treatment should end shortly after Charlie arrived at a hospice.

A family friend said the pair, 'will be devastated they have not been granted their final wishes as parents.'  

Charlie is only expected to spend a few hours in a hospice because they are not licensed to be able to look after him for more than a few hours once the ventilator is taken off. 

A shopkeeper has told how two teenagers raced into his East London off licence and screamed 'We've got acid on us!' as their skin was 'peeling off'. 

The man, who has asked not to be named, recalled the terrifying incident where two men were targeted with a 'noxious substance', which a police officer described as 'bleach', in Roman Road, Bethnal Green, at around 7pm this evening.

The attack comes after five people were left injured after having acid thrown in their faces in North and East London on July 13. Another person was injured in connection with the incident. The shopkeeper told the Mail Online: 'They were two Bengali boys who came into the shop. They had acid on their face and they were burning - their skin was peeling off.  'The ambulance caller was asking a lot of questions about it but what do I do - deal with the call or the water?

'I've never seen anything like this before. It's really scary.

'I think the boys had been attacked elsewhere and then got in their car and drove here to get water. Their car was outside.

'Their face and their legs were all burnt. One of them was saying: "Put the water in my jeans". 

Witnesses said a blue tarpaulin has been erected to shield the victims from the public.

Four fire engines, police and paramedics are at the scene, which was cordoned off. 

Footage posted online by Mr Lennon shows a topless man pouring water on to his face as he is surrounded by five paramedics as a policeman watches on.

Another man is seen sitting on the pavement as he has his blood pressure taken by the medics. Please click, comment, sibscribe to our blog 

An Indian Muslim make up artist was dragged from the shower and Tasered before being raped and murdered in an alleged 'honour killing' because she fell in love with an Arab Muslim, a court has heard.

Celine Dookhran, 19, was found dead inside a £1.5million South London house after her friend managed to escape despite having her throat slit in the same attack. 

The court was told Miss Dookham had been in a relationship with an Arab Muslim and her family members did not approve because they were Indian Muslims. 

The survivor, who is in her twenties, claims she heard her friend scream as she was dragged from the shower and stunned with a Taser before she herself was taken from her bed. 

The victims were bound with duct tape and rope and had socks shoved into their mouths before being rolled up into dust sheets and thrown into a vehicle by two men in balaclavas.

They were driven five miles to a house under renovation before Miss Dookhran was raped and murdered – but the second woman fled.

Mujahid Arshid, 33, appeared before magistrates in Wimbledon yesterday charged with the murder, rape, and kidnap of Miss Dookhran and the attempted murder, rape and kidnap of the second woman. Vincent Tappu, 28, was charged with the kidnap of both.                                                                                                                              Smileband want to address a word of support to women that have suffered the torment of rape, it's a very disturbing element to a women's life, there are key developing support organisations that can help women with this cause of a nightmare, our thoughts go out to the family of miss Dookran, we wish to exceed the support further in the future by aiding support in some sort of way. Please click, share, subscribe to our blog. 

The people who find themselves homeless, Lee Davies, a 24-year-old from Plymouth who now sleeps rough in London, was kicked out of his home due to the end of an assured-shorthold tenancy. The Most recent government data shows that a third of all households in England made homeless, 40% in London, were due to a landlord ending a tenancy – up from 11% of all cases in 2009. With the rise of private renting, the precarity of the tenure has been reflected in the cases councils see in their homelessness applications.                                When Davies approached his local authority for help finding accommodation, he found little sympathy: on one occasion, he was informed that as a single young man he was low priority; on another advised to rent another property, despite the fact he had no money for a deposit; and on a third visit, told he was “intentionally homeless” because he could have found somewhere else to live after his landlord had given him notice. Finally, he gave up, relying on friends’ sofas – but eventually his friends’ patience ran out.                                                      At that point, he found a novel way of finding places to sleep. “If I went on Grindr, I could meet men who had their own flats and offer to spend the night with them. Then I could have a shower, charge my phone, and go out,” he tells me. “I didn’t like some of the guys, but the alternative was sleeping in shop doorways, so it was all about weighing up the pros and cons.”

But then Davies’s phone was stolen and this lifeline was cut off. Now he has no way to contact friends and family, and sleeps rough in central London. “At least when I could still get online, I could pretend this was temporary and that everything was fine; but now no one knows where I am, and if they wanted to find me, they couldn’t.” He has bruises on his neck, from a few nights ago when he slept in a doorway near a cashpoint and a drunk man in a suit kicked him repeatedly while swearing at him.

Davies’s situation is not unique, and is becoming increasingly common. The government’s Most recent figures from autumn 2015, estimate that there are 3,569 rough sleepers on any one night in England – more than double the number in autumn 2010, when it was 1,768. And sources told the Observer this month that This year counts, which has only just finished, is likely to be higher again.                                                                                                        

In cities around the country, homelessness has increased visibly, with many more people on the streets. The highest rates of rough sleeping are in Westminster, Bristol and Brighton and Hove, the government figures suggest. London has the Highest rate of street homelessness and Adam Williams, office manager at a support organisation Christian homelessness charity in Manchester, says the number of people requesting their services has never been higher than this year. “People are visibly affected when they visit London at the moment, especially if they haven’t been here for a few years. However, my fear is that people will become desensitised to the situation [so many people sleeping rough] and that within a year it will just become a normal state of affairs in most people’s eyes. Smileband pushes people to give a pound to these organisation as they bring change to a person who need help living ruff in the uk. Story like this makes us understand how we have things so much different and these people can have that change as well, please bring back human rights to people living in the uk. Please click, share, comment, subscribe too it blog. 

U.K. Police force are to be provided with acid response kits to tackle the escalating scourge of violence in which corrosive liquids are used as weapons across the country.

Britain's largest police force are to roll out new measures as part of a targeted operation which includes distributing 1,000 acid relief kits to London's police force today.

 Police said that they are issuing guidelines for dealing with corrosive liquids in accordance with national police policy.

A recent chemical scare in Solihull, spread the 'face melter' fear of corrosive substances beyond London's borders when a man shouted 'I've got acid' before squirting what is now thought to be cleaning fluid in the face of a drinker outside a pub last week.

And a major operation has been launched in London to combat the rise in acid attacks, which have claimed multiple victims in the capital in recent months.

Five litre bottles of water are now to be stocked in emergency patrol cars across the the capital to provide vital and immediate treatment on the scene. Smileband does not agree with the violence that has been growing in the heart of cities around the uk.            We hope to aid a right strategy to build secure jobs in the uk based around support for people that follow us. Please click, comment, subscribe to our blog.