Six years ago due to a situation which led to an untenable dispute with an aggressive neighbour my husband and I became what is broadly termed as accidental landlords.

I purchased a Jack Wills gift card as a present for my boss. However, when he went to use it in January this year he was told that there was no value on the card. Why is this?

Our house is worth £600,000 but our £500,000 investments include £100,000 we were told would be free of IHT. How would things be worked out?

Lord Melchett paced around his office impatiently waiting for the Duke of Cambridge to call in, quipping: 'I thought Germans were meant to be punctual'.

AMANDA PLATELL: The most reliable, and dare I say wooden, member of the younger royals stole the show with a comic turn on the BBC's fundraiser The Big Night In.

Sir Peter Fahy, former Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, told BBC Breakfast today that police do not want to get drawn into 'game' of counting the number of people in each household.

Producers at BBC Breakfast worked alongside Buckingham Palace to organise the celebrations to mark the war hero's big day on Thursday.

As part of the revised plans to mark the 75th VE Day anniversary during the coronavirus lockdown announced today, Her Majesty's words will be broadcast on May 8 on BBC One at 9pm.

Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, told The Sun that Kate Middleton, 38 and Prince William, 37, are determined to use their influence to benefit the royal family.

The one-off programme, currently titled Tackling Mental Health With the Duke of Cambridge, will see the prince examine 'men's mental health through the prism of football'.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Back in 2004, in the run-up to the U.S. Presidential election, I was invited to take part in a special edition of the BBC's Question Time, live from Miami.

Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, said 'several hundred' people have now been given the jab in the first British trial to find a vaccine.

Despite plans still being up in the air, the presenter, 49, has insisted producers will do whatever it takes to get the BBC favourite to return to screens in the coming months.

TfL, who operate London's underground network, are 'running the maximum frequency' of services possible. Fewer trains means commuters have been forced to cram into over-crowded carriages.

Loris Karius, Liverpool's forgotten goalkeeper, will officially return to Anfield on June 30 as he comes close to agreeing a severance deal with Besiktas.

Some, like Ajax star Hakim Ziyech, have their future sown up but aren't sure whether they've played their last game in Holland, while others have been linked with moves but are yet to put pen to paper.

Christian Vieri believes Erling Haaland is the best striker in the world, and will eventually go to a new team for a world record fee. The Norwegian has been linked with Real Madrid.

The 22-year-old signed for a reported fee of £52million from Eintracht Frankfurt last summer but has struggled to live up to the high expectations of the Spaniards.

France's Ligue 1 was cancelled earlier this week with Rennes officially being granted third place, meaning they will go into the qualifying round of next season's Champions League.

Players will be training individually in order to comply with social distancing measures with Spain gradually lifting some of their coronavirus lockdown restrictions.

Willian, 31, is out of contract in June and appears set to leave Stamford Bridge after failing to agree a new deal. Arsenal, Juventus and a host of top clubs have been linked with Brazilian.

Leganes manager Javier Aguirre has reportedly revealed that LaLiga is set to make its long-awaited return on June 20, barring there are no more delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Venus Williams was watching her sister Serena's doubles match with Sir Andy Murray at Wimbledon when she pulled out her camera.

In order to qualify, GB are reliant on him using up one of his 'protected ranking' entries. Murray is counted as a world No 2 for these purposes under the scheme that helps the long-term injured return.

The Swiss maestro has never won singles gold in the Olympics, coming closest when he finished runner-up to Andy Murray in London in 2012.

MIKE DICKSON: Having witnessed Andy Murray emerge from a Scottish backwater to break the mould of underachieving British tennis I should have known better.

Andy Murray believes that his newly-refurbished body may be more suited to contesting the Grand Slams than regular tour events when he resumes playing in the Majors next year.

With all tennis eyes already focused on the build-up to the Australian Open next month, a thrilling year lies in prospect for the sport. MIKE DICKSON makes some predictions.

Murray is currently sidelined through injury, this time pelvic bruising that has kept him out of action since November, with no indication yet when he will be able to make his comeback.

The 36ft-high replica of the Commons Speaker (pictured), which shows him holding the heads of both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, will go up in flames on Saturday night.

While the Take That hitmaker, 45, admits he understands the wife of Wayne Rooney's desire to seek revenge on the perpetrator of her leaked stories

Rebekah Vardy shared a cryptic post warning her enemies will 'destroy themselves' as her WAG war with Coleen Rooney rumbles on.

EXCLUSIVE: The plan is for the former England captain to start training full-time with his new team-mates on Monday, after making his first match-day appearance at Pride Park.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has told Manchester United to watch out for Wayne Rooney in Thursday's FA Cup fifth round clash at Derby, warning: 'He wants to prove there is still fight in the old dog.'

Wayne Rooney believes Harry Kane will break his England goalscoring record. The former Manchester United striker currently holds the accolade having scored 53 goals in 120 appearances.

MIKE DICKSON IN NEW YORK: Serena Williams loftily dismissed the man who tried to discipline her in last year's tumultuous championship match at Flushing Meadows following her victory.

Three times Wimbledon champion and tennis commentator Boris Becker, 51, was supposed to have served just one year as a bankrupt, but he will now face restrictions until October 2031.

MIKE DICKSON IN MELBOURNE: American doubles specialist Bob Bryan believes Andy Murray can still come back from the pelvic bruising injury which is once again keeping him out of tennis.

Serena Williams was seen flaunting koala-themed nail polish on the court on Monday as she took on Russian opponent Anastasia Potapova in Melbourne Park, on the first day of the Aus Open.

MIKE DICKSON IN MELBOURNE: It was a 'Hello World' moment when Coco Gauff defeated Venus Williams in the first round on Wimbledon's Court Number One last summer.

INTERVIEW BY MIKE DICKSON: Marcus Willis smiles as he reminisces about playing Roger Federer at Wimbledon and once being sent home from Australia as a junior.

Roger Federer can expect to be among the first to know when, as appears almost certain, Wimbledon is called off later this week. He could be about to lose his best chance of adding a 21st Grand Slam.

The All England Club is holding an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss the fate of the 2020 Championships but former mixed doubles champion Jamie Murray feels it has to be cancelled.

Wimbledon is expected to be called off in the next 24 hours, although the financial damage will be limited by its extensive insurance policy that guards against the Coronavirus pandemic.

Though expected, the cancellation of this year's Wimbledon for the first time since the Second World War caused an outpouring of emotion among tennis fans.

The claim will help to cover the £250m plus loss of revenue after the coronavirus outbreak wiped out the fortnight-long tournament, which was set to start in June.

Asda is to start selling avocados using plant-based Apeel coating in the New Year. Apeel is made from natural plant-derived materials and water, making it vegan and harmless to eat.

The UK's second bestselling chocolate brand is set to make its debut on supermarket biscuit shelves in Asda next month, followed by Sainsbury's and Tesco in March.

Staple vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, onions and cabbage - which have vanished from the shelves of Sainsbury's and Asda - were on display at Harrods, but at vastly inflated prices.

India's TVS Motor, which bought the British brand out of administration for £16m earlier this month, is reportedly set to invest tens of millions of pounds in the luxury motorbike maker.