THE body of motor racing legend Juan Manuel Fangio has been exhumed after two men claimed he was their father.
A judge ruled that DNA could be taken from the five-time F1 world champion to settle the claims 20 years after his death.
Two men have brought separate cases claiming Argentine Fangio was their father and seeking a piece of the estate he left to a foundation and museum bearing his name.
Fangio was five-time F1 champ Getty
Last night officials removed Fangio’s body from the family vault in Balcarce, eastern Argentina, and took it to a morgue for forensic testing.
Fangio died in 1995 aged 84 without ever marrying or declaring any children.
But his biographers say he had a two-decade long relationship with a woman named Andrea Berruet.
Her son Oscar Espinoza, who briefly raced on the junior-level Formula Three circuit in Europe, is one of the men who has launched a paternity claim along with another named Ruben Vazquez.
Ruben Vazquez claims he is driver's son Reuters
Espinoza’s lawyer Oscar Scarcella said the DNA results were expected in 30 to 60 days.
“Everything is proceeding absolutely normally,” he said.
Fangio, who launched his driving career in 1948, held the record for the most Formula One titles for five decades, until Germany’s Michael Schumacher broke it in 2003.
He was a sporting legend in his home country by the time he retired in 1958 with 24 victories to his name.
Our investigation today shows how prices for identical products vary by up to 161 per cent between shops.
Holidaymakers can splash out £15 for a 180ml bottle of factor 30 Hawaiian Tropic Silk Hydration Lotion at Boots.
But the identical product is £5.75 from online supermarket Ocado.
There are also huge price differences with After Sun products. The Hawaiian Tropic Silk Hydration After Sun Coconut Papaya Fragrance Lotion cost £13 in Boots, but £4.50 from Ocado.
The variations are due to a price war among stores keen to woo customers.
Rafi Mendelsohn, spokesman for mySupermarket.co.uk, said: “It is important to shop around and compare costs before buying.”
Many stores offer multiple-buy deals but often creams in two-for-one or three-for-two offers can be dearer per bottle than one-off buys elsewhere.
For example, Boots offers on the Hawaiian Tropic products such as the one mentioned earlier, available on a two-for-one basis, still work out more expensive per bottle than Ocado — and Asda and Superdrug. Boots said: “We offer a wide range of promotions on our entire suncare range to give our customers greater flexibility and choice.”
Below, we’ve done the price comparisons for you . . . and sought out some expert suncare advice.
Hawaiian Tropic Silk and L'Oreal Paris Sublime Bronze Self Tan Lotion & Body
Hawaiian Tropic Silk (180ml)
Ocado: £4.50
Asda: £7
Superdrug: £7.49
Morrisons: £7.50
Sainsbury’s: £8
Tesco/
Waitrose: £11.50
Boots: £13
’Screen saver: Ocado £4.50
Money to burn: Boots £13
L’Oréal Paris Sublime Bronze Self Tan Lotion Medium Face & Body (150ml)
Superdrug: £5.99
Sainsbury’s: £8
Ocado/Boots/Tesco: £8.99
Asda: £13.48
’Screen saver: Superdrug £5.99
Money to burn: Asda £13.48
Piz Buin In Sun Spray and Olay Complete Everyday Sunshine
Piz Buin In Sun Spray (SPF 30, 200ml)
Morrisons: £6
Tesco: £9
Sainsbury’s: £9
Boots: £15.50
’Screen saver: Morrisons £6
Money to burn: Boots £15.50
Olay Complete Care Everyday Sunshine Moisturiser – Light Sun-Kissed Glow
THEY look like some sort of odd circus act, but these masked men are something far more disturbing — unwitting participants in a chemical warfare trial by the Ministry of Defence.
Incredibly, 22,000 British servicemen were duped into being guinea pigs in experiments exposing them to sarin gas, anthrax and even the bubonic plague between 1939 and 1989.
Sometimes unknowing civilians were used, including commuters dusted with a potentially deadly chemical on the Tube in 1963.
Meanwhile volunteers, like these men who stood under a chemical spray to see how much of it would soak into their masks, were told the trials were “totally safe”.
Many were told they were taking part in research to cure the common cold.
While the Government apologised in 2008 and paid compensation to 670 victims, for years the true nature of experiments at the “military science park” of Porton Down, Wilts, has been shrouded in secrecy.
Now a new book by historian Ulf Schmidt reveals the full story of those affected by the grisly trials at the height of Cold War paranoia. Here we profile some of the most shocking cases.
Secrets ... Porton Down Rex Featutes
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FIVE guinea pigs await a chemical spray to rain down on them from a plane in around 1956.
Their masks were later tested to see how much spray had hit them, but it is not clear why such creepy masks were used. The type of chemical being tested is also unknown.
Similar spray trials also took place above residential areas in Salisbury, Wilts, near the military boffins’ Porton Down HQ.
They were part of weapon trials but were passed off as air pollution tests.
Sarin gas chamber
Death ... Ronald Maddison killed by Sarin gas PA
RAF engineer Ronald Maddison was just 20 when he volunteered for a trial at Porton Down in May 1953.
The popular lad from Co Durham was assured he was in no danger as he was ushered into a gas chamber and given a dose of colourless gas.
It was Sarin, a deadly nerve agent now classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the UN.
Within hours the youngster was dead from the most severe case of nerve gas poisoning ever recorded in the Western world.
Ambulance driver Alfred Thornhill, who was called to the scene, later recalled: “It was like he was being electrocuted, his whole body was convulsing. There was terrible stuff coming out of his mouth like frogspawn. I saw his skin turning blue.”
AFTERMATH: It took 50 years before the government consented to a public inquest into Ronald’s death. In 2004 it concluded he had been “unlawfully killed” by his own government. In 2006 his family was awarded £100,000.
Virus on the Tube
Plague on the London Underground Getty
ON July 26, 1963, scientists carried out an unprecedented military trial on civilians by releasing a plague-like virus on the London Underground.
At around midday, a small box of powder disguised as makeup was dropped out of the window of a Northern Line train and into the train’s ventilation system as it crossed the city.
The powder was spores of B. globigii bacteria, at the time considered harmless but which can cause food poisoning, eye infections and even potentially deadly septicaemia.
Scientists hoped to simulate what would happen if anthrax was released.
Days later engineers measured the concentration of spores in the air at various Tube stations. They found the bacteria had travelled more than nine miles.
AFTERMATH: Passengers exposed to the spores were never warned or contacted afterwards.
Officials decided the trial had to be kept secret to prevent panic and to protect national security.
EXCLUSIVE: Lifer Dale Cregan poses with sister in first picture since he executed women PCs
Posing in designer gear ... Dale Cregan smiles with sister Stacey
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DOUBLE cop killer Dale Cregan smirks as he is pictured for the first time since murdering two policewomen, three years ago.
Wearing a £110 designer T-shirt , Cregan appears happy and relaxed as he poses for family snaps.
Mum Anita, 56, and sister Stacey, 27 even appear to have blacked up their left eyes in honour of the one-eyed killer.
Cregan, 32, was given a whole life tariff in 2013 after admitting killing Manchester PCs Nicola Hughes, 23, and Fiona Bone, 32, in September 2012.
The photos were taken when the women made a recent visit to Cregan at high-security Ashworth Hospital on Merseyside.
One of him with the pair has been circulated by the gangster’s pals and family.
A source said: “Friends of his are passing it round as if to say, ‘Look at how well Dale’s doing’.
“But not everyone’s impressed. He lost a lot of respect from people when he shot those police officers.
“If he walked out tomorrow he’d realise he’s not as popular as perhaps he thinks.”
Tribute ... Dale's mum and sister appear to wear make-up to look like one-eyed killer
The cops were killed in a shooting and grenade attack after he lured them to his hideaway with a fake 999 call.
Cregan also admitted killing gangland rival David Short, 42, and his son Mark, 23 in separate incidents.
The source added: “Cregan still cuts a menacing figure.
“He does not wear his false eye. He swaggers around in designer gear which most hard-working people can’t afford.
“He clearly has no remorse for his actions. But his mum and sister still dote on him.
“The fact they seem to be joking about his eye and revelling in his notoriety is sickening.”
Following his conviction, Cregan was sent to Strangeways jail in Manchester, and rival gangsters placed a £20,000 bounty on his head.
Just two months later he went on hunger strike in protest at spending 23 hours a day in his cell.
In September 2013 he was transferred to Ashworth — which is home to Moors murderer Ian Brady — before being returned to the prison in February 2014.
In April this year, he was sent back to Ashworth again after staging another hunger strike.
Cregan was examined by a psychologist and a psychiatrist while awaiting trial and they ruled he was not suffering from any mental health problems.
Ashworth can house 228 patients on 14 wards at a cost of £300,000 each per year.
It has a colourful art room, while the grounds include a cricket pitch and chicken coops.
Last night politicians called on prison chiefs to send Cregan back to jail.
Killer ... Dale Cregan PA
Tory MP for Monmouth, David Davies, a former special police constable, said: “If you go back a few decades people who shot police officers in the line of duty faced the death penalty. Whilst I wouldn’t necessarily call for that, it should be clear that those who murder police officers should face the severest punishment.
“I think he should be in HMP Belmarsh in solitary confinement for the rest of his natural life.
“I’m appalled he’s swanning around a hospital in designer clothes while his victim’s families continue to mourn them.”
Last night tragic Nicola’s father Bryn Hughes, of Huddersfield, West Yorks, said he did not give Cregan any “space in my mind”, adding: “I just try to put it all behind me. He’s got nothing to do with me.”
Dad-of-one Cregan, who lost his left eye in a bar fight in Thailand, gunned down Mark Short in a pub in May 2012.
He then killed Mark’s father David three months later.
Executed ... PCs Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes were killed by Cregan
Cregan spent weeks on the run as Britain’s most wanted man, before forcing his way into a home in Hattersley, Gtr Manchester, in September 2012 and holding a couple and their daughter hostage. The next morning he rang 999 to report a false burglary.
He gunned down the two cops as they approached the house and lobbed a grenade at them.
Earlier this year Cregan’s other sister Kelly, 37, said he refuses to apologise for his crimes.
Mum Anita is facing a possible jail term after admitting money laundering and a £250,000 mortgage fraud which she used to buy her son a house in Droylsden, Manchester. She will be sentenced in September. Many cops in Greater Manchester refuse to even acknowledge Cregan since the slayings.
Ian Hanson, chair of Greater Manchester Police Federation, said: “I’ve no desire to comment on an individual who, as far as police officers are concerned, does not exist and is irrelevant.”
A Mersey Care NHS Trust spokesman confirmed that patients at Ashworth are permitted to wear their own clothes.
Fans enjoy the balmy conditions outside Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium AP
SPORTS fans are set to enjoy a scorcher as the UK finally sizzles after weeks of chilly wet weather.
The dry spell proved good news for cricket lovers as the weather couldn’t save the awful Aussies in the Ashes.
And excited footie fans gearing up for the first games of the new season today are set to bask in warm sunshine.
Spurs fans lap up the sunshine ahead of lunchtime kick-off Getty Images
All Brits are set to enjoy balmy temperatures this weekend, with Londoners and sun-lovers in Kent expected to enjoy highs of 28C, while Liverpool and Leeds are forecast to hit 22C.
Wales will bask in 24C sun while Scotland will hover around the 22C mark.
And the warm spell is expected to last for several days.
A Met Office spokeswoman said: “It will be a summery, sunny Saturday for most of the country, with warm air from the Azores.
A glorious summer morning looking North towards Hayling Island from the Solent today SWNS
“Saturday definitely looks a bit warmer than Friday, with up to 27C expected, with Sunday at perhaps 28C in Kent.
“After Monday sees 25-28C in the South, there is a 30 per cent chance of 30C on Tuesday into Wednesday.”
Revellers at the Boardmasters Festival in Cornwall are thrilled with the weather Alamy Live News
The sunshine is expected to make parts of the UK as hot as Barcelona and the Canary Islands this weekend and coastal towns are preparing for a massive surge in visitors.
But our warm weather doesn’t come close to beating Hong Kong - which suffered its hottest temperatures ever recorded in 130 years with a sweltering 36.3C today.
