52 minutes ago Corrupt detective caught on CCTV dropping bag of cocaine outside daughter's school

Andrew Talbot was jailed for 19 years this week after his double life was exposed.

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2 hours ago Sensational Scott McTominay forces public Man United apology over 'bad rule' that triggered unwanted Napoli transfer

The Scotland international has become an instant Napoli hero under Antonio Conte

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2 hours ago No Plan B: England women’s sorry T20 World Cup exit means it’s time for change

Lack of leaders exposes overreliance on the captain, Heather Knight, and the flaws in Jon Lewis’s easy-option coachingThe England women’s cricket team were touted as gold medal hopes at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. They didn’t even manage bronze. Heather Knight was ruled out on the eve of the tournament with a hip injury and the stand-in captain, Nat Sciver-Brunt, struggled to assert her authority: her wife, Katherine, was reprimanded for swearing on the field of play; England threw away their bronze-medal match against New Zealand; and Sophie Ecclestone was shown live on television knocking a chair over with her bat.Why hark back to something that happened more than two years ago? Because England’s disastrous group-stage exit from the T20 World Cup, at the hands of West Indi...

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5 hours ago Pickpocket! This Dutch vigilante has become an online sensation for confronting and exposing crooks... The Mail took him around London's tourist hotspots

It is Saturday afternoon and hundreds of tourists have come to snap selfies in front of Big Ben and to admire Westminster Abbey...

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5 hours ago What links Babu the red panda and Malu the binturong? The Saturday quiz

From the Adoration of the Magi to The Shining, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 Which trio travelled further from Earth than any other humans?2 Which artwork was slashed by suffragette, later fascist, Mary Richardson?3 What celebrated headline described a Scottish Cup tie on 8 February 2000?4 In Japan, what natural attraction is sakura?5 Which US city reversed the flow of its river in 1900?6 Which bird stores up to 5,000 acorns each autumn?7 What surname was adopted in 1448 by Richard, Duke of York?8 Which TV comedy had the working title Dead Belgians Don’t Count?What links: 9 Bayeux tapestry; Giotto’s Adoration of the Magi; Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle?10 Spanish (9); Dutch (1); English (1); Portuguese (1)?11 Francis Scott Key; Sunshine Skyway; Tay; Tacoma Narrows?12 A New ...

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5 hours ago Bella Nipotina conquers Everest to clinch $20m in world’s richest race

Seven-year-old is first mare to win world’s richest race2022 winner Giga Kick runs second, Growing Empire thirdSeven-year-old mare Bella Nipotina has won the the world’s richest race on turf, the $20 million Everest 1200-metre sprint at Royal Randwick with a sensational late burst.Ridden by Craig Williams and trained by Ciaron Maher, Bella Nipotina raced wide on the pace and finished strongly in the straight to win narrowly from 2022 winner Giga Kick. Third home was Growing Empire, with Lady Of Camelot fourth. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago 'Outraged' pupils and parents in backlash over merger of two of Scotland's last same

Petitions have been launched and parents are understood to have confronted staff

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6 hours ago ‘The case became a witch hunt’: how ‘killer nurse’ Daniela Poggiali fought to clear her name

Italy’s ‘angel of death’ was imprisoned and demonised by the press before her convictions were overturned. Now the expert who came to her defence has turned his attention to Lucy Letby’s case‘It was a terrible sensation when I heard the sentence: life.” It was 11 March 2016 and Daniela Poggiali had just been confirmed as Italy’s “angel of death”. Less than 18 months after she had first been arrested, in October 2014, the nurse was now the country’s most infamous killer, convicted of killing one elderly patient and suspected of dozens of other murders.“I struggled to rationalise it,” she says, “I just thought they were grabbing a crab.” (This is a curious Italian phrase that roughly translates as doing something irrational or idiotic.) Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Their son died at 25. Then they discovered his extraordinary secret life online

Robert and Trude Steen assumed their late son led ‘a wasted life’ – until the discovery of his alternate identity as a muscular nobleman on the internet. And it should transform how we talk about digital personas, writes Matthew Neale

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8 hours ago Manchester United face alarming reality after shocking comment exposed injury problem

Kobbie Mainoo has been ruled out for a few weeks with an injury and the handling of him has been questionable.

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