23 minutes ago Businessman blames supercar drink drive arrest on 'spiked mocktails' at Goodwood Festival of Speed

Robert Stanbury tried to avoid a driving ban by arguing he had not meant to consume so much alcohol

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36 minutes ago I left my husband for a horse: They're loyal, steadfast and the loves of their lives... no wonder these women say no man could ever measure up to their mighty beasts

The jolly romps of Jilly Cooper's bonk-busting Rutshire Chronicles are enjoying a revival at the moment, as her saucy novel Rivals hits our screens, to rapturous applause.

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49 minutes ago Loose Women star gives health update as she promises return to ITV1 show soon

A Loose Women presenter has given an health update as she promises to return to the ITV1 show

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50 minutes ago Bring on the Vegas glitz! How Roma families are defying their persecutors with bling palaces

Keen to show off their newfound riches, and to kick back at a society that suppressed them, Roma families are filling rural Romania with exuberant symbols of wealth – boasting gilded turrets and gleaming staircases that lead to nowhereIn the village of Hășdat in the heart of rural Romania, geese roam the dusty streets, bonfires burn in back gardens, and the houses are not quite what you would expect. Not at all. One sports a pair of golden Versace Medusa heads and Rolex crown emblems on its tall metal gates, flanked by marble pillars topped with trios of cherubs. They mark the entrance to a compound where a creamy stuccoed pile groans with balconies and plaster mouldings, its roof dripping with ornamental guttering. A group of women stand around a table in its courtyard, plucking feathe...

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55 minutes ago 'I worked with worst of the worst in Broadmoor – but the Yorkshire Ripper frightened me'

Peter Sutcliffe, who is known to have savagely murdered at least 13 women between 1975 and 1980, spent 32 years in the high-security psychiatric hospital

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78 minutes ago A kidnapped woman punched her way out of a cinderblock cell. Police say she may have saved countless others

Negasi Zuberi has been convicted with kidnapping and raping two women including holding one of his victims hostage in a soundproof cinderblock cell. Bevan Hurley and James Liddell report

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90 minutes ago SARAH VINE: The world's full of abused women. Unless some radical evidence emerges, after reading Giovanni's interview I don't believe Amanda Abbington is one of them

When women are victims of abuse, be it sexual, violent or coercive in nature, it is important that people believe them. It can take months, sometimes years, to find the courage to step forward.

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99 minutes ago PrettyLittleThing shoppers baffled after being banned from the site for 'excessive' behaviour

Online retailer PrettyLittleThing has apparently issued some of its customers with a ban from shopping due to 'unusually high returns' on its website and some shoppers have been left confused

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1 hour ago Horrified neighbours heard 'banging and arguing' minutes before man died as woman arrested for murder

A 48-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a man in Rochdale

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1 hour ago Practical Magic: Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock’s enduring song of sisterhood

Witchy, cozy, and murderously mischievous, this 1998 film about a clan of women beset by an ancient curse feels like a warm hug. Its resurgence is long overdueGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe formulaic 90s romcom shouldn’t – in theory – involve accidental murder or exorcising evil spirits. Yet Griffin Dunne’s Practical Magic proves that the feminine urge to murder your evil ex-boyfriend (twice) is funny, sexy, even mischievous.Picture Nicole Kidman with copper hair and curtain bangs, hurtling through an expanse of American highways to a soundtrack featuring Stevie Nicks and Joni Mitchell. Or Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest as wickedly witchy aunts poised around a kitchen bench, chanting a spell (“Adder’s fork and blindworm’s sting, Barbados lime is just the thing!”) as ...

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