3 hours ago Cruel parents starved teen ballerina daughter until she weighed just 4 stone

A couple, from Australia, forced their teenage daughter to follow a strict diet, take part in intense ballet training and taught her to become fully reliant on them - they have been jailed for neglect

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3 hours ago Unions call for £3,000 annual pay rise for 1.4m 'vital public sector workers'

'It’s bad news for everyone if there aren’t enough council and school employees to keep neighbourhoods safe, care for vulnerable people and give pupils the education they need'

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44 minutes ago Moment 'show off' driver asks police 'Am I going to prison for this?' as he admits to doing 120mph when he crashed into pub and killed his 18

Reckless Jack Cracknell clocked a speed of 117mph before he lost control of his high-powered Ford Fiesta ST as he raced through a 40mph zone.

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2 hours ago We're trapped in our back gardens after university neighbours put up a 6ft high metal fence despite us using their land for years

Residents in Gloucester are fuming after the University of Gloucestershire put a 6ft high metal fence up against the edge of their properties, ahead of an expected sale of the land.

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8 hours ago Will Smith and Jada Pinkett 'living separate lives' as marriage arrangement exposed

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett are reportedly "living separate lives" as sources reveal the truth behind their marriage arrangement, following Jada's shock revelation in 2023

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8 hours ago Extra £100million to be pumped into neighbourhood policing as Starmer desperately tries to quell simmering unrest on Britain's streets

The figure matches an earlier investment announced in December for England and Wales to put 13,000 more police officers on the streets by 2029.

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48 minutes ago Occultist barrister dubbed the 'White Witch of Rye' avoids jail after flying into a rage over portrait of the King and Union Jack bunting hung by elderly 'wizard'

Barbara Maura Lane is said to have become obsessed with Alfred Douglas after signing up for his magic course. Last May, Lane, allegedly smashed her way into his home in East Sussex.

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36 hours ago Antiques Roadshow guest confesses plan to ‘be nice’ to his mum to get hands on ‘rare’ painting worth thousands

An Antiques Roadshow guest pulled a face as the true value of a neighbour’s gift was unveiled

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8 hours ago Tory bid to celebrate Brexit anniversary marred by spat between Badenoch and Patel over party’s migration record – UK politics live

Kemi Badenoch issues rebuke to Priti Patel after former home secretary defends rise in migration since BrexitThe SNP are using the fifth anniversary of Brexit to restate their call for the UK to “at the very least” rejoin the customs union and the single market. This is from Stephen Gethins, the SNP’s Europe spokesperson.For 5 years, Westminster’s deliberate and damaging denial of Brexit has hit people in the pocket, hurt our businesses and harmed our relationship with our nearest neighbours. “It was political and economic madness 5 years ago – and its damage is deepening by the day. It was a decision Scotland never voted for, but we have been left paying the price. Sir Keir Starmer has spent an awful lot of time talking about a reset with our EU partners, but the reality is that the only reset which will work is to – at the very least - rejoin the EU single market and the customs union.The decision to exit the EU implemented five years ago has had a devastating impact on the Welsh ...

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14 hours ago Climate change bosses at green quango landed nearly £500,000 in exit packages

MSPs have hit out at the deals agreed for two former senior staff at the Scottish Environment Protection Agency

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75 minutes ago UK police launch firearms amnesty after Turkish blank guns linked to London murders

A converted TVBF was used in the killing of Sebastiaan James-Kraan, 20, in Ealing last June

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9 hours ago Inside Will Smith and Jada Pinkett's weird marriage arrangement after 'separating'

Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett may have separated in 2016 but sources now claim that the couple are back on track and are continuing to work on their marriage

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21 hours ago Penal costs of Royal Mail bid: Labour is harming Britain by waiving this terrible deal through, says ALEX BRUMMER

The Ofcom review of the Royal Mail focuses on how best to ensure a reliable delivery service for consumers amid the fast-declining volumes of post.

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1 hour ago Occultist barrister dubbed the 'White Witch of Rye' escapes spell in jail after flying into a rage over portrait of the King and Union Jack bunting hung by elderly 'wizard'

Barbara Maura Lane is said to have become obsessed with Alfred Douglas after signing up for his magic course. Last May, Lane, allegedly smashed her way into his home in East Sussex.

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10 hours ago Dog left 'more anxious' after sick thug repeatedly slashed it with machete

Reece Cockroft, 20, has been jailed

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28 hours ago Boost for theatres, festivals and arts centres as Creative Scotland unveils £208m funding package

Creative Scotland reveals long-awaited package worth £208m

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1 hour ago Gang feud gunman who opened fire on mourners at wake causing 'utter terror' is jailed for life

Meshaq Berryman, 22, was found guilty of attempted murder and drugs offences after heroin, cocaine, a knife and a machete were found at his home.

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10 hours ago King's wine supplier Berry Bros. & Rudd to lay off staff following NI hikes

Royal warrant holder in consultations with around 30 staff

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31 hours ago 'Nightmare' neighbour who chopped down hedge to make her flowerbed two feet bigger loses latest court battle that's already cost her £27,000

Tersia Van Zyl and husband Stiaan were sued after neighbour Peter Walker-Smith accused them of wrongly having the bush that separated their gardens in Claygate, Surrey cut down.

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2 hours ago ‘Extremely dangerous individual’ jailed for 22 years for murder of mother

Anarlyn Jones was sentenced at Portsmouth Crown Court for the murder of Anna Jones in Petersfield, Hampshire.

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14 hours ago Big knickers, bad decisions and old bats: Renée Zellweger on the return of Bridget Jones

Nearly 25 years after the first film, the actor, her co-stars and the writer Helen Fielding discuss the ultimate singleton, love and loss – and why Bridget Jones is the female James BondMark Darcy is dead. Bridget Jones fans have been grieving since 2013, when Helen Fielding’s third novel, Mad About the Boy, was published sans Bridget’s hot human-rights lawyer husband. The outcry made front page news (as did the copies that were accidentally printed with 40 pages from David Jason’s memoir). People could not believe that romcom’s favourite reindeer-jumper-wearing dish, who proved that – ding dong! – nice men do kiss like that, was no more.“Someone ran out of the pub shouting: ‘You’ve murdered Colin Firth!’” Fielding says over a video call, tulips arranged on a huge wooden table in the background, as well they should in a boho-posh Primrose Hill kitchen. “I just want to point out that he is fictional. Colin Firth is not dead.” Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Police shut town centre park close to school after report of person with possible weapon

A police helicopter was deployed while the town centre park was shut

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20 hours ago Manchester United ease into last 16 as Dalot and Mainoo see off Steaua

On 68 minutes Kobbie Mainoo and Alejandro Garnacho combined for the Manchester United second that sealed passage into the last 16: over went a delivery from the No 17 and there was Mainoo to finish coolly.For two young talents who are on the market for the right price here was a satisfying moment that showed Ruben Amorim what can be harnessed if each are retained beyond Monday’s deadline. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Another major war is looming – and western support for Rwanda is fuelling it | Dino Mahtani

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels are seizing control of areas within the DRC. This will only escalate unless western governments actAs if this world needs more bloodshed, here comes another major war knocking on the door of the crumbling international order. This week’s ferocious assault and capture of the largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by rebels backed by troops from its tiny neighbour, Rwanda, marks an escalation with far reaching consequences beyond Africa. It also exposes the complacency of western governments, who many Congolese accuse of paving the way for this crisis.The rebellion, known as the M23, has been snowballing since 2021. In recent months, M23 seized swathes of territory as it encircled Goma, a city nestled below a group of volcanoes facing the Rwandan border. This week, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, called for Rwanda to stop supporting M23 and to remove its troops from Congolese territory, adding that the conflict had ...

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21 hours ago Pensioner, 78, who was 'ripped to shreds' by two Rottweilers and needed arm and leg amputated tells of life being 'turned upside down' and what he most misses

Vic Franklin, 78, was left 'covered with blood' and 'not moving' following the savage 11-minute attack carried out by two large canines called Ziggy, four, and Daisy, one in Bognor Regis in August 2023.

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3 hours ago Thug, 20, jailed for attacking and robbing Good Samaritan who had offered him a lift is found dead in prison two months into six

Simon Kubalik, 20, was found dead in HNP Doncaster earlier this month. He had been just a few months into his six-year prison sentence for a robbery in Leeds in April.

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24 hours ago Royal Mail to axe Saturday second class letter deliveries under Ofcom plans

The postal service could also see wider postal delivery targets cut

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3 hours ago Release of activist jailed in Egypt will take time, Starmer tells mother

Laila Soueif has been on hunger strike for 124 days in protest at her son Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s imprisonment.

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26 hours ago Nightmare neighbour ripped down shared hedge to make her flowerbed two feet bigger

Teresia Van Zyl and husband Stiaan were sued by neighbour Peter Walker-Smith after they cut down a hedge dividing the property's two gardens and now their High Court appeal has been rejected

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4 hours ago Girl scared sick rapist would 'torture' her if she told anyone about abuse

Neal Hatton was jailed for 21 years

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29 hours ago I’m a mum who feels like the most boring fool on Earth. How do I find ‘interesting me’ again? | Leading questions

You’re allowed to want to feel like yourself again, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Sometimes things have to change outside us for things to change insideRead more Leading questionsI’m 36 and a mother to two beautiful hyperactive boys, six and two. I feel like the most boring fool on earth. I have no friends who I can talk to. Social interaction is limited to small talk day to day – at work, with neighbours etc. I am unable to hold any meaningful conversation unless it revolves around kids, their shenanigans and how tired parents always are.My husband goes out with colleagues every week but I am rarely invited anywhere and I don’t think I want to be. I get terrified whenever I am. I’m sure that I add no value to any moment. I feel dejected and sad almost all the time. I can’t even read a book fully any more; I feel I don’t have any headspace left after attending to the boys all day. My husband holds an upper management position therefore he makes more money than me and...

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5 hours ago Trafigura’s former chief operating officer sentenced to 32 months in jail

Mike Wainwright found guilty by Swiss court of paying more than €5mn in bribes in first conviction of commodity trader for corruption

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30 hours ago How long should your post take to arrive in London? Ofcom considers cutting second

The cost of first-class stamps could rise under plans proposed

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5 hours ago Notorious drill rapper Digga D is jailed for more than three years for selling 45kg of cannabis after dramatic Instagram Live arrest

Rhys Herbert pleaded guilty last May to importing 3.6 kilos of cannabis in June and July 2023 and a further charge of supplying cannabis.

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31 hours ago Teen rioter stabbed neighbour while on bail over mayhem on the streets of Mayhill

Nathan Smith, aged 16, was waiting to be sentenced when he stabbed his neighbour in the back with a knife just 14 days before being locked up for taking part in the Mayhill riot

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6 hours ago UK drill rapper Digga D jailed for four years breaks silence with defiant statement

UK musician Digga D, whose real name is Rhys Herbert, has been jailed after he pleaded guilty to two charges relating to the importation and supply of the Class B drug

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31 hours ago Coronation Street confirms arrival of new 'nightmare neighbours' with connection to the street

Mick and Lou Michaelis will soon arrive on the street all guns blazing

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6 hours ago He got stopped riding his bike but it was the contents of a black Nike bag that saw him jailed

Daniel Jackson, 30, was found in possession of almost 1.5kg of cannabis worth up to £9,000 and more than £40,000 after he was stopped by police

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31 hours ago Royal Mail announce major delivery change which will affect millions of Brits

Ofcom's plans include reducing the next-day delivery rate for first-class mail from 93% to 90% and the three-day delivery rate for second-class mail from 98.5% to 95%

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6 hours ago Man killed five people after neighbor complained gunfire was keeping baby awake

Francisco Oropeza has pleaded guilty to murder charges and will serve a life sentence without parole

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32 hours ago 'Nightmare' homeowner who chopped down hedge to make her flowerbed two feet bigger loses latest round of six

Tersia Van Zyl and husband Stiaan were sued after neighbour Peter Walker-Smith accused them of wrongly having the bush that separated their gardens in Claygate, Surrey cut down.

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6 hours ago Man went for late night McDonald's run but ended up in jail for 16 weeks instead

Ethan Marshall, 31, was arrested after he crashed his car while leaving a branch of the fast food chain in Broughton, Flintshire, and has been jailed for 16 weeks

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32 hours ago Kevin Costner's ex Christine Baumgartner engaged to their neighbour after child support row

Christine Baumgartner, Kevin Costner’s ex-wife, is engaged to former neighbor Josh Connor after finalising her divorce last year. The engagement comes months after their rumored romance and Christine’s high-profile child support battle with Costner.

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6 hours ago ‘Deep down, all Englishmen are policemen’: Spanish anthology recounts life in Edwardian London

Julio Camba spent 15 months as London correspondent for El Mundo newspaper writing mostly about the strange habits of the EnglishThe first of the myriad anglosajón peculiarities that would bedevil, confound and exasperate Julio Camba in his 15 months as London correspondent for El Mundo revealed itself when a porter tried to help the young Spanish journalist with his luggage as he arrived at Victoria station in December 1910.“The worker grabbed my suitcase and shouted, so I started to shout, too,” he wrote shortly afterwards. “Given that I’m Spanish, I shouted much more than he did and, finally, he shut up.” Camba swiftly concluded that, unlike their Spanish, French and Italian neighbours, the English were not given to passionate outbursts. Or passion. Or, indeed, outbursts. Continue reading...

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32 hours ago 'Nightmare' homeowner who chopped down hedge to make her flowerbed two feet bigger loses six

Tersia Van Zyl and husband Stiaan were sued after neighbour Peter Walker-Smith accused them of wrongly having the bush that separated their gardens in Claygate, Surrey cut down.

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6 hours ago ‘Deep down, all Englishmen are policemen’: a Spanish correspondent’s view of life in Edwardian London

The journalist and adventurer Julio Camba wrote exquisite sketches about the strange habits of the EnglishThe first of the myriad anglosajón peculiarities that would bedevil, confound and exasperate Julio Camba in his 15 months as London correspondent for El Mundo revealed itself when a porter tried to help the young Spanish journalist with his luggage as he arrived at Victoria station in December 1910.“The worker grabbed my suitcase and shouted, so I started to shout, too,” he wrote shortly afterwards. “Given that I’m Spanish, I shouted much more than he did and, finally, he shut up.” Camba swiftly concluded that, unlike their Spanish, French and Italian neighbours, the English were not given to passionate outbursts. Or passion. Or, indeed, outbursts. Continue reading...

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34 hours ago Royal Mail plan to make huge change to deliveries in controversial shake

Regulator Ofcom has said it is proposing to scrap second class letter deliveries on Saturdays and reduce the service to be on alternate weekdays, while also lowering Royal Mail's delivery targets.

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6 hours ago Sick Scots soft play boss jailed for child abuse images 'took pictures of kids at sleepover in house'

Steven Paul McInally is beginning a 25-years jail term in America after taking pictures into the country on his mobile phone while going to Florida.

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