23 minutes ago The Crown Princess of swinging London whose tumultuous affair with Mick Jagger nearly destroyed her: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS on the turbulent life of Marianne Faithfull

A unique chanteuse, a chronicler of her era and once proclaimed the most beautiful woman of her generation, Marianne Faithfull was the Crown Princess of Swinging London.

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4 hours ago Dragon's Den woman who 'lost all fear' after cancer fight gets £50k and Trinny Woodall backing

47-year-old Laura Harnett, who is the founder of Seep, managed to convince guest judge Trinny Woodall to make her first and only investment during Dragons' Den

Economics

9 hours ago Coronation Street fans say 'I'm wondering' as Ken Barlow mystery deepens

Fans have questions about Ken's home on the cobbles

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31 minutes ago Armed inmate fled from open prison before using makeshift weapon to force nurse into driving him to cash machine

An armed convict escaped from Standford Hill open prison in Kent before using a makeshift weapon to force a nurse to drive him to a cash machine, reports say. 

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3 hours ago ‘He’s going home’: new film documents the fight to free Leonard Peltier

Sundance’s Free Leonard Peltier outlines the decades-long efforts to free the Indigenous activist from prison – up to the commutation of his sentence one week before the premiereOf all the documentaries at the Sundance film festival this year, perhaps none is as timely as Free Leonard Peltier, Jesse Short Bull and David France’s film on the Indigenous activist imprisoned for nearly half a century.Peltier, now 80 years old, is serving consecutive life sentences for the killing of two FBI agents during a shootout at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota in 1975, though he has maintained his innocence. Activists, celebrities and liberation advocates such as Nelson Mandela have called for his release for decades, citing railroaded justice and evidence of prosecutorial misconduct; the FBI and law enforcement, meanwhile, have campaigned vociferously against any commutation of his sentence. Continue reading...

Culture

13 hours ago I thought I'd solved the eternal issue of trying to lose baby weight while still enjoying chocolate and sugar. But my solution left me with a bizarre eating disorder

Trying to slim down after the birth of her first child, Lucy Hake thought she'd solved a problem familiar to many dieters: how to satisfy cravings for calorific food without sabotaging her weight-loss efforts.

Science

13 hours ago Woman 'on the run' from child cruelty charges after baby fell from moving car onto busy A

Raychel Hardingham, 29, was seriously injured when she fell with the child from a blue Volvo on the A1067 Fakenham Road, opposite the Shell petrol station in Taverham, Norfolk, in April 2023.

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2 hours ago Trump vows Mexico, Canada tariffs to start Feb 1; Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard face Senate grilling: Live

Key Trump appointees RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel faced off with senators over past statements and conspiracy beliefs

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13 hours ago Mystery UK EuroMillions winner lands £83m jackpot but yet to claim huge prize

Friday's EuroMillions draw came with a gigantic £83million jackpot, with Allwyn now calling on the unidentified winner to come forward before they lose out on their claim.

Economics

11 hours ago Acclaimed BBC murder mystery starring Lesley Manville to return for final instalment

The series was one of BBC's most watched acquired scripted series in 2024.

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39 minutes ago 2 Navajo men and a business partner are indicted for illegal marijuana grow operations

A federal grand jury has indicted a Navajo man, his father and a business partner on charges that they were running illegal marijuana growing operations in New Mexico and on the Navajo Nation to supply the black market

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9 hours ago Footage Chinese PhD student allegedly filmed of him raping a woman leaves jurors in tears

One member of the jury was in tears as two 10 minute clips were shown at Inner London Crown Court on Thursday.

Culture

3 hours ago Biggest US trading allies brace for a ‘game of chicken’ with Trump’s tariffs

Canada and Mexico draw plans to mitigate effect of duties Trump has threatened, possibly sparking a trade warTrump’s tariffs explainedAmerica’s biggest trading partners are bracing for Donald Trump to impose sweeping tariffs on their exports after the US president repeated his threat to hit Canada and Mexico with new duties.Officials in Ottawa and Mexico City have drawn up plans to retaliate against Washington with tariffs of their own, raising the prospect of a damaging trade war. Businesses inside the US and across the world have warned of widespread disruption if the Trump administration pushes ahead. Continue reading...

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15 hours ago Wowcher's travel deals include romantic escapes in the Lake District to Barcelona breaks

Wowcher has some amazing travel deals perfect for a romantic Valentine's break, with getaways to the Lake District, Morocco, Barcelona and even a mystery holiday on offer

Economics

3 hours ago Evil woman who helped murder and dismember Sarah Mayhew was 'empowered by brutality'

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Criminologist Alex Iszatt believes Gemma Watts was always capable of the sadistic murder, but was 'waiting for the right person to bring it out' of her

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5 hours ago Woman sent videos of herself farting to her boyfriend's ex and 'found it hilarious'

The 25-year-old woman was sentenced to a 12-month community order following the inappropriate videos, the sending of which she was said not to have realised was a criminal offence

Politics

3 hours ago Two men close to Benin’s president sentenced to 20 years in prison for coup plot

Two men close to Benin’s president have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for plotting a coup in the small West African country

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8 hours ago WhatsApp urges iPhone users to update app after bug found on popular feature you'll want to fix

The latest version of the free WhatsApp app for iOS fixes a bug that means photos and videos you expect to disappear aren't actually being deleted

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3 hours ago First Minister to call for fresh investigation into abused woman's death with Lord Advocate

Demi Hannaway's death in May 2021 was ruled as suicide but her family want the case to be re-examined.

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10 hours ago Woman smashed cereal bowl on partner's head and caused serious laceration

Izabela Meteva, 31, attacked her boyfriend at their home in Newport and had become 'abusive' in the relationship

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10 hours ago Woman startled after she finds out who childhood penpal really is 10 years later

A woman took to TikTok to share her horror after finding out the identity of a penpal she had written to for years when she was a teenager. She only found out who they really were 10 years on

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6 hours ago Woman, 21, accused of killing Border Patrol agent in shooting linked to California stabbing appears in court

Teresa Youngblut faces federal firearms charges in the January 20 death of Agent David Maland

Events

10 hours ago Prince William pays secret visit to top government HQ for mystery talks

It has been revealed that Prince William was in Whitehall today for a meeting at the Ministry of Defence headquarters - but it is not known who he was meeting or what was discussed

Politics

7 hours ago Doomed Black Hawk helicopter's call sign sparks fresh mystery following DC plane crash

The military aircraft was conducting a training flight, but some aren't buying it due to the priority call sign and the experience that is required of Black Hawk pilots

Events

11 hours ago You're probably related to Charlemagne too! Scientist explains how 'literally' everyone in Europe has a direct lineage to the king

Are you also related to Charlemagne, described as 'one of the most important people in history'? Well, according to scientists, it's not difficult to find out.

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7 hours ago Killer couple who scattered woman's body parts across UK park learn their fate in court

A double murderer will spend the rest of his life in prison after killing a woman and dismembering her in a park – this is the second time the man has faced a life sentence

Events

13 hours ago Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory album review | Alexis Petridis's album of the month

(Jagjaguwar)Fronting a brand new band, the singer-songwriter dives into the dark side, with confusion and foreboding creeping through 80s moods, big choruses and fine melodiesThe last time the world heard from Sharon Van Etten, it was 2022. She was pictured on the cover of her sixth album, We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong, standing in front of a house while wildfires raged worryingly close by. The songs lurking inside were informed not just by the environmental catastrophe unfolding on her doorstep, but the “collective trauma” of lockdown and the fraught complexities of parenthood. It was well reviewed and sold enough to dent the charts in several countries: business as usual for a perennially acclaimed and influential singer-songwriter. Perhaps too usual.Over the course of her career, Van Etten has gradually bolstered and rounded out her sound, from the austere acoustic confessionals of her 2009 debut, via trebly Velvet Underground-ish indie, to something noticeably bigger and...

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7 hours ago SNP must ditch unbelievable plan to send people to prison for refusing to kill deer

The Scottish Government’s controversial plans to modernise the management of deer in the new Natural Environment Bill must not include forcing landowners to kill them or face a £40,000 fine or even three months in prison

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14 hours ago Assistant headteacher touched her female colleagues and made 'outrageous' sexualised banter, tribunal hears

Nicola Houghton 'mortified, embarrassed and disgusted' one woman teacher with her behaviour towards both male and female staff at Rowan High School, Liverpool.

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8 hours ago Female thug who left woman millimetres from death after slashing her with bottle outside pub in taxi row avoids prison

GRAPHIC CONTENT: WARNING Sharnice Summer, 32, was just two millimetres away from killing Bethany Lockyer, 28, when she attacked her with a broken beer bottle

Events

15 hours ago Only smartest people can solve London Underground brainteaser in less than one minute

A mind-bending quiz created by London Underground staff has left people baffled as they try to work out which letter is missing in the tube-themed sequence

Politics

9 hours ago 'Red Rum' double killer and his partner jailed for murdering woman and dismembering her body

Steven Sansom, 45, was on licence after being released from prison in 2019 for murdering a cab driver

Events

18 hours ago Bizarre 'sexsomnia' reason man was cleared of raping woman after she allegedly woke to find him having sex with her

Timothy Malcolm Rowland, 40, was found not guilty of having non-consensual sex with a woman at his Sydney apartment on August 26, 2022, after the pair spent a night out together.

Politics

9 hours ago Bloodthirsty couple who murdered woman and dumped dismembered body in 'wicked' fantasy jailed for life

Steve Sansom and Gemma Watts shared an interest in sado-masochistic violence

Events

18 hours ago Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story review – engaging study of a life less ordinary

One of Ireland’s most important novelists and a woman of fierce intelligence and bravery is celebrated in Sinéad O’Shea’s thoroughly enjoyable documentarySinéad O’Shea’s documentary portrait of the author Edna O’Brien is a reminder that most writers – most people, in fact – don’t have lives anywhere near as exciting or fulfilling as hers. The film, with diary entries read by Jessie Buckley, shows us that O’Brien was always a witty, generous and good-humoured interviewee over the years; this film includes an extended interview with the author herself just before her death last year at the age of 93, in which she speaks with a softly sibilant but beautiful voice, her natural prose-poetry never deserting her.This film really does have a staggering story to tell. As a young woman in rural Ireland, Edna O’Brien ran away with writer Ernest Gébler, a glamorous but authoritarian figure; their unmarried cohabitation so outraged everyone that he took her away to England where they got married...

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9 hours ago ‘America’s gulag’: Trump’s Guantánamo ploy tars migrants as terrorists

The president wants to detain thousands of people at a site that is notorious for its secrecy and history of abuseIt has been denounced as “America’s gulag”: a secretive, abuse-ridden Caribbean prison camp for terror suspects that Donald Rumsfeld once said contained “the worst of the worst”.“All of us have scars in our souls, deformities, from living at Guantánamo,” a former Yemeni inmate recalled of his time at the notorious military detention facility in south-east Cuba. Continue reading...

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19 hours ago ‘No hope’: wife’s fears for Ugandan opposition leader facing trial for treason

Kizza Besigye, veteran opponent of President Yoweri Museveni, may face death penalty but will not get justice in military court, warns Winnie Byanyima, UNAids chiefIt was a message from her sister-in-law asking where he was that made Winnie Byanyima start worrying about her husband, Dr Kizza Besigye, a prominent Ugandan opposition leader. Byanyima, head of UNAids, had just returned from Malawi to Geneva, where the UN programme on HIV/Aids is based, in November. She rang Besigye’s phone – it was off.She made some calls and learned that he had gone from Uganda to neighbouring Kenya to attend a book launch. Then a journalist told her he believed Besigye was now being held in a military prison in Kampala, Uganda’s capital. Continue reading...

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9 hours ago Killer couple jailed for life after scattering woman's body parts across park

Steve Sansom was already a convicted murderer and was out on licence when he killed Sarah Mayhew.

Events

19 hours ago After Southport, Westminster is floundering. It should look to Idris Elba | Martin Kettle

The Home Office has some good ideas, but a documentary on knife crime by the actor offers the template for a new approachThe list of painful questions left behind for a wounded Britain by the trauma of the Southport stabbings is a long one. It starts with asking why Axel Rudakubana, jailed last week with a 52-year minimum prison sentence, did it. But that soon segues into wider issues of statecraft and policy. In particular, it asks whether there are measures we could now take that might, just possibly, contribute to stopping some future Rudakubana from doing the same thing.Here the issues become more substantive. Problems of family support and parenting. The too ready availability of knives. The influence of social media. The impact of poverty. The role of schools and of exclusions. The place of policing. The repercussion of imprisonment. The effectiveness of youth services. The relevance, if any, of ideology. All these, and more. And they are merely subject headings, the doors to ...

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10 hours ago Kelsey Parker and Max George in 'secret feud' – widow left 'hurt' as singer 'disappeared'

Kelsey Parker, who recently announced she is pregnant with her third child, has reportedly been left hurt by her late husband Tom Parker's best pal and former bandmate Max George

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19 hours ago ‘No hope’: wife’s fears for Ugandan opposition leader facing trial for treachery

Kizza Besigye, veteran opponent of President Yoweri Museveni, may face death penalty but will not get justice in military court, warns Winnie Byanyima, UNAids chiefIt was a message from her sister-in-law asking where he was that made Winnie Byanyima start worrying about her husband, Dr Kizza Besigye, a prominent Ugandan opposition leader. Byanyima, head of UNAids, had just returned from Malawi to Geneva, where the UN programme on HIV/Aids is based, in November. She rang Besigye’s phone – it was off.She made some calls and learned that he had gone from Uganda to neighbouring Kenya to attend a book launch. Then a journalist told her he believed Besigye was now being held in a military prison in Kampala, Uganda’s capital. Continue reading...

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10 hours ago Killer couple who scattered woman's body parts across UK park jailed for life

A human bone belonging to Sarah Mayhew was found by a dog in April last year, before police found arms, legs, and a head nearby - more than a month later her limbless torso was found in a river

Events

11 hours ago Prosecutors are seeking to detain the woman charged in a Vermont border patrol officer's death

Prosecutors are arguing why a Washington state woman should remain jailed in connection with the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent

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11 hours ago Coronation Street exposes Chesney Brown's 'unpredictable' harasser as they sign up Marvel star

The ITV soap has exposed who the mystery van driver is that has been harrassing Chesney for months

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12 hours ago Bishop of Liverpool quits after sexual assault and harassment allegations

Rt Rev John Perumbalath denies groping woman and kissing her without consent as well as sexually harassing another woman

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