87 m. ago ‘I was completely dehumanised by my father’: how Kate Price uncovered the horrifying truths of her childhood

She was sexually abused by her father until she was about 12 – and he would also sell her to other men. Then she grew up and began researching child sex trafficking, slowly piecing together clues about her own lifeKate Price is now an academic, but it was at six that she conducted her first piece of research, leaning into the cab of her father’s truck and pressing the side button of his CB radio, the black plastic hot from the sun. She spoke the name she’d heard into it, “Chicken Plucker”, and a man’s voice replied. It was her first proof that the name she’d somehow associated with being taken from her bed in the middle of the night was attached to a real person, and that perhaps he would have answers. Then her father caught her and she was too terrified to try to contact him again.Five decades on, Price has written This Happened To Me, a memoir that reads, in part, like a detective story, piecing together clues to create a picture of the horror that had been done to her as a child,...

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87 m. ago I used to run the Foreign Office. This is my advice for today’s extraordinary White House meeting

With so much at stake for Europe, the most important thing is to choose a lead speaker. I’d go with Starmer or RutteSimon McDonald was permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, 2015-2020, and is now a crossbench peerLast week’s extraordinary summit meeting in Alaska is being followed today by an even more extraordinary international conference in Washington. None of the participants knew they were going to take part two days ago. In recent decades, diplomacy has been increasingly conducted in ad hoc contact groups – but the group of seven countries (the US, Ukraine, the UK, Germany, Finland, Italy and France) and two international organisations (Nato and the EU) has never met in this way before.Officials will be preparing in the usual way, assembling briefing packs and writing talking points, aiming to please their bosses and, hopefully, allowing them to make the most effective intervention. Continue reading...

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87 m. ago Liverpool transfer news: Alisson makes 'hard' admission as Reds agree next summer move

Liverpool still have work to do with two weeks remaining of the transfer window and Alexander Isak and Marc Guehi the main names being speculated over possible Anfield arrivals

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3 h. ago I tracked down the shameless 'sex trafficking queen of Dubai'. These are the horrors behind her lavish influencer lifestyle...

A notorious Dubai sex trafficker was unmasked - but her sentence has outraged victims and human rights advocates. CARINA STATHIS speaks to the man who tracked her down.

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4 h. ago William and his family will live in Forest Lodge even when he is King, reveals REBECCA ENGLISH. So what will become of Buckingham Palace?

King George VI refused to leave during WW2. Yet, almost nine decades on from those devastating raids, the landmark faces an even more uncertain future - as a palace without a king.

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5 h. ago Margaret Pomeranz remembers David Stratton: ‘I feel as though one half of me has gone’

Australia watched the pair discuss films for decades. Off screen, their friendship was one of deep respect: ‘I had his back, he had mine’Every cinephile in Australia wanted to be David Stratton. His passion was infectious – and his legacy lives onDavid Stratton, esteemed Australian film critic, dies aged 85Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI know I have been reticent about commenting on David Stratton’s death (he didn’t want to “pass”, he wanted to die – no euphemisms for him!). But apart from wanting to hug my grief to myself, I felt that it was his family who should be considered, not me. And if anyone should have a tribute it is Strats’ wife, Susie, who was the most wonderful support to him over these difficult years. I told him he was lucky to have married a younger woman!David was a stoic, he never wallowed in his deteriorating health. He continued to watch a new movie every day and revisit old favourites. He would enthuse about a new Australian film he’d just seen – h...

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5 h. ago The mystery of Britain's most annoying man: Meet the silent repeat offender who constantly blocks traffic... but WHY does he do it?

A jailed 'human bollard' who refuses to talk to police, doctors and lawyers is a local prankster who is definitely not mute.

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6 h. ago Warning over ‘decade of decline’ for one of England’s precious chalk streams

Conservationists call for more action to protect chalk streams after 10 years of monitoring shows major falls in river insects.

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7 h. ago David Haye 'in advanced talks to join I'm A Celebrity All Stars' over a decade after his first appearance on ITV show

Ex-boxing champ David Haye is reportedly in advanced talks to join I'm A Celebrity All Stars.

Culture

7 h. ago Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox look more alike than ever in sweet selfie... 21 years after wrapping Friends

They met on the set of Friends three decades ago, but Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox are proving their bond has never been stronger.

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7 h. ago David Haye to face awkward 'grilling' as I'm A Celeb bosses line him up for All Stars spin off

ITV bosses have reportedly offered boxing champ David Haye a spot on the next season of I'm A Celeb's All Stars spin off - with one major topic expected to be discussed around the campfire

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7 h. ago Search for human remains to take place at abandoned pub earmarked for demolition

The Old Roan pub closed down over ten years ago and has remained vacant ever since.

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9 h. ago ‘An undercurrent of impenetrable sadness’: the tragic TV debut of Katie Price and Peter Andre’s daughter

If you’re hoping The Princess Diaries will be the kind of show her mother would make, think again. This reality show about being an influencer is at times dull, and at others, deeply sadThere is something slightly sweet about the new ITV2 show The Princess Diaries. It is a reality series about a girl nearing 18, trying to figure out what she wants her life to look like. Which is perfectly relatable. The girl is awkward and self-conscious, doing her best to navigate a world more complicated than she expected.Except the subject of The Princess Diaries is Princess Andre, AKA Princess Tiaamii Crystal Esther Andre, AKA the daughter of Peter Andre and Katie Price. This immediately makes things less relatable, because Princess has grown up under the spotlight, with the tabloid furore that her parents delight in whipping up on a daily basis. Would you be that well adjusted if newspapers flew drones over your bankrupt mother’s mansion to show the world how unkempt her garden was? Or if your ...

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9 h. ago 'Search for human remains' to start at ‘eyesore’ Aintree pub before demolition

The iconic Old Roan pub in Aintree could finally be demolished, but not before archaeologists finish searching for possible human remains at the site

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10 h. ago Man dies at Ensor's Pool beauty spot after going underwater while swimming

Nuneaton and Bedworth Police are investigating the tragic death of 27-year-old Wojciech Berlan, who lost his life after drowning at the Ensor's Pool beauty spot on Sunday

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10 h. ago EastEnders star Balvinder Sopal reveals 'absolute awe' in Strictly Come Dancing update

The actress revealed she's wanted to be on Strictly for over two decades

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10 h. ago Search for human remains could begin at faded old pub which hasn't served a pint for ten years

It's been more than 10 years since the pub served its last pint

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11 h. ago John Lewis sends five months' worth of bottled water to hundreds of villagers after their drinking supply is polluted by river near its estate

Some 500 people in the diminutive village of Longstock, near Andover, Hampshire, have been drinking their water out of bottles supplied by the nearby Leckford Estate for the last four months.

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11 h. ago A fisherman spotted an old Buick in the Mississippi River. The human remains inside may have solved a decades

Authorities believe the remains found inside the sunken vehicle belong to Roy Benn, who disappeared in 1967 with a large sum of money.

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12 h. ago I fell in love with an AI chatbot... but then its personality changed overnight

Humans who entered into romantic relationships with digital chatbots were left heartbroken after a new ChatGPT update changed their partners' personalities overnight.

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