2 h. ago Sally Anne Bowman's mother blasts Australia for sending her daughter's murderer to Britain

Mark Dixie brutally raped and murdered 18-year-old Sally Anne near her home in Croydon, south London, in September, 2005, in a crime that shocked Britain.

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7 h. ago CBB's Chris Hughes sparks backlash as viewers brand offer to JoJo Siwa 'uncomfortable'

Celebrity Big Brother fans were left 'uncomfortable' as they branded Chris Hughes 'weird' after he offered to father JoJo Siwa's babies during a candid conversation

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7 h. ago Real Housewives star Lydia McLaughlin 'devastated' as brother shot dead by police

Lydia McLaughlin shared the tragic news just six months after the death of her mother.

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8 h. ago A mother of three's wish for a divorce turned into sadistic suburban nightmare with an unimaginable ending

Kristil Krug wanted to split from her husband Daniel. Then she started getting threatening messages from a previous boyfriend, or so she thought.

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9 h. ago Church crimewave: Crooks hit places of worship on average eight times a DAY, stealing silver and setting fires

There were a whopping 9,148 records of theft, burglary, criminal damage, vandalism and assault in churches and other religious properties from January 2022 to December 2024.

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10 h. ago Steven 'Bonzo' Daniel's mum's house attacked days after another property firebombed

A property registered to the mother of gangland figure Steven 'Bonzo' Daniel was targeted in a fresh attack last night, as Scotland’s crime feud shows no signs of slowing down.

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10 h. ago Baby girl unable to blink or smile diagnosed with rare disorder

A mother first noticed something was wrong during pregnancy when her daughter’s eyes appeared open during ultrasound scans

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10 h. ago CBB fans left reeling over Chris Hughes' 'uncomfortable' proposal to JoJo Siwa

Celebrity Big Brother fans were left 'uncomfortable' after housemate Chris Hughes offered to father JoJo Siwa's babies during following a task set by show bosses

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11 h. ago TOWIE's Freddie Bentley opens up about 'hard times' and his council estate upbringing as he reveals how he proved his teachers wrong by achieving his TV dreams

EXCLUSIVE: As a 'normal council kid' Freddie revealed that while he 'did go through hard times' he was always supported by his mother, who lives with bipolar.

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11 h. ago My dad was a grooming gangs predator... he raped my mother when she was a schoolgirl

Jayden Sheeran's mother was just 14 years old when she was raped by a member of a grooming gang in Blurton, near Stoke on Trent.

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12 h. ago Vandalised church hides graffiti with plants to host wedding

Lancashire Constabulary said officers were called to a report of criminal damage to the church building and a number of gravestones in Leyland.

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15 h. ago The devastating legacy of Native boarding schools: ‘no way people can apologize it away’

Mary Annette Pember’s expansive and shocking book Medicine River looks at the many ways that the US has tried to dehumanise and eradicate Native familiesMary Annette Pember will publish her first book, Medicine River, on Tuesday. She signed to write it in 2022 but feels she really started work more than 50 years ago, “before I could even write, when I was under the table as a kid, making these symbols that were sort of my own”.A citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe, Pember is a national correspondent for ICT News, formerly Indian Country Today. In Medicine River, she tells two stories: of the Indian boarding schools, which operated in the US between the 1860s and the 1960s, and of her mother, her time in such a school and the toll it took. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago London council refuses to house homeless young mother after leaving her sofa surfing while pregnant

Hounslow council was told to offer the woman and her baby its next available suitable home after its failures meant she missed out on a number of secure tenancies, but it has refused

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15 h. ago Gregory Porter: ‘My worst job? Shovelling exterminated rats’

The singer on a precious photograph of his mother, losing his brother and the wonders of cooking with butterBorn in California, Gregory Porter, 53, released his Grammy-nominated debut album, Water, in 2010. He went on to receive best jazz vocal album Grammys for Liquid Spirit in 2014 and Take Me to the Alley in 2017. He sang for Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee and was the first celebrity to sing a lullaby on CBeebies Bedtime Stories. Next week, he begins a UK tour. He is married with two children and lives in California.What is your greatest fear? Immunity to cruelty. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago In the Rhododendrons by Heather Christle review – back to the mother land

A poet’s memoir of family, trauma, and Virginia Woolf pulses with feeling and intelligenceLike most kids, Heather Christle was drilled about “stranger danger”. Like some, she had a family codeword designed to show that an adult picking them up from school when her mother was busy could be trusted. But, in her American home town in the 1980s, no other kid’s word was a bygone British sweet. And so “Dolly Mixture” joins the growing list of things learned from her English mother that Christle, looking back, finds out of place. Things such as dining etiquette, cardigans, M&S outfits, margarine. But also bigger stuff: beliefs and behaviours. Assumptions. Silence. Shame.With her mother in her 70s and their relationship strained, Christle, a poet and academic, embarks on a quest for new understanding – of her mother, of “Englishness”, and of herself. In a memoir that pulses with feeling and intelligence, she excavates the past to expose difficult truths. As she proved with her acclaimed...

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30 h. ago Pictured: Boy, 14, crushed to death in horrific farming accident as his mother says her world has 'fallen apart'

Harry Moss, from Birmingham, was fatally injured by machinery on a farm in Malvern, Worcestershire, on Thursday morning.

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30 h. ago A US citizen was held for pickup by ICE even after proving he was born in the country

A U.S. citizen was arrested in Florida for allegedly being in the country illegally and held for pickup by immigration authorities even after his mother showed a judge her son’s birth certificate and the judge dismissed charges

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33 h. ago Ed Sheeran shares Persian culture with the world and the diaspora swoons – me included | Dellaram Vreeland

The star’s new single, Azizam, is a rare pop-cultural moment in which Iran is celebrated for the beauty of its cultureGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAs a second-generation Persian immigrant, my connection with my roots has always been relatively surface-level. Admiring the intricate artworks adorning the walls of our homes, hand-loomed rugs crafted by my own grandmother, barberry-laden rice and saffron-infused stews, the music of Googoosh, Bijan Mortazavi and Susan Roshan blasting from dawn to dusk.My parents spoke Farsi to one another and to me when I was a child and as such it was my mother tongue. But I was born in Australia, so it was only going to be a matter of time before I became more proficient in English. Now I stumble my way through conversations in broken Farsi, longing for the day when Iran will be safe enough to finally visit and I can hopefully scrub up my language skills.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for th...

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33 h. ago Fury as children's park close to memorial for murdered schoolgirl Oliva Pratt Korbel is set ablaze by feral youths

The Olivia's Butterfly Foundation, established by a cousin of her mother, Cheryl, said they had been left heartbroken and 'extremely disappointed' by the blaze on Monday night.

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33 h. ago Netflix fans rave over '10/10' new crime thriller hailed 'even more twisted than Dexter' as it rockets up the charts

The show delves into the dark tale of Elmer (Álvaro Rico) who works at his mother's, La China Jurado (Cecilia Suárez) garden centre.

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