20 h. ago Dig begins for the remains of 800 children believed to have been buried at Irish 'mother and baby home' where bodies 'were dumped into sewage tank called The Pit'

Pre-excavation work began on Monday ahead of a full-scale dig to try to identify hundreds of children who died at the home in Tuam, Co Galway between 1925 and 1961

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25 h. ago Jeremy Clarkson's mother Shirley made a fortune creating a VERY recognisable toy

Jeremy Clarkson's mother Shirley's Christmas present to her children one year made their family a fortune after she gifted the TV star and his sister a stuffed toy.

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65 h. ago Witness describes moment man carried out of house after horror stabbing

Three arrests have been made

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3 d. ago The heartbreaking final selfie of British family moments before they boarded doomed Air India flight

Sayedmiya Inayatali, 48, had been visiting his 90-year-old mother in India with his wife, Nafisabanu, 46, and their children, Waqueeali, 25, and Taskin, 22.

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3 d. ago Nursing home 'horrors' as 75 pensioners found drugged with feet tied together

A total of 75 people were found in "illegal" nursing homes with their feet tied together and heavily drugged up, with ministers branding the discovery as a "house of horror"

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4 d. ago The incredible women fighting to change our lives for the better: The Mail receives hundreds of nominations for the Inspirational Women Awards. Now meet our winners...

From the woman campaigning against domestic violence to the mother whose humanitarian work saving war-torn children spans more than 30 years, meet our Inspirational Women.

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5 d. ago DEAR JANE: A smiling assassin suddenly moved into my house... now she's trying to poison my kids

It's only been a month since she arrived... and she has already wreaked total havoc.

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5 d. ago Pictured: Father, 38, and daughter, nine, killed in horror house fire

Sohaib Ahmed, 38, and his nine-year-old daughter Manahal sadly died during a horror blaze on Sunday at their family home.

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5 d. ago Warning as horror house fire sparked by every day household object left plugged in for 18 hours

Tanya Bennett, 36, was told by firefighters her vacuum cleaner had set alight with her three dogs trapped upstairs whilst she was at work on Monday.

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6 d. ago 'My family think I gave kids 'disgusting' names – but they're important to me'

A mum claimed she's been accused of being 'selfish' by giving her children names that are important to her – and her mother-in-law has even called the monikers 'disgusting'

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6 d. ago Romanian mother ‘afraid’ to stay in Ballymena street after attack

The mother-of-three said her children were asking why their house was being attacked during disturbances in the Co Antrim town on Monday night.

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9 d. ago Firefighters tackling blaze affecting two houses in Scots town as locals watch on in horror

It is unclear whether there have been any injuries as a result of the incident.

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1 week ago Tony Hudgell’s birth mother still ‘high risk to children’, adoptive parent says

Tony’s birth mother Jody Simpson is to be released from prison following a decision by an independent

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1 week ago Feminism made me ashamed to be a mother. Now my children are teenagers, I bitterly regret wasting their baby years: JULIE COOK

There are times I look at my children and feel so proud I could burst. Alex, 16, has just taken his GCSEs and Adriana, 11, is a keen little actress and loves performing.

Society

1 week ago Death row survivor wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years dies in horror house fire

A survivor of Florida's death row has tragically died in a house fire - Sonia 'Sunny' Jacobs, who was wrongfully jailed for 17 years, died in a fire in Galway earlier this week

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1 week ago Goebbels and the Führer review – private life of propagandist shows grotesque heart of Nazism

Joachim Lang’s bleak film shows a preening Goebbels and a careworn Hitler as they battle to convince the German public, and themselves, they will win the warIn an appropriate spirit of cynicism and bleakness, German director Joachim Lang has made a film about the private life of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, the Hexenmeister or chief sorcerer of lies, and his always strained relationship with Hitler. Robert Stadlober plays the preening and self-pitying Goebbels and Fritz Karl is a careworn Hitler. Franziska Weisz plays Goebbels’s wife Magda, who at first resented his infidelities with showbusiness starlets but for the sake of the Fatherland submitted to the public image of a good Nazi wife and mother of six adorable children – whom Joseph and Magda finally murdered in the bunker before killing themselves.In its subversive, austerely satirical way, the film feels almost like a B-side to Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Downfall from 2004, and Lang has perhaps even inhaled, just a little, t...

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2 w. ago Lady Isabella Hervey says she's happier than ever with her 'simple life' in Portugal as she insists she doesn't need money or titles after end of her 'miserable' marriage to Belgian millionaire ex

The Marquess of Bristol's sister, 43, and the Belgian millionaire's marriage ended two years ago, with Isabella now raising their three children, Victor, nine, Patrick, seven, and India, six, as a single mother.

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2 w. ago The children abducted and sold to be cut into pieces for black magic rituals: As mother is jailed for life for selling six

Racquel 'Kelly' Smith, 35, was this week found guilty of kidnapping and trafficking her daughter Joshlin. But Joshlin is far from the only child to have met this bleak fate due to her appearance

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2 w. ago My mother says she’ll disinherit me unless I split with my partner. What should I do?

Using money to break up a relationship, particularly one with children, is not loving behaviour. You have to take control of your own lifeI have been with my partner for 14 years and we have two small children together. I have always had a complicated relationship with my mother, who was a stern disciplinarian when I was growing up, and is deeply sensitive and lacks social confidence. I too am probably overly sensitive and get anxious.My partner believes that my mother doesn’t think she is good enough for me. There have been numerous hints that this is the case, and she recently told me she was surprised when I started a relationship with someone whom she considers to be of “a different class”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Mother arrested after neighbor finds her three children with stab wounds, police say

According to authorities, the woman, 33, admitted to brutally attacking her children, slashing their wrists on Wednesday evening

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