15 h. ago Mysterious Albanians, missing £7,000 cash and a call from a dead man's phone: British mother's search for truth after her son, 35, died in Spain as police close case

EXCLUSIVE: Brett Dryden, 35, died at his home in Mojacar on the Costa Almeria after leaving his workplace to meet two people in the afternoon of July 21, 2024.

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21 h. ago Adam Peaty's hidden family tragedy before wedding row tore family apart revealed

It's just over one month before Adam Peaty says 'I do' to Holly Ramsay at a grand Christmas Day wedding ceremony, but chaos has erupted this week over a family fall-out

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2 d. ago Mum buys cute jungle banner from Temu for her son’s birthday, but people are horrified when they spot the mistakes

A MUM who thought she had purchased a cute safari-themed birthday banner for her son was left horrified when it arrived. Amy uploaded a video of the Temu animal poster in action and said when she looked closer it had some rather weird details on it. First of all, the text had a typo and...

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3 d. ago Will Smith poses with rarely seen son Trey in celebration of his 33rd birthday

Will Smith posed for a rare photo with his eldest son Trey as the star helped celebrate his 33rd birthday earlier this week.

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4 d. ago Joe Marler's secret Celebrity Traitors heartache led to major round

Joe Marler has opened up on the tragedy which led him to quit Celebrity Traitors midway through filming before he was convinced to stay on

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4 d. ago Joe Marler quit Celebrity Traitors halfway through filming as star rocked by tragedy

Former Rugby star Joe Maler became a fan favourite on Celebrity Traitors but has since opened up on the heartache he and his family endured during filming

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4 d. ago Caribbean cruise ship terror as dozens overboard after trip boat sinks

Holidaymakers including elderly people and children were plunged into the sea after the shock incident off the coast of the Dominican Republic

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4 d. ago I'm A Celebrity's Shona McGarty's 'hardest decision of my life' after tragedy

EastEnders star Shona McGarty has been confirmed as one of the celebrities taking part in ITV's I'm A Celebrity this year

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5 d. ago Lisa Riley says Strictly Come Dancing tragedy led her to I'm A Celebrity

Lisa Riley is set for the I'm A Celebrity jungle and has revealed the key reasons why she feels now is the perfect time to take part after years of rejecting the chance

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6 d. ago Cop ahoy! Sailing up the Amazon to the climate summit – podcast

Jonathan Watts sets off on a three-day boat trip down the Amazon – with indigenous leaders, scientists, artists and more – to report on Cop30, the climate summit taking place this year in BrazilThis week, delegations from countries from all over the world are flying into Belem, Brazil, to attend Cop30, the world’s biggest climate summit.The Guardian’s global environment reporter Jonathan Watts, however, had a different idea – to take the slow road. Or, in fact, the slow boat – a three-day journey up the Amazon, across hundreds of kilometres, to arrive in Belem just in time. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago ‘For the women who gave birth in the dark’: a portrait of motherhood in Gaza

Diana Shams wrote a book because ‘no one explains how to carry your baby through fire, hunger and fear – and still sing to her at bedtime’She used to worry about screen time. She used to fret over sugar. She used to dwell on what cartoon character might be the right one to put on her son’s next birthday cake.“I thought being a mother meant sleepless nights, picky eaters, school runs, messy rooms and too much laundry,” writes the author Diana Shams. “I used to think motherhood was hard.” Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Kelly Osbourne 'cries eyes out' on son's birthday over dad Ozzy

Kelly Osbourne took to social media to share sweet memories of her late dad, Ozzy Osbourne, with her son Sidney as he turned three years old

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9 d. ago Giving a review zero stars sets a dreadful precedent. But here are the one

A singularly horrendous TV show has crashed the star-rating review economy. But if zero stars is the new benchmark for critical rage, three films deserve the big 0 Kim Kardashian’s world-historically horrendous TV show All’s Fair has detonated a firestorm of critical horror which, as well as everything else, may have undermined the currency of the star-rating review economy. My colleague Lucy Mangan gave Kardashian’s show an all-but-unprecedented zero stars and zero stars are in fact very rare on this paper.Yet perhaps in the post-Kardashian world they will become more commonplace. I actually have the distinction of giving the first zero star review in the Guardian’s history — for Cuba Gooding’s terrible comedy Boat Trip back in 2002. But it’s weird. There have been worse films than that which didn’t get zeroed. Not many. But some. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Pregnant 'drug mule' Bella Culley's mum shares biggest fear as Brit returns home

Lyanne Kennedy is back home with Bella, 19, who was freed from jail in Tbilisi on Monday after being held in grim conditions accused of smuggling marijuana and hashish

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1 week ago Brit dad dies after reaching mountain top in Sri Lanka during daughter's birthday hike

The British father-and-daughter duo decided to scale Ella's Rock in Sri Lanka to celebrate the daughter's 34th birthday, but tragedy struck once they reached the top of the mountain

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2 w. ago Optical illusion has people in stitches after they can't unsee 'cheeky' detail

An optical illusion has left people in stitches after they spotted a cheeky detail in a snap of a group of friends posing for a photo on a boat trip - but it's not what it seems

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2 w. ago Gogglebox star Izzi Warner celebrates son's 11th birthday in sweet tribute

Gogglebox star Izzi Warner, who has starred on the hit Channel 4 show with her sister Ellie since 2015, shared a sweet tribute to her son Bobby as he turned 11

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2 w. ago Gogglebox star Izzi Warner flooded with support after emotional family message

Gogglebox star Izzi Warner has been supported by fans and co-stars after sharing a sweet tribute to her son Bobby on his 11th birthday

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2 w. ago Cricket legend Sir Ian Botham 'flips golf buggy, breaks two ribs and slips on blood'

The sportsman is never far from drama, with his eventful golf trip to Spain coming after falling off a boat into crocodile infested waters on a fishing trip last year

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2 w. ago Man finds surfboard that drifted 2,400km from Australia to New Zealand

The board was found covered in barnacles and mussels in Raglan, nearly 18 months after it was lost during a boat trip near TasmaniaA surfboard lost off Australia’s coast nearly 18 months ago has washed up on one of New Zealand’s most famed surf beaches, thousands of kilometres from where it was last seen.New Zealand-based French surfer Alvaro Bon was kite surfing in Raglan on the North Island’s west coast on 15 October, when his kite caught in the water and he began drifting out to sea. Continue reading...

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