8 h. ago Bella May Culley could be separated from her baby behind bars in 'traumatic' update

Bella May Culley, the pregnant British teenager accused of being a drug mule, awaits her fate behind the bars of a notorious prison far from home - and now experts have raised the alarm

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26 h. ago Bella May Culley: Pregnant British teenager tells court she was ‘forced’ to smuggle drugs into Georgia

The teenager faces charges of possession and trafficking a large amount of illegal drugs

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29 h. ago Brit gang 'threatened to decapitate' 'drug mule' Bella Culley 'and to kill her family'

Bella Culley, 18, is facing 20 years behind bars in a Georgian prison when she goes on trial next week for allegedly smuggling 11kg of cannabis into the Black Sea nation

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30 h. ago British gang 'threatened to decapitate' teen drug mule who faces jail in ex

Bella Culley is languishing in Women's Penitentiary No. 5 after being caught with the drugs as she entered Tbilisi Airport in the Georgian capital on May 10.

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31 h. ago British gang 'threatened to decapitate teenage drug mule suspect and her family and tortured her with a hot iron to force her to smuggle narcotics into Georgia

Bella Culley is languishing in Women's Penitentiary No. 5 after being caught with the drugs as she entered Tbilisi Airport in the Georgian capital on May 10.

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47 h. ago Moment Border Force agents smash people smuggling ring as they arrest Gambian national in terraced family home 'who helped launder £3m in profits'

Operation Bayburn swing into action today after months of painstaking investigation following the discovery of a doctored passport on a migrant at Manchester Airport .

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52 h. ago 'Drug smuggling' Brit teen sobs in court claiming she was ‘tortured and forced’

Bella Culley told the court: "All I wanted to do was to travel and this happened to me. I’m clean - I had nothing in my blood test. I wanted to make my family proud."

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54 h. ago Pregnant British drug mule suspect Bella Culley, 18, says she was 'forced under torture' to smuggle narcotics into Georgia from Thailand as she breaks down in tears before judge

The British 18-year-old claimed she has a 'scar' that proves she was violently coerced into trafficking the narcotics and has no idea what country she is even in.

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8 d. ago Boy, 14, was used as a slave by criminal who thought 'only of himself'

The teenage drug dealer was "only thinking of himself and his drug profits"

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8 d. ago Celtic transfer target told to strike while the iron is hot as outcast fires himself into shop window with stunner

Strelec - who was the subject of a bid from Celtic back in January - netted 25 goals in all competitions last season

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8 d. ago Slovakian paedophile who kidnapped and gang raped schoolgirl, 12, starred in rap video funded by British taxpayers

Ernest Gunar Jr, 27, lured his victim into a car with the promise of a cigarette at a car park in Dover last August, alongside fellow Slovakians Kevin Horvath, 26, and Ivan Turtak, 38.

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1 week ago ‘One kid at a time’: How children’s books on male friendship could combat toxic masculinity

From Margaret McDonald’s Glasgow Boys to Nathanael Lessore’s King of Nothing, boys take centre stage in this year’s Carnegie-winning titles. Let’s hope that the male protagonists persuade more boys to pick up a bookThis year’s Carnegie medals for children’s writing, awarded on Thursday, brought to light an unexpected trend. At a time of widespread public anxiety about the decline in boys’ reading habits and the rise of the toxic influencers of the online “manosphere”, male friendship and masculinity were front and centre on the shortlist.The winner, Margaret McDonald’s superb debut, Glasgow Boys, tells the story of the relationship between two looked-after children on the threshold of adulthood who process trauma in different ways. Banjo’s aggression and Finlay’s avoidance could be seen as two models of dysfunctional masculinity. Luke Palmer’s Play, also on the shortlist, tells a story of male friendship which touches on rape culture and county lines drug gangs, while teenage gang m...

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3 w. ago The gripping, emotive tale of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira’s disappearance: best podcasts of the week

An evocative deep dive into the environmental journalist and Brazilian Indigenous defender going missing in the Amazon. Plus, Richard Ayoade teams up with Warwick Davis, while Amber Rudd has some inside info to share This six-episode Guardian podcast opens with evocative descriptions of dense Amazonian jungle teeming with macaws, jaguars and howler monkeys. But the pastoral beauty soon gives way to fear, as we hear about the disappearance of environmental journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous defender Bruno Pereira in a tale that pits them against the forces that run one of the world’s biggest drug-smuggling routes. This gripping investigation tries to get to the bottom of what happened and, given that it’s hosted by Phillips’s friend, the Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips, does so in a movingly personal manner. Alexi DugginsEpisodes weekly, Widely available Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Thug threatened to decapitate girlfriend and 'become next Raoul Moat' with 6 chilling words

Christopher Fletcher, 39, threatened to cut his girlfriend's head off and compared himself to notorious gunman Raoul Moat who went on a shooting rampage in 2010

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3 w. ago Revealed: The new tactic being used to smuggle migrants into the UK after being pioneered by Albanian gangs

A former UK Border Force chief informed about the newly revealed smuggling method - illustrated today in a MailOnline graphic - described it as 'really useful intelligence'.

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3 w. ago Family of teenage girl allegedly tortured and murdered by man she met on Grindr sues app

‘Without Grindr, we believe that Miranda would have never met this Steven Gress character, and she’d still be alive,’ the lawsuit states

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last month Wegovy use spikes among teens as doctors grapple with obesity crisis

New data indicates that American teenagers are increasingly using the weight-loss drug Wegovy, as confidence in its use for young people with obesity grows among families and doctors.

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