2 h. ago British mother, 65, furious after her Italian boyfriend, 45, is 'treated like a terrorist' and left stranded in Calais after being turned away at the border

Italian national Domenico Celentano, 45, was taken aside by stern officials in Calais who fingerprinted him and took his mugshot as if he was a common criminal.

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16 h. ago Married British soldier accused of stabbing young mother to death in Kenya breaks his silence from behind bars as he fights extradition to Africa

An ex-soldier facing extradition over the 'murder' of a Kenyan mother has insisted he is innocent. Robert Purkiss, 38, has never spoken publicly. He is being held on remand.

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7 d. 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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1 week ago ‘It’s notoriously hard to write about sex’: David Szalay on Flesh, his astounding Booker prize

The novel’s protagonist is violent, libidinous and so inarticulate he says ‘OK’ some 500 times. So how did the author turn his story into a tragic masterpiece?When we meet the morning after the announcement of this year’s Booker prize, David Szalay, the winner, seems an extremely genial and gentle author to have created one of the most morally ambiguous characters in recent contemporary fiction. His sixth novel, Flesh, about the rise and fall of a Hungarian immigrant to the UK, is unlike anything you have read before.Szalay (pronounced “Sol-oy”) is often described as “Hungarian-British”, but that has offended Canadians this morning, he says. His mother was Canadian and he was born in that country, where his Hungarian father had moved a few years earlier. “I’m arguably more Canadian than Hungarian.” Now 51, he grew up in England, graduated from Oxford University, and lived in Hungary for 15 years. To make things more confusing, he is over from Vienna, where he now lives with his wife...

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2 w. ago He was branded a domestic terrorist after January 6 and left to rot in a cell.  As he tries to rebuild his life on a farm, he tells the story no one listened to... and how he survived

Five years ago, he talked about 'executing traitors,' starting a civil war against 'f**ing libtards,'* and 'burning down Congress.' But now, Tom Caldwell is a changed man.

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2 w. ago Two packed passenger jets come within five seconds of crashing midair before furious air traffic control berate Italian plane's pilot who makes grovelling apology for ignoring their instructions

The incident unfolded on Friday afternoon at LAX when an Ita Airways flight was cleared for takeoff from runway 24 and was instructed to take a left by an air traffic controller.

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2 w. ago Two men in police custody after mass stabbing on Cambridgeshire train

Police say they are not treating attack that left two people with life-threatening injuries as terrorist incidentCambridgeshire train stabbing: latest updatesExplainer: Cambridgeshire train attack – what we know so farTwo men are in custody after multiple stabbings on a high-speed train in Cambridgeshire that left two people with life-threatening injuries, police have said.A 32-year-old black British national and a 35-year-old Briton of Caribbean descent have been arrested, British Transport Police have said, after the incident on Saturday night after which 11 people were treated in hospital. It is not being treated as a terrorist incident. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Georgia Harrison 'announces childbirth' with teasing 'trick or treat' Halloween post as fans question whether she has welcomed her first baby with boyfriend Jack Spacey

Georgia Harrison has welcomed her first baby with boyfriend Jack Spacey as she took to social media to share the happy news.

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