12 h. ago CCTV released showing last recorded movements of British woman missing since 2021

A new BBC documentary detailing her disappearance will air next week

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12 h. ago Meet the British woman preparing to spend a whole year on Mars without ever leaving terra firma

Laura Marie (pictured), from Devon, will pass 378 days in a simulated version of conditions on Earth's neighbouring planet, at Nasa's Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas.

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14 h. ago Woman raped in 'brutal racist attack' as police launch probe

Officers received the report of the serious sexual assault involving a British-born woman in her 20s at 8.30am on Tuesday.

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15 h. ago CCTV released showing last recorded movements of missing Sarm Heslop

The British woman disappeared from a luxury yacht in the US Virgin Islands in March 2021.

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16 h. ago US woman held by Taliban alongside British couple warns of health concerns

Faye Hall was arrested with Peter and Barbie Reynolds in February when they were returning to Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan

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16 h. ago British woman among crew training for Mars simulation mission

Laura Marie is one of six research volunteers preparing to spend 378 days inside Nasa’s Mars Dune Alpha in HoustonIt sounds like the premise of a new reality show: take four strangers, isolate them in a 3D-printed Martian habitat for more than a year, and watch them tackle equipment failures, communication delays and attempts to grow vegetables. In fact, it is a scientific simulation – and for the first time a British pilot is among those training for the mission.Laura Marie, who was born in the UK and is now a pilot for a regional airline in the US, beat about 8,000 applicants to become one of six research volunteers who are preparing to spend 378 days inside the 158-sq-metre (1,700 sq ft) Mars Dune Alpha habitat at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago American woman living in the UK reveals the 'wild' British quirk that 'keeps her up at night'

Maxine Berry, known on the video-sharing platform as @yorkshireyank, has lived in the UK for the past 23 years but there are still some British-isms she finds funny, strange or both.

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41 h. ago British rapper and YouTube star Yung Filly accused of raping woman in Australia is given permission to fly home

The 30-year-old, whose real name is Andrés Felipe Valencia Barrientos, has been on bail in Perth, Western Australia, since October 2024 after allegedly raping a woman while on tour there.

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42 h. ago British woman who moved to Las Vegas stunned by 'culture shocks' in neighbourhood

Charlotte Rackett moved with her family from Lancashire to Las Vegas and revealed the eye-opening 'culture shocks' she has come across since arriving in Nevada

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65 h. ago American woman feared losing job and home after Home Office visa error

Ordeal comes as government considers lengthening the standard qualifying period for indefinite leave to remainUK politics live – latest updatesAn American woman married to a British man feared she would have to leave the UK and lose her house and job after a Home Office error led to her being issued with a visa for less than two weeks.Ashley, who requested that her real name not be published in the current UK migration climate, ended up having to apply for a second visa, paid for with savings for a deposit for a home. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago Brit tourist holidaying in Portugal admits 'lesson learned' after 'nearly dying'

A British woman has issued a travel warning after her first ever holiday abroad to Portugal was marred by a health issue which required hospitalisation the moment she returned home

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3 d. ago Leaked files cast doubt on source of £2.6m in Tory donations

Official log refers to Wafic Saïd, a Canadian billionaire whose British wife has given millions to party, as ‘donor’The Conservative party is facing questions over a possible breach of electoral law involving one of its largest benefactors, after leaked files cast doubt on official declarations of donations worth £2.6m.More than 40 donations to the Tories over 23 years have been registered in the name of Rosemary Saïd, a British woman. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Dubai's strict drug rules explained after Mia O’Brien jailed for life in UAE 'Alcatraz'

The 23-year-old British woman faces 25 years behind bars under Dubai's ultra-strict drug laws after reportedly being found in possession of 50g of cocaine imn the UAE

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5 d. ago Police reveal cause of death of British woman who vanished on Greek holiday

Michele Ann Bourda, 59, disappeared on a beach in northern Greece

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5 d. ago British woman, 23, is killed and two others injured with one left fighting for life after 'drugged

One of the survivors is fighting for her life in hospital, it emerged today as officials confirmed all three women were from the UK.

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6 d. ago Revealed: British woman's cause of death after body is found one month on from disappearance

Michele Bourda, 59, suddenly disappeared from Ofrynio beach, in the Greek city of Kavala on August 1 and left all her belongings on a sun lounger while her husband slept.

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6 d. ago British tourist is seriously injured in crash that killed another woman after driver 'high on laughing gas' mounted kerb and ploughed into group in Spain

The British woman, 23, was one of three rushed to Ibiza's main state hospital Can Misses after the fatal crash, which took place at 11.15am on Sunday in San Jose, a municipality on the popular party island.

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6 d. ago Angela Rayner’s exit proves it. Unless Starmer is able to meet this moment, Reform is on the path to power | John Harris

The prime minister increasingly looks like a man next to a burning house, offering to buy a new bookcase and rugSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreOne hundred and twenty miles from Westminster, it felt like I had arrived at the perfect place to understand the meaning of Angela Rayner’s exit from the government: Reform UK’s brief conference, a giddy and surreal gathering of about 10,000 people in a hangar-like box on the edgelands of Birmingham.News of her resignation broke a couple of hours into the event’s first day, and the symbolism was glaring. Among midday pints, onstage pyrotechnics and a huge stand advertising the wonders of investing in gold, a party led by those bumptious public schoolboys Nigel Farage and Richard Tice was suddenly rejoicing in the departure of British politics’ most prominent working-class woman. The news, moreover, only boost...

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7 d. ago Inside Dubai's 'Alcatraz' where Mia O'Brien will spend her life: Former British inmates who endured confinement in notorious Al

A British woman is being held in a Dubai prison dubbed 'the Middle East's Alcatraz' that is run by Russian gangsters after she was caught with 50g of cocaine. 

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7 d. ago Fundraising appeal for British woman, 23, jailed for life in Dubai is taken down for violating guidelines

Mia O'Brien, 23, from Huyton, Liverpool, made a 'very stupid mistake' and is now being held in the city's central prison, her mother revealed.

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