17 h. ago Norwegian police explain why they wrongly deported a British tourist – but stop short of apologising

Exclusive: Police stop short of apologising to British visitor who was held in custody for three hours and marched by officers on to a flight sending her back to Edinburgh

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24 h. ago British woman dies after running through a glass door and severing her arm 'after an argument with her boyfriend' in Australia

Claire Austin, 38, severed an artery in her arm when she hit the internal glass door at her Sydney flat, and was found bleeding profusely just after 7.30am on Saturday.

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34 h. ago Items that reflect ‘elegance and artistry’ of Barbara Taylor Bradford go on sale

The British-American author found fame with her debut novel, A Woman Of Substance, and went on to write 40 novels.

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3 d. ago British woman was ‘scared, sad and bewildered’ after being wrongly deported from Norway

Exclusive: Three officers were deployed to place the passenger on her deportation flight

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3 d. ago Meet the new 'It Girls' in their 40s and 50s with VERY youthful looks and much younger men... and the anti

Not so long ago, when a British woman looked in the mirror and felt in need of a little anti-ageing advice, she'd turn to the French.

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7 d. ago Scots traveller wrongly deported from Norway after border police passport bungle

The measure seems to fly in the face of the actual stipulations laid out by the Schengen Borders Code.

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7 d. ago UK adventurer apologises for record trek claim after Inuit backlash

Camilla Hempleman-Adams, who says she is first woman to traverse Canada’s Baffin Island solo, accused of ‘privilege and ignorance’A British adventurer has apologised after her claims to be the first woman to traverse Canada’s largest island solo were dismissed by members of the Inuit population who criticised her dangerous “privilege and ignorance”.Camilla Hempleman-Adams, 32, covered 150 miles (240km) on foot and by ski while pulling a sledge across Baffin Island, Nunavut, in temperatures as low as -40C and winds of 47mph during the two-week expedition last month. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Brit who claimed to be the first woman to solo traverse Canada's largest island is criticised for 'privilege and ignorance' by Inuits who say the journey 'is part of their normal life'

A British adventurer who claimed to be the first woman to solo traverse Canada's largest island has been slammed by an Inuit for her 'privilege and ignorance'

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8 d. ago Horror as UK woman, 84, is rescued from unauthorised British

The disturbing case in the small village of La Manchica in the region of Murcia has uncovered the existence of an unlicensed care home.

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1 week ago Tragedy as British woman, 35, is crushed to death under her own campervan which rolled on top of her during fierce storm in Australia

Eleanor Thompson, 35, a hospitality worker from Mold, Wales, was travelling alone in her campervan when Cyclone Alfred with 100mph winds struck Australia last month.

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1 week ago Norway wrongly deports British traveller as border officials invent their own passport rules

Exclusive: Norwegian and Danish officials falsely assert passports ‘expire after 9 years 9 months’

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1 week ago British woman becomes first in the country to give birth to a baby after a womb transplant

Grace Davidson, 36, who was born without a womb and husband Angus, 37, have welcomed their baby into the world after her sister, Amy, donated her womb.

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1 week ago British woman exposed in Netflix’s Con Mum charged with fraud over alleged inheritance scam in Singapore

Dionne Marie Hanna, 84, faces five counts of fraud involving three men in Singapore and France

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1 week ago Woman at centre of Netflix crime documentary Con Mum charged with fraud in Singapore

Dionne Marie Hanna is accused of scamming multiple victims, including her son, out of hundreds of thousands of pounds

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1 week ago I'm a Brit living in Canada and I was shocked to realise people don't understand this everyday English greeting

A British woman who moved to Canada has revealed the one everyday English greeting which will get you some funny looks from Canadians.

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1 week ago British woman who went to Syria 'to join ISIS' could win back UK citizenship from camp that holds Shamima Begum as court says she should have more time to plead her case

Former Home Secretary Amber Rudd deemed the woman a risk to national security for her allegiance to the Islamic terror state ISIS.

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2 w. ago 'Openly gay' British woman, 20, who is 'not interested in men at all' is 'distraught' after Cypriot court clears five Israelis of gang

Police said she had picked the men out of a line-up as having raped her during a hotel pool party in the coastal resort town of Ayia Napa on September 3 2023.

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2 w. ago Five men accused of gang raping British woman in Cyprus cleared after 'police errors'

The lawyer for a 20-year-old woman who accused five men of raping her in Ayia Napa in September 2023 says it is 'ridiculous' they were acquitted, adding that telling her the outcome of the case was 'one of the hardest phone calls I have ever had to make'

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2 w. ago Cyprus court acquits five Israeli men accused of raping British woman

Woman’s lawyer says verdict proof of ‘patriarchal’ justice system and does not rule out taking case to European court of human rightsA Cyprus court’s acquittal of five men accused of abducting and raping a British woman in the resort of Ayia Napa has been met with outrage as calls mount for the verdict to be challenged.Dismissing the charges on Monday, the three-member district court in Paralimni ruled the testimony of the 20-year-old had not been credible because it “lacked coherence and contained numerous substantial contradictions”. The defendants, Israelis aged between 19 and 20, claimed sexual contact with the woman had been consensual. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Coldstream Guard told female soldier 'shh, go back to sleep' as he raped her while they were on deployment with the British Army, court martial hears

Lance Corporal Jordan Morris and the woman were on deployment with the British Army to Kenya when the alleged incident took place.

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