3 h. ago Brit man 'stabbed with screwdriver' in holiday hotspot after refusing to hand out cigarette

A British man has been hospitalised in Spain after reportedly being stabbed with a screwdriver by a passerby for refusing to give him a cigarette.

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19 h. ago Magaluf hols legend dies aged 63 as Brits lead tributes and fundraiser launched for ‘true gentleman’ with ‘open heart’

BRITISH holidaymakers have paid emotional tribute to a beloved Magaluf hotel security guard described as a “true gentleman” after his sudden death aged 63. Tom Colin, a former Royal Navy man from Birmingham, had worked for more than a decade at the popular four-star Hotel Samos in the heart of the Majorcan party resort. He...

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22 h. ago Major holiday airport popular with Brits shuts immediately with travel chaos fears

At least nine flights were redirected from the airport this evening as authorities have launched an investigation into the incident, thought to be concerned with drones

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58 h. ago Paedophile who abused boy before his death allegedly 'protected by Freemasons'

The Shirley Oaks Survivors Association has accused fellow Freemasons of protecting paedophiles from justice after it was revealed that cops have been covering up a sex assault.

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58 h. ago Mum gave girl, 5, chilling instruction before she fell off Disney cruise in horror plunge

It was supposed to be a dream holiday but when a five-year-old girl fell overboard things took a turn for the worst. Now details are starting to emerge about exactly what happened

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2 d. ago Sex attack migrant 'returned to prison five times' after being accidently freed

Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in Epping. The sex attack led to major protests in Epping

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3 d. ago Kebatu manhunt LIVE: Met Police urges Epping hotel sex assault convict to turn himself in

Kebatu was freed by mistake at HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

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3 d. ago Hadush Kebatu manhunt LIVE: Met Police urges Epping hotel sex assault convict to turn himself in

Kebatu was freed by mistake at HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

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3 d. ago Hadush Kebatu manhunt LIVE: Met Police lead London hunt for Epping hotel sex assault convict freed in error

Kebatu was freed by mistake at HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre

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4 d. ago Asylum seeker found guilty of stabbing migrant hotel worker to death with screwdriver

The trial heard Majek had been reported to security at the Park Inn hotel in Walsall, where he lived and Rhiannon worked

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4 d. ago Revealed: The tourist hotspot where Brits report stolen or lost passports most often

Data from the Foreign Office has found that Britain's favourite holiday destination is a top spot for reports of missing passports.

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6 d. ago Hotel worker arrested after Brit tourist, 45, ‘raped on Greek holiday island’

The 45-year-old British tourist was holidaying on the Greek island of Kos when she claims she was attacked by a member of hotel staff in her room, triggering a local manhunt

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6 d. ago Spain issues warnings as winds of up to 90km/h set to batter the country

The windy weather coincides with October half term when many Brits jet off to Spain for a holiday

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6 d. ago Expert warns young Brits not to skip this 1 crucial step when booking a holiday

More than half of all British holidaymakers have had to make a claim on their travel insurance after things went wrong before or during their trip - but not everyone is protected.

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7 d. ago Katie Price is 'preparing to give evidence in court' after ex

Personal trainer Hayler, 38, is alleged to have committed the offences between June and October 2016 - in the middle of his marriage to the ex-glamour model, 47.

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7 d. ago British tourist, 45, 'is raped on Greek holiday island' as cops arrest Nigerian hotel worker

The 45-year-old victim told Kos police officers that she had been sexually assaulted by the 42-year-old man in her room at around 7pm on Monday.

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7 d. ago I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan review – startling stories of China’s new precarity

The viral blog turned book details the exhausting life of a courier, but something may have been lost in translationFrom the early 2000s until the Covid lockdowns, Hu Anyan was one of China’s vast army of internal migrants, moving between cities in pursuit of work. He did 19 jobs – shop assistant, hotel waiter, petrol attendant and security guard, among other things – in six cities. Although all these jobs were atrociously paid, they still earned him more than the one he tried for two years in the middle of this period: writer. (An 8,000-word story earned him less than 300 yuan – about £30.) Then, during Covid, he wrote a blog about his night shifts in a logistics warehouse, and it went viral. The blog expanded and became I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, which has sold nearly 2m copies in China since being published in 2023, and now appears in Jack Hargreaves’s English translation.The low-paid Chinese worker is at the mercy of an entirely unrestrained market. The jobs Hu does dema...

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7 d. ago 'Asylum seeker' is arrested over alleged sex assault on a ten

A man understood to be an asylum seeker has been arrested after allegedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl near an asylum centre in Dublin. 

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9 d. ago Shocking behavior that led to little girl's horror plunge from Disney cruise ship is revealed for first time

Passengers heard the blood-curdling scream of a panicked mother - then saw a man hurl himself 49 feet off the Disney Dream cruise ship into the ocean.

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9 d. ago Mystery drone at Majorca Airport sparks chaos as flights diverted

Reports of a drone spotted at Majorca Airport has caused chaos for passengers with flights unable to take off or land for a period from around 6pm UK time on the holiday island popular with Brits

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