14 h. ago LIZ JONES'S DIARY: In which my lovely new male friend admits he has 'grown fond' of me and suggests we meet for lunch...

Candid, confessional, controversial

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15 h. ago 'Brutal boyfriend put rope round my neck because male friend messaged me'

Luke Parry, 30, has been jailed for three years and four months after subjecting Jessie King, 26, to coercive control and outbursts of violence because thought she was cheating

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7 d. ago Annabel Croft's bouncing back... tragic tennis star is all smiles as she lunches with pal Huw

When Annabel Croft's husband died almost two years ago, she said she was able to do little more than sob at home, but she couldn't stop smiling at a lunch with a handsome male friend last week.

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2 w. ago 'I finally slept with my best friend but I'm hurt it was just sex to him'

Coleen Nolan advises a reader who has feelings for a male friend and doesn't know what to do after their drunken night together. While he didn't regret it, he's made it clear that to him, it was just sex

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3 w. ago Murderer who went to Jamaica with killer boyfriend in wake of brutal gun and acid attack appeals

Rachel Fulstow was sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum tariff of 30 years

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3 w. ago ‘He threw body piercing parties and lay on a bed of nails’: the wild life of body modification guru Fakir Musafar

A new documentary explores how the pioneer of the ‘modern primitive’ subculture used painful BDSM practices to access new spiritual planes – outraging conventional societyIn the opening moments of A Body to Live in, a documentary by American film-maker Angelo Madsen, we are confronted with two black-and-white photographs. Taken in 1944 by the teenage Roland Loomis, they show him stripped to his underwear, his waist heavily restricted by a leather belt, a rope wrapped several times around his neck.Loomis later renamed himself Fakir Musafar and became one of the founders of the modern primitive movement – a subculture that revolves around body modification practices including branding, suspension, contortion and binding. A Body to Live in, which premieres internationally at London’s BFI Flare film festival this week, dissects Musafar’s body of work, which explored the tension between masculinity and femininity, pain and pleasure, spirituality and S&M. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Sadistic couple tortured 'cuckooed' woman and made her drink human urine in her own home

Imaan Coley, 37, and boyfriend Mohammed Khan, 24, from Birmingham, carried out brutal attacks including the torturing of a woman who was humiliated and forced to drink urine

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