3 h. ago Council worker felt 'life had been destroyed' before jumping from window as GMP officers tried to arrest him

Ashley Crews had previously been arrested on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children in 2022

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24 h. ago Call for total ban on deepfake apps used to create explicit images of children

The Government must take action to stop abuse, Children’s Commissioner says

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3 d. ago Penny Lancaster reflects on the struggles of navigating a blended family with husband Rod Stewart's other children: 'I could only imagine how difficult it was for them'

Penny Lancaster has opened up on the trials and tribulations of navigating a blended family with her husband Rod Stewart's other children.

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6 d. ago Pop paedophile Gary Glitter 'may not get a parole hearing' due to his conduct in jail

Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, was released from prison in 2023, halfway through a 16-year sentence. He was recalled weeks later for allegedly viewing images of children.

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1 week ago The 14 most valuable Lego sets and minifigures you might have in your home

Lego is one of the world’s best-loved toys, with the building bricks as we know them having been fuelling children’s imaginations since 1958.

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3 w. ago Paedo with 'nappy fetish' tried to acquire baby items from nurseries

The perv was convicted previously for possessing indecent images of children but he contacted a nursery claiming he wanted to send his children there and then inquired about free nappies

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3 w. ago Paedophile with conviction for sick child abuse images posed as hero paratrooper to volunteer at charity feeding Ukrainian children fleeing Putin's war

An acclaimed British charity that feeds Ukrainian children fleeing Vladimir Putin's invasion hired a convicted paedophile who posed as a paratrooper, it has been revealed. 

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3 w. ago ‘I didn’t start out wanting to see kids’: are porn algorithms feeding a generation of paedophiles – or creating one?

More than 850 men a month are arrested for online child abuse offences in England and Wales. They come from every walk of life: teachers, police officers, doctors, TV presenters. And the numbers are rising every year. How did this happen?Andy was enjoying a weekend away with his wife when it happened. “My neighbour phoned me and said, ‘The police are in your house. They’re looking for you.’” He didn’t need to wonder why. “You know. You know the reason. I was petrified when I got that call. It wasn’t just the thought of other people knowing what I had done; I also had to face myself, and that is a sick feeling – it is guilt, shame.”Andy had been watching and sharing images of children being sexually abused for several months before the police appeared at his door. He tried at first to keep it from his wife: “I was afraid she would ask me to leave. I wouldn’t have blamed her if she had.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘They didn’t call us for Live Aid’: the stars behind Black Britain’s forgotten charity record

In 1985, a star-studded lineup of Black UK musicians, including Aswad, Dennis Brown and Janet Kay, recorded a charity single to raise funds for famine-stricken Ethiopia. Why are their efforts so little known?The Ethiopian famine of the early 1980s was one of the defining news stories of the decade, an exposure of the stark divide between developed and developing nations, still referred to at the time as the Third World. It is a received wisdom that the general public in Britain learned about the crisis when shocking images of emaciated men, women and children were shown on BBC news reports. This is not entirely true. In fact, plenty of Rastafarians were already aware of the situation.The east African country was their spiritual home – many in the movement viewed its former emperor Haile Selassie as their messiah – and a place free from the iniquities of the west. “A lot of Rastafarians went to Ethiopia [before they] came to London,” says the musician and cam...

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