6 h. ago Killer Constance Marten is seeking to launch an appeal against her baby death conviction

Marten, 38, and her partner Mark Gordon, 51, are currently awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence of their baby, Victoria, in 2023.

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22 h. ago Baby killer Constance Marten calls prosecutors 'Harry Potter dementors' in jail tell

Constance Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, went on the run with their newborn daughter before the baby was found partly decomposed in a shopping bag in Brighton back in March 2023

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43 h. ago Charge dropped against aristocrat Constance Marten’s partner after baby manslaughter conviction

In July, Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were found guilty of killing baby Victoria after they went off grid to avoid her being taken into care.

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44 h. ago Charge dropped against aristocrat’s partner after baby manslaughter conviction

In July, Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were found guilty of killing baby Victoria after they went off grid to avoid her being taken into care.

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3 d. ago Child killer Constance Marten 'barred from calling lover or sending him letters', prison source claims

The pair are awaiting sentence for the manslaughter by gross negligence of their newborn daughter, Victoria, in 2023.

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3 d. ago Lucy Letby's barrister says child killer was 'broken person' but now has 'new hope'

Mr McDonald said he is submitting "new evidence" to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice.

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3 d. ago Firefighters called to over 40 obese people a week after it was revealed ambulance service had to spend £30million on specialist transport

The shocking reality of the UK's obesity crisis has been laid bare by Home Office data on the number of firefighter callouts for helping members of the public who are 'overweight or plus size'.

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3 d. ago Brooklyn Beckham devastated as wife Nicola Peltz portrayed as a ‘viper’

Brooklyn Beckham is said to be "heartbroken" over the way his wife Nicola Peltz has been portrayed, as a source claimed the couple is still hopeful of a reconciliation

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3 d. ago Peter Andre's Katie Price lies fightback is 'just the tip of the iceberg'

A source has claimed that Peter Andre has been pushed to the brink

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5 d. ago Prison officer had 'phone sex with gangster inmate' as letters detail 'inappropriate' romps

The 26-year-old prison officer sent flirty letters and had phone sex with the apparently 'dangerous' inmate, and reportedly supplied him contraband while he was on the inside,

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6 d. ago ‘We popped the baby in a flowerpot!’ Anne Geddes on the beloved photos that made her famous

Her whimsical, instantly recognisable pictures swept the globe in the 1990s. Yet she has rarely been treated with reverence. As she prepares for her first big retrospective, she discusses the secrets of her 40-year careerWhen Anne Geddes began shooting her famous photographs, she soon learned she would need a backup baby – or 20. “Connecting with a child who considers you a stranger is high stress,” she says. “I remember trying to shoot one baby sitting in a tank of water, surrounded by waterlilies. It took five babies to make it work. One of them was even called Lily, but she was not having a bar of it. She looked at me as if to say: ‘You think I’m getting in that water?’”She describes the practicalities of one of her best-known shots, 1991’s Cabbage Kids. It shows twin brothers Rhys and Grant with cabbage-leaf hats on their heads, each sitting in an upturned cabbage, turning to one another with mild alarm. Geddes’ assistant had tied a balloon to a piece of string, lowering it...

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6 d. ago Rita Wrote a Letter: Paul Kelly’s sequel to How to Make Gravy is an affectionate goodbye to Joe

Almost 30 years after Kelly released his Christmas classic, we finally learn what became of his cast of characters Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email“She’s the one to save me,” errant protagonist Joe declares of Rita, his long-suffering partner and unpaid therapist, in the prison letter that forms the lyrics of Paul Kelly’s 1996 single How to Make Gravy.The perennial Christmas classic was recently voted the ninth-best Australian song of all time. Almost 30 years after he wrote it, Kelly has released a sequel, Rita Wrote a Letter, in which we finally learn what became of Rita while Joe was in jail: she wised up and moved on.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Public must tackle shoplifters, Thames Valley police and crime commissioner says

Thames Valley police and crime commissioner Matthew Barber has stood by his comments that the public should call out shoplifters

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9 d. ago Scotland's prisons need £8m taxpayer cash to combat drone drug smugglers

The eye-watering cost of tackling the drugs trade was laid bare by the chief executive of the Scottish Prison Service in a letter to Holyrood’s ­criminal justice committee.

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9 d. ago Fed up locals want to 'take back control' of high street overrun with barbers and nail shops

A motion supported by Redcar and Cleveland councillors expressed concern about a "growing concentration" of barbers, nail shops and beauty salons in the area and called for a change in the law

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9 d. ago Baby killer Constance Marten ‘target for rude awakening’ after ‘sneering at inmates'

Constance Marten behaves like she is 'above the jail and everyone in it' a prison source claimed. The murderer mum-of-four is locked up in HMP Bronzefield in Surrey as she awaits sentencing.

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1 week ago Mare’s Nest review – an opaque, challenging reflection on the end of the world

Locarno film festivalBen Rivers’s cine-poem, based on Don DeLillo’s climate crisis play The Word for Snow, follows a child’s strange encounters as she wanders in a postapocalyptic world devoid of adultsEnglish experimentalist Ben Rivers offers up another challenging, intriguing cine-poem, this time on the nature of existence and the end of the world. It is opaque but with flashes of strange brilliance, an adaptation of The Word for Snow, a one-act stage play by Don DeLillo from 2007 that reflected on the climate crisis.A child called Moon (Moon Guo Barker) wanders around a strange world, entirely peopled by other children, except for one eerie monochrome sequence in which Moon sees adult figures in some kind of underground tunnel, frozen in attitudes of dismay similar to the citizenry of Pompeii. In the course of her travels, bookended by clambering out of a crashed car and finally driving happily off, Moon has dreamlike encounters with these children who speak with the tongues of a...

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1 week ago Coronation Street fans beg for soap tribute to late Frank Grimes after sudden death

Coronation Street viewers have called for the ITV soap to pay tribute to Barry Connor actor Frank Grimes following his death after a short illness aged 78

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1 week ago ‘If the reef had a voice, it would sing’: could legal personhood help the Great Barrier Reef?

As the natural wonder faces mounting ecological threats, traditional owners and environmental lawyers are calling for a radical new approach While patrolling the Great Barrier Reef, Gary Singleton was struck by an eerie stillness. The Coral Sea lay flat as glass beneath a heavy, windless sky. The heat was stifling, the water a little too warm. “It was beautiful,” he says. “But I remember thinking, ‘I feel sorry for the reef.’”That moment stayed with him. A Yirrganydji traditional owner and land and sea manager in the Cairns-Port Douglas region, Singleton has spent more than 12 years working to protect the reef – as warming seas, sediment runoff, pollution and overfishing steadily erode its resilience. Just this week a report found a record drop in live coral in two out of three sections of the reef, prompting warnings that a tipping point for the ecosystem’s future is approaching. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The moment a 'feud' between Loose Women's Myleene Klass and Frankie Bridge spilled onto live TV as sources claim ITV have been forced to step in

This is the moment Myleene Klass and Frankie Bridge were caught in an awkward exchange during a joint Loose Women episode last year as their 'secret feud' spilled onto live TV/

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