10 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: You have to admire the understaffed police solving this brutal gang killing

The head of Operation Columbia, the hunt for seven men suspected of the gang-related killing of a 23-year-old delivery worker, Bellamy could call on 45 detectives and forensics specialists.

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20 h. ago Killer paedo Sidney Cooke, 98, 'will die behind bars' after TWELFTH freedom bid fails

Cooke was one of a paedophile gang jailed over the 1985 killing of abducted teen Jason Swift, who was snatched and molested in July 1985

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4 d. ago The makers of this puff piece should have read the Mail... CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Savoy: Great Hotels Through Time

This dash through the hotel's history, narrated by Fay Ripley , was torn between the desire to coo over the elegant surrounds and gasp over the scandals.

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5 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Race Across The World: I could win Race Across The World's £20,000 first prize

As contestants neared the finish line at India 's southern tip, after a trek via train, bus and tuktuk from the Great Wall of China , all of them had cash to spare.

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6 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Surviving Syria's Prisons: Bravery of two brothers who exposed the atrocities of Assad's evil regime

What a strange power the television camera exercises over people. Point a lens at them and they will confess to crimes that, in court or under police questioning, they'd deny to their dying breath.

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7 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Jamie's Dyslexia Revolution on Ch4: All fired up like an angry Aga, chef Jamie gave the minister a roasting

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Has Radio 4's Amol Rajan been coaching Jamie Oliver on how to grill politicians? When he confronted the Education Secretary, she could barely finish a sentence.

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Dan Snow & The Lost City: Like the foggy view, Dan Snow's trip to Machu Picchu is a damp squib

The fabled Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in Peru is apparently the wettest place in South America. It certainly was on the day Dan Snow visited.

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1 week ago Brighton Rock by Graham Greene audiobook review – Sam West captures the menace of this modern classic

The seaside town’s seedy underbelly is vividly evoked in this timeless tale of murder, romance and revengeWe are not short of audio versions of Brighton Rock, Graham Greene’s classic thriller from 1938 set in the eponymous seaside town. Past narrators have included Jacob Fortune‑Lloyd, Richard Brown and Tom O’Bedlam, and that’s before you get to the various radio dramatisations. But few can match this narration from the Howards End actor Samuel West, first recorded in 2011, which captures the menace and seediness that runs through Greene’s novel.It tells of 17-year-old Pinkie Brown, a razor-wielding hoodlum who is trying to cover up the murder of a journalist, Charles “Fred” Hale, killed by his gang in revenge for a story he wrote on Pinkie’s now deceased boss, Kite. Pinkie sets about wooing Rose, a naive young waitress who unwittingly saw something that could implicate him in the murder. His plan is to marry her to prevent her testifying against him. But he...

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1 week ago Family of drug kingpin gunned down in Costa Del Sol pub say notorious rival gang are NOT responsible for killings as fears grow over 'revenge' attacks

Monaghan, 43, and Eddie Lyons Jnr, 46, were shot dead as they were watching Saturday's Champions League final at a pub on the Costa del Sol.

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Jackal Speaks: From his jail cell, terrorist Carlos the Jackal tells of his plan to nuke France

When Carlos the Jackal's girlfriend, terrorist Magdalena Kopp, was jailed, he threatened to blow up nuclear power stations until she was released.

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2 w. ago Deadly Lyons gang set to seek bloody revenge over killings of key lieutenants in Spain

The crime clan -one of the deadliest in Scotland - has been left reeling since the double murder.

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Dover 24/7: Britain's Busiest Port

A single consignment of fruit from Ecuador can consist of three million bananas packed onto nearly 700 pallets.

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2 w. ago Foster child, 12, killed carer just six days after he was placed with her after social workers failed to uncover gang and knife links, inquest hears

Marcia Grant, 60 had been working as a foster carer for seven years before she was twice run over by the knife-wielding child outside her home in Greenhill, Sheffield, on April 5, 2023.

Events

2 w. ago Manhunt launched after two Scots linked to gang killed outside Costa del Sol pub

Police in Spain have launched a manhunt for a hit team that shot dead two Scottish allies of Daniel Kinahan outside an Irish pub on the Costa del Sol in an ongoing feud

Events

2 w. ago Explosive plot twists make this noirish cold case thriller sizzle: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV

Are you a fan of Gary Oldman in Slow Horses? You'll like Dept Q. Love the cold cases on Unforgotten? Give Dept Q a try. Enjoy Rebus? You'll be at home with Dept Q.

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2 w. ago The revealing inside account of how Baroness Bra came undone: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Rise and Fall of Michelle Mone

Director Erika Jenkin's documentary builds to an infamous confrontation with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, with the Glasgow businesswoman squirming under questions about the PPE scandal.

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2 w. ago Kool & The Gang's Michael Sumler dead at 71: 'Chicago Mike' killed in horror car crash

The mayor of Mableton, Michael Owens, praised Sumler - who is also known as ' Chicago Miker' - in a statement released following his death.

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2 w. ago Kool & The Gang star Michael Sumler dead at 71 after being killed in horror car crash

Kool & The Gang's Michael Sumler who is also known as 'Chicago Miker' has reportedly passed away after being involved in a fatal car crash in Georgia, United States

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2 w. ago This chippie owner took a battering trying to learn how to make sushi... CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV

Why anyone pays a fortune for sushi, those little Japanese rolls of fish, rice and vegetable, is a mystery.

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3 w. ago Imagine being the nitwit publisher who rejected Jane Austen's work! CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV

The list of hapless nitwits who rejected megastars-to-be is a long one, but none blundered more badly than Thomas Cadell, writes Christopher Stevens.

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