3 h. ago Council launch 'rapid' safeguarding review into mysterious death of schoolgirl, 13, feared to have been raped and murdered while in their care

Casey-Louse Horrocks, 13, was found unresponsive in a flat, in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, last Monday night. A 'rapid' safeguarding review is taking place into her death.

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2 d. ago Does James Bond have to be played by a man? Helen Mirren seems to think so | Zoe Williams

The actor says she is ‘such a feminist’ but that it doesn’t work to have a woman as the next 007. She may find that Amazon, which has taken creative control of the franchise, agrees‘I’m such a feminist,” Helen Mirren told Saga magazine, but there are some jobs a woman can’t do. To be precise: “You can’t have a woman [as James Bond]. It just doesn’t work. James Bond has to be James Bond, otherwise it becomes something else.”Mirren is starring opposite Pierce Brosnan in the film adaptation of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club, in which they both play amateur sleuths in a care home. Happily, that is a unisex job. Brosnan might also describe himself as “such a feminist” – he has never said so explicitly, but in 2019, he said a female Bond would be “exhilarating”. However, he’s now back on team men, saying: “I’m so excited to see the next man come on the stage and to see a whole new exuberance and life for this character.” Exhilaration, excitement, exuberance: all qualities I don’...

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3 d. ago Pictured: Woman, 27, found dead near care home in east London

Zahwa Salah Mukhtar, 27, was pronounced dead at the scene after emergency services rushed to Chadwell Heath Lane, Romford, following reports a woman had been assaulted.

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3 d. ago Three men arrested in murder probe after woman in her 20s is fatally assaulted near care home

The horrifying attack happened early on Saturday morning on Chadwell Heath Lane (pictured on Saturday) in the Chadwell Heath area of east London.

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4 d. ago Woman 'murdered' outside Romford care home with killer still on the run

A woman believed to be aged in her 20s was killed outside a care home in Chadwell Heath, east London, in the early hours of this morning with police launching a murder investigation

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4 d. ago Murder hunt launched after woman in her 20s is found dead near care home

The horrifying attack happened early on Saturday morning on Chadwell Heath Lane (pictured) in the Romford area of east London.

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1 week ago Alexandrian Sphinx by Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis review – the mysterious life of Constantine Cavafy

The enigmatic queer poet admired by EM Forster and Jackie Onassis takes centre stage in this unconventional biographyThe second floor of 10 Rue Lepsius, tucked away in the old Greek quarter of Alexandria above a brothel, was, for three decades, the literary focal point of the city. Entering the apartment, out of the Mediterranean sun, visitors would need a minute to adjust to the dimness, gradually perceiving faded curtains and heavy furniture, every surface covered with antiques and whimsical objects. There was no electricity, only candlelight. The host, proffering morsels of bread and cheese from the shadows, was an older man with “enigmatic eyes” beneath round spectacles – the poet Constantine Cavafy.What kind of person might be discerned amid the gloom? This is what Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis set out to discover in their deeply researched and engaging biography, the first for 50 years. They brilliantly recreate his world – two chapters about Alexandria are especially go...

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2 w. ago Council issues update on Waterworld tragedy as probe into girl's death underway

A four-year-old girl tragically died after being found unconscious at Waterworld, Stoke-on-Trent, and now the city council has said that it would launch a "full health and safety investigation"

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2 w. ago Lucy Letby: Beyond Reasonable Doubt? review – one of the most meticulous documentaries in years

The science and statistics around Letby’s case are brilliantly unpacked by this considered programme. By its end, you are filled with questionsWhen three times more babies than expected die on a neonatal ward and one nurse is on duty during those deaths, it’s got to be pretty much an open-and-shut case, hasn’t it? Especially when breathing tubes have been clearly deliberately dislodged by someone from their tiny bodies and blood tests show spikes in insulin that can only be explained by the stuff being injected. And if you find someone who has written notes to herself about her guilt, then the way forward is clear. Lock the perpetrator up. Throw away the key.Such was the initial and still persisting narrative in the case of Lucy Letby, the neonatal nurse at the Countess of Chester hospital in Cheshire who became, in tabloid parlance, “Britain’s worst child serial killer”, when she was convicted in 2023 of seven murders and seven attempted murders of the infants in her care.Lucy Letb...

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