44 h. ago When is the best time to tell your child the truth about Father Christmas, according to psychologists?

It has been a magical childhood filled with grottos and letters to the North Pole, but suddenly your child is wondering about Santa and risks being teased at school and feeling lied to. Charlotte Cripps’s daughter is in the tricky transitional stage, so she asked the experts what to do

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62 h. ago Meghan's Netflix Christmas special is hard to swallow, she talks about the importance of family but won't let her kids see their grandfather: SARAH VINE

Meghan talks a lot about family at Christmas and the importance of traditions, given that this is a woman who refuses to see her own father and won't let her children see their grandfather.

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3 d. ago Dad accused of drowning daughter in swamp for adopting 'Western lifestyle'

The 18-year-old's body was found gagged and tied up by a passerby in the northern Dutch town of Joure, having been gagged, bound with tape and submerged in a swamp

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3 d. ago Brit dad drowns in Thailand as wave pulls him out to sea in front of family

Jason Mark Lambert, 37, from Ipswich, was paddling at Freedom Beach in Phuket, Thailand, on Saturday morning when he was struck by a strong wave and swept away

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3 d. ago British dad drowns in Thailand as wave pulls him out to sea in front of horrified family

Jason Mark Lambert, 37, drowned in Phuket, Thailand on Saturday morning - this is a breaking story

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4 d. ago Mother’s anguish after her three young children die in Thanksgiving Day fire at their father’s apartment

‘It just doesn't seem real yet to me I can't believe that this is my reality right now,’ Jourdan Feasby said

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4 d. ago Mother’s anguish after her three young children die in Thanksgiving fire at their father’s apartment

‘It just doesn't seem real yet to me I can't believe that this is my reality right now,’ Jourdan Feasby said

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7 d. ago Inquiry to probe case of fugitive father who hid children in forest for years

Tom Phillips forced his children to live in remote campsites, without access to education or healthcare

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7 d. ago Inquiry to probe case of fugitive father who hid children in New Zealand forest for years

Tom Phillips forced his children to live in remote campsites, without access to education or healthcare

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7 d. ago Pictures unveil true horror of Hong Kong fire as deadly blaze burns into day two

Firefighters are still battling the blaze into its second day, struggling to control the fire that has so far killed at least 44 people.

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7 d. ago New Zealand launches major inquiry into case of father who hid his children in a forest for years

The disappearance of a New Zealand father and his children into a forest for years before he was shot dead by police has prompted a major government inquiry

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7 d. ago Tom Phillips case: New Zealand to hold public inquiry into disappearance of fugitive father and children

Hearings will be held in private to assess ‘whether government agencies took all practicable steps to protect the safety and welfare of the Phillips children’, says attorney generalA public inquiry will be held into the authorities’ handling of the disappearance of fugitive father Tom Phillips with his three children, who hid in New Zealand’s wilderness for nearly four years, the government has announced. Phillips disappeared into the rugged North Island wilderness with his children just before Christmas in 2021, following a dispute with their mother. He did not have legal custody of his children.In August, he was killed in an exchange of fire with police after reports of a burglary in the remote town of Piopio, in the central North Island. A police officer was shot and required surgery. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Strictly Come Dancing star Gorka Márquez shows off his rippling six

Now the father of two young children with the former Hollyoaks actress, Márquez admits it was a shared passion for personal fitness that drew them to one another.

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1 week ago Giorgia Meloni takes on Italian judges over decision to remove British father's children from 'crumbling ruin' where they live 'off

The family, who gave up the rat race to live a simple life in a woodland cottage found themselves at the heart of a national scandal last week.

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1 week ago Italian government clashes with its own judiciary over decision to remove British father's children from 'crumbling ruin' where they live 'off

The family, who gave up the rat race to live a simple life in a woodland cottage found themselves at the heart of a national scandal last week.

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1 week ago British father has his three children taken away by Italian authorities after he took them to live 'off

Authorities were called to the homestead in September 2024 after all five members of the family needed to be taken to hospital because they had been poisoned by mushrooms.

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2 w. ago Father called the police when school in London stopped letting children bring in mobile phones

One parent was so angered by the policy they contacted the authorities, and officers were subsequently sent to the school. The parent also reported the school to Ofstead

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2 w. ago Five week old baby drowned in bath 'after argument between mum and dad'

A French town has been left in shock after a five-week-old baby horrifically died after being 'drowned by her mum' after the baby's parents had an explosive argument

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2 w. ago Mariah Carey’s daughter Monroe addresses her father Nick Cannon’s 10 other children

Monroe and her twin brother Moroccan are the only children from their parents’ marriage

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3 w. ago 'She wore a hijab to hide bruises from her father's beatings': The catalogue of blunders and missed opportunities that sealed Sara Sharif's fate

A harrowing safeguarding review today revealed how Sara's father was well-known for violence against women and children years before she was born.

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