4 h. ago Our Novichok nightmare: Former Russian spy and his daughter targeted by Putin in Salisbury poisonings relive hell of hallucinations 'like LSD' that left them close to death

Sergei Skripal, a double agent who had passed intelligence to MI6 , and his then 33-year-old daughter Yulia nearly lost their lives in the attack by Russian assassins in Salisbury in 2018

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38 h. ago Voices: Our daughter went missing for 36 hours. The grief has lasted a lifetime

For 36 unbearable hours, we believed our daughter was gone for ever, says Anne Atkins. What we lived through has shaped every moment since

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5 d. ago Motherwell mum shortlisted as finalist in national awards for devotion to daughter with rare condition

Lynsey McLuckie has been named a finalist in the Contact Awards, recognising her extraordinary dedication to her six-year-old daughter, who lives with a rare genetic condition, Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC).

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7 d. ago Evil parents who beat newborn baby to death laughed after taking tiny corpse to hospital

Hilary Johnson II, 24, and Z'ibreyea S. Parker, 22, were both caged for a combination of 29 years on Friday.

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8 d. ago Woman killed parents and for 4 years lived with corpses in home

Virginia McCullough, 36, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 36 years after admitting the murders of her parents, John and Lois McCullough

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8 d. ago Twisted 'healer' decapitated her friend and then gave chilling explanation

Healer Jemma Mitchell decapitated her friend Mee Kuen Chong before dumping her remains in the woods

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8 d. ago Daughter lived with parents' corpses for 4 years after chilling explanation for murder

Virginia McCullough, 36, murdered her parents in a house in Great Baddow, Essex, and carried on living with their bodies, telling neighbours they were away or unwell

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8 d. ago Twisted killer murdered then decapitated her friend with chilling explanation 

Jemma Mitchell, from Willesden in north-west London, targeted 67-year-old widow Mee Kuen Chong after meeting her at a church group before carrying out a killing that horrified the nation

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1 week ago ‘I look deranged, but my baby looks happy!’ Nine writers on their favourite photo booth picture

This year marks a century since the birth of the photo booth, and friends and families are still squeezing into them for fun and unflattering snaps - capturing the highs, lows and loves of their livesI didn’t find early motherhood easy. It wasn’t my daughter’s fault – she was, mercifully, a wonderful and cheerful baby – but I underestimated what a huge shift it would be at an already stressful time. When I was pregnant, we moved to a new town, to a wreck of a house we planned to do up. My mum, who was ill, moved in with us, and then I was the carer of a newborn and a dying parent – at the two extremes of life, but sharing many of the same needs, and often at the same time. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Actor Alexandra Roach looks back: ‘I’m from a small town – when I snuck into a nightclub underage, 11 people told my dad’

The Utopia and No Offence star on channelling her righteous younger self, how she shakes off heavy roles, and her alter ego DJ DaveBorn in Ammanford, south Wales, in 1987, Alexandra Roach began her career in the S4C soap Pobol y Cwm, before training at Rada in London. Her first major role was as a young Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady in 2011, and she has gone on to star in TV dramas including Utopia, No Offence, Hunderby and Being Human; she is currently staring in Amazon Prime Video’s series Lazarus. She lives in Bristol with her husband and daughter.This is me in my living room. I’m 12 years old and proudly holding a letter I’d written to the local town council. In it, I pleaded with them to do something radical for the sake of the youth of Ammanford: open a Claire’s Accessories. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Dad used poisoned Halloween sweet to kill own son with chilling explanation

Ronald Clark O'Bryan, also known as The Man Who Killed Halloween, was an optician and deacon from Texas who murdered his own son with a potassium cyanide-laced Pixy Stix

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3 w. ago Tess Daly's daughter paves new path after mum quits her role at Strictly Come Dancing

Tess Daly's daughter has lived a life out of the spotlight, with her famous parents encouraging her to pave her own path, until recently, with the star gaining social media fame

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3 w. ago Catherine Tyldesley details her Corrie comeback as she returns as the Rovers Return landlady and admits she would have once 'killed' for the role

The soap star, 42, played barmaid icon Eva Price from 2011 to 2018, and bid farewell to the cobbles seven years ago when she went to live in France with her daughter Susie.

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4 w. ago Scots mum given weeks to live after shock leukaemia diagnosis on daughter's birthday

Elaine Bolton, then 35, was diagnosed with leukaemia on the day of her daughter's sixth birthday.

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