33 h. ago Depraved monster who molested girl is jailed but 'it's no justice for my daughter as her life is already broken'

Mum speaks out as fiend who sexually assaulted her daughter, Mark Sheridan, is jailed

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57 h. ago I'm living every parent's worst nightmare, says devastated mother whose daughter, 13, took her own life after bullying on social media

Alyssa Morris, 13, was tragically found hanged in Brungerley Park in Clitheroe, Lancashire, just five days before her 14th birthday on February 12, 2023

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60 h. ago Tom Hanks reacts to daughter’s memoir claim that mother was emotionally and physically abusive

E.A. Hanks’s memoir hit shelves in April

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3 d. ago Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s daughter Gracie opens up about her sexuality and clarifies ‘clickbait’ headlines

Gracie confirmed that she’s ‘been an out and proud queer, bisexual woman’ for a while now

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3 d. ago Mum received DWP letter saying her disabled daughter was fit for work – she was dead

Joy Dove, whose daughter Jodey Whiting took her own life after the DWP mistakenly cut her benefits, has warned that further welfare cuts will be 'tantamount to more deaths'

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4 d. ago Baywatch vet Pamela Bach's last loving message to her daughter before she took her life at 61 is revealed

The Baywatch star, 61,  who was divorced from actor David Hasselhoff, 72, died by suicide in March , but according investigative documents, before she made that fateful decision she talked to her child.

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6 d. ago Brave mum who plans to end her life after daughter’s exams says decision is her ‘last bit of parenting’

A mum with motor neurone disease is planning to starve herself to protect her 'amazing' children from seeing her 'brutal' death, after being diagnosed with the terminal illness two years ago.

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8 d. ago As a Muslim girl in Bradford, I saw my story in Jane Austen’s novels. Now I’ve directed a TV series about her | Ali Naushahi

I soaked up her sharp insights into class, gender and power. Reading more about her life, the parallels between us became clearI grew up as the daughter of an imam in a conservative British-Pakistani community in Bradford. Our early years were spent in a large Victorian terrace owned by the local mosque council. When my father was replaced, we downsized overnight to a much smaller house on the other side of town. The loss of a beloved home, close friends and community was a deeply disorienting experience.Decades later, directing the new BBC series Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius, I found myself thinking back to that time. On the surface, my life and Jane Austen’s couldn’t be more different – an English novelist born in the 18th century and a working-class British-Pakistani woman. Austen’s novels had always resonated with me when I read them as a girl. But learning more about her life as part of my director’s prep, I realised just how many shared realities we had. I saw how similar Aus...

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8 d. ago ‘Fatherhood is an adventure that somehow both constrains and expands your world’: What having a daughter has taught me about being a man

A sense of threat, a sense of humility and a sense of wonder. Ben Bryant, on how having a daughter has rewired his brain

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9 d. ago A South African woman is sentenced to life in prison for selling her young daughter

A South African woman has been sentenced to life in prison for selling her 6-year-old daughter

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9 d. ago Gal Gadot sports a bloodied face as she runs through central London while filming thriller The Runner after pro

The influencer has lived her life in the spotlight as the daughter of showbiz legend Katie Price and pop star Peter Andre.

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9 d. ago Mum and boyfriend who sold daughter, 6, 'for eyes and skin' handed life sentences

Racquel 'Kelly' Smith, 32, and her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis, 29, have been sentenced to life behind bars following a six-week trial at a community centre in Saldanha, South Africa

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9 d. ago Mum who sold daughter, 6, for 'her eyes and skin' jailed for life

Racquel 'Kelly' Smith and boyfriend Jacquen Appollis have been sentenced to life in a trial that captivated South Africa - while Joshlin Smith has never been found.

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9 d. ago 'I cut brother out of my life after hearing what he named daughter'

A woman has taken to social media for advice after sharing how her brother's choice is baby names left her heartbroken – and now she is considering never speaking to him again

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1 week ago Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87

Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’The Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who was censored, imprisoned and forced into exile by the dictator Daniel arap Moi, a perennial contender for the Nobel prize for literature and one of few writers working in an indigenous African language, has died aged 87.“It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of our dad, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, this Wednesday morning,” wrote his daughter Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ on Facebook. “He lived a full life, fought a good fight.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Hoda Kotb reveals daughter’s health diagnosis that led to her stepping down from Today show

Kotb’s youngest daughter is living with type 1 diabetes, the former morning show host revealed

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1 week ago Meghan Markle shares rare glimpse of Lilibet's face as pair wear sweet matching outfits

The Duchess of Sussex has shared a sweet video on Instagram as she spent time with her daughter beekeeping - giving fans a glimpse into family life in California

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2 w. ago Up to 43,000 criminals a year set to avoid jail under Labour's soft

A new sentencing review already been accepted 'in principle' by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood could see tens of thousands of offenders avoid jail each year, official data shows.

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2 w. ago Voices: I’ve spent decades inside prisons – here’s how I’ll fix them for good

In light of the Gauke sentencing review, prisons minister Lord Timpson explains why, to end the perma-crisis in our justice system, we must now embark on the largest expansion of jail places since the Victorian era

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2 w. ago Mrs Warren’s Profession review; 'why does it feel so mechanical?'

Imelda Staunton stars opposite her real life daughter Bessie Carter in a George Bernard Shaw production that tends to drag even with huge cuts

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