7 h. ago Conman escaped as he fooled prison guards with fake docs saying he could be released

Junead Ahmed, 36, was convicted of fraud in 2023 after he admitted to posing as a doctor in order to rent a property he could not afford and buy a home worth more than £2million

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11 h. ago 'Catch Me If You Can' conman who posed as a doctor to rent a £2million home escapes prison

Junead Ahmed, 36, had already been convicted of fraud in 2023 after admitting he posed as a doctor to rent a property he could not afford and buy the home.

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4 d. ago Louise Thompson reveals pregnancy impacted her relationship with Ryan Libbey as she admits she 'didn't want to be intimate with him'

The former Made In Chelsea star, 35, nearly died while giving birth to her son Leo and spent a month in intensive care with 'serious complications' followed by years in and out of hospital.

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4 d. ago ‘If something goes wrong in childbirth, how will I know?’ The unflinching film about parenting with deafness

Giving birth is gruelling enough for mothers with hearing – but as the sisters behind gripping new drama Deaf explain, for disabled women labour can be brutal and traumaticEva Libertad spent months researching the script of Deaf, speaking to deaf women about pregnancy and parenthood for her drama about motherhood and identity. Almost immediately, the Spanish director knew the film needed a labour scene. “For all the women, giving birth had been a very traumatic event,” she says. She heard stories about women in labour not being informed of procedures, or having their hearing partners removed from the room, depriving them of an interpreter as well as support. “I left out some of the most difficult experiences.”Her film gives us a frighteningly realistic birth scene. “Push, push hard,” shouts a doctor behind a face mask at the end of a long, drawn-out labour. The woman giving birth is Ángela, who is deaf and can’t read the doctor’s lips because of their face mask. Frightened and alone...

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4 d. ago Louise Thompson reveals pregnancy impacted her relationship with Ryan Libbey and she 'didn't want to be intimate with him'

The former Made In Chelsea star, 35, nearly died while giving birth to her son Leo and spent a month in intensive care with 'serious complications' followed by years in and out of hospital.

Politics

4 d. ago Brit jailed in Dubai 'hellhole' witnessed 'the most shocking thing of my life'

A British former detainee in a Dubai jail has detailed the 'hellhole' conditions and the 'smelly' facilities where he spent an unforgettable 22 months of his life

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4 d. ago Retired senior police officer quizzed by her former force over social media posts calling transgender woman 'Fred'

An award-winning police officer (Cathy Larkman, left) told of her fury today after a force spent 10 months investigating her for calling a transgender activist 'Fred' instead of 'Freda' on social media.

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6 d. ago Glam Brit law student in peril as GoFundMe to escape Dubai prison removed

Mia O'Brien is being held in a Dubai prison, having been handed a life sentence for an undisclosed crime, and a GoFundMe set up by her family has now been removed for violating guidelines

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7 d. ago Young soldier who killed himself in his barracks spent around £11,000 with two gambling firms in the six months prior to his death, inquest hears

Kim Mawa, 23, a sapper with the Royal Engineers, was found in his room at Swinton Barracks, Perham Down, Wiltshire, in May last year.

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8 d. ago Flat 'infested with maggots & flies' after neighbour's body undiscovered

Minda Thompson, 17, first noticed maggots during the height of summer and alerted the council - months later the issue remains and she has spent hundreds living in accommodation

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9 d. ago 'Mum on the run' freed from Thai jail and returns to UK after boasting about benefits abroad

Ellis Matthews spent more than three months in a Thai immigration detention centre with her four-year-old son

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9 d. ago 12 best teeth whitening kits: Strips, gels, powders and pens, tried and tested

I spent months testing products for brighter teeth – here are the ones that impressed us the most

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9 d. ago I'm a solo traveller who lived out of a backpack for 210 days

Rachel Smith, 25, regularly shares her travels on social media and spent seven months visiting various locations in Southeast Asia last year.

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1 week ago Celebrated, imprisoned, reviled, rebuilt: Fernand Pouillon, the lost architect of France

From designing enormous postwar housing projects to escaping from prison using a rope, Pouillon’s life had high drama. A new documentary charts the extraordinary rise, fall – and rise again – of France’s ‘most wanted’ creativeVariously described as an “architect, painter, novelist, communist and convicted fraudster”, Fernand Pouillon’s life was punctuated by abrupt reversals of fortune that might have sprung from the pages of Dickens or Dumas. Throughout an eventful career, he ricocheted from intoxicating success, to financial scandal, prison, exile and eventual rehabilitation.In 1985, when Pouillon was in his early 70s, he was awarded the Légion d’Honneur by President François Mitterrand. Yet just over 20 years earlier, Pouillon found himself in custody awaiting trial on charges of corruption. As a prolific architect-developer who had designed gargantuan housing schemes in France and Algeria, he was accused of funding irregularities and violating laws contrived to keep the processe...

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1 week ago How to have a Maldives break for less than £150 a night: Revealed by our travel editors, incredible all

When I spent two months travelling around the Maldives in 2013, I stayed at B&Bs on 'inhabited' islands occupied by locals. But a dozen years on, the hotel rates are, thankfully, much more reasonable.

Economics

1 week ago Man spends weeks cleaning up after major festival and discovers 'treasures' left behind

A man has revealed the many 'treasures' he discovered on the floor during the month he spent as part of a team of litter pickers cleaning up after revellers left the Glastonbury Festival site

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1 week ago Louise Thompson breaks down in tears over fears son Leo, three, is lonely without siblings

The former Made In Chelsea star, 35, nearly died while giving birth to her son and spent a month in intensive care with 'serious complications' followed by years in and out of hospital.

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1 week ago Virginia Giuffre 'sent to have sex with Prince Andrew for FOURTH time' in bombshell claim

EXCLUSIVE: Before her suicide, Virginia Giuffre spent the last few months of her life finalising her book detailing her alleged time with Prince Andrew - the book is due out in October.

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2 w. ago Emma Raducanu overwhelmed by Rybakina at US Open in straight

Ex-Wimbledon champion wins 6-1, 6-2 in third roundRaducanu admits: ‘I have a lot of work to do’Emma Raducanu has spent the past few months diligently working on improving her game in order to more consistently irritate the best players in the world, but another meeting with one of the elite only illustrated how much more she has to do.In what has become a painfully familiar experience for the British No 1, Raducanu was largely reduced to the role of spectator in her own match as she faced an imperious attacking performance from the 2022 Wimbledon champion, Elena Rybakina, who dismantled her opponent 6-1, 6-2 in 62 minutes to reach the fourth round of the US Open. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Scheming woman cut open pregnant friend's body 'hip to hip' to steal her baby

A desperate woman spent months plotting about how to steal her pregnant friend's baby, and get away with it, with her extensive lies to the police seeing her dubbed an 'actress of the highest order'

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