1 hour ago As a dark chapter closes, NZ reckons with fugitive father Tom Phillips’ four years on the run

Phillips’ three children were rescued from the wilderness this week as the complex case stirs emotions and questions remain over how it unfoldedIn a dark, grimy dugout in the middle of the freezing New Zealand bush, the three Phillips children lived with their father. Childhood is measured in increments; birthdays, lost teeth, certificates, a felt tip on a height chart. In the version of reality Tom Phillips created and controlled for his children, it’s hard to know how time was marked. But from 9 December 2021, when their father took them from their mother and the rest of their family, it would be 1,368 sleeps before the children were rescued.This week, after almost four years on the run, Phillips was found on his way back from a robbery with one of his children. He was shot dead after being stopped by road spikes and opening fire on police, shooting an officer in the head and shoulder. This sparked an urgent search for the two children remaining in the bush. They were found with t...

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3 h. ago Keir Starmer backed Lord Mandelson during PMQs 'despite No10 being aware of his emails to Jeffrey Epstein'

Lord Mandelson then backed by Sir Keir at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday before he was dramatically sacked on Thursday as Britain's ambassador to the US.

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4 h. ago RICHARD PENDLEBURY: How I got caught in the machinery of Lord Mandelson's reckless, insatiable and catastrophic pursuit of wealth... and walked away the winner after a vicious three

A caricature of Peter Mandelson smiles from the wall of my downstairs lavatory. It's from a cartoon by the great Michael Heath, portraying Mandy on the deck of a super-yacht called 'Oligarch 2'.

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5 h. ago Daniel Levy’s departure has not impacted my role at Tottenham, Thomas Frank says

Even though Frank did not expect Levy to leave, he says it’s very much ‘business as usual’

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5 h. ago DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Starmer pledged to 'end the chaos'. So how's that going?

He lost his deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and his ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson to separate scandals within a week, and his own MPs are openly questioning his judgment.

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5 h. ago Thomas Frank 'feels the backing' of new Tottenham hierarchy as new era dawns

The Dane confirms he has held talks with the new Lewis family after Daniel Levy was removed

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5 h. ago Thomas Frank says Daniel Levy’s departure has not impacted his role at Tottenham

Major shareholders ENIC, which is run by the Lewis family trust, made the decision to move Levy on last week.

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7 h. ago Sephora’s £225 advent calendar worth more than £1,000 that’s sold out for three years running

It’s promising to be one of the most exclusive beauty advent calendar of the year

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7 h. ago Thomas Frank reveals true feelings on Daniel Levy's shock Tottenham exit

Spurs made the shock decision to part ways with Daniel Levy having served as the club's chairman for 24 years - with Thomas Frank speaking about that decision in his latest press conference.

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8 h. ago Slimmed down Peter Wright barely eating in bid to be first Scot to win three World crowns

Snakebite has shed three stone as he attempts to get his game back to peak performance

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9 h. ago Ryan Thomas moves pigeon into house after believing bird is his late dad

Ryan Thomas has issued a further update on the pigeon he has claimed could be the reincarnation of his father, who died in 2020

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9 h. ago Yvette Cooper defends Keir Starmer as Labour anger grows over Peter Mandelson row

Yvette Cooper was pressed on whether the Prime Minister's judgement is in question over the appointment of Peter Mandelson after backbencher Clive Lewis suggested Keir Starmer may not be 'up to the job'

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9 h. ago Labour MP says Starmer not ‘up to the job’ as PM defends under

Downing Street rowed in behind the under-fire chief of staff Morgan McSweeney on Friday morning amid questions over his involvement in the appointment of Peter Mandelson

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10 h. ago Cocaine kingpin who posed for surfing snaps while his hapless minions were chased onto beach and arrested over £18m drugs plot is jailed for 16 years

Alex Fowlie, 35, of Chichester bragged to accomplices there was 'zero f*****g risk' as he helped engineer a plan to bring £18.4million of drugs from South America into the UK.

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10 h. ago Early versions of Peter Rabbit, Thomas The Tank Engine and The BFG to be sold

A first addition Beatrix Potter titled The Story Of A Fierce Bad Rabbit, published in 1906, is among 60 lots of children’s books going on sale.

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11 h. ago Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book is a horrifying document | Moira Donegan

Conspiracy theorists wonder about what Epstein and his powerful friends may have done to cover up his crimes. But they barely were covered upJeffrey Epstein had a lot of friends. When his girlfriend-cum-assistant and convicted fellow sex trafficker, Ghislane Maxwell, set out to compile letters, drawings and well wishes from friends in celebration of the pedophile financier’s 50th birthday in 2003, the resulting scrapbook was 238 pages long. The book, titled The First 50 Years, included letters from prominent well-wishers such as former president Bill Clinton and the Bear Stearns executives James Cayne and Alan Greenberg, as well as from the late Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling scout and Epstein’s fellow pedophilic rapist.The lawyer and longtime Epstein friend Alan Dershowitz contributed a mock cover of the magazine Vanity Fair, which was working on a profile of Epstein at the time; Peter Mandelson, until this week the UK ambassador to the United States, wrote that Epstein was “my...

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11 h. ago The best and worst supermarket pesto: Which? reveals how jars from Ocado, ASDA and Lidl stand up against branded favourites like Filippo Berio

There are plenty of pesto options in UK stores, from supermarket versions to branded favourites. Now, Which? has narrowed down the exact jar that will give customers the most bang for their buck.

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11 h. ago Starmer not ‘up to the job’, Labour MP says after Mandelson scandal

Clive Lewis, MP for Norwich South, said there was a ‘very dangerous atmosphere’ in the parliamentary Labour party.

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11 h. ago Martin Rowson on Labour’s problems with Keir Starmer and Peter Mandelson – cartoon

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11 h. ago Morgan McSweeney is facing his biggest test yet – but could the PM actually sack him?

Morgan McSweeney is so closely intertwined with the prime minister that sacking him would raise further, deeply uncomfortable questions about Sir Keir’s judgement, writes Millie Cooke

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