61 h. ago People horrified after disabled woman claims NHS sent her to be weighed at a pet shop

Shropshire-based Sarah Rennie, who documents her life as a 'proud' disabled person, was told to visit Pets at Home to be weighed by The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital.

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6 d. ago Horror moment teen girls surround man, 75, beating him to death while filming on phone

CCTV footage caught the moment Fredi Rivero, 75, was attacked by a group of three teenagers by a London bus stop - he was rushed to hospital where he later died

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1 week ago Straw review – Taraji P Henson rises above Tyler Perry’s tortured Netflix thriller

The Oscar nominated actor gives a powerhouse performance as a woman pushed to the edge but the punishing film around her does a disserviceTyler Perry is not beating the allegations. For decades, the content-creating studio chief has been roundly criticized for making the traumatization of Black women a persistent theme in his work. In Straw, his latest exercise in misogynoir for Netflix, he pulls out all the stops to break the camel’s back.The guinea pig for this cultural stress test is Janiyah (Taraji P Henson), an apex Perry caricature who is past the point of exhaustion. Her loud, hot and dumpy apartment isn’t all that keeps her in perennial discomfort. There’s also a precocious young daughter (Gabrielle E Jackson) with nagging medical issues, and that eviction notice on the dining table. She can’t make ends meet despite working three jobs, and her cashier’s position at the local food desert grocery store is especially thankless. When an angry customer spikes a bottle of fizzy dr...

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2 w. ago Airport staff threaten to call police after disabled woman asks for help

Georgina has MS and needs adjustments to help her travel

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2 w. ago 'There will be more Jodeys': Mother of disabled woman who killed herself after her benefits were cut urges Labour to rethink plans to slash welfare

Jodey Whiting, 42, from Stockton-on-Tees, had been asked in January 2017 to attend a work capability assessment before her payments were stopped, but she was not well enough to go.

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2 w. ago 'I received a letter saying my disabled daughter is fit for work

Mum of disabled woman who took life after DWP mistakenly stopped benefits warns Ros Wynne-Jones that more vulnerable people will die if Labour continue with disability cuts

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2 w. ago Housebound disabled woman who killed herself after her benefits were cut left notes saying she was unable to pay her bills and had no food, inquest hears

Jodey Whiting, 42, from Stockton-on-Tees, had been asked in January 2017 to attend a work capability assessment before her payments were stopped, but she was not well enough to go.

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2 w. ago Disabled woman ‘killed herself after benefits were incorrectly stopped’

Extracts from notes found alongside prescription drugs in her flat were read in court.

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2 w. ago Saudi police filmed beating females in secret prisons families banish them to for years

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Videos and photos taken from outside a prison in Saudi Arabia paint a picture of hellhole conditions for women, who haven't even broken the law, according to human right activists

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3 w. ago Barry Keoghan reveals what acting alongside Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy is REALLY like

He's become one of the most sought after upcoming actors in the film industry having starred in Dunkirk, The Batman and Top Boy in recent years. 

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3 w. ago Biggest Films of 2025: Here are the 11 hit films topping the box office charts so far this year

‘Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning’ is out this week and is likely to be one of the biggest films of the year - but can it beat these 11 titles?

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3 w. ago 'Evil' teen bullies get taste of vigilante 'justice' after they were filmed beating disabled woman

A group of teen bullies got a taste of vigilante justice after she was filmed beating up a young disabled woman in Hawaii .

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