17 h. ago Boy, 15, is charged with rape after 'teenager attacked near tennis courts'

The teenage boy has been charged after a 17-year-old girl was reportedly attacked at Cripplegate Park in Worcester.

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21 h. ago The unrequited love that almost led to murder in cold blood: How US hitwoman's desperate bid for affection from British thug saw her travel across the Atlantic to gun down shopkeeper

Grinning for the camera with a sign supporting her football team - she hardly looks an assassin. Yet Aimee Betro travelled 4,000 miles from the US to carry out a 'hit' on a man

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52 h. ago Police issue urgent appeal for teenage girl reported as missing for 24 hours

Police say Tyra has not been seen since around midday on Sunday

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52 h. ago Urgent appeal issued to find teenage girl last seen miles away from home

She went missing 24 hours ago

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3 d. ago Teenage girl mauled by 10 dogs while jogging left with terrifying injuries

17-year-old Tracy Azpeitia ended up receiving 500 stitches after she was attacked by the pack of dogs, with her mum admitting she did not even recognise her due to her wounds

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4 d. ago Police probe after teenage girl 'raped' on footpath near south London golf club

Police are appealing for anyone with information to come forward

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4 d. ago Model mother was about to embark on a new life with her son... before warped food blogger boyfriend tied her to a lapdancing pole, hammered her to death, chopped her into pieces and BARBECUED her

The tragic fate of the 26-year-old Dutch-Italian model was already sealed when she first met the the banker Davide Fontana in 2020, whose monstrous jealousy led to her murder in 2022.

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5 d. ago The school fight that led to murder: Chilling moment teen pushes Harvey Willgoose before stabbing him to death

The boy, 15, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of murdering Harvey Willgoose, at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield on February 3.

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5 d. ago The school fight that led to murder: Chilling moment teen pushes Harvey Willgoose moments before stabbing him to death

The boy, 15, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of murdering Harvey Willgoose, at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield on February 3.

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5 d. ago Teenage girl reports 'rape' on footpath near South London golf club

Teenage girl reports 'rape' on footpath near South London golf club  My London

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5 d. ago Scotland's Health Awards 2025: The NHS staff delivering life

The popular Hospital at Home service at NHS Forth Valley has been running since 2021.

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5 d. ago Promethea review – a stylishly creepy supernatural drama you’ll want to binge

This French thriller about a teenage girl who turns up with no memory is a nicely paced, emotionally intense mystery – that spills over into the realms of fantasy The greatest mystery in any French mystery drama is how the characters look so much better than any English person has ever looked. How did the cast of The Returned (more than 10 years ago now, though it feels like yesterday) look so gorgeous all the time, despite seemingly ordinary costumes, hair and makeup? Is Gallic bone structure really that different? Do clothes just hang better on the other side of la Manche? Is that why they call it “the sleeve”? Is it a clue?Forgive me. I am consumed by this puzzle. The success of a French drama can be measured by how successfully the official narrative mystery distracts me from the conundrum, and here the new six-part series Promethea does just fine.Promethea launches on Channel 4 on Sunday and is available from streaming now. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘Disgusting’ drunk who sexually assaulted teenage girl, 17, and woman on a bus is jailed

Graeme Hicks also sentenced for cocaine dealing and possessing an air pistol

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7 d. ago Paedophile hunters confront man who thought he was meeting 14

George Gleed, 78, was caught by paedophile hunters after sending pictures of his penis to a decoy he believed to be a teenage girl.

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9 d. ago The Kingdom review – an intensely exciting and absorbing mob drama

Corsica-set mafia tale boasts outstanding performances from first-time actors as it follows a teenage girl discovering and revelling in her status as the blueblood daughter of a crime bossThere are fierce and overwhelmingly authentic performances here from first-timers in Julien Colonna’s terrific mob drama. The setting is Corsica, around the 1990s, in the coastal region of Ajaccio, famously the home of Napoleon. Lesia (played by nonprofessional Ghjuvanna Benedetti) is a moody 15-year-old girl living with her aunt, hanging out with her friends and boisterous extended family of cousins.School is out for the summer and Lesia appears to be getting into a romance with a local boy. Maybe because of this, or due to other reasons, she is ordered to leave her aunt’s house and go to the luxurious and fortified family compound of her widowed father. This is mob boss Pierre-Paul (superbly played by Saveriu Santucci), a heavy-set, slow-moving but intimidating patriarch who is perhaps displeased...

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9 d. ago Popular nan choked to death after care home staff gave her wrong food for dinner

Joan Whitworth, 88, choked to death after she was given a meal 'that did not comply with her diet plan' in her care home, a coroner said - staff gave her breaded fish she couldn't safely eat

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3 w. ago Channel migrant who sexually assaulted teenage girl with special needs in broad daylight is jailed for 14 months

Aron Hadsh, 27, who was living at a taxpayer-funded Holiday Inn near Heathrow, attacked the 19-year-old in June last year after she had been sent by her mother to pick up fruit from a food bank.

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3 w. ago Goethe immortalised the shaming of German women 200 years ago – we’re still at it | Fatma Aydemir

Abortion is criminalised and stigmatised – and now the right has found a new female scapegoat in its US-style war on bodily autonomyEvery nation has literary classics that shape its cultural identity. Germans have Faust, Goethe’s play about the successful but dissatisfied scientist Dr Heinrich Faust, who makes a deal with the devil. Faust has been performed, referenced and read in schools for more than two centuries now. Interestingly, the most tragic character in this tragedy is not the protagonist, but his “love interest”, Gretchen – a teenage girl groomed by the old man, impregnated and socially ostracised. Her solution? She drowns her “illegitimate” newborn child, accepts her death penalty and rejects Faust’s offer to save her from prison. In God’s mercy, the Christian girl seeks salvation and off goes Faust with the devil to new adventures in Faust, Part Two.What would Gretchen do today, I wonder. Her fate is not only a result of sexual abuse and an inherently misogynistic mora...

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3 w. ago Failures by senior care home staff led to murder of teenage girl, coroner says

A “catalogue of failures” allowed Jason Conroy to strangle Melissa Mathieson at a care home in Bristol

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3 w. ago Coroner criticises senior care home managers over teenage girl’s death

Maria Voisin, the senior coroner for Avon, said there was a ‘catalogue of failures’ that allowed Jason Conroy to strangle Melissa Mathieson in 2014.

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