34 h. ago ‘I will finish your work’: one woman’s fight for the Jewish art and letters her mother saved from the Nazis

Exclusive: Hundreds of works by the artist and poet Peter Kien have a new home in the UK, thanks to Judy KingThey survived the Nazis, were confiscated by the communists, and for the last three decades they have been jealously guarded by a museum in the Czech Republic. Due to the attentions of an overzealous Czech customs guard and the vagaries of the British weather, a happy conclusion had been in doubt to the very end.But last Thursday a small suitcase filled with 681 drawings, love letters, poems and manuscripts created by the Jewish artist and poet Peter Kien in the Theresienstadt ghetto in German-occupied Czechoslovakia between 1941 and 1944 finally made a blustery landing at Heathrow. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Woman stabbed partner to death, buried him in garden then had drink with his unsuspecting mum

Nicholas Billingham's 'concerned' mother stopped for a drink with the woman he had allegedly abandoned, only to later discover his body was hidden in the backgarden after he had been murdered

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5 d. ago Woman who kept ‘house slave’ prisoner was reported 20 years before arrest

Amanda Wixon, 56, held the woman, who is now in her 40s and cannot be named, in squalid conditions and regularly squirted washing-up liquid down her throat, it's been revealed

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5 d. ago Hellish life 'slave' trapped by mum in house of horrors – broom attacks and no teeth

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: A British mum-of-ten has been convicted of false imprisonment, assault and forced labour after holding a woman captive for 25 years in a horrific campaign of abuse

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5 d. ago Woman kept a slave for 25 years was 'failed by social services': Neighbour of evil scratch card addict 'repeatedly' rang authorities to report abuse but 'nothing was ever done'

A vulnerable woman kept as a slave for 25 years by a mother-of-ten was failed by social services, according to a neighbours who said they repeatedly rang the authorities over the 'house of horrors'.

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5 d. ago Filthy conditions where mother kept woman as ‘house slave’ for 25 years exposed

Bodycam footage shows the filthy Gloucestershire room where a woman was forced to live whilst kept as a “house slave” for a mother and her 10 children for more than 25 years.

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5 d. ago Cardiff puppy farm so 'putrid' that it made welfare officers physically sick

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT A court heard 38 dogs were found at a three-bedroom house in Cardiff with conditions so filthy police officers and local authority workers were left vomiting

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5 d. ago Inside filthy 'prison cell' room where Amanda Wixon kept vulnerable woman for decades

Amanda Wixon, who is a mother of ten from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, forced a teenage girl to work as a "house slave" in a squalid property for multiple years

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6 d. ago Mother of 10 found guilty of keeping ‘house slave’ for 25 years

Gloucester Crown Court heard the woman was regularly beaten and also hit with a broom handle by Amanda Wixon – knocking out her teeth.

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6 d. ago Mother of 10 who kept vulnerable woman as ‘house slave’ for 25 years found guilty

Amanda Wixon, 56, held the woman between 1995 and 2021 at her family home in Gloucestershire

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6 d. ago 'The woman is your average mother after too many vinos': Hilarious 'drunk' Victoria Beckham dancing videos go viral as fans point out how 'happy' Nicola Peltz looks to be with her

Sources claimed that Victoria left Brooklyn's wife Nicola Peltz 'in tears' at their 2022 wedding after she 'nuzzled his neck' and 'grinded on him' in her impromptu dance at the reception.

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7 d. ago Pair jailed after officers find 52 dogs and exotic animals living in horror home

More than 50 dogs and a number of exotic animals including snakes and lizards were found in filthy conditions

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7 d. ago Pair who neglected 52 dogs and exotic animals in horror home jailed

Zoe Louise Graham and Lee Lock were sentenced at Swansea Crown Court after 52 dogs and a number of exotic animals including snakes and lizards were found in filthy conditions

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1 week ago ‘She had a hidden identity’: new film uncovers a mother’s second world war secrets

In harrowing documentary My Underground Mother, a woman finds out what really happened to her mother in the warWhen journalist Marisa Fox was a young girl, her mother would regale her with stories of her own youth, all of which roiled with drama and consequence. When she was a 13-year-old girl living in Poland in the late 1930s, on the brink of the Nazi occupation, her mother told her she was pulled away from her mother and put on a boat to Palestine where she spent the rest of the second world war. As a teenager in that country, she said she became part of a radical Jewish underground group for whom she acted as a spy and a saboteur, smuggling bombs and guns which they used against the British army who ran the country at the time and who they very much wanted to force out. “I was a hero,” her mother would often boast, “never a victim.”Stories like those both dazzled and horrified the young Fox, but by the time she was nine she began to realize that certain parts of the tale didn’t ...

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1 week ago Woman forgave her mother’s killer, gave him a job and then he murdered her

One woman's extraordinary act of forgiveness ended in a bloody mess at her beautiful ante-bellum home in Arkansas

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2 w. ago Woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis was a mother of 3, poet and new to the city

The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis was a U.S. citizen and mother of a 6-year-old

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3 w. ago ‘No future for us’: disaffected Iranians say it’s now or never to topple regime

Ailing economy sparks biggest uprising in years, with protesters saying it’s time to hit regime when it’s at its weakestMehnaz was too young to protest when Mahsa Amini died in police custody three years ago after she was arrested for allegedly wearing the hijab improperly. Her mother did not let her join the throngs of crowds chanting “woman, life, freedom” in Tehran and across the country – so she could only watch at home as they were beaten back by batons and bullets.Since then, the 19-year-old computer science student in Tehran has waited for the chance to join fellow Iranians in protest. On Sunday, the moment finally came. Continue reading...

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