74 m. ago The Ballymena violence has nothing to do with ‘protecting women’. It is racism, pure and simple | Sarah Creighton

Northern Ireland has always seen high levels of violence against women and girls. Blaming migrants is a useful way to distract from thatIn 1972, loyalist paramilitaries fired bullets into the home of a Catholic woman, Sarah McClenaghan. That night she was at home with her lodger, a Protestant, and her disabled teenage son, David. After forcing her son to get his mother’s rosary beads, proving that she was Catholic, a loyalist paramilitary raped Sarah. David was tortured. The gang then shot them both, David dying of his wounds.I thought about David and Sarah as I watched rolling news of the pogroms in Ballymena. I thought about them in light of the lie that violence against women and girls has been imported to Northern Ireland via migrants or asylum seekers. It’s always been here. Continue reading...

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75 m. ago Disabled bride 'humiliated' by cruel wedding dress shop staff gets last laugh

Amelia Peckham was a teenager when she was involved in a horrific accident that saw her immediately lose feeling from the waist down. Despite all odds, she got her wedding wish

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93 m. ago Netflix announces huge list of films and TV show being axed next month

You have around three weeks until these programmes and popular blockbusters are taken off the streaming service - so time is of the essence.

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2 h. ago JEREMY VINE on the day his daughters stopped finding him funny: 'I was crushed. I want to be their idol again'

Today, Father's Day, you won't find Jeremy Vine with his pants on his head. Now his kids are older, he's learnt the hard way that getting their attention requires a new set of skills

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2 h. ago Gardeners warned about 'toxic' pest that's 'active' in June and can cause breathing problems

UK gardeners have been warned to keep an eye out for a pest that becomes active in June and can cause serious damage to gardens over the summer months.

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3 h. ago Arsenal sensation Ethan Nwaneri handed shock warning by former Gunners star

Theo Walcott has high hopes for Arsenal teenager Ethan Nwaneri but the former Gunners winger says he noticed impatience that was not channelled the right way late in breakthrough season

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4 h. ago ‘The risk was worth it’: All Fours author Miranda July on sex, power and giving women permission to blow up their lives

The artist and author’s hit book had so much in common with her own life that even her friends forgot it wasn’t real. How did this revolutionary portrayal of midlife desire come to inspire a generation of women?When Miranda July’s All Fours was published in May last year, it triggered what felt like both a spontaneous resistance movement and the sort of mania last experienced when the final Twilight book dropped, except this time for women in midlife rather than teenage girls. Two friends separately brought it to my house, like contraband dropped out of a biplane. Book groups hastily convened, strategically timed for when the men were out of the picture.The story opens with a 45-year-old woman about to take a road trip, a break from her husband and child and general domestic noise. She’s intending to drive from LA to New York, but is derailed in the first half hour by a young guy, Davey, in a car hire place, to whom she is passionately attracted. The next several weeks pas...

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4 h. ago A rapist on the run, the 'racial prejudice' that saw the case collapse and a jury room bust

There was drama in the high-profile case from the very start

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5 h. ago US military parade has global counterparts in democracies, monarchies and totalitarian regimes

The military parade to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary and its convergence with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday are combining to create a peacetime outlier in U.S. history

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5 h. ago Netflix gives forgotten ITV series about British icon a new lease of life

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9 h. ago 'He's turning his back on Jeff': New twist in toxic Brazier sons feud revealed by KATIE HIND as insiders tell how Bobby has ALSO fallen out with his parenting guru dad

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11 h. ago Judge blocks State Department from firing workers while injunction is in effect

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11 h. ago Teens accused of killing a homeless man in a tent after he asked them to stop shooting in a nearby creek

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11 h. ago David Beckham 'humbled and proud' as England football legend is knighted in King’s Birthday Honours

David Beckham receives a knighthood as Strictly presenters Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman are made MBEs - along with teenage darts star Luke Littler

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11 h. ago Samantha Morton made an OBE for services to drama and charity

The 48-year old English actress and director has been nominated for two Oscars.

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11 h. ago Adjoa Andoh says MBE for drama an ‘especial delight’ as a British

The Bristol-born actress is known for her roles in Netflix drama Bridgerton and sci-fi series Doctor Who.

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11 h. ago Luke Littler and darts rival get MBEs as Beckham knighted in King's Birthday Honours

Darts teenage sensation Luke Littler will receive an MBE alongside World Cup of Darts team-mate Luke Humphries in the King’s Birthday Honours List as David Beckham knighted

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12 h. ago Chilling moment random man tries to drag teen girl away in terrifying kidnap attempt at Liverpool Lime Street

Osman Moalem, 25, was seen grabbing the teenager in CCTV footage last October as she sat on the steps of Liverpool Lime Street while waiting for her friends.

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13 h. ago Coronation Street Lisa's true intentions for 'corrupt' Kit as star teases drama ahead

Coronation Street actress Vicky Myers has addressed her character Lisa Swain's real feelings about colleague and dodgy detective Kit Green after recent clashes, with drama ahead

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13 h. ago James star sits down to perform Heaton Park gig after ankle injury drama

James frontman Tim Booth didn't let an ankle injury stop the homecoming show at Heaton Park

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