5 h. ago Man's body was left to rot so badly at hospital family couldn't dress him for funeral

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Ann Mawdsley's brother Wayne Lammond died after neglect by medical staff at the Countess of Chester Hospital. His body was left so long all his sister can remember is the rotting smell.

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6 d. ago Personal Values review – shocks as sisters reunite for the first time since their father’s funeral

Hampstead theatre, LondonBea, a hoarder, is visited by Veda, who carries a secret, to fix the rift between them in Chloë Lawrence-Taylor’s debut play, full of vivid dialogue and foreboding rumblesObjects pile and tower as walls in Chloë Lawrence-Taylor’s debut play. Since their father’s funeral, when Bea scratched an obscene picture into Veda’s car bonnet, the two sisters have lost contact, and Bea has been isolated in an ever-growing haven of “stuff”. Old vinyl, books, crockery, bags for life and mountains of cutlery have turned her home into a graveyard of the past. To an outsider, it is the depths of hoarding; to Bea, every dusty item is a relic to be pored over and adored.But, now Veda has stopped by unexpectedly to “fix” things. Lawrence-Taylor’s vivid dialogue paints the sisters both as strangers, with years missing between them, and familiars, bound by their shared youth. They remember intimate details about each other; Veda drinks camomile tea, Bea loves bonsai trees. The ac...

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8 d. ago 'My sister's only cancer symptom was terrifyingly easy to miss

When 'fit and healthy' Kate Drummond began experiencing back pain, doctors misdiagnosed her with sciatica, not realising that she had a 'grapefruit-sized' tumour in her pelvis

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2 w. ago Australia’s Isabella Nichols makes ‘biggest sacrifice’ to close on WSL final in El Salvador

Multiple lay days mean surfer is missing twin sister’s wedding27-year-old is two wins from first World Surf League title since 2022Isabella Nichols always expected this weekend to be a highlight of the year, she just thought it would be spent at her twin sister’s wedding rather than in waves off El Salvador.Lay days are the bane of every surfer’s existence. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy review – a classic that will be read for decades to come

Sketched in cinematic black and white, this illustrated interpretation of the late author’s postmodern detective novel is a ‘stone-cold masterpiece’It was a wrong number that started it – literally in the case of The New York Trilogy. In 1980, or thereabouts, Paul Auster twice answered the phone, only to hear a voice ask: “Is this the Pinkerton Agency?” (Pinkerton is a legendary American detective bureau.) He told the caller they had a wrong number, yet he was soon filled with regret. Here, surely, was a story: why hadn’t he asked any questions? But never mind. While a third call never arrived, in its place came inspiration. Out of the disappointing silence, Auster spun the first volume of his trilogy, City of Glass, a literary hall of mirrors that made him famous.City of Glass was published in 1985. Nine years later, under the brilliant eye of Art Spiegelman, the author of Maus, Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli created a graphic adaption of the book, produced with Auster’s appro...

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3 w. ago Police searching for a missing teen find body in woodland as sister pays tribute

Luke Fingleton was last seen on March 27 outside a McDonald's and his worried family raised the alarm a few days later, sparking a major police search, which ended with a grim discovery on Saturday

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4 w. ago Girl answered missing sister's phone to hear 'killer' say 'I'm watching her body rot'

Melissa Barthelemy, 24, went missing in 2009 before her little sister received chilling phone calls just days later from a man who taunted the devastated family

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4 w. ago Netflix's Adolescence dethroned as true crime show becomes most

Netflix's true-crime documentary, Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, has officially become the most-watched series on the streaming platform across the world

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4 w. ago Netflix fans demand 'stop what you're doing' and watch 'chilling' serial killer doc

Netflix has released a chilling new true crime documentary series that has left viewers in tears

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4 w. ago Girl, 5, 'sexually assaulted' on school playground by gang of boys as parents sent horror message

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Parents at a primary school are demanding answers after a young girl aged just five was allegedly the victim of a sexual assault by a group of boys

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