30 h. ago Girl found dead at home in 'close knit' Cotswold village 'lived with her mother and sibling'

A murder probe was launched after officers were called to the property on Middle Street, in Islip, north Oxfordshire, on Tuesday.

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32 h. ago Girl, 4, found dead in well next to condom and chocolate wrapper after 'kidnap'

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Ester Izabelle, four, was found dead in a well in Brazil after she was kidnapped by a man while playing near her home. Her body was found half-naked and submerged in the well

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49 h. ago Police launch murder probe after girl found dead at home in 'peaceful' Cotswold village

The girl's body was found at an address on Middle Street in Islip, Oxfordshire, yesterday.

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6 d. ago Migrant opens suitcase 'with dead girl, 12, she raped and killed inside' at busy bar

Chilling footage of a 12-year-old's alleged murderer was shown to jurors this week, filmed the day the suspect reportedly made cafe customers believe she was 'selling a kidney'

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7 d. ago Punish Prince Andrew? This is no meritocracy, I’m afraid – you get the royal family you didn’t vote for | Marina Hyde

After years of drip-fed revelations, we might as well face it. This is a family elevated by birthright: they’re stuck with him and so are weReading the extract from Virginia Giuffre’s tragic memoir in the Guardian this week, I was struck again by the fate of each of those people involved in that infamous photograph taken at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London house.The teenage girl at the centre of the picture is dead, having taken her own life at a remote Australian farmhouse earlier this year, unable to outrun her trauma. The person who took the photograph is dead, having somehow killed himself in a New York jail while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking. The grinning woman in the background is in prison herself, exalting Donald Trump’s impeccable purity in the hope of getting moved to a nicer jail or even pardoned. And the smiling lunk with his arm round the teenage girl – who he denies he had sex with later that evening – is living in a 30-room mansion on a 98-acre estate (which...

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9 d. ago Man who murdered his partner in a hot tub sentenced to 25 years in prison

Claire Leveque travelled from Canada to live with her killer and his mother in October 2023, months before she was murdered.

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9 d. ago Detectives release new major clues in Baby Ava case after newborn girl found dead

In a crucial breakthrough, detectives working on the case for the past 11 months believe a pair of dirty women's pants could hold the key to finding the tragic tot's parents

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1 week ago Alleged stalker breaks down in tears as voicemails left for Madeleine McCann's parents played

Alleged stalker Julia Wandelt repeatedly begged the McCann family for a DNA test, and urged them to think that the missing girl was not dead in voicemail messages

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1 week ago Historic village made famous by Bridget Jones locked in row over strict planning rules to stop it from looking ‘flashy’

A HISTORIC village made famous by Bridget Jones has been locked in a bitter row over strict planning rules. Locals in Snowshill, Gloucestershire, which appeared in the 2001 film, 'Bridget Jones's Diary', have been left divided over the rules. The Cotswold village appeared in the much-loved classic as the home of Bridget's parents, played by Jim Broadbent and Gemma...

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1 week ago Girl and boy found dead in house named as woman arrested on suspicion of murder

The children, aged two and three, were found unresponsive and injured

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2 w. ago 'We live on a close knit family street... this would spell the end of our neighbourhood'

A planning committee heard from a neighbour who claimed 'not one resident wants this'

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2 w. ago Bobbi Brown: ‘If I could bring something extinct back to life? Blockbuster Video’

The makeup artist and entrepreneur on watching her mum put her face on, her crush on Jennifer Aniston and her love of caviarBorn in Chicago, Bobbi Brown, 68, studied theatrical makeup and photography at Emerson College, Boston. In 1980, she moved to New York to work as a makeup artist. She launched Bobbi Brown Essentials in 1991, sold it to Estée Lauder four years later, and built it into a global brand. Having left the business in 2016, she launched a new one, Jones Road Beauty, in 2020. This year, she was named one of Time magazine’s most influential people. She has published nine makeup tutorial books and a memoir, Still Bobbi. She is married with three sons and lives in New Jersey.What is your earliest memory? Watching my mother put on makeup. I was in awe of her beauty and glamour. She was only 21 when I was born and quite stunning. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Victoria Beckham makes a speedy outfit change into a chic grey suit as she steps out for her show during Paris Fashion Week

The close-knit family were out in force to support the matriarch of the family, who will be showcasing her 'hippie era inspired' Spring/Summer 2026 collection.

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3 w. ago Waitress 'brainwashed by cult' into joining 'lost African tribe' 4,000 miles away

Kaura Taylor left her 'old life' in Texas, US, to live with a tribe in a Scottish forest but her mother say they coerced her daughter to move by preying on her vulnerabilities

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3 w. ago Bridget Jones made our UK village famous but it’s being ruined by Airbnb tourists who wander around like it’s Disneyland

LOCALS of a Cotswold village, famous for being the home of Bridget Jones in the hit rom-com, are furious at the council for letting tourists overrun their home. Snowshill, which appeared in the 2001 film, 'Bridget Jones's Diary' has been 'ruined' by holiday lets complained its residents. Sheila Wilks, 85, said: "I have been here...

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3 w. ago Knit’s Island review – comradeship and survival in brutal and bloody online zombie game

This inventive film, made entirely inside the multiplayer game DayZ, finds moments of community and wonder amid the zombies, factions and virtual bloodshedEvery day, tens of thousands of people roam through the dystopian universe of DayZ, a popular online game in which players strive to survive a zombie outbreak. Immersing themselves as participants and observers, film-makers Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse and Quentin L’Helgouac’h find strange beauty in this post-apocalyptic world filled with brutality and bloodshed. Their documentary is built entirely around in-game footage, interactions and POV shots, capturing a seemingly endless realm with infinite possibilities.As an open-world game, DayZ has no set objectives – apart from the obvious goal of staying alive – and players are allowed to build their own adventure, or to simply drift. Many organically form close-knit factions. The film-makers encounter one such group whose masked, gun-toting members espouse a shared philosophy of de...

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4 w. ago My girl, 23, was found dead hours after leaving her pals at pub – police say it was an accident, but I know the truth

TORN, mud-strewn clothes, "bloodied" shoes and 93 different injuries... this was how Kelly Lynch's body was discovered lying in a canal. The 23-year-old had been enjoying a night out with friends at a local pub on a Friday night before she left - never to be seen alive again. Now 18 months on, mum Julianne...

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4 w. ago Arne Slot: Liverpool will pay remainder of Diogo Jota’s contract to his family

Late striker’s deal at club had two years remaining Slot admits to struggling emotionally with shock deathArne Slot has confirmed Liverpool’s owners, Fenway Sports Group, are to pay the final two years of Diogo Jota’s contract to the late striker’s family.The forward and his brother, Andre Silva, tragically died in a car accident in Spain on 3 July, 11 days after Jota married his long-term partner Rute Cardoso, the mother of their three young children. Reports at the time indicated Liverpool would honour the remainder of the 28-year-old’s contract, which was to run until 2027 and was understood to be worth around £140,000-a-week. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Woman, 34, and man, 36, charged with murder of girl, 3, found dead two years ago

Manpreet Jatana and Jaskiret Singh Uppal are set to appear at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court today charged with the murder of three-year-old Penelope Chandrie

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4 w. ago Girl found dead in D4vd's Tesla was AGED 12 when they met online. Now as masked men guard his mansion, friends unravel the truth... and tell of the chilling moment her texts stopped

Two masked men were caught on video pacing outside the Hollywood Hills rental home vacated by D4vd, days after police raided the property in search of blood evidence linked to a dead teen.

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