24 h. ago The Stolen Girl review – you will forget this enjoyably preposterous thriller within five seconds of finishing it

Is this fast paced drama – featuring Holliday Grainger and Ambika Mod - about a kidnapped child enjoyably daft or just nonsense? Luckily, it has enough chutzpah and style to mean you don't ask too many questionsI do love a premise that is sheer simplicity, yet yields potentially infinite terror. I’m in, I say! Have at it! So I settled in for a right good terrify, courtesy of The Stolen Girl (adapted by Catherine Moulton from the 2020 thriller Playdate by Alex Dahl). It begins with a mother letting her child go for a sleepover with a new girl at her school and arriving to pick her up the next day to find only a cleaning lady there – who explains that this is just a holiday let and that the last family there have gone. “Dum-dum-daaaaah,” I hope you are saying, otherwise you are in entirely the wrong mood for this stuff.Denise Gough stars as Elisa, mother of the missing girl, Lucia (Beatrice Cohen). Then there’s Jim Sturgess as Lucia’s father, Fred, and Holliday Grainger as Rebecca, mo...

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5 d. ago Birthday girl's last smile: Final photo shows young child excitedly sitting in helicopter cockpit... 16 minutes before plummeting to her death beside her parents and siblings in Hudson River disaster

The family-of-five had just arrived from Barcelona and embarked on their first day touring the Big Apple, taking a scenic trip in the helicopter as a treat for the young girl and her mother Merce.

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7 d. ago BBC Breakfast's Jon Kay shares 'huge pride' over sweet baby news in emotional moment

BBC Breakfast presenter Jon Kay was overcome with emotion after hearing a heartwarming story about a newborn baby girl, who was the first person in the UK to be born following a womb transplant

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7 d. ago Snooker ace Graeme Dott accused of historic child sex abuse against girl and boy

Former World Snooker Champion Graeme Dott has been suspended from the sport just days before the World Championship qualifiers before the event starts at the Crucible in Sheffield

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8 d. ago Womb transplants could become available on the NHS after the first child in the UK was born following the 'breakthrough' procedure, Wes Streeting reveals

Just four womb transplants have been conducted in the UK so far but each was fully funded by the charity Womb Transplant UK.

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8 d. ago What womb transplant birth means for the future of reproductive medicine

Experts have weighed in following the birth, which was hailed as a ‘huge milestone’

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8 d. ago Baby girl makes history as first child born in the UK from a transplanted womb

The news gives hope to thousands of women born without a womb or whose womb fails to function.

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8 d. ago 'Greatest gift ever': Baby girl becomes first child born in UK from transplanted womb

Grace Davidson, 36, from north London, received the organ from her older sister, Amy, in the UK’s first womb transplant in 2023

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9 d. ago Her sacrifice was the most selfless thing I've ever known: Couple who have a baby daughter after womb transplant from sister tearfully tell how their dream was fulfilled after 17 years

To the outside world it's an astonishing medical breakthrough, but to Grace and Angus Davidson the birth of their daughter represents something infinitely more precious.

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9 d. ago Girl becomes first baby in UK to be born from womb transplant in 'huge milestone'

Baby Amy was born by planned NHS Caesarean section at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital

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9 d. ago 'Hard to believe': The extraordinary first UK baby born from a womb transplant thanks to Scottish donor

It is more than 15 years since Professor Richard Smith presented his rabbit study on womb transplants to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine conference in Atlanta in the US.

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9 d. ago Medical breakthrough as baby born after UK’s first womb transplant gives hope to thousands

"It is a transplant that is totally life-enhancing, life-transforming and, of course, life-creating – and that is magnificent"

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9 d. ago Girl named Amy becomes first baby in the UK born from a womb transplant

The news gives hope to thousands of women born without a womb or whose womb fails to function.

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9 d. ago Baby girl 'doing really well' after being first born in UK from womb transplant

Baby Amy Isabel was born at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London on February 27, after her mum received a uterus from her older sister two years ago

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9 d. ago Girl becomes first baby in the UK born from a womb transplant

The news gives hope to thousands of women born without a womb or whose womb fails to function

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9 d. ago Miracle baby girl born after womb transplant in groundbreaking UK first

Baby Amy Isabel was born after her mother Grace Davidson received a womb transplant

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9 d. ago The science behind the UK’s first baby born from a womb transplant

Grace Davidson, 36, gave birth to daughter Amy Isabel in February

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9 d. ago First baby born in UK born after womb transplant and donor aunt's 'ultimate act of love'

Amy Isabel Davidson was born after her mum became the first woman in the UK to successfully undergo a womb transplant in 2023 - the culmination of 25 years of painstaking research

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2 w. ago River Thames missing girl: Updates as police search for child, 11, who fell in

Police said the youngster entered the River Thames around 1.15pm on Monday near Barge House Causeway near London City Airport near Woolwich - with a huge operation subsequently launched

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2 w. ago Football League assistant referee, 46, 'charged with 16 child sex offences involving teenage girl' with trial 'set to take place in September'

An assistant referee for the English Football League has reportedly been charged with 16 child sex offences and remanded in custody ahead of his trial in September.

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