7 h. ago ‘He just told me lies to have sex with a teenage girl’: Natalie Fleet MP on grooming, statutory rape and fighting back

At 15, she began seeing an older man and conceived her beloved daughter. It was years before she properly understood it as abuse. Now she is working tirelessly in parliament for other survivorsNatalie Fleet is nervous about this interview. Her assistant has warned me and Fleet tells me several times, before and during. “I just feel sick,” she says. “I don’t know if it’s because it’s about me or because of the subject. It just doesn’t seem to get any easier.”The subject is rape – specifically Fleet’s experience of being groomed by an older man when she was 15, becoming pregnant and having the baby. That daughter, “the love of her life”, is now 24. Since entering parliament last summer as the Labour MP for Bolsover, Fleet has spoken a good deal about rape, her life story and the lack of support for mothers whose children were conceived this way – and each time it upsets her. “My husband said: ‘I don’t want you to be the “rapey MP”,’ and I don’t want that either,” says Fleet. “But it’s...

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37 h. ago From the drunk girl who knocked her own front teeth out to the father searching the garden bushes with a torch for couples having sex... One teenage girl's hair

As the youngest of four children, and the last teenager still living at home, I know for a fact there is an annual event my mum dreads more than anything else... the 'End of GCSEs House Party'.

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46 h. ago Meghan Markle warns ‘a lie can’t live forever’ and says 'tell the truth’

Meghan referred to a "lie" told eight years ago, saying "a lie can't live forever. Eight years is a long time, but not forever".

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50 h. ago Meghan warns ‘a lie can’t live forever’ and would ‘ask people to tell the truth’

The duchess referred to a ‘lie’ told eight years ago after she was asked how she would rewrite her public narrative.

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3 d. ago Bryan Mbeumo told where his future lies amid Man Utd and Tottenham transfer battle

Manchester United were thought to be in the driving seat to sign Bryan Mbeumo but former Brentford boss Thomas Frank now wants to convince the forward to join him at Tottenham

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3 d. ago I'm a scientist who cured my insomnia... and discovered what we've been told about sleep is a lie

Countless gadgets and apps have been invented with the promise of helping struggling Americans get the one thing they really want - sleep, but millions of people still struggle to get enough shut eye.

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4 d. ago More police officers hurt during fifth night of violence in Northern Ireland

The violence followed an alleged sex attack on a teenage girl in Ballymena.

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5 d. ago Hunt for fugitive Rochale grooming gang member who was found guilty of raping and abusing teenage girl as police warn him 'you can run but you can't hide'

Kasir Bashir, 50, (pictured) was absent throughout his trial - despite answering bail on a weekly basis since being charged in 2023.

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5 d. ago Moment Asian Rochdale sex groomers turn on each other: Paedophiles who raped teenage girls nearly come to blows in police station as they blame each other

Naheem Akram, 48, and Nisar Hussain, 41, came close to trading blows as they blamed each other for being part of the Asian gang that raped teenage girls.

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5 d. ago Rochdale Asian grooming gang found guilty of raping and abusing two teenage girls who were used as 'sex slaves' over period of five years

The defendants preyed on the vulnerabilities of the victims to groom them as 'sex slaves' from the age of 13 on various dates in the Greater Manchester town between 2001 and 2006.

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6 d. ago Seven men who groomed vulnerable girls in Rochdale guilty of multiple sex offences

Jury returned unanimous guilty verdicts for 50 offences committed by the men between 2001 and 2006Seven men who groomed two vulnerable teenage girls in Rochdale and treated them as “sex slaves” have been found guilty of multiple sex offences.A long-running trial in Manchester heard that the men subjected the girls to years of misery and expected them to have sex with them “whenever and wherever they wanted”. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Rochdale Asian grooming gang who used two teenage girls as sex slaves from the age of 13 face years in jail after being convicted of rape and indecency

The defendants preyed on the vulnerabilities of the victims to groom them as 'sex slaves' from the age of 13 on various dates in the Greater Manchester town between 2001 and 2006.

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6 d. ago Rochdale grooming gang are convicted of sex offences against two teenage girls over five

The defendants preyed on the vulnerabilities of the victims to groom them as 'sex slaves' from the age of 13 on various dates in the Greater Manchester town between 2001 and 2006.

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6 d. ago Female teacher sells home after being accused of hosting 'Scream gangbangs' with students

A woman who is facing trial for forcing teenagers to have sex with her wearing a Scream mask has been forced to sell up her house – after her husband filed for divorce

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9 d. ago British teenager Marcus Fakana jailed in Dubai over sex with girl, 17, pleads for clemency

The 19-year-old has written to the UAE government asking to be released

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1 week ago Kenza Dali: ‘I will tell my story after the Euros. A lot of lies have been told’

Midfielder on being left out of France’s Euro 2025 squad, her exit from Aston Villa and a new lease of life in San Diego‘I had hard times and this team really gave me back my love and motivation for football,” Kenza Dali says of San Diego Wave as she prepares to open up on a turbulent year.Over the course of a refreshingly honest conversation, the midfielder reveals why she left Aston Villa to move to the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) in January, details why she is enjoying working under Jonas Eidevall and discusses, for the first time, the grief that affected her participation in the Olympics. There is, however, one topic on which she is not quite ready to go into details yet. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Pregnant teacher accused of sex with boy, 15, spared jail due to 'complicated' reason

Karly Rae, a former special needs teacher, has been released on bail after being charged with grooming and having sex with a teenager who went to the same school she taught at

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1 week ago Admitted lies, emojis and a dehydrator: Erin Patterson spars with prosecutor as fatal mushroom lunch deconstructed

Murder accused cross-examined in Victorian supreme court trial over beef wellington lunch that left three in-laws deadWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?There were times in Erin Patterson’s fourth day in the witness box where it seemed as if her lies she has admitted in her testimony, like the mushrooms she prepared for the beef wellington, were being cooked down as much as possible.Had she pretended to have cancer at the fateful lunch or had she not? What, exactly, were the reasons for her repeated lies to Gail Patterson about a lump in her elbow? How about the lies she told to police? Continue reading...

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2 w. ago DAN HODGES: Keir Starmer's just told the most serious lie a prime minister's made in my lifetime. Labour can't be trusted to keep us safe. War's now a real risk

In his first major speech of last year's General Election campaign Keir Starmer posed a rhetorical question.

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2 w. ago Dear Coleen: I'm unsure how to act when my teenager starts having sex

'When I think back to when I was her age, I ­remember trying to out-manoeuvre my parents and find places to be alone with my boyfriend.'

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