40 h. ago He made up a 'malicious lie' about a friend. He's been jailed for three years

As a result of the lies told by Anthony Merriman an innocent man spent 14 hours in police cells

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47 h. ago Gossip Girl and Friends made me want to move to NYC — I visited to see if the city still lives up to the hype of millennial TV shows

Having spent her teenage years watching the likes of Sex and the City and The Devil Wears Prada, Queenie Shaikh imagined a New York of rent-controlled apartments, cupcakes at Magnolia Bakery, breakfast on the steps of the MET and rendezvous at the top of the Empire State Building – but does that Manhattan seen-on-screen still exist?

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3 d. ago Man, 62, whose dismembered body was found in a suitcase paid teenager, 17, £100 for sex sessions, court hears

The bodies of Albert Alfonso, 62, and his partner Paul Longworth, 71, were found at Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol on July 10 in large suitcases.

Economics

5 d. ago British teenager jailed in Dubai for sex with fellow UK tourist is HOME after being freed following royal pardon

Marcus Fakana, now 19, from Tottenham, was 18-years-old when he was arrested for having sex with a 17-year-old girl from London while he was on holiday with his parents in the UAE city in August.

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5 d. ago Hamas says it has lost control over most of the Gaza strip and that it has suffered 'a near

The lieutenant colonel told the BBC that Hamas' command and control system had collapsed as a result of Israeli air raids that have also largely affected the group's leadership.

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8 d. ago 'Predatory' sex beast jailed after raping teenage girl in Inverness

Cameron Huggins was caged at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday.

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9 d. ago ‘People pay to be told lies’: the rise and fall of the world’s first ayahuasca multinational

Alberto Varela claimed he wanted to use sacred plant medicine to free people’s minds. But as the organisation grew, his followers discovered a darker realityThe first time Dalia* took ayahuasca nothing happened. The second time it changed her life. It was 2017, and she had joined a dozen strangers in a chalet outside Barcelona. Everyone was searching for something. For many it was a way out of misery: an escape from years of addiction, or a last-ditch attempt to survive crippling depression. Dalia, a therapist in her early 30s, hoped ayahuasca would help her process the recent death of her mother. “I felt completely alone at that time,” she said. “And I think in some form that’s how everyone there felt.”The retreat, run by a wellness company called Inner Mastery, began with the two dozen participants talking about their expectations, before imbibing ayahuasca. The Amazonian plant brew, which contains dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a powerful naturally occurring psychoactive, induces an a...

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9 d. ago DAN HODGES: What one Cabinet minister has told me about what REALLY lies behind Reeves's public breakdown, the truth about Angela Rayner's role

We may never properly learn what finally brought Rachel Reeves to break down in tears in the House of Commons chamber yesterday.

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9 d. ago Teenage boys accused of Ballymena sex assault appear before court again

The 14-year-olds are charged with the attempted rape of a girl in the Clonavon Terrace area of the town last month.

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1 week ago Girl, 10, 'was lured to allotments by teenage boys and forced to take her clothes off while they kissed her': Police launch hunt for 'sex attack trio'

Police are now hunting for the trio who are said to have launched the attack at around 5pm on Sunday, June 15, at the allotments near Selby Canal, Yorkshire.

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1 week ago Tennis fans told NOT to travel to Wimbledon with queue 'at capacity' and crowds facing 'several hours to get in' in 34C on hottest opening day ever

Those who had opted for a slightly later lie-in faced disappointment then when they were told that non-ticket holders risk not getting in, or at best 'several hours' waiting in the queue.

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2 w. ago Horror as teenager pregnant with her rapist's baby is shot dead by her fiance in 'honour killing' after he found out about the sex attack in Turkey

Oya Budak, 18, was five-and-a-half months pregnant when she was shot dead in the apparent honour killing, Turkish news agencies said.

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2 w. ago Pervert who groomed teenage girl then filmed sex attack in van escapes jail

Callum Hesketh froomed the girl online before bringing her to a van where she was raped by himself and Michael Linfoot and orally raped by Thomas Rae.

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2 w. ago MP Natalie Fleet who fell pregnant at 15 after being groomed by an older man reveals the moment she realised she had been abused 25 years later

The politician, born in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, previously shared details of how she suffered 'statutory rape' after being 'groomed' by a much older man who lived in her area.

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3 w. ago Deputy headteacher, 51, who had sex with schoolgirl is married to former student and has children with her, court hears

John Harvey, 51, who was an English teacher and safeguarding lead at Penryn College in Cornwall, allegedly had sex with the teenager in his car and at her home while her father was away.

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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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 w. 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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