40 h. ago "I just feel ashamed": Woman found drunk near her crashed BMW says her friend was 'telling me what to do'

Kerry-Anne Cobb refused to give a breath sample

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47 h. ago Accounts manager found wandering drunk near her wrecked BMW that she said an unnamed friend crashed at 5am is banned from driving

Kerry-Anne Cobb (pictured), 33, was arrested just yards from her 2-series vehicle in Culcheth, Cheshire, at 5.30pm on May 11 after she had earlier called police to report it as stolen.

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3 d. ago Sorry, Baby is a smart film about sexual assault and it’s here at just the right time | Adrian Horton

Eva Victor’s intelligent and subtle debut film tells the story of the aftermath of an assault and as the backlash to #MeToo increases, it serves an important purposeAbout 25 minutes into Sorry, Baby, writer-director Eva Victor’s debut feature out this summer, a bad thing happens to Agnes, Victor’s twentysomething academic in a small New England town. The film is forthright and economical with the details; Agnes, an English PhD student, goes to meet her thesis adviser (Louis Cancelmi), with whom she shares a light flirtation and a mutual passion for Virginia Woolf. He shifts the meeting to his house, citing logistics and lavishing praise. Agnes enters at dusk; we linger outside as the shot cuts to dark, signaling hours past. She emerges in silence and hustles to her car, expressionless as she drives away for what feels like an eternity.Back at home, Agnes sits in the bath and tells her best friend Lydie (an excellent Naomi Ackie) what happened in clipped, detached details. He was ins...

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6 d. ago My friend told me he was a producer on Strictly and had a brain tumour... and then stole thousands from me

Heartless fraudster Matthew Howarth, 32, of Atherton, Greater Manchester, conned his old school friend Tom Lee out of thousands of pounds by telling him he had terminal brain cancer.

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7 d. ago Inside Tottenham's Danish takeover: Thomas Frank, 'the Brain', the evil genius and how they became the best at spotting future stars

Johan Lange was head coach of Lyngby in the Danish second tier when his old friend Stale Solbakken called to tell him he was in the wrong job.

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3 w. ago James Cleverly’s voice breaks as he tells MPs of ‘painful’ death of best friend in assisted dying bill debate

James Cleverly has opened up on losing his best friend during the assisted dying bill debate in the House of Commons on Friday (20 June).

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3 w. ago Lillie Clack: Distraught friend tells of terror before 100mph car crash that killed ‘popular princess’

Drunk driver Charlie Hilton, 25, was being chased by police before his Mercedes hit a tree and burst into flames in south London

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3 w. ago NATALIE LISBONA: As sirens wail I text a friend in her shelter. She tells me a missile has just killed seven... it could easily have been us

A day of strikes which begins in the early hours of Sunday morning...with the hideous, piercing shriek...that means a fresh Iranian attack is imminent, writes Natalie Lisbona (left) in Central Israel

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4 w. ago 'Should I tell friend with the perfect life her hubby’s playing around?'

Agony aunt Coleen Nolan has advice for a worried reader who knows a secret about her friend's husband but doesn't want to upset her by telling her about his affairs

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