2 h. ago Kobbie Mainoo must face clear Man United reality amid brutal Ruben Amorim truth

As the January transfer window approaches, Kobbie Mainoo's Manchester United future is once again in the spotlight

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26 h. ago Liverpool get brutal reality check as Match of the Day pundit lists what’s missing

Liverpool were held to a 1-1 draw by Sunderland at Anfield on Wednesday night in the Premier League, and Danny Murphy has made clear his old side are well off it right now

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52 h. ago Women behind the lens: ‘They waited in a kind of deranged inactivity for the possibility of a visit’

In her portraits from an overcrowded Venezuelan detention centre, Ana María Arévalo Gosen captures the frustration of women desperate for news from their lawyers and familiesThis photograph was taken inside the Poli-Valencia detention centre, where I began to understand what imprisonment means for women in Venezuela. The room had once been an investigation office, converted into a cell after authorities decided to move the women out of the main area, where they had been held alongside male detainees.When I returned a year later, the space had been transformed. The women had made it their own, covering the walls with names, phrases and small drawings of hearts, even taping up a poster of the Colombian singer Maluma. What had once been a sterile office now held traces of their presence, their effort to hold on to a sense of identity in a place meant to erase it. Continue reading...

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67 h. ago ‘He asked me what I’d done sexually with a woman’: how Joy Gharoro

The rising star has made her debut film, Dreamers, a semi-autobiographical love story set in an immigration detention centre. She talks about fleeing persecution in Nigeria – and what she learned from French new waveJoy Gharoro-Akpojotor had a little wobble when she stepped on to the stage after the screening of her debut feature, Dreamers, at the London film festival. The Nigerian-British director’s film is a love story set in an immigration detention centre. It had already premiered in Berlin earlier this year. But showing her semi-autobiographical film to a home crowd in London felt exposing. “I suddenly had this feeling: Oh my God, everyone can see me. Everyone knows everything about me.” She laughs.Gharoro-Akpojotor has built a reputation as a rising star producer. Her company Joi Productions makes films telling black, female and gay stories. (“All of the above, sometimes individually.”) Her credits include Rapman’s Blue Story and Aml Ameen’s romcom Boxing Day, and she is curre...

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6 d. ago Arsenal left facing brutal Liverpool reality as Arne Slot's side fall apart – 'Shocking'

Arsenal are flying in all competitions this season, but Alan Shearer has picked the Gunners' one regret as they chase a first Premier League title in over 20 years

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7 d. ago GK Barry slams £150k I'm A Celeb payday rumour and reveals brutal reality of jungle life

The social media star slams reports of her six-figure fee and reveals the wet, sleep-deprived reality of life in the jungle a year on from when she took part in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

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7 d. ago Asylum seekers in detention centre go on hunger strike over deportation to France under Labour's 'one in, one out' policy

Thirty asylum seekers held in a UK detention centre have launched a hunger strike in protest at their imminent removal to France under Labour's controversial 'one in, one out' policy.

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7 d. ago Woman, 30, reveals brutal reality of withdrawing from steroid creams after a DECADE: 'Never

Lily Holden, from Bristol, was first prescribed a topical steroid cream in 2014 after returning from an outdoor adventure retreat with a small rash on her neck.

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9 d. ago Prison inmate sues for 'right to eat Vegemite' after being handed life sentence

Andre McKechnie, a convicted murder, is suing the Australian state of Victoria over his right to eat Vegemite and '"enjoy his culture as an Australian' in a controversial case

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9 d. ago Trying to get a council house in London? Experts reveal 'brutal reality' of how long you'll wait

Boroughs say the wait for a family home is 12 to 15 years as they explain who gets housed as a priority

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2 w. ago ‘Possibly the most prolific sex offender in British history’: the inside story of the Medomsley scandal

At a youth detention centre in north-east England, the paedophile Neville Husband raped and assaulted countless boys. Why was his reign of terror allowed to go on – and why hasn’t there been a public inquiry?When I met Kevin Young in 2012 he was in his early 50s, handsome, charismatic, smart – and utterly broken. The moment he started talking about Medomsley detention centre he was in tears.Young was born in Newcastle, in 1959. At two, he was taken into care, and his parents were convicted of wilful neglect. At eight, at a school in Devon, he was sexually abused by the gardener. At 14, at St Camillus, a Catholic residential school in Yorkshire, he was sexually assaulted by the headteacher, James Bernard Littlewood. But none of this compared with his experience at Medomsley, a youth detention centre in north-east England. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Medomsley detention centre death 'should be investigated as murder'

David Caldwell was serving three months for minor offences. 'No signs of any infection or injury were noted' when he arrived. But he was dead less than four weeks later, aged 18.

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2 w. ago The brutal reality of sexism, misogyny and online hate facing Scotland’s girls – and what NEEDS to change

CAMPAIGNERS have hit out after girls who opened up about feeling unsafe in Scotland were subjected to vile abuse. New research from Girlguiding Scotland revealed that 44 per cent of young females don’t feel safe being outside by themselves. And on the back of the survey, a group of girls, aged 14 to 22, pulled...

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3 w. ago Inside the depraved borstal where Britain's worst paedophile preyed on vulnerable young boys

In the early 1950s, Medomsley Detention Centre was well known for its 'strict and tough nature' enforced on inmates through a brutal military style regime.

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3 w. ago The victims who exposed Britain's worst paedophile: How brave boys' testimony finally unmasked beast Neville Husband

Neville Husband (pictured) led a campaign of prolific sexual and physical abuse for well over a decade at Medomsley Detention Centre. 

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3 w. ago Man 'beaten up as soon as he stepped in detention centre' before £10m payout

Peter Toole faced a vicious physical assault after being locked up for a petty offence at Medomsley, and said the apology to thousands who suffered abuse at the centre was 'too little too late'.

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3 w. ago Abuse by UK’s ‘most prolific sex offender’ was ignored at Medomsley detention centre, report finds

Neville Husband committed hundreds of offences while working at facility in County Durham from 1969 to 1985A man who worked as a prison officer and caterer in a youth detention centre was able to rape and torture boys for three decades while the abuse was “ignored and dismissed”, according to a report labelling him as possibly Britain’s worst ever sex offender.Neville Husband carried out at least 368 sexual offences against young men and boys between 1969 and 1985 while working at Medomsley detention centre in County Durham, but is believed have committed hundreds more crimes, taking the total past the 450 committed by Jimmy Savile. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘I saw inmates eat glass and nails to try to get out’: The brutal reality of life inside Medomsley Detention Centre

From being greeted with a punch to having bones broken by the very people who were supposed to be keeping them safe, survivors have laid bare the reality of life inside Medomsley

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3 w. ago Unmasked, the most prolific sex offender in British history who raped HUNDREDS of boys in paedophile ring 'involving a magistrate and police officer'

Catering officer Neville Husband led a reign of terror where he, systematically raped and abused hundreds of young men and boys at Medomsley Detention Centre in County Durham.

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3 w. ago Detention centre officer uncovered as 'most prolific sex offender in British history'

Neville Husband attacked hundreds of trainees at Medomsley detention centre in Consett, Co Durham, according to Prison and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) Adrian Usher

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