9 h. ago 'I screamed all of my stress out in a park with complete strangers

The viral Scream Club trend that has taken social media by storm has hit the UK streets, including London, Manchester and Birmingham. An attendee speaks to the Mirror about the benefits

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33 h. ago 'How do you ever make sense of such a wicked act?': Family's heartbreak over stranger who murdered grandmother, 74, at random as she walked home

Lorna England, 74, was murdered by Cameron Davis in Exeter in February 2023, after he told hospital staff that he would 'kill a random' person if he was not sectioned.

Society

33 h. ago Family's heartbreaking tribute to 'lovely' grandmother, 74, who was stabbed to death by stranger as she walked home from Lidl to 'get her 10,000 steps in'

Lorna England, 74, was murdered by Cameron Davis in Exeter in February 2023, after he told hospital staff that he would 'kill a random' person if he was not sectioned.

Society

8 d. ago I’m A Celeb legend gets strangers to pick up her dog poo – and they love it

I'm A Celebrity... star Gillian McKeith revealed she gets complete strangers to pick up her dog’s poo — and they’re happy to do it, proving fans love meeting the ‘Poo Lady’

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1 week ago ‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists

When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sense of what happened?‘It is so rare, in fact it never happens, that crimes are so well documented.” Manon Garcia is the French feminist philosopher whose thinking featured so prominently in the final stages of the Dominique Pelicot trial. There are, she points out, 20,000 videos and photos of Gisèle Pelicot “being raped, unconscious, by complete strangers”. One might struggle to understand why, in the face of such compelling factual evidence against her husband Dominique and a further 50 men, prosecutors would need to bring in a philosophical argument to explain why this was wrong. But since they did, they couldn’t have found a clearer or more persuasive voice than Garcia’s, the author of We Are Not Born Submissive and The Joy of Consent.Last November, six weeks into the trial, Garcia ar...

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2 w. ago ‘Logs falling from the sky’: the harrowing true story behind wildfire drama The Lost Bus

Paul Greengrass’s anxiety-inducing new disaster drama relives the devastating 2018 Camp fire in California, a day relived by its survivors hereSchoolteacher Mary Ludwig gets goose bumps when she remembers the first time she met bus driver Kevin McKay. “I said, ‘Who the heck are you?’” she says via Zoom. “’Cause I knew all the bus drivers from field trips. He’s like, ‘I’m Kevin McKay.’ I said, ‘You’d better be good!’”The pair were setting off on a terrifying, five-hour journey with nearly two dozen elementary school students as the Camp fire engulfed Paradise, California, in 2018. It was the start of a beautiful friendship. “That day I met a stranger and put my complete trust in that stranger and today we’re very close, lifelong friends,” Ludwig adds. Continue reading...

Events

3 w. ago Man touched by commuters' heartwarming gesture after wife falls outside landmark

A tourist has taken to social media to thank the "complete strangers" who helped him and his wife after she fell outside the British Museum in London, saying they have "never felt so much at home"

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3 w. ago British boy receives postcard from complete stranger 4,000 miles away after his message in a bottle lands on tropical beach

Harrison Mizen, eight, learned about the unique communication method at school and put a message in an old glass rum bottle which 'reminded him of pirates'.

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3 w. ago Reality behind MAFS UK as stars face huge fines and strict rules

Married At First Sight UK has returned to our screens, with a new batch of singletons hoping to find love by marrying a complete stranger

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