17 h. ago VE Day: 'My Polish grandad woke up with night terrors after WW2

Jozef Nowak was 17 when his town in Poland was invaded by the Nazis. He came to Britain to keep fighting - now his grandson Paul is General Secretary of the TUC

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4 d. ago A child on thin ice: EA Hanks on life with her abusive mother – and world

One half of the author’s early life was spent with a mother who struggled with addiction, her mental health and caring responsibilities. The other was with her father Tom on film sets and in a house full of love and structure. She discusses her road trip back into her complicated pastWhen EA Hanks was 14, her mother announced she had bought a Winnebago and they were going to drive across the US in it. It was 1996, and Hanks (her initials stand for Elizabeth Ann), had recently left her mother, Susan, to go to live with her father, the actor Tom Hanks, in Los Angeles. “Things between my mother and I were at an absolute low point,” she says. The drive, she remembers, from California – long hours on the road, her mother chain-smoking and listening to Christian rock music, stopping only to eat and sleep – was “three awkward, silent, painful months that would end up with us in Florida”. It is not clear what the point of the road trip was – though Hanks met members of her mother’s family f...

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6 d. ago Pictured: Tech recruitment father 'who kept his three children locked up inside House of Horrors for four years because of his fear of Covid'

The horrific conditions three young boys had to suffer while being trapped in their home for four years by their Covid-obsessed parents have been revealed for the first time.

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6 d. ago Inside House of Horrors where children were kept in isolation by 'Covid obsessed' US mother and German father

The horrific conditions three young boys had to suffer while being trapped in their home for four years by their Covid-obsessed parents have been revealed for the first time.

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7 d. ago Dad who mistook shoulder pain for trapped nerve diagnosed with brain tumour

Daniel Jones, 33, woke up one day with sudden shoulder pain he initially thought could have bene a trapped nerve but seven hospital appointments later he was diagnosed with a shocking brain tumour

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7 d. ago Dad had affairs and treated mum so badly. But should I let him see her before she dies? DEAR CAROLINE has the surprising answer

My parents divorced acrimoniously over 30 years ago when I was in my late teens after my father left my mother for someone else. It was not his first affair and she could never forgive him.

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7 d. ago Incredible moment children 'see sunlight for the first time in four years' after being rescued from House of Horrors where US mother and German father kept them in self

Police in the northern city of Oviedo found three young boys between the ages of eight and ten in the house on Wednesday, having apparently been there since 2021.

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7 d. ago Channel 5 airs Gavin Plumb's chilling phone footage showing off tools to kidnap Holly Willoughby

Channel 5's documentary The Plot to Kill Holly Willoughby looks at security guard Gavin Plumb's horrific plans to abduct the ITV presenter - and airs some of his chilling footage

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9 d. ago I went to bed 'fit and healthy' one night and woke up paralysed... the NHS has ruined my life

Mike Crease, 46, woke up one morning unable to use his legs after a 10-inch abscess had grown on his spine but by the time he reached a specialist, the nerves had been crushed beyond repair.

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1 week ago Ross Kemp's horror over relative who 'threatened to cut off mum's head with kitchen knife'

Actor Ross Kemp makes the grim discovery about his great grandfather's older brother in the latest instalment of Who Do You Think You Are? on BBC1

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1 week ago CIA deputy director's heartbreak as she discovers missing son died fighting for RUSSIA in Ukraine

Pictures show the CIA deputy director's son who - unbeknownst to his mother and father - was fighting for Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.

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1 week ago Justin Bieber reveals grandfather's death with heartbreaking post

Justin Bieber is mourning a painful loss.  On Saturday, the 31-year-old singer revealed that his beloved grandfather, Bruce Dale - his mother's father - has passed away.

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1 week ago Celebrity Big Brother fans discover hidden message in JoJo Siwa's live final outfit

The entertainer placed third in the star-studded reality contest

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1 week ago ‘Distracted’ dentist avoids jail after killing cycling pensioner

Lucinda Collins ploughed through a junction after being told on a call to her mother that her father was dying.

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2 w. ago Celebrity Big Brother fans convinced they have discovered 'shocking hidden meaning' in JoJo Siwa's 'cold' letter from partner Kath Ebbs amid her 'intimate' friendship with Chris Hughes

The Dance Moms star, 21, and the former Love Islander, 32, have continued to raise eyebrows over their 'flirty' connection in the house, with Kath receiving cruel online abuse as a result.

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2 w. ago Maxence Lacroix: ‘One day I will be in the France team – but right now I want to win this Cup’

Crystal Palace defender on dreaming of FA Cup glory, Oliver Glasner and the importance of faith to the teamMaxence Lacroix is treating Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final at Wembley as just another game but the same can’t be said of his mother. “She’s more stressed than me right now,” the Crystal Palace defender says. “But I think it’s really good for a mother or father to see their son running his dream and playing this type of game because she knew it was difficult before and now she sees her son growing, having a family and doing what he wants. So I think she’s proud, a little bit stressed but it’s all right.”Growing up in Ajat, a village in the Dordogne, Lacroix knew he was never going to follow in his mother Corrine’s footsteps by becoming a doctor. Having moved to Germany from the French side Sochaux as a 20-year-old after coming through the prestigious Clairefontaine academy, he reunited with Oliver Glasner – his former manager at Wolfsburg – in south London last summer. The elegant...

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2 w. ago Trump is jailing immigrant families again. A mother, father and teen tell of ‘anguish on a daily basis’

Family incarceration has been revived after Biden – and Jade, Jason and Gabriela are speaking out about their distressing treatment in TexasWhen Jade and her family first arrived at the detention facility in Karnes county, Texas, she wasn’t really sure what to think.“I guess I was confused and scared,” said the 13-year-old. Her parents were doing their best to reassure her that everything would be OK, but she knew they were in danger of being deported. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Judge's son remarkable act of forgiveness in court as he's jailed for shocking family crime

The son of former Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, 74, showed a remarkable act of forgiveness toward his father after he was convicted of fatally shooting his mother Sheryl, 65, on Tuesday.

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2 w. ago Paddleboarding cop's chilling confession heard in accidental phone recording after four killed

Ex-firearms officer Nerys Lloyd owned and ran Salty Dog Co Ltd and led a paddleboarding trip on the River Cleddau in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire where four people died

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3 w. ago Mad moment woman catches husband having sordid hotel romp with her own brother

A raging wife who thought she was busting her love rat husband in the middle of a sleazy motel shag with a younger woman was shocked to discover he was having a threesome - with her brother

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