59 h. ago Mum with 800 tattoos staying home on Mother's Day to avoid 'scaring' public

Melissa Sloan has covered 90% of her body in tattoos and says she is often left housebound because people can't stop staring at her when she leaves the house

Politics

3 d. ago The NHS suffocated my 'miracle' baby and I spent £150,000 on trying to get pregnant again

Pippa Davies, 49, of Cardiff, received £150,000 and an apology from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board over the breach of care to her baby Seren (pictured), who died from hypoxia in 2014.

Economics

3 d. ago The NHS suffocated my 'miracle' baby and I spent £150,000 on trying to get pregnant again

Pippa Davies, 49, of Cardiff, received £150,000 and an apology from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board over the breach of care to her baby Seren (pictured), who died from hypoxia in 2014.

Economics

5 d. ago Pete Hegseth in new controversy over baffling Arabic tattoo after war text leaks

Pete Hegseth has multiple Christian and pro-American tattoos on his body and revealed his recent 'kafir' inking while performing jumping jacks while visiting Hawaii

Events

5 d. ago I've spent more than £17,000 on tattoos and body modifications I get called 'demon dad' but I like being seen as a dark being

Larry Botello González, 26, from Bogotá, Colombia, who has ninety percent of his body covered in modifications and tattoos explained the challenge of being called a 'demon dad'.

Economics

5 d. ago Buyer of Hairy Biker Dave's final ride shares heartbreaking reason for £16,000 purchase

Si Harrison spent £16,000 on Dave Myers' beloved BSA Goldstar during an auction at the National Motorcycle Museum near Solihull, West Midlands, which has seen little use since filming

Economics

7 d. ago It’s war and peace with Donald and Pete – and the worst group chat the world has ever seen | Marina Hyde

We absolutely won’t tolerate leaks, they said before looping in a journalist to top secret war plans. Feel safe? Me neitherOnce again, we find ourselves having an anguished debate about mobile phones and online safety, in this case asking: should we ban the devices for US national security advisers under the age of 60? Do you know what your national security adviser is doing on his device? Is he using it to stay in touch with other guys in the big-man-osphere to talk about bombing Hooters? Or did he maybe add the editor-in-chief of a leading general interest magazine to a Signal group in the crucial hours running up to a highly sensitive US military operation in Yemen, seemingly committing so many alleged crimes that he should have a full-body orange jumpsuit tattooed on him for ever?By now, you will have caught up with the tale of one of the most idiotic breaches of security imaginable – executed, regrettably, by the actual US national security adviser. Mike Waltz seems to have bee...

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9 d. ago 'I spent £400,000 on 40 operations to give me a face again after horror car explosion'

Maddie Adriana Lugo was involved in a fatal car accident in Vineland, New Jersey,which killed her best friend in a tragedy as a teenager and has since undergone dozens of operations

Economics

1 week ago ‘Deported because of his tattoos’: has the US targeted Venezuelans for their body art?

US claims tattoos prove membership of Tren de Aragua gang but relatives describe tributes to God, family and Real MadridLike many Venezuelans of his generation, Franco José Caraballo Tiapa is a man of many tattoos.There is one of a rose, one of a lion, and another – on the left side of the 26-year-old’s neck – of a razor blade that represents his work as a barber. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Married man spent £30,000 on an OnlyFans model but his 'obsession' turned sinister

Mark Inkster, 43, thought the former footballer's wife was his 'soulmate'

Economics

1 week ago Stalker, 50, who followed a personal trainer when he changed gyms and spent £4,000 joining 20 of his classes a week is spared prison

Julie Rookes became 'fixated' on the fitness instructor - blowing thousands of pounds on classes with a male personal trainer she first met online during the pandemic.

Economics

1 week ago Model who drove around with giant billboard asking for sugar daddy branded 'shameful'

Shiane Foxx decided that she was in need of a sugar daddy, so spent $2,000 (around £975) to hire a portable billboard and drove around a notoriously wealthy area displaying herself in a bikini with her phone number

Economics

2 w. ago Man with £12k dog suit opens bookings for world's first 'zoo' where people dress as animals

A Japanese man known only as Toco became a social media sensation when he spent more than £12,000 on a canine suit – now he's giving other dog-lovers the chance to transform into a dog

Economics

3 w. ago Doomsday prepper issues 'act now' warning after Donald Trump's WW3 comment

Rowan MacKenzie, 40, has spent £315,000 on supplies to prepare for the end of the world - and is now urging people to 'act now' before it's too late after Trump's World War 3 comment

Events

3 w. ago Former Paisley police officer who stole from dying dad avoids prison sentence

James Kelly embezzled £30,000 from his dementia-stricken dad and spent the cash on CDs and clothes from Braehead Shopping Centre and on concert tickets for himself.

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4 w. ago Doomsday prepper issues urgent 'act now' warning after Trump and Zelenskyy feud

Rowan MacKenzie has spent over $400,000 (£315,000) on preparing for the end of the world –and now she is urging others to follow in her footsteps after Trump and Zelenskyy's meeting

Events

4 w. ago Tattooed 'Human Satan' addicted to body modifications has two fingers removed to give himself alien

Brazilian-born Diabao Praddo, 49, shared the shocking moment on social media with grim pictures of the just a thumb and two fingers on his left hand.

Politics

4 w. ago 'I've spent £68k to get Rio Carnival ready with banned bum implant and dehydration diet'

Rio Carnival is quite the spectacle thanks to the colourful costumes, music and the female dances with very big bottoms. This model spent £68,000 for her extreme transformation

Economics

4 w. ago ‘We spent £100,000 doing a gig in a scout hut!’ The Beta Band on debt, disastrous decisions – and their defiant comeback

Fiercely original and stunning live, they should have been massive – but they imploded. As the Scots return, they relive disowning their debut album, blowing Top of the Pops – and getting shocks off their battery-powered illuminated suitsSteve Mason is remembering the day in 2004 he was told the Beta Band was over. “There was enough money in the bank account to pay each of us a month’s wages,” says the singer, seated in a busy London greasy spoon. “And by that point, we were only on a grand a month. Then that was it.”For the previous eight years, life in the band formed in the Scottish seaside town of St Andrews had been one of constant reinvention and innovation. They’d made fiercely original records and experimental films, while putting on visually stunning live extravaganzas. Their transatlantic fanbase included Oasis, Radiohead, Irvine Welsh and actor John Cusack, who’d recommended their song Dry the Rain for a now-famous scene in High Fidelity. Playing a record store assistant,...

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