10 h. ago 'His life was taken from him by his own family, before it had even started'

A couple have been jailed for murdering their two-year-old grandson Ethan Ives-Griffiths

Politics

19 h. ago ‘We need anger to fight for our lives’: Mexican musician Silvana Estrada on grief, violence and the indignity of ‘el ghosting’

Estrada’s lovelorn debut album won her a Latin Grammy, but for its follow-up she wanted to leave sadness behind. Then, the very different losses of two friends brought out a newfound sense of furySilvana Estrada spent 25 years “not knowing how to get angry”, she says. “That cost me so much energy and dignity.” Sadness, though, she had always understood: “I live with her very close to me.” Now 28, the Mexican singer-songwriter grew up outside Veracruz, a city on the Gulf of Mexico, “witnessing violence from so many angles”: rampant femicide, narcoculture, environmental attacks on the coffee plantations and rivers of her home. As a lonely teenager, she discovered Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald. They helped guide the darkness she felt and introduced her to vocal improvisation. Estrada, born to a family of luthiers, started making her own music, played on a four-string Venezuelan cuatro and inspired by Mexican son jarocho (folk music). The title of her acclaimed 2022 deb...

Events

46 h. ago The peacock parent problem: how to survive being raised by a narcissist

Psychotherapist Kathleen Saxton has written a book about growing up with a mother or father who is grandiose, entitled, exploitative and lacking in empathy. She discusses how to recognise the signs – and recoverMany of Kathleen Saxton’s clients only realise they were brought up by a narcissistic parent when they are older. Saxton, a psychotherapist, says that the truth may come with starting a relationship, meeting their partner’s family, and seeing they are nothing like their own. “Or they have family themselves, and think, ‘I would never do that to my own children.’ Sometimes it takes us until we’re in our 30s or 40s to realise that something was not OK.” Her oldest client is in their 70s and “has finally dealt with the fact they’ve got a narcissistic mother, who is still alive, and how it’s affected them all through their life”.Saxton hopes her new book, My Parent the Peacock, will help people to recognise, and recover from, a narcissistic parent. They might have grown up being c...

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61 h. ago Newcastle University student dies after trying MDMA as parents issue warning

Nathan Pavlovic was just 21 when he became unwell after taking the Class A drug MDMA, dying just hours later. Now his family have issued a heartfelt warning as students start university

Events

3 d. ago Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie in 'difficult position' after Charles’ Christmas plans

The daughters of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson have been caught between the royal family and their disgraced parents, as the King starts making plans for festive celebrations

Politics

4 d. ago Kelly Brook's candid confession about marriage to Jeremy Parisi

Kelly Brook has been married to model Jeremy Parisi for three years but has admitted there is one thing she 'will have to get her head around'.

Politics

4 d. ago Loose Women's Kelly Brook says time 'has probably run out' as she addresses motherhood

Kelly Brook has said she will have to "get her head around" the fact she will never be a mother and confessed to feeling heartbroken over the issue

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5 d. ago Kelly Brook confided in me that she regrets not starting a family with this heartthrob ex

Kelly Brook giggled as she regaled tales of her very colourful love life.

Politics

6 d. ago Wild royal conspiracy theory emerges over 'worrying' William and Charles rumours

Rumours have recently started swirling about the Royal Family, and they have reportedly brought a "flicker of suspicion in royal circles" that something of a plot is afoot

Politics

7 d. ago Beckham family feud intensifies as Brooklyn brutally snubs sister Harper's huge move

Brooklyn Beckham has taken his family feud further by appearing to snub his little sister's social media debut, as the baby of the family starts her own Instagram account

Politics

7 d. ago easyJet took family to wrong country where they had to sleep on airport floor

Darren Rainey and his family missed out on the start of their holiday

Society

9 d. ago Kelly Brook steps out after admitting she'd be 'heartbroken' if husband Jeremy Parisi had kids with someone else if their relationship 'didn't work out'

The model and actress, 46, turned heads in a black-and-grey leopard print blouse with smart charcoal grey trousers and Chanel sandals.

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9 d. ago Kelly Brook reveals says she 'couldn't watch’ Strictly Come Dancing for years in message to Dani Dyer

The Loose Women panellist pulled out of the 2007 series where she was paired with Brendan Cole

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9 d. ago Kelly Brook says she would be 'heartbroken' if her husband Jeremy Parisi had children with another woman if their relationship 'didn't work out'

The model and actress, 46, joined the Loose Women studio on Wednesday, where the discussion turned to family planning and how couples approach the subject of children.

Politics

1 week ago ‘It kept our spirits alive’: Taliban’s internet blackout leaves girls in despair

Many Afghan women and girls can no longer communicate or study online after the internet is cut off in 12 provincesLast week, 17-year-old Marjaneh* sat at her computer, waiting for her nightly online English lessons to begin. At 7pm, the scheduled start time, her laptop screen stayed black. The family’s wifi, like the wireless internet across her neighbourhood, had gone and with it, her only chance to continue her education.“These online classes were my only source of hope,” says Marjaneh, speaking from Afghanistan through a crackling phone connection. “I thought, when they [Taliban] closed schools at least they wouldn’t cut the internet, but now that has been taken away too.” Continue reading...

Society

1 week ago Taylor Swift is 'being pressured to have kids' by Travis Kelce's mom... only a month after getting engaged

Kelce's mother has been added stress on the songbird to start thinking about having a family, it was claimed on the Kelce brothers' New Heights podcast on Monday.

Events

1 week ago I was left broken when I couldn't conceive and spent £70,000 on IVF until my sisters teamed up to create my dream baby

Jaclyn Fieberg, 40, from New York, and her husband, Greg Fieberg, 46, went through years of heartbreak to start a family.

Economics

2 w. ago 'My legs stopped working a week after going numb on a flight'

Manju Pillai first started feeling unwell as she returned home from a family holiday in Qatar and the Maldives with her husband Ajith and their kids Ramaya, 23, and Ashaan, 13.

Politics

2 w. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Carlos Gu's tears on live TV after heartbreaking admission

Strictly Come Dancing professional Amy Dowden was supported by her former celebrity partner Carlos Gu as she opened up about her cancer battle and her plans to start a family

Events

2 w. ago Long Lost Family viewers 'in tears' as a man makes startling discovery

Long Lost Family viewers were left 'in tears' after one man made a startling discovery during Thursday night's episode as the latest series of the reality show kicked off on ITV

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