87 m. ago Stacey Solomon spends rare alone time with oldest son Zach after TV row

Stacey Solomon said she had taken oldest child Zach Pokemon hunting in Paris as a special mother and son treat for his 17th birthday

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16 h. ago Woman convicted of murdering mother at child's birthday party in Stepney Green

Hope Rowe, 33, stabbed Charlotte Rowe outside a block of flats in East London after accusing the victim of hiding her keys

Society

22 h. ago Yung Filly update as YouTube star faces two new sexual assault charges

Yung Filly - whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos - was charged with rape and other offenses over an alleged sexual assault on a woman in Australia last year

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39 h. ago The heartbreaking final selfie of British family moments before they boarded doomed Air India flight

Sayedmiya Inayatali, 48, had been visiting his 90-year-old mother in India with his wife, Nafisabanu, 46, and their children, Waqueeali, 25, and Taskin, 22.

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2 d. ago The incredible women fighting to change our lives for the better: The Mail receives hundreds of nominations for the Inspirational Women Awards. Now meet our winners...

From the woman campaigning against domestic violence to the mother whose humanitarian work saving war-torn children spans more than 30 years, meet our Inspirational Women.

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3 d. ago Confessions of a Parent Killer review – a grisly tale of the murderer who lived with her mum and dad’s corpses

This look at Virginia McCullough tells a deeply strange story. Unfortunately, it also leaves the viewer in suspense about her motive for so long it feels horrifically manipulativeWell, what do you think a 90-minute documentary entitled Confessions of a Parent Killer is going to be about? That’s right, well done! It’s the story of a murder by an (adult) child of her parents. Virginia – Ginny – McCullough killed her mother, Lois, and father, John, and confessed immediately to police when they raided her home in 2023 that she had done so four years previously. The twist was that she had been living with their bodies ever since. “She was weird at school,” says a childhood friend. “But not ‘kill your parents and hide the bodies’ weird.”You can probably tell from such unimpeachably phlegmatic commentary that this case occurred in England. Great Baddow, Essex, to be exact, and the film paints a portrait of quintessential small-town, almost-rural life in these sceptred isles that has gone u...

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3 d. ago DEAR JANE: A smiling assassin suddenly moved into my house... now she's trying to poison my kids

It's only been a month since she arrived... and she has already wreaked total havoc.

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4 d. ago 'My family think I gave kids 'disgusting' names – but they're important to me'

A mum claimed she's been accused of being 'selfish' by giving her children names that are important to her – and her mother-in-law has even called the monikers 'disgusting'

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4 d. ago Romanian mother ‘afraid’ to stay in Ballymena street after attack

The mother-of-three said her children were asking why their house was being attacked during disturbances in the Co Antrim town on Monday night.

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5 d. ago Groomed terror suspect not treated as a ‘vulnerable child’, says her mother

Rhianan Rudd died in a children’s home five months after her terrorism charges were dropped.

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8 d. ago Tony Hudgell’s birth mother still ‘high risk to children’, adoptive parent says

Tony’s birth mother Jody Simpson is to be released from prison following a decision by an independent

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9 d. ago Feminism made me ashamed to be a mother. Now my children are teenagers, I bitterly regret wasting their baby years: JULIE COOK

There are times I look at my children and feel so proud I could burst. Alex, 16, has just taken his GCSEs and Adriana, 11, is a keen little actress and loves performing.

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9 d. ago Sugababes star Keisha Buchanan's footballer ex appears in court after allegedly beating singer

Keisha Buchanan's ex Taiwo Leo Atieno, 39, has been charged with assault, controlling and coercive behaviour, harassment, and an an alleged breach of a non-molestation order

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1 week ago Liam Gallagher 'faces fresh demands from love child's mother to increase annual support fees to almost £500k' ahead of singer's predicted £50M payday for Oasis reunion tour

Liza Ghorbani is said to be seeking a new agreement with the singer, 52, to pay almost £500,000 in annual maintenance fees for their 12-year-old daughter Gemma, who has autism.

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1 week ago Goebbels and the Führer review – private life of propagandist shows grotesque heart of Nazism

Joachim Lang’s bleak film shows a preening Goebbels and a careworn Hitler as they battle to convince the German public, and themselves, they will win the warIn an appropriate spirit of cynicism and bleakness, German director Joachim Lang has made a film about the private life of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, the Hexenmeister or chief sorcerer of lies, and his always strained relationship with Hitler. Robert Stadlober plays the preening and self-pitying Goebbels and Fritz Karl is a careworn Hitler. Franziska Weisz plays Goebbels’s wife Magda, who at first resented his infidelities with showbusiness starlets but for the sake of the Fatherland submitted to the public image of a good Nazi wife and mother of six adorable children – whom Joseph and Magda finally murdered in the bunker before killing themselves.In its subversive, austerely satirical way, the film feels almost like a B-side to Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Downfall from 2004, and Lang has perhaps even inhaled, just a little, t...

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1 week ago Conversations with strangers: inviting people to join my daily walk has made my life fuller | Jacqueline Asiimwe

From Kampala to Bangkok, I’ve walked with young and old, students and politicians, artists and ambassadors. Everyone has a story to tellIn the Uganda of the 1980s, my family lived in Kampala. We did not own a car, so walking was part of daily life: to school, to church, to the market, to the hospital and to visit relatives.As the eldest child, I often accompanied my mother to Owino market. We would walk there from our neighbourhood, Namirembe, and I’d trail behind her with a basket balanced on my head, collecting the week’s groceries. Those early walks were not just about errands – they were quiet rituals of bonding, observation and endurance. Continue reading...

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1 week ago A Family Matter by Claire Lynch review – powerful debut about lesbian mothers in the 80s

A woman is forced to rethink her childhood after she learns that her mother was denied custody, in a decade blighted by homophobiaFor a writer, the 1980s bear rich, dark fruit. The social and political turbulence of the decade provides the perfect landscape for Claire Lynch’s dual-timeline debut novel A Family Matter, which alternates between 1982 and the present day. On the surface, it is the story of a father-daughter relationship. Heron – an elderly man deeply fond of rules and routine – has recently received a terminal cancer diagnosis, but rather than share it with his grownup daughter, Maggie, who now has a family of her own, he chooses to bear the burden alone. As we learn that Heron raised Maggie by himself, it’s clear this urge to shield his only child from harm is a continuous theme. There is no mention of another parent, just that Heron was divorced many decades ago; it’s only when Lynch takes us back to 1982 that we discover the true story.When Maggie was a toddler,...

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1 week ago Lady Isabella Hervey says she's happier than ever with her 'simple life' in Portugal as she insists she doesn't need money or titles after end of her 'miserable' marriage to Belgian millionaire ex

The Marquess of Bristol's sister, 43, and the Belgian millionaire's marriage ended two years ago, with Isabella now raising their three children, Victor, nine, Patrick, seven, and India, six, as a single mother.

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1 week ago The children abducted and sold to be cut into pieces for black magic rituals: As mother is jailed for life for selling six

Racquel 'Kelly' Smith, 35, was this week found guilty of kidnapping and trafficking her daughter Joshlin. But Joshlin is far from the only child to have met this bleak fate due to her appearance

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1 week ago ‘People think prison is for rehabilitation. It is all lies’: could community service work better than jail?

Colombia has seen a surge in the number of female inmates – many poor, from rural areas and convicted of drug offences. Now a radical scheme could release thousands to support their familiesThe baby calls out, reaching towards a metal detector security gate. “Mama, mama,” she says. A prison officer waves her through. It’s visiting time at El Buen Pastor prison, Colombia’s largest detention centre for women. Behind the black door, half a dozen women wait anxiously. Dressed in her best clothes, the mother folds herself around the child.Inside, the prison is crumbling. Black mould creeps up the walls; broken windows have been replaced with plastic sheets. Inmates say five to six people share cells built for two. Continue reading...

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