67 h. ago Why we’ve all fallen for The Summer I Turned Pretty: ‘Endless, wonderful melodrama’

The third season of the Amazon teen drama has become a certified phenomenon, encouraging watch parties and intense fan reactionsIt’s after work on a Wednesday night, and I’m at a sports bar in downtown Manhattan. It looks exactly like what you’d expect of a bar in the Financial District. Men in button-up shirts stand around a tall table with folded arms, ranting about the current season as multiple baseball games are playing on TV screens all around the bar.I feel out of place as I wait for a friend, but I know it’s only a matter of time until things change. A stream of women slowly trickles in, group by group. The mood abruptly changes when the TV screens flicker on to a clip of sparkling water. The bar cranks up the volume, a wistful three notes plays over the speaker, the brief theme song of what has become a show so popular that sports bars in Manhattan are throwing watch parties for women who, like me, are years older than the show’s protagonist. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Wednesday's Principal Dort to be 'exposed' by unexpected hero in huge season 2 twist

Wednesday season 2 has teased one character in particular will play a much bigger role.

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3 d. ago Killer nurse Lucy Letby is 'pals with notorious paedo' on prison's 'VIP wing'

Lucy Letby has befriended a notorious paedophile at HMP Bronzefield, according to a source, who said the killer nurse 'isn’t fussy about who she socialises with'

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6 d. ago PETER HITCHENS: You're about to be BANNED from talking about Lucy Letby. It must not happen

At any moment a thick blanket of silence may prevent any further discussion of the case of Lucy Letby, if new charges are brought. In my view, the Letby debate must not be closed down.

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9 d. ago I've studied psychopaths for 25 years. Here's why Lucy Letby's notes about killing babies could be proof of her INNOCENCE

Amid the sprawling mass of evidence deployed by the prosecution against Lucy Letby there was one devastatingly simple piece that was viewed as little short of a smoking gun.

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1 week ago Embroidery honors Mexico femicide victims: ‘The next name might be yours’

A group of women have so far embroidered almost 200 patches of names and aim to embroider all the names of women killed by femicide in Morelos since 2015It started with the killing of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla, who was murdered and mutilated by her boyfriend in February 2020. The brutality of the murder – and the leaking of explicit images of her body to tabloid newspapers – touched off a national furor.Escamilla’s murder struck artist María Antonieta De la Rosa with both horror and disgust. Even in a country where more than 10 women on average were being killed every day, it felt especially cruel. “You realize how permeating this violence is,” she said. “It’s normalized in every direction.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Black Cowboy joy is spread by 'Boots on the Ground' viral line dance

The “Boots on the Ground” line dance has quickly become an anticipated moment at African American gatherings, like family reunions, weddings, graduations, parties and cookouts

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2 w. ago NADINE DORRIES: Lucy Letby's old friends have told me the truth about her. Forget what you've read, this is who she REALLY is

Yet another week has passed in which Lucy Letby, 35, has had to while away endless hours in the prison cell where she is condemned to spend the rest of her life.

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2 w. ago Lucy Letby: Eight things we've learned about killer nurse's life behind bars

Letby, despite having been sentenced to spend the rest of her life behind bars, has found a way to chalk out a cushy existence in the murderer's wing at HMP Bronzefield

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2 w. ago Lucy Letby under round the clock protection after taunted by prison mates

Lucy Letby is under guard protection after claims that she's taunted over the press coverage around her case and fears that the baby killer has become 'deluded' and thinks she will be out soon

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2 w. ago Lucy Letby's barrister admits he talks to nurse 'every week' and says convicted baby killer has 'new hope' as calls grow for case to be reexamined

Mark McDonald said in an interview how Lucy Letby's parents contacted almost a year ago and requested he take over from her previous lawyer and free her from prison.

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2 w. ago Lucy Letby: 'I call baby killer once a fortnight and visit her every month'

Lawyers for the 35-year-old former nurse are doggedly pursuing a retrial as she serves out 15 whole-life sentences at HMP Bronzefield for the murders of seven babies

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2 w. ago Lucy Letby has 'new hope' as barrister prepares to submit appeal file

Mark McDonald is submitting “new evidence” to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC)

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2 w. ago Lucy Letby 'has new hope' as lawyer says baby killer 'was broken' and 'hopeless'

Lucy Letby's lawyer Mark McDonald has said he is "not naive" and knows the serial baby killer is "guilty", but he is determined to free her from prison where she is currently serving 15 whole-life sentences

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2 w. ago Bombshell new Lucy Letby papers and astonishing 'revenge' claim revealed: How the nurse repeatedly raised alarm over doctors' blunders in baby unit... Now her team say she became a target

Lucy Letby repeatedly raised the alarm about the poor care of babies in the hospital where she worked, according to bombshell documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday.

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2 w. ago Lucy Letby's barrister says child killer was 'broken person' but now has 'new hope'

Mr McDonald said he is submitting "new evidence" to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates potential miscarriages of justice.

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2 w. ago Trailblazing Down syndrome model Ellie Goldstein, Drag Race star La Voix and rugby player Chris Robshaw are announced as the latest contestants for Strictly Come Dancing

The three celebrities confirmed their participation in an announcement shared on Wednesday's edition of The Scott Mills Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2.

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3 w. ago PETER HITCHENS: I'm pleased public sentiment on Lucy Letby has shifted

How public opinion can change. Do you remember reporters rushing from the Manchester courthouse in 2023, breathlessly exclaiming, 'She's guilty!', moments after Lucy Letby's conviction?

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3 w. ago Lucy Letby: Who to Believe? review – just when you thought this case couldn’t get any more confusing

Panorama’s new investigation into the convicted nurse is muddled and stuffed with conflicting theories. It feels more like radio phone-in bickering than serious journalismIn May 2024, the New Yorker published an article with the headline “A British nurse was found guilty of killing seven babies. Did she do it?” Access to the online version of Rachel Aviv’s piece was banned in the UK due to reporting restrictions, with Letby’s retrial on an additional count of attempted murder then imminent. Rules aside, asking whether Letby was in fact innocent also felt taboo at the time, a pursuit for social media conspiracy theorists. Fast forward 15 months, and “did she do it?” is merely par for the course when it comes to the case, with even experts cited by the prosecution apparently unconvinced of Letby’s guilt.This new Panorama comes hot on the heels of an ITV documentary that aired earlier this month, Lucy Letby: Beyond Reasonable Doubt?. That programme focused on holes in the evidence that...

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3 w. ago Expert's new Lucy Letby 'smoking gun' theory claims evidence 'proves she's innocent'

While Lucy Letby remains in prison serving over a dozen whole-life sentences, new evidence unearthed has cast the entirety of the prosecution's case into doubt, an expert has said

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