59 m. ago Scratch card addict kept vulnerable woman as a slave in her home for 25 YEARS before victim finally called for help using a secret mobile phone

A court heard how Amanda Wixon, 56, from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, abused the victim for 25 years from 1996.

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76 m. ago Three journalists among 11 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza

Hospitals say two 13-year-old boys also killed, as the latest violence strains three-month-old ceasefireHospitals in Gaza say Israeli forces killed at least 11 Palestinians on Wednesday, including two 13-year-old boys and three journalists, in the latest violence to undermine a three-month-old ceasefire.Palestinian health officials said the Israeli airstrike killed three Palestinian journalists who were travelling in a car to film a newly established displacement camp in the Netzarim area of central Gaza. Continue reading...

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84 m. ago Driver 'pulls in front of woman's car and assaults her' in horrific road rage attack

A suspect, aged 53, has been arrested

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1 hour ago Scratch card addict kept vulnerable 'slave' in her home for 25 YEARS before victim finally called for help using a secret mobile phone

A court heard how Amanda Wixon, 56, from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, abused the victim for 25 years from 1996.

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2 h. ago Huddersfield mum posted final video before setting fire to house killing daughter

Danielle Parkinson recorded a harrowing 19-minute video and uploaded it to YouTube before taking her and her daughter's life in Huddersfield, Yorkshire in a house fire

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2 h. ago Teenager sentenced after raping child, 12, in secluded tunnel

Jake Richards has been sentenced after launching his sickening attack on his young victim

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3 h. ago Mum begs for answers over unexplained death of son found with stab wounds

The mum of Mikhail Ackrim, 37, who was found dead at a flat in Glasgow in 2024, has spoken about the investigation for the first time.

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3 h. ago Dad gives heartbreaking tribute to ‘extraordinary’ sons killed in head

Laurie Ellis has shared a tribute for his sons Mason Ellis and Louie Ellis, who were killed when the car they were travelling in with their mum crashed head-on with another vehicle

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3 h. ago Mum of 10 kept woman as slave for 25 years to care for her kids

Amanda Wixon took in her victim, her friend's daughter, in 1997 and she was not released funtil March 2021

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3 h. ago Mum of 10 kept woman as slave in 'prison cell' for 25 years to care for her kids

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Amanda Wixon took in her victim, her friend's daughter, in 1997 and she was not released until March 2021 after Wixon's son contacted the police

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3 h. ago Student drank six pints before losing control and killing childhood pal in Audi crash, trial hears

CCTV showed the two friends drinking six pints each before the crash

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3 h. ago Dad pays heart breaking tribute to 'adored' sons, 6 and 8, killed in crash

'Losing them has left two enormous holes in my heart — holes that will never be filled'

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3 h. ago The Traitors host Claudia Winkleman makes major family admission ahead of final

The Traitors host Claudia Winkleman says her husband and son were left 'screaming and crying' when Alan won because she had to keep the BBC show's winner a secret from them

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3 h. ago ‘The most dangerous man in America’: how Paul Robeson went from Hollywood to blacklist

The groundbreaking singer, actor and athlete became a victim of McCarthyism and saw his shining career destroyed and his legacy tarnishedIn August 1972, the front page of the New York Times arts section published a story titled, Time to Break the Silence on Paul Robeson? The legendary bass-baritone spent the first half of the 20th century as one of the greatest talents the US had ever produced, and its second, both in life and in death as an outcast, the greatest casualty of the second Red Scare period to which today’s current attacks on liberal and progressive politics draw comparison.This week marks 50 years since Robeson’s death and the silence remains. His erasure from the lineage over the decades shows that what Robeson’s political opponents did not take from him, the years have most certainly. Robeson’s decoupling from the story of African American culture has been so complete that in the half-century since his death, even generations of Black Americans have never heard of him...

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3 h. ago The Beauty on Disney+ review: explosive body horror has blood, sex and guts galore

Ryan Murphy’s latest show about a sexy killer STD isn’t afraid to give its celebrity cameos sticky ends

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3 h. ago Man arrested screaming 'I should have killed him' after stab victim found on floor

Police discovered a mop bucket with blood-tinged water at the property

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3 h. ago Man saved by pal after suffering cardiac arrest during walking football game

John McGee, 62, collapsed during a game at Toryglen and has recalled the moment "everything went black".

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3 h. ago Man admits killing dad by shoving him in front of ambulance racing to 999 call

Lewis Budge attacked Robert Bromell at the Corran Esplanade in Oban, Argyll and Bute on September 6 2023.

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3 h. ago Woman kept vulnerable 'slave' in her Gloucestershire home for 25 years before she finally called for help using a secret mobile phone

A court heard how Amanda Wixon, 56, from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, abused the victim for 25 years from 1996.

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4 h. ago Cops release CCTV after woman in her 60s sexually assaulted on board bus

A WOMAN was allegedly sexually assaulted on a bus in a major UK city as police release CCTV of a man they would like to speak to. The victim, in her 60s, was reportedly inappropriately touched by a man before she shouted at him and he left the bus at the next stop. The man...

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