4 d. ago Pictured: £300m 'mega prison' project to create Britain's biggest jail

The jail, which once housed famous prisoners George Michael and Myra Hindley, will swell in size by 50 per cent during the dramatic redevelopment, meaning it will have room for 2,044 inmates.

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5 d. ago The Boundless Deep Richard Holmes William Collins £25, 448pp: Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?

Tennyson thought so... after devastating grief inspired him to write one of poetry's most heartbreaking lines

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7 d. ago Killer's mother who plotted to help son flee to Jamaica after he knifed footballer to death on nightclub dance floor avoids jail

Jahzeen Carpenter, 40, drove Kami Carpenter to London a day after he murdered Cody Fisher at the Crane nightclub in Digbeth, Birmingham on Boxing Day, 2022.

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2 w. ago Jailed footballer set for return after being released from prison halfway through 14

Lucas Akins, 36, was jailed in April after causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving. He hit Adrian Daniel, 33, after he pulled out of a T-junction in his £200,000 Mercedes.

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2 w. ago Zoe Ball shares Prince William’s moving letter to her mum before she died

The Radio 2 host said the royal reached out while her mother Julia was seriously ill and again after her passing

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2 w. ago Zoe Ball opens up on Prince William's 'beautiful' gesture to her dying mum

BBC Radio 2 DJ Zoe Ball has revealed that Prince William sent her a touching letter to share with her dying mum, who was in the hospital battling pancreatic cancer

Politics

2 w. ago 'Dear mum': The letter 'Polish Madeleine' posted through McCann's letterbox revealed as accused stalker screams 'why are you doing this to me?' at her in court

Julia Wandelt - who is on trial alongside Karen Spragg - is accused of stalking the McCanns for almost three years, allegedly turning up at their family home and sending letters to Kate.

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2 w. ago Julia Wandelt's letter to Kate McCann in full from 'cruel' sign

A woman who falsely claims to be Madeleine McCann wrote a disturbing letter to the missing girl's mum Kate where she made a DNA plea, a court has heard

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2 w. ago Pervert is arrested after air crew spotted him looking at child porn on his laptop in business class cabin

A senior Japanese Football Association official has been sentenced to an 18-month suspended jail term in France after looking at images of child pornography during a plane journey.

Society

2 w. ago ‘Messiness makes you different’: Lukas Gage on meds, trauma, memoir – and filming TV’s most sexually frank scene

The White Lotus and Euphoria star has written a ‘premature celebrity memoir’ that takes in abuse, family dysfunction, personality disorders, shame and heartbreak. He explains why now was the right time to write itThere’s a telling moment in Lukas Gage’s new book where he refers to it as a “premature celebrity memoir”. It’s a self-deprecating joke, of course, but it is also true. Gage is not megawatt famous – at least not yet. Chances are, though, if you have seen him then you won’t have forgotten him. In 2020, he went viral after leaking an audition video in which the director – forgetting that he wasn’t on mute – is caught judging his living arrangements (“These poor people live in these tiny apartments,” he says, before Gage intervenes to let him know he can hear every word). The following year, Gage appeared in the first season of The White Lotus: in one scene, his character Dillon is caught by a hotel guest standing stark naked in the manager’s office, while said manager perform...

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2 w. ago Paedophile footballer Adam Johnson money woes revealed: Shamed star jailed for sex with a schoolgirl has swapped £3m mansion for modest family home

Johnson, 38, once the proud owner of a £1.7m mansion he sold to England cricket skipper Ben Stokes , is now in more modest circumstances.

Economics

3 w. ago English Football League assistant referee who ‘preyed’ on teenage girls jailed

Gareth Viccars, 47, previously admitted a string of child sex offences involving three 15-year-old girls.

Sport

3 w. ago 'Miss World' footballer jailed in China cocaine hell writes heartbreaking letter to mum

Juliana Lopez, a stunning footballer who also planned on taking part in Miss World, has opened up about her cocaine hell prison sentence in a heartbreaking letter

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3 w. ago Brit couple write family heartbreaking email before dying together at Swiss clinic

Michael Posner, 97, and his wife Ruth, 96, sent an email to their "Dear family and friends" on Tuesday, explaining their decision to die together at a Swiss assisted dying clinic

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