62 m. ago Mum who left dead baby in bin bag kept tragic secret from husband for 25 years

Joanne Sharkey, who has today avoided jail, hid her dark secret for a quarter of a century, with her own husband having had no idea that she'd killed the child he never even knew existed

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75 m. ago Mum who killed her baby and dumped his body near Gulliver's World learns her fate

Joanne Sharkey admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility in connection with the death of her baby locals later named 'Callum,' who was discovered in a bin bag in woodland 27 years ago

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94 m. ago Everton condemn abuse directed at James Tarkowski following derby challenge

The centre-back was caught in the middle of a storm after his over-the-top tackle on Alexis Mac Allister resulted in only a yellow card.

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98 m. ago Everton condemn abuse of Tarkowski and family after wife posts of death threats

‘Such behaviour is completely unacceptable,’ Everton saySamantha Tarkowski calls abuse ‘beyond disgusting’Everton have strongly condemned abuse directed at their defender James Tarkowski after Wednesday’s Merseyside derby. The centre-back was targeted for his tackle on Alexis Mac Allister, which resulted in a yellow card but led to an acknowledgment from Premier Game Match Officials Ltd that the video assistant referee was wrong not to recommend an upgrade to a red.Tarkowski’s wife, Samantha, posted on Instagram on Thursday that they had received, among other things, death threats. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Teacher 'offered teen student £1,540 to kill her husband' but his mum snitched

Stephanie Demetrius was arrested after a teenager's mum alleged she had offered her son £1,540 to kill her estranged husband in an odd 'grooming' case in Ohio, US

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2 h. ago Police make arrest after man stabbed walking to work in Manchester city centre

The victim was on his way to work when the attack happened

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2 h. ago Joanne Sharkey sentencing LIVE as mum who killed newborn baby learns fate

Joanne Sharkey buried the infant near Gulliver's World in Warrington

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2 h. ago WATCH Joanne Sharkey sentencing LIVE as mum who killed newborn baby spared jail

Joanne Sharkey buried the infant near Gulliver's World in Warrington

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4 h. ago Mel Gibson’s gun rights restored by Trump’s Justice Department

Gibson was charged with misdemeanour spousal battery in 2011

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4 h. ago Everton star James Tarkowski's wife rages at 'vile' death threats from Liverpool fans over husband's 'leg

James Tarkowski's wife has condemned 'vile' abuse wishing death on her husband following his horror tackle on Alexis Mac Allister in the Merseyside derby.

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4 h. ago Dad who raped newborn baby to death while mum went shopping learns his fate

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: Hugo Ferreira, 37, from South Africa, admitted to murdering the newborn after he violently raped her when she was left home alone with him in June 2023

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4 h. ago Prince Andrew 'unsurprised' by accuser Virginia Giuffre's car crash claims, friends of Duke say

The campaigner, who accused the Duke of York of sexually abusing her when she was 17, revealed she had ‘days to live’ following the collision with a school bus in Australia

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4 h. ago Husband pretended to be ex and stalked wife before stabbing her dead, say police

Kristil Krug had gone to police about the texts before her alleged murder

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6 h. ago The tariffs are bad, but Britain should remember this: Trump will probably be gone in four years | Simon Jenkins

The UK is among those least hit by the US president’s war on the world economy. Retaliation at this point makes no senseThe tirade was astonishing. On Wednesday afternoon the world watched as the leader of its most powerful nation accused friends and foes alike of having “looted, pillaged, raped, plundered”, and simultaneously waved a bogus list of tariff imbalances. The playground paranoia was cringeworthy. What on earth was going on?The answer can only be that Donald Trump is America’s elected president for the next four years. He says he wants to end the military conflicts the US has fought or sponsored round the globe for a quarter of a century. We are waiting for that. Meanwhile, he is waging an economic war on world trade, a response that his biographer and ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, blames on his childhood: “a life spent feeling like a victim any time he does not totally dominate he feels ripped off”. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago The tariffs are bad, but Britain should remember this: Trump will be gone in four years | Simon Jenkins

The UK is among those least hit by the US president’s war on the world economy. Retaliation at this point makes no senseThe tirade was astonishing. On Wednesday afternoon the world watched as the leader of its most powerful nation accused friends and foes alike of having “looted, pillaged, raped, plundered”, and simultaneously waved a bogus list of tariff imbalances. The playground paranoia was cringeworthy. What on earth was going on?The answer can only be that Donald Trump is America’s elected president for the next four years. He says he wants to end the military conflicts the US has fought or sponsored round the globe for a quarter of a century. We are waiting for that. Meanwhile, he is waging an economic war on world trade, a response that his biographer and ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, blames on his childhood: “a life spent feeling like a victim any time he does not totally dominate he feels ripped off”. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Prince Andrew 'not surprised' at accuser Virginia Giuffre's claims as crash riddle continues

Virginia Giuffre accused Prince Andrew, Duke of York, of sexually abusing her when she was 17 - claims he has vehemently denied - and now she has been involved in a bus crash

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13 h. ago Deputy stomped on genitals of mentally ill man who suffered agonizing death in custody, say prosecutors

A mentally ill man had his genitals forcefully stomped on by abusive police before being left to die in agony in jail, according to prosecutors.

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13 h. ago Delivered to a Predator: Al Fayed’s Fixer review – this startling tale urgently needed telling

Dispatches, presented by Cathy Newman, talks to 16 survivors or witnesses of the ex-Harrods boss’s abuse, as well as tracking down his alleged enabler. The result is a raw, horrifying and invaluable watchIt is disturbingly easy to respond with little more than fatigue to reports of powerful men sexually exploiting women, because there have been so many. The part of us that should emit shock, disgust and righteous outrage becomes dulled through overuse. And so, when Mohamed Al Fayed, the billionaire former owner of Harrods, died in 2023 and was then credibly accused of being one of Britain’s worst sex offenders, the collective reaction felt like a shrug.The new Dispatches investigation, Delivered to a Predator: Al Fayed’s Fixer, however, ought to sharpen our revulsion and our resolve to fight for change. Building on the 2017 Dispatches documentary Behind Closed Doors and the 2024 BBC programme Predator at Harrods, it outlines the scale of the tycoon’s wrongdoing: last year, the Metro...

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14 h. ago Michigan child protection workers sued for failing to save three

Suit alleges state officials didn’t act despite being aware of ‘years of horrific abuse and neglect’

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14 h. ago Michelle Keegan is a vision in £60 'jacket of the season' that's flying off shelves

New mum Michelle Keegan proves she's keeping up with trends in this spring/summer's must-have jacket choice

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