1 hour ago 'I know Danny Jones, he loves his wife, the Maura Higgins scandal is over the top'

Danny Jones is already mortified by the fall-out from his drunken BRITs kiss with his campmate - but the vitriol around the fall-out is out of control

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3 h. ago Premier League duo left stunned as they are given bed to SHARE on international duty

Fulham midfielder Alex Iwobi and Nottingham Forest defender Ola Aina are currently away on international duty with Nigeria and were shocked to find out they only had one bed when they checked into their hotel room

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4 h. ago ‘I’d feel stifled by that’: Gwyneth Paltrow told intimacy coordinator to ‘step back’ on new film with Timothée Chalamet

The actor, who shares a number of sex scenes with co-star Chalamet in new film Marty Supreme, said ‘I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on’Gwyneth Paltrow has said she felt uncomfortable about the presence of an intimacy coordinator on the set of her new film, in which she shares a number of sex scenes with co-star Timothée Chalamet.Speaking to Vanity Fair, Paltrow, 52, said that working on Marty Supreme, which is her first leading role in a film since 2010, was her first experience of the relatively new profession, introduced after the #MeToo movement to try to help protect actors on set after multiple instances of abuse were exposed. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Top Dog Bed Buddies 2025: Here are 13 breeds of adorable dog that are a dream to sleep next to

There’s no need for these snuggly dogs to go to their own bed at night.

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6 h. ago Woman in drunk barmaid's car 'begged boyfriend to pull head in from window' before fatal crash

Truman Hub, 22, was killed in the tragedy in Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear in November 2022 when the Hyundai i10 driven by 25-year-old Karla Dodds collided with a lamppost

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7 h. ago Ashley Dale's mum warns 'stay away from bad boys' after daughter shot dead by boyfriend's rival

Julie Dale - mum of 28-year-old Ashley who was shot dead by her boyfriend's rival in her own home - has spoken of her fears for women and girls

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7 h. ago ‘I could be next’: international students at Columbia University feel ‘targeted’ after Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest

For students who aren’t US citizens, a new reality includes feelings of surveillance, fears of being arrested and reluctance to visit familyIt was 4am and a Columbia University master’s student two months away from graduation lay awake in bed. His heart thumped so hard, his chest began to hurt. His hands got colder and colder; he was unable to speak. This had become an agonizing nightly routine for the 24-year-old from India since 8 March, when immigration officials handcuffed the Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil and took him into detention in Louisiana.“What scares me the most is that I would be fast asleep at home and I would hear a bang on my door and I’d be taken away in the middle of the night by Ice and nobody will ever know what happened to me,” said the student, who attended multiple protests to support Palestine around New York City. “It feels as if people are getting targeted for just speaking up for their political views last year.” Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Grim details of Nicholas Prosper's family murders – from 'how to kill' book to 'massacre plot'

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Nicholas Prosper, who plotted to carry out the biggest massacre of the century, was jailed today for murdering his family as further details emerge of his twisted fantasies

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8 h. ago Teen who murdered own family and plotted school massacre jailed for life

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Nicholas Prosper killed his mother, sister and brother using an illegally-owned shotgun, before plotting what he called "the biggest massacre of the 21st century".

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9 h. ago Inside warped mind of Nicholas Prosper who slaughtered family and plotted school massacre

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Nicholas Prosper, a 'geeky' teenager who turned his dark internet fantasies into reality, has today been jailed for life after murdering his mother and two siblings

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9 h. ago Nicholas Prosper: Teen who gunned down own family and planned school massacre jailed for 49 years

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Nicholas Prosper used an illegally-owned shotgun to kill his mother, his sister and his brother and also planned to carry out "the biggest massacre in the 21st century" in Luton in September last year

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10 h. ago Minister refuses to rule out more benefit cuts amid backlash over Liz Kendall move to slash disability payments – UK politics live

Stephen Timms, social security and disability minister, says ‘who knows what will happen in next five years’ as welfare bill is increasing even with cutsMatt Hancock, the former Tory health secretary, has just started giving evidence to the Covid inquiry as part of its inquiry into PPE procurement.There is a live feed here.Of course people who can work should work - no one is questioning that - but for my relatives, friends and neighbours, and your constituents who have the misfortune to suffer from a chronic, debilitating, long-term condition that leaves them bed-bound, unable to leave their home or crushed by mental illness, these cuts will not motivate them to get back to work, it will instead scare and humiliate them and strip them of their dignity and self respect and for some it will send them to an early grave. The blame for this will lie squarely with you and the sycophants within your party who passively support these dreadful cuts. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Scots pensioner, 84, who stabbed husband of 50 years in bed avoids jail

Annie Hillen attempted to smother and stab her husband of 50 years in their Glasgow home.

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11 h. ago Adolescence star Erin Doherty recalls being left 'unsatisfied' dating men before one 'mind

The 32-year-old, who is in a relationship with fellow actress Sophie Melville, 34, said she'd been been a 'people pleaser' and had boyfriends in a bid to fit in.

Politics

11 h. ago £35m London tower could face ‘demolition’ as neighbours say it blocks reading light in bed

Their lawyers say the couple could solve the issue of lower light levels by simply turning a light on

Economics

12 h. ago ‘He threw body piercing parties and lay on a bed of nails’: the wild life of body modification guru Fakir Musafar

A new documentary explores how the pioneer of the ‘modern primitive’ subculture used painful BDSM practices to access new spiritual planes – outraging conventional societyIn the opening moments of A Body to Live in, a documentary by American film-maker Angelo Madsen, we are confronted with two black-and-white photographs. Taken in 1944 by the teenage Roland Loomis, they show him stripped to his underwear, his waist heavily restricted by a leather belt, a rope wrapped several times around his neck.Loomis later renamed himself Fakir Musafar and became one of the founders of the modern primitive movement – a subculture that revolves around body modification practices including branding, suspension, contortion and binding. A Body to Live in, which premieres internationally at London’s BFI Flare film festival this week, dissects Musafar’s body of work, which explored the tension between masculinity and femininity, pain and pleasure, spirituality and S&M. Continue reading...

Politics

12 h. ago Thames Water’s 6 bidders include Stonepeak and distressed specialist FitzWalter

Potential investors are ‘hanging round the hoop’ with four parties said to be most committed to the process

Politics

12 h. ago Sadistic couple tortured 'cuckooed' woman and made her drink human urine in her own home

Imaan Coley, 37, and boyfriend Mohammed Khan, 24, from Birmingham, carried out brutal attacks including the torturing of a woman who was humiliated and forced to drink urine

Politics

18 h. ago Sadistic couple who tortured women and made one drink urine after keeping another captive for weeks have been jailed for 25 years

Imaan Coley, 37, and her boyfriend Mohammed Khan, 24, both from Sparkbrook, terrorised two victims, forcing one to drink human urine and holding another captive for months.

Events

19 h. ago Babysitter 'abused child, 11, almost 1,000 times' while staying with his family and sleeping in the boy's bunk bed

Florian K., 37, is accused of abusing the 11-year-old boy almost 1,000 times while he was employed as the child's babysitter in Munich, Germany, for seven years.

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