2 h. ago Watch tearjerker John Lewis Christmas advert as father and teenage son bond over ’90s club hit

John Lewis' highly-anticipated Christmas advert for 2025 has been released and is a tearjerker as it focuses on a father and son relationship, with a teen trying to connect with his dad by giving him a ’90s vinyl

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9 h. ago My daughter was raped when she was a teenager. As a father, why didn't I know she was more likely to be sexually assaulted than be a smoker? TOM ALLCHURCH

You think, 'I shouldn't have let that happen'. But then how could you possibly stop every single bad thing happening to any one of your kids ever, while still allowing them to have a life?

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11 h. ago Father and teenage son bond over ’90s club hit for John Lewis Christmas campaign

Alison Limerick’s Where Love Lives provides the soundtrack, with fellow British artist Labrinth contributing a new version of the track for the ad.

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24 h. ago Horror Italy avalanche kills five including father and his teenage daughter

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39 h. ago Tattoo artist alleged to have 'sexually assaulted' Scots client in Ibiza to appear in court

The alleged victim was left unable to react out of “fear and anguish” according to Spanish public prosecutors and only alerted police in Scotland when she returned home.

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67 h. ago Teenager arrested over kidnap and sexual assault of girl during soccer practice in Golden Gate Park

Investigators believe the same suspect may have approached another girl in the area a day earlier

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67 h. ago Missing Louisiana girl, 13, rescued from box in Pennsylvania basement

Police say Ki-Shawn Crumity, 26, met girl through Snapchat, and charged him with human trafficking and sexual assaultA 13-year-old Louisiana girl who went missing after meeting a man online was found alive in a box at his home several states away in Pennsylvania – along with evidence that she had been sexually assaulted, according to authorities.Ki-Shawn Crumity, 26, faces charges of human trafficking, sexual assault, unlawful contact with a minor and corruption of a child after police in Pittsburgh said they arrested him on Thursday. He is one of at least three men who had been arrested as of Saturday amid an investigation involving law enforcement agencies in multiple states. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Syrian asylum seeker followed woman out of nightclub and strangled and sexually assaulted her in 'horrible attack'

The victim was walking home from a night out in the early hours of the morning on May 12 last year when she was attacked by Fawaz Alsamaou.

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3 d. ago Historic Environment Scotland manager accused of twerking at Martin Compston faces sex harassment allegation

Historic Environment Scotland has been rocked by yet another scandal as the manager who twerked in front of Martin Compston has also been accused of sexual assault

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3 d. ago Marine 'tried to kidnap and sexually assault schoolgirl, 12, he met at park'

US marine William Richard Roy, 24, stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina has been charged over allegedly kidnapping and attempting to sexually assault a 12-year-old girl he took from a park

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3 d. ago Woman ‘sexually assaulted’ at train station in horror late night attack as cops launch urgent probe

A WOMAN was reportedly sexually assaulted at a train station in a late night attack. Cops have launched an urgent investigation after the victim was targeted at Hope railway station in Flintshire, north east Wales, on Friday night. North Wales Police received the report in the early hours of this morning and contacted the BTP....

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3 d. ago Mother of female soldier who killed herself after being sexually assaulted says 'this doesn't feel like justice' after her attacker is jailed

Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck, 19, was found hanging in her room at Larkhill Camp, near Salisbury in Wiltshire, on December 15, 2021.

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3 d. ago The Guardian view on Andrew’s downfall: Britain’s relationship with the royals needs a reset | Editorial

The former prince’s retirement from public life is welcome. Problems around royal secrecy and entitlement remain to be tackledPrince Andrew is no more. Henceforth the king’s younger brother will be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. With the Thursday night announcement, and the news that Mr Mountbatten Windsor will quit his 30-room home in Windsor, the monarch hopes to draw a line under the shame of the former prince’s friendship with the dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and alleged sexual assault of Virginia Giuffre when she was 17, which he has always denied.These “censures” – as Buckingham Palace termed them – were made necessary by Mr Mountbatten Windsor’s poor judgment and deceit, including the lie that he had broken off contact with Epstein in 2010. But the real damage was done by his grotesquely entitled behaviour and appalling choice of friends. It should not have taken the painful details in Ms Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, an extract of which was pub...

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3 d. ago Calls for Andrew to finally reveal full truth about Epstein after losing all titles

Andrew has faced accusations of sexual assault from women who were trafficked by the late financier

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3 d. ago ‘British Armed Forces still not safe for women four years since my daughter killed herself after sexual assault’

Jaysley Beck’s family blame attack by Michael Webber and handling of assault by Army for 19-year-old’s death

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3 d. ago Asylum seeker followed young woman and sexually assaulted her under a Cardiff bridge

The victim was walking home alone after a night out in Cardiff when she was followed and attacked by Fawaz Alsamaou

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3 d. ago Comedian Al Murray reveals why an underrated Dutch city is the ideal destination for history fans

Comedian Al Murray returns to Arnhem in the Netherlands, forty years after he first visited as a teenager with his father.

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3 d. ago Sergeant Major jailed for sexually assaulting teenage soldier who took her own life

Michael Webber, who later became a Warrant Officer, admitted the attack on Gunner Jaysley Beck

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3 d. ago Sergeant major is jailed for six months for sexually assaulting female soldier 19, who then killed herself

Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck, 19, was found hanging in her room at Larkhill Camp, near Salisbury in Wiltshire, on December 15, 2021.

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4 d. ago Falkirk crime: Man, 37, arrested after woman sexually assaulted and robbed in Camelon

The man was released pending further investigation.

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