9 h. ago My son's final words were 'dad did this and he did it on purpose'

Claire Throssell is calling for a review of the family justice system in the wake of a new Women's Aid report

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54 h. ago Mum says late son's last words were 'dad did this – he did it on purpose'

Claire Throssell's two young sons, Jack and Paul, were savagely murdered by their abusive dad, even though mum Claire had warned authorities her ex was dangerous

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3 d. ago 'The last words my poor Jack said was dad did this and he did it on purpose'

Before Claire Throssell's sons Jack, 12, and Paul, nine were killed by their father, she had warned Social Services that her ex-husband was dangerous and a threat to their children

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9 d. ago Cruz Beckham's very cryptic message will 'hurt' Brooklyn amid ongoing family feud

Cruz Beckham appeared to liken his family to the fractured final days of The Beatles as he shared a screenshot of song lyrics along with a very telling caption on social media

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1 week ago Don’t cry for me, all you boozers! The trouble with shifting Evita’s big balcony number from stage to street

In the new Evita at the London Palladium, Rachel Zegler sings from the theatre’s actual balcony – meaning the big-paying audience doesn’t experience what passersby get for free. Could this gimmick catch on?In the theatrical tactic “breaking the fourth wall”, characters acknowledge the presence of the audience. As when, in the current National Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, Here We Are, the performers, walking forward, stop in shock at seeing a big room full of strangers.The director Jamie Lloyd, though, is pioneering a technique that might be called breaking the theatre wall. In his revival of Evita, previewing at the London Palladium, Rachel Zegler’s Eva Perón sings Don’t Cry For Me Argentina – supposedly delivered from the Casa Rosada presidential balcony in Buenos Aires – from the balcony outside the Palladium, while the audience inside has to settle for a video feed. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Difficult love’: Spanish publisher reprints groundbreaking book of Lorca’s homoerotic sonnets

Federico García Lorca’s poems were printed anonymously in 1983 after being hidden away by family for 50 yearsIn the autumn of 1983, dozens of carefully chosen readers received an envelope containing a slim, red booklet of sonnets that had been locked away since they were written almost 50 years earlier by the most famous Spanish poet of the 20th century.While those behind the initiative gave no clue as to their identities, their purpose was made abundantly clear in the dedication on the booklet’s final page: “This first edition of the Sonnets of Dark Love is being published to remember the passion of the man who wrote them.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Race Across The World winners Caroline and Tom reveal how they'll spend prize money

The Race Across the World winners have been revealed after Wednesday evening's final on BBC One. And the victorious mother and son duo of Caroline and Tom have now shared how they'll spend their winnings

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3 w. ago Jade Goody's tragic final message to sons as devastating family feud spirals on her birthday

Over a decade and a half later, Jade Goody's sons sadly appear to have distanced from one another after their dad Jeff took legal action earlier this year against her mum Jackiey

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4 w. ago Ian Poulter’s son Luke suffers US Open qualifying heartache after playoff

Ian Poulter took to Instagram to call his son’s final round at Emerald Dunes as an ‘incredible experience’

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