26 h. ago NADINE DORRIES: Lucy Letby's old friends have told me the truth about her. Forget what you've read, this is who she REALLY is

Yet another week has passed in which Lucy Letby, 35, has had to while away endless hours in the prison cell where she is condemned to spend the rest of her life.

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8 d. ago NADINE DORRIES: My daughters were publicly humiliated after I kept a huge secret from them. Here's what it taught me about how Beatrice and Eugenie can recover from Prince Andrew scandals

My daughters are no strangers to public humiliation because of their mother's antics.

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8 d. ago ‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head

After speaking out about the suppression of Hong Kong’s protests, Chloe Cheung was targeted by Beijing, followed on the street and abused online. Yet she remains defiantIt was Christmas Eve 2024 and 19-year-old Chloe Cheung was lying in bed at home in Leeds when she found out the Chinese authorities had put a bounty on her head. As she scrolled through Instagram looking at festive songs, a stream of messages from old school friends started coming into her phone. Look at the news, they told her.Media outlets across east Asia were reporting that Cheung, who had just finished her A-levels, had been declared a threat to national security by officials in Hong Kong. There was an offer of HK$1m (£94,000) to anyone who could assist in her arrest or capture. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Olly Murs says he and 'jealous' Mark Wright have been 'trying for years' in family update

Popstar Olly Murs has claimed that his friend Mark Wright is jealous of his six-pack as he told the singer, who is expecting a second child this year "you gotta stop looking good"

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1 week ago TALK OF THE TOWN: Becks may have splashed out on a lavish birthday dinner

I'm told that even though Becks hosted his family and friends at Core - a swanky Notting Hill restaurant where dinner costs £225 per person.

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1 week ago Snorting cocaine on the floor, cuckolding JFK Jr and the day Carolyn Bessette humiliated herself at Mar

'I want to have kids, but whenever I raise the subject with Carolyn, she turns away and refuses to have sex with me.'

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1 week ago 'I grew up watching Freaky Friday and critics are so wrong about the sequel'

Forget what you've read, this is the truth about Freakier Friday

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2 w. ago Woman arrested in dawn raid by Met Police in a riot van after Facebook post about her cop ex

Sarah had been told by a friend about a Facebook post in a local group which warned about the behaviour of men they have dated.

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2 w. ago I've been forced to move in with my daughter after my third property sale fell through. The housing market's collapsing... and my removal man's terrifying words show exactly why: NADINE DORRIES

I'm a former Cabinet minister and best-selling novelist who sold my childcare business for a seven-figure sum but, at 68, I have just moved into a bedroom in the home of one of my daughters.

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2 w. ago The kindness of strangers: out of the blue, an older woman handed me a well

I was excitedly telling a friend about my resolution to read more, and I didn’t think anyone was eavesdroppingRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesA few years ago I decided to improve myself physically and mentally. I did that by setting a couple of new year resolutions. One was to exercise regularly, the other was to read a book a week. The exercise part didn’t go so well because on 1 January, I went for my first walk and stepped on a branch that punctured my leg. But my plan to throw myself into reading was much more successful.Later that year I was on a long train trip from Sydney to Melbourne with a friend and told him about my reading goal. I was pretty stoked with how well I was going and was excited to talk about it. I didn’t think this was particularly interesting chat to anyone else on the train, so I certainly wasn’t worried about anyone eavesdropping. Continue reading...

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