4 h. ago Inside 'cocaine' capital where drugs are 'legal' and sold on street corners

An ex-con-turned-influencer was stunned to see how easy it is was to score drugs in a city dubbed the "cocaine capital" due to lax laws which allows people to possess small amounts without prosecution

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10 h. ago NHS nurse who sold drugs to friends for sex sessions struck off

David Popple, 58, was a nurse for more than 40 years and was given a suspended prison sentence after he admitted dealing drugs

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60 h. ago Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons

Georgia Republican lawmaker also claims she didn’t know Rothschild family, of her ‘space laser’ theory, was JewishRepublican US House member Marjorie Taylor Greene has said she believes in demons, surmising that they might be aliens who fell from heaven, and claims to have been unaware that key figures in the antisemitic space lasers conspiracy she floated were Jewish.She made those bizarre remarks as a guest on Friday on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher after winning some fans among Democrats who once loathed her – yet had come to appreciate how the far-right Georgia representative had recently broken with Republicans on various issues. Those include healthcare, Gaza, the federal government shutdown that began on 1 October and the handling of documents pertaining to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was friends with Donald Trump before the latter man won two presidencies. Continue reading...

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4 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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5 d. ago Kidnap rape hell of woman abducted by Afghan man and his three friends, beaten and used as a sex slave for a week and forced to have her tormentor's name tattooed across her stomach

In 2023, the then 21-year-old was kidnapped, gagged and raped for several days by her ex-boyfriend, a 33-year-old Afghan man named locally as Jaser A.

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5 d. ago Gemma was the perfect best friend. She helped me through my break

In the depths of heartbreak after splitting from my partner of three years, I joined a small recovery group for people exploring patterns of love and attachment in the hope it could give me closure.

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5 d. ago Teen cricketer dies during training session after being struck by ball in freak accident

The teenager collapsed almost immediately after impact

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5 d. ago Teenage cricketer tragically dies after being hit by ball as Kevin Pietersen leads tributes

Ben Austin, a promising 17-year-old cricketer from Melbourne, has died after being struck by a ball during a nets session at Ferntree Gully Cricket Club in the city

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6 d. ago NHS boss said transgender colleague who sparked protests after using female changing room was 'no different to a large woman'

Eight nurses are bringing a claim against County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust after Rose Henderson was allowed to use the women's changing rooms at a Darlington hospital. 

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7 d. ago Hospital bosses in transgender row feared ‘bullying trust’ label, tribunal told

Seven nurses are bringing a claim against County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.

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8 d. ago WH Auden formed ‘intense friendship’ with sex worker who burgled him, unseen letters reveal

Exclusive: the newly released correspondence reveals how a strong bond developed between the Funeral Blues poet and the sex worker who broke into his homeA “once in a century” discovery of a cache of long-lost letters has revealed how the English poet WH Auden developed a deep and lasting friendship with a Viennese sex worker and car mechanic after the latter burgled the Funeral Blues author’s home and was put on trial.York-born Auden, a prominent member of a generation of 1930s writers that also included Christopher Isherwood, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender, described his unconventional arrangement with the man he affectionally called “Hugerl” in the posthumously published poem Glad. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Fake baby scandal takes a truly dark twist: Kira Cousins's friend breaks silence on her OTHER fakery, the innocent victim and web of horrifying lies

As we shall discover - there is also a real baby at the heart of this mess, which takes the whole sorry debacle out of the realm of entertainment and into much darker territory.

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1 week ago NHS bosses told nurses that trans colleague would 'broaden their mindset' after they objected to sharing changing room, tribunal hears

Bethany Hutchison is one of seven nurses taking on a health trust claiming sexual discrimination and sexual harassment because a transgender nurse was able to use the female changing rooms.

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1 week ago Nurse was left 'sobbing and shaking' when transgender NHS worker repeatedly asked 'when she was getting changed' in female locker rooms at hospital

A nurse has told an employment tribunal she was left 'sobbing and shaking in a panic attack' when she was forced to share a changing room with a transgender colleague.

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1 week ago Nurses begin tribunal proceedings against NHS trust over trans colleague

The seven nurses are taking action over having to share a dressing a dressing room with a biologically male colleague.

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2 w. ago Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre review – a devastating exposé of power, corruption and abuse

Giuffre’s posthumously published memoir lays bare the life-wrecking impact of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes – but it is also the story of how a young woman becomes a heroThere is a strand running through Nobody’s Girl – a memoir by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who died by suicide in April this year – in which the activist and survivor of Jeffrey Epstein grapples with something more insidious than abuse. “I know it is a lot to take in,” she writes after a gruelling early passage detailing how she was sexually abused as a child. “But please don’t stop reading.” After recounting the first time Epstein allegedly forced her to have sex with one of his billionaire friends, she writes, “I need a breather. I bet you do too.”Throughout the book, Giuffre beguiles, apologises and cheerfully breaks the fourth wall in an effort to soften the distaste she assumes her story will trigger. Make no mistake: this is a book about power, corruption, industrial-scale sex abuse and the way in which institutions s...

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2 w. ago ‘Stole my heart’: why My Best Friend’s Wedding is my feelgood movie

The next in our series of writers sharing their all-time favourite comfort films is a trip back to 1997 with Julia Roberts’s charmingly chaotic anti-heroIf When Harry Met Sally questioned whether men and women can be friends without sex getting in the way, My Best Friend’s Wedding is unequivocal. If your fiance has a female BFF – especially if she has the megawatt smile and mile-long legs of Julia Roberts at her ravishing best – prepare for drama. Even if you’re Cameron Diaz. Which is the precise scenario we’re confronted with at the start of my favourite chaotic caper, which made just under $300m at the global box office when it debuted in 1997, and also stole my heart as a melodramatic 11-year-old.We were truly spoiled for romcoms in the 90s – believe me, I watched them all – but My Best Friend’s Wedding is something special. To watch this PJ Hogan classic (he also directed Muriel’s Wedding) is to sink into a warm bath of nostalgia, complete with brick-sized mobile phones, indoor ...

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2 w. ago Male migrant who posed as a female nurse and worked in A&E department for months avoids jail

Male migrant Lucius Njoku borrowed a female friend's identity to tend to seriously ill patients in the A&E unit at the NHS hospital where killer nurse Lucy Letby worked, a court heard.

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2 w. ago Prince Andrew 'lied about contact with Epstein in car crash interview,' Emily Maitlis says

The infamous interview backfired when the scandal-hit prince said he did 'not regret' his friendship with Epstein, who was by then a convicted sex offender and accused of sex trafficking

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2 w. ago NHS Fife pays for six more lawyers to fight Sandie Peggie employment tribunal

Deliberations are continuing in the ongoing employment tribunal between nurse Sandie Peggie and NHS Fife and trans doctor Beth Upton.

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