32 h. ago The secret Essex hierarchy: Our snitch reveals the REAL ranking and rivalry of reality stars, including whose wedding was hit by a drunken scandal, who is seen as 'hideous'

Welcome to Essex, where the competition to be the richest and most famous is the fiercest in the land.

Society

52 h. ago Nobody knew the hideous truth as he walked down the street with a bag for life

Detectives meticulously pieced together what had happened

Politics

52 h. ago Atrocities mount daily. Promised aid does not arrive. Why has the west turned its back on Sudan?

As territory is won and lost by opposing military forces, people grasp at scraps of normality. But the country is undergoing the world’s most severe humanitarian catastrophe and global announcements of help have amounted to nothingA friend had gone missing. Nothing unusual in Sudan’s ruinous war, but Hitham Mohund knew it was vital to act quickly. However, in an abandoned home near the Nile River he stopped searching after making a grisly discovery: wedged inside a bathroom were three bodies. Hands tied, eyes staring upwards.“They were shot in the chest,” said the 28-year-old, as he walked towards Maigoma Street, a dusty thoroughfare in north Khartoum, Sudan’s capital. Continue reading...

Politics

3 d. ago Horror film fan chopped up housemate before dumping 'heart and genitals in bag for life'

Marcin Majerkiewicz, 42, chopped Stuart Everett into 27 pieces after brutally bludgeoning the pensioner to death – as a motive for the bloody murder may have been an increase in rent

Events

1 week ago Teenage girl, 15, 'grabbed by two men who tried to drag her into a car while she was walking along street'

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly grabbed by two men who tried to pull her into a vehicle as she walked along Colebrook Street, Plymouth at around 6.55pm on Sunday. 

Politics

1 week ago Wealthy aristocrat Constance Marten had been living in ‘unsanitary’ tent when pregnant with first baby, jury told

Constance Marten and her partner Mark Gordon deny gross negligence manslaughter of their fifth child Victoria, whose body was found in a rubbish-filled bag-for-life

Politics

1 week ago Iceland foods' boss Richard Walker 'worried' about Easter bill misery for millions

The head of high street supermarket Iceland, Richard Walker, has voiced his fears over bill hikes, as well as threatened welfare cuts, on some of Britain's poorest families

Economics

1 week ago Death of Constance Marten’s baby was ‘no crime’ but a tragic accident, jury told

The wealthy aristocrat and her partner deny gross negligence manslaughter of their newborn daughter Victoria, whose body was found in a rubbish-filled bag-for-life

Events

1 week ago Girl, 15, ‘grabbed by men who tried to drag her into car’ while walking down street

An urgent manhunt has been launched by police after a teenage girl was said to have been grabbed by two men who tried to bundle her into a car as she walked down a city street

Politics

2 w. ago CCTV shows murder accused ‘disposing of housemate's human remains in bag for life’, trial hears

WARNING, TRIAL HAS HEARD EVIDENCE SOME READERS MAY FIND DISTRESSING Stuart Everett was killed and then 'dismembered', jurors have heard

Events

2 w. ago Coronation Street legend exits ITV soap after 11 years as string of stars leave

Coronation Street fans watched a favourite walk away from the cobbles in the latest episode, with the resident telling their family she had landed a job in London

Politics

2 w. ago Moment 'murderer carries torso in a bag for life after dismembering victim into 27 pieces with a hacksaw'

Marcin Majerkiewicz was arrested after the gruesome discovery of 67-year-old Stuart Everett's remains in a Salford nature reserve last April

Events

2 w. ago Aristocrat Constance Marten and her lover 'caused death of newborn baby they carried in 'bag for life' while on run from authorities after their four other children were taken into care'

Constance Marten , 37, and Mark Gordon, 50, hid their baby in a shopping bag covered in rubbish when she later died in freezing conditions after weeks on the run, the Old Bailey heard today.

Events

2 w. ago What sex is like with a stoma bag: Woman reveals how her relationship with her husband has changed since multiple surgeries that left her intimate areas looking very different

Sam Cleasby, 43, from Filey in East Yorkshire, who's had twelve major surgeries that left her without a small intestine and wearing a stoma bag thought her sex life was over

Politics

2 w. ago Revealed: What neighbours really think of Huw Edwards as former BBC star was seen shuffling around the supermarket, puffing on a vape and living in his elderly's mum's bungalow

Baggy-eyed, pale, unshaven and puffing on a vape, former BBC News anchor Huw Edwards cuts a haunted figure walking along a street in Wales near where he grew up.

Events

2 w. ago Horror moment woman is kidnapped and shoved into stolen car as police issue emergency CCTV appeal

The unidentified woman, believed to be in her early 20s, had been walking down the street when a man appeared to try to hit her with his vehicle before he jumped out and punched her several times

Events

2 w. ago Moment woman kidnapped and shoved into stolen car caught on harrowing CCTV

The unidentified woman, believed to be in her early 20s, had been walking down the street when a man appeared to try to hit her with his vehicle before he jumped out and punched her several times

Events

2 w. ago Helen Flanagan teases dramatic ITV Coronation Street return seven years after exit

Helen Flanagan has opened up about a return to Coronation Street, seven years after viewers last saw her character Rosie Webster walking down the famous cobbles

Events

3 w. ago Rachel Roddy’s recipe for hazelnut, spelt and butter biscuits | A kitchen in Rome

Introduce yourself to soft, nutty, slightly sweet spelt flour, and discover how it complements these hazelnut shortbreadsSeven years ago, I walked along Oxford Street in London with the baker and writer Henrietta Inman. I can’t remember where we’d been in order to be illuminated by Foot Locker and Muji at midnight, but I do remember we talked about spelt flour. Or, rather, Henrietta did, describing its flavour as soft and nutty, and all as part of our wider conversation about her decision to leave the subterranean pastry kitchen of a five-star London hotel and return home to Dorset, where she adapted her knowledge and skill to different ingredients, resulting in her book The Natural Baker.Back then, I knew a bit about spelt’s importance in ancient cooking (by various civilisations, including the Romans, who called it the marching grain), but I was confused as to what spelt actually was, which wasn’t helped by the translations: spelta, farro spelta, emmer, einkorn, dinkel wheat. Whil...

Politics

3 w. ago Sad bloke scammed out of £21k by online girlfriend who turned out to be AI

Mr. Liu started having suspicions about his online belle when he still hadn't met her after two months of chatting – finding out the hideous truth about her virtual nature

Economics