7 d. ago 'I caught neighbour's kids in my garden – their mum's reaction floored me'

A man felt like he was branded as a 'bad guy' for telling his neighbour's children to leave his garden – as their mum had a reaction he really wasn't expecting

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9 d. ago Chicken rendang and rasam: Sugen Gopal’s recipes for Malaysian comfort food

A simple, fragrant, restorative soup, plus a chickeny twist on the classic Indonesian-Malay aromatic ‘dry’ curryComfort food means different things to different people, and today’s recipes are what do it for me. Rasam is the dish I crave whenever I’m feeling under the weather, because it gives me a boost. This thin, brothy soup is considered to be very good for digestion, so in Malaysia we often serve it at the end of a meal. Rendang, meanwhile, originated in Indonesia before becoming popular across south-east Asia, and is now particularly associated with Malaysia. It is spicy, sweet and very fragrant, because it features both lemongrass and lime leaves. I learned how to cook it from my mum and auntie back at home in Seremban – Mum’s version uses fresh green chillies, but I also add some dried kashmiri chillies, to give it a darker colour and, in my opinion, a better flavour, too. As with many Malaysian recipes, it all begins by making a kari paste, which you can do well in advance,...

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2 w. ago Girl, 3, beaten to death by other kids as mum leaves eight of them to go gambling

Blessing Buckles, three, was left with seven other children unattended in a home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when her mum Dineshia Yates and her friend Terica Scott went to a casino

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3 w. ago Moment drunk mum glasses best pal in face four times leaving her scarred for life

Ebony Jones struck Megan Smith four times with a half pint glass in a boozy bar attack after a row about a dog, leaving her victim needing 41 stitches and scarred for life

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3 w. ago Scots mum's swim in contaminated water leaves her hospitalised for five days

Shelley Sim became seriously unwell after swimming in the sea, which has left her fearful.

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3 w. ago Mum laughs as she leaves court after 'taking law into own hands' with 'brutal assault'

Hollie Weston, 26, told police officers she had punched her victim Alfie Broadfield-Mellor and "caused him to bleed" but added ominously, "it could have been worse"

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3 w. ago Mum 'went home to take a bath leaving daughter, 4, to die in submerged car' after crash

The 26-year-old mother allegedly had a blood alcohol level "nearly three times" above the legal limit after crashing her Subaru SUV into a canal and leaving her daughter for dead in the backseat

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3 w. ago It’s wrong to tell off other people’s kids – it leaves me fuming as a mum

So many people take it upon themselves to lay down the law with other people’s kids. Enough is enough, says Charlotte Cripps. We need to be able to hold it back for emergencies where genuine harm is going to come to someone

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3 w. ago Drunk young mum glassed best friend at busy club, leaving her needing 41 stitches, after a row about a dog

Ebony Jones, 26, shattered a half pint glass across the face of Megan Smith at a bar in Caerphilly causing her to need 36 stitches to her face and five more to her nose.

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4 w. ago Paedo 'manipulated' mum so she'd leave him alone with naked child who called him 'dada'

A twisted pedophile who failed to tell his new partner that he had previously been caught with child abuse images – and was left alone with her child – now faces more time in jail

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4 w. ago Paedo 'manipulated' girlfriend into leaving him alone with tot who called him 'dada'

He was jailed after failing to inform his new girlfriend he was a registered sex offender, which saw him left alone in the home with her naked two-and-a-half-year-old son.

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4 w. ago Paedo 'manipulated' girlfriend into leaving him alone with toddler who called him 'dada'

Pervert Gary Cookson was jailed after failing to inform his new girlfriend he was a registered sex offender, which saw him left alone in the home with her naked two-and-a-half-year-old son

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