42 m. ago Sex Education star Alexander Westwood jailed after being found guilty of 26 sex offences

Netflix star Alexander Westwood was found guilty sex offences including against children

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50 m. ago Netflix Sex Education star jailed for 15 years for abusing young girls in acting classes

Netflix's Sex Education actor Alexander Westwood has been jailed for 15 years after he was found guilty of 26 sex offences, including abusing children

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63 m. ago Ukraine war briefing: One dead and children injured in Russian attack on Kramatorsk

Tentative talks between US and Russia on Ukraine’s future have begun - but the reality for Ukrainians is still daily missile and drone attacks from Putin’s forces

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88 m. ago Sex Education actor Alexander Westwood jailed for rape after using ‘minor celebrity status’ to lure victims

Alexander Westwood, 24, was on Tuesday sentenced to more than 15 years behind bars after he was found guilty in December of 26 offences against women and children

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98 m. ago Sex Education actor Alexander Westwood jailed after raping teenagers in class

Alexander Westwood, 24, was on Tuesday sentenced to more than 15 years behind bars after he was found guilty in December of 26 offences against women and children

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1 hour ago Rapist Sex Education star Alexander Westwood is jailed for 15 years for 26 sex attacks on aspiring actresses and children

The 24-year-old actor, who starred in hit Netflix show Sex Education, was found guilty of 26 sex offences in December, including raping a teenage girl during acting classes.

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1 hour ago Sex Education's Alexander Westwood jailed for 15 years after being found guilty of 26 sex offences

Netflix star Alexander Westwood was found guilty of 26 sex offences in December, including some against children and pupils in his class

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1 hour ago Joy Reid’s final show: Fired MSNBC host leaves viewers with dire message after controversial axing

‘When you are in the midst of a crisis, and specifically a crisis of democracy, how do you resist? When fascism isn’t just coming, it’s already here,’ Joy Reid told viewers during her final MSNBC show.

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2 h. ago Primary school evacuated after 'bomb threat' as armed police rush to scene and panicked parents pick up their children

Police raced to Badbury Park Primary School in Swindon, Wiltshire, at around 2.30pm today after reports of the alleged bomb threat.

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2 h. ago Aldi Scotland announces CHAS as the official charity partner for its 2025 Supermarket Sweep

Aldi Scotland has proudly announced Children’s Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) as the official charity partner of its long running and hugely popular Supermarket Sweep initiative for 2025.

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2 h. ago Evil mommy blogger Ruby Franke seen screaming at kids in harrowing new home videos

Franke, 43, who was sentenced to up to 30 years in prison for child abuse, was seen filming herself screaming and berating her children during her YouTube days.

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2 h. ago Armed police storm primary school after 'bomb threat' with 200m cordon in place

Police in Swindon are responding to reports of a bomb threat at a school - a 'malicious threat' was reported to police and the school confirmed that children have been evacuated

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2 h. ago Police storm primary school after 'bomb threat' with 200m cordon in place

Police in Swindon are responding to reports of a bomb threat at a school - a 'malicious threat' was reported to police and the school confirmed that children have been evacuated

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2 h. ago Housekeeper got ‘no support’ from wealthy family following brutal attack, court told

After she was viciously stabbed by her employer’s son, they sent her one single text message

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3 h. ago Sir Richard Branson's Little Venice houseboat is up for rent for £5,200 a month

The Virgin founder bought the boat in the 1970s and started his business empire on board

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4 h. ago Boy, 15, ‘let anger out’ by kicking pensioner in park, murder trial told

Two children are on trial accused of killing Bhim Kohli in Franklin Park, Leicester.

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4 h. ago Pride group founder says messages about children were ‘fantasy’ and ‘taboo’

Stephen Ireland, 40, gave evidence at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday.

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4 h. ago ‘It makes you feel like the hero of your own quest’: the dark, delightful magic of the dungeon synth scene

Amid dinosaurs, swords and leather armour, we visit the UK’s first festival for dungeon synth – a fast-growing black metal spinoff dedicated to fantasy and escapeA flurry of inflatable caveman clubs have erupted into the air, a crowd of ecstatic metallers swinging them merrily as they watch a hooded dinosaur peering over a synthesiser. The masked musician, Diplodocus, has transformed this crowded pub in soggy south London into a mystical underworld, one entrancing chord at a time.This is Albion Dungeon fest, a sellout, weekend-long event, and the first of its kind in the UK. Emerging in the 90s as an offshoot of black metal, dungeon synth replaced guitars with keyboards to make it less moshing, more magic. Its mystical sound has aesthetics to match, channelling the atmosphere of JRR Tolkien books, the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons and a darkly quaint reimagining of the medieval era. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Sentence for woman who kept baby in a drawer not ‘unduly lenient’, court rules

The woman, who cannot be named to protect the identity of her children, was jailed for seven-and-a-half years last November.

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5 h. ago Record number of children died crossing Channel last year, says UN

Data from UN agency’s Missing Migrants Project should serve as ‘wake-up call’, say officialsA record number of children died in the Channel last year according to UN data shared with the Guardian that officials have said should serve as a “wake-up call”.Last year, the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) Missing Migrants Project recorded the highest number of deaths and missing persons in the Channel, with 82 people losing their lives, at least 14 of whom were children – also a record high. Continue reading...

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