12 h. ago ‘She had a hidden identity’: new film uncovers a mother’s second world war secrets

In harrowing documentary My Underground Mother, a woman finds out what really happened to her mother in the warWhen journalist Marisa Fox was a young girl, her mother would regale her with stories of her own youth, all of which roiled with drama and consequence. When she was a 13-year-old girl living in Poland in the late 1930s, on the brink of the Nazi occupation, her mother told her she was pulled away from her mother and put on a boat to Palestine where she spent the rest of the second world war. As a teenager in that country, she said she became part of a radical Jewish underground group for whom she acted as a spy and a saboteur, smuggling bombs and guns which they used against the British army who ran the country at the time and who they very much wanted to force out. “I was a hero,” her mother would often boast, “never a victim.”Stories like those both dazzled and horrified the young Fox, but by the time she was nine she began to realize that certain parts of the tale didn’t ...

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3 d. ago Family at war over 'Teletubbies' farm shop: Mother and daughter sue two sons over future of £6.6m site that has featured in hit TV show

The Country Market, in Bordon, Hampshire, became the subject of a multimillion-pound tug of war between the men and women in the family after it's 'pioneering founder' Peter Marshall died.

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9 d. ago The four clues that gave away the identity of the Secret Traitor and were hidden in plain sight

Up until the reveal, the Secret Traitor orchestrated each night's 'murder' by providing the other Traitors with a shortlist of three names

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1 week ago Secret Traitor's identity 'exposed' just hours before bombshell BBC scene airs

EXCLUSIVE: This year The Traitors has an epic new twist after host Claudia Winkleman threw a spanner in the works by picking a fourth "Secret Traitor," whose identity was kept hidden - until now

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2 w. ago ‘We walked over corpses’: Mother reveals journey out of hell in northern Ethiopia during Tigray war

Shushay and her six children were among three million people displaced from their homes during the conflict between 2020 and 2022

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3 w. ago Expert warns that 'fishy or metallic smell' in your home could signal serious danger

An electrical heating specialist has identified common odours that could indicate hidden hazards such as electrical faults, mould and damp in your home

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3 w. ago ‘I can’t forget the horror’: a young mother on giving birth twice during the Gaza war

Hadeel Al Gherbawi survived her two pregnancies despite extreme hunger and painChildbirth under attack: how women and babies became targets in conflicts around the worldHadeel Al Gherbawi was seven months pregnant when the war started in October 2023. Up until that point the 26-year-old had meticulously prepared for her son’s arrival. She visited her doctor twice a month because the pregnancy was high risk, had regular ultrasounds and took vitamins. “I love the details,” she says.Living on the east side of Gaza City, close to the border with Israel, and knowing that being pregnant would make moving fast difficult, she decided to go to her parents in the west of Gaza City that first day. “I thought it was just going to be a few days and I would go back.” Continue reading...

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