4 h. ago The kindness of strangers: a woman paid for my groceries when I couldn’t

I was trying to move money over quickly but the banking app was down. Plus, I had a toddler and a baby with me, and one had started screamingRead more in the Kindness of strangers seriesAt the Aldi checkout I was having trouble paying for my $100 grocery shop. It wasn’t that I couldn’t afford to pay, I’d just forgotten to transfer money into our everyday transaction account. I was trying to move the money over quickly at the checkout but the banking app was down. I had my two little kids with me, a toddler and a baby, one of whom had started screaming.With a growing queue of other customers behind me, the checkout guy set aside my receipt for the scanned groceries and saved it, then went on to serving other people. Frantically, I called my husband and asked him to come down to the supermarket with his bank card and pay, as it didn’t seem that I was going to be able to. While I was on the phone to him, a lady in the line paid for her groceries – then told the checkout guy, “I’ll pay ...

Politics

6 d. ago Woman at centre of Christian Horner scandal 'paid millions to leave Red Bull'

The unnamed woman who was at the centre of the Christian Horner scandal has reportedly been paid millions to leave Red Bull just months after the former team principal was sacked

Science

6 d. ago Woman at centre of Christian Horner sex texts scandal is paid HUGE fee to drop her allegations, as he looks to move on with wife Geri Halliwell

EXCLUSIVE: The employee, whose identity is protected by legal anonymity, has agreed to move on and drop her allegations in return for the fee.

Politics

7 d. ago The kindness of strangers: my melons went flying and a group of old ladies came to the rescue

White hair, head scarves and one with a walking stick – they looked like they had stepped out of the same babushka dollRead more in the Kindness of strangers seriesOne Saturday morning, I accompanied my mum to the local market to do our weekly fruit and veg shop. Mum was still looking around when I offered to take the shopping back to the car, which was stuffed into a little red trolley. It was like a Mary Poppins bag – quite a small thing, but it was surprising how much you could load it up. Or so we thought.With the trolley heaving under the weight of an already full load of groceries, my mum rested a box of honeydew melons on top. She warned me to be careful getting it back to the car. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Bloke's bizarre excuse as he's caught romping with woman in back of speeding truck

The woman was 'paid by the Russian 1,000 baht [£22.90] to film content together for his Instagram channel'. Georgy Dzugkoev, 23, has hundreds of thousands of social media followers

Events

1 week ago Tributes paid to 'beautiful' woman, 21, who died suddenly in tragedy

Isabella Clark has been remembered as a "beloved" daughter and friend who "touched the lives of everyone she met"

Events

1 week ago Met Police officer boasts ‘I’ve paid good money to see things like that’ after woman in police fancy dress arrested

A police sergeant at the Charing Cross police station in London has been caught making misogynistic comments about a woman who was arrested while wearing a fancy dress costume.

Events

2 w. ago The kindness of strangers: a Los Angeles bus driver got everyone onboard to sing me happy birthday

The jolly driver had already done me a favour when I’d left my camera on board. Then he got on the microphone and said ‘Hey folks, it’s this guy’s birthday today’Read more in the Kindness of strangers seriesBack in my native Austria, people don’t even bother to lock their front doors. So when I set off in the 1980s to backpack through the US, I was warned about the country’s high crime rate and made to fear this big, scary place.I had my 21st birthday while I was in Los Angeles, and I’d been out having a few beers. Tired and ready to go home, I jumped on a public bus. The moment I stepped off I realised I’d left my camera on the seat – a disaster, as it was very precious to me. Continue reading...

Transport

2 w. ago 'I bought £4 Too Good To Go bag from Morrisons but contents left me fuming'

A woman who paid £4 for a Too Good To Go bag from Morrisons shared the contents of her bag online as she was unhappy with what she got - but others said she 'won'

Economics

2 w. ago Please Don’t Feed the Children review – Destry Spielberg debut splices 1970s exploitation with YA fairytale

A band of roving, feral orphans – asymptomatic carriers of a plague that turns adults into cannibals – regret accepting a stranger’s act of apparent kindnessThis low-budget horror thriller comes with an almighty directorial last name, but Steven’s daughter Destry serves up precious little that is classically Spielbergian in her debut feature. Forget Dad’s signature childlike wonder; the youngsters in this post-apocalyptic outing – ostracised because minors are asymptomatic carriers of a plague that turns adults into cannibals – are completely feral, opportunistic and worryingly keen to kill. Spielberg’s film is a surprisingly nihilistic, if uneven, splicing of 21st-century young-adult and 1970s exploitation flicks.After making a break for the border, roving juvenile Mary (Zoe Colletti) takes up with a band of orphans squatting a nearby community centre. Leader Ben (Andrew Liner) is wounded during a botched armed robbery on a service station, so they take refuge in an isolated house....

Society

3 w. ago The kindness of strangers: a man let me share his hotel room when I was locked out in Paris

I was staying with a host family and they were asleep. The entrance code had changed and I was feeling stuck, hopeless – and quite hungryRead more in the Kindness of strangers seriesThe day hadn’t got off to a great start. I was flying back to France from the UK after a friend’s funeral. I’d been living in Paris doing a French-language course and living with a host family who, to be honest, weren’t particularly welcoming.It was late at night when I got back to the apartment, only to find the entrance code to the building had changed – something the host family had neglected to mention. They must have already been in bed, because nobody was answering my calls. Short of throwing rocks at the fourth-floor window to wake them up, I had no way of getting inside. Continue reading...

Politics

4 w. ago Bodybuilder almost dies after botched surgery as doctor told him to make 'final goodbye'

Jackson Peos has a new lease of life after he was saved thanks to the kindness of complete strangers following a botched surgery where he lost three litres of blood

Events