15 h. ago Racy love notes and photos of prison officer who had affairs with two inmates

Isabelle Dale was 19 when she started working at HMP Coldingley where she ended up having relationships with not one, but two inmates - Shahid Sharif and Connor Money

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19 h. ago The love letters of 'Miss Sneaky' prison officer who had affairs with two inmates

Isabelle Dale, who went by went by 'Miss Sneaky', had a picture of one of the inmaes hung over her bed

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47 h. ago Prison officer who had affairs with two inmates sent love notes and racy photos

Isabelle Dale was 19 when she started working at HMP Coldingley where she ended up having relationships with not one, but two inmates - Shahid Sharif and Connor Money

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57 h. ago The prison officer who just couldn't keep her hands off the inmates... she had two affairs

Isabelle Dale certainly went for a type - tattooed 'bad boys'. And given her look - nose piercings, false eyelashes, acrylic nails and platinum-blonde hair - the then-teen had no shortage of admirers.

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2 d. ago “Wonderful Joe” at the Grand Theatre London: A Touching Love Letter to the Overlooked

“Wonderful Joe” at the Grand Theatre London: A Touching Love Letter to the Overlooked  front mezz junkies

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5 d. ago Zohran Mamdani’s writer on crafting a historic victory speech: ‘In New York, inspiration is everywhere’

The mayor-elect’s address pulled from Socialist titans, Astoria’s uncles and his rival’s father. Julian Gerson explains how the two collaborated on the ‘love letter to New York’In his victory speech after winning the New York mayoral election last week, Zohran Mamdani came out swinging.The speech included, among other dramatic flourishes, a reference to the socialist titan Eugene Debs, shoutouts to the city’s “Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses”, tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru and Fiorello La Guardia, sprinkles of Arabic – and it was all delivered with the cadence and command of a hip-hop emcee. Many who were listening could not help but wonder: how the hell did he pull that off? Continue reading...

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1 week ago Manslaughter inquiry opened after death of worker in Rome tower collapse

Contractor was trapped for 11 hours under fallen masonry at medieval landmark near the ColosseumProsecutors have opened a manslaughter investigation over the death of a worker trapped when a medieval monument in central Rome partly collapsed.Octav Stroici, 66, was rescued on Monday night after 11 hours under fallen masonry but died of his injuries at the city’s Umberto I hospital. Romanian foreign affairs officials, who said he came from their country, thanked rescuers for their efforts to save him during a long, complex and delicate operation. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Revealed: Winston Churchill's emotive letter sent to his 'beautiful' first love while banged up in a South African prison

The future prime minister told Pamela Plowden it was 'not a very satisfactory address to write from' after he was imprisoned while covering the Boer War as a reporter.

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2 w. ago I Love LA review – Rachel Sennott’s HBO comedy finds itself but takes its time

The Shiva Baby and Bottoms star gets her own glossy sitcom which offers us a bumpy ride until it begins to take shape in the final stretchFor most of its public existence, I Love LA, HBO’s new comedy series created by Rachel Sennott, was known online as Untitled Rachel Sennott Project. One wonders if they should have kept the temporary moniker, which befits the show better than its actual title; though I Love LA does go to Erewhon, it’s less a love letter to the city, nor a portrait of its precarious creative class, than a glossy, prestige brand bet on Sennott, an internet It Girl with a distinctly modern indistinction between actor and celebrity, and the popular, chaotic, very online sensibility that she embodies.The logic of the project flowed downhill: Sennott, one of the few internet-bred comedians with real movie mettle (see: Shiva Baby, I Used To Be Funny and Bottoms), given eight whole episodes; HBO, continually losing younger viewers to YouTube, appealing to extremely online...

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2 w. ago 'Both ordinary and cinematic' — a love letter to America's charming motels

From her first check-in at the mega-kitch Madonna Inn, Ellie Seymour has been hooked on the humble American motel

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2 w. ago The Four Spent the Day Together by Chris Kraus review – a cult writer tries something new

The I Love Dick author combines autofiction with memoir and true crimeThe Four Spent the Day Together is full of people seeking fresh starts, attempting to give up drugs or abusive marriages, only to find hope curdling into violence. Chris Kraus uses the phrase a lot, making it wilfully jaded in its repetitions. “He could make a fresh start.” “They decided to make a fresh start.” And all along, here she is, making her own fresh start, because this seems a new kind of book – documentarian, genuinely novelistic. But then it turns out to be packed with the same dilemmas and styles as the old ones.Kraus is an artist who became a writer almost accidentally with her 1997 cult classic I Love Dick, comprised of letters to an unreceptive lover, turning confessional female writing from abjection into assassination. She carried on writing, but the three subsequent fascinating and rebarbative novels lacked the shock and immediacy the letter form brought to the voic...

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2 w. ago Home Office has chance to end ‘failed’ asylum accommodation system, MPs say

The Home Office has repeatedly cut corners and wasted taxpayers’ money in its ‘chaotic’ response to asylum accommodation pressures, MPs warned.

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3 w. ago Grooming gang survivor threatens to sue minister in row over inquiry’s focus

Solicitors for Fiona Goddard wrote to minister Jess Phillips on Friday demanding an apology.

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3 w. ago Labour goes to war with CPS over China spying trial claiming officials warned of evidence's shortcomings almost two YEARS before it collapsed

Two Downing Street officials at the heart of the affair said they warned prosecutors that evidence would stop short of calling the Communist regime an 'enemy' of Britain in December 2023.

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3 w. ago The secret lives of autograph hunters: ‘Donald Trump was really hard to get’

Why do so many people spend their time at stage doors and sending out requests for signatures? Those who have collected thousands of autographs explain the thrillAndrew Broughton still remembers the first celebrity autograph he ever got. “It started by accident,” he says, when he was 13 and doing a project about horror films at school. “I love Hammer horror. I wrote a letter to [actor] Peter Cushing and sent it to the BBC. A large envelope came back and a lovely letter. He sent me some signed film stills. So I got the bug. I just thought: there’s nothing to stop me writing to anybody.”Since then, Broughton, 62, has collected autographs from some of the biggest stars in TV, film, music and sports, as well as royalty, politicians and world leaders. The walls of his home in Derby are covered in framed signed photos from the late queen, King Charles, Diana, Princess of Wales, Brigitte Bardot, John Travolta, Kylie Minogue, Elton John, Liza Minnelli, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Muhamm...

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3 w. ago Widow finds hidden letter of love from husband MONTHS after dying in Switzerland

Widow Louise Shackelton said she was left broken after finding a hidden letter to her from late husband Antony 10 months after he took his own life at Dignitas in Switzerland

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3 w. ago Joan Armatrading composes classical piece that is ‘love letter’ to Birmingham

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra will give the first performance of Homeland on December 7.

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4 w. ago Revealed: Lostprophets paedophile Ian Watkins' final act on night before he was butchered was to pen depraved love letter to 'secret fiance' where he vowed they wouldn't be 'apart forever'

It has now been revealed, in the days before his death, Watkins had sent a birthday card to a fan named Ellie, 30, with whom he had forged a controlling relationship.

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