8 h. ago The mothers left distraught after the NHS removed their daughters' healthy breasts because the girls said they were transgender

Two years after her daughter was given a double mastectomy at the age of 24 by the NHS to remove her healthy breasts - in order to 'change gender' - Jane is still absolutely 'livid'.

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3 d. ago ‘An ode to Altadena’: LA arts community bands together to support fire

The eclectic neighborhood was devastated by the wildfire last month; galleries and artists are now working to protect its legacyA charred baby Slinky, a handful of book ash, blackened cowrie shells from a necklace made in Ghana. These are some of the remnants of precious things the artist Kenturah Davis has salvaged from what is left of her Altadena home.Nearby, there is virtually nothing left of her parents’ home of 40 years. Gone are her mother’s intricately stitched quilts and a trove of paintings and sketches Davis’s father made of Hollywood backlots during his decades of working on television and movie sets. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Mother says her Polish son has been left hospitalised in a racist attack by school bullies

Anna Baczmanska says her Polish son Wiktor (pictured) has been targeted over his nationality for two years while at school.

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5 d. ago Toxic Town: Jodie Whittaker is absolutely flawless as she battles real

The hasty regeneration of Corby’s old steelworks poisoned a generation. Now the story of how it came to court is told in a harrowing, if slightly melodramatic, new Netflix seriesJack Thorne writes the kind of meaningful, worthwhile dramas that you definitely – no, honestly – do plan to watch but just maybe not tonight. Best Interests from 2023, about a distraught mother battling the NHS doctors who decide to allow her severely ill teenage daughter to die, was warm, miraculously funny, and as gripping as a thriller. It was also so traumatising that it could make the viewer feel as if they were in actual physical pain. Before that, there was The Accident, whose matter-of-fact title only hinted at the harrowing subject matter: the series covered the aftermath of a construction site explosion in Wales that killed eight children.Toxic Town (Thursday 27 February, Netflix) – Thorne’s new four-part series – could be considered a companion piece to The Accident: it also deals with a dea...

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5 d. ago Cannabis addict mother who drowned her two young sons in the bath then left bodies in their bunk beds for their father to find is found guilty of murder

Kara Alexander, 47, killed two-year-old Elijah Thomas and Marley Thomas, five in the bath at their home in Cornwallis Road, Dagenham, east London , in December 2022.

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5 d. ago Cannabis addict mother who drowned her two young sons then left bodies in their bunk beds for their father to find is found guilty of murder

Kara Alexander, 47, killed two-year-old Elijah Thomas and Marley Thomas, five in the bath at their home in Cornwallis Road, Dagenham, east London , in December 2022.

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7 d. ago We watched our neighbours 'steal' our garden while holidaying in Australia: Couple return home to find they've lost huge chunk of their back yard after watching shocking CCTV

Rosa Bell, 67, and husband Murray, 72, were horrified to see builders digging up their patio, and removing their fence and garden shed while they were visiting their daughter 12,000 miles away

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8 d. ago Stacey Solomon in tears and forced to walk off camera as Sort Your Life Out fans say 'life is cruel'

The mother-of-five was left heartbroken as she helped a family from Leeds declutter their home while the mother revealed she had been diagnosed with incurable breast cancer

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