66 m. ago Mum says picking one type of swimsuit for your kids is 'so dangerous'

A woman has urged parents to exercise caution when dressing their little ones for the pool while on holiday, because the colour of their swimwear could prove catastrophic

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83 m. ago Titanic couple who died in 1912 share chilling link with OceanGate tragedy

Isidor and Ida Straus were last seen together on the descending Titanic in 1912

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88 m. ago We adopted children from challenging backgrounds. Here's the truth about what it's really like

Sam Adams tells Sarah Ewing how she adopted two special needs sisters as toddlers and what it taught her along the bumpy journey

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2 h. ago Voices: Dear Vix: I feel ashamed to admit it – but I really don’t like my parents

Do you have a problem you would like to raise anonymously with Dear Vix? Issues with love, relationships, family and work? Email dearvix@independent.co.uk

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3 h. ago Love Forms by Claire Adam review – the power of a mother’s loss

Forty years on, a Trinidadian woman has never stopped looking for the daughter she gave up for adoption, in a quietly devastating novelClaire Adam’s 2019 novel Golden Child was her debut, but it felt like the work of a master. It was tender, ravishing, shattering – you believed every word of it. The book had an effortless narrative authority that most first-time novelists would kill for.Love Forms is every bit as alive and convincing, and returns us to Trinidad, with its potent fizz of colour, heat and political instability. But unlike the earlier book, it’s also set partly in south London – the writer’s own home turf – and has a mother, rather than a father, at its heart. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Man 'battered mum's lover to death' during Manchester derby day birthday party, court told

Jack Naylor is accused of losing his temper inflicting fatal injuries on Thomas Gomm, 44, during a boozy gathering at the defendant's mother's house in Salford

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4 h. ago Man battered his mum's ex to death during Manchester derby day birthday party, court told

Jack Naylor is accused of losing his temper inflicting fatal injuries on Thomas Gomm, 44, during a gathering to celebrate his 22nd birthday

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4 h. ago Twin Peaks at 35: ‘We broke all the rules – and people were horrified’

As the ground-shifting murder mystery series and its belated sequel arrive on Mubi, its co-creator Mark Frost speaks to Adam White about upsetting and offending the television establishment, that notorious second-season dip, and the death of David Lynch

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4 h. ago Mum 'felt so scummy' after what happened with son's buggy during trip to Butlin's

The mum had taken her two children to the holiday park

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4 h. ago Mum felt 'utterly violated' after finding note on her son's pram at Butlin's

The mum had taken her two children to the holiday park

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5 h. ago Confessions of a Parent Killer review – a grisly tale of the murderer who lived with her mum and dad’s corpses

This look at Virginia McCullough tells a deeply strange story. Unfortunately, it also leaves the viewer in suspense about her motive for so long it feels horrifically manipulativeWell, what do you think a 90-minute documentary entitled Confessions of a Parent Killer is going to be about? That’s right, well done! It’s the story of a murder by an (adult) child of her parents. Virginia – Ginny – McCullough killed her mother, Lois, and father, John, and confessed immediately to police when they raided her home in 2023 that she had done so four years previously. The twist was that she had been living with their bodies ever since. “She was weird at school,” says a childhood friend. “But not ‘kill your parents and hide the bodies’ weird.”You can probably tell from such unimpeachably phlegmatic commentary that this case occurred in England. Great Baddow, Essex, to be exact, and the film paints a portrait of quintessential small-town, almost-rural life in these sceptred isles that has gone u...

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5 h. ago Mum of tragic Cole Cooper "refused" request to ID dead teen's body

Five days after a body was found near where the teen vanished, police say the death is being treated as ‘unexplained’ — leaving his loved ones heartbroken and desperate for answers.

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8 h. ago 'I stayed in £40 UK Center Parcs dupe and the location was simply stunning'

Louise, a mum-of-two, spent three nights at the retreat with her family and was very impressed with the facilities - as well as the price tag

Economics

10 h. ago AP PHOTOS: Mexican flags at LA protests spark debate over symbolism

This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

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12 h. ago Stacey Solomon puts on a very leggy display in a white swimsuit before slipping into a black bikini during Lake Como work trip

The busy mum of five, who has jetted to the idyllic location to shoot with her haircare brand Rehab, put on a very leggy display in a white swimsuit while posing with her products on a boat.

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13 h. ago Austria school shooter left chilling message for mum about his cat before killing 10

Artur A, 21, asked for his mother's forgiveness for 'what I'm about to do' before he went on to kill 10 people in a school shooting in the Austria city of Graz

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16 h. ago Thug threatened schoolgirl at knifepoint after he and accomplice lured mum out of house with Facebook con

'They thought they'd orchestrated the perfect crime'

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16 h. ago The Valley's Michelle Saniei's mum thought she had food poisoning but had cancer

Bravo star Michelle Saniei has opened up about the death of her mother, who had been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer just a number of months before she died

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16 h. ago Thomas Tuchel's mum 'repulsed' by Jude Bellingham's behaviour as England suffer fresh blow

Jude Bellingham has a fiery reputation on the pitch and Thomas Tuchel has admitted that even his own mum is not a fan of the Real Madrid star's behaviour at times

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16 h. ago Ryan Thomas says 'I'm still not right' as brother Scott reveals hilarious 'intervention'

Ryan and his younger twin brothers Scott and Adam have got plenty of reaction to the first conversation heard in their new podcast

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