22 h. ago Haunting final texts of mother who told her family she was going on holiday... only to secretly die in a Swiss euthanasia clinic: Friend reveals anguish that drove woman to take her own life

Maureen Slough, 58, of County Cavan, Ireland, sent a string of haunting final messages from inside the controversial Pegasos facility in Basel where she had quietly paid £13,000 to end her life.

Society

51 h. ago Woman listens in horror on phone as best friend, 25, is brutally murdered

Laura Sardinha was terrified of her abusive boyfriend and eventually managed to get her locks changed but that didn’t stop her killer from finding a way in

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3 d. ago Desperate woman ripped unborn baby out of friend after murdering her to steal child

Taylor Parker went to staggering heights after faking a pregnancy to her boyfriend when she was unable to have children.

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3 d. ago Scheming woman cut open pregnant friend's body 'hip to hip' to steal her baby

A desperate woman spent months plotting about how to steal her pregnant friend's baby, and get away with it, with her extensive lies to the police seeing her dubbed an 'actress of the highest order'

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5 d. ago Friend of tragic Strathaven woman hits fundraising target thanks to car company

Arnold Clark has donated £1,000 to support Jen Strachan taking on the Kiltwalk in memory of her close friend Phoenix Spencer-Horn who tragically lost her life to domestic violence at the age of just 21.

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7 d. ago Woman found with 'King Cucumber' inside her after 'extreme lovemaking' – but docs have one question

A 21-year-old woman and her male friend attended a hospital in Russia after the vegetable became stuck inside her and they had been unable to pull it out

Politics

7 d. ago 'The woman I thought was my best friend created an elaborate web of lies to trick me'

Claire Gilbert used voice filters to trick her victim into believing she had a boyfriend with a child she treated as her own

Politics

8 d. ago Thug who stabbed former friend kicked woman as she 'played dead' in her home

Joseph Cummins was back in court

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8 d. ago Vulnerable woman tortured and strangled after taking 'kind offer' from a friend

Jennifer Paxton had accepted an offer of food and a place to stay, but was never seen again.

Politics

9 d. ago Pub chef offers mum, 36, something to eat before she ends up in freezer for sexual kicks

Jennifer Paxton was a vulnerable woman who thought a friend was kindly offering her a place to stay – but she was stepping into hell and a trap that she never escaped from

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1 week ago Elton John and David Walliams ruined my best friend's hen do! Woman claims bride

Sir Elton John and David Walliams shared snaps of themselves having lunch at the expensive La Guérite restaurant and beach club, on the Île Ste-Marguerite, south of Cannes.

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2 w. ago Woman 'blindsided' as friend tells truth about relationship after 15 years

The woman shared her upset after her friend's revelation left her feeling 'betrayed'

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2 w. ago Woman horrified after pregnant friend choses 'intestinal' name for baby girl

People urged her to 'risk her friendship' with the mum-to-be in order to try to save the child from inevitable bullying.

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3 w. ago 'A wonderful grandfather and my best friend': British woman, 33, whose 'father

Mark Gibbon, 62, is currently in jail in the US after he was charged with the attempted murder of Jasmine Wyld - his son, Alex's former partner.

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3 w. ago Freddie Mercury’s closest friend throws doubt on ‘secret child’ claims as woman speaks out for first time

Austin, who met Mercury when she was 19 and lived with him for years, questions veracity of claims by an anonymous woman who says she was conceived during an affair the Queen star had with his friend’s wife

Society

3 w. ago Thug broke woman's collarbone after she made fat joke about his friend

Darren Quilt, 29, punched the victim so hard that she fell to the ground on Christmas Eve in 2022, snapping both bones either side of her shoulders as she landed. He has now been jailed.

Politics

3 w. ago ‘I had her right in front of me. And now she’s gone’: how one mother lost her daughter to mental illness

Studying in London before taking up a high-flying job in New York, Naina Mishra seemed set for a bright future – until she began retreating from friends and family into a paranoid spiral even her mother couldn’t break. What does her story reveal about the dangers of young adult estrangement?Naina Mishra seemed to turn up at the yoga studio in Euston, north-west London, out of nowhere. She wasn’t referred by anyone; she didn’t come with a friend. A 21-year-old woman of Indian heritage with an American accent who grew up in Hong Kong and had recently arrived in London, Naina just “fell in” off the street in January 2022, say her yoga teachers, Hamish Hendry and Louise Newton. But it became part of her daily life. Every morning, she returned to practise there.Chatting after class, they learned that Naina had just graduated from university in the US and had been interning at the investment bank Goldman Sachs and the consulting firm McKinsey. She was studying in London before beginning a...

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3 w. ago Woman 'heard a thud' during phone call as friend was fatally hit by car

Tetiana Martynova died after a crash in the Morriston area of Swansea leaving her loved ones 'heartbroken'

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