35 h. ago Gogglebox star shares VERY rare pics with new boyfriend after heartbreaking split with dad of her two kids

GOGGLEBOX favourite Izzi Warner has shared rare pictures with her new boyfriend Toby after her heartbreaking split with the father of her two children. She split from longtime partner Grant in 2023 but it looks like things are on the right track with new boyfriend Toby. The Channel 4 star took to Instagram this week...

Politics

41 h. ago Real reason Helen Flanagan called ex Scott Sinclair a piece of s**t in public rant

Helen Flanagan branded Scott Sinclair "a piece of s**t" on Instagram in an explosive rant about the former Celtic and Swansea footballer, who is father to Helen's three children

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48 h. ago Real reason Helen Flanagan took aim at Scott Sinclair with expletive outburst

Helen Flanagan branded Scott Sinclair "a piece of s**t" on Instagram in an explosive rant about the former Celtic and Swansea footballer, who is father to Helen's three children

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61 h. ago ‘Don’t be disheartened by mistakes’: 10 lessons my artist father taught me

David Gentleman’s brilliant career spans eight decades, from watercolour painting to tube station murals to drawing the Tottenham riots. Here his daughter, the Guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman, dispenses his invaluable adviceWhen we were children, my father, the painter David Gentleman, never offered much advice to me or my siblings. If we wanted to draw, he would hand out pencils and let us get on with it. He was encouraging, but never gave us instructions. If we were enjoying ourselves, more paper was available; but if we wanted to go and do something else, that was fine too. The idea of teaching people how to do things still makes him uncomfortable, so his latest book, Lessons for Young Artists, has come as a surprise to us all. At 95, he has attempted to distil everything he has learned about working as a painter since the late 1940s into clear advice. These lessons are not aimed exclusively at art students, or even at older people who want to paint, but are for anyone wonde...

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67 h. ago Ministers urged to intervene in deadline row over Borders wind farm

Communities and energy officials are in dispute over whether a public inquiry is to go ahead.

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3 d. ago ‘Source of pride for Syria’: man who disarmed Bondi shooter lauded in home town

News of Ahmed al-Ahmed’s selfless act quickly reached al-Nayrab, where locals say it proves religion or birthplace no barrier to heroismA man who risked his life to wrestle a gun from a shooter in the Bondi beach terror attack on Sunday has become a hero in his home town in Syria.Video of Ahmed al-Ahmed’s selfless act quickly reached his birthplace of al-Nayrab, a small town in the countryside of Idlib, north-west Syria. Ahmed, a 44-year-old father of two children, left the village to emigrate to Australia in 2007. He initially worked in construction, but soon opened a fruit and vegetable shop in Sydney. Continue reading...

Events

3 d. ago They thought their father abandoned them. A chance encounter set them on a much darker path

Dotty Carroll had been telling her children for decades that their father, George, had gone out for cigarettes one day and never returned. But then a chance meeting started the siblings down a path to the truth, Sheila Flynn writes

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5 d. ago Mum of murder victim Emma Caldwell fears inquiry into police probe will be whitewash

Margaret Caldwell fears the planned public inquiry into one of Scotland’s biggest justice scandals will be worthless if restricted to the initial probe into Emma Caldwell's death in 2005.

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7 d. ago 120 children fly from Manchester Airport to 'North Pole' to find Father Christmas

The TUI plane set off from Manchester Airport and took 120 children on a journey to find Santa Claus

Society

8 d. ago ‘It’s not going to be some miraculous recovery’: film charts healing of Ukrainian children rescued from Russia

Director of After the Rain, set in animal therapy retreat, says she aimed to portray ‘children as children, not as a statistic’Sasha Mezhevoy was five years old when she, her older brother and sister were sent to an orphanage in Moscow. They were told they were going to be adopted by a Russian family. But they were not orphans. They were Ukrainian children who had been forcibly removed from their father.Sasha grew up in Mariupol, the port city that endured more than 80 days of bombardment in one of the bloodiest and most destructive chapters of the early months of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Police officer in spycops scandal deceived two women at same time, inquiry told

Mark Jenner began five-year relationship with Alison, a leftwing activist, while under cover spying on political campaignersAn undercover police officer deceived two women at the same time over many years in a sustained betrayal of both of them, the spycops public inquiry has heard.Mark Jenner had a relationship with a leftwing activist, known as Alison, for five years without disclosing to her that he was in reality an undercover officer who was spying on political campaigners. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Mum of murdered Emma Caldwell fears police 'could avoid accountability' at public inquiry

An inquiry into the 2005 murder of Emma, 27, by serial rapist Iain Packer officially starts work today.

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1 week ago Former children’s commissioner to lead grooming gangs inquiry

A former children’s commissioner will chair the national inquiry into grooming gangs after months of delays.Baroness Anne Longfield will lead the inquiry over three years with a budget of £65 million.Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood set out the appointment and the inquiry’s terms of reference in the Commons on Tuesday.Of her appointment, Baroness Longfield said: “The Inquiry owes it to the victims, survivors and the wider public to identify the truth, address past failings and ensure that children and young people today are protected in a way that others were not.“The Inquiry will follow the evidence and will not shy away from difficult or uncomfortable truths wherever we find them.”There has been mounting pressure on the Government to move forward with the inquiry, first announced by the Prime Minister in June.In October, the final two candidates to chair the inquiry dropped out of the process which led to concerns it could take months to get someone in post.Five women also resigned ...

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1 week ago Why SNP's £250 million public inquiry bill could have been a lot smaller

Some public inquiries are essential, but they should be a last resort and subject to time and cost limits

Economics

1 week ago Inside chilling mind of dad who 'forced kids on torture hike and left them alone to die'

A father allegedly dragged his three children up a dangerous mountain and abandoned them in death-defying conditions. Experts have delved into what could have been going through his mind on that fateful day

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1 week ago Revealed: NHS doctor charged with sexually abusing 38 patients in his care including children is devoutly Christian father

Nathaniel Spencer, 38, of Quinton, Birmingham , is accused of targeting his alleged victims while working at hospitals in the West Midlands and Staffordshire between 2017 and 2021.

Science

1 week ago Revealed: NHS doctor charged with sexually abusing 38 patients in his care including children is devoutly Christian Polish father

Nathaniel Spencer, 38, of Quinton, Birmingham , is accused of targeting his alleged victims while working at hospitals in the West Midlands and Staffordshire between 2017 and 2021.

Science

2 w. ago The summer camp predator: How a father who ran a Christian charity drugged children with sweets before committing vile acts of abuse

Jon Ruben, 76, pleaded guilty to a string of charges relating to the drugging of children at a summer camp in 2024.

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2 w. ago Family of Salisbury Novichok victim Dawn Sturgess condemn inquiry's 'unanswered questions' as it finds Vladimir Putin ordered attack on Sergei Skripal 'to show Russian power'

Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, pictured here with daughter Yulia, was poisoned by Novichok at his home in Salisbury. A report today found Putin authorised the hit as a show of Russian strength.

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2 w. ago Salisbury novichok latest: Putin is ‘active threat’ to public, Britons warned after poisoning death inquiry

Dawn Sturgess inquiry finds Putin ordered poisonings in 'public demonstration of Russian power'

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