8 h. ago Scottish mum puts £3m Omaze house on sale but is met with unexpected problem

Rachael Reid, 54, scooped the luxurious six-bed bungalow near Farnham, Surrey, which boasts a 40ft indoor heated swimming pool and a gym across 1.4acres, by forking out just £10 for the competition

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8 d. ago Mum 'locked son in house of horrors for 20 years until he looked like Auschwitz survivor'

New photos released following a court case show a trashed home covered in rubbish after a man claims to have been held captive for 20 years by his own stepmother

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8 d. ago UFC youth sensation Raul Rosas Jr claimed fifth victory before buying his mum a house

Record-breaking Raul Rosas Jr , who was signed at just 17, claimed his fifth victory in the octagon and then bought his mum a new home to celebrate Mother's Day

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9 d. ago Girl, 4, mum and young man named after all killed in UK house fire tragedy

The blaze swept through the Grade II-listed building

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9 d. ago Girl, 4, killed in Kettering house blaze with mum named as family 'too upset to speak'

An update has been issued following a blaze at a property near Kettering resulted in the deaths of three people, including a four-year-old girl, a 30-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man

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1 week ago Grateful Livingston mum jumps at the chance to thank Ronald McDonald House for fantastic support

Jade Aitken's baby son was critically ill in Edinburgh's children's hospital

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1 week ago Mum who won dream £6m Omaze house already planning to sell it before even moving in

Vicky, 38, said her life changed 'in seconds' after discovering she'd won the latest Omaze Million Pound House Draw

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2 w. ago Mum discovered her son had died after checking dog camera while on holiday

The Scots mum is traumatised after months of being 'stuck' in the house her son died in.

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2 w. ago Robert William's mum's desperate plea to 'help fetch son home' 23 years after he vanished

Robert Williams was last seen leaving a house party in Aberdulais, Wales in March 2002 and his heartbroken mum Cheryl Davies has appealed to anyone who may be able to help locate her son

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2 w. ago 'Gorgeous' young girl killed in devastating house fire as mum and baby sister escape

The four-year-old girl was tragically trapped in the blaze at a property but sadly passed away.

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2 w. ago Girl, 4, killed in Lynemouth house blaze as mum posts heartbreaking tribute to 'angel'

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2 w. ago Scatter cushions and bedspreads – can someone explain to me what they’re for? | Adrian Chiles

Every night I hurl them off the bed. Every morning they are replaced. Off, on, off, on, for ever. Serving no purpose whatsoever. Scatter cushions and bedspreads. Why? What for? If it wasn’t for the waste and environmental impact, I’d make a huge pile and torch them all. You’d see the fire from the moon. Alternatively, pick them apart and make something useful out of them. I’d collect them by means of a national scatter cushion and bedspread amnesty. Post them to a facility and leave the rest to me.Let’s take bedspreads first. Big, heavy, useless. Especially the one on the bed at my mum’s house. I can’t always summon the strength to drag it off the bed and leave it in a heap on the floor. If I do, along with leaving no floor space for anything else, this earns me a fierce bollocking. I am commanded to heave it out of the bedroom and hang it on the bannister, which creaks beneath its formidable weight. Then, when my stay is over, I have to wrangle the bedspread back on to the bed, as ...

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2 w. ago 'Gorgeous' girl, 4, killed in devastating Lynemouth house fire after mum and sister, 2, escape blaze

Little Kiki died in the tragedy on Kingsley Road, Lynemouth, at around 9.30pm on Monday, despite the desperate efforts of fire crews to save her life

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