5 h. ago Digested week: Magic Circle and life in the Vatican return to our psyche

Disappearances of a school and handbag of head of Homeland Security past the Secret Service remain unexplainedI did what a lot of people did on hearing news of the death of Pope Francis on Monday: I watched Conclave. The Oscar nominated movie, adapted from the Robert Harris novel, unpacks the process of electing a new pope and between Sunday and Monday, it enjoyed a 283% surge in streaming figures. I’d like to say it deepened my understanding of life in the Vatican, but the truth is it just made me wish we could have Ralph Fiennes for pope, while reminding me – I’m not alone in this – that we’ve seen quite enough of Stanley Tucci for the time being. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Woman kicked out of Magic Circle for ‘amusing’ male disguise trick gets back in

Sophie Lloyd is being honoured by the organisation at a ceremony on Thursday night, after being thrown out 30 years ago.

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36 h. ago Magic Circle readmits magician who disguised herself as a man, 30 years later

Sophie Lloyd, who was expelled in 1991 when her deception was exposed, accepts belated apology from the society Deception has always been an integral part of magic. So when Sophie Lloyd set about attempting to gain access to the formerly male-only ranks of the Magic Circle, she concocted an elaborate disguise.To become the magician Raymond Lloyd, she wore a male bodysuit, wig, gloves to disguise her feminine hands – making sleight of hand even more difficult – and wore “plumpers” in her mouth to give herself a square jaw. Continue reading...

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41 h. ago Unmasked: The woman who tricked her way into the Magic Circle by disguising herself as a man...then was thrown out for being female and vanished for 34 years

A woman who vanished after masquerading as a schoolboy to gain entry to the Magic Circle has miraculously reappeared after 34 years and tells the Mail how delighted she is to be back

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44 h. ago Police release CCTV of man and woman after child 'dragged to the floor by her hair and kicked in the head at Primark'

The 14-year-old was reportedly followed by the pair into the store before the young girl was assaulted in a 'sustained attack' that resulted in hair loss and bruising.

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45 h. ago Police release CCTV of man and woman after child 'dragged to the floor by her hair and kicked in the head at Primark'

The 14-year-old was reportedly followed by the pair into the store before the young girl was assaulted in a 'sustained attack' that resulted in hair loss and bruising.

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7 d. ago Assault victim who took out his anger on his girlfriend jailed

Mark Tierney, 29, attacked the woman over a sustained period by punching, kicking and choking her, and hitting her with a candle.

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8 d. ago Man strangled woman and kicked her down stairs in front of son as he mocked her body

Keiron Hatton belittled his then-partner about her stomach and breasts following a series of domestic assaults

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9 d. ago Thug gets flattened in nightclub brawl after harassing woman in UK holiday hotspot

A disrespectful tourist has had his behind kicked in after harassing a woman in a holiday hotspot popular with UK tourists the man barley escaped the beating conscious and with his pants still on

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2 w. ago Prince Harry is dramatically escorted out of High Court hearing by bodyguards after woman shouts 'I support you!' before she is kicked out by security

Prince Harry was escorted from a High Court hearing about his security arrangements today shielded by his burly bodyguards as an agitated supporter disrupted proceedings.

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2 w. ago Prince Harry dramatically escorted out of High Court hearing by bodyguards after woman shouts 'I support you!' before she is kicked out by security

Prince Harry was escorted from a High Court hearing about his security arrangements today shielded by his burly bodyguards as an agitated supporter disrupted proceedings.

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2 w. ago Drunk woman kicked her sister in the face as she laid flowers at their mother's grave on the anniversary of her death

Michelle Stecko had drank three glasses of wine when she kicked her sister in the face, while she was tending to flowers on the anniversary of their mother's death.

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2 w. ago Horrifying moment thug knocks woman out in the street after repeatedly punching and kicking her is caught on Ring doorbell footage

DISTRESSNG CONTENT: Horrifying footage, recorded on a Ring camera, captured the savage onslaught on Monday morning, in Harbreck Grove, Liverpool.

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3 w. ago Horrifying moment rampant cow tramples woman, 20, and kicks her in the face in attack that leaves her needing plastic surgery

Darcie Rowlandson, 20, was bringing dairy cows in from the fields ahead of a storm while working as a farming assistant when one of them refused to follow.

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3 w. ago ‘Chasing a high through rave music got dark’: Aya on hexes, Huddersfield and her hardcore horror electronics

A revelation at Pontins fuelled the producer to avant garde acclaim. But with ‘sublime’ sounds came struggles with substances. Her intense new album peels back the plaster‘Kissed by a witch, I got hexed!” Aya howls through a storm of screaming electronics and bass groans on I Am the Pipe I Hit Myself With. The song revisits a time before Aya Sinclair was one of the UK avant garde’s most exciting talents – when she was still a Huddersfield teenager, newly into Christian rock. The music gave her “this tingly, bubbly sensation”, she says. “And someone said: ‘This is the holy spirit.’” The experience led her to join a Pentecostal congregation for a couple of years, but after confiding in a church friend about some “feelings” – Sinclair would later come out as a trans woman – she was “kicked out for being queer, essentially. I was given an ultimatum, to either closet myself or leave.” As she whispers in this track, over the quickening click of a Geiger counter, “they had me out on a witc...

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3 w. ago Woman released by Taliban 'dragged away screaming' from Brit couple still in captivity

The daughter of Barbie and Peter Reynolds who have been detained by the Taliban has said an American woman who was arrested alongside them was dragged 'kicking and screaming' away from them

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4 w. ago How my dream job turned me into an alcoholic: DOROTHY HERSON

It was 2.30am when I realised I was indisputably not cut out to be a corporate lawyer. My hands hovered, trembling, over the keyboard.

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4 w. ago How my dream job turned me into an alcoholic addict: DOROTHY HERSON

It was 2.30am when I realised I was indisputably not cut out to be a corporate lawyer. My hands hovered, trembling, over the keyboard.

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