A second storm, Storm Boelo, is expected to hit Scotland, North of Ireland and northern England on Saturday bringing more wild weather. Source link...
A mother who admitted killing her three ankle biters at their home wept in court as details of their deaths were read out. The bodies of Fares Bash, seven, Joury Bash, three, and nine-month-old Mohammed Bash were discovered on Blaise Walk in Sea Mills, Bristol, on 18 February 2024. Appeari...
Caldey Island was once known for being “crime free”, but in 2017, six women settled a civil claim against the abbey. They had been sexually abused as ankle biters by the monk Thaddeus Kotik. The former abbot Robert O’Brien knew about the abuse but did not report it. An in...
A collection of Pokémon cards stored in a retired decorator’s attic for 15 years has sold for £1.56m at auction. The seller, from Woking, said he realised the cards were valuable after reading about a single card fetching more than £6,000 in his local newspaper. His collection was au...
The RNLI has reminded those along the coast to exercise “extreme caution if visiting the shoreline, especially along exposed cliffs and seafronts”. Appledore RNLI Coxswain Simon McCarthy said his crew was ready to go out “at any time” and was securing its boats with...
A woman who alleges she was raped by Russell Brand at a bar told the filth “I just closed my eyes and tried not to be there” while the attack was taking place. In a 2023 video interview with an officer shown to the jury at his trial, the woman said she had been speaking...
So why are people like Gracey, who have never smoked a cigarette, taking it up? The Londoner believes vaping helps when she’s feeling socially anxious. “It’s the hand action,” she says, “just having something in your hand, just having something in your mouth.&...
Educational and child psychologist Dr Sasha Hall, who’s mum to a three-year-old boy and five-year-old girl, says the first thing to understand is that this scenario is “completely normal”. “Unfortunately it’s going to happen to all our children at some point i...
Online pornography depicting strangulation or incestuous relationships will be banned from early November, the government has announced. From 6 November, it will be illegal to possess or publish porn which shows strangulation or suffocation, depicts sexual activity between people who are r...
Jess Bacon does all her clothes shopping online. As a plus-size woman, she finds the size ranges available in stores unreliable. “The sizing in store is notoriously bad. I find it quite demoralising in store,” she says. “The average size woman in the UK is a size 14 or a ...