Hundreds of Albanians crossing the Channel in small boats helped drug gangs take over Britain’s cannabis market. They are recruited as workers on illegal cannabis “farms” set up in rented homes or disused industrial buildings to produce crops worth up to £2 million at a time and which can be grown and harvested in as… Read More »
It was like the heart-warming story of a young Briton who went missing and was found in France for years after his grandmother’s death. A campaign was launched in the French media in 2011, along with a Facebook page called “Looking for Dominic”, to find Dominic Dickson, as his family wanted to give him the… Read More »
A Labor MP has quit the party over the freebies scandal, accusing Sir Keir Starmer of presiding over “sleaze, cronyism and blatant greed”. Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield resigned from her post and told Sir Keir she was “ashamed” of what he and his “inner circle” had done to “tarnish and humiliate our once proud party”.… Read More »
A father trapped under a revoked indefinite prison sentence tried to make six attempts on his own life after serving 25 times his original sentence. Independent can reveal. James Lawrence was sentenced to a minimum of eight months in prison in 2006 for threatening someone with a gun. Then, aged 20, he told the court… Read More »
Plastic surgery has come to the fore again. After six facelifts, brow lifts, neck lifts and lip lifts, reality star Katie Price has new “butterfly lips” created with tape and filler that enlarges the lips and curves them upwards. Price may have had more plastic surgery than most, but she’s not the only one to… Read More »
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Despite trying countless diets, fat-burning pills and slimming shots, Sarah Kenyon’s cravings for daily takeaways have seen her drop to 19st stone. The 33-year-old had a gastric bypass and lost the 8th, but was left with more than a piece of loose skin on his stomach and had to tuck it into his trousers. 13… Read More »
Five years ago, a lavish fundraising gala hosted by model Naomi Campbell at the British Museum was widely regarded as a triumph. It was the toast of London fashion week and a powerful showcase of Campbell’s philanthropic mission to raise money for youth in poverty. The venue, flocked by celebrities (Naomie Harris, Pierce Brosnan, rapper… Read More »
In the sticky heat of a June day in Juba, South Sudan’s capital, groups of young men and women sang as they walked along the main road of Shariqat on the east bank of the White Nile. While the men shuttling in slow-moving traffic carried long sticks, the girls wore colorful beads, skirts and dresses.… Read More »
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made prepared speeches at the UN to condemn it for decades. He said in 2017 that Israel was the “epicentre of global antisemitism” and that “there is no limit to the UN’s nonsense when it comes to Israel”, but tensions between him and the institution he insulted had never… Read More »