Clair Hart

Clair Hart

Clair is a (real) mum of two toddlers (eleven months apart - yes, it's full-on), a part time employee, and spare-time writer of all things family and lifestyle.

Dating gets better as you get older: FLIRTY AT 50

Dating becomes more fun as you get older, a study has revealed. Researchers found looking for love when you are more mature and worldly-wise is far less stressful than courting during your 20s and 30s. Experts found older singletons are more relaxed and comfortable in their own skin than image-conscious...

The burnt out police station. A man who burned down an £80,000 mobile police station has been jailed for three years. See story MNARSON. A court heard drug dealers paid homeless Dwayne Curtis, 46, to destroy the vehicle.  He denied arson but changed his plea after CCTV footage recorded his pet dog Charlie Boy following him during the attack.  His Staffordshire Terrier was stabbed to death and Curtis was stabbed in the buttocks days before he was arrested over the incident in Southend, Essex.  Basildon Crown Court was shown CCTV of him lighting a bin bag and placing it under the vehicle's passenger wheel arch days after a double stabbing in the street.  Karl Volz, prosecuting, said: "The mobile police station was parked in York Road in an effort to provide reassurance to the public in what had become a troubled area.  "On this particular date at about 12.30am it was set alight by this defendant and destroyed."  Nicholas Jones, mitigating, said he was raised in a violent Army family and had been convicted for possession of a petrol bomb in Northern Ireland during the 1980s.  The court heard he had a string of violence, theft, dishonesty and burglary offences after being taken into care aged nine.

Arsonist is jailed after destroying £80k police station

A man who burned down an £80,000 mobile police station has been jailed for three years. A court heard drug dealers paid homeless Dwayne Curtis, 46, to destroy the vehicle. He denied arson but changed his plea after CCTV footage recorded his pet dog Charlie Boy following him during the...

Man charged with murdering young mother of two

A man has appeared in court today (Wed) charged with the murder of a young mum-of-two. Jordon Thackray, 27, who is accused of murdering 23-year-old Jessica King, appeared briefly at Bradford Magistrates Court dressed in a prison issue grey jump suit. The case was adjourned to be heard at Bradford...

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