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Entrepreneurial Tim Baker plans to 'make bog roll great again' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival after its popularity at Christmas

The Tory MP and his family are away on holiday in New York and have become the victims of vandalism to their property. The culprits spray-painted abuse ‘posh scum’, ‘shut up and die’ and ‘****head’ across his windows and garage of his home in West Harptree, Somerset. They also stuck ...

Rachel Short got involved with a man being investigated for drug offences

Following the resounding success of global bestseller Midnight in Peking, author Paul French has published City of Devils. A dramatic non-fiction account of Shanghai’s lawless 1930s, the book follows a meticulously researched narrative from the author, having lived in Shanghai for ten years. Delivering an intriguing insight into Shanghai’s pre-war ...

Filmmakers have a strange habit of allowing the most horrific events to take place in the most beautiful of surroundings. This is most certainly the case with Sicilian Ghost Story, which is set in the woodlands and lakes that border one of the titular island’s small towns. The film centres ...

Tommy Robinson has been freed on bail by the Court of Appeal over contempt sentence

Ryan Weeks’ Pimple (out now on Amazon UK), takes a satirical swipe at Generation Y’s insatiable hunger for new apps. Set in the edgy world of London’s sex industry, it’s a darkly-witty tale about an Uber-style app for the sex trade called ‘Pimple’, and a cautionary one about the impact ...

The 1993 murder of James Bulger was shocking both in its brutality and in that its perpetrators were just ten years old. It seemed that both the public and the press were at a loss to understand how it happened, how two children ended up committing such a violent murder. ...

Jacob Abraham, 15, wrote on the app “if you want to mess with me, come mess with me around my yard” as a challenge to the older drug dealers keen to protect their "county lines"