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Missing Gaynor Lord’s family slam internet ghouls for speculating on the 55-year-old’s disappearance as police release CCTV of her smiling as she leaves work Gaynor Lord left city centre department store on Friday but never made it home  The family of missing Gaynor Lord today criticised internet ghouls who have been speculating about what happened […]

Dolphin with ‘thumbs’ is spotted off Greece: Scientists believe aberration could be down to inbreeding The encounter with the unique mammal took place in July in the Gulf of Corinth Stunning images have emerged of a dolphin sporting a pair of hook-shaped ‘thumbs’ protruding from its fins which have captivated and amazed researchers in equal […]

Now Captain Cook is ‘cancelled’: Fury at plans to axe name of first explorer to set foot in Australia from square in town where he grew up as part of rebrand by Labour council The shopping hub in the city in north Yorkshire was to be known as ‘The Square’  Plans to rename Middlesbrough’s Captain […]

Man caught having sex with a cow after farmer beefed up surveillance avoids jail Liam Brown, 25, snuck into cowshed at cattle farm in Burton, Dorset He was caught with his hands either side of a calf with his trousers down  A depraved pervert who was caught sneaking into a cowshed and having sex with […]

French actress who said Gerard Depardieu ‘slid his big paw under my skirt’ during filming, ‘jumps to her death from a bridge over the Seine’ on the day documentary into the actor’s ‘lewd conduct’ is broadcast Emmanuelle Debever was a promising talent in French cinema in the 1980s Her death coincided with release of documentary […]

French schoolgirl, 12, threatens to kill teacher with a knife and has to be physically restrained in classroom days after Muslim pupils shown painting of nude women left tutor scared for her life Schoolgirl threatened her English teacher at Hautes-Ournes school in Rennes A 12-year-old schoolgirl threatened a teacher with a knife at a school […]

Feeling the squeeze? 109sq ft studio flat opposite Harrods with a single bed, microwave and hob crammed into one tiny room goes on the market for £275,000 Have you seen a smaller flat? Email [email protected]  A studio flat that has a single bed, microwave and hob crammed all into one tiny room has gone on […]

James Bulger’s mother hails Parole Board’s decision to keep killer Jon Venables behind bars and says the prospect of him being free was ‘terrifying’ The Parole Board today denied Venables his bid to be released from prison  James Bulger’s mother has hailed the Parole Board’s decision to keep killer Jon Venables behind bars and says […]

On-the-run sex offender joins most wanted list with £10,000 reward for his capture after he disappeared when girlfriend was found ‘murdered’ in his home Police are hunting on-the-run sex offender Richard Scatchard since October 15 His partner Kelly Faiers, 61, was found dead at Statchard’s Somerset home  A £10,000 bounty has been put on the […]

Bibby Stockholm asylum seekers reveal migrant who died in suspected suicide on barge was screaming at 3am very loudly for 15 minutes – as they share fears more could take their own lives on board Migrants said the man had hung himself in the barge’s communal bathroom  For help, call Samaritans for free on 116 […]