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 Russ The Rapist 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...
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 ...
For teenage boys and girls “you can get all the protein that you need from food alone”, says registered dietitian Nichola Ludlam-Raine. It is important that teenage girls, especially, get enough iron and calcium, so Ludlam-Raine says not to become overly focused on protein at t...
“When I first started this project, I genuinely didn’t know whether it would work,” said Sim. “No one had really explored whether dogs could help tackle this problem in the marine environment. It began as a proof-of-concept project and has exceeded every expectation...