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Children being afraid of the dark is costing UK parents more than £260 million-a-year in energy bills – due to lights being left on. A study of 1,000 parents of children, aged between two and 10, found three quarters have a youngster who has a fear of the dark. As a result, two thirds of […]

Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for his debut novel Shuggie Bain. This year’s judges unanimously chose the Scottish writer to win the award. Shuggie Bain, which is based on Stuart’s childhood, is set in Glasgow in the 1980s and tells the story of a young boy growing up with a mother who is […]

An elderly couple have told of how they forgave the daughter jailed for stealing £130,000 from them. Terence and Elizabeth Fordham were on a dream road trip in Europe when Melissa, 36, frittered their cash away. She got three years and her crime left them “in misery” as debt collectors hounded them. But they say […]

A woman scalded her 19-month-old daughter to death and left her to scream in pain while she “covered her tracks”, a court heard. Gracie Crowder was pronounced dead shortly after her arrival at hospital on March 6 after suffering deep burns covering 65% of her body. The prosecution alleges her mother, Katie Crowder, murdered the […]

A former supermarket worker who kidnapped his ex-girlfriend as she cycled to work and murdered her in his woodland hideout is facing a life sentence after he was convicted by a jury. Andrew Lee Pearson, 45, from Chestnut Court, Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, ambushed Natalie Harker before dawn on October 9 last year, held her […]

Warring next-door neighbours spent £110,000 and four years in furious row over a £4,000 parking space. Artist Helen Masacz – who in 2018 invited the public to deface her portrait of Boris Johnson – and her civil servant neighbour Bernard Chaney, were locked in a battle that a judge said ended with ‘no winner’. Mr […]

Prince William was in touch with the BBC for two weeks over its investigation into Martin Bashir’s interview with his mother, it’s claimed. The BBC has announced an informal investigation into the 1995 Panorama interview during which Princess Diana spoke candidly about her marriage to Prince Charles. The Duke of Cambridge has reportedly kept in […]