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A serial online dating fraudster who scammed thousands of pound out of women faces more prison time for re-joining Tinder and Bumble. Amir Tofangsazan, who once posed as an internationally-recognised doctor like Netflix conman Dirty John, was jailed for seven years and nine months in 2015 after being convicted of 15 counts of fraud. He […]

The family of a four-year-old girl whose only kidney is failing are fighting to find a donor to save her life. Poorly Sophia Smith was born with Vacterl association – meaning she suffered a series of abnormalities. Doctors had to operate within hours of her arrival because her oesophagus was not attached to her stomach. […]

Two young girls are scared to go to sleep after a ‘freaky’ hole formed in their bedroom ceiling. Chloe Astin reported a leak in the bedroom shared by her two oldest daughters – aged six and eight -in early September, and again on September 30 following heavy rainfall. Several weeks later a hole appeared in […]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a celebrity about to take part in a reality show will be asked about their sexting indiscretions before it begins. And so, last weekend, Vernon Kay was interviewed by this paper before the start of I’m A Celebrity… and the issue came up. Vernon was caught messaging glamour […]

Police launched an urgent search for a seven-year-old boy this afternoon after he went missing near a school. Albi Reeves went missing at 3pm near his school, Red Hill Primary School, in Chislehurst, south east London. But this evening police confirmed he had been found safe and well. Bromley Police tweeted an appeal to find […]

A woman was punched in the street by a stranger and then woke up to find him raping her. Petru-Marian Bradu hit the victim in the head as she made her way along a street in Gloucester on July 23, 2019. The blow knocked her unconscious, providing the attacker with the chance to drag her […]

Neighbours watched on as a man beat a pensioner and his own wife to death on a quiet suburban street on a Sunday morning, a court heard. Sandy Seagrave, 76, had stepped in to stop Daniel Appleton, 37 beating his wife, Amy, 32, on the driveway of their semi-detached home, a jury was told. But […]