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This is the moment a woman walks away from a ticket inspector after being caught using her daughter’s free bus pass, after appearing to not understand English.The adult passenger is found to be using the girl’s 16+ Zip Oyster photocard, which gives children aged 16 and 17 free travel on Transport for London (TfL) buses.Despite the woman’s face being covered by a niqab, revenue protector officer Dija can see she is actually in her 40s or 50s and therefore tries to issue a penalty fare.But after they both alight at Pollard Row bus stop in Bethnal Green, the passenger seems…

A menopause coach who helped woman manage their symptoms while secretly drowning her own sorrows in white wine has revealed how being sober has transformed her from the inside out.UK-based fitness and women’s health expert Kate Rowe-Ham, now 50, embarked on Dry January in 2021 after her father was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer mid-Covid.’I suppose looking back, drink had always featured heavily in my life,’ Kate, who now runs a women’s health platform called Owning Your Menopause, told the Daily Mail. ‘From about 15, everyone seemed to have a drink at parties, and I always enjoyed the buzz it gave…

A Democratic socialist candidate for the US Senate has sparked a furious backlash after dragging Vice President JD Vance’s wife Usha into his increasingly bitter political battle with the Trump administration.Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for Senate in Michigan, set off the controversy on Saturday after appearing to make a pointed reference to the second lady’s Indian heritage while firing back at Vance.The remark immediately ignited accusations that El-Sayed had crossed a line by targeting a politician’s spouse – with critics branding him a ‘racist creep’ and questioning how he would treat women if elected to Congress.The extraordinary exchange began…

Australians have been warned to brace for heavy downpours and flash flooding, with millions in the firing line of a low pressure system moving across the country. Northeastern Victoria and southern NSW are expected to bear the brunt as the weather system tracks from the west to the east coast. ‘It’ll bring quite heavy rain to many areas, particularly northeastern Victoria and … as far as southern NSW, into the hills there,’ Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist David Crock told NewsWire.’Some of those areas could see sort of 40 to 60 millimetres of rain on Tuesday, again with some higher totals possible there…

National decline doesn’t always announce itself with boarded-up shops and panicked politicians holding emergency press conferences. Sometimes it just creeps up on you. That’s what’s happening to Australia right now.In truth, it’s been years in the making, decades in fact. But we’ve reached a critical juncture.For many, wages no longer cover mounting bills. Young people who work hard still fall further behind. Businesses, especially small businesses, are drowning in regulatory overreach, and families are paying higher and higher taxes for public services that somehow keep getting worse.This is the uncomfortable message from OECD Secretary-General and former Australian finance minister Mathias…

Dr. Mehmet Oz directly contradicted Donald Trump’s claim that the MMR vaccine could be ‘lethal’ after he was repeatedly pressed to clarify the president’s remarks.Oz, who runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was put on the spot during a tense appearance on CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday after Trump suggested without evidence that combining the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines into one shot could potentially be deadly.Host Margaret Brennan repeatedly attempted to pin Oz down on whether the president was wrong, with the senior administration health official initially steering the discussion toward patient choice and conversations with doctors.It…

A man who allegedly wore a Chucky mask as he stalked a female jogger in Philadelphia and asked her whether she was ‘ready to die’ may be hiding out on the West Coast.Zymire Hughes, 22, has apparently fled the City of Brotherly Love amid an arrest warrant charging him with making terroristic threats, harassment, simple assault, reckless endangerment and witness intimidation.He may have since traveled to California or Nevada, police said.’We’ve received information he has a tendency to travel back and forth to the West Coast, California, the LA area and also Las Vegas for employment reasons,’ Philadelphia Police Captain…

The original cast of Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory first hit screens over five decades ago.It saw the iconic characters of the 1971 classic – Charlie Bucket, Veruca Salt, Mike Teavee, Violet Beauregarde and Augustus Gloop – win the chance to enter Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory after nabbing a Golden Ticket.Based on Roald Dahl’s 1964 book, the movie followed the children’s trip to the factory, in which they all suffered very varied fates. For some of the child stars it helped propel them into successful showbusiness careers, while others shied away from the limelight in favour of a life as an accountant or…

It might be a multiple winner of the county’s Best Kept Large Village competition. But residents in canal-side Brewood say their community has been left in a sorry state – by a nine-month bridge closure which has split the village in two.Since November, residents have had to endure an eight-mile detour to reach schools, shops, pubs and a GP surgery just 300 yards from their homes after the bridge bisecting the Staffordshire village was closed when a sinkhole opened on the structure.The listed bridge, built by Thomas Telford in the 1830s, spans the Shropshire Union Canal but was closed after the large…

British tourists are being fleeced by bars and restaurants in Gran Canaria with hidden prices, added extras and misleading menus designed to confuse diners.An undercover Daily Mail investigation found holidaymakers repeatedly handed menus without prices, bogus taxes and items added to bills they hadn’t ordered.We uncovered a series of subtle tactics used by hospitality staff to rip off unsuspecting tourists.These include:Food and drinks menus with no prices allowing venues to charge excessive fees after people orderMisleading menus with one smoothie advertised at €1 costing €5.50Tourists being charged an additional seven per cent ‘tax’ despite it needing to already be included…