Author: DispatchTimes News Desk

The former pit villages clustered to the north of Doncaster are not the sort of places normally associated with extraordinary tales of criminality.Yet an astonishing roll-call of female prison officers jailed over illicit relationships with inmates and other corruption scandals has emerged from one remarkably small sliver of South Yorkshire.The Daily Mail can reveal that five corrupt young guards all lived within barely six miles of one another in the former colliery communities of Bentley, Stainforth and Hatfield.The latest to be convicted is Jahvine Kwamba, 21, jailed this month after becoming entangled with a convicted drug dealer who styled himself…

Two City multi-millionaires are locked in a battle over their neighbouring London mansions – as one wants to build new windows that it’s claimed would look directly into the other’s home.Luke Stovell, 39, a partner at a hedge fund support consultancy, purchased a six bedroom detached late Victorian house with views of Wandsworth Common for £5,825,000 three years ago – and immediately hatched plans for a major upgrade.The lavish plans for the house in an exclusive six-road enclave known as ‘The Toast Rack’, would see Mr Stovell and his Australian partner Alex Waite install floor-to-ceiling windows, a terrace, lightwells, a…

The raucous partying of Sydney Swans stars before an alleged sexual assault scandal has been detailed, including a claim that trouble began when a player slapped a stripper’s buttocks four times instead of the agreed three. Players Isaac Heeney, Nick Blakey, Chad Warner, Riley Bice and James Jordon have been stood down for the remainder of the 2026 AFL season. The club found the players had breached its standards by staying out late, drinking and allegedly bringing women back to the Pullman East Melbourne hotel early Monday morning.The suspensions are separate from a Victoria Police investigation into an alleged sexual assault at…

A mysterious boat-shaped geological formation in the mountains of eastern Turkey has long been dismissed as nothing more than a solid mass of natural rock.But an international team investigating the Durupınar Formation near Mount Ararat believes it could contain the remains of Noah’s Ark.According to the Bible, the massive vessel saved Noah, his family and every kind of animal from annihilation during a catastrophic flood that some biblical chronologies place more than 4,300 years ago.Now, a new radar survey has detected strong subsurface anomalies and distinct layers inside the 515-foot-long formation, challenging the idea that it is one homogeneous block…

Heather Locklear and Lorenzo Lamas looked totally smitten as they filmed a video to promote the For the Love of Retro convention coming up in the UK next month.The couple, whose romance ignited in late 2025, more than 40 years after they famously posed for a joint Playgirl cover, will join a roster of other stars at the nostalgia-themed, pop culture event including Brian Austin Green, Jennie Garth, Tori Spelling, Josh Holloway, Jane Seymour, Steven Berkoff, Vernon Wells and Caroline Bliss.In the clip posted to Instagram, the Melrose Place beauty, 64, and the Renegade alum, 68, were sitting in an…

Last year, Cuban immigrant Yasmany Moreno de Armas was working and living in Florida. He’s now in the Central African Republic, after the Trump administration sent him and dozens of deportees to the deeply impoverished and conflict-ridden nation.The 31-year-old said he only learned the U.S. government was deporting him to Africa after he arrived there in late July, alongside detainees from countries across the globe, including Ecuador, Honduras, Serbia, Russia and Vietnam.”We cannot leave, we don’t have documents and we’re suffering and missing our families, in a continent we don’t know,” Moreno de Armas told CBS News in Spanish over…

Every family has its bad apples. But the Royal Family is becoming overrun with them.The execrable Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, soon likely to face another raft of misconduct allegations, is the worst of them.But even if he is treated as a special case, the King is beset by others – a whole lot of them, with the return next month of his younger son Prince Harry and wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.They join Andrew’s daughters, the princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, around whom rumours swirl connecting them to their father’s paedophile close pal, the billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein.Their mother Sarah Ferguson, Andrew’s…

Laura Johnson was just six when it dawned on her that her mother might be a bad person.Lisa Hayden-Johnson was feted as the nation’s most devoted parent, a woman fighting tooth and nail to manage the litany of life-threatening conditions that afflicted Laura’s younger brother Matthew.Accompanied by Matthew in his little wheelchair, she appeared on TV: GMTV with Fiona Phillips and The X Factor with Simon Cowell, and had breakfast at Downing Street with then Prime Minister Tony Blair. Matthew, dubbed Britain’s sickest child, was also given a Children Of Courage award by Camilla, then Duchess of Cornwall.But at the…

Two suspended Sydney Swans players were seen out drinking until 4am earlier in the AFL season, according to fans, as the team faces scrutiny over off-field behaviour and a third woman in the alleged hotel sex assault incident has secured a lawyer.Isaac Heeney and Nick Blakey, along with teammates Chad Warner, Riley Bice and James Jordon, have been stood down for the remainder of the 2026 AFL season. The club found the players had breached its standards by staying out late, drinking and allegedly bringing women back to the Pullman East Melbourne hotel early Monday morning. The suspensions are separate from a…

It’s not ideal, right? An inexperienced manager, a squad stripped of its best players and Liverpool are first up. Those attached to Newcastle United would be forgiven some apprehension for where this fresh start might lead.But that’s a tricky one to predict, because how far ahead do you want to look? Or framed differently, how far must you travel to understand the consequences for Saudi assets that don’t deliver?One answer is particularly terrifying and timely and can be found across the Atlantic. Around the point that Newcastle and Liverpool finish up on Sunday evening, a golf tournament will also be winding down…