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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…

A first date between two Tinder matches spiraled into a deadly confrontation when the woman’s former flame was shot dead at his Wyoming home by her new man. Drake Alexander Ingalls, 24, was charged with second-degree murder after he shot Jason Greene dead at his Newcastle, Wyoming home on August 9, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Cowboy State Daily.Police found the victim dead in his home, lying face-down on the floor with a ‘large pool of blood underneath his chest’ just before 5am, the affidavit said.Ingalls drove 90 miles from his South Dakota home to meet up with…

Essex and fine wine are not usually words you’ll see together in a sentence.But as a female wine professional who grew up in Essex during the 80s and 90s, my formative years punctuated by misogynistic jokes about girls from my part of the world, nothing’s more pleasing than being able to say this much-maligned county is currently the most exciting region for fine wine on the planet. The only way is Essex. Fact.It’s no secret that England is a serious player in the wine industry nowadays, thanks to the posh sparkling wines from the Champagne-alike soils of Kent, Hampshire, Sussex…

Two very different tribes gathered in Carlow, a market town just over an hour’s drive south of Dublin, last night.One was there to mourn Alex McCarthy, a 16–year–old member of a Traveller family, who was one of five young men killed in a car crash in the early hours of Sunday morning. He was being laid to rest at St Mary’s cemetery, opposite the local Gaelic Athletic Club.The other group was attending an evening vigil at St Clare’s Church, in the town centre, to pray for three women and a young child who were seriously injured in the same incident.Each wore…

The Metropolitan Police force’s investigation into whether Lord Mandelson handed over confidential government information to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein may be ‘at risk of collapse’. Scotland Yard detectives believe they may need the unredacted Epstein Files to secure a misconduct in public office charge against the former Labour grandee. However, the force thinks it is becoming more and more unlikely that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) will share the documents. The Met’s requests for the documents, initially made amid an unofficial agreement between the agencies to share information, have gone unanswered by both the DoJ and FBI, according to reports.The British police…

Donald Trump asked his MAGA army in South Carolina to ‘pretend I’m on the ballot’ and vote for Darline Graham to a full term in the US Senate. Trump headed to Myrtle Beach for a high-stakes rally with Graham, making a last-minute push to save his chosen candidate from a potential upset by Congressman Ralph Norman in Tuesday’s South Carolina Republican Senate runoff.’You have to get out and vote,’ he said as he campaigned for Graham. ‘And we need every South Carolina patriot to go to the polls and vote for Darline Graham.’ Trump noted that Republican candidates have lagged at the ballot…

Why precisely are Meghan and Harry returning to Britain? Through their representatives, they have let it be known that their sudden and dramatic move has been ‘driven by the couple’s desire to spend time in Europe, [to be] nearer Harry’s family and wanting to educate their children in the UK’.That may be so. But – to use the jargon of the immigration system – could there have been ‘push’ factors as well as the ‘pull’ ones they describe?In other words, could Meghan and Harry be running away from something, just as much as they are running towards something else?Specifically, huge…