Raising a family in the bubble of Westminster was a privilege, says former political adviser Fiona Millar – but it wasn’t easy. Though for her daughter Grace Campbell, it was the perfect grounding for a career in stand-up comedy Fiona’s story Fiona Millar, 62, is a former adviser to Cherie Blair and married to Tony … Read more
Albanian woman, 30, pleads guilty to stabbing seven-year-old girl to death in front of her horrified family on Mother’s Day as she rode scooter in Bolton park Eltiona Skana, 30, pleaded guilty to unlawful killing at Manchester Crown Court Skana stabbed seven-year-old Emily Jones to death in Queen’s Park, Bolton Emily’s parents watched in horror … Read more
The mother of Reeva Steenkamp revealed how ‘she shook with anger’ at news of BBC’s Oscar Pistorius documentary after Paralympian shot her daughter dead in cold blood. June Steenkamp said the documentary trailer didn’t mention Reeva’s name which compounds the grief of the Pistorius killing her daughter, making her an ‘anonymous victim’. Critics berated the BBC for failing to … Read more
The mother of Reeva Steenkamp revealed how ‘she shook with anger’ at news of BBC’s Oscar Pistorius documentary after Paralympian shot her daughter dead in cold blood. June Steenkamp said the documentary trailer didn’t mention Reeva’s name which compounds the grief of the Pistorius killing her daughter, making her an ‘anonymous victim’. Critics berated the BBC for failing to … Read more
Six years after they both shared the screen in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain have signed on to play rivals in Mothers’ Instinct. The film is being shopped at the American Film Market by the European financier Anton, with Olivier Masset-Depasse directing this English-language adaptation of his 2018 Belgian movie Duelles, according to … Read more
Police launch hunt for missing son, 32, and launch murder investigation after his mother, 58, is found dead in her flat West Midlands Police have issued an appeal to find 32-year-old David Williams His mother Julie Williams, 58, was found dead at the flat they shared in Coventry He was last seen on October 20 … Read more
A doctor has dismissed a mother’s claim that her ‘murdered’ baby daughter was able to crawl and feed after her boyfriend ‘stamped on her head’ – leaving her with ‘catastrophic skull and neck injuries. Chelsea Crilly, 20, told medics her 12-month-old baby could drink milk and crawl at speed after the alleged attack at a … Read more
Three women who targeted a mother in a 30-minute late-night bar attack which left her partially bald behaved like a ‘pack of animals’, a court has heard. Judge Edward Bindloss did not jail the single mothers who attacked Hollie-Louise Brown, then 23, at the Bubbles bar in Ashington, Northumberland, in September 2018. She was first … Read more
Hospitals are still forcing mothers to go through labour without a partner, claims MP inundated with ‘utterly heartbreaking’ stories of traumatic births and miscarriages endured alone Alicia Kearns was told ‘repeatedly’ about 16 trusts still not following guidance The government and NHS guidance let partners attend appointments and labour Women who had traumatic experiences without … Read more
Hospitals are still forcing mothers to go through labour without a partner, claims MP inundated with ‘utterly heartbreaking’ stories of traumatic births and miscarriages endured alone Alicia Kearns was told ‘repeatedly’ about 16 trusts still not following guidance The government and NHS guidance let partners attend appointments and labour Women who had traumatic experiences without … Read more