Sandy beaches, crystal clear waters, bright sunshine, and a private oasis from which to enjoy it all… to many, this sounds like the ultimate dream. But for one family, this picture-perfect backdrop would become the setting for a nightmare descent into ‘hell’ that has all the makings of a twisted horror movie script.
That horror began in January 2001, when former Playboy bunny Jayne Gaskin and her family fled the grey skies of Hampshire in search of a new adventure
It was the scoop of the decade, a history-making interview that brought an abrupt halt to the Duke of York’s royal career.
But just who was the ‘mastermind’ behind securing the car-crash chat with Prince Andrew on Newsnight in November 2019. The answer has seemed to have led to frostiness between journalist Emily Maitlis and ex-BBC producer Sam McAlister.
Their story is explored in Netflix’s Scoop, released today, which dramatises the behind-the-scenes action in the build up to the interview,
A male western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus) flies over a natural meadow near Dranske on the Baltic Sea island of Ruegen at dusk.Wolfram Steinberg/ZUMA
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In late 2023, 70-year-old birder Peter Kaestner was within striking distance of a goal that had never been accomplished: seeing more than 10,000 different species of birds in the wild.
Such a record had previously been
Carrie first made headlines when she won the Bodley Head Financial Times literary award in 2020 – a prestigious essay competition with a £1,000 prize. She went on to host writing workshops online
Carrie Jade Williams is an English woman in her 30s who claimed to have Huntington’s disease, a rare and terminal neurological condition.
She arrived in Cahersiveen, County Kerry, in 2019 rather out of the blue and soon befriended a woman
The chance to pitch your business to potential investors in Dragons’ Den sounds like a dream to many entrepreneurs and you might imagine battling thousands of other hopefuls for a change to appear on the show.
But this week it emerged that producers actively recruit business owners to appear on the programme, as well as discovering people via casting call outs.
It comes after entrepreneur Giselle Boxer accused of ‘selling snake oil’ by claiming her ear seeds helped ‘cure’ her
In yesterday’s Mail on Sunday, Robert Hardman revealed how the Government developed secret plans for a regency if the late Queen could no longer rule. Today, a raft of insiders tell how the royals have dealt with a torrent of allegations from the Sussexes…
As the world discovered almost exactly a year ago, Spare is undoubtedly the most candid and caustic royal memoir ever written.
Throughout the book, however, Prince Harry was keen to stress his devotion to the Queen
Being sued by your Airbnb guests because they couldn’t stand to be around a disabled person sounds too cruel to be real.
However, this is exactly what one woman, Carrie Jade Williams, an Englishwoman based in Ireland, claimed had happened to her last year.
In a video that exploded on social media, Carrie, who said she had been diagnosed with the terminal illness Huntington’s Disease, said her Airbnb guests had demanded a refund and were attempting to sue her for
One evening in 1981, the popular BBC1 programme Nationwide broadcast an interview with one of the most loved musical parterships of the time: The Carpenters, a squeaky-clean duo, comprising the velvet-voiced singer Karen and her brother Richard.
They were interviewed by Sue Lawley, and fans no doubt expected to hear about new record releases and concerts that the American pair had planned. Instead, viewers saw a painfully thin, gaunt and fragile-looking Karen sitting on a sofa – her huge, brown
YouTube pranksters who claimed it’s cheaper to fly to Poland for your weekly shop than nip to your local supermarket in the UK have revealed a full breakdown of their shopping list.
Joshua Pieters, 30, and Archie Manners, also 30, both from London, grew so tired of Britain’s cost of living crisis they decided to test the prices against a store in mainland Europe.
Their video, which caused a storm on social media, showed the 30-year-olds splashing £164.47 in Lidl’s
Prince Albert and Princess Charlene of Monaco put on a united front as they relaxed on a yacht in Corsica amid rumours about the state of their marriage.
The royal couple have been at the centre of speculation after reports in European media alleged Charlene, 45, was living in Switzerland and only saw husband Albert, 65, ‘by appointment’.
Charlene has also deleted her Instagram account in recent days, leading to further questions.
But photos from earlier this month show the
