Ellie Ashbrook’s family life appeared picture-perfect from the outside when she was growing up, with a supportive family around her including a ‘perfect’ father.
But behind closed doors, Ellie’s life in St Helens, Merseyside, could not have been further from the ideal family unit people saw, as she was sexually abused by her father for six years.
David Ashbrook, 59, began his vile six year campaign of abuse against his daughter when she was only 12 years old.
The paedophile
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Chilling video shows the moment top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh hears for the first time that his three sons and ‘several’ grandchildren have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
A voice can be heard delivering the news to the group’s top political leader during a visit to injured Palestinians, saying: ‘Hazem, Mohammed and Amir have been killed, along with their children.’
Haniyeh barely flinches as he hears the information, and remains composed as he nods and takes
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,
Restaging the meeting between Moctezuma and Hernán Cortés, Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires explores how little we still know about this moment in history.
Clockwise from the left: An engraving of Hernan Cortés, an Aztec temple known as Santa Cecilia Acatitlan, an engraving of Moctezuma II, an Aztec Calendar found in Tenochtitlan, Mexico
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On November 8, 1519, a few hundred Castilian
It can be a common cause of weight gain, fatigue, as well as unexplained aches and pains – and an underactive thyroid has been linked to serious illness, including an increased risk of dementia.
Yet, experts say, it can take years for the condition to be diagnosed – with patients, who are usually women, still not being listened to when they go to the doctor, their symptoms are blamed on depression or menopause instead.
At least one in 20 people
It looked for a while that the game between the Philadelphia Flyers and Ottawa Senators on March 5, 2004, might come and go without incident.
That was a bit surprising because eight days earlier, Ottawa’s Martin Havlat whacked the Flyers’ Mark Recchi in the face with his stick and afterward, heated words and insinuations flew. The Flyers were irate about the play and Havlat was suspended two games.
“Someday someone’s going to make (Havlat) eat his lunch,” Flyers coach Ken
It used to make on-site sourdough. Now, the private-equity-owned chain is better known for its (allegedly) killer lemonade.
Lemonade is not generally known to be fatal—unless it’s from Panera Bread and infused with more caffeine than a 12-ounce Red Bull
When she died at a hundred and one in January of 2019, Diana Athill had publicly chronicled both ends of her long life in a series of nine memoirs. The first of these, “Instead of a Letter,” was published in 1963 and recently rereleased in the U.S. as part of the NYRB Classics series; it recounts her jolly, upper-class English childhood on the family estate of Ditchingham, in Norfolk. The last book that she wrote, “Alive, Alive Oh!,” came together
A cancer-stricken grandmother unknowingly ‘cheated death’ for two decades after her husband hid her terminal prognosis.
Rosie Gamp, from Edgware, London, died from a separate illness aged 90 in April 2021 and was completely unaware that doctors had dealt her a ‘death sentence’ in 1999.
She knowingly signed up to trial a now-proven drug which halted her breast cancer, stopping the disease dead in its tracks and giving her extra years of precious life to watch her grandchildren grow up.
