As a survivor of the era, I welcome this reckoning – and I salute the women who were brave enough to bring it about Mr Justice Bennathan’s sentencing remarks in the trial of Russell Brand hit me like a train, and I know I’m not the only one. This weekContinue Reading

Crystal Palace FC or Oxbridge beckoned, but the multitalented MC kept forging her way towards music. She explains how she poured every aspect of herself into her debut mixtape Two weeks before we meet, UK rapper Cristale was scrambling down a cliff face to a secluded black pebbled beach inContinue Reading

Former shoplifters say treatment and drug rehabilitation are essential to ending cycle of theft and imprisonment Police to target 500 chronic shoplifters in retail crime crackdown in England When Rhys, 34, stole goods from shops across Birmingham, he would often leave notes for the staff apologising for his actions. “I’dContinue Reading

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has launched a scathing attack on his successor Gianni Infantino, calling him a dictator and suggesting the current FIFA chief needs psychiatric help. In an interview with German publication Der Spiegel, the 90-year-old former football executive heavily criticized Infantino’s administrative decisions, including the creation ofContinue Reading

On-loan Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez has escaped unharmed after crashing a £300,000 Ferrari into a track barrier at the famous Nürburgring circuit in Germany. The 28-year-old, currently on loan at Serie A side Como, was not called up to the Spain national squad for their international fixtures against Czechia andContinue Reading