Despite the PM's pledge there will be no British 'boots on the ground' in Syria, John Miller who lost his son Simon (pictured) in Iraq in 2003 is fearful more British lives will be needlessly lost. The late Corporal Simon Miller, 21, one of the six British troops slaughtered by a baying mob inside a police station in southern Iraq in 2003. The memory of that atrocity still haunts us all. ...read
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After a chief executive said he wouldn’t employ any woman who wasn’t slim and beautiful, AMANDA PLATELL asks, has he not noticed that the larger lady is in the ascendancy? It’s time for Neanderthal bosses to realise that the size of a woman’s brain is not measured by her waistline. ...read
PLATELL'S PEOPLE: It's NOT a human right for the poor to have pay TV
Tory minister Tracey Crouch has provoked an outcry by suggesting that families who face losing tax credits could look at ways of saving money, including cancelling their pay TV. She said that when struggling families come to her for advice, she goes through their expenditure and income and suggests where savings could be made. ‘Sometimes you have to go without,’ she explained. Sensible advice, you might think. ...read
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- And the Nobel Prize for OPULENCE goes to... Swedish royals dust off dazzling jewels for magnificent banquet to honour the ten winners for science, literature and medicine
- Chilling CCTV footage shows the moment brutal killers led man with learning difficulties to his death then walked away hand in hand
- Former Rangers star Arnold Peralta is shot dead in a drive-by shooting: Midfielder killed in a shopping mall car park in Honduras
- RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The BBC is commendably refusing to exclude Tyson Fury from Sports Personality of the Year... but would it have behaved differently if he hadn't been a gipsy?
- How one-in-seven paedophile suspects have jobs that could involve CHILDREN in posts such as teaching, health and the law
- Obesity in women 'as dangerous as terror threat': Extraordinary claim by health chief as she uses speech to demand condition is added to list of emergency threats
- Morrisons and Asda to cut petrol to less than £1 a litre: Supermarkets spark price war with cheapest fuel deal since 2009
- Record 90,000 exam results are changed on appeal: Number regraded is up by more than a quarter from last year
- Clarifications and corrections
- Boots shopper caught on camera 'kneeling on the ground and using his phone to take pictures up a woman's skirt'
- Comrade who may have helped clear jailed 'Marine A' is silenced: Sergeant major claims he was barred from giving evidence that unit had been left to 'go feral'
- Rigby family fury as killer sues over his broken teeth: Mother writes to Cameron demanding to know why murderer is being allowed to seek compensation
- Becky Watts killers Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare BOTH lodge appeal against their convictions and sentences
- Shortage of care places sees bed-blocking hit record high: More than 160,000 patients were unnecessarily kept in hospital last month when they were well enough to be discharged
- EXCLUSIVE: Kristin Cavallari looks lost in grief as it's revealed body of brother Michael was found at bottom of a steep slope three miles from where he abandoned his car in the direction of the highway he turned off
- Revealed: Bieber's mystery 17-year-old Instagram girl is a £3-an-hour babysitter who breached by-law for drinking in street
- College football team 'broke into home looking for revenge, peed in fridge and punched a fellow student... but it was the wrong house'
- EXCLUSIVE: Blogger hoodwinks millions with hoax story about El Chapo declaring war on ISIS for destroying shipments of his 'Middle East-bound' cocaine
- EXCLUSIVE: At home with Nancy Grace! On TV she’s a tigress out to catch her prey, but at her new Southern digs she’s a pussycat devoted to her eight-year-old twins and hubby
- Predatory cop, 29, WAILS in court as he is found guilty of sexually assaulting at least 13 black women while on-duty - including teen girl and a grandmother - and now faces up to 263 years in prison
- Tiny cottage on what may be smallest plot of land in San Francisco goes on sale for whopping $599,000
- San Bernardino plot thickens: 'Nerdy' neighbor who bought guns for San Bernardino shooter and may have planned earlier 2012 attack with Farook was also married to terrorist's sister-in-law (but she lived with another man)
- Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gives birth to identical twin girls - but will she still have a job to go back to after her two-weeks maternity leave?
- Man, 21, who 'shot good Samaritan in the stomach for trying to stop kidnapping' is now accused of raping and robbing a couple at gunpoint less than 24 hours later
- Amal Clooney is let go by the Greek government from her role advising it on the return of the Elgin Marbles from Britain to Athens
- You're not going anywhere! Scorned wife sits on her cheating husband's BMW to stop him from driving off with his mistress - and slaps her love rival when she admits defeat
- Watch heart-warming moment three young children find out they can stay with their family 'forever and ever' after unwrapping adoption papers on Christmas morning
- 'Trump's not wrong – we can't wear uniform in our OWN cars': Five police officers claim Donald Trump is RIGHT about parts of London being so 'radicalised' they are no-go areas
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