LLOYDS has told staff to stop using the word “widow” — despite it owning Scottish Widows. The bank fears the word may “trigger unwarranted personal memories of trauma and upsetting situations”. Lloyds has told staff to stop using the word
Author: Stephanie Chase
Burglary rates are a scandal – new rule forcing cops to attend within an hour shows they’ve utterly failed at their job
IT sometimes seems that the British police pursue everyone other than criminals. Every week there is some absurd new action by police. Burglary rates in the UK are a national scandal Alex Franklin-Smith, the NPCC’s lead for burglary, this week
From drug scandals to secret porn stars, panto’s most shocking moments revealed
IT’S panto season – but some of the stars’ off-stage antics they would certainly like to put behind them. From drug scandals to secret porn careers and dramatic medical issues, the traditional Christmas musical comedy show has seen plenty of
Bans on festive markets and vegans up in arms about pigs in blankets jokes mean I’m dreaming of a woke free Christmas
IF Charles Dickens rewrote A Christmas Carol today, Scrooge would start out full of the joys of the season and end up as a cranky killjoy. In my book Welcome To The Woke Trials, I wrote: “Woke is the revenge
How Jean Claude Van Damme seduced A-list pop star and married five times – inside the crazy love life of an action icon
HIS amazing physique won him the nickname “The Muscles from Brussels” and he has appeared in scores of martial arts movies. But Jean-Claude Van Damme says one of his biggest achievements has been seducing women — without any effort at all. Jean-Claude
From wokealikes, right-on morons and no-brainers…Big Brother’s sorry return
THE world is in chaos, the Palestinians are revolting, Putin’s finger hovers over the button. How, then, will television react to this bedlam and ease our worried minds? Big Brother’s Matty is the closest thing the Isle of Man has
Labour to ban big bonuses for water bosses if they fail to clean up their filth
WATER bosses face a ban on big bonuses if they fail to clean up their filth under Labour plans. The party will give regulator Ofwat powers to stop the cash if their firms pump high levels of raw sewage into
I woke at 2am with stomach pain – then I felt something rush out of me, I didn’t know I was pregnant
LAURA Defreitas, 36, a bartender, lives in Dallas, Texas, with her fiancé Blake, 39, also a bartender, and their daughter Phoenix, two. In August 2021 she unexpectedly gave birth to Phoenix while on the toilet, after experiencing what she thought