EXCLUSIVE Meghan Markle is branded 'disturbingly insensitive' over latest As Ever release
Of course, Princess Diana was the mother of Meghan's husband, Prince Harry. She died in a fatal car crash in August 1997 after being chased by paparazzi. The driver of the car, Henri Paul, was later found to be inebriated.
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'Trust and confidence lost' over grooming gang failures in Manchester, watchdog warns
Despite making "significant improvements", Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has lost the "trust and confidence" of some victims of grooming gangs, according to a report by the police watchdog. Michelle Skeer, His Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary, said that since 2019, when GMP started to review its non-recent child sexual exploitation investigations, "the force has improved its understanding and approach to investigating allegations of child criminal and sexual exploitation". The document, published today, said police have live investigations into "multi-victim, multi-offender" child sexual exploitation inquiries, involving 714 victims and survivors, and 1,099 suspects. Grooming gangs scandal timeline 2:00 But despite recording improvements, a report by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) also identified: • Various training gaps within the investigation team • Lack of consistency in evaluating case files between social care, health and police • Failures to initially support victims meant they had "lost trust and confidence" in police The report was commissioned by the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham in 2024 to evaluate whether police, councils and health services can protect children from sexual exploitation in the future. Its release comes days after Sir Keir Starmer announced he was launching a new national inquiry into grooming gangs after previously arguing one was not necessary, 1:40 The findings were issued as the final part of the CSE (child sexual exploitation) Assurance Review process which started in 2017. The first three reports examined non-recent child sexual exploitation in Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale. Mr Skeer said that the force has been trying to improve its service to those who have experienced sexual exploitation, but previous failings have badly affected trust in GMP. He said: "For some, trust and confidence in the police had been lost, and the force would not be able to rectify their experiences. "It is vital that improvements are led by victims' experiences, and if they do come forward, they are supported, protected and taken seriously." A recent report by Baroness Casey found a significant over-representation of Asian men who are suspects in grooming gangs in Greater Manchester, adding though authorities are in "denial" more needs to be done to understand why this is the case. 6:52 Inspectors also said there were "training gaps" in some investigation teams and issues with data sharing, with local councils sometimes not willing to provide detectives with information, leading to "significant delays in investigations" into grooming gangs. It cites problems with intelligence provided by Manchester City Council, which took months to arrive and "was so heavily redacted that some pages contained only a few words", the report said. GMP is the only force in the country to set up a dedicated team to investigate grooming gangs. Called the Child Sexual Exploitation Major Investigation Team (CSE MIT) it has about 100 staff and a ringfenced budget. In October 2024, the force told inspectors there were 59 live multi-victim, multi-offender child sexual exploitation investigations, of which 13 were being managed by the CSE MIT. The report adds: "The force fully accepts that it made mistakes in the past. "It has taken positive and effective steps to learn from these mistakes and improve how it investigates recent and non-recent child sexual exploitation." Separately, the Baird Inquiry published in July 2024 found officers at GMP were abusing their power - making unlawful arrests, unlawful and demeaning strip searches, sometimes treating victims as perpetrators, and traumatising those who have suffered sexual abuse or domestic violence.
Daily Mail
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- Daily Mail
Neighbours star Madeleine West reveals shocking details of her eating disorder to make herself look like Barbie as she shares scary red carpet picture: 'Almost killed me'
Madeleine West's heart breaks for her younger self when she sees old red carpet photos of herself taken in the early 2000s. On Wednesday, the Australian actress, 47, shared a photo taken at the Royal Albert Hall in London during one of her very first outings on the world stage after she joined the cast of Neighbours. In 2000, a 22-year-old Madeleine was cast as Dione 'Dee' Bliss on the beloved soap. The photo shows a beaming young blonde on the cusp of stardom— dolled up in a vibrant blue gown as she stepped out onto the red carpet for England's National TV Awards. 'This image breaks my heart,' Madeleine captioned the throwback image, adding a trigger warning for eating disorders as she detailed newfound fears for her daughters in the age of AI. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Madeleine welcomed her seventh child to the world in April. The star already shares five daughters and one son with her ex-partner, celebrity chef Shannon Bennett. In a column for Kidspot, the mum-of-seven wrote about the fears she holds for her daughters now that their toys are being integrated with AI chatbots. 'Thanks to AI, Barbie will soon be talking back. I for one am worried…because as a little girl, I wanted to be Barbie,' she said. 'Barbie epitomised what I thought it meant to be an empowered woman. She could be a doctor, a sports star, ballerina, anything and everything despite the fact that structurally Barbie couldn't stand on her size 3 feet or fit any organs into her negative size 0 body. 'None of that made me doubt for a second that she had an enormous brain in that equally oversized head that her elongated neck was incapable of supporting. 'She was all I wanted to be, and I got close. 'All it took was a fanatical addiction to fitness, fakery, and an eating disorder that almost killed me twice in my teens.' 'By virtue of the suggestibility I suffered from living most of my life in the shadow cast by childhood abuse, I almost made the fantasy a reality,' Madeleine continued in her caption. 'But I knew, deep down, that she wasn't real.' In June, Mattel announced it will partner with OpenAI to 'design, develop, and launch groundbreaking experiences' for its iconic toys, including Barbie, Hot Wheels, and Polly Pocket. Madeleine is calling on parents to ask if integrating generative AI models, such as ChatGPT, with beloved children's brands can be deemed safe. The child safety and victims' advocate first spoke about her battle with anorexia two years ago, after revealing she was the victim of childhood sexual abuse. Speaking to Stellar magazine in February 2023, the actress said the trauma of being abused as a child caused her to become obsessed with looking 'perfect' - a task that was both 'punishing' and never-ending. 'For every sexually abused person, what has happened to them will manifest in their life in some self-destructive behaviour,' she told the publication. 'They are never, ever to blame. What happened to them is a cross to bear.' Madeleine revealed that in her early teens, not long after the abuse stopped, she developed anorexia as a coping mechanism. 'My autonomy over my body had been snatched away, so to demonstrate I had some control over it I denied that most simple desire: hunger,' she explained. 'I just wouldn't eat, then over-exercised. Pain and hunger made me feel something, because I had become accustomed to operating in a state of utter numbness.' Madeline played Dione 'Dee' Bliss and Andrea Somers on Neighbours from 2000 to 2020 and also starred in the WWE movie The Condemned in 2007.
Times
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- Times
Lenders must probe joint borrowers for signs of exploitation
Economic manipulation as a form of domestic abuse has attracted rising recent attention, but fears remain that the law is not protecting the most vulnerable. The Supreme Court highlighted the 'damaging effects' of the problem in a case ruling last month that a bank had a duty to investigate whether a woman faced undue influence from her partner when the couple took out a mortgage that would be used partly to pay off his debts. The judges ruled unanimously that staff at One Savings Bank knew that money loaned to allow Catherine Waller-Edwards to remortgage her home would be used in a way that did not benefit her financially and it should therefore have checked to determine whether Nicholas Bishop had put her under undue influence.
