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Harrowing emergency call as beloved pet chimp rips woman's face off and eats it

Travis, the chimpanzee who was adopted by a Connecticut couple when he was just three days old, savagely attacked family friend Charla Nash in 2009

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Scots mum had negative smear tests for years - then discovered she had rare cancer

Helen Swan has her tests come back as normal, but later found out she had cancer which wasn't detected

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'I rescued mystery animal from garden, people say it looks like Stranger Things monster'

Gardens and flowers

A woman was tending to her flowerbeds when she spotted a small, pink creature that people have compared to something out of Stranger Things

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Professional escort shares simple reason why she likes to date her clients

Katija Cortez, 29, has been working as an escort for the past three years and says she mostly dates her clients. There is a lot she's taken from the whole experience

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Mum slams hospital after they say baby name 'not allowed' but others agree with decision

A new mum has asked for advice after she was told by a hospital that she wasn't allowed to name her daughter something that she had chosen

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'Arrogant neighbour keeps blocking my drive so I got revenge while he was on a date'

A man who grew sick and tired of his arrogant neighbour constantly parking in front of his driveway decided to take revenge - and he quickly realised he'd ruined his date in the process

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Women thought she had a sore neck - then was diagnosed with cancer

Seanagh thought she had just been "sleeping weird", but after seeing the doctor, she was diagnosed with cancer.

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Cyclist slams 'entitled drivers' for making this 'selfish mistake' on the roads

Confrontations between cyclists and motorists are nothing new, but this individual pointed out a particular bugbear that has sparked a heated debate online

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Manager of one of Europe's biggest brothels spills on very unexpected client

Catherine De Noir, 31, is a brothel manager with a background in organisational psychology, and she recently gave an insight into the realities of legal sex work - including who visits the club

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Dad's vision problems 'put down to stress' - it was actually a brain tumour

Jason Dullaghan was prescribed antihistamines after complaining of vision problems

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Mum left husband and kids for man she just met after Egypt holiday

Love and romance

Julia Clark says a family holiday to Egypt made her realise her marriage was over — and led her to a whirlwind romance that turned her world upside down.

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'Doctors were stumped - then they found hair and teeth inside me'

Valentina Milanova, 30, initially believed she "was dying" or had a "mysterious disease" because of symptoms that started aged nin

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Meet the dog chaperone who earns £300 a day ensuring pets behave at weddings

Rebecca McBride set up her business after dropping out of a PhD in biology

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Jealous husband decapitated his wife and flushed her head down the toilet

A jealous husband who went medieval in an act of “grotesque savagery” will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars - after he decapitated his wife's head before flushing it down the toilet

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Two Scots reunited 60 years after one brought other back from the dead at Govan Baths

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Neil McPhee was just 14 when he suffered an injury and drowned at Glasgow’s Govan Baths on September 1, 1965.

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'Doctors missed my husband's cancer symptom until it was too late'

John had an X-ray which showed a lesion, but it wasn't followed up

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'My neighbour keeps using my driveway - she thinks she owns the space'

A woman has said she feels 'taken advantage of' because her neighbour keeps parking their car on her driveway - as they seem to think they own the space on her property

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UK traveller, 29, seriously ill after being found unconscious in Korea

Ashley's family have flown out to be at her bedside

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'At 34 stone my plane seatbelt didn't fit - here's how I lost 10.5 stone in 8 months'

Charlie Sadler, 31, from Tamworth, had tried various methods to lose weight but felt trapped by his bad relationship with food

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Mum considers renaming daughter after grandmother's constant criticism of the name

A mum has been left torn after her own mother keeps making sly digs about her 10-month-old daughter's name - and it's got her considering changing it as a result

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Expert reveals three ways to save on your next car purchase amidst new tax changes

With significant changes to car tax coming into effect today (April 1), the experts have revealed three top tips to help buyers save money on their next vehicle purchase

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I'm a mum-of-three and I leave my kids behind when I go on holiday - I never feel guilty

Catherine Lofthouse, 44, is a self-proclaimed 'tight mum' and says to save money she's 'ditched' her three boys, Alex, 12, William, 10 and Robin, five, and gone away solo

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'I pulled my own teeth out due to pain until a radical £36,000 surgery changed my life'

David Pearce, 53, says his dental problems started as a child and resulted in him losing half his teeth

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Vet says dogs feel 'rejected' when you don't let them do one thing

A vet has claimed that dogs can experience a range of emotions, including rejection, and that they will 'try whatever they can' to make up for being unloved if they feel that way

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Google Everyone with a Gmail account issued 'red alert' over new AI scam Tech experts have explained how a new sophisticated scam using artificial intelligence is targeting 1.8billion Gmail accounts using Google's own AI model, Gemini

Mum raped by best friend's husband as children slept upstairs

Sarah Glen, 39, was raped by evil David Devine, 44, at his home in Busby, East Renfrewshire, in December 2022.

Teen girl charged after reportedly seen with bladed weapon on Scots street

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Police Scotland were called to the incident in Dundee on Saturday.

Son who collapsed in seizure on street offered 'remote consultation' instead of ambulance

Martin Logan accused the Scottish Ambulance Service call handler of 'just reading off a menu' after his son Gregor hit his head when having a tonic-clonic seizure.

Scotland to be battered by '590-mile wall of rain' as Hurricane Erin draws in

Scots are being told to say goodbye to their summer clothes as the last week of August is set be a washout.

Courts Toddler dies after being pushed non-stop on swing for 44 hours by his own mum WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Romechia Simms was 24-years-old when her schizophrenia pushed her to a deadly extreme

'I was 14 when I was forced to marry my 19-year-old cousin and live in a polyamorous cult'

Elissa Wall was just 14 when she was forced to marry her 19-year-old cousin in a ceremony conducted by the notorious Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Beat the Street returns for six weeks to Rutherglen and Cambuslang

The aim of the free game is to score points and win prizes for walking, running, cycling and scooting as far as possible.

Five police detectives arrested in 'worst scandal' since Wayne Couzens case

The alleged plot to suppress a complaint of sexual assault by a policewoman against a senior officer is said to be the 'worst scandal' since the Wayne Couzens case

Key member of notorious hacking gang 'led by young Scots cyber criminal' jailed for 10 years

US prosecutors claim Noah Urban was working with Tyler Buchanan, from Dundee, and others when he stole cryptocurrency in one of the most sophisticated hacking scams the country has seen.

Celtic FC Marcelo Saracchi to sign for Celtic as exact transfer details revealed amid unexpected Boca call The 27-year-old Uruguayan is bound for Glasgow after an agreement was reached for his services

Toddler dies after being pushed non-stop on swing for 44 hours by his own mum

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Romechia Simms was 24-years-old when her schizophrenia pushed her to a deadly extreme

'I was 14 when I was forced to marry my 19-year-old cousin and live in a polyamorous cult'

Elissa Wall was just 14 when she was forced to marry her 19-year-old cousin in a ceremony conducted by the notorious Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Beat the Street returns for six weeks to Rutherglen and Cambuslang

The aim of the free game is to score points and win prizes for walking, running, cycling and scooting as far as possible.

Unseen Aaron Hickey summit before Scotland recall revealed after Brentford injury hell

The full-back has been sidelined for almost two years but has returned to the international set-up