Five men who sexually abused two schoolgirls after plying them with drink and drugs in Rochdale are found guilty.ALISON BOSHOFF: Lysette Anthony falls 'head over heels' after finding love with former co-star Marcus Gilbert - 33 years after the pair first kissed on screen.A powerful new book by a former prison officer argues jail time neither punishes nor rehabilitates - and leaves some inmates in such despair they seek the only way out. Thought we'd abolished capital punishment? Think again.ALISON BOSHOFF: Has Tom Cruise cooled on Scientology? Sources claim the Mission: Impossible star hasn't visited the religion's UK headquarters for three years despite being based in Britain for most of that time.

Michael Parkinson’s old friend Dickie Bird breaks down saying, ‘I spoke to him yesterday, we had tears in our eyes, we knew we wouldn't see each other again’ after TV legend's death at 88.TOM UTLEY: I yearn for the days when you could offer a woman some well-meant advice without being denounced as a blinkered, sexist bigot.Mother-of-three who assaulted police officers after getting drunk on a Ryanair flight from Fuerteventura to Manchester is spared jail for a FOURTH time.RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Parky was right, you meet a better class of person down Memory Lane.Now, thanks to the Lionesses, I've learnt to love the Beautiful Game JULIE BINDEL: I grew up loathing the machismo and misogyny of football.EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Bank takes control of Damien Aspinall's stake in his family's casino empire after failing to repay his £6million mortgage.

Graham Linehan breaks down in tears and vows to defeat 'evil trans activists' as he defiantly performs on the street at the Edinburgh festival after being cancelled by two venues over his gender critical views.

Britney Spears 'cheated with housekeeper at their California mansion and asked another staff member to video her naked', Sam Ashgari believes as he accuses her of giving him a black eye.

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