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The myth of Anthony Bourdain: how the bad boy chef became a hero to boozehounds and bullies

As the director of Tony, the new biopic of Bourdain focusing on his first job, has said, the film is about "a magical world where nothing can go wrong and a young man who's angry about it". Bourdain arrived in that job…

My ex-husband’s bankruptcy ruined my mortgage application – can I fix it?

If you have a question for our experts, email us at money@theipaper.com . Question: My partner and I had an offer accepted on a new house and were partway through selling our own when the mortgage came unstuck. Two…

Firefighting in New Forest to continue for several days

The wildfire began when a van caught fire on the A31 near Bratley Wood shortly after 17:20 BST on Sunday, forcing motorists to abandon more than 20 vehicles. The area hit by the fire is protected heathland and home to a…

That's not very sweet, Caroline: Radio station rapped for announcing King had died before playing national anthem

Media regulator Ofcom said the announcement during The Barry Marsh Show on May 19 was a 'significant inaccuracy' on a matter of 'very high public interest'. Caroline, whose original presenters on a former ferry off the…

PROFESSOR IAN ACHESON: Only by making sure PC Harper's smirking killers stay in jail will Andy Burnham prove he's truly in charge

Unlike his emotionless predecessor as Prime Minister, a lawyer who preferred abstract legal procedure to the messy reality of governing, Burnham was meant to have a sense of how the British public ticked. Surely, I said…

RAKIB EHSAN: Young male migrants are tearing apart the fabric of our villages and towns

But the truth is that, these days, they are anything but. One mega craft that made landfall in the early hours of yesterday was carrying no fewer than 230 people, the largest number to make the journey in a single…

Woman and man are charged after child's body is found at home

Officers visited the property in Kenway, Southend, and discovered the body on August 7 after social services raised welfare concerns. The pair from Shoeburyness and Kenway were remanded in custody at Southend-on- Sea…

Urgent hunt for mother and her three young children 'who were last seen on Saturday'

Police have appealed for the public's help in finding the missing family. A CCTV image shows Alimat and her three children walking with at least two suitcases. She also appears to be pushing a pram piled with coats and…

Student police officer, 23, is charged after woman was 'kidnapped and raped' over the weekend

A 999 call had been received shortly before 10.20pm, in which a woman could be heard in distress in a vehicle in the Manchester area, according to GMP. Officers were then able to locate Hassan and arrest him. On Monday…

'I felt Tourette's would ruin my life, now I teach at Cambridge'

She assumed it would pass, but it was a vocal tic and her first known manifestation of her Tourette's syndrome, a condition that causes people to make sudden, repetitive sounds or movements. "How am I going to have a…