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Cultural echo-chambers and an independent bookstore in Olneyville The College Hill Independent, Metro, September 2018

Interview with a Rohingya refugee being helped by Oxfam placed in the Metro.

You might have seen recent reports on how the number of public loos in the UK is declining drastically. In fact, a recent mapping released by BBC showed that in 37 areas, major councils do not have any public toilets. In places like Isle of Wight and North Aryshire, the number of public toilets being maintained has been cut by as much as 92% and 80% respectively. Most media headlines reported this with indifference. I even watched a BBC presenter laugh her way through a segment on the topic.

A jealous father-of-two hid a tracker in his ex-girlfriend’s car only to discover she had moved on from him with a woman. David Jones, 37, suspected his former partner Stacey Buckley had formed a new relationship after they broke up earlier that year. The construction site manager then followed his former lover to a date with her sister’s ex-girlfriend, Laura Flynn. Ms Buckley later uncovered the tracking device in her car after Jones continually told her: ‘I’ll find you wherever you are.’

An abusive boyfriend has been locked up after he banned his girlfriend from using Snapchat during a campaign of ‘psychological abuse’. Matthew Bailey, 24, made his 19-year-old partner Molly Cunliffe delete the app and did not allow her to message other men on Facebook or Instagram unless they were gay. He was so possessive he even told her she was not allowed to leave kisses at the end of her communications on social media, Manchester magistrates court heard.

Danielle Brooks has warned that Taystee is in for a bleak future in Orange is the New Black season six.

From week one the Love Island girls became each other’s besties almost straight away, while the guys took a bit more time to warm up to each other. We’re now over 40 episodes in and it’s bromance central on the Island of Love: From Wes and Josh’s brotherly bants, to the boys regular self-named DBS meetings (The Do Bits Society), here are five gifs of the most heartwarming and hilarious moments between the guys: 1. Drama crew The best improv play we’ve probably seen GCSE drama. Jack Josh and

Flicking through the reams of bikini-clad models on the most popular fast fashion websites, there is always one stark difference between the model and me. I have a 30cm scar running from just below my chest to my pelvis, and they do not. I have had Crohn’s Disease since the age of four, which now at the dizzy heights of 26 means I’ve battled with this chronic illness for over 20 years. Crohn’s Disease is an autoimmune disease, which sits under the umbrella of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

A photographer is challenging the taboo around public breastfeeding with a stunning photo series. The photographs taken by Emma Shardlow Hudson, 29, celebrate happy, nursing mums snuggled up with their babies of all ages. One mum cradles her tiny baby dressed in a grey babysuit as she feeds him while sitting at a seafront.

This is the moment a group of cyclists spooked a horse and injured its rider with a manoeuvre dubbed ‘dangerous’ and ‘stupid’ on social media. Jennifer Katherine was riding her horse along rural lanes when she says a cyclist speeding past made contact with her and her horse. Footage shows her horse becoming spooked as several bikers go past at speed on both sides of them.

A schoolgirl has been left devastated after she says she was given a written warning by her boss for having acne. Emily McNamara, a pot washer, thought her new employer was winding her up when she received a warning for ‘unacceptable marks’ on her neck – and realised it was in reference to her pimples.

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Two girls were filmed as they had a vicious fight in the middle of a JD Sports shop. As they fought, their companions, thought to be their boyfriends, tried in vain to pull them apart. But they could not separate the girls who pulled each others’ hair and screamed ‘slag’ at each other at the store in Burnley, Lancashire.

It’s one of the most iconic pop singles of the past decade, and we doubt there’s a human being on this planet that doesn’t know the words to mega-hit Call Me Maybe. But while it launched the career of pop star Carly Rae Jepsen, the male model who starred in the accompanying music video has revealed all these years later that it’s one of his biggest regrets. Holden Nowell played Carly’s neighbour who she had a crush on, only for her to find out at the very end that he’s actually into guys rathe

Two animal lovers claim they rescued a ‘healthy’ fox cub – only for it to be put down once they passed it to the RSPCA to take to a sanctuary. Paul Smout and his friend Fiona Kelly, both 47, took the cub, nicknamed Cadno, to Haven Vets in Llanelli, Wales, after he was rescued from the side of a road on May 26. The vet organised for the RSPCA to take him to a shelter – but once Cadno was picked up on May 28, the little cub was instead put to sleep.

Standing at 135cm tall, with a functioning vagina, anus, mouth, and soft-to-the-touch silicone skin, Meghan has been in Scott’s life for five years.

A man was caught on camera having a bizarre row with a bollard moments before eventually ‘making up’ with it. Adam Mitchell was on his way home from the gym in Skegness, Lincs, last Tuesday when he spotted the argument begin to unfold. The 25-year-old quickly took out his phone to film the unknown man’s dispute with the plastic post and captured the one-sided conversation become increasingly heated.

A mother who still breastfeeds her five-year-old daughter before and after school each day claims her milk is so good it has stopped her children getting ill. Emma Shardlow Hudson, 29, breastfeeds her daughter Alex, five, and son Ollie, two, in between other meals and sometimes tandem – feeding both children at once. Emma claims that when her daughter started nursery, she didn’t pick up any of the same coughs and sniffles the other children developed and credits it to her breast milk.

This is the shocking moment a parking warden apparently slaps a funeral car with a ticket as the driver goes inside to ‘help load a body’ into the accompanying hearse. George Portsmouth, 30, was visiting North Cumbria University Hospital in Carlisle, Cumbria, when he spotted the incident begin to unfold and took photos from his window.

Kylee Bobbitt has an unbreakable bond with her beloved bird Penelope, who lives in a cage in her bedroom.

A little girl has captured the moment her tooth was removed by her pet cockatoo. Parrot-obsessed Kylee Bobbitt spent years begging her parents to let her have a cockatoo and saved up half of the £1,400 herself. The 11-year-old now has an unbreakable bond with her beloved bird Penelope, who lives in a cage in her bedroom and has been taught to to hang off her finger, give kisses and even hold a pencil.

A student who had ‘everything going for her’ died from a seizure caused by a cocktail of cocaine and prescription drugs. Lucy White collapsed at her home in Bristol as her boyfriend cooked dinner in the next room, and was rushed to intensive care. However, the 24-year-old’s heartbroken family were first told she would be severely brain damaged, then that she was brain stem dead – and within four days, she had died.

Tarryn McKay and her best bud, Nibbles, are the truest definition of friendship goals. They don’t let their differences – their size, their species, one of them having long ears – tear them apart, instead bonding over what makes them special. Just to be clear, Nibbles is a rabbit. Tarryn is not a rabbit.

Share this article with Google Plus Sugared, glazed, topped with sprinkles or filled with jam, I’ve yet to meet someone who doesn’t enjoy a doughnut. And what better way to celebrate this delicious doughy ball of goodness than eat all the doughnuts for National Doughnut Week. However, one of the key ingredients in most varieties is flour. So what to do if you’re gluten free? Luckily these five producers make fresh gluten free doughnuts with zero cross contamination. These doughnuts are not

It’s Coeliac Awareness Week – but what do we actually know about this illness which means a totally gluten-free diet? Coeliac disease is an autoimmune disease, which means consuming gluten causes an autoimmune reaction. That means the body attacks itself. 1 in 100 people in the UK have the condition, so the chances are you know someone who has it, or at least know of someone who does. So what it’s like to live with the condition: 22 coeliacs tell us. Rachel points out it’s rather important t

There’s definitely something about this little puppy that looks oddly familiar. Well, if you haven’t worked it out already, we might as well break it you – it looks like a penis. Unfortunately for its owner, Facebook decided it was too phallic to meet its ‘community standards’.

Parents-to-be were shocked when their baby’s ultrasound seemed to show her wearing a tiny pair of headphones in the womb. What makes it even better is her dad is a DJ. When Emma and Richard Wilkins went for their 11-week ultrasound scan, Leah May was already following in her dad’s footsteps when she looked as though she was kitted out with over-ear headphones.

She became a pariah after being outed as a white woman after years of claiming to be black, but now Rachel Dolezal hopes that giving an insight into her shocking childhood will finally lead her onto a road toward redemption. The 40-year-old Africana studies teacher found herself under intense media scrutiny in 2015 when it was revealed that she had been falsely identifying as a black woman, after her white parents outed her in a tell-all interview. Their statement followed their daughter’s rep

No matter how streaky your legs or how orange your hands, you can take solace in the knowledge that your fake tan fail probably isn’t as bad as Danni Bruce’s. Danni, 20, was teased for looking like Shrek and the Incredible Hulk when her fake tan left her skin incredibly dark green. Just five minutes after applying one coat of the £3.99 fake tan Danni’s skin was an entirely different colour, leaving her so mortified she refused to leave the house.

A Welsh family have adopted a nappy-wearing lamb who thinks she’s a dog – and they even share a bedroom. The lamb lives inside the family house, after being brought indoors when she was poorly. Jessica Hayes took pity on Lucy the lamb when she was four days old and sick with colic so brought her into the house to care for her overnight.