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Living on a £1,000 overdraft, Sarah is struggling to finish her business studies degree, so three nights a week she becomes "Mandy", a female escort. Here she reveals all… "Contrary to what most people imagine, female escorts aren’t all girls who have a drug habit to feed or three young kids in care," the pretty […]
Continue ReadingWomen are making radical choices in their relationships – seeking out younger men for companionship and fulfilment. Australia sees the spectacular rise of the toy boy… Deborah-Lee Furness has had one for six years. Carrie Fisher says they’re great for fitness and self-esteem. Demi Moore has become more famous for hers. But Jamie Lee Curtis […]
Continue ReadingIt seems today’s sporting spouses don’t have much in common with the partners portrayed in British television’s hugely popular series, Footballers’ Wives, as Steven Corbett discovers… Unfortunately, the image still exists of footballers’ wives in Britain as blonde bimbos with model looks and very little else to do with their day, except have their nails […]
Continue ReadingThirty years ago Mick Pease worked in the coal mines of North Yorkshire. Now he is a child care pioneer in Brazil helping thousands of homeless and orphaned youngsters find families. There could hardly be two more different settings; a small coal-mining town in the north of England, and the sprawling favelas of São Paulo. […]
Continue ReadingBritain’s colonial legacy in Pakistan left a thriving but dark commercial sector in the country’s capital, Karachi. Massoud Ansari investigates the city’s desperate marketplace that trades in young women… “Could you deflower a girl?" Madam Rabia asks one of her regular clients. "She has been rotting at my place for the last couple of weeks, […]
Continue ReadingAustralia’s legendary private investigator, Tim “earthquake” Bristow, was one of Australia’s most colourful, and some may say, notorious underworld figures until his death earlier this year. He was also my friend and some time mentor. Bristow was synonymous with Australia’s northern beaches community. He seemed to have contacts in almost every street from Palm Beach […]
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