Brooke George said she was lured to the United Arab Emirates by William Treeby after he promised her luxuries and a modelling career before confiscating her passport.
There's no shock quite like one from somebody you were sure you knew inside out. When my best friend of more than 30 years told me she was having an affair, I burst out laughing, assuming it was a joke.
You wake up to the taste of rubbish in your mouth,' says 60-year-old Michelle Joyce. 'And the smoke is thick across the main road. I'm amazed there hasn't been an accident, but that'll be the next thing.
We all know the drill when it comes to checking our moles. Keep an eye on them, if one changes shape, colour or size, or grows a ragged edge, get it looked at. It's sound advice that saves lives.
Closing the glass door of my office, I told my assistant to sit down. She had just made a mess of my weekend away and I was about to let her have it with both barrels.
I have a recurring anxiety dream which wakes me up in tears night after night: it's my wedding day and I've paid a fortune for a make-up artist to try to hide the raised red acne covering my face.
Before Ben Stokes went to bed in Hart's Hotel in Nottingham city centre on Saturday night, he told Joe Root and Harry Brook - his predecessor as Test captain and, no doubt, his successor - of his plans.