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David Jones - Chief foreign writer

David is a vastly experienced feature writer, who regularly produces groundbreaking dispatches covering everything from tsunamis to presidential elections. His work has brought hm a string of accolades, including British Press Awards feature writer of year (twice), British Journalism awards feature writer of year, and What The Papers Say reporter of year.

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MOST RECENT ARTICLES FROM DAVID JONES

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Justice at last! Only Briton left in Guantanamo to be freed in victory for Mail campaign to end scandal of his 14-year detention without trial

25/09/15 02:36

Shaker Aamer, the Saudi born Guantanamo Bay inmate, will be flown back to Britain after spending 13 years behind bars at the controversial detention centre in Cuba, it was announced today. The US government has notified the UK authorities that it now intends to return Mr Aamer to Britain. He has been imprisoned since Valentine's Day 2002, without ever being charged or standing trial, and has a wife and children in South London, and has never met his 13-year-old son. In 2001 he was detained in Afghanistan while he was doing peaceful voluntary work for an Islamic charity, his supporters say. He was handed to the US military for money....read

What a stench: It's an icon of national pride. So how on earth were two porn barons and their protegee Baroness Brady allowed to take over the Olympic Stadium in a deal almost entirely financed by you the taxpayer?
14/08/15 10:56
In a few weeks’ time, preparations will begin for the Olympic stadium to be handed over to its new tenant, West Ham United Football Club. It has cost the taxpayer £257 million and the club just £15m.
How COULD police stand by and watch a boy drown in 6ft of water ...and why did they STOP bystanders diving in to save him? We investigate the most disturbing elf 'n' safety debacle yet
07/08/15 06:47
At the height of summer, there are few more tranquil stretches of water than the lily-fringed Lee Navigation canal which meanders beside a marshy nature reserve in East London.
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DAVID JONES: The playboy patriot dubbed 'cricket's answer to David Beckham' who bowled this maiden over
06/08/15 11:34
During a glittering eight-year career that has made him a multi-millionaire, Stuart Broad's mercurial brilliance has frequently come to England's rescue.
Why you should be profoundly alarmed that £140m of flats in this London tower sold in FOUR HOURS: Foreign buyers are snapping up homes despite promise that Londoners would be offered new properties first
13/07/15 02:17
Nearly all of the 230 homes in Maine Tower in Canary Wharf were sold at the weekend - and foreign buyers were able to snap them up, despite a pledge that new homes should be offered to Londoners first.
'I was trapped in suffocating heat for hours': DAVID JONES tells of the panic of being stuck inside the Eurotunnel
23/06/15 10:18
As we sat there, helpless , bands of immigrants, apparently from the Sangatte camp, began clambering over the barriers and swarming around the cars, writes DAVID JONES.
What turned Tom from High Wycombe into a throat-slitting jihadi called the White Beast?
19/06/15 11:12
Beset by the tribulations of youth, Thomas Evans - killed fighting for al-Shabaab - confounded his family by converting to the Islamic faith, writes DAVID JONES.
Freud's nude muse, the hippy heir and a VERY scandal-prone dynasty: How one of Wales' oldest, noblest, and richest families has spectacularly fallen from grace
19/06/15 12:47
Had it not been for Edward I, the Williams-Wynn dynasty might have been the modern-day kings of Wales, instead the heir apparent to their sprawling estate lives as a hippy in a remote hut.
Betrayal of prisoner 239: Is America plotting to keep the last Guantanamo Briton behind bars because he knows its darkest secrets after 13 years without trial?
29/05/15 10:43
Shaker Aamer, 48, whose family live in Battersea, is still being held even though his case file has been vetted by six U.S. departments of state and all six have pronounced him suitable for release.
A leggy, glamorous brunette 28 years his junior... Sepp Blatter flirts with Linda Barras at FIFA Congress... and her husband was last to know they are an item
29/05/15 11:25
Brushing aside the fury of the press and half the footballing world, he was pictured at the 65th Fifa Congress flirting with romantic interest Linda Barras.
Short, bald despot with a leering eye for women half his age: How Sepp Blatter - who wanted female footballers to wear tighter kits - quaffed champagne with glamorous girls as FIFA went to the dogs
28/05/15 10:33
FIFA president Sepp Blatter took his seat at the 65th Fifa Congress in Zurich today with Linda Barras, 49 – who is 30 years his junior and married to a prominent Swiss estate agent.
Why Rolf's daughter is convinced she'll prove he ISN'T a child abuser as she signs petition expressing 'concerns' at the verdict: Is Bindi's devotion natural loyalty? Or a callous insult to the victims?
08/05/15 11:06
With remarkable — and some will think very misguided — loyalty, Bindi has stuck by her father since he was first accused of indecently assaulting a string of underage girls.
Will Princess Pushy help solve the shooting of her toyboy tycoon? Family of murdered Russian oligarch plea with British Royal to help bring his killers to justice
01/05/15 11:49
Furniture magnate Mikhail Kravchenko, 46, was shot dead in 2012 after he was photographed walking hand-in-hand with Princess Michael of Kent during a romantic weekend in Venice.
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Linekers at war: Football pundit Gary and his wild brother Wayne were once best of friends but now no longer speak... did their women drive them apart?
01/05/15 09:00
According to Wayne (pictured with Gary), the rift dates back to 2008 when the BBC presenter, recently divorced, took lingerie model Danielle Bux to meet his sibling for the first time in Ibiza.
DAVID JONES: Inhaling hippy crack, millionaire England star who sums up all that is wrong with football: Raheem Sterling, 20, is refusing a £100,000-a-week contract as his wild lifestyle puts his career at risk
14/04/15 11:24
The rush that comes with performing in front of thousands of delirious supporters - and being rewarded exorbitantly - isn’t enough for Liverpool's Raheem Sterling, writes DAVID JONES.
Four dead patients. A dramatic police swoop. And the question dividing a tight-knit community about a respected GP... Dr Death - or victim of a witch hunt?
10/04/15 11:39
Dr Rory Lyons' name was cleared and his professional reputation was restored by Guernsey Police and the General Medical Council in July 2015
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Yes, it's time we stopped looking for Maddie: As a police boss says the £10m hunt must end, DAVID JONES, who's reported on the case for eight years, explains with a heavy heart why he agrees
23/03/15 11:31
John Tully, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, called for an end to Scotland Yard's involvement in the Madeleine McCann case earlier this week and David Jones agrees.
Why half of France is still in love with the sleaziest man on the planet: It's laid bare his sickening depravity. But that's not the only shocking thing about the sex trial of ex-IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Khan
14/02/15 12:46
A sizeable portion of the French population - most of them older traditionalists, but not all of them men - still have a sneaking admiration for the 'oversexed' Dominique Strauss-Khan (pictured).
A £500m Essex boy and why the taxman's gone to war on his A-list clients: The builder's son who devised film funding scheme to give tax breaks to the stars
09/02/15 01:48
Patrick McKenna, founder and CEO of Ingenious Media, amassed much of his vast wealth by devising a film funding scheme that took full advantage of the tax breaks that New Labour had pioneered.
DAVID JONES: Bigotry that drove my beautiful mother to a desperate act that'll haunt me until I die
27/01/15 01:42
My mother returned after a 'minor operation', her nose smaller and straighter. She had done so to disguise the fact that she was a Jew, writes DAVID JONES.
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Marching against Islamists, 40,000 angry Germans take to the streets in growing backlash after Charlie Hebdo massacre
13/01/15 12:02
Thousands of members of Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West (Pegida) marched in the eastern city of Dresden, with others in Hanover, Leipzig and Dusseldorf.
Inside the immigrant ghettoes where terror breeds: Concrete warren divided into 'boxes' houses 10,000 Muslims in grim Parisian enclave
09/01/15 12:03
The seven-storey block is where Cherif Kouachi was radicalised - and is believed to have plotted the horrific magazine massacre, just seven miles from the office, writes DAVID JONES.
Is this speck in the Indian Ocean Britain's Guantanamo? Chilling questions raised over secretive island as more disturbing allegations emerge over UK's role in CIA torture
20/12/14 01:03
Diego Garcia was believed to be a key staging post in the U.S. rendition and torture programme - but was not mentioned once in this month's heavily-redacted report into CIA torture.
All I want to know is: Have they forgotten me? Guantanamo Bay detainee's emotionally charged first call to his London family for 2 1/2 years
15/12/14 11:56
Since 2012, the US authorities had forbidden Shaker Aamer from communicating with his family, and his only contact with the world beyond his cell had come via meetings with lawyers.
How selling homes for £1 can save our streets from squalor: Crazy? No. This inspiring report from the Potteries shows how to breathe new life into Britain
12/12/14 10:05
At a time when affordable homes are in short supply, the houses in Cobridge — or ‘Poundland’, as locals have dubbed it — represent a barely believable bargain.
Held in a hell hole for 13 years without trial: Scandal of the Londoner locked in Guantanamo with no hope of justice
11/12/14 12:02
Shaker Aamer, 46, (pictured with two of his children) has been detained in Guantanamo Bay without trial or charge since November 2001 and says he has been beaten and starved of food.
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Joanna Lumley's legacy of misery: When she fought to allow retired Gurkhas into Britain, her heart was in the right place. Five years on, even they say it's backfired terribly
14/11/14 10:05
Many Gurkhas who moved to Britain after Joanna Lumley spearheaded their campaign have awoken - too late - to the grim realities of life in the milk-and-honey land they envisaged.
Battersea rises again: It was once a world-famous symbol of British power - then of our decline. Now Battersea power station is reborn as a place for the super-rich
30/10/14 10:49
For almost half a century, it stood as a totem to the nation’s strength and ambition: a palace of power, providing a fifth of London’s electricity.
Bitter last days of The Greatest: His tongue as fast as his fists but today Ali can barely walk - ground down by Parkinson's and beset by a venomous family feud
17/10/14 11:10
A film about the boxer's life, I Am Ali, will be released in America this week. But it serves largely to remind us of the sad shadow of a man Ali, ravaged by Parkinson's for 25 years, is now.
How the cream of Hong Kong's youth turned into would-be revolutionaries and why so many of the city's rich businessmen support the fight for democracy as protests turn ugly
03/10/14 11:12
Clashes broke out on Friday as Hong Kong residents and pro-Beijing supporters tried to force pro-democracy activists from the streets they were occupying.
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I'm selling my £3million home after police 'violated' it in child abuse raid, says Sir Cliff
28/09/14 09:19
Sir Cliff Richard is to sell his £3million home in Sunningdale, Berkshire. He told friends he feels like he has been 'ransacked by burglars' after police raided his home in August.
Bewildered fury of the Brighton mum whose teenage son ran off to become a jihadi: He should have been at college, but this week Ibrahim was killed by a U.S. bomb in Syria...
26/09/14 11:49
The mother of Ibrahim Kamara, a 19-year-old from Brighton who travelled to Syria to join ISIS and was killed by a U.S. bomb this week, found out he had died via a Facebook message.
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Chilling ruling that means killers jailed for life could win a legal right to die... while their victims' families face a lifetime of suffering
17/09/14 12:59
Murderer Frank Van Den Bleeken, who killed Christiane Remacle, has argued that his mental anguish is so unbearable that he ought to be allowed to take his own life.
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Who murdered my gorillas? Kent zoo keeper who returned family of primates to African jungle sees experiment end in a bloodbath - and the prime suspect is a jealous ape
05/09/14 09:18
Damian Aspinall returned a family of gorillas to the wild two months ago after they were raised on his Howletts animal park in Kent, but five of the female animals have been found dead in mysterious attack.
Damien Hirst is bankrupt of ideas but the £400m modern art king can't stop making money (and is it any wonder when he even advertises his wares on his jacket?)
22/08/14 09:53
Hirst has frequently confessed his desire to amass a great deal of money, and was described by a New York critic as ‘a cold-blooded pet of millennial excess wealth’.
The parking ticket fat cats - one's a chum of Prezza and two drive Aston Martins. Meet the men who've made millions from motorists' misery
01/08/14 09:27
While drivers across the country are slapped with hefty fines from their firms, the likes of David Taylor CBE (pictured with his cars) live in seclusion, having made millions from their businesses.
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They're about to pocket £90m after building an empire of 900 homes... so why are Baron and Baroness Buy-to-Let in such a grump?
11/07/14 10:33
Fergus and Judith Wilson made a buy-to-let fortune from the once-dilapidated towns near the Channel Tunnel rail terminal at Ashford, Kent in the early Noughties.
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Cognac for breakfast? Dave's EU nemesis has FAR worse skeletons in his closet, including a Nazi father-in-law and rumours of a love-child
05/07/14 12:15
During his 18-year prime ministership of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker developed some worryingly expensive habits.
How Cardiff became a city where families are torn between East and West - and why two clever sons grew up to be terrorists
27/06/14 10:22
A father from Cardiff has told how he 'tortures himself' with thoughts he might have failed his two sons who ran away to Syria to join the fanatical Islamist group ISIS.
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The REAL reason your children can't afford to buy their own house: How China's middle classes are snapping up British homes from Liverpool to Croydon before they're even built
13/06/14 09:46
Prime homes are snapped up at a vast property expo in Hong Kong where one agent said attendees spend 'as if they were shopping in Tesco!', writes DAVID JONES.
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Is this hospital a miracle cure for the NHS? It has a Michelin chef, happy patients and is run by doctors and nurses. And shock, horror, it's operated at a profit by a private firm
27/05/14 10:52
Just imagine an NHS hospital whose standards match those of a top-quality hotel, with a welcoming reception area, polished floors, tasteful artwork on the freshly-painted walls, and menus inspired by a Michelin-starred chef.
Macabre games of 'seagull soccer' with dead a frogfish to save his sanity and the moment the Devil dared him to slit his own throat: Pacific castaway reveals his hellish fight
25/04/14 12:10
Jose Alvarenga, 37, who washed ashore after 14 months adrift in the Pacific, has given his first full interview to MailOnline.
$Garita Palmera, El Salvador: Salvador thinks while sitting inside his house which is in the costal town of Garital Palmera on the pacific coast.\nJose Salvador Alvarenga talks about his ordeal having survived 13 months at sea until he reach land in Ebon Atoll one of the 22 islands that forSan Salvador, El Salvador: Jose Salvador Alvarenga talks about his ordeal having survived 13 months at sea until he reach land in Ebon Atoll one of the 22 islands that form the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.$
EXCLUSIVE: 'There was no flesh left on him. I doubt he even made a meal for the sharks': Castaway who survived 14 months adrift on the Pacific angrily denies he ate his dead companion
24/04/14 05:39
Jose Alvarenga, 37, a fisherman from El Salvador, stunned the world in February when he washed ashore 6,500 miles from a Mexican fishing village. Here, for the first time he tells his full tragic, compelling and uplifting story of survival - and takes on his critics.
Police spies snooped on Lawrence marriage: Shocking intrusion on Stephen's grieving parents by undercover officer
07/03/14 10:47
The undercover officer sent reports of how the couple ‘had, in reality, separated’ during the Macpherson inquiry into their son Stephen’s racist murder.
21 years of struggle. No family should suffer that: Stephen Lawrence's parents speak of devastation after learning officers spied on them
06/03/14 11:54
Neville and Doreen Lawrence, now divorced, could not contain their fury after the Ellison Review detailed how an undercover Scotland Yard officer invaded their privacy.
The never ending agony of the Hyde Park bomber's OTHER victims: As IRA suspect celebrates cynical amnesty that let him escape trial, we reveal the harrowing tales of those still suffering from the fall-out
28/02/14 10:06
Forgotten for decades, particularly during the Blair years when Republican murderers were reborn overnight as ‘statesmen’, their lives have been blighted in all manner of ways.
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Betrayal of Hyde Park victims: IRA bomb suspect accused over slaughter of troops and horses walks free because letter from Blair's blundering officials gave him immunity
25/02/14 04:57
Families of the victims of the bloody 1982 attack in Central London, in which four soldiers died, said they felt ‘devastatingly let down'.
So was the castaway a cannibal? The shocking rumours surrounding the disappearance of fisherman's companion
08/02/14 01:41
A gripping dispatch from DAVID JONES in Mexico. Jose Alvarenga's incredible tale has inevitably raised many eyebrows, however, and not only because its protagonist looks remarkably healthy and well-fed.
What drove a British estate agent and his maths tutor brother to die as jihadists? How seemingly decent young men are living terrifying doubles lives
05/02/14 10:53
After Londoners Akram, left, and Mohamed, right, Sebah died fighting alongside Al Qaeda-backed jihadis in Syria their ashamed parents pretended they had died in crash.
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A picture of deceit: As it's claimed Hollande's been cheating for two years - with trysts in his lover's chateau - the image that captures his web of betrayal
17/01/14 11:45
The libidinous politician is pictured with all three of his women - girlfriend Valerie Trierweiler, mistress Julie Gayet, and mother of his four children Segolene Royal.
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Did WPC Yvonne Fletcher die because union militants at GCHQ were asleep on the job?
11/01/14 12:19
The shock claim comes from a former GCHQ worker after new details were revealed of Libyan Embassy shooting in 1984. He claimed a message pledging blood would be spilt on London's streets went unread.
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Finally, a tribute to match the man: A poignant and dignified day but VIPs edge out relatives at Mandela farewell
16/12/13 12:06
This was more like it, writes DAVID JONES in Qunu, Eastern Cape Province. This was what the world had been waiting to see.
Mandela Clan outcasts are left off the guest list for funeral because there's no room... but 4,500 VIPs get a pass
14/12/13 12:42
In keeping with the traditions of his Xhosa tribe, Mandela's funeral ought to be a great family gathering when the entire Mandela clan, numbering more than 70, come together.
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Obama rose to the occasion. But I can't help feeling this was a shambles - not the dignified tribute Mandela deserved
11/12/13 12:28
Painful as it is to report, it's my view that yesterday's memorial ceremony for Nelson Mandela not only failed to reflect the towering achievements of the man – at times, it was a shambolic disgrace to his name, writes DAVID JONES.
Lonely death of call girl who brought down the Government: Norma Levy destroyed the careers of two Conservative ministers. And now she's taken secrets of a THIRD Tory grandee - who's still alive - to her grave
06/12/13 10:09
Nora Russell's brother and sister flew to her bedside on the day she died from pancreatic cancer. But it is claimed they did so to hide her notebook containing lists of her parliamentary clients and their sexual fetishes.
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'Brainwashing' tapes as she lay dying and the mystery of the Cheltenham Ladies old girl's fatal fall at the Maoist slave sect HQ
02/12/13 12:29
Beside the hospital bed where Sian Davies lay, totally paralysed and labouring for breath, two female comrades silently observed her for hour upon hour.
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Cherie and her mummy's boys: She's bought a £3.6m marital home for Euan, but it's her and him on the deeds, not his wife. And how she schmoozed to help soccer agent Nicky make a fortune
15/11/13 11:41
Cherie and Euan co-own his marital home - with wife Suzanne's name nowhere on the contract. Nicky has his mother to thank for one of his first signings as a football agent.
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Lynched for being an oddball: Lonely misfit burned to death on Bristol estate by vigilantes after wrongly being branded a paedophile
02/11/13 01:11
Bijan Ebrahimi, from Brislington, Bristol, was burned to death by his neighbours after wrongly being branded a paedophile
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How the sexual adventuress who created Mary Poppins wrecked the lives of two innocent boys: Exploits of P L Travers that you won't see in new film Saving Mr Banks
25/10/13 09:16
The author took in only one of the twin brothers she said she'd adopt in 1940. She whisked Camillus Hone off to a privileged life but Anthony was left with neglectful relatives.
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Savile's police protectors: They were the Friday Morning Club - police friends who met weekly at the DJ's flat
18/10/13 10:29
The cakes were invariably cheap and unappetising — jam and synthetic cream sponges bought for 80p at his local Co-op store.
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The Devon cult that canes tiny children to 'cleanse their sins': As social services launches investigation, a mother's shocking testimony lifts the lid on the mysterious commune squatting on a Devon Farm
04/10/13 10:25
Social services are investigating Twelve Tribes in Devon after evidence of vicious canings at a German branch of the religious cult (pictured) surfaced.
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Britain’s greatest sailing hero since Nelson! How Sir Ben Ainslie inspired an outclassed team to victory in the America's Cup
26/09/13 11:26
Sir Ben Ainslie led the Oracle Team USA to victory during the deciding round of the America's Cup in San Francisco on Thursday.
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On the badger war front line: Gunmen armed with peanuts. Saboteurs who know nothing about the animals they claim to love
30/08/13 08:09
An extraordinary dispatch from DAVID JONES: News that the cull had started six days ago was broken in a letter from the NFU to its members.
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Was the City intern who worked until 6am killed by his ambition to match his high flying father?
23/08/13 11:10
Moritz Erhardt, the 21-year-old Merrill Lynch intern found dead last Thursday at Claredale House in London, was brought up to venerate self-discipline and success.
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From glory to the gutter: A football golden boy who played for England 86 times - and is now a homeless wreck drinking himself to death. No, not Gazza. The story of Kenny Sansom is even sadder
09/08/13 12:38
Former England and Arsenal star Kenny Sansom, now 54, is living in a Bromley hotel apparently paid for by the Professional Footballers' Association, which is trying to help him battle his drinking.
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The rock stars' girl, some VERY angry mums and the great fracking war: How the campaign to stop drilling for gas in English countryside is growing
25/07/13 11:21
With drilling for gas in Balcombe, West Sussex, due to begin this Saturday, the ante has suddenly upped, writes DAVID JONES.
The drug testers visit so often, we have given them the spare room: Froome Tour de France special
19/07/13 09:30
High in a lavender-scented Alpine pass, a band of floppy-hatted British cycling enthusiasts proudly unfurl their Union Flags, uncork a bottle of lukewarm Cotes du Rhone, and gaze nervously back along the scorching Tarmac.
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Vultures at his deathbed, digging up children's bones and grotesque greed: In the bitterest of ironies, the family of Nelson Mandela - a man of high ideals - are emerging as thoroughly unpleasant people
03/07/13 10:00
To cash in on his grandfather's eventual death, Mandla Mandela secretly exhumed the bodies of Mandela's baby daughter and his two late sons from the family plot and had them removed to his own land.
An affair with Olivier, accused of murdering her toyboy... now the craziest twist yet for Sarah Miles as she opens spiritual healing clinic
08/06/13 12:13
After pondering the idea for the best part of three decades, the 71-year-old has renamed her Sussex home as the Chithurst Manor Healing Centre, and opened for business as an alternative healer and therapist.
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Gulag that shames the West: Five years after Obama said he'd shut it, over 100 prisoners - including a British resident - are still chained in Guantanamo. DAVID JONES went inside and was horrified by what he found
10/05/13 09:31
A few days ago, Barack Obama restated his desire to shut Gitmo, declaring the very concept of the prison colony 'contrary to who we are'. But the fact is Bush did more to close the facility than he has ever done.
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Old King Coal is a bitter old soul: He gloated at Lady T's death, but Arthur Scargill is a sad, diminished OAP at war with his old comrades - and facing three-in-a-bed revelations from an ex lover who called him Honey Bear
19/04/13 10:19
The former miners' leader (inset right) was once accorded messiah status by those he led - but in recent years has been left fighting them tooth and nail in the courts.
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A fascist or just a fool: David Jones uncovers the troubling past of Britain's most outrageous football boss
06/04/13 12:32
On Wearside, the appointment of Mussolini’s admirer has stirred emotions not seen since the shipyards closed down, and it wasn’t only the fans in the stands who threatened to tear up their season tickets, writes DAVID JONES.
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From a Palladian mansion and a noble bloodline to life in a tracksuit on a seaside housing estate: The epic decline and fall of the viscount who married a vice girl
26/03/13 12:14
The Rt Hon Peter Ghislain Nathaniel Curzon has a bloodline dating back to a French nobleman who landed with William the Conqueror. But now he trudges around Eastbourne in a tracksuit.
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Where HAS Freddie Mercury's 'wife' hidden his ashes? The discovery of a cryptic plaque in a London cemetery has done little to solve the mystery
01/03/13 11:36
The plaque uncovered in Kensal Green Cemetery in West London this week has not brought fans any closer to finding the Queen legends final resting place.
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The ghetto families on 10p an hour making party gifts for Kate's mum's £30million business empire
22/02/13 10:00
A mother and her daughter Stephanie Villegas (pictured), 5, make pinatas in Mexico that are sold by companies including Party Pieces, the Berkshire-based business run by the Duchess of Cambridge's family.
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'Dying' Ali, his fearsome fourth wife and a savage family feud over his £30m fortune
09/02/13 12:36
Muhammad Ali's only biological son, who scrapes by in a tough Chicago neighbourhood, claims the boxing legend's fourth wife has deliberately ostracised him from his father.
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The ex-hippy who's made £100m carpeting Britain with wind turbines (and swapped his battered camper van home for a £2.8m 18th-century fort)
10/12/12 01:44
For three years, Dale Vince's company Ecotricity has fought for the right to transform Heckington Fen into one of Britain’s biggest on-shore wind-farms.
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Sheer relief replaced any sense of euphoria for Obama's disciples as they headed home from his re-election party
08/11/12 12:20
As the grassroots campaigners began wending their way back to all corners of America, still clutching the flags they had waved till their arms went numb, the mood among them was far from euphoric.
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This time, no one is expecting any miracles
06/11/12 11:03
DAVID JONES: The outcome of the election is uncertain. However, whether or not Obama wins, it is clear his great dream is well and truly over.
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It's the nasty undercurrent to the US election, but could racism put Mitt Romney in the White House?
02/11/12 10:34
In 2008, Obama won 43 per cent of the white vote; this time just 37 per cent support him, and DAVID JONES says his re-election is in serious jeopardy unless he can increase that figure.
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