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Is jet-ski Romeo just in it for the cash? He’s been revelling in fame but friends say it’s a sham 

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He was the love-sick roofer jailed for breaking Covid rules after jet-skiing from Scotland to the Isle of Man to see his girlfriend. Romantics lapped up the tale of how Dale McLaughlan was so desperate to see Jessica Radcliffe that he made the four-and-a-half-hour trip, despite never having ridden a jet-ski before and being unable … Read more

Solicitor caught offering to arrange sham marriage for £13,000 to flout immigration is struck off

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A solicitor caught in an undercover TV sting offering to arrange a sham marriage so a prospective client could flout immigration rules has been struck off. Zulfiqar Ali told a reporter posing as a Pakistani immigrant that he would have to fork out up to £13,000 to pay off his new bride and stay in … Read more

Former Miss South Africa reveals friendship with white counterpart was a sham

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A former Miss South Africa has revealed that the friendship she had with her white counterpart was a facade ‘for the camera’.  Pearl Jensen, 68, was runner-up in the 1970 Miss World pageant, the first that saw a black woman, Jennifer Hosten from Grenada, take the crown and appeared on tonight’s BBC2 documentary ‘Miss World 1970: Beauty … Read more