DEBORAH ROSS: Tormented? Lost your wife? You’ve got the TV cop job…

Grace  ITV, Sunday Rating: Bloodlands BBC1, Sunday (Warning: spoilery) Rating: Midway through ITV’s new Sunday-night cop drama, Grace, I began to wonder if there was an interview process for TV cops hoping to be on TV. I wondered if a TV cop had to be summoned into the TV office of a TV police commander, … Read more

Cornwall woman, 18, ‘tormented by jealously’ over fears about her boyfriend, hanged herself

Teenager, 18, who was ‘tormented by jealously’ because of fears over her boyfriend’s contacts with other women hanged herself after taking cocaine, inquest hears Martha Jarvis, 18, did not trust her boyfriend Redley Flowerdew, Truro court told The coroner heard two previous boyfriends had cheated on her and was bullied He heard Martha had previously taken … Read more

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: In Washington DC, a diner is tormented by Black Lives Matter mob

The footage could hardly be more chilling, like something from the wilder fringes of Hollywood’s dystopian imagination.  A woman sits at a table, recoiling in fear. She is penned in, surrounded by a mob of masked men and women, their clenched fists raised menacingly in the air. Again and again the rhythmic chants go up: … Read more