Perched high up on a sturdy shelf in her large garden shed, Mari Fraille believed she was about to drown. The flood water was seeping at her toes. A torrent had blasted through the front door and swept through her house, so she hurried to the shed and, using a stepladder, scrambled on to the shelf next to an old suitcase. For 20 long minutes, she screamed for help but no one came. ‘It was the worst part of my life,’ the 67-year-old told me this week. ‘I was alone, everyone else along my row of houses had already fled from the flood.’

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Celebrity hairdresser Trevor Sorbie has died aged 75 after being diagnosed with terminal cancer – just weeks after revealing his condition on ITV’s This Morning. The Scottish-born stylist, who gained fame with the creation of the wedge cut, had said on October 9 that he had weeks to live after his bowel cancer spread to his liver. Sorbie – who opened his first salon in 1979 – was known for cutting the hair of the rich and famous including Grace Jones, The Beach Boys and Dame Helen Mirren.

The courageous daughter of a wealthy company director refused to open a safe for two armed robbers during a terrifying gunpoint raid at her family’s £2.5million Sandbanks home, it has emerged. Ashley Fulton, 42, invaded the home of Emily Aitchison and her mother Kerry at gunpoint in February of 2023. He was joined in the raid by a friend who for legal reasons cannot be named. The pair posed as police officers before barging into the luxury property and tying 55-year-old physio and personal trainer Kerry – who had been home alone at the time – by her hands and feet.

British supermodel Georgina Cooper – an icon of ‘Cool Britannia’ and a friend of Kate Moss – has tragically died at the age of 46 on a Greek island just months after she married, MailOnline can reveal today. Tributes have poured in from fellow catwalk stars including Jade Parfitt, Erin O’Connor, Jodie Kidd and Helena Christensen, who called her a ‘ray of light’ whose ‘achievements in the industry were huge’. Georgina was staying in Kos at the Marianna hotel apartments with her husband when she was taken ill on October 21 and staff called an ambulance.

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