Melissa Twigg

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Melissa Twigg |Fiona Parker |Neve Dawson

The first is chartering a boat to Cyprus - a 230 mile trip that takes up to 10 hours at sea, often on the sort of small rubber dinghies we now associate with the migrant crisis in the UK; and in some cases on larger luxury yachts. The second is travelling by taxi or bus to Jordan. The journey itself is relatively simple in principle - it is fewer than four hours by car from Tel Aviv to Amman if you don't count time at the border.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Melissa Twigg

It had all the makings of a perfect Tel Aviv evening: dappled sunshine, lights strung between lofty palm trees, music spilling out onto the lawns of the family home and a jubilant wedding attended by guests from around the world. Among them was Deborah Clayden, a 51-year-old teacher from London, who had travelled to Israel with her elderly aunt and mother for what she hoped would be a joyful few days away to celebrate her cousin’s nuptials. For most of Thursday night, that is exactly what it was.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Melissa Twigg |Emily Retter |Lorna Perry

When Mia Forbes Pirie and her husband Mark Simpson found their Jaguar E-Pace had been stolen from outside their house in west London, they used the AirTag it was fitted with to discover it was now parked less than three miles away. Keen to act as quickly as possible, they contacted the police - who gave no indication as to whether they could help or not. In the end, the couple was forced to retrieve the stolen car themselves.

2 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Melissa Twigg

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2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Melissa Twigg

Dutton has spent much of his career trying to prove that "bad psychopaths" - people who have these characteristics but who can't regulate them - are the ones who commit crimes. A "good psychopath", by contrast, is someone who can dial those qualities up and down at whim. He recalls one neurosurgeon who was regularly brought to tears by bits of classical music, but who also said, "Emotion is entropy.