Myrteza Hilaj and Kreshnik Kadena convicted after NCA operation into Albanian crime group involved in illegal migration

Two men who used a plane to smuggle people from northern France to an aerodrome in Essex have been jailed.

Myrteza Hilaj and Kreshnik Kadena, both from Leyton in east London, were found guilty at Southwark crown court in March of facilitating the commission of a breach of immigration law.

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After sexless marriages, Jasper and Ellen discovered what they’d been missing out on

• How do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymously

I’ve been through an awakening

I think sex makes me a happier person, especially to feel so desired and to desire someone so much

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• Updates from day two around the grounds (11am BST start)
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“Is,” writes Iain Noble, “this a record? Nine ‘caughts’ in the Lancs 1^st dig and only Will Williams preventing a complete set for Durham.”

One for the hive mind.

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Cannes film festival
Yorgos Lanthimos reinforces how the universe keeps on doing the same awful things with a multistranded yarn starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Jesse Plemons

Perhaps it’s just the one kind of unkindness: the same recurring kind of selfishness, delusion and despair. Yorgos Lanthimos’s unnerving and amusing new film arrives in Cannes less than a year after the release of his Oscar-winning Alasdair Gray adaptation Poor Things. It is a macabre, absurdist triptych: three stories or three narrative variations on a theme, set in and around modern-day New Orleans.

An office worker finally revolts against the intimate tyranny exerted over him by his overbearing boss. A police officer is disturbed when his marine-biologist wife returns home after months of being stranded on a desert island, and suspects she has been replaced by a double. Two cult members search for a young woman believed to have the power to raise the dead.

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He pushed back against doctors who recommended surgery on infants born with ambiguous genitalia, arguing for acceptance of diversity.

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