Weekend Dispatch #51

Hello, and welcome to the Weekend Dispatch. Inside this week: Hot priests, maggot therapy, and the end of Skegness. Let’s get to it. We started the week with one of our most startling investigations to date. Lily Isaacs spent a month inside an online school ran by 20-year-old Brit

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The villagers of Glod were portrayed as backward Kazakh criminals (Fonie Mitsopoulou)In Borat, the villagers of Glod were portrayed as backward Kazakh criminals (Fonie Mitsopoulou)

Sacha Baron Cohen turned Glod into a punchline • Its Roma residents say they were tricked • 20 years on, this is their story

Hundreds of mothers are 'looksmaxxing' their babies using Oscar Patel's courses

Looksmaxxing has escaped the teenage manosphere • Now mothers are joining in • Their goal: to reshape their babies’ skulls

The Apollo Pavilion sits in the centre of Peterlee (Sally-Ann Norman)

The North East has become an opioid hotspot • Its towns are seeking a chemical escape • Can hope return?

New opioid overdose hotspots emerged across Britain last year

Our data reveals new overdose hotspots • But how many people are dying? • The Government doesn't know

Antoinette O’Brien (bottom left) with her family in Lismore (Elise Derwin)

A flood almost wiped this town from the map • Then the government tried to finish the job • Meet the people who refused to leave

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