By Sarah Bull


She's got one of the most envied bodies in the world, with millions of women dying to look just like her.

So Kim Kardashian's fans will be pleased to know that the 31-year-old reality star maintains a refreshing approach when it comes to staying in shape.

Kim revealed her diet secrets as she shared another picture of herself in a bikini on her Twitter page, showing off her toned curves in a sexy purple two-piece.

Bikini body: Kim Kardashian showed off her curves in a purple two-piece as she posted this picture on her Twitter page

Kim said in a recent interview: 'I used to eat a ton of junk food, but there are plenty of fast food places that offer healthy options, so there's no excuse for eating badly all the time.

'Although, when I go out for dinner, I eat what I want. You can't spend your life worrying about calories.'

Kim later shared another picture of herself in the bikini, with the caption: '#nofilter #nophotoshop.'

The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star has been keeping her fans updated with her diet and exercise regime on her Twitter page.

'No photoshop!' Kim insisted the pictures hadn't been digitally altered as she shared another shot of her enviable figure

And earlier this week Kim tweeted that she was keen to tone up, writing: 'Back on my workout grind!'

Kim's bikini pictures came after she was subjected to abuse on Twitter over her weight.

After Kim received comments surrounding her figure, and the size of her derriere on the micro-blogging site, sister Khloe came forward to defend her sibling.


Dressed to impress: Kim looked sleek in an all-black outfit as she headed out in West Hollywood yesterday

She wrote on Twitter: 'Still get disgusted by how people judge others by weight. Either ‘fat’ or ‘skinny’. Nothing is ever good enough...

'Throwing stones behind a screen. If you must judge a person. Try judging their soul. My brick walls are getting higher and higher.

'U can't love any1 else until u know how to love urself first. The good, bad, ugly, beautiful.... Love yourself deeply. The rest is easy.'


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By Caroline Thain and Sarah Bull


Footballers' Wives and The Bill actor Ben Richards has split from his wife Helen after a 15-year long relationship, it has been revealed.

The news it the latest in a string of devastating developments for the 40-year-old actor, who is also battling bowel cancer.

Ben's estranged wife Helen announced the split on her Twitter page, describing it as '15 years down the drain'.

Split: Footballers' Wives star Ben Richards has split from wife Helen after 15 years of marriage, it has been revealed

Made famous by his TV roles in Footballers’ Wives and The Bill, Ben has spent this year undergoing gruelling chemotherapy, radiotherapy and at least two operations to try to blitz a 6cm tumour.

When he first received the diagnosis, he described Helen, 38, as 'my rock by my side'.

The couple lived together in St Albans, Hertfordshire, with their two dogs, and were actively trying to start a family.

'Sad times': Helen then said she would always remember 2012 as 'the year my marriage broke down'

The day Ben was told the devastating news about his illness in January, Helen was elsewhere having preparatory fertility injections, ahead of planned artificial insemination in Spain.

Since their wedding in 2003, Helen had fallen pregnant five times, including twice with twins, but all of the babies died before they were born, suffering from a rare bone and cartilage disorder.

Ben told Hello! magazine in March: 'We could both have children without any problem, but together it’s nigh on impossible to have them.'

Posed photographs of them kissing and cuddling appeared in the glossy magazine, and though they hinted at some marital tension, they described pride that their shared grief had not torn them apart, with Ben adding: 'It could have done.'

Helen ran the Race For Life to raise money for charity in Ben's honour last month, sharing a picture of the special day on her Twitter page.

They celebrated him turning 40 in Mexico with cocktails, and she ran the Race For Life to raise money for charity in his honour, on her birthday, last month.

But in recent weeks, Ben has been returning to his hometown of Bognor Regis to be with his mum after chemotherapy sessions. Helen took to Twitter to tell of the strain in their relationship.

On 15th June, Helen wrote: 'All I want is to be watching the footie & everythings (sic) normal, wrapped in a blanket with my hubbie! #dreamer.'

Days later, she put: 'Football & beer on my lonesome! @benrichardsact recouping as always at his mums. Come on England!'

But two weeks on, Helen tweeted: 'Well that’s that then! Thank you! Only 15 years down the drain!'

And on the night of the London 2012 opening ceremony, she confided to followers: 'Wish I could remember 2012 as the year of the Olympics, instead of the year my marriage broke down! #sadtimes.'

Charity campaigner: Helen ran the Race For Life to raise money for charity for Ben last month

Ben has remained tight-lipped about the break-up, but arrived back from a getaway sunshine holiday in Spain on Saturday - and he has been visiting the gym in preparation for his next job.

Despite surgery complications following two bowel operations last month, Ben has since told fans via his website benrichards.com that he will embark on a seven-month national theatre tour, performing the lead role of Franklin in up to seven shows a week of Dolly Parton’s 9 To 5 musical.

Direct from Broadway, it is based on the 1980s film and is scheduled from October to May. Written by Patricia Resnick, it features Bonnie Langford, and producers hope to take it to the West End. His previous theatre credits include Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Grease.

Ben, who has publicly likened his cancer ordeal to a boxing fight, is expected to finish treatment for the disease by September.


Screen star: Ben as Bruno in Footballers' Wives with Helen Latham as Lucy and (right) in action as PC Nate Roberts in The Bill


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By Jade Watkins


She is the Italian curvy bombshell who rose to fame with her voluptuous figure and stunning looks in the Fifties.

And Kim Kardashian has now likened herself to screen siren Sophia Loren.

The 31-year-old made the comparison as she tweeted an array of pictures of herself during a recent fashion shoot.

Silver siren: Kim Kardashian tweeted an array of pictures of herself during a fashion shoot yesterday

During the photoshoot, Kim slipped her own curvacious physique into a shimmering silver backless dress.

'I love playing dress up,' she wrote on her Twitter page, along with the accompanying snap.

Earlier she posted a picture of herself puckering up her lips in front of the mirror, her hair, sans her usual extensions, coiffed into a bouffant style.


Comparison: During the shoot, Kim puckered up for a selfie snap and compared herself to iconic screen siren Sophia Loren

Classic: Among the other images she shared with her fans throughout the day, Kim was seen posing in a black and white snap

'Finding my inner Sophia Loren,' she mused.

Among the other images she shared with her fans throughout the day, Kim was seen posing in a black and white snap and getting tended to by a make-up artist.

The reality star also found time to post a cute picture of her nephew Mason eating an ice-cream cone.

Dressed in a smiley face onesie, the adorable tot had the dessert smeared all around his mouth.


Cheeky: Kim also tweeted this snap of herself sticking out her tongue

Tended to: Kim was seen getting her make-up touched up by a stylist

Kim may have had a day apart from her boyfriend Kanye West, but that doesn't mean he wasn't far from her thought.

The duo have rarely been seen out of each other's arms and close friends are continuing to reveal that the pair are the real deal.

According to Kanye's best friend and musical partners, Common, the couple are made for each other.

'Oh man, they are great — they are a great match,' the hip hop star told Celebuzz.

'Love is the biggest key to a great match, and, I think they have that.'

Kim and Kanye's relationship is certainly heating up and the pair recently went on a Mexican getaway together.

And during the vacation, Kim got out of her comfort zone to spent a day ziplining.
Joined by Kanye and friend Joe Francis, the reality show star is seen in one photo, smiling broadly in a red helmet and plunging black body suit.

Francis posted photographs up on his website showing the trio posing together, with Kanye looking a little more serious in his black vest top and white gloves.

According to Us Weekly, Kim and Kanye didn't stay at Francis's Mexican vacation home - instead renting a private property in a 'remote part of the country.'

However Francis did share shots of the couple getting ready to zipline through the jungle, revealing that his group of friends spent their vacation 'relaxing before hitting the ocean and ripping through the waves on jet skis launched from a gorgeous white sand beach.

Adorable: The reality star also found time to post a cute picture of her nephew Mason eating an ice-cream cone

He added: 'They also participated in a thrilling zip lining tour through the Mexican jungle flying between trees, spanning rope bridges, and sharing memorable laughs.'

And according to a source, the 'vibe' on the Kardashian trip was 'totally relaxed.'

Francis, 39, is the founder of the adult entertainment brand Girls Gone Wild and a good friend of Kim.


Made for each other: Meanwhile close friends of Kim and her boyfriend Kanye West have revealed that the pair are the 'real deal'


Getaway: Kim and Kanye's relationship is certainly heating up, and the pair recently went on a Mexican getaway together along with Kim's close friend Joe Francis



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Victoria Beckham has revealed she's a fan of 50 Shades of Grey, the erotic fiction novel dubbed 'mummy porn'.

The mother-of-four, who is married to handsome football sensation David Beckham, confessed she is already onto the steamy second installment of the three-part series, Fifty Shades Darker.

The 38-year-old has also convinced her own mother, Jackie Adams, to read the books but she is too embarrassed to discuss their content with her.

She told the new issue of America's Glamour magazine: 'I'm halfway through the second one. I even bought my mum the book! But every time she tries to engage in conversation about it, I kind of dodge the subject.

Hungry eyes: Victoria Beckham poses in front of a well-stocked fridge with a milkshake in hand for the new issue of Glamour magazine

'I don't really want to talk to my mother about S&M.'

As well as getting into a lather for the magazine's cover shoot - she slipped into in a bubble bath wearing a tiara - she also posed in just briefs and a orange lace top while standing in front of a well-stocked fridge.

In the frame, she is seen holding a milkshake, complete with whipped cream and a cherry on top, to her lips but given her lean frame and famously strict diet, it's rather unlikely she actually took a sip.

In another shot, she models a dress from her own collection in an office while wearing a pair of black-rimmed reading glasses.

Tough day at the office: The singer turned fashion designer poses in a dress from her own collection

As well as modelling for the magazine, she also edited the prestigious September issue.

She said: 'It’s been exciting for me to see my ideas come to life, from type colors to photo selection to casting.

She even created her own list for the magazine's regular 'Don’ts' column: 'Boat shoes (unless of course you’re designer Alber Elbaz or on a boat!), Bermuda shorts, nose rings, Crocs, and American tan tights (that’s nude pantyhose to you).'

She also opened up about why she rarely smiles for photographers, saying it has become part of her image now she's a designer.


Princess Posh: The star wore a tiara in the bath for the cover shot

Decisions, decision: Victoria tweeted a snap of herself helping to edit US Glamour magazine in her office in Los Angeles

'I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. [Laughs.] Fashion stole my smile! I’ve created this person. And I’m not saying that’s not me, but I wouldn’t say that’s the whole me. It’s an armor that goes up.'

Victoria also revealed she is open to having another child to add to her brood, which already includes Brooklyn, 13, Romeo, nine, Cruz, seven, and 12-month-old Harper.

Asked where she sees herself in five years, she said: 'I'd like everybody to be healthy and happy. I'd like to be growing the business at a steady pace, and to be making more women feel empowered, beautiful, and confident.

'And I'd never say never about another baby. It's a juggling act - a career, family, a husband who's busy. But I'd never say never!'


Cringe! Victoria revealed she bought a copy of 50 Shades of Grey for her mother Jackie, seen left in 2005, but doesn't want to talk to her about its kinky content




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Jet set: Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis were spotted at LAX on Sunday as they prepared to fly out to Bali

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have jetted off on a romantic trip to Bali.

The new couple were pictured cuddling at Los Angeles airport on Sunday morning as they prepared to fly out to the tropical destination together.

The Two and a Half Men actor, 34, who is currently going through a divorce with Demi Moore, whisked the Black Swan star, 28, off to a five-star resort on the island's southern peninsula.

Lovebirds: The couple didn't hide their affection for each other as the waited in line with fellow passengers

The lavish suites boast wooden four-poster beds, a sunken indoor bathtub and private pools.

Although the pair have not confirmed their romance, friends of the couple - who first met 14 years ago when they co-starred in That 70s Show - say they are ready to go public with their relationship now it is getting more serious.

A source told the New York Post: 'Ashton was Mila's first kiss while on That '70s Show, so they've always had a special bond. They started dating in the spring, and things have recently become more serious.'

Five star fun: The pair are staying in a luxury resort together

Last week, Mila accompanied Ashton to the wrap party for his new movie Jobs.

A source said at the time: 'They stayed within five feet of each other the whole entire evening. It was very obvious to everyone that they were together.

'They both seemed in good spirits, happy and having fun. They just sat next to each other and mainly talked to each other the whole time they were there.'

Ashton and Mila stayed at the party, which took place at The Duplex on Third Restaurant in Los Angeles, for two hours.


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By Fehintola Betiku


Patrick Kielty has reportedly asked Cat Deeley to be his wife.

The couple who began seeing each other early this year, were apparently seen this weekend at a party where Cat is said to have been sporting a diamond ring.

Deeley and Kielty were seen sipping on champagne at the Goring Hotel in London on Sunday amidst congratulations from friends.

Speaking to Heat, a fly on the wall at the hotel said: 'There was lots of congratulations and passing around of a ring, which was a rather large diamond from what I could see.'

The insider added: 'They both looked very happy and excited.'

In mid May, Patrick moved into Cat's £1.7million Beverley Hills mansion with plans to renovate the property.

The couple kept their blossoming relationship out of the public eye from quite some time after rumours about their friendship turning romantic began to surface after they went on holiday together in February.

And it wasn't until the 2012 Glamour Awards in London that the Irish comic, 41 and the 35-year-old blonde made their debut as a couple.

Patrick, made it known last year that he has been thinking of tying the knot in 2012, saying: 'I think that might be my New Year’s resolution... to get married.'

He and Cat have been friends since they hosted one of the original TV talent shows Fame Academy together from 2002.

A spokesperson for the couple refused to comment.

On Monday, Cat took to her Twitter account to boast about another ring which has captured her heart, showing off an oval ring with the letter C on it which she wore on her little finger.

The caption read: 'Love this ring!'

Her other ring: Cat showed off another ring on her Twitter account earlier this week

Since Cat made her move to America, the television host has made a big name for herself by hosting shows such as So You Think You Can Dance and American Idol.

The blonde beauty will now star alongside Disney Channel stars Zendaya and Bella Thorne in their new video Fashion Is My Kryptonite.

The 35-year-old will play the role of the fashion fairy Godmother in the clip which will feature in the upcoming special event Shake It Up: Made In Japan.

The video will premiere in the UK on August 31.


Cameo: Deeley will star alongside Disney Channel stars Zendaya and Bella Throne in Fashion Is My Kryptonite




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By Sue Reid


As dawn breaks on another sizzling summer’s day in Majorca, thousands of British teenagers stumble out of a huge dance club at 4am and spill into a seedy street full of neon-lit bars, lap-dancing joints and cheap kebab takeaways.

A 17-year-old girl in white shorts crashes drunkenly to the ground, legs askew, surrounded by her swaying friends. A group of boys lurch past, clutching Red Bull and vodka cocktails that they’ve bought for the equivalent of 25p. Their eyes are glazed and they burble incoherently in Manchester accents.

It has been a long night in the holiday resort of Magaluf and the main strip, called Punta Ballena, still pulsates to the deafening boom-de-boom music that started well before midnight.


Young British boys and girls are putting themselves at risk in Magaluf by bingeing on alcohol and drugs

One young reveller holds another up on the Punta Ballena strip, a notorious bar and club area of Magaluf on the Spanish island of Mallorca

The pavement is sticky with vomit and littered with cigarette butts as the young British revellers queue up for yet more cheap cocktails until the Punta Ballena bars finally close at 6am.

Lying at their feet is the tell-tale paraphernalia of so-called ‘hippy crack’ — countless red and blue balloons that have been used to suck in lungfuls of laughing gas (nitrous oxide).

Costing £3.90 a shot, they give the holidaymakers a burst of euphoria that is similar to the effects of a snort of cocaine.

Welcome to Magaluf — party central for young Britons every summer. However, there is a new and chilling danger for those who view a holiday of hot sun, dirt cheap booze and night after night on the Punta Ballena as a ‘rite of passage’ between youth and adulthood.


Visitor accidents and deaths in Magaluf have risen sharply, and many locals put this down to increased binge drinking by increasingly younger visitors

Too much, too young: The age of British drinkers in Magaluf is falling from early 20s to some as young as 16, islanders have reported

According to new figures from the Foreign Office, ten Britons a week in Majorca and neighbouring Ibiza end up in hospital after having accidents following a drinking session.

Majorca has seen a 132 per cent rise in such hospital cases and this spring three British youngsters were killed after falling off balconies or down steep stairwells in Magaluf.

At this time of year the resort is a magnet for 12,000 youngsters from all over the UK as they celebrate the end of exams or their school days.

It has become the place to be because, they say, Ibiza is ‘too expensive’ and the once popular haunt of Newquay in Cornwall is ‘too cold’. One senior police officer on Majorca told me last week: ‘The British kids coming here are getting younger each year. They used to be in their early 20s, now they are as young as 16.

‘They come here without their parents and without any kind of supervision.

Three young Britons have died this summer in Magaluf by falling in their hotels, including Adam Atkinson, 20, left, and Charlotte Faris, 23

‘They all seem desperate to drink to excess, which is bewildering to us Spanish.
There are plenty taking cannabis and ecstasy tablets, too. We have police patrolling the Punta Ballena, but there is nothing we can do to stop them partying.’

‘Yes, Magaluf is where we all want to be,’ confirmed dark-haired Mollie Last, 18, who finished her A-levels last term. She was sitting with two friends from Swansea, Alex and Rachel, at a busy bar on the Punta Ballena at four in the morning.

She told me: ‘My mum didn’t want me to come to Magaluf. She thought it would be dangerous.’

Indeed, Mollie says there was a stabbing here on the Punta Ballena a few days ago and, in another terrifying incident, three holidaymakers were injured when they were mowed down by a car hurtling into a crowd on Sunday night.

But it’s the balcony deaths that have been the most frightening. They have involved British youngsters falling from high up in their hotels or apartment blocks, invariably in the early hours of the morning after leaving the Punta Ballena strip and often while high on drugs or after all-night drinking binges.

The holiday company Thomson specifically warns of the dangers on its website. It says: ‘Never sit or lean over the balcony rail and do not try to pass items to someone on another balcony. Never attempt to climb from one balcony to another . . . after drinking alcohol as your judgment might be affected.’


With so much drinking being done by so many young people in Magaluf, it's inevitable the Spanish police are kept busy

The bars of Magaluf contain a lethal mix of young people wanting to have a good time and very cheap and available alcohol

According to the recent Foreign Office report, many British youngsters are ‘likely to indulge in risky behaviour’ and a spokesman added: ‘A lot go wild. The sunshine, coupled with drinking cheap beer and cocktails, can land them in serious trouble.

‘At worst, they risk being brought home in a coffin.’

The balconies that are built onto almost every holiday room or apartment in Magaluf are considered particularly dangerous because of the low height of the railings.

Under local building regulations, they have to be a minimum of 1.3  metres (4ft 3in) high. But many say they should be much higher.

The Majorcan authorities are reluctant to talk about the problem, but ‘Leapy’ Lee Graham, the former British pop singer (his 1968 single Little Arrows reached No 2 in the UK singles chart) who lives in Majorca, is outspoken on the subject.


According to new figures from the Foreign Office, 10 Britons a week in Majorca and neighbouring Ibiza end up in hospital after having accidents following a drinking session

An ambulance is called for one holidaymaker, with a female friend clearly seen in distress behind him

Leapy, 73, lost a young friend, Mark, 19, in a tragic balcony incident in 2004. After having a drink or two, the British teenager swung between balconies at his holiday apartment block and dropped to the ground.

‘Since Mark’s death, I have campaigned for higher balconies. These kids don’t deserve to die just because they have had a drink on holiday. Majorca should be protecting them, as holidaymakers bringing money to the island,’ said Leapy last week

‘But my campaign has not made a shred of difference. It has fallen on deaf ears and still they are dying and being injured here.’

He spoke out just after 19-year-old Peter Southwaite, from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, became the latest balcony casualty. He was, said the Majorcan authorities, ‘lucky to be alive’, after he fell nearly 30ft from the second-floor balcony of the Magaluf Park Hotel in the early hours of last Wednesday.

Hotel staff who watched what happened said: ‘He started running along the hotel corridors, then climbed out of his balcony before falling downwards feet first ‘like a cat’.

Peter, who works for a building company, suffered serious leg injuries and was treated in hospital in Majorca’s capital, Palma.

Police say that when they tried to interview him he was too drunk to speak.


The rise of balcony deaths in Magaluf is the most worrying statistic of the lot. And 21 year old Sophie Waldron from North Yorkshire was one of many who found her 5th floor balcony unsafe

Peter Southwaite from Potters Bar, (seen here with girlfriend Jody Barlow) was one of the lucky ones. He escaped with only torn ligaments when he fell from the second floor of his hotel, late one night, while attempting to climb between balconies

Sitting with his leg in a plaster-cast the next day, he explained to me how the accident happened on his first day in Majorca.

Peter had travelled to the island with a group of 11 boys and girls. They had booked four rooms, two on the second floor and two on the ninth.

‘We had a great night out but I had a row with my girlfriend,’ he said. ‘I went to try to find her room to say sorry but went to the wrong one, so I decided to climb over the balconies to get into her room, which was next door.

‘After climbing over the railings of the first balcony I jumped the gap of a few feet to the next. I managed to grab hold of the rail at the top, but I couldn’t pull myself up. I hung there for a few moments, but I knew I was about to fall.

‘At that moment, I thought I was about to die. I knew that climbing over balconies was dangerous. I had heard about the deaths of other kids here in Magaluf this year. I was stupid.’

Peter escaped more serious injury because he landed on a flat roof. But his accident was similar to the tragedies earlier this year when three young Britons, Adam Atkinson, 20, Benjamin Harper, 28, and Charlotte Faris, 23, plunged to their deaths in Magaluf.

Charlotte, whose ambition was to be a police officer, fell 30ft head first over the balcony of her hotel room in the early hours on the first night of her holiday

This week, Charlotte’s mother, Amy, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, refuted Spanish authorities’ claims that her daughter had been drinking heavily. She insisted: ‘She wasn’t a crazy wild-child or the type to be balcony-hopping.’


(left to right) Emily Jakemen (19), John Turner (23) from Bath, Emily Donaghy (19), and Sophie Waldron (21). All three girls are from Bedale in North Yorkshire were surprised at how cheap drinks were in the resort

The end of the night in Magaluf sees the streets full of vomit and cigarette butts

She said that her daughter’s body arrived back in Britain without a post-mortem report so she fears she will never know exactly what happened.

‘We feel Charlotte has been written off as just another Brit abroad and we want to warn other families that this could happen to anyone.’

Sadly, Charlotte did not to take out travel insurance because she was only on a short break, so the family were left to find the £5,000 to bring her body back to Britain.

A luckier victim was Jake Evans, 19, who plunged 90ft down seven storeys from a balcony at the Torrenova Hotel. He landed on a sun-lounger, which saved his life by cushioning his fall.

The Liverpudlian said afterwards: ‘It’s a miracle. The balcony was only waist-high. That’s the legal height in Majorca. I believe they should be much higher or replaced by windows.’

He admitted: ‘Drink is to blame for most balcony accidents. In Magaluf, you go from bar to bar having loads of cheap bevvies. That is what we come for.

‘Later, back at the hotel, I just leant over the balcony to try and catch a cigarette lighter that someone had thrown up to me from below and I toppled over.

‘I hit several other balcony railings on the way down. I woke up at the bottom, and there was blood everywhere and my mates were screaming. I fractured my skull, mangled by right wrist, broke some fingers, cut my eyelids, broke my front tooth, had a hole in my lip and was covered with cuts and bruises.’

The clubs and bars of Punta Ballena go on till 6am, which is in turn fueling a rise in crime and injuries

Apart from the dangers of balconies, the Foreign Office now says there is a growing number of rapes of holidaymakers being reported to UK consular staff and, in the past year, these rose internationally from 115 to 127.

A survey earlier this year of 700 British youngsters in Majorca found 15 per cent had suffered sexual harassment while on holiday there, and 2.2 per cent had been raped, many while drunk.

Certainly in Magaluf last week there were persistent rumours of girl holidaymakers being raped. Many, I was told by the young revellers themselves, do not report the attacks because they are so drunk or drugged they cannot remember the next morning who has accosted them or where the incident happened.

None of this surprised me as I watched five girls from Hull, aged between 18 and 22, drunkenly walk up and down the Magaluf strip at 2am pulling up their T-shirts to bare their breasts.

Short of money, they were offering boys the chance to suck their nipples in exchange for a couple of euros.

The young Brits in Magaluf are drinking to dangerous levels, and are doing harm to themselves (and others) as a consequence of these actions

One of them, a well-spoken teenager called Jessica, who has just left school after taking her A-levels, told me: ‘It seemed a good way to get a bit of extra money for the holiday. We had all had a bit to drink. I realise you could call what we did “minor prostitution”. If our parents found out, they’d go mad.’

A few minutes later, on the Ballena strip as the sun rose, I found another group of British girls standing beside a wall, swaying and giggling.

On holiday from Bedale (the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales), they had been drinking for the best part of six hours and were about to go back to their hotel to sleep the day away.

When I asked them about the balcony accidents, Sophie Waldron, 21, said: ‘The one outside my hotel room seems very flimsy. I am 5ft 10in tall and if I am in high heels the railing only reaches to the top of my leg. I think it’s very dangerous, considering the amount of alcohol people are drinking here.

‘You can buy an entire round of vodka shots and cocktails on the Punta Ballena for less than £3. The bars even give away free T-shirts to entice you to buy the drink. At home, in our local club, the same round would cost £17.’

Magaluf may be the favourite place for young Brits, but it is serving up a dangerous holiday cocktail that will surely lead to more disasters in the future.


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