IT was the most damning confession in English casebook history - "Killed a young girl. It was fine and hot." The extraordinarily dismissive statement surrounding the horrific killing of Fanny Adams ...

12:46, Mon, Nov 3, 2025 Updated: 13:07, Mon, Nov 3, 2025 The British slang "Sweet Fanny Adams" – shortened to "sweet FA" – means nothing at all, a casual dismissal of worthlessness. Its origin is the ...

We invite it into our homes each night on television and we go to sleep with it on the bedside table between the covers of a paperback. Murder is elevated above all other offences in our courts. Yet ...

Gatlinburg’s long-running Sweet Fanny Adams Theatre earlier this week smelled as if someone had hosted a barbecue on its stage. Fire ash dusted its box office and front lobby. But the theater at 461 ...

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