32 minutes ago Corrie legend Charlie Lawson aka Jim McDonald boasts of wild nights out with Katie Price

Writing in his autobiography That’s Life, So It Is, the actor says he drank over a bottle of whiskey a night and took cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, LSD, speed and cannabis

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4 hours ago ‘Selfless parents gave their child’s organs to save my son. I’m in awe of them’

One year after Ralph was given a life-saving multi-organ transplant, his mother Katie Tatham tells why she is calling for more people in the UK to come forward to helpJust over a year ago, the parents of Ralph Tatham didn’t know if they would make it to Christmas, or if liver cancer would take away their three-year-old son.Now the little boy is just a few weeks away from celebrating his fifth birthday, after receiving a lifesaving multiorgan transplant to replace his liver, pancreas and intestines. Continue reading...

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9 hours ago Mega Millions lottery winner scoops huge £954m Christmas jackpot after three months with no winners

A Mega Millions player from Cottonwood, California, has won an incredible $1.22 billion jackpot as they matched all six numbers for huge Christmas lottery jackpot win

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18 hours ago Boxer Paul Bamba dies aged 35... just six days after his final fight and weeks after signing with Ne

His death comes just six days after his last fight - a win over Rogelio Medina Luna in New Jersey that saw him named the WBA Gold Cruiserweight world champion.

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49 minutes ago ‘Create our own history’: Alisson targets title to mark new Liverpool era

The Liverpool goalkeeper expected ‘hard work’ for Arne Slot but flying start to season means their end goal is clearIf 2024 included the final chapter of Jürgen Klopp at Liverpool, the year may yet be recalled as the start of something else special. It was on 26 January that devastated fans learned one of the best-kept football secrets of modern times, that Klopp could give no more. In late December, a renewed team, more patient in style, far less exuberant yet just as potent, already threatens to emulate Klopp’s finest achievements.The bond between Klopp and former players remains firm. When Curtis Jones made his 100th Premier League appearance against Leicester on Boxing Day, he realised only because his former manager had congratulated him on the milestone. When Klopp returns to public life next week as head of global football for the Red Bull conglomerate, the sight of him in the stands, talking to the media, will take some getting used to. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Sheffield’s museums show how art comes to life when it is connected to place | Rowan Moore

Institutions in and around the city combine great works with humdrum relics of local life, to fantastic effectI’ve been living partly in Sheffield for the past month or so, which has given me the chance to catch up on some of the great monuments of industry and power in and near the city – the model miners’ village and the fantastical Jacobean castle in Bolsover, the stately home of Wentworth Woodhouse with its battleship-length Palladian facade, the buildings of the subtle modernist Peter Womersley in Huddersfield.Also the Weston Park Museum in Sheffield and the Derby Museum and Art Gallery, both of which combine world-class art with humdrum relics of local life. In one, a large John Singer Sargent portrait of three young Yorkshire women shares the premises with the plastic car roof sign of a 1970s driving school. In the other, there is a gallery full of the illuminated tableaux of science and humanity by Joseph Wright of Derby and another room with a collection of stuffed animals,...

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15 hours ago Revealed: How doctors struck off in Britain for permanently disfiguring patients, sexual assault and financial dishonesty are allowed to continue practising medicine

Surgeons who have committed serious misconduct, sometimes ending in death and life-changing injuries for patients, are continuing to operate on unsuspecting patients around the world.

Science

49 minutes ago A ceramicist’s personal take on commemorative blue plaques – in pictures

For more than 25 years, Horace Lindezey has been making art at Venture Arts, a Manchester-based studio working with learning disabled artists. In his ever-growing collection of ceramic blue plaques, created with the assistance of ceramicist Caroline Tattersall, he celebrates people who have meant something to him – family members, friends, TV personalities and musicians – focusing on life’s central milestones: births, marriages and deaths. “I feel happy with making the plaques,” says Lindezey. “I roll the clay on to the mould, paint it white, then I put the letters on it. I like showing them in exhibitions, in Blackburn and London. I like to see them out there – they are nice memories of some people that have died.”A limited edition book of The Blue Plaques (£25), signed by the artist, is available at venturearts.org Continue reading...

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5 hours ago My family's sordid secret lay undiscovered for 70 years... then an old scrap of newspaper changed EVERYTHING

Karen Lawler, 64, was stunned to discover that her mother, Patricia Hagan, was just 14 when she discovered her mother, Mary, had been murdered by her 'lover' and lodger Albert in 1953.

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10 hours ago ‘The impact has been out of this world’: the stranger who gave away a £100,000 inheritance to his neighbours

When David Clarke’s mother died, it took him 10 years to work out what to do with the money she left him. This year, a panel of locals in Liverpool made the decision for himIt was a quiet act of generosity that briefly captured the news agenda: David Clarke, a researcher in Liverpool, made the extraordinary decision to give away the £100,000 he had inherited from his late mother a decade ago. But instead of donating it to one cause, Clarke did something radical. He wrote to 600 addresses in the L8 postcode, where he lives, inviting people to nominate where the money should go.Clarke lost his mother in a cycling accident. “Her death was a devastating shock to me,” he says. “She had a huge social conscience and was interested in the world and how it worked – a lot of my moral framework comes from her. I don’t believe in holding on to inherited wealth, so I spent a long time thinking about what to do with the money.” Clarke wanted to do something that would speak to his mother’s values...

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36 hours ago UFC, boxing and golf: what is Donald Trump’s relationship with sport? – podcast

The US president-elect’s ties with the Ultimate Fighting Championship and boxing, as well as World Wrestling Entertainment, might tell us about the kinds of sport he appreciates. But then there’s golf As the US prepares to host the World Cup and the Olympics during Trump’s presidency, Jonathan Freedland and Karim Zidan walk through his history with sport to see if it explains more about himArchive: BBC, WWE, Fox 9 Minneapolis, NBC 10 Philadelphia, PBS Newshour, TMZ, MSNBC Continue reading...

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50 minutes ago 'Remarkable' Olivia Hussey who has died aged 73 faced rape, beatings, infidelity and cancer after shooting to fame at just 15 as Zeffirelli's Juliet

Olivia Hussey - who rose to fame starring in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film Romeo And Juliet - died at the age of 73 on Friday, December 27, after a successful but tumultuous life.

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20 hours ago Could a longevity pill for dogs be the secret to a longer life for humans? Scientists think so

Researchers are developing new drugs that could extend a dog's live by one to three years. Eventually, they could be used to improve human longevity too, early results suggest.

Science

74 minutes ago Emmerdale's Kelvin Fletcher says he knows he's 'valued' after brief split from wife

Former Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher has admitted he knows his work and family is valued as he ditched the ITV soap for a new life in the country with his wife and kids

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11 hours ago House of the Dragon actor: 'leaving London for Brighton has been really good for my mental health.'

House of the Dragon actor Sam Wilson found his life and career began to flourish when he left the capital

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16 hours ago Jennifer Lopez bundles up in a puffer coat on winter shopping spree with Emme, 16, in Aspen

Jennifer Lopez was every inch the doting mother while enjoying a lavish jewelry shopping spree with her 16-year-old child Emme Maribel Muñiz in Aspen, Colorado.

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52 minutes ago Mother was caught escaping to Canada after 'trying to strangle daughter, 17, in an honor killing'

Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, was charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, and assault after the attack on October 18, alongside her husband Ihsan Ali, 44, in Lacey, Washington.

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33 hours ago Embarrassing symptom that led to fitness trainer being diagnosed with cancer at just 25

Fitness trainer Dilan Patel recalled how in his mid-20s he was living a normal life for someone his age, working hard and hanging out with friends with no idea he had a potential cancer symptom.

Science

1 hour ago Caroline Flack's heartbroken friends address mum's questions over day she took her own life

Caroline Flack's friends are said to be 'devastated' after the late Love Island presenter's mum asked why her friends left her alone on the night she died

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11 hours ago Christmas leftovers meet Italian flair: Three recipes to reinvent festive staples

Christmas meets Italian flair in these recipes that turn festive leftovers into bold, satisfying dishes. From turkey meatballs to cacciatore-style chicken, here’s how to reinvent your festive staples with ease

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19 hours ago Labour's £400 tax hit on family holidays: Passengers to be hit with highest ever levies on flights in multi

Analysis shows air fare levies for a family of four to popular destinations such as Walt Disney World in Florida will surge above £400 for the first time after the hike.

Economics

77 minutes ago The killer drivers who have claimed the lives of others on Welsh roads

Here is a round up of the defendants who have been convicted of causing death by dangerous and careless driving in 2024.

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2 hours ago ‘They’re stuck’: Cape Cod seeing more whale, turtle and dolphin strandings

Changing tides have led to an increase of beached marine life, whom rescuers scramble to save before they dieWhile Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is known as a popular vacation destination in the north-east US, it has built a reputation for an entirely different reason this year: animal strandings.Dolphins, whales, sea lions and turtles are turning up in large numbers on the beaches of the famous peninsula in a phenomenon that has experts scrambling to execute more rescue operations than ever before. The cause? Changing tides. Continue reading...

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22 hours ago Moo Deng’s zoo habitat set for makeover after donation from crypto billionaire

‘I very much look forward to seeing Moo Deng live long and prosper,’ crypto billionaire says

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22 hours ago US to send $1.25 billion in weapons to Ukraine, in push to get aid out before leaving office

U.S. officials say the United States is expected to announce it will send another $1.25 billion in military assistance to Ukraine

Economics

99 minutes ago Tributes pour in as champion boxer dies aged 35 after haunting last Instagram post

Boxer, Paul Bamba who was managed by singer Ne-Yo, had just won gold at his last fight six days before his death, and tributes are pouring in from friends and fans

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4 hours ago Emmerdale star Kelvin Fletcher says he knows small family farm is ‘valued’

The actor embarked on a new life in the country with his wife Liz and their four young children after buying a 120-acre farm in the Peak District.

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24 hours ago Moment Brazilian lawmaker is assassinated while talking to family outside his home

Gunmen executed Brazilian councilman Marcos Araújo, 58, and wounded his mother-in-law, Marina Maia, 75, in an attack in the northeastern city of Tabuleiro do Norte on Thursday.

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27 hours ago Is ‘doom spending’ draining your money? How to fix your financial habits in 2025

Former financial ‘hot mess’ Emma Edwards explores how to rest your habits in her new book, Good With Money

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1 hour ago MasterChef's John Torode says 'it really tears the family apart' in rare admission with wife

John Torode and Lisa Faulkner returned to ITV this weekend for a festive special of their cooking show John and Lisa's Weekend Kitchen - and the couple opened up on family life

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5 hours ago Christine McGuinness reveals her relationship status and opens up on how she successfully co

The model, 36, sat down with OK! Magazine and lifted the lid on what is going on in her life as we head into 2025. Christine split from Paddy McGuinness in 2021 after a decade of marriage.

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29 hours ago My family call it Old Lady Clubbing, but my giddy ‘nights out’ have lit up a dismal 2024 | Gaby Hinsliff

Dance till you drop, then home by 10pm – daytime events offer a glorious escape for those of us bogged down by responsibilityLast Saturday night, I went clubbing with friends. Once upon a time, this wouldn’t have been a remotely odd sentence to type, because it was what I did pretty much every weekend. But a lot has changed since then – let’s just say that in my peak raving years there was a Labour government in power, only it was actually popular – and like most people whose happy place was once on the dancefloor, inevitably with time comes the feeling that you no longer belong. Deep down, you still come to life when the bassline kicks in. But you morph from hardened raver to the kind of person who’s always up for dancing at parties and weddings, and then finally into the kind of person whose friends aren’t getting married any more and who spends their Saturday nights giving their children lifts to parties. So eventually you tell yourself sadly that those days are over now, and tha...

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32 hours ago Sainsbury's shopper gobsmacked after bagging £70 turkey for wild price

A bargain hunter has shared their life hack to get a turkey for a fraction of the price from your local supermarket - but you'd have to celebrate after Christmas Day

Economics

1 hour ago Bubbly teenager who dreamed of becoming a DJ dies weeks after his 18th birthday

His mother said that Mason could 'light up' anyone's day.

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5 hours ago People call my home 'disgusting' and 'horrible' but I don't care I love Barbie and pink so much

EXCLUSIVE: Mother-of-five, Jamie Lee Green, 42, from Essex has hit back at critics at critics who have blasted her Barbie dreamhouse as, 'disgusting' and 'totally ridiculous'.

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30 hours ago Hobbit home boom in New Zealand: Nation embraces tiny house living amid affordable housing crisis where average home price is $1m

Tiny houses - small, functional dwellings with floor spaces of up to 60 square metres - are becoming increasing popular among families and single occupiers.

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34 hours ago John Lewis shoppers race to buy designer £10 Radley bag before it sells out

"Light and neat but strong and easy to fold away. Carries quite a good amount too!"

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2 hours ago Families in shock as 'mother and son' die in Christmas tragedy following incident at their home

A man in his 60s and a woman in her 80s, understood to be mother and son, have both died

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5 hours ago This is how we do it: ‘I struggle to fully enjoy sex because I’m so conscious of what I look like’

Alexandra and Jake contend with insecurities, but are slowly discovering sexual intimacyHow do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymouslyWhen we’re doing missionary it’s a lot easier, but if I’m on top I feel as if there’s nowhere to hide Continue reading...

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31 hours ago Homes Under the Hammer star Martin Roberts unsure ‘how much time’ he’s got left to live

Roberts was told he had ‘hours to live’ before undergoing emergency heart surgery

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2 hours ago Kirsty Carless, 33, is charged with Christmas Day murder of man stabbed to death in his home

Louis Price was knifed to death in his home where he lived with his parents in the quiet Staffordshire village of Norton Canes.

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6 hours ago Andy Carroll looks loved up with Lou Teasdale in first Christmas together after marriage split

Footballer Andy Carroll has spent his first Christmas with new girlfriend Lou Teasdale after his separation from wife, TOWIE star Billi Mucklow

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2 hours ago Former Catholic priest dies less than two weeks after being sentenced to life in prison for rape

The survivor of Lawrence Hecker’s abuse said he feels ‘vindicated’ by the former priest’s death

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7 hours ago Bride slammed by groom's family for not honouring his ex's 'simple' request

A woman has been left fuming after her fiancé's ex-girlfriend made a request for their wedding day - and his family are all on the ex's side, calling the bride-to-be 'oversensitive'

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2 hours ago Kelsey Parker hails boyfriend for 'bringing her back to life' after Tom's death

Kelsey Parker has shared her delight at sharing Christmas with her new partner, two years after the death of her husband, The Wanted's Tom Parker

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8 hours ago India bids goodbye to former prime minister Manmohan Singh in state funeral

India announced a seven-day mourning period and cancelled all cultural and entertainment events in the coming week

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3 hours ago How I beat overwhelm: Tracking my heart rate left me feeling like a frustrated failure

Biofeedback devices promised a whole new world of mental and physical harmony. They did change my life, but not in the way I’d hopedI love to run, but ask me about my running times or distances and I will have no idea. For me, running is about squeezing exercise into a busy schedule, clearing my head and being in nature. I don’t need to measure it.But unfortunately I am not immune to the oh-so-pleasing dopamine injection of unboxing a new bit of wearable tech, personalising the app for hours and thinking this might just change my life – the new, calmer, fitter, stronger, smarter me dangling tantalisingly within reach. One such scenario occurred after researching the importance of human connection on mental and physical health: less stress, less inflammation, less illness. Human connection, I learned, can stimulate and be facilitated by the vagus nerve – a primitive part of the nervous system. Continue reading...

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9 hours ago MY LIFE IN DRINKS: Katie Melua on a childhood taste for tarragon soda, her favourite DIY mocktail and why she finds booze a big snore

The singer, 40, tells Scarlett Dargan about a childhood taste for tarragon soda, her favourite DIY mocktail and why she finds booze a big snore

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3 hours ago Mother and son at centre of double tragedy may have been killed by carbon monoxide poisoning

An investigation in ongoing following an incident at a property in Rochdale

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9 hours ago On the towering cliffs, my family found a sanctuary. It still pulls me back today | Kat Lister

My grandmother called it The Haven – a shack perched high above the beach. Years later, another special woman rekindled my love of that placeIn our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at homeIn the 18th century, physicians went looking for a nostalgia bone, as though a person’s yearning for a past time or place could be assigned to a chunk of tissue. But for me, writing in the 21st, the stimulus can be found not in the body I’m in, but the memories I carry. And in particular, as I edge further into my 40s, the memories of coastland I visited in the 1980s: a four-mile stretch in south-east Cornwall where my family and I summered each year with my grandmother.As a child, I would zigzag down the narrow cliff path with wild abandon, my mother nervously calling out to me as I sprinted down to the white sand below. This is where the roots of so many of my happy memories can be found. Not simply in the towering cliffs themselves, bu...

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4 hours ago YouTuber's harrowing last words revealed as his mother details devastating survival challenge

Storm De Beul, 22, was a well-known YouTuber who tragically died after being caught in a snowstorm while camping in the wilderness in Lapland and documented his final hours

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10 hours ago The vitamin con: Do supplements do anything or are we all being scammed?

As we all embark on yet another ‘New Year, New You’ journey, Helen Coffey asks the experts whether supplements are more silver bullet or placebo when it comes to improving our health

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5 hours ago Woman, 33, is charged with Christmas Day murder of man stabbed to death in his home

Louis Price was knifed to death in his home where he lived with his parents in the quiet Staffordshire village of Norton Canes.

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10 hours ago That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz by Malachy Tallack review – the joys of country music

A shy man leads a solitary existence until a young girl – and a cat – inveigle their way into his apparently contented life in this big-hearted taleAll Jack Paton ever wanted was to be a famous country singer, but somehow it never happened. Certainly, the odds were stacked against him: cripplingly shy, no self-confidence. And although he considers it “a landscape of country music”, it can’t have helped matters that he was born in one of the more windswept corners of Shetland, far from Texas or Tennessee, and has remained there ever since, keeping his dreams to himself.That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz, Malachy Tallack’s second novel, follows Jack, now approaching his 63rd birthday, as he spends his days pottering about in the cottage he has lived in since he was a child, listening to music, playing guitar and thinking of the past. The narrative flicks between Jack in the present, as he begins to question his life choices, and his parents, Sonny and Kathleen, decades earli...

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5 hours ago Horrifying moment laughing construction worker films bear charging towards him... before the animal kills three men and leaves two others critically wounded

The mood at the site on Sakhalin Island, Russia suddenly took a turn as from behind a ledge, a mother bear slowly appeared with another cub in tow.

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10 hours ago Former world’s tallest man calls for more compassion for vulnerable in UK

Hussain Bisad, who has had health problems, says government should do more for people with physical or mental illnessWhen Hussain Bisad first settled in north London as an asylum seeker after fleeing from war in Somalia 23 years ago, he did so in the hope of a new and more settled life. Little did he know that shortly after arriving he would be at the centre of the media spotlight, not for his story of escaping conflict but for something altogether different: his height.Bisad had been in the UK for five months when Guinness World Records measured his height as 2.3 metres (7ft 6.5in), making him then the world’s tallest living man. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Banged up abroad for the stupidest things! Meet the Brits serving hard time in foreign hell hole jails for idiotic crimes like owning a vape and 'leaving cocaine in their passport'

Every year, countless Brits find themselves on the wrong end of the law whilst on their holidays, and for some of them the consequences can be life changing in the extreme.

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10 hours ago Christine McGuinness gives relationship update after heartbreaking split from Paddy

EXCLUSIVE: Christine McGuinness has opened up about her love life and her romance goals – following her heartbreaking split from husband Paddy McGuinness in 2022

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5 hours ago Tributes paid to model and actress Dayle Haddon, 76, after tragic death from carbon monoxide poisoning

Investigation to follow after Disney actress found dead

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11 hours ago Evan Dando: ‘I wanted to try heroin because of William Burroughs and Keith Richards’

Arguably the most gifted melodicist of his generation, Dando was the bronzed, blond pin-up boy of Nineties indie rock – before he threw himself heartily and disastrously into a life of sex and drugs. Now two years clean, he catches up with Michael Hann on what he’s been up to since

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6 hours ago Boy and two adults bailed after girl, seven, injured in quad bike crash

The girl was left with life-changing injuries after the quad bike she was on crashed into a telegraph pole on Boxing Day.

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12 hours ago Senior royal’s touching link to Princess Diana revealed ahead of huge life milestone

The Duchess of Edinburgh has travelled to some of world's most war-torn and traumatised areas to raise awareness of important causes, much like the late Princess Diana

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6 hours ago Keir Starmer's brother Nick's cause of death is revealed after PM who supported 60

The grieving Prime Minister has opened up about how his beloved brother, Nick Starmer, was told he had inoperable lung cancer .

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