68 minutes ago Harold Shipman inquiry lawyer warns legalising assisted dying could create 'death clinics' as safeguards 'are likely to be eroded over time'

Dame Caroline Swift, the lead lawyer from the inquiry into notorious serial killer Harold Shipman, has stated her opposition to the assisted dying bill, saying it could create 'death clinics'.

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96 minutes ago Man, 42, admits conspiring to rob £120,000 of jewellery from celebrity antiques dealer Ian Towning

In the attack, Posh Pawn star Mr Towning, 76, was left bleeding after being hit on the head with a hammer at his store in London 's Chelsea.

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5 hours ago Hibs boss David Gray refuses to throw in towel and has say on defining moment

Head coach speaks on future after another defeat

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5 hours ago ITV I'm A Celebrity's Dean McCullough and Alan Halsall clash over camp rule break

The first tension of the series reared its head in tonight's episode of I'm A Celebrity, as Dean McCullough and Alan Halsall clashed over camp duties

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6 hours ago Storm Bert chaos sees UK hit by several major flood warnings – see full list

Warnings mean that flooding is expected, while alerts mean that flooding is 'possible., with the storm expected to last another 24 hours, bringing deluges of rain country-wide

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6 hours ago Gangs of black eyed ghost children terrorise Brits in UK’s most haunted woods

Terrifying reports from Britain's most haunted woods Cannock Chase warn the paranormal beings are getting braver as some locals say they have been touched by the ghouls

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6 hours ago 'Severed head tried to get in my bed with me and believe it was notorious ghost'

Veteran ghost hunter Brocarde was in bed after filming in a haunted Whitby hotel for her YouTube Channel when the head with 'bulbous eyes' tried to get under the sheets with her

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7 hours ago Homes flooded amid Storm Bert misery as River Irwell bursts its banks on edge of Greater Manchester

Several homes have flooded along the River Irwell which has burst its banks following heavy rainfall caused by Storm Bert

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7 hours ago The Observer view: Selling a piece of fruit for £4m isn’t bananas, it’s decadent. Art is better than this

The sale of Maurizio Cattelan’s work, Comedian, to a crypto entrepreneur is a grim concept that has little to do with disruptionPaulina Brandberg, the Swedish minister for gender equality and work life, has a phobia of bananas so severe, her aides check rooms for the fruit before she’s due to enter them. Like other sufferers of this most unlikely of conditions, she is triggered by the merest traces of banana: a skin mouldering in a far-off wastepaper basket; a lingering smell; the sense that until recently something bendy and yellow lurked next to the perfectly innocent apples and oranges in the bowl on that coffee table.We can only hope, then, that the minister was – trigger warning – nowhere near the big auction house news of last week, in which a banana sold for $5.2m (£4.1m) at...

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