9 hours ago Paignton 'acid' attack: Man fighting for life after ‘corrosive substance’ thrown in seaside town

Devon and Cornwall Police said in a statement that five people have been arrested in connection with the incident in Paignton, Devon, on a selection of different charges

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19 hours ago Woman, 40, fighting for her life and schoolboy seriously injured after five

Police are looking for a driver, believed to have fled the scene, after the collision on the A14 near Newmarket on Friday night.

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19 hours ago British man, 69, fighting for his life after being struck by a tram while on holiday in Germany

Richard Bridgman, 69, was knocked down while trying to cross a road in the German city of Dusseldorf on Friday night.

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28 hours ago ‘I feel guilty and angry’: the captain turned campaigner trying to keep cruise ships at bay

After spending most of his life on commercial vessels, Guillaume Picard is now fighting to keep these vast liners out of the French port of MarseilleFew people know the sea better than Guillaume Picard. He grew up on a boat moored in the port of Hyères in southern France after his parents left 1960s Paris. His first job was on a sailing boat. Then he spent 30 years in the merchant navy before becoming a commercial captain, ferrying tourists and containers across the Mediterranean for more than two decades.Now aged 65, his grey hair in a ponytail, it is with no small note of sadness that he says, increasingly, it is the land that calls him. “To be completely honest, I want to go to sea less and less,” he says. “I go hiking a lot in the mountains with my wife, and we’ve found an environme...

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29 hours ago Sarah Hyland once 'contemplated' taking her life as she battled mystery illness

Modern Family icon Sarah Hyland was left fighting for her life after she discovered she had a hidden health condition - but the impact on her led her to think of the worst possible outcome

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