7 h. ago April Jones' father dies without ever finding his daughter's body

April Jones was just five years old when she was abducted near the family home in Machynlleth in 2012

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7 h. ago April Jones: A timeline of her final moments revisited as her father dies

 April Jones was abducted and killed at the age of five and now her father has passed away

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8 h. ago Paul Jones: Tributes as father of murdered schoolgirl April Jones dies suddenly

Paul Jones suffered memory loss after contracting the brain condition encephalitis in 2018 and had to learn for a second time of his daughter’s death

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3 d. ago The kindness of strangers: I was homeless and addicted to heroin. Joanne saved my life

She said, ‘Come and stay at my house. I’ll look after you and we’re going to get you into rehab’Read more in the Kindness of strangers seriesBy the time I was 19, my life had spiralled out of control – I was homeless and destitute, my infant son was living with my abusive mother and I was addicted to heroin. I’d had a pretty dodgy childhood; my father died when I was very young and I was left with my mother. At 16, already very traumatised by what I’d experienced at home, I ran away and ended up living in Sydney. It was 1996.I was pretty much living with whoever I could take drugs with at the time, until that situation became unstable, and then I would go somewhere else. I wound up with this guy I met using. Together we came up with this grand plan to end our lives because we were both in hopeless situations. That didn’t work, obviously. He ended up in intensive care in a very bad way and I ended up in the psych ward, with nowhere else to go.In Australia, Lifeline offers 24/7 crisis...

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6 d. ago BBC's Sophie Raworth heartbreak as father dies days before VE Day coverage

BBC presenter Sophie Raworth has been at the helm of the broadcaster's VE Day coverage this week.

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6 d. ago Baby died at just three days old after nurses 'laughed off' mum's plea for C

Emmy Russo died in her father Dan's arms in hospital, with mum Bryony beside them. The couple, from Harlow, Essex, said they were 'completely broken' by their loss.

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9 d. ago Dad 'savagely beaten to death by friend' as he tried to defend daughter

Louis Serbeck, who was praised as being a devoted father and grandfather, died after he was allegedly savagely beaten by his friend since high school and the pal's son

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1 week ago 'My son died in my arms, but we want to keep his memory alive'

Kev and Nikki Cooper's baby boy Stanley died in his father's arms at five-and-a-half-weeks-old

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2 w. ago Bodybuilder dad drove to teen's home to confront him about 'attack' on daughter...then things went horribly wrong

Louis "Gus" Serbeck, 54, died defending his daughter Brooke against her alleged attacker and his father, Eric Hannah, 54. Hannah and his son face criminal charges related to Serbeck's death.

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2 w. ago My father poured boiling water on my dog and threw me across the room. He was a drunk

Dr Charlotte Proudman remembers the last time she saw her father. It isn't a happy memory. Then he died a week after her fourth birthday - freeing her from what would have been a life of 'sheer hell'.

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2 w. ago Family speaks out after Air Force veteran, 62, was ‘left to die by American Airlines crew who allowed entire plane to deboard before he got help’

Exclusive: “They never even gave him a chance,” Kyle Cannon said of his late father, John William Cannon, who died after American Airlines crew allegedly delayed calling for help until after the entire plane had disembarked

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2 w. ago Family of Air Force vet ‘left to die by American Airlines crew’ says ‘traumatized’ medics pushed them to sue after seeing how he was treated

Exclusive: “They never even gave him a chance,” Kyle Cannon said of his late father, John William Cannon, who died after American Airlines crew allegedly delayed calling for help until after the entire plane had disembarked

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2 w. ago Father of boy, 14, killed in crash on the M6 on Easter weekend is charged over his death

Ryan Liam Morgan, 14, from Morecambe, died on April 20 after the Peugeot van which his father was driving crashed into a tree between junctions 34 and 33 southbound near to University Hill.

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2 w. ago I used to laugh at my Chilean father’s paranoia about life in the US – not any more

Having fled here from Chile after Pinochet seized power in 1973 my father feared the state’s arbitrary power to turn lives upside down. His outlook has never felt more relevant“Don’t open the door to nobody,” my father warned throughout my childhood – right up until the day he died. He trusted no politicians, no organized religion and definitely no strangers knocking unannounced.Lately, his words echo louder than ever. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Virginia Giuffre's father's haunting message to her just weeks before she died by suicide

The heartbroken father of Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre begged his daughter to 'hang on' after she was involved in a car crash just weeks before she died by suicide.

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2 w. ago 'Distraught' father, 24, took his own life after being left so heartbroken by the sudden death of his 13

Stuart Nineham, 24, was found dead in Southampton, Hampshire, in April 2024, three months after the death of his 'beautiful' newborn Roman on January 6.

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3 w. ago Returned to the house of the Father: After his final blessing on Easter Sunday, the frail Pope dies of a stroke. Now a battle for the Catholic Church's future begins

As the world united in mourning, manoeuvring began in Rome over the contest to shape the Church over the next decade and guide its billion-plus adherents.

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3 w. ago RUSSELL MYERS: 'King Charles had "deep affection and respect" for Pope Francis'

King Charles met Pope Francis twice as Prince of Wales, and together with Queen Camilla shared a “very significant and special” secret meeting with the Holy Father less than a fortnight before he died

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3 w. ago Teenage boy, 14, dies in M6 crash with father seriously injured

The boy was a passenger in a van that came off the M6 and crashed into a tree on Easter Sunday

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3 w. ago In brief: The Homemade God; Mythica; There Are Rivers in the Sky – review

Long-buried truths leave siblings reeling when their father dies; a fascinating reclamation of Homer’s forgotten women; and still waters run deep in a centuries-spanning novelRachel JoyceDoubleday, £20, pp384 Continue reading...

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