9 h. ago Derby runner dies in ‘freak accident’ days before scheduled return to action at Ayr

Stanhope Gardens finished fifth in the Epsom Classic in June and had entries in both the Champion Stakes and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe

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10 h. ago Lawyer who brought Hamas case claims he was unlawfully detained by police

Fahad Ansari launches legal action against UK home secretary after his phone was seized at Holyhead portA lawyer who filed Hamas’s challenge to proscription claims he was unlawfully detained under the Terrorism Act, with his phone containing legally privileged information examined because of his client.Fahad Ansari, who issued legal proceedings on Wednesday against the home secretary and the chief constable of north Wales police, was stopped by officers at the port of Holyhead on 6 August as he returned from a family holiday in Ireland with his wife and four children. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Horror as dad, 37, left in coma after freak incident on Ibiza family holiday

David Hayes spent several weeks in an induced coma and is now in intensive care

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18 h. ago Brit dad paralysed after horror accident on Ibiza holiday hoping for a 'miracle'

David Hayes, 37, was left paralysed after a freak accident on a family holiday in Ibiza. The dad-of-two spent several weeks in an induced coma after snapping his spine while diving into the sea

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18 h. ago Dad paralysed after diving into sea during family holiday in Ibiza

David Hayes spent several weeks in an induced coma after the freak accident.

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19 h. ago Brit dad left paralysed after freak accident during family holiday in Ibiza

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT: David Hayes broke his vertebra when he attempted to dive into the sea in Ibiza, and the father of two spent several weeks in an induced coma in a Spanish hospital

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37 h. ago Moment missing cockapoo jumps into owner's arms after she is found after a week on the loose

John Stringer, 50, rushed home from a family holiday in Turkey after he found out his two-year-old cockapoo Molly ran away from his elderly mother's cottage in Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire.

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39 h. ago Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: ‘Artists are liars who just make things up – but we reveal a lot’

The internationally feted choreographer has worked with pop megastars, a sculptor and the monks of the Shaolin Temple. Now he is tackling the cultural divisions and colonial legacy of his homelandSidi Larbi Cherkaoui is almost offended when I suggest he’s a busy man. “When people tell me, ‘You do so much,’ I cringe,” says the artistic director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève – the largest stage in Switzerland, with its ballet and opera companies – who runs his own company Eastman in his native city of Antwerp. He is also the creator of contemporary dance-theatre productions and a choreographer for film (Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina and Cyrano), musicals (Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill), pop (Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Madonna) and plenty more.This autumn alone, nine different works of Cherkaoui’s are being performed around the world, including An Accident/A Life, a collaboration with performer Marc Brew, about the car accident that left Brew paralysed from the neck down – “It’s maybe t...

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58 h. ago Body of paralysed woman left to rot on parents' sofa for 12 YEARS in horrifying discovery

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: In a story that would haunt officers, Lacey Ellen Fletcher "rotted in her own body" following severe neglect by her parents, with her maggot ridden remains found fused to the family sofa

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3 d. ago Ryan Reynolds donates £10,000 to British girl, 13, with aggressive heart cancer 'who dreams of visiting New York'

Lexi, 13, from Wrexham, North East Wales, was diagnosed with the disease just weeks after returning from a 'carefree and happy' holiday with her family this June.

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4 d. ago Family's fury as cops insist Brit dad's mysterious Benidorm death was 'accident'

Nathan Osman, 30, from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cyon Taf, went to Benidorm with friends but he had been there less than a day when his body was found at the foot of a cliff on the outskirts of the city

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4 d. ago Men killed in horror 'freak glass accident' at a football ground named

Yasir Ali and Muhammad Zafar died as they worked to remove the glass from a HGV at a car park at Hitchin Football Club in Hertfordshire, with locals saying there are still questions over the incident

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5 d. ago Woman shares incredible transformation after losing entire forehead in freak accident

Grainne Kealy was involved in a terrifying accident when her boyfriend's car lost control on an icy road and crashed into a wall.

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5 d. ago Woman who lost her entire FOREHEAD in freak accident shares incredible transformation

Grainne Kealy, from Ireland, was involved in a terrifying car accident that saw her knees smash into her own face, breaking every bone in her face, leaving her with no forehead

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6 d. ago Pictured: Men killed in 'freak glass accident' when they became trapped beneath a large panel while unloading it at a football ground

Yasir Ali (pictured) and Muhammad Zafar - pictured here for the first time - died suddenly on Saturday afternoon at Hitchin Football Club in Hertfordshire.

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6 d. ago 'We boarded world's most beautiful train in Scotland and one thing floored us'

While on holiday, a family booked on to the Jacobite Train and shared what it's really like to go and see it, saying it's so important that you get to the car park early

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6 d. ago Woman who lost her entire FOREHEAD in freak car accident reveals her astonishing transformation 19 years later after cutting

Grainne Kealy, from Laois in Ireland, broke every bone in her face when her car lost control going over ice and crashed into a wall in the town of Borris-in-Ossory in December 2006.

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6 d. ago Critically ill Brit nan stuck in Turkey as there's 'no hospital beds' back home

Gill Taylor-Scarth, 56, had just lost her husband Kevin when she was diagnosed with a brain tumour - but she decided to go on a big family holiday to Turkey which her hubby had organised

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6 d. ago Gran stuck in Turkey hospital after being told 'no UK beds available'

Gill Taylor-Scarth, 56, from Formby, flew to Hisaronu on August 15 for what was meant to be a "big family holiday" - but she has been left fighting for her life in a Turkish hospital.

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6 d. ago Critically ill Brit gran can't leave Turkey as UK hospital has run out of beds

Gill Taylor, 56, was just weeks into her holiday in Hisaronu, Turkey, when she fell critically ill. Her family say they have been told she cannot return to the UK because there are "no hospital beds" available for her

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