12 h. ago Son found mum drowned in floods 'after fire service did not recheck her home'

Paul Gilbert discovered his 83-year-old mum had died in flooding caused by Storm Babet after firefighters did not recheck her property in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, an inquest heard

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14 h. ago Woman, 83, was found drowned in Storm Babet floodwater by her son after fire service failed to check in on her home, inquest hears

Maureen Gilbert, who was housebound, was discovered floating in the water by her son Paul Gilbert at her home in Chesterfield, Derbyshire after the River Rother burst its banks.

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21 h. ago Police search for man's head after decapitated corpse found in tiger mauling

Krishna Prasad Sharma, 55, was found dead in Nepal's Madhesh province and is thought to have been killed by a tiger that bit his head off after he ventured into a forest

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21 h. ago 'Vulnerable' disabled boy, 10, fell ill at school and died after ingesting cocaine, inquest hears

Isaac Mansfield, 10, died after being rushed to Newham Hospital having become unwell at the John F Kennedy Special School, Stratford. His death was first judged to be from natural causes.

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35 h. ago Housebound grandmother, 83, drowned in her own living room when river burst its banks and unleashed 5ft torrent during Storm Babet, inquest hears

Maureen Gilbert was found by her son Paul 'floating in the water' in her home in Derbyshire on the morning of October 21.

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36 h. ago No flood defences protecting the home of trapped grandmother, 83, who drowned during Storm Babet, inquest hears

Maureen Gilbert was found by her son Paul 'floating in the water' in her home in Derbyshire on the morning of October 21.

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37 h. ago 'Vulnerable' disabled boy, 10, fell ill at school and died after ingesting cocaine at school, inquest hears

Isaac Mansfield, 10, died after being rushed to Newham Hospital having become unwell at the John F Kennedy Special School, Stratford. His death was first judged to be from natural causes.

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38 h. ago Heartbroken head teacher pays tribute to former pupils killed in Scots road crash

Fergus Ward, Lewis Knox and Jordan Cameron passed away following the accident on the A830 between Mallaig and Arisaig.

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40 h. ago No flood defences protecting home of pensioner who drowned, inquest hears

Maureen Gilbert, 83, drowned when her home flooded during Storm Babet nearly two years ago.

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4 d. ago 'Cherished' woman, 32, was found dead between two cars with stab wounds, inquest hears

Nirodha Niwunhella, 32, died after being 'seriously injured' on a road in a suburb of Cardiff, on August 21.

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5 d. ago Gran locked in Spanish cell for 22 hours after losing passport

Pam Tweedale, 77, flew to Madrid for a trip of a lifetime with family, but after landing with a missing passport and being detained for 22 hours, she was forced to fly back home to the UK

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5 d. ago Brit nan 'locked in jail with men for 22 hours' after losing passport on plane

Pam Tweedale, 77, flew to Madrid for a trip of a lifetime with family, but after landing with a missing passport and being detained for 22 hours, she was forced to fly back home to the UK

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5 d. ago Haplessly unprepared British TikToker boasts of surviving 18 days trapped in Amazon rainforest because he 'didn't realise' it was wet season

Haplessly unprepared Callan Bole was given a bed, drinks and football on the TV by kindly locals in a remote indigenous town in Brazil.

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5 d. ago British rider Sarah Yorke, 37, died after getting trapped underneath horse when it failed to jump a fence and landed on top of her, inquest hears

Primary school teacher Sarah Jayne Yorke, 37, died from chest and abdominal injuries following the horrific accident at the horse trials in Northamptonshire on August 8.

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5 d. ago British TikToker got trapped in the Amazon rainforest for 18 days because he 'didn't realise' it was the wet season

Callan Bole's trip of a lifetime to the Amazon turned into a nightmare when he was left isolated in a remote indigenous village after his boat broke.

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5 d. ago Student who won Stormzy scholarship to Cambridge found dead in halls

A Stormzy scholar to Cambridge University was found dead earlier this year by a member off staff at Downing College Cambridge and an inquest hearing has since taken place

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6 d. ago Disgraced Metropolitan Police detective 'killed himself in prison' weeks after his wife was found dead in Barbados hotel room, inquest hears

Former Detective Inspector Warren Arter, 54, tried to kill himself in the Caribbean but was arrested and brought back to the UK on 'non homicide charges.'

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6 d. ago Stormzy scholar, 23, found dead in Cambridge University halls after taking antidepressants, inquest hears

Jordan Keyton, 23, had joined Downing College Cambridge in October 2019 to study chemistry, the inquest records.

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