12 h. ago ‘They were inseparable’: family’s anguish at wait to bring Air India victims home

Relatives of Pooja and Harshit Patel, who were visiting from Leicester, want to cremate them together but have faced painful wait for identificationIn the ramshackle, cramped lanes of Ambika Nagar in the Indian city of Gujarat, everyone spoke of Pooja and Harshit Patel with pride. The couple had done what none of their relatives or neighbours had managed to achieve before; they had moved abroad, settling among the thriving Gujarati diaspora community in the British city of Leicester.Their lives in Leicester, where the couple had moved so Pooja could complete her business masters degree – later getting a job at Amazon alongside Harshit – seemed unimaginably glamorous to their relatives and close-knit community back in India. Pooja would call her mother, 58-year-old Chandra Mate, at least three times a day with tales of British life and to show off her latest outfits, spinning in front of the mirror. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago British couple's nightmare holiday from hell sparks vow to 'never leave the UK again'

Alison Shah and her partner Richard Kay were coming home from her 60th birthday trip to Bangkok and Thailand when they got stuck in Dubai and their ordeal began

Politics

3 d. ago British couple recorded last airport video before boarding tragic Air India flight

The pair laughed and joked on the Instagram story shortly before getting on the plane

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3 d. ago British wellness couple posted ‘Goodbye India’ video from airport before fatal Air India plane crash

Jamie Ray Greenlaw-Meek and Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek described their ‘magical experience’ in India as they joked about the length of the 10-hour flight

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3 d. ago British couple from London feared to have been on crashed Air India flight named

Jamie Meek, 45, and his husband Fiongal Greenlaw, 39, from London, feared to have been on board Boeing plane bound for London Gatwick which crashed shortly after take-off

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3 d. ago British couple feared to have been on crashed Air India flight named

Jamie Meek, 45, and his husband Fiongal Greenlaw, 39, from London, feared to have been on board Boeing plane bound for London Gatwick which crashed shortly after take-off

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3 d. ago British couple feared to have been on doomed Air India flight: Celebrity wellness guru Jamie Meek and his husband posted 'Goodbye India' video as they prepared to board plane

British celebrity wellness guru Jamie Meek and his husband posted a haunting video of themselves at the airport waiting to board the doomed Gatwick-bound Air India flight.

Culture

3 d. ago British couple reveal MAJOR menu item missing in Chinese takeaways in America

James and Siana, originally from the UK, are currently embarking on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, exploring both major cities and some of the more remote corners of the US.

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4 d. ago British couple are charged with 'smuggling £1million of cannabis from Thailand' after being stopped at Heathrow

Sian Warren, 34, and Daniel McDonald, 36, were arrested by National Crime Agency officers at Heathrow last month after allegedly being found with more than 51kg of the drug in their suitcases.

Economics

5 d. ago Couple shares hilarious video of a Benidorm hotel with no free sunbeds one minute after the pool opens

A British couple captured the hilarious moment they discovered every sunbed had been snapped up by sun-worshipping guests in Benidorm only a minute after their hotel pool opened.

Politics

5 d. ago Holiday nightmare after Brit's 'itchy eye' turned out to be a LEECH on his eyeball

British travel agent Tony Exall, 58, was on a jungle tour near West Papua, Indonesia, when his left eye began to irritate him. He blamed it on sweat or a tiny bug but the real cause was much more alarming.

Politics

6 d. ago British couple try Chinese takeaway in America and notice one big difference

Chinese takeaways are popular in the UK, as well as the US, and a British couple sampled one in America. They noticed a big difference that they found confusing

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7 d. ago Moment Chelsea FC star Marc Cucurella is caught 'using his phone behind the wheel' of his £140k Mercedes G

A British couple took the footage at about 6pm on May 20 as they drove past the left-back's Mercedes near Dorking, in Surrey, where he was caught appearing to be sending a text message.

Economics

7 d. ago Pontins holiday ruined by 'drunk parents and drugs everywhere' in nightmare Southport stay

Michelle Waddington visited the Pontins Southport holiday camp for three nights with her partner, Ian, and his children, but the summer getaway sooner turned into a nightmare

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8 d. ago Brit travel agent's holiday test nightmare as leech 'sucks on his eyeball'

Tony Exall was on a jungle tour near West Papua, Indonesia, when his left eye began to irritate him. He was shocked to discover what was actually causing the problem

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9 d. ago Shocking new Madeleine McCann claim that 'drunk' German wife of British man ran the child over before couple dumped the body at sea emerges in Portuguese media report

German prosecutors refused to probe a couple suspected of running over Madeleine McCann in a drink-drive accident, it was sensationally claimed today.

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9 d. ago Woman, 86, 'stuck' in Turkey after holiday turns to nightmare

Amaya Harrison is pleading for people to 'help us bring Nan home'

Politics

1 week ago Hideaway holiday park nightmare leaves couple with devastating £150,000 loss

A devastated couple claim they have been left with an unsellable lodge - translating to £150,000 in losses - after years of reliably taking in earnings from an investment

Economics

1 week ago British tourist says Corfu holiday was a 'nightmare' because there was 'no English food'

Susan Edwards, 69, set off on a seven-night all-inclusive holiday to the Greek island last month but claimed 'there was no food we could eat and we couldn't have anything to drink'.

Society

1 week ago British child, 4, in holiday nightmare after being sucked into hotel pool vent

The youngster was stuck up to his elbow in a pool cleaning hole at a resort in the north of Majorca and needed firefighters to free him

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