5 h. ago Southport killer's brother speaks out after Rudakubana's horrific crimes

Dion Rudakubana has spoken publicly for the first time, acknowledging the "immense pain" caused by his killer brother.

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5 h. ago Brother of Southport killer Axel Rudakubana speaks publicly for first time

Dion Rudakubana has acknowledging the 'immense pain' caused by his killer brother

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12 h. ago Southport killer Axel Rudakubana's brother breaks silence on mass murder

Dion Rudakubana has spoken publicly for the first time about his younger brother Axel Rudakubana, who murdered three children and injured eight others in Southport

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23 h. ago Southport killer was discharged from mental health services six days before attack, inquiry hears

Chronology of Axel Rudakubana’s engagement with Camhs published and inquiry hears statement from killer’s brotherAxel Rudakubana was discharged from mental health services six days before he murdered three young girls and stabbed several others at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club in Southport, it has emerged.The inquiry into the atrocity was told on Wednesday that a risk assessment was undertaken on Rudakubana, then 17, a week before the attack in July last year. Its findings have not been disclosed. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Southport killer’s brother asks whether attack could have been prevented

Dion Rudakubana tells inquiry his younger brother, Axel, became ‘progressively more isolated’ after school expulsion The brother of the Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has asked a public inquiry to determine whether officials could have stopped his sibling causing “the most immense pain, anguish and grief”.In his first public comments since the attack last July, Dion Rudakubana said his younger brother had become “progressively more isolated” after being expelled from school in October 2019. Continue reading...

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31 h. ago Claire Sweeney in touching show of support to Ricky Hatton family after boxing icon's death

Ricky's ex-partner showed solidarity with Campbell Hatton as he spoke publicly for the first time following his father's death

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67 h. ago Two deaf friends are killed by oncoming train on vacation because they couldn't hear its horn

The second time this month tragedy occurred in Portugal involving public transportation when two deaf women were killed.

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68 h. ago Strictly’s Thomas Skinner looks stressed in public first time since cheating row

Strictly Come Dancing star Thomas Skinner has been spotted for the first time since he admitted to cheating on his wife, who he married in May 2022

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68 h. ago Trump should be reassuring the country at this time. Instead he is sowing fear

The president has shown no interest in uniting the US, nor in defending free speech – he is weaponising this time for his gainThe public response to the murder of Charlie Kirk in cold blood, has revealed how drastically our democracy – our belief in the importance of free speech and in the irreplaceable life of each and every individual – has deteriorated over the last half century.I was a senior in high school when John F Kennedy was assassinated, and a senior in college when Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King were killed. Plenty of conspiracy theories, some of which have never been put to rest, were floated and debated. But the difference between what happened then and what we are seeing now is that, in the aftermath of those violent deaths, there was a sense of shared grief, of national mourning. Those tragedies seemed to bring us, as a country, closer together in our shock and sorrow. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Two deaf friends are both killed by oncoming train during Portuguese vacation because they couldn't hear its horn

The second time this month tragedy occurred in Portugal involving public transportation when two deaf women were killed.

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2 d. ago Kash Patel defends FBI’s handling of Charlie Kirk shooting and says suspect motivated by ‘hatred’ of conservative’s beliefs

FBI chief says that he was ‘transparent with the public’ over the agency’s findings in real-time

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3 d. ago Ricky Hatton’s family tell of their ‘immeasurable’ loss after boxer’s death

Former champion’s kindness and loyalty hailedAndy Burnham: ‘We will find a way to honour him’Ricky Hatton’s family have opened up publicly for the first time since the news of the boxing legend’s death, saying they feel an “immeasurable” sense of loss.The 46-year-old was found dead in what police said were no suspicious circumstances at his home in Hyde, Greater Manchester on Sunday, resulting in tributes being paid across sport and wider society towards the fighter, a former world welterweight champion. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Stirling Castle opens 'secret areas' to public for first time on 'behind

The tours will give visitors access to 10 hidden areas of the historic Stirling Castle.

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4 d. ago Ricky Hatton's huge boxing fortune and romance with Claire Sweeney as death rocks sport

Ricky Hatton was a former multi-time, multi-weight world champion boxer who the British public fell in love with. His death was announced on Sunday

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5 d. ago Ronaldo’s sudden interest in return to US is World Cup Trump card that Fifa craves | Barney Ronay

Portugal star will hand Gianni Infantino the perfect publicity coup if he does play in America for the first time in more than 10 years, having already begun cosying up to Donald TrumpIs it still safe to stage the World Cup in the United States? After more headline evidence this week of the extreme nature of American gun violence, some may conclude that the answer is no. Nine months out from the opening game, it is now almost impossible to ignore this. But believe it or not statistics suggest more than 300 people will have been shot in America last Wednesday alone.The same number will also be shot on Friday, Saturday, every day next week, and every day of World Cup year. On average 127 of these unnamed, largely non-famous people not called things such as the superstar influencer Charlie Kirk will die each day. Within this, youth gun deaths will be both alarmingly high and a register of social injustice: a disproportionate 46% of all young people shot will be black. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Trump news at a glance: president urges death penalty in Charlie Kirk killing, as widow says: ‘we’ll never surrender’

President sought to cast people on the left as sole problem of US politics, while widow of Charlie Kirk said her ‘cries will echo around the world like a battle cry’ – key stories from 12 September at a glanceDonald Trump on Friday advocated for the death penalty in the killing of his close associate Charlie Kirk, as the widow of the rightwing activist spoke publicly for the first time since the shooting.The president told Fox & Friends in an interview – during which he also announced that a suspect was in custody – that he hopes the shooter “gets the death penalty”. He added: “Charlie Kirk was the finest person. He didn’t deserve this”. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Wife of Charlie Kirk to address public for first time since horrific campus shooting: Live updates

Erika Kirk, wife of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, will make her first public address since her husband's assassination.

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6 d. ago Kelly Osbourne shares video of new hobby that’s ‘put a smile back on mum’s face’

It marks first time that Black Sabbath singer’s wife has been seen in public since his funeral

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6 d. ago Sharon Osbourne seen in public for first time since husband Ozzy’s funeral

Kelly Osbourne shares video of new hobby that’s ‘put a smile back on mum’s face’

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6 d. ago Rome mayor’s claim of swimmable Tiber in five years met with scepticism

Experts unconvinced by Roberto Gualtieri’s mooted timescale for river to be reopened for public bathingRome hopes to welcome swimmers back to the River Tiber within five years, the city’s mayor has announced, drawing inspiration from Paris, where the Seine was reopened for public bathing this summer for the first time in a century.During a visit on Thursday to the Osaka Expo in Japan, Roberto Gualtieri said a working group had been set up to study the feasibility of the clean-up project. Continue reading...

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