21 h. ago Emmerdale fans spot Joe blunder in 'death' scenes as Eddie's real plan for Kim 'revealed'

Emmerdale aired some big scenes with Joe Tate and Dr Crowley tonight - whilst Kim was desperate to get a first date with her new man Eddie

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36 h. ago ‘You are living with a difficult person who is waiting to die’: my harrowing time as Patricia Highsmith’s assistant

I worked for the author of The Talented Mr Ripley in her final months. She was so mean and secretive, I imagined she wanted to kill meI first read Patricia Highsmith’s novels in the autumn of 1994. I was 20 and living in a room in her house in Tegna, Switzerland, that was plastered with bookshelves full of her first editions, organised in chronological order. Pat was 73 and knew she was about to die; she had been, it was rumoured, diagnosed with cancer or some other terminal disease. I was trapped in her world with her, trembling. She had weeks left to live and had spent so much time writing about how to get away with murder. I fantasised that she might try to kill me.The story of how I ended up in that house begins a few months earlier, in Zurich, with me on a blue tram, on my way to dinner at the house of Anna and Daniel Keel, a couple I’d grown friendly with. Anna was a brilliant painter for whom I had been modelling since I was 17. Her studio smelled like oil paint, instant coff...

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45 h. ago Loose Women star Andrea McLean 'quitting UK for Spain' after near

Former Loose Women panelist Andrea McLean previously shared that she had re-evaluated her life after a near-death experience and she's now said to be planning to move abroad

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3 d. ago Captain Tom Foundation probe has not impacted trust in charities, says watchdog

In annual research, the commission said average trust in charities has remained consistently high since 2020.

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7 d. ago Diogo Jota death latest: Liverpool star’s final hours revealed as funeral plans confirmed

Player and brother Andre Silva died when car veered off road and burst into flames after suspected tyre blowout

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8 d. ago Pete Doherty hints at huge plans just weeks after death of Babyshambles star

Pete Doherty has teased there are plans in place for The Libertines to release new music after their successful performance at Glastonbury at the weekend

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9 d. ago Scientists are BAFFLED after discovering the first ever 'planet with a death wish'

The first ever recorded 'planet with a death wish' orbits so close to its host star that it triggers huge flares of radiation every time it orbits.

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9 d. ago No need for ‘ventriloquists’ to give NHS patients a voice – Streeting

Wes Streeting suggested the patient safety landscape is ‘cluttered’, with NHS leaders receiving ‘competing and contradictory instructions’.

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1 week ago Inside the memorial like no other: How once 'best friends' brothers Prince Harry and William ripped up Royal tradition to 'reinvent their mother's image' after her death with 'epic' commemoration

Prince William and Prince Harry organised the 'epic concert', which had taken seven months of intensive planning, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of their mother's death.

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1 week ago Longtime State Department spokesman, diplomat Richard Boucher, dies at 73

Richard Boucher, who served for more than a decade as spokesman for the State Department and assistant secretary of state for public affairs, has died at age 73

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2 w. ago Senedd denied veto over whether assisted dying becomes legal in Wales

The new bill would allow those aged over 18 and with less than six months to live to receive medical assistance to die

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2 w. ago MPs voting to legalise assisted dying is a momentous day for choice

The House of Commons decision to pass Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) bill marks a historic step towards giving people the right to make fundamental decisions about their own lives – as well as how to end them

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3 w. ago Can anything stop plans for 'death on the NHS'? After MPs vote to LEGALISE assisted dying peers are urged to block or alter 'unsafe' suicide law

The Commons backed allowing medics to help terminally ill people to die this afternoon despite warnings that the legislation is unsafe.

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3 w. ago MPs led by Keir Starmer vote to LEGALISE assisted dying in the most seismic change to suicide law in decades despite warnings law is unsafe

Medics will be allowed to help the terminally ill end their own lives after a bitterly contested vote in the Commons this afternoon.

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3 w. ago Assisted dying set to be legalised as MPs back Kim Leadbeater’s bill in historic vote

Kim Leadbeater’s Bill has now passed all its stages in the Commons and will go to the Lords where it is likely to meet more scrutiny

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3 w. ago Voices: My husband wanted to go to Dignitas: the new assisted dying bill wouldn’t have helped him

As the right-to-die legislation passes its final Commons hurdle, Mary Dejevsky explains how it falls far short of helping those who might have been pinning their hopes on it, namely people like her late partner with chronic progressive conditions such as Parkinson’s disease

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3 w. ago GMB's Kate Garraway makes heartbreaking admission about late husband Derek Draper

Kate Garraway has made a devastating confession about her late husband Derek Draper, who died in January 2024, as the GMB presenter discussed the Assisted Dying Bill

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3 w. ago MPs vote on legalising assisted dying TODAY: Politicians urged not to put vulnerable people at risk with seismic law change

The biggest change on the law on suicide for decades is expected to take place this afternoon, with the result on a knife edge.

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3 w. ago Televise grooming gang inquiry given public interest, Labour peer urges

Muslim Labour peer Baroness Hazarika apologised for the crimes carried out by ‘wicked, wicked men’.

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3 w. ago Man who stabbed wife to death in front of baby son tells court he planned to kill himself but 'lost control'

Kulsuma Akter, 27, suffered more than 25 knife injuries in an attack by her husband Habibur Masum, 26, after he confronted her in a street

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