33 h. ago Royal Caribbean cruise horror as dad dies after 'being served 33 drinks in one day'

Michael Virgil, 35, died on the board Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas cruise liner after being restrained, following a violent outburst - his family are now suing the firm

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37 h. ago 'Cheeky chap' young dad died while being handcuffed by police in back garden, inquest hears

Father-of-two Liam Brackley had taken cocaine before his death, a pre-inquest review heard

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38 h. ago Family search for answers after dad dies in hospital where he worked for 21 years

Popular grandfather of four Geoffrey King died in Dorset's Poole Hospital, having worked there as a porter

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49 h. ago Bullets in Mangione bag convinced police he was CEO killing suspect, court hears

Footage shows officer said ‘It’s him, dude’ as testimony sheds light on arrest at Pennsylvania McDonald’sMoments after Luigi Mangione was handcuffed at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, a police officer searching his backpack found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear.The discovery, recounted in court on Monday as Mangione fights to keep evidence out of his New York murder case, convinced police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, that he was the man wanted in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan five days earlier. Continue reading...

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50 h. ago Dad died after having heart attack while handcuffed in back garden

The 26-year-old was found 'slumped on a wall'

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53 h. ago Bullets in Luigi Mangione’s bag convinced police that he was UnitedHealthcare CEO killing suspect

Moments after Luigi Mangione was put in handcuffs at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, a police officer searching his backpack found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear

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67 h. ago Dad files lawsuit against New Jersey golf course claiming his son died in ‘anguish’ from lightning strike

The suit accuses the course owners of causing ‘severe pain, anguish, and fear of impending death’ in golfer who was struck by lightning

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3 d. ago Meghan Markle’s stricken dad begged her to see him 'one more time before I die'

Thomas Markle, 81, made his emotional plea as he lay in a hospital bed after having his left leg amputated due to a blood clot. He said he was "confused" by reports that Meghan had contacted him

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3 d. ago Devoted dad, 36, dies after 'sudden and unexpected illness' as colleagues pay tribute

Rory Cook has been described as a 'devoted' husband and 'adoring' dad

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3 d. ago Boy, 2, dies after being 'mauled by dog' in Greece as dad and Brit mum arrested

A two-year-old boy has died on the Greek island of Zakynthos after being reportedly mauled by a pitbull, with his parents arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by negligence

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5 d. ago Rocker from noughties band who opened for Oasis dies aged 40 as dad shares heartbreak

Rocker Justin Baren played bass guitar in Chicago group the Redwalls, who supported Oasis in gigs held in the UK and US in 2005 - and his dad has announced his sad death

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6 d. ago Moment handcuffed suspect leaps on police van before breaking his back by jumping over wall in escape attempt

Dylan Harrison, 33, shouted 'I'm not going back to jail as officers tried to detain him when he sprinted out the back of a police van at Ystrad Mynach police station in South Wales.

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6 d. ago Dad dies of heart attack after being told son was stabbed to death

In the heartbreaking incident, a 30-year-old man sadly died after being stabbed in the neck, only for his father to subsequently pass away from a heart attack on the same day

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6 d. ago Dad dies after being struck by his own plane in 'freak accident'

Roger Wallace, 60, was flying the 5ft-wide model plane at Pima County Fairgrounds in Tucson, Arizona

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6 d. ago Dad, 58, discovered he was dying when his GP made a passing comment – after horrifying NHS failure

NHS doctors failed to tell a man he was terminally ill and robbed him of the final months with his family, an investigation found. Dad and grandad Syd Chapman died aged 58 in 2022 from the incurable lung disease pulmonary fibrosis. Hospital medics neglected to tell him he had the condition and gave him “unfounded...

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7 d. ago Heartbreak as 'kind' Irish dad, 47 dies on family holiday as tributes pour in

Gary Croke, 47, was visiting friends in Brighton when he passed away suddenly - now tributes have been paid to the much-loved dad who was well known in the football community

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7 d. ago A moment that changed me: My unbearable grief kept growing – until I found solace in a silent community

After my dad died, I tried to cope by keeping busy: a day job, a side hustle, socialising and working out. But I kept bursting into tears in public. At a Quaker meeting, it was as if someone had turned down the volume of the worldIt was 2022, and my dad had just died from a rare blood disease. In the aftermath, I quit my PhD and moved back to London from Brighton. I coped by keeping incredibly busy. I regularly informed friends “I’m fine, actually”, as I threw myself into a new job in communications, went clubbing every weekend, picked up a side hustle selling secondhand clothes and got suspiciously invested in my gym routine. If I could just keep busy, I thought, perhaps I could drown out the growing tidal wave of grief.And it worked, until it just didn’t any more. I began to burst into tears randomly – during a work meeting, at the gym, on my commute – and everyone around me would politely pretend they didn’t notice the 28-year-old man weeping on the tube at 8.30am. I tried to pus...

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8 d. ago Shane Warne's daughter Brooke discusses the night her father died and admits she had fight with her dad before his death: 'We started screaming'

Brooke Warne has opened up about the emotional toll she experienced on the night she learned that her famous dad, cricketer Shane Warne, had died.

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9 d. ago Widow's horror as dead husband returns to UK from holiday without a heart

A dad died during a holiday to Cyprus just ten minutes after getting to hospital. His widow has now told of her 'shock' after his body was returned to the UK with his heart missing.

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9 d. ago Family of Brit dad who died in Benidorm has 'proof' it wasn't an accident

Nathan Osman fell 650ft to his death whilst on a lads' holiday in the Spanish tourism hotspot, but now his family has opened up on their belief his death was intentional

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