7 h. ago Black civil rights heroine who refused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks did same thing dies aged 86

Claudette Colvin's foundation announced on Tuesday that the civil rights icon, whose story flew under the radar for decades, had died.

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8 h. ago Gabby Logan opens up on 'tough week' following death of her father Terry Yorath and thanks fans for messages of 'love' after Laura Woods hit out at Richard Keys' tribute

Leeds and Wales legend Yorath died at the age of 75 last week following a short illness, prompting an outpouring of tributes from across the football world.

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10 h. ago 80s icon's son dies in 'fatal accident' aged just 35 as famous pals pay tribute

The son of an 80s music legend has unfortunately passed away after he was involved in a "fatal accident" as famous faces gather to share their condolences to his father

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11 h. ago Marian Diamond dead: Brookside and Lord of the Rings star dies suddenly aged 89 as Harry Potter actor pays tribute

Diamond died at University College Hospital in London on Monday, January 5

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12 h. ago Brookside and Lord of the Rings star dies suddenly as famous friend pays tribute to an 'angel'

Celebrated actress Marian Diamond has died unexpectedly at the age of 89, with actress Miriam Margolyes admitting she's 'bereft' at the news of the actress' death

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12 h. ago Britain’s Got Talent finalist Letitia Cuney dies after car crash, aged 53

Cuney appeared on ITV series as part of choir NSO (Northants Sings Out)

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13 h. ago Marian Diamond dead: Brookside and Lord of the Rings star dies suddenly

Celebrated actress Marian Diamond has died unexpectedly at the age of 89, with actress Miriam Margolyes admitting she's 'bereft' at the news of the actress' death

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14 h. ago This Morning viewers a 'crying mess' as guest's son dies from dementia aged 24

The parents of a man who was diagnosed with dementia at 22 appeared on ITV's This Morning

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17 h. ago Famous farm shop that featured in Teletubbies now at centre of £6.6m family court battle

The Country Market’s ‘pioneering founder’ Peter Marshall died aged 81 in January 2017

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18 h. ago Iran protests: Death toll jumps over 2,500 as Donald Trump issues 'very strong' warning

A human rights agency said at least 2,571 had died in the protests sweeping through Iran, while more than 18,100 people are reported to have been detained ahead of the first execution scheduled for Wednesday

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18 h. ago Claudette Colvin: Civil rights icon who refused to move seats on segregated bus dies at 86

Colvin's act of defiance occurred months before Rosa Parks gained international recognition for a similar stand

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19 h. ago Teenagers killed in horror Bolton crash pictured as hundreds attend funeral

The teens, two aged 18 and one aged 19, died in the crash alongside 54-year-old taxi driver Masrob Ali

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21 h. ago Hijack season two review – Idris Elba is back with the most effortlessly bingeable show of them all

Sam Nelson is ready to beat some more bad guys – and this time he’s on the Berlin metro. Shenanigans will ensue!Do you remember the lazy, hazy days of summer 2023, when Idris Elba got on a plane and it was hijacked? It was in a programme called Hijack. For seven effortlessly bingeable hours supposedly showing the adventure in real time, our man on the pressurised inside deduced complex situations from misplaced washbags, sent coded messages via fruit cartons and dying men’s phones, saved lives, averted disasters, and got Kingdom Flight 29 landed safely by Holly Aird so that he could return to his family, even though viewers agreed the scenes with them in between the plane bits were very boring indeed.And he wasn’t even a policeman like Bruce Willis in Die Hard or a counter-terrorist federal agent like Kiefer Sutherland in 24! Or a pilot, which might also have been useful. He was Sam Nelson, a business negotiator. He had extreme business negotiating skills and he beat the bad guys. W...

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21 h. ago Tragedy as woman, 21, dies after cardiac arrest following botched boob job

Maria Jose Torres Osorio, aged 21, died in hospital after suffering health complications from the two cosmetic procedures she had done at a private clinic in Colombia

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23 h. ago Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer arrested for not giving up bus seat, dies aged 86

Colvin refused to give up seat to white woman in Alabama in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ act of defianceUS civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks’ similar but more famous act of defiance, died on Tuesday at age 86.Although she remained a largely unsung figure in the civil rights movement for decades, Colvin’s 1955 act of rebellion inspired Parks and others and helped form the basis for the federal lawsuit that outlawed racial segregation in US public transportation. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Civil rights icon who refused to move seats on segregated bus dies at 86

Colvin's act of defiance occurred months before Rosa Parks gained international recognition for a similar stand

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28 h. ago My lawn bowls team got stranded after a cancelled flight. Why won't easyJet pay out? SALLY SORTS IT

My son, an only child, died on May 31 last year, aged 61, following a diagnosis of lung cancer just a few weeks before.

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28 h. ago Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died

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29 h. ago Justice Department prosecutors resign amid turmoil over Minnesota ICE shooting investigation

Roughly half a dozen federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned and several supervisors in the criminal section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division have announced their departures amid turmoil over the federal investigation into the killing of a woman by by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis

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29 h. ago UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’

Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rightsSeveral faculty groups have denounced the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain information about Jewish professors, staff and students at the University of Pennsylvania – including personal emails, phone numbers and home addresses – as government abuse with “ominous historical overtones”.The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is demanding the university turn over names and personal information about Jewish members of the Penn community as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses. But some Jewish faculty and staff have condemned the government’s demand as “a visceral threat to the safety of those who would find themselves identified because compiling and turning over to the government ‘lists of Jews’ conjures a terrifying history”, according to a press release put out by the groups’ lawyers. Continue reading...

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