17 h. ago NHS trust fined after woman takes life in mental health unit

Alice Figueiredo’s mother has criticised staff for ‘indifference, ignorance, even at times cruelty’

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18 h. ago Almost 10ft crocodile rescued from bullet train project site

Reptile had fallen down a pit dug for a railway track pillar near a river known for its large crocodile population

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32 h. ago Inside Eddie Murphy's tragic losses including dad's murder and famous brother's death

Eddie Murphy is set to star in his own Netflix special Being Eddie, which will take a look at his life and career for the first time.

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34 h. ago Woman who 'predicted own death' dies in London hospital as NHS manager sentenced

Alice Figueiredo, 22, was found dead on a ward at Goodmayes Hospital in east London in July 2015 after suffering from bipolar disorder and an eating disorder - an inquest later ruled she had taken her own life

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37 h. ago AMANDA PLATELL: William, your subjects want ONE thing from you. It's time to stop being so oblivious

It should have been an unmissable event in William's diary and his absence is a worrying indication of what royal duties now take precedence in his life.

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51 h. ago The risky strategy of Booker winner Flesh pays off | Justine Jordan

The protagonist’s inner life is hidden from the reader in this highly original novelDavid Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ FleshReflecting on the Booker judging process, chair Roddy Doyle stressed the “singularity” of Flesh, the most unusual novel on the shortlist. In his sixth book, Hungarian-British writer David Szalay takes a classic story arc – one man’s journey through life, from childhood to old age – and presents it in a radically new and challenging way, scooping out the interiority that usually powers the novel form.We meet his protagonist, István, as a bored 15-year-old in a Hungarian backwater. He is seduced by a middle-aged neighbour into a relationship suffused with shame and disgust; a confused act of violence knocks his life off course; he joins the military and is stationed in Kuwait; he moves to London and works as a bouncer before the rising tides of global capital carry him, for a while, into the monied elite. And all the while, we are cut off from his tho...

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56 h. ago Mum feared son, 5, was dead after dog sank its teeth into his face during horror attack

WARNING - GRAPHIC IMAGES: The mum of a little boy attacked by a dog says it could have been avoided '1000 per cent'

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57 h. ago Prominent old chapel will take on a new life after transformation plans were approved

Plans to transform the old chapel in Ynysybwl, which dates back to the late 1800s, were approved by Rhondda Cynon Taff Council

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60 h. ago Paul Simonis runs out of road and leaves Wolfsburg living off past glories

Werder Bremen inflicted a seventh defeat in eight games on a club that has struggled to build an identity since 2009 title‘All I want in life’s a little bit of love to take the pain away,” sang Jason Pierce in the opening line of Spiritualized’s 1997 opus Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. And just a little bit has always been all Wolfsburg have been likely to get. One of a couple of special cases in the Bundesliga, a factory team derided by fans of other clubs for their lack of ‘realness’, with their matchups with Bayer Leverkusen only spared the previous epithet of ‘El Plastico’ in recent years due to Hoffenheim and RB Leipzig joining the elite on a quasi-permanent basis.And here they are now floating in space, neither the most hated team by opposing teams’ ultras who consider them inauthentic (that would be either of the two above) nor the best funded by a corporate (that would be Leipzig). Rampantly successful over the last few years, Leverkusen are more comfortable ...

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60 h. ago Paul Simonis runs out of road and leaves Wolfsburg living off past glories | Andy Brassell

Werder Bremen inflicted a seventh defeat in eight games on a club that has struggled to build an identity since 2009 title‘All I want in life’s a little bit of love to take the pain away,” sang Jason Pierce in the opening line of Spiritualized’s 1997 opus Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. And just a little bit has always been all Wolfsburg have been likely to get. One of a couple of special cases in the Bundesliga, a factory team derided by fans of other clubs for their lack of ‘realness’, with their matchups with Bayer Leverkusen only spared the previous epithet of ‘El Plastico’ in recent years due to Hoffenheim and RB Leipzig joining the elite on a quasi-permanent basis.And here they are now floating in space, neither the most hated team by opposing teams’ ultras who consider them inauthentic (that would be either of the two above) nor the best funded by a corporate (that would be Leipzig). Rampantly successful over the last few years, Leverkusen are more comfortable ...

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3 d. ago Are you living in fear and permanently anxious? Here are the six steps to take back control of your life: DR MAX PEMBERTON

There's a particular type of patient I've been seeing more of lately. They sit in my consulting room, wringing their hands, describing a creeping sense of dread that wasn't there before.

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3 d. ago I spent 10 days in total silence... it was brutal but EVERYONE should do it at least once in their life

When Alison Weihe found herself at a crossroads in her life she decided to take a path she had never travelled before-she went inwards.

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3 d. ago 'I have no sensation in my penis and feel like a alien during sex'

A man who hasn’t been able to feel anything in his genitals since he was a teenager says he is ‘sleepwalking through life’ and needs to take drastic action to fix his debilitating condition

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4 d. ago Blind dad and daughter take on gruelling fitness challenge together

Mark Flanagan, who suffers from visual impairment and deafness, took on an intense Hyrox competition with his daughter Kate in a bid to raise £2,000 for charity

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4 d. ago Where is the Gaza ‘peace process’ really going? | Ahmad Ibsais

Israel turns the violence up and down at will, maintaining full dominion over Gaza and the West Bank, then calls each pause a generous ‘ceasefire’If you started attending one funeral a day beginning 1 January 2025, you would finish in the year 3887. That is how long it would take to mourn every life lost in Gaza. By then, your grandchildren’s great10 grandchildren would be dust, and still you would be burying Palestinian bodies from a “war” Israel insists was about self-defense. Even then, this number does not tell you about the thousands of ways these bodies were burned, torn, crushed and made anything but whole.And yet here we are, watching world leaders gather in Egypt for a “peace summit” last month where the only people absent were Palestinians. The banner read “Peace 2025”, while Palestine’s representatives were barred from the room.Ahmad Ibsais is a first generation Palestinian American, law student and poet who writes the newsletter State of Siege Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Boy, 5, suffers horror injuries as 'bull breed' dog mauls his eye, ears and face

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: A boy was left with facial injuries and what could be lifelong scars after he was attacked by a dog while playing in a park in Sheffield, police said

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5 d. ago Boy, 5, savaged in dog attack at UK park in 'every parent's nightmare'

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: The five-year-old boy was visiting a park in Schofield Street, Mexborough, Sheffield, when he was "aggressively approached" by an off-lead dog that "began to attack the child's face and caused injury to his eye, ears and cheeks".

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7 d. ago Southport killer Axel Rudakubana's reign of terror from dad 'hatred' to fears he'd kill parents

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. As the brother and father of mass murderer Axel Rudakubana give evidence at the Liverpool Town Hall inquiry, the Mirror takes a look at the teenage killer's family life

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7 d. ago Drink tea, tidy up and take action! Can advice from artists really improve your life?

As three self-help books chock full of arty wisdom are released, an art critic tests whether they can improve a seemingly lost cause: himYou’d think at this point I would have learned all the lessons I could from art. I have been a full-time, professional art critic for most of my adult life. I spend my days in galleries, surrounded by art, reading about it, absorbing it. I like art a lot, but I am also cynical about its supposed benefits beyond the merely aesthetic.But just as a new study by the Art Fund finds that art isn’t just good for our mental wellbeing but our physical health, three new books are hell-bent on proving that art is chock full of important life lessons too. Can art really teach us anything, can it change the world, can it make you a better person? We might as well put it to the test and see if it can improve the apparently unimprovable: me. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Rail bosses are spending almost £8 million on 'leaf busting' braking systems to help keep scots trains running on time during autumn

More than 70 ScotRail trains will be fitted with enhanced sanding technology to combat the problem of leaves on railway tracks which regularly cause delays.

Economics