10 h. ago Message in a bottle from first world war soldier found on remote Australian beach

Light-hearted note, penned on 15 August 1916, was found on Wharton beach, after severe winter storms washed away sand dunesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than a century after an Australian soldier wrote a letter to his mother as he sailed to war and his death, it has been discovered in a bottle washed up on a remote beach.Private Malcolm Alexander Neville’s light-hearted note, penned on 15 August 1916, was found on Wharton beach, near Esperance, about 750km south-east of Perth. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Prunella Scales's son Sam West says his last 'proper conversation' with his mother was two years ago as she dies aged 93 following dementia battle

Despite chatting to Queen Camilla last year, actor Sam said how her mental health and communication abilities deteriorated considerably in her final years.

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59 h. ago Prunella Scales’ son shares sad realisation after mother’s death

Scales, best known for her role as Sybil in Fawlty Towers, died almost a year after her husband, Timothy West

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61 h. ago Celebrity bodybuilder dies after losing pet cat as 'heartbroken' mum breaks silence

Ricardo Nolasco dos Santos, better known online as Kadu Santos, died last week after suffering a stroke following the death of his beloved pet cat, his mother has revealed

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2 d. ago Woman killed mother with repeated hammer blows before ending her own life

An inquest found that Joyce Wilshaw died after after being hit repeatedly to the head with a hammer by her daughter, Karen Wilshaw

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2 d. ago Daughter, 63, beat mother, 91, to death with a hammer before taking her own life by jumping out of bedroom in murder

Karen Wilshaw, 63, killed 91-year-old pensioner Joyce Wilshaw by repeatedly striking her in the head before jumping out the window at their home in the village of Cheadle, Staffordshire.

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4 d. ago Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory's daughter Manon, 19, reveals the heartfelt way she's honouring her mother's legacy after her death aged 52

It's been four years since the death of Peaky Blinders and Harry Potter star Helen McCrory.

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6 d. ago Crossroads' Tony Adams' life from wife to famous mother after Welsh star's death

Tony Adams, who was best known for playing Adam Chance in Crossroads, has died at the age of 84 - here we take a look back at his life and career

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7 d. ago Dad stabs mother of kids to death in courtroom with 'outrageous violence'

Paul Gary Turner produced a knife during a mediation hearing with his ex-partner Sarah Thomas and stabbed her six times, with one of the blows severing her carotid artery

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1 week ago Grieving family slam Ryanair over 'generic' reply after mum dies before holiday

Whena grieving daughter tried ti change the name on her flight ticket after the death of her mother, Ryanir charged a £100 fee and offered a generic message when she complained

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1 week ago Baby P's mother was recalled to prison after hiding 'intimate relationship' with man she had met online

Tracey Connelly, 44, will face a two day public parole hearing after being put back behind bars for breaking the conditions of her release.

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1 week ago Baby P's evil mother will be forced to finally give answers over her abused son's horrific death as two

Tracey Connelly, 44, will face a two day public parole hearing after being put back behind bars for breaking the conditions of her release.

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1 week ago Inquest into death of mother and baby told that hospital scare stories have led to huge increase in women wanting difficult home births

The warning came during an inquest into the deaths of Jennifer Cahill, 34, and her baby daughter Agnes, who both died following a traumatic home birth in Prestwich, Manchester, on June 3 last year.

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1 week ago Jemima Goldsmith pays tribute to her 'funny and sharp' mother Lady Annabel after her death aged 91

The British daughter of late billionaire tycoon Sir James Goldsmith took to her Instagram account today to share an array of photographs celebrating the glamorous life of her mother.

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1 week ago The Uncool by Cameron Crowe review – inside rock’s wildest decade

From shadowing a cocaine-addled David Bowie to winning over Joni Mitchell, deliciously readable tales from the director of Almost FamousCameron Crowe spent his youth being in the right place at the right time. In 1964, aged seven, he was taken by his mother to see “a kid named Bob Dylan” play a local college gym. By the age of 14, living in San Diego, he was writing record reviews for a local underground magazine whose main aim was to bring down Richard Nixon. Shortly after that, he started interviewing the bands of the day as they came through California – first Humble Pie for Creem, and then the Eagles, the Allman Brothers Band and Led Zeppelin for Rolling Stone.Crowe previously fictionalised his story in the 2000 film Almost Famous, which he wrote and directed. His lyrical and compulsively readable memoir The Uncool is bookended by the opening of a musical version, which coincides with the death of Crowe’s mother Alice whose aphorisms, including “Put some goodness in the world be...

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2 w. ago Robert Irwin's life from tragic death of father Steve to Dancing With The Stars fame

Wildlife conservationist Robert Irwin is this year's fan favourite on Dancing With The Stars, and danced a tribute to his mother Terri and the death of his father, Steve Irwin

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2 w. ago Strictly fans are left 'sobbing' as Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink dedicates dance to his late mother

The former footballer, 53, took to the dancefloor on Saturday night with his couple's choice paying homage to his home country of Suriname.

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2 w. ago Girl died hours after being discharged from hospital with tonsillitis

Lila Marsland's mother is now criticising the government's response to her tragic death

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2 w. ago Natalie Cassidy makes rare comment about her abusive ex and says it was her mother's death that led her to be with him

The EastEnders star, 42, shares her eldest daughter Eliza with Adam who pled guilty to assault and criminal damage for attacking Natalie in 2011.

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3 w. ago Baby P's mother 'will be forced to reveal details of her tortured toddler's brutal death' as she makes fresh bid for freedom

Tracey Connelly, now 44, will give her first ever public account of how her 17-month son Peter suffered more than 50 wounds over an eight-month period.

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