14 h. ago Dramatic moment fire rips through £500k Annan playpark as charity 'extremely disappointed'

A tunnel at Weyroc Park was torched and destroyed during the arson attack at the community-run playpark in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway.

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57 h. ago Doctors ‘overdiagnosing’ mental health conditions, says Health Secretary

Mental health charity Mind said it was important to be 'extremely careful' with the language around mental health diagnoses

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4 d. ago Dramatic moment heroic female tourist saves man from drowning after spotting him struggling underwater at Sri Lankan waterfall beauty spot

Farah Putri Mulyan, 39, was swimming at Diyaluma Falls on February 4 when she heard screams nearby and rushed to help a man who was drowning in the murky waters.

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6 d. ago Dramatic moment more than FIFTY prisoners break down jail door and cause chaos as they flee

A manhunt is underway for over dozens of inmates who stages a prison break after 50 of them cracked through security doors and climbed to the roof of the jail before escaping. 

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1 week ago Dramatic moment stabbed murder victim drives off in desperate bid to escape knife

Jegir Asaad, 24, stabbed Tomasz Stankiewicz, 39, in Filton Avenue, Bristol, during an altercation in the early hours of August 21 last year.

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1 week ago Dramatic moment hero retired boxer, 52, disarms airport knifeman after selflessly replacing terrified female security officer as the attacker's hostage

Footage captured the standoff at Almaty Airport, Kazakhstan, where a knife-wielding maniac seized a female security officer, 21, yanking her by the hair and threatening to blow up the airport with a bomb.

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1 week ago Dramatic moment council meeting turns to chaos as protestors chant 'shame' over proposed tax rises 

Bradford Council's annual budget meeting had only just got underway before it had to be paused due to the disruption.

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1 week ago Watch the dramatic moment a Jetstar pilot and a hero passenger wrestle a teen allegedly armed with a shotgun to the ground on a plane

Barry Clark, a farmer and shearer from southern NSW, had just seconds to react after a teenager boarded his Jetstar flight allegedly armed with a shotgun on Thursday.

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1 week ago Moment arsonist sets himself on fire while torching car in gated California community

This is the dramatic moment an alleged arsonist set himself ablaze while torching a car in a gated California community.

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1 week ago Dramatic moment daughter clasps her dying mother's hand and forces her to sign over her £700,000 fortune

EXCLUSIVE: Margaret Baverstock, 76 was so ill she could 'barely flicker an eyelid' in March 2021 when she was 'forced' to sign a will by her daughter Lisa.

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1 week ago Kim Kardashian rushes to protect sons in dramatic moment from reality show

Kim Kardashian was seen sprinting after her sons Saint and Psalm in the latest episode of The Kardashians, as she attempted to stop them from performing dangerous stunts

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1 week ago Dramatic moment tourist boat bursts into flames with 92 on board

The fire on the catamaran was reportedly caused by a short circuit in one of its engines and spread quickly throughout the boat sailing off Santa Marta in Colombia on March 3.

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1 week ago Boys watching adult porn ‘drawn to more extreme and illegal images’, warns charity

Over 81,000 Londoners called the Lucy Faithfull Foundation’s helpline Stop It Now

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1 week ago Watching extreme porn is leading to online sexual offending, charity warns

A married man in his 30s said he was placed on the sex offenders register after his porn addiction escalated into viewing child sexual abuse images

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1 week ago Fifth of adults who watch porn say content they view has become more extreme

Viewers can become desensitised to legal adult pornography and seek out more extreme material, a charity said.

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1 week ago Dramatic moment man left writhing and crying in agony as snake bites his penis

The victim can be seen grimacing while the large reptile is latched on to his groin area, apparently sinking its teeth through his trousers and on to his penis, in the forests of Pantanal, Brazil

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2 w. ago Dramatic moment plane explodes killing 2 people as owner claims 'it was hijacked'

A crashed plane has caused suspicion after the pilot and passenger died as the owner of the plane has claimed it was highjacked - an investigation is underway after police were called

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2 w. ago Dramatic moment son of wealthy art collector is arrested for stabbing family maid he believed was a demon

Maximillian Bourne, 26, attacked Joselia Pereira Do Nascimento with a kitchen knife at the family's five-bedroom, £20million home in Justice Walk, Chelsea, on February 25 last year.

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2 w. ago Dramatic moment brave Met police officer risks life to tackle knifeman in London petrol station

PC Morgan Younger managed to take Fitzgerald Carty, 66, to the ground at a petrol station in Lewisham on January 25

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3 w. ago Dramatic moment Italian fighter jets swoop on American Airlines plane after mid

Dramatic new video shows the moment two Italian fighter jets swooped in on an American Airlines plane after the airline was informed of an on-air bomb threat.

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