26 h. ago Passengers evacuated from St Pancras station after van bursts into flames outside

Onlookers watched as crews tackled the fireball outside St Pancras rail station in London this morning - as travellers were told to avoid the scene.

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26 h. ago Van erupts in flames outside Kings Cross St Pancras station as thick smoke fills street

Huge plumes of smoke have been seen billowing across a street in London after a van caught fire outside Kings Cross St Pancras Station in the capital city

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27 h. ago 'Explosion' at major UK train station as lorry engulfed in flames in horror pics

The van was engulfed in flames just outside the iconic St Pancras station in central London, with fire crews rushing to the scene to tackle the blaze on Tuesday morning

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27 h. ago Van engulfed by flames outside St Pancras International sending huge plumes of smoke into the sky

Firefighters tackle blaze which erupted after 10am on Tuesday morning

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28 h. ago Video shows the moment huge fire breaks out at Hotspur Press

Dramatic footage shows the moment the city centre landmark became an inferno

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57 h. ago Dramatic moment CNN star Anderson Cooper is forced to urgently evacuate set live on air during missile attack

Anderson Cooper was discussing the ongoing conflict when sirens rang out warning them of an incoming missile attack.

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3 d. ago Charles Dickens’s ‘sliding doors’ moment: how a cold turned an aspiring thespian into a writer

An exhibition explores the authors’ love of theatre, highlighting the dramatic impact of his works As a sliding doors moment, it leads to arguably one of the greatest “what if?” questions in literary history. Passionate about the theatre, Charles Dickens, then just 20, wrote to the famous Covent Garden theatre actor-manager George Bartley seeking an audition, saying he believed he “had a strong perception of character and oddity, and a natural power of reproducing in my own person what I observed in others”.Bartley responded saying they were producing “the Hunchback” and arranging an appointment. Dickens planned to take his sister, Fanny, to accompany him singing on the piano. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago ITV Love Island viewers spot contestant's wardrobe blunder amid hideaway drama

It happened during a dramatic moment

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5 d. ago ITV Love Island viewers distracted by wardrobe blunder following 'cheeky slip'

It came at a very dramatic moment of the ITV2 reality show

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6 d. ago Photos of Karen Read's dramatic courtroom moment after acquittal on murder charge

Karen Read was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe. The jury convicted her of a lesser charge of drunken driving, however.

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6 d. ago Dramatic moment six Brits arrested at gunpoint at luxury Thailand villa over 'boiler room' scam

A total of 13 people, including six British citizens, were arrested while at a luxury Thailand mansion, after they were alleged to be associated with a scam known as 'boiler room'

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7 d. ago Did the liberation of Africa start in Manchester? The biting play about a pivotal, forgotten moment

It was a turning point in the push for African independence – and it took place in Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. We meet the writer of a play about the fifth Pan-African CongressOn the facade of the building that once housed Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall in Manchester sits a plaque commemorating a turning point in the push for African independence. The fifth Pan-African Congress in October 1945 was attended by future global leaders as well as activists and scholars from across Africa and its diaspora. But despite the event’s international importance, it has been largely overlooked by mainstream British history. Now a biting new play is set to remedy this.“I think a lot of Mancunians don’t know it happened,” says playwright Ntombizodwa Nyoni, who lectures in the same building, now part of Manchester Metropolitan University. “But it’s like: you’re part of such a phenomenal moment in history.” Eighty years later, her dramatisation of the event, Liberation, is about to receive its worl...

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8 d. ago Astonishing moment British survivor of Air India plane crash walks BACK towards flaming wreckage to rescue his brother, telling bystander: 'He's burning to death, I have to save him'

This is the dramatic moment the British man who was the miraculous sole survivor of the Air India plane crash attempted to return to the inferno of the accident to save his brother.

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1 week ago Dramatic moment wing falls off ageing £15m Putin warplane in middle of Ukraine attack mission

The attack jet crashed after flying in a pair over Ukraine's Donetsk region, with the pilot miraculously cheating death by ejecting before his aircraft fell to the ground.

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2 w. ago Fire breaks out at Appleby Horse Fair: Stall and tent are engulfed in flames as smoke billows cross gathering of thousands of gypsies from across Europe

A fire broke out at Appleby Horse Fair in Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria, on Saturday, engulfing a tent, stall and van in flames as firefighters worked to tackle the blaze.

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2 w. ago See the dramatic moment cops charge the accused killer of Pheobe Bishop with her murder at his parents' caravan

James Wood can be seen barefoot wearing grey sweatpants, a chunky silver identity bracelet and a black 'Phantom Menace' t-shirt as cops arrested him.

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3 w. ago Dramatic pictures of advert van erupting into flames in street as fire crews tape off area

Thick plumes of black smoke were seen billowing into the air

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3 w. ago Dramatic moment van goes up in flames right next to building

The van caught fire very close to a police station, and officers rushed to get it under control

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4 w. ago Pilot battles to land plane with 70 passengers onboard after engine fails in strong winds

A dramatic video caught the moment a plane, with 70 passengers onboard, battled strong winds when it was forced to make an emergency landing after an engine failed

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4 w. ago Chaos as two pigeons board Delta flight as passengers scramble to catch them

A pair of pigeons caused chaos on a Delta Airlines flight Saturday night at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. Dramatic video showed the moment one of the birds was captured.

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