13 h. ago Illegal Albanian migrant killed two people in car rampage including dad

Emiljano Kasaj, 34, ploughed into Leo Moran as he crossed the road before hitting Joel Carriedo as he cycled home from a night shift in Coventry in September 2023.

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15 h. ago Driver who killed two while on immigration centre bail given life term

Albanian Emiljano Kasaj, 34, will initially be treated for mental illness at a hospital after being handed a hospital order as part of his sentence.

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16 h. ago 'Show off' teen driver jailed after fatal crash at Scunthorpe car meet kills 'kind' man

Lewis Samuels was driving a red Ford Fiesta in excess of 70mph in a 30mph zone when he collided with another vehicle and then ploughed into several spectators of the event

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18 h. ago Car rampage killer was on bail from immigration detention centre, court told

Albanian national Emiljano Kasaj was suffering from severe mental illness when he deliberately used his Mercedes to kill a pedestrian and a cyclist.

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5 d. ago Driver 'deliberately removed black box' from car before crash that killed girl

Christopher West, 42, was speeding in a 30mph zone in Heol Trelai in Caerau, Cardiff when he struck and killed Keely Morgan, 15, who had been enjoying the bank holiday with her family

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5 d. ago Bus driver stabbing: Derek Thomas killed in 'frenzied attack'

Bus driver stabbing: Derek Thomas killed in 'frenzied attack'  BBC

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5 d. ago Chinese restaurant featured in Netflix thriller Black Doves has licence revoked over illegal workers

Immigration enforcement officers raided the restaurant in central London last year and found four staff working without the correct visas or having illicitly entered the UK.

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6 d. ago Killed by a driver who couldn't read top line of Specsavers eye test, 'this needs to stop'

Vernon Law visited the optician a month before the fatal collision in Whitworth

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6 d. ago Tribute paid to former bus driver killed alongside wife in cliff fall

Police were alerted on Friday evening after a Ford Mondeo car came off the road

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6 d. ago Driver, 42, 'deliberately removed black box' before hitting and killing schoolgirl, 15, at zebra crossing, court hears

Christopher West was allegedly speeding in a 30mph zone when he struck schoolgirl Keely Morgan, 15 in Heol Trelai in Caerau, Cardiff, in May 2023.

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6 d. ago ‘They tell you every minor inconvenience’: bartenders on which generation has the worst behavior

Gen Z patrons have stopped opening bar tabs and can’t order quickly, but older customers’ etiquette isn’t perfect eitherGen Z are used to headlines about the things they’ve “killed”: writing in cursive, getting their driver’s licenses, knowing how printers work, wearing skinny jeans. Their latest offense, according to a recent New York Times article: opening bar tabs.Bartenders and drinkers alike spoke to the Times about young people’s hesitancy to leave their credit cards behind the bar, instead preferring to close out and pay after every single drink – no matter how many rounds they order. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘They tell you every minor inconvenience’: US bartenders on which generation has the worst behavior

Gen Z patrons have stopped opening bar tabs and can’t order quickly, but older customers’ etiquette isn’t perfect eitherGen Z are used to headlines about the things they’ve “killed”: writing in cursive, getting their driver’s licenses, knowing how printers work, wearing skinny jeans. Their latest offense, according to a recent New York Times article: opening bar tabs.Bartenders and drinkers alike spoke to the Times about young people’s hesitancy to leave their credit cards behind the bar, instead preferring to close out and pay after every single drink – no matter how many rounds they order. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago London bus driver who killed girl, 9, after falling asleep while on drugs jailed

London bus driver who killed girl, 9, after falling asleep while on drugs jailed  London Evening Standard

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7 d. ago Bus driver high on drugs who fell asleep at wheel and killed girl, 9, is jailed

Ada Bicakci, 9, died in hospital on August 5 last year, two days after the collision in Bexleyheath, south-east London, which left her with 'catastrophic injuries'

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7 d. ago London bus driver who killed girl, 9, after falling asleep due to smoking cannabis jailed for four years

Martin Asolo-Ogugua, 23, mounted a pavement and hit Ada Bicakci in front of her family

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7 d. ago Bus driver who killed young girl riding bike on pavement jailed for four years

Ada Bicakci, nine, was with her family when the collision occurred on August 3 last year.

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7 d. ago Pensioner driver, 84, killed his passenger and another motorist after falling into a micro sleep

Andrew Nicoll, now 84, was driving home to Whitley Bay after a walk when his Mazda drifted into oncoming traffic on the A69 - slamming head-on into a Skoda Fabia in a horrifying collision.

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1 week ago Driver 'used car as weapon to kill Good Samaritan' trying to help injured woman

Chris Marriott, 46, died when he was struck by Hassan Jhangur's car as he went to the aid of an injured woman following a fight at a wedding in Sheffield in 2023

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1 week ago The Survivors review – a murder mystery so intense you’ll watch through your fingers

This adaptation of the bestselling Australian crime novel is full of twists, turns and red herrings. Its focus on the terrible grief of bereaved mothers makes it a cut aboveI hope you have had enough time to recover from Robyn Malcolm’s barnstorming performance as a harrowed wife and mother labouring under burdens no one should have to endure in the acclaimed After the Party, because here comes another one.The Survivors is a six-part adaptation of Jane Harper’s bestselling Australian crime novel of the same name, by Tony Ayres – who did the same for Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap 10 years ago, which followed families fracturing under the weight of a moment’s lost control, and who wrote Stateless in 2020 about lives intertwining at an Australian immigration detention centre. This is a writer who doesn’t shy away from the pain human beings can inflict on one other. The Survivors is technically a murder mystery but its real subject is grief and terrible, terrible guilt. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago A killer driver, a predatory gymnastics coach and Just Stop Oil activists jailed this week in Greater Manchester

Prison terms are handed out to the worst offenders

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