13 h. ago ‘He made the dust fly!’ Mick Jagger and others on 100 years of Clifton Chenier, the king of zydeco

Whether playing the Royal Albert Hall or a rooster fight, Chenier’s scorching Creole blues blew minds. As a tribute album is released, starry admirers and family members remember one of history’s great live performers‘Clifton Chenier was one of the most influential musicians to come out of Louisiana,” Mick Jagger tells me. “He turned so many people on to the wonderful, free spirited dance music of zydeco. He was a true original, a trailblazer.” Jagger acknowledges that while no music style can be attributed to one artist, “there is not a zydeco band who has not followed the template Chenier created”.Jagger is not engaging in hyperbole here: Clifton Chenier’s swaggering, accordion-driven sound introduced the Creole music of rural Louisiana to the world – now known as zydeco, the name derived either from the Creole pronunciation of haricots, or possibly a west African word for music-making. Created by the US’s poorest communities, zydeco is very much dance music, and concerts were onc...

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14 h. ago British base jumper who worked on Mission Impossible died as wingsuit failed in Alps tragedy

Daredevil Dylan Roberts, 32, was killed 20 seconds into a flight from a base jumping cliff in Italy in June 2022. Concluding his death was a "tragic accident", coroner Margaret Taylor said Mr Roberts was a skydiving instructor who took safety extremely seriously

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37 h. ago Police release details after woman dies in horror building fall in Manchester

The woman, aged in her 40s, died after falling from a building on Great Ancoats Street

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40 h. ago Rapist and murderer, 92, to die in jail six decades after horror attack

Evil Ryland Headley raped and murdered Louisa Dunne in 1967 and claimed his innocence, but modern forensic tests on DNA preserved since the 1960s proved he was the killer.

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3 d. ago Chalkwell Park fundraiser tops £12k less than five hours after schoolgirl, 7, dies in tree horror

A schoolgirl, aged 7, was killed in a horror accident after a tree collapsed at Chalkwell Park, Essex. Kind-hearted locals have raised thousands of pounds in less than 24 hours

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3 d. ago M60 traffic LIVE: Man dies in horror car crash as major motorway shut by police for HOURS

Greater Manchester Police rushed to a crash on the M60 this morning. The force has confirmed that a man in his 50s tragically died at the scene

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3 d. ago Man, 57, dies in horror crash as M60 closed for hours amid police investigations

The motorway has been closed in both directions since 4am

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4 d. ago Ballymun pedestrian dies after being hit by car in horror early morning crash

Early this morning, Irish police and emergency services were called to a road traffic incident after a pedestrian was involved in a crash with a vehicle in Ballymun, a suburb of Dublin

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4 d. ago Biker dies week on from horror Highland crash after man arrested

Steven Twizell, from Armadale in West Lothian, died in hospital a week after the June 19 collision near Inverness.

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4 d. ago Footballer dies aged 23 after horror car crash left him in a coma for 15 days

La Palmas have confirmed the sad passing of Zeben Ramos after he was involved in a car crash earlier this month with a number of their Spanish colleagues having since offered their tributes

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5 d. ago Footballer, 23, dies after horror car crash left him in a coma for 15 days

Las Palmas, who were recently relegated to La Liga Segunda, have been left in mourning following the tragic death of 23-year-old defender Zeben Ramos

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5 d. ago ‘True original’ student killed while skydiving in Devon was ‘beautiful soul’

The incident took place on June 13.

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5 d. ago Family's tribute to 'true original' skydive instructor who died in horror jump

The family of skydive instructor Adam Harrison have paid a heartfelt tribute to him after he lost his life alongside mum-of-four Belinda Taylor in a routine tandem jump

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6 d. ago Horror Eastleigh bus footage shows kids scream 'we're going to die' before river crash

The bus crash happened in Eastleigh, near Southampton, earlier today leaving seven injured, two seriously - shocking footage has now emerged from onboard

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7 d. ago 'Adrenaline junkie' mother died on her first skydive alongside instructor when their 'parachute did not open as expected', inquest hears

Skydive instructor Adam Harrison and Belinda Taylor, who was strapped to him on her first jump, died when the parachute failed to open and they crashed to the ground.

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8 d. ago Mum's 'world fell apart' after teen daughter dies in horror car crash at hands of speeding boyfriend

Lily-May Vaughan, 17, died when the car she was in flipped and hit a pole - with her mum now calling for law changes to protect others after the driver kept their license for 13 months following the crash

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8 d. ago Honeymoon horror as Florida man dies in freak lightning strike on beach in front of wife

The 29-year-old victim, who was visiting from Colorado, was on his honeymoon with his wife when he was struck by lightning on Symrna Beach, Florida, last Friday

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8 d. ago Girl, 8, orphaned after mum, dad and brother die in horror M5 motorway crash

Tributes were paid to 14-year-old Sebastian and his parents Swala Harding and Andy Moore after they were killed in a crash following a family holiday to Cornwall

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1 week ago My perfect holiday reading, by Bernardine Evaristo, David Nicholls, Zadie Smith and more

Authors including Michael Rosen, Samantha Harvey and Rutger Bregman reveal their books of the summerSummer reading: the 50 hottest books to read nowThe 10 best audiobooks for summerZadie SmithFor me summer reading is about immersion. Three novels fully absorbed me recently. Flesh by David Szalay is a very smart and stylish novel about the 1%, filtered through the life of a Hungarian bodyguard/driver in their midst. Cécé by Emmelie Prophète (out 23 September) vividly depicts the slums of contemporary Haiti via a very online young sex worker who lives her best life on Facebook. Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie features a series of unforgettable women trying to work out what love means. The summer read I’m looking forward to myself is Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, a true original.David NichollsI would recommend two books, 800 pages and a shade under 150, depending on what you can carry. Helen Garner’s collected diaries, How to End a Story, are frank, gripping and rev...

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1 week ago Boyfriend's desperate plea to drink driver moments before he killed girlfriend

Lillie Clack, 22, died in hospital days after the horror crash after she, her boyfriend and two other pals accepted a lift home from a man who was too drunk to drive following a night out at Winter Wonderland

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