24 h. ago Firefighters probe burnt out washing machine after house blaze that killed father and daughter, nine, and left her sister, 11, fighting for her life

A nine-year-old girl and her father have been killed in a house fire in West Yorkshire, while an eleven-year-old girl remains in a critical condition.

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26 h. ago House fire kills father and daughter as another girl fights for her life

Firefighters battled the blaze at a Russell Close property which has resulted in the deaths of a dad and his daughter.

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5 d. ago Collapse of Dutch government leaves uncertainty on streets of Amsterdam

Geert Wilders’ walkout left some disappointed, others relieved – and trust in politics falling most among far rightAtaa Bodin is glad that the Dutch government has fallen. “It’s good,” said the 34-year-old Syrian who lives in the Netherlands. “I have a passport, the father of my daughter is Dutch but for other people it’s difficult. They can’t just go back to Syria like counting to three.”On Tuesday, far-right populist Geert Wilders collapsed his first government after failing to break open the coalition agreement to add 10 new policies on asylum – including deporting Syrians with temporary residency within six months, forcibly if necessary. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Footballer, 35, collapses and dies on pitch after sending now chilling message to fans

Enzo Pittau collapsed on the pitch before suffering a fatal cardiac arrest just before half-time, with his club issuing a statement on the death of the father of a young daughter

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7 d. ago Father's fury after man who rained down blows on him as he cradled his three

CCTV footage shows the shocking moment Smith, 22, was punched in the head on a street in Manchester unable to defend himself while holding his baby girl.

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7 d. ago A Family Matter by Claire Lynch review – powerful debut about lesbian mothers in the 80s

A woman is forced to rethink her childhood after she learns that her mother was denied custody, in a decade blighted by homophobiaFor a writer, the 1980s bear rich, dark fruit. The social and political turbulence of the decade provides the perfect landscape for Claire Lynch’s dual-timeline debut novel A Family Matter, which alternates between 1982 and the present day. On the surface, it is the story of a father-daughter relationship. Heron – an elderly man deeply fond of rules and routine – has recently received a terminal cancer diagnosis, but rather than share it with his grownup daughter, Maggie, who now has a family of her own, he chooses to bear the burden alone. As we learn that Heron raised Maggie by himself, it’s clear this urge to shield his only child from harm is a continuous theme. There is no mention of another parent, just that Heron was divorced many decades ago; it’s only when Lynch takes us back to 1982 that we discover the true story.When Maggie was a toddler,...

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8 d. ago Danny Dyer fights tears as he enjoys emotional first dance with daughter Dani

Former Love Island star Dani Dyer has tied the knot with her love Jarrod Bowen - and her famous dad Danny was there to give her away before the father-daughter duo enjoyed the first dance

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1 week ago Father dragged away from his dying daughter's hospital bedside by police faces legal bill of up to £100,000 after losing wrongful arrest case

Dr Rashid Abbasi had brought a civil claim against Northumbria Police for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment, and assault and battery after the incident at Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.

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1 week ago Conor Maynard speaks out on 'traumatic' paternity drama and how public 'failed' him

Charlotte Chilton publicly claimed last year that the singer is the father to her daughter Penelope

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1 week ago Murder victim's father goes to his grave without knowing who stabbed his daughter to death in closed train carriage in one of Britain's most notorious unsolved crimes

The savage killing of Deborah Linsley on a suburban commuter train as it arrived at London 's Victoria station in 1988 is regularly cited as one of the UK's most high-profile unsolved cases.

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1 week ago Haribo recalls sweets in the Netherlands after traces of cannabis found

Several people reported feeling dizzy and unwell after eating from a 1kg pack of Haribo Happy Cola F!ZZSpace cake, weed cookies and hash brownies may be familiar fare in the Netherlands, but cannabis in bags of children’s candy is not and Haribo has recalled its Happy Cola F!ZZ sweets after traces of the drug were found inside.Several people, including children, suffered “health complaints, such as dizziness” after eating sweets from three 1kg packs, the Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) in the Netherlands said, adding that a full recall had been undertaken as a precaution. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Haribo urgently recalls popular family sweets found to contain cannabis

Multiple members of a family, alongside several other people, reportedly felt unwell after eating the sweets.

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1 week ago Haribo recalls popular cola sweets after cannabis found in them

The NVWA confirmed that samples had been taken and "cannabis was found in them" adding: "We immediately contacted Haribo and they issued a safety warning"

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1 week ago Haribo recalls popular sweets after family falls ill from cannabis

The Happy Cola F!ZZ packets were recalled after the family members in the Netherlands became unwell, reporting dizziness before they alerted the police

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1 week ago Haribo recalls sweets 'after they were found to contain CANNABIS and caused multiple adults and children to fall ill'

The substance was reportedly found after several members of the same family, both children and adults, felt unwell after eating Happy Cola F!ZZ.

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1 week ago Conor Maynard to 'tell his side of the story' after baby DNA drama with Traitors star

Charlotte Chilton claimed that Conor was the father of her daughter, Penelope - something the singer denies.

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1 week ago Gisele Pelicot's daughter opens up on her thoughts about chemical castration for men like her rapist father

Caroline Darian's 72-year-old mother Gisele was drugged and mercilessly raped by her husband Dominique Pelicot and dozens of men over a period of nine years.

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1 week ago Sky Sports' Hayley McQueen still waiting for dad Gordon's death certificate after 18 months

Nearly two years after her father's death, Sky Sports' Hayley McQueen, the daughter of Manchester United legend Gordon, revealed she has still not received a death certificate

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2 w. ago ‘Don’t let her death be in vain’: Father urges UK to help extradite main suspect in daughter’s murder

A father urges one of UK’s most wanted men - the main suspect in his daughter’s rape and murder - to hand himself in

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2 w. ago Freddie Mercury's secret daughter revealed: The sensational story of the Queen frontman's last secret

A bombshell new biography of Queen's iconic frontman Freddie Mercury is to stun the world of showbusiness by revealing the existence of a secret daughter.

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