31 h. ago Boy who met Prince and Princess of Wales and caught William's attention by asking a sweet question about Prince George killed himself after getting into trouble with police, inquest hears

Zak Kay met the royal couple in July 2016 aged 10, after he won a local contest to design a trophy for the Portsmouth leg of the America's Cup World Series.

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32 h. ago Boy who met Prince and Princess of Wales and caught William's attention after asking a sweet question about Prince George killed himself after getting into trouble with police, inquest hears

Zak Kay met the royal couple in July 2016 aged 10, after he won a local contest to design a trophy for the Portsmouth leg of the America's Cup World Series.

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40 h. ago Teenage kickboxer who collapsed after unsanctioned contest died from misadventure, inquest hears

Alex Eastwood collapsed after an unsanctioned kickboxing contest

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64 h. ago Chaplain who starred in Channel 4 show Geordie Hospital went 'above and beyond' caring for patients and staff before taking her own life, inquest hears

Katie Watson was found hanging in Jesmond Dene, Newcastle, last September, having suffered long-standing mental health issues which required both community and in-patient treatment.

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66 h. ago Diver's body found 300ft underwater in dangerous quarry as death feared 'unnatural'

An inquest heard how North Wales Police received a call with a report that a diver had died at the quarry - the body of Tim James Waples was found nearly 300ft (85 metres) underwater

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2 d. ago Race Across the World star Sam Gardiner's cause of death heard after devastating crash

Sam Gardiner died three days after the crash on the A34, an inquest opening has heard

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3 d. ago Doctor did 'everything he could' to help baby who died after being given overdose of medication , inquest hears

Two nurses also described how an overdose of atracurium was administered to Polly Ida Lindop while they worked with an unfamiliar piece of apparatus

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3 d. ago First responder rushed to suspected suicide only to find the victim was his own son, inquest hears

Robert White senior was called out to an incident just 100 metres from his family home in Torpoint, Cornwall, one night last September.

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3 d. ago British father, 32, plunged to his death in Turkey hours after he was escorted off plane following drunken row with his partner, inquest hears

Ben Crook, 32, was reported missing after he flew out to Antalya to celebrate his 32nd birthday with his partner Jess Jenkins and her two children on September 23.

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3 d. ago Kickboxer, 15, had fought man, 34, week before fatal bout, inquest hears

Alex Eastwood collapsed after a kickboxing match in Wigan and died three days later.

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4 d. ago Youngest girl in Britain to be charged with terror offences killed herself after being groomed by American neo

Autistic Rhianan Rudd, 16, plotted to blow up a synagogue and scratched a swastika into her forehead after coming into contact with the two men.

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7 d. ago PE teacher, 31, who was obsessed with not going bald took his own life after switching to an unlicensed drug in Dubai to treat his hair loss, inquest hears

Sam Applegarth, 31, who had no history of mental health problems, hanged himself in Dubai after starting an online course of dutasteride - a drug not licensed for hair loss in the UK.

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7 d. ago Girl, four, choked to death on vegetarian meatball lunch at nursery school, inquest hears

Lyla Eden Windell, four, stood up from the table where she was eating with her classmates and tried to pull food out of her mouth at her nursery in West Sussex, an inquest heard.

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9 d. ago Police sergeant hit by train after ‘misleading’ information given, inquest hears

Sergeant Graham Saville, 46, was fatally injured while on duty in Nottinghamshire.

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9 d. ago Soldier was ‘degraded’ and ‘undermined’ before death in barracks, inquest hears

Lance Corporal Bernard Mongan was screamed and sworn at, his friend says

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9 d. ago Inheritance tax changes 'led farmer's father to take his own life'

An inquest heard Mr Charlesworth had been struggling to care for his wife

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1 week ago British soldier found dead in his barracks after lying there for three weeks was 'degraded' by superior officers, inquest hears

A friend of Lance Corporal Bernard Mongan, 33, said 'bullying would be an understatement'.

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1 week ago University student, 18, died of carbon monoxide poisoning from portable heater in aristocrat's cottage that should not have been used indoors, inquest hears

Tom Hill was about to have a bath when he inhaled the highly poisonous gas leaking out of a heater at Glenmark Cottage, Scotland, on October 28, 2015, and collapsed shortly afterwards.

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1 week ago Housebound disabled woman who killed herself after her benefits were cut left notes saying she was unable to pay her bills and had no food, inquest hears

Jodey Whiting, 42, from Stockton-on-Tees, had been asked in January 2017 to attend a work capability assessment before her payments were stopped, but she was not well enough to go.

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1 week ago Foster child, 12, killed carer just six days after he was placed with her after social workers failed to uncover gang and knife links, inquest hears

Marcia Grant, 60 had been working as a foster carer for seven years before she was twice run over by the knife-wielding child outside her home in Greenhill, Sheffield, on April 5, 2023.

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