35 h. ago Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’

The winner of this year’s fiction prize on growing up as an outsider, why we’re all guilty of complicity, and using her acceptance speech to reveal that she is intersexIt has been a dramatic couple of years for 37-year-old Dutch author Yael van der Wouden: her first novel, The Safekeep, a love story that deals with the legacy of the Holocaust in the Netherlands, was the focus of a frenzied bidding war and shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Last night it won the Women’s prize for fiction.“I wrote this book from a place of hopelessness,” she says when we meet. “I was looking for a ray of sunshine.” This morning in London the sun is blazing. She could never have expected that her novel would see off shortlisted authors including Miranda July (of whose work she is a big fan) and Elizabeth Strout. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago ‘She was a ray of sunshine’: First British victims of Air India plane crash named after 241 killed

Victims include a family of three from Gloucester and a London-based couple who ran a spiritual wellness company

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52 h. ago Girl, 4, feared dead in Air India plane crash described as 'ray of sunshine'

Tributes have poured in for Sara Nanabawa, who is feared dead following the India plane crash, which happened shortly after the jet took off from Ahmedabad Airport, in western India

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62 h. ago 1989 police probe into murder of John Devine ‘seriously defective’ – Ombudsman

The 37-year-old father-of-three was killed by loyalists in Belfast in July 1989.

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67 h. ago Mystery as influencer is found dead in the back of a car in university parking lot two days after heading to a promotional event

Police in India have launched a murder probe after a controversial influencer was found dead in the back of a car two days after heading to a promotional event. 

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3 d. ago Maidenhead murder probe as boy, 4, found dead and woman arrested

Thames Valley Police has launched an investigation after the body of a four-year-old boy was discovered in Maidenhead - police said they have arrested a woman on suspicion of murder

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3 d. ago Maidenhead: Boy, 4, found dead in house as woman arrested on suspicion of murder

Thames Valley Police has launched an investigation after the body of a four-year-old boy was discovered in Maidenhead - police said they have arrested a woman on suspicion of murder

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3 d. ago Murder investigation launched after boy, 4, found dead in home as woman arrested by police

Despite the effort of Thames Valley Police officers, the child was pronounced dead at the property in Maidenhead

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3 d. ago Murder probe launched after boy, four, found dead at home: Police arrest 37

Police were called to the address in Maidenhead, Berks, at 6.30pm yesterday afternoon where the child was declared deceased.

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3 d. ago Adam Thomas says 'we'll never grow up' in tribute to brother Ryan ahead of next big move

The Waterloo Road star paid tribute to his older sibling on his birthday following a huge announcement on their new joint move

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5 d. ago ‘I watched Bob Dylan play tennis with three of the Beatles’: how we made the Isle of Wight festival

‘It’s a myth that Jimi Hendrix played while the stage was on fire. It was a firework’In 1968, when I was 22, my older brother Ronnie got a job as a fundraiser for a swimming pool on the island. I’d done a concert for CND [the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament], so we started talking about doing some sort of festival to raise the money. My younger brother Bill suggested it had to be pop. An agency in London gave Ronnie a list of acts including the Pretty Things, the Move, Fairport Convention, Tyrannosaurus Rex and an American act, Jefferson Airplane. We only had a £750 investment from the Isle of Wight Indoor Swimming Pool Association, but after a friend lent us his £1,000 army pay-off, we managed to book all those bands, sell 10,000 tickets and break even. In the interim, the pool association pulled out because it didn’t like the publicity about hippies, drugs and sex, but they allowed us to use their investment and we were able to pay them back. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Schoolboy, 14, pleaded 'I don't want to die' as he was held by passers

The tearful parents of a 14-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in broad daylight yesterday have left a picture of him outside the pub in north Manchester where he was brutally attacked.

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5 d. ago Boy, 14, stabbed to death named and pictured amid huge murder investigation

Four people have been arrested with a murder probe underway

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5 d. ago Teen boy 'ran to house for help after being stabbed in street' before he died

A murder probe has been launched.

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6 d. ago Manchester murder probe: Boy's heartbreaking words as he fled attacker before tragic death

Greater Manchester continues today to investigate the tragedy in the Nevin Road area of New Moston where the teenage boy died following a "distressing incident"

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6 d. ago Manchester murder probe: Boy, 13, 'ran to house for help' with serious injuries before he died

Three people have been arrested amid Greater Manchester Police's murder investigation after a teenage boy died in the New Moston area of the city on Sunday evening

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6 d. ago Murder probe launched after teenage boy 'stabbed to death outside pub'

Three people have been arrested in connection with the incident on Sunday night.

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6 d. ago Manchester murder probe after teenage boy 'killed outside pub' with three arrested

Police are urging eyewitnesses to come forward after a teenager sadly died in Manchester. Three suspects are currently in custody following the incident

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6 d. ago Manchester murder probe as teenage boy 'stabbed to death outside pub'

Police are urging eyewitnesses to come forward after a teenager was allegedly stabbed to death in Manchester. Three suspects are currently in custody following the attack

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6 d. ago Teenage boy dead after 'incident' in Oldham: Police arrest three amid murder probe

Officers and paramedics rushed to the scene on Nevin Road in New Moston, Oldham, today with a large police cordon now in place.

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