85 m. ago Owners of luxury £2.5m estate cleared of failing to properly train man crushed by quadbike

Nicholas Prest, 71, and Anthea Prest, 70, denied responsibility for the death of groundsman Paul Marsden, 47, who was killed while using the quad bike to spray weedkiller

Economics

2 h. ago Grandad killed in M60 triple crash tragedy 'brightened lives of everyone'

David Shepherd's family have remembered the 59-year-old dad and grandfather as a man who 'embraced life with a boyish charm' following his death in a three-way car crash

Events

2 h. ago Channel boat migrant is found guilty of murdering asylum hotel worker after stabbing her to death with a screwdriver

Deng Chol Majek, who claims to be 19 but has no documentation, stabbed Rhiannon Whyte 23 times with a screwdriver as she talked to her best friend on the phone.

Events

2 h. ago Asylum seeker found guilty of stabbing migrant hotel worker to death with screwdriver

The trial heard Majek had been reported to security at the Park Inn hotel in Walsall, where he lived and Rhiannon worked

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2 h. ago Cheltenham Gold Cup runner Sounds Russian euthanised after injury complications

The ten-year-old Ruth Jefferson-trained gelding had struggled with injury after he was brought down in the 2023 Gold Cup won by Galopin Des Champs

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2 h. ago Horror as retired nurse trampled to death by herd of cows during dog walk

Rebecca Jane Hitchings was walking her dog on Exmoor when she was struck by a herd of cows, causing her to suffer significant injuries and haemorrhagic shock

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2 h. ago Legal team in Sheku Bayoh Inquiry quits days after chair Lord Bracadale

Five lawyers step down from inquiry into death of man in Kirkcaldy

Politics

2 h. ago Not to be: Hamlet rages in Stockholm against the political closure of a cultural institution

The experimental annex of Sweden’s national stage, Elverket, has fallen victim to severe government cuts. Its final play is a powerful protest against being forced to leave its homeSomething is rotten in Swedish theatre. In front of Elverket – a former power station that for much of the last 30 years has been at the centre of Stockholm’s experimental dramatic output – posters proclaim that theatre is dead. Inside the former turbine hall, either side of a red chandelier-lit platform surrounded by contorted bodies, Hamlet and Ophelia, brilliantly played by Gustav Lindh and Gizem Erdogan, are furiously channelling the rage of a generation, loudly hitting the walls with bars. In the play’s final seconds, gravediggers give way to builders dressed in high-vis come in to cover the stage in tarpaulin and start work.This adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, not so cryptically subtitled The Death of Theatre, is the venue’s last ever theatre production before it is shut down. Dramaten, the roy...

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3 h. ago PSNI chief to be shown sensitive files relating to Jock Davison’s death

The 47-year-old was shot dead in the Markets area of Belfast in May 2015.

Events

3 h. ago Racing prodigy tipped for a Formula One career admits to stabbing his father to death in family spat gone wrong

A former racing prodigy once tipped to reach Formula One has admitted to stabbing his father to death following a violent family dispute in Spain.

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4 h. ago Wartime secret to feeding babies cuts death risk up to 31 per cent

Experts examined the health records of more than 63,000 people dating back to the Second World War

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4 h. ago Businessman, 61, faces murder probe after 'stabbing his wife to death' following 'girls' trip' to Turkey

Gavin Shaw, 61, was arrested after Michele Kennedy was attacked with a kitchen knife during a row at a house in Warrington, Cheshire earlier this month.

Events

4 h. ago Horrifying final wish of drug smuggling Brit gran facing death by firing squad

Lindsay Sandiford has been on death row awaiting execution for the last 12 years but could be back in the UK in weeks

Events

4 h. ago Disgraced Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins cause of death revealed

The 38-year-old was serving a 29-year-sentence at HMP Wakefield when he was allegedly attacked and killed. Two inmates have been charged with his murder.

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5 h. ago Killer is guilty of murdering stepdaughter and her husband by knifing them to death before picking up their children from school then taking them to McDonald's

Derek Martin, 67, 'just flipped' and brutally attacked Chloe Bashford, 30, in her own home after a row erupted over money.

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5 h. ago Crowds demand death penalty for Algerian woman 'who raped, tortured and murdered 12

Dahbia Benkired, 27, is currently facing life imprisonment after allegedly luring schoolgirl Lola Daviet into her apartment on October 14, 2022, before sexually assaulting and killing her.

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5 h. ago What REALLY happens when you nearly die: 48 people reveal exactly what they saw during their near

Researchers interviewed 48 people who have had near-death experiences (NDEs) and asked them what they saw in their final moments.

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5 h. ago Widow of man shot at Texas ICE facility wonders if political violence is to blame

Stephany Gauffeny lost her husband, Miguel García-Hernández, when he was shot at an ICE center and later died‘He didn’t deserve that’: widow speaks out after husband’s violent death at Ice facilityThe widow of one of the people killed when a gunman opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Texas last month has spoken out to question whether the political violence rising under the Trump administration played a role in her husband’s death.Stephany Gauffeny lost her husband, Miguel García-Hernández, when he became the second of two men to die in the attack outside a detention center in Dallas, after succumbing to his gunshot wounds. Continue reading...

Politics

5 h. ago Widow of man shot at Texas ICE facility questions whether political violence is to blame

Stephany Gauffeny lost her husband, Miguel García-Hernández, when he was shot at an ICE center and later died‘He didn’t deserve that’: widow speaks out after husband’s violent death at Ice facilityThe widow of one of the people killed when a gunman opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Texas last month has spoken out to question whether the political violence rising under the Trump administration played a role in her husband’s death.Stephany Gauffeny lost her husband, Miguel García-Hernández, when he became the second of two men to die in the attack outside a detention center in Dallas, after succumbing to his gunshot wounds. Continue reading...

Politics

5 h. ago Jury out on asylum seeker accused of stabbing hotel worker to death at station

Deng Chol Majek is accused of attacking Rhiannon Whyte at Bescot Stadium station in Walsall.

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