5 h. ago Greek Heiress Marissa Laimou, 28, Dies In London Flat After Alleged Insect Bite

Greek Heiress Marissa Laimou, 28, Dies In London Flat After Alleged Insect Bite  NDTV

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6 h. ago Greek heiress, Marissa Laimou, found dead in London flat after hospital diagnosed 'insect bite'

Greek heiress, Marissa Laimou, found dead in London flat after hospital diagnosed 'insect bite'  Times of India

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7 h. ago Greek shipping heiress, 28, dies in London flat after ‘insect bite’

Greek shipping heiress, 28, dies in London flat after ‘insect bite’  The Times

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14 h. ago Heiress found dead in flat after hospital sent her home as mum says 'England is crying'

Greek heiress Marissa Laimou, 28, tragically died earlier this week after she became ill with symptoms relating to an insect bite from an unknown creature, her mum claimed

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18 h. ago Heiress, 28, found dead in London flat 'after suffering toxic shock from insect bite'

Marissa Laimou was found dead after being turned away from two hospitals, according to her mother

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26 h. ago Heiress, 28, is found dead in London flat 'after being turned away from hospitals when she was bitten by an INSECT'

Marissa Laimou also known as Lemos was found lifeless in her bed by her housekeeper on September 11.

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6 d. ago No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes review – a thrilling take on the Golden Fleece myth

Medea tells her side of the story in a reimagining of the ancient Greek stories that puts women centre stageThe women of myth have been talking – and they’re pointing the finger at us. Myths are “mirrors of us”, writes Natalie Haynes in Pandora’s Jar, her book of essays on the women of Greek mythology. “Which version of a story we choose to tell, which characters we place in the foreground, which ones we allow to fade into the shadows: these reflect both the teller and the reader, as much as they show the characters of the myth.”Considerations of culture and bias have been central to the recent wave of mythic retellings focused on women, from Madeline Miller’s Circe and Pat Barker’s Iliad trilogy to Haynes’s own triad of novels set within the classical Greek world (The Children of Jocasta, A Thousand Ships and Stone Blind). This latest is a reimagining of the myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece and, true to form, it centres the women. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago What living in a van for two years taught me about living in a small flat in London

Police knocks on the door, surprise welfare checks and... a sense of adventure. Here’s what #vanlife is really all about

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1 week ago London leaver: Why we swapped our Putney flat for a house in Haslemere

London leaver: Why we swapped our Putney flat for a house in Haslemere  London Evening Standard

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1 week ago London leaver: How we swapped our West Putney flat for a home twice the size in Haslemere

When they bought their starter home — a two-bedroom flat with no outdoor space in West Putney — Amy and Alexander Vickery felt like they were set for life.

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2 w. ago Mother whose sick child was left in damp and mouldy flat by south London council is awarded £9,400

An investigation found Lewisham Council took 13 months ‘too long’ to provide the family with interim accommodation

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2 w. ago Master manipulator, 59, who battered his elderly fiancée, 70, before drowning her in bath is jailed

Clifford Cowen, 59, plied Rita Fleming, 70, with alcohol in her flat in Notting Hill, west London in a bid to make her death seem like a drunken accident, Kingston Crown Court heard.

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2 w. ago From mast climbs to monastery steps: My Greek island small ship cruise odyssey under sail

Marc Shoffman gets a different view of the Greek islands on a small ship sailing with Star Clippers

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2 w. ago Former Tory MP David Warburton found dead in London flat aged 59

David Warburton represented the Somerton and Frome constituency in Somerset from 2015 until June 2023

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2 w. ago Former Tory MP David Warburton found dead at west London flat

Former Tory MP David Warburton found dead at west London flat  The Guardian

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2 w. ago I won a £4,500,000 Omaze London house and said goodbye to my studio flat

I won a £4,500,000 Omaze London house and said goodbye to my studio flat  Metro.co.uk

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2 w. ago What £1 million buys you throughout London — from a Stoke Newington 'shed' to a Maida Vale mews

What does being a property millionaire really mean? In London it could be anything from a flat to a mansion depending on where you live

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3 w. ago Pictured: Homeless man who battered 'kind' woman, 36, to death with a mallet just days after taking him into her £1.3million flat

Victoria Adams, 36, was found dead at her flat in Hammersmith, west London , on February 9 after police were called to a report of a man attempting to break into the property.

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3 w. ago Pictured: Homeless man who battered 'kind' woman, 37, to death with a mallet just days after taking him into her £1.3million flat

Victoria Adams, 37, was found dead at her flat in Hammersmith, west London , on February 9 after police were called to a report of a man attempting to break into the property.

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3 w. ago Homeless man admits murdering woman who let him stay in her west London flat with a mallet

Apapale Adoum pleaded guilty to the murder of Victoria Adams, 37, at the Old Bailey

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