36 h. ago ‘He’s taught me more about living than life itself’: on the road with Niki and Jimmy

At 17 Niki vowed to give her newborn son, born blind and profoundly disabled, the best life she could. Thirty years on she and Jimmy are travelling Australia in a Toyota Troopy, balancing hard-won freedom with constant careOutside a supermarket in Exmouth, a small town 1,250km north of Perth, a man notices Niki carrying Jimmy on her back. She is 152cm tall and he weighs 45kg. “He should be carrying you!” the man says.Strangers often misjudge Niki’s son, who is 30 but looks, she says, “like he’s eight or nine”. Jimmy is blind and has panhypopituitarism, a hormonal disorder that affects fewer than one in 100,000 Australians each year. This condition halted his development, leaving him unable to walk or speak, with severe intellectual disability.Niki hoists Jimmy on to her back for a walk along the beach in Exmouth. She has always carried him Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Man dies following road crash which also claimed life of pregnant woman

Two cars were involved in the collision close to Nutts Corner in Co Antrim on Sunday.

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9 d. ago Glasgow City Council ordered to pay £80,000 to man hit by falling lamppost

Colin Shaw, 50, was left with life-changing injuries after being struck on Kirklee Road, near Kelvinside Academy in the west end.

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1 week ago Driver, 26, admits killing schoolboy after ploughing into him and another teen at bus stop on their way to school

Freddie Coleman, 15, died as he stood by the road in Stock, Essex,while a second child suffered life-changing injuries but survived.

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1 week ago Man fighting for his life in hospital after horror triple stabbing on Edgware Road

Officers were called to Edgware Road following reports of multiple stabbings

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1 week ago Mass stabbing horror on UK road as man fights for life and emergency crews swoop

Mass stabbing horror on UK road as man fights for life and emergency crews swoop  Daily Star

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1 week ago Edgware Road triple stabbing live updates as man fights for his life

Edgware Road triple stabbing live updates as man fights for his life  My London

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2 w. ago Man, 48, killed and woman, 50, fighting for her life after crashing into roundabout & veering off road on New Year’s Eve

A MAN has died and a woman is fighting for her life after crashing into a roundabout and veering off the road on New Year's Eve. Cops were called to the scene on Wednesday morning in Irlam, Greater Manchester to reports of a collision. The driver, a 48-year-old man, had smashed into a roundabout causing...

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2 w. ago Blood Bike rider fighting for life after crash shuts major road

A man has been arrested in connection with the crash which closed the A48 in Carmarthenshire on Monday evening

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3 w. ago Chris Rea’s Driving Home for Christmas is an evergreen, everyman anthem that captures the season’s true spirit

By rejecting the bombast of 80s pop, the late singer-songwriter’s track has endured, and thereby perfectly captures the nostalgic feelings at the heart of Christmas• Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74• Chris Rea – a life in picturesBritain isn’t a great island for road songs. It’s not big enough, really, for you to hit the road and drive. And if you try, you may just end up stuck in traffic on the A1, where the late Chris Rea found himself in Christmas 1978, his wife behind the wheel of her Mini, he beside her as they tried to get from Abbey Road Studios in London to their home in Middlesbrough, 220 miles away.He wrote the song on a whim, scribbling down the lyrics whenever passing headlights illuminated the car interior (as he told this paper’s Dave Simpson in 2016), then put it away with his other unfinished scraps when he got home. Eight years later, he paired his lyric with some jazzy chords he’d written and a song was born. At first, he shoved it on a B-s...

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4 w. ago Explosion 'like a plane crashing' showered street with debris then the full tragedy emerged

The huge, fatal, blast in Clydach Road, Morriston, claimed one life and had others fleeing for their own and still casts a dark shadow over the community

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4 w. ago Speed limit call at danger stretch of Stirling road labelled "life

The issues with accidents on the stretch of the A84 near Blairdrummond were raised as a rethink on speed limits on Scotland's roads was blasted by an MSP.

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