9 h. ago Human bones discovered on UK holiday beach as police 'dig through sand' by sauna

Police were called to Saunton Sands in North Devon at 2.50pm on Saturday afternoon and it has has now been confirmed that human bones have been found at the location popular with holidaymakers

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29 h. ago Saunton Sands police search LIVE as cops 'dig through sand' near beach sauna

Police cars and officers were spotted at Saunton Sands in North Devon at around 1.30pm on Sunday

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3 d. ago Police launch investigation after mystery human bone found in bag

Officers said the bag containing the bone was found at the base of well-known landmark

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4 d. ago Builders make grim 'human bones' discovery outside church as police launch probe

Two builders uncovered a plastic bag containing what they believe to be human bones on October 6 in Doncaster, prompting South Yorkshire Police to cordon off a 50-metre area for investigation

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4 d. ago Human bones found in black bag buried just yards from graveyard

Construction workers were removing overgrowth with a digger to build a wooden fence in Doncaster on Monday when they found the bag of bones in a black bag just three metres away from a graveyard.

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8 d. ago Major incident on UK beach as police and air ambulance descend on scene

This is a breaking news story and is being constantly updated by our reporters as the breaking news story develops

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8 d. ago Weymouth Pavilion 'incident' LIVE as emergency services rush to seaside theatre

Weymouth beach was cleared to allow the air ambulance to land, with police and ambulances seen around Weymouth Pavillion this afternoon

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1 week ago Police issue update after ‘human hand’ reports on Welsh beach

A dog walker had feared his dog had come across a human hand on the beach

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1 week ago ‘We need anger to fight for our lives’: Mexican musician Silvana Estrada on grief, violence and the indignity of ‘el ghosting’

Estrada’s lovelorn debut album won her a Latin Grammy, but for its follow-up she wanted to leave sadness behind. Then, the very different losses of two friends brought out a newfound sense of furySilvana Estrada spent 25 years “not knowing how to get angry”, she says. “That cost me so much energy and dignity.” Sadness, though, she had always understood: “I live with her very close to me.” Now 28, the Mexican singer-songwriter grew up outside Veracruz, a city on the Gulf of Mexico, “witnessing violence from so many angles”: rampant femicide, narcoculture, environmental attacks on the coffee plantations and rivers of her home. As a lonely teenager, she discovered Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald. They helped guide the darkness she felt and introduced her to vocal improvisation. Estrada, born to a family of luthiers, started making her own music, played on a four-string Venezuelan cuatro and inspired by Mexican son jarocho (folk music). The title of her acclaimed 2022 deb...

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1 week ago Spanish police capture Scots Tinder rapist on beach after he faked own death

James Clacher, 57, was caged for eight years at the High Court in Edinburgh today.

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1 week ago Riot police stop migrants from reaching beach in French town

A woman with a baby strapped to her back was pushed back into the crowd by one officer as she tried to break through the police line in Gravelines.

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3 w. ago Airport staff make grim find as man caught with human skull and bones in suitcase

A man was caught trying to smuggle a human skull and bones through security at an airport - but he had a bizarre excuse for his actions, claiming they were for a ritual

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3 w. ago Human skull and bones discovered in passenger’s luggage at Florida airport

The passenger said the remains were for ‘rituals’

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3 w. ago Airport horror as border patrol find 'human remains' in passenger's luggage

Customs officers discovered what appeared to be a human skull and several bones inside the man's luggage at Tampa International Airport in Florida, along with 'prohibited plants'

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4 w. ago Missing dad TJay Waters' body found on beach 6 months after he was last seen

TJay Waters was reported missing on Wednesday, March 5, after last being spotted at a Cash Converters in Southport town centre a day prior - now police have confirmed a body found on a beach is him

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