3 d. ago Family of boy who battled rare brain tumour help hundreds of parents with terminally ill kids

Triplet Caleb Stirrat, from Clydebank, near Glasgow, was given months to live after an aggressive brain tumour returned in 2020.

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1 week ago My weirdest Christmas: I spent three hours in a car with a screaming baby – and she completely changed my life

Her decibel level was almost operatic. But the sound of my first granddaughter wailing like an ambulance was the most beautiful I had ever heardJust days before Christmas in 2018, I took a flight from New York City to visit my family in southern Italy. My wife, Elvira, and daughter Caroline had moved to a small town in the countryside a few years earlier, and I planned in due course to join the festivities permanently.I’d made the trip before, once or twice a year since they moved, mainly to get the lay of the land. But this time was different. Caroline had recently had her first child and our first grandchild. And now, after making do with photos and videos, I was finally going to meet Lucia Antonia, all of 11 weeks old. Rarely in my life had I felt more giddy about an encounter in the offing. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Woman becomes first wheelchair user to ever visit space on historic Blue Origin flight

Her goal is to make not only space accessible to the disabled, but to improve accessibility on Earth too

Politics

2 w. ago Lapland flight to see Santa axed on runway leaving hundreds of kids in tears

The cancellation shattered the hopes of hundreds of children, whose parents had paid thousands of pounds for a festive day trip to Finland to visit Santa in Lapland

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2 w. ago Hundreds of kids in tears as Lapland flight to visit Santa axed on runway

Scots families - and 130 children - had boarded a Glasgow flight to Finland to enjoy a magical day of husky rides, snow mobiles and a special meeting with Santa.

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3 w. ago Silent Night, Deadly Night review – killer Santa remake is overstuffed

There are too many competing and overfamiliar ideas in this busy slasher reboot that’s sorely lacking in styleThere was a bizarre moral outrage back in November 1984 when seasonal slasher Silent Night, Deadly Night dared to put an axe in the hands of Santa. Despite being, you know, not a real person he was once treated with enough reverence to cause parent-led protests, a ban of all advertising and then of the film itself. It provided a sharp edge to an otherwise blunt and unremarkable post-Halloween knockoff and might help to explain why it managed to eke out four junky sequels and a 2012 remake.We’re now at the inevitable second remake stage but the 2025 redo arrives after the gimmick of Killer Santa has now become a subgenre in itself. He’s cropped up in Christmas Bloody Christmas, Christmas Evil, Santa’s Slay, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, Deadly Games and last year’s Terrifier 3 and the makers of this December’s take are more than aware that seeing Santa with a weapon isn’t e...

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