9 h. ago Luis Piovesana: Family ‘devastated’ after body found in search for brother of judo Olympian

More than 100 police officers have been involved in the search for Luis Piovesana

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40 h. ago Judo Olympian urgently seeks help to find missing brother after his disappearance following distressing 3am voicemail in Bristol

Olympic judoka Lubjana Piovesana has issued a desperate plea for help in finding her missing brother, Luis, as police express growing concern for his safety.

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42 h. ago Judo Olympian appeals for help amid police ‘worry’ for missing brother

Lubjana Piovesana, 28, says the next hours are ‘critical’ in the search for Luis Piovesana, who went missing in Bristol.

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7 d. ago ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Has there ever been a British sumo wrestler?

Martial arts pioneer and former judo Olympian Syd Hoare was a major driving force behind the development of amateur sumo in the UK, an interest that he picked up while studying in Japan.

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9 d. ago ‘I think we brought the wrong one home’: one mother’s search to find her lost son

Joan always suspected she had been handed someone else’s baby by the hospital when she gave birth more than 70 years ago. Then an Ancestry DNA test seemed to prove her right. Now in her 90s, she is in a race against time. Can she find her missing child?When Sue bought her mother and younger brother Ancestry kits for Christmas in 2018, she knew that they were never going to be fun gifts. A lingering doubt had always cast a shadow over their family, a question that had gnawed at them for decades. Sue hoped that, if she, Joan and Doug took DNA tests together, they might finally have the answer they craved.Their results came in a few weeks later. Ancestry listed Sue and Doug as full siblings, with Joan as their mother. Their father, Tom, had died in 2016. Sue felt certain that William – her parents’ first child, the older brother she and Doug had grown up with, a man they hadn’t seen for years – had already taken a DNA test with Ancestry. But he didn’t appear anywhere on their genetic f...

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1 week ago Polish woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann is remanded in custody after being charged with stalking the missing girl's parents, sister and brother

Julia Wandel, 23, from Lubin, Poland, has been remanded into custody after appearing at Leicestershire Magistrates' Court this morning.

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1 week ago Polish woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann is charged with stalking missing girl's parents, sister and brother after flying to the UK

Julia Wandel, 23, who is also known as Julia Wandelt, from Lubin, Poland, has been remanded in custody to appear at Leicestershire Magistrates' Court.

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