31 h. ago Lifeguard impaled by umbrella at the beach 'lucky to be alive' as she smiles with spike

Brave Alex was rushed to hospital after being impaled by an umbrella but smiled with the spike in her hospital bed and said her biggest worry was having to miss six weeks of work

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65 h. ago Summer horror as female lifeguard is impaled with beach umbrella on sweltering day

A New Jersey lifeguard was impaled by a 6-foot beach umbrella on Wednesday morning at Asbury Park Beach.

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3 d. ago British couple 'lucky to get out alive' after their apartment in Spain is destroyed in arson attack which has left them homeless

Dan and Marie Williams and their two daughters are said to have been left 'relying on the generosity of friends' after a devastating fire ripped through their home in Ibiza.

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4 d. ago British dad breaks spine and hip after horror fall from Ayia Napa hotel balcony

Sam Hudson, who is a father to a two-year-old boy, is said to be "lucky to be alive" following the horror fall at the Anmaria Beach Hotel, where he was staying in Ayia Napa

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4 d. ago British expat, 54, lucky to be alive after Iranian missile exploded next to him and his son as they fled bombing raid

The Rochdale-born father, who has lived in the country for 35 years, was with son Itay, 16, when the alarms warned of enemy fire.

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5 d. ago Love Island star says she's lucky to be alive after 'chaotic' hot air balloon crash

Love Island star Liberty Poole has said she feels "lucky to be alive" after a "chaotic" hot air balloon experience just days before a fatal crash killed eight people

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5 d. ago Woman catapulted from funfair ride at 60mph 'lucky to be alive'

"When I came off my ride I hit the ride next to me. They even said if I had hit that ride differently I would be dead. There was no way of surviving."

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6 d. ago Terrifying moment woman was catapulted from UK fairground ride at 60mph

Jade Harrison was thrown from a fairground ride at 60mph and was left with life-altering injuries. The 27-year-old said she is 'lucky to be alive' and has vowed to never step foot on a fairground ride again

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6 d. ago Toxic smoke warning as man 'lucky to be alive' after power bank flat fire

Kris Middleton was woken in the middle of the night by a fire in the hallway of his flat in Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne caused by a phone power bank charger overheating while on charge

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8 d. ago 'I was catapulted from fairground ride at 60mph – I'm lucky to still be alive'

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Jade Harrison, 27, was thrown from the Airmaxx 360 ride at Hull Fair in 2019, with the terrifying incident leaving her with a broken jaw and struggling to breathe

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8 d. ago Primary school teacher flung from fairground ride at 60mph after safety bar gave way

Jade Harrison said she's 'lucky to be alive' after the Hull Fair incident

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8 d. ago Woman flung from popular fairground ride at 60mph 'lucky to be alive'

Jade Harrison was visiting Hull Fair with friends when she was flung from the Airmaxx 360 ride at 60mph, smashing into another attraction before hitting the ground and blacking out

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8 d. ago 'I was thrown from a fairgound ride at 60mph, I'm lucky to be alive'

Jade, 27, says the last thing she remembers is thinking 'I don't like that' as the ride made a strange clicking noise

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1 week ago Dog 'lucky to be alive' after tumbling down 250ft cliff while chasing rabbits

What was meant to be a relaxing Father's Day walk for dad-of-two Miles Pettit along the scenic cliffs of the Isle of Man with his pet turned into a daring rescue mission

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1 week ago Michail Antonio returns to football just SIX MONTHS after near

The West Ham forward had not featured in a match since crashing his Ferrari into a tree in December, an accident that left the striker with extensive injuries and lucky to be alive.

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3 w. ago Love Island star 'very lucky to be alive' as she reveals heart

Sophie Lee has opened up about her health journey ahead of her Love Island appearance

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3 w. ago ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star | Mark O’Connell

He’s spent 24 hours immersed in slime, two days buried alive – and showered vast amounts of cash on lucky participants. But are MrBeast’s videos simply very savvy clickbait – or acts of avant garde genius?Jimmy Donaldson, the 27-year-old online content creator and entrepreneur known as MrBeast, is by any reasonable metric one of the most popular entertainers on the planet. His YouTube channel, to which he posts his increasingly elaborate and expensively produced videos, has 400 million subscribers – more than the population of the United States of America and equivalent to the total number of native English speakers currently alive. It’s close to twice as many subscribers as Elon Musk has X followers, and over 100 million more than Taylor Swift has Instagram followers. And that number, 400 million, does not account for the people who watch MrBeast’s videos in passing, or who are aware of his cultural presence because of their children, or who just sort of know who he is but don’t ha...

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last month Italian princess ‘lucky to be alive’ after crashing ‘headfirst’ into wall on motorcycle

‘Surviving this was nothing short of a miracle,’ Princess Maria Carolina said

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