28 h. ago British baby dies from whooping cough as vaccination rates fall

Infant’s mother had not been vaccinated against the highly infectious disease, which affects the lungs and airwaysA baby in the UK has died from whooping cough, marking the first such death in the country this year.The infant’s mother had not been vaccinated against the highly infectious disease, which affects the lungs and airways. This death occurred as vaccination rates among children and pregnant women in the UK have fallen to their lowest levels in 15 years. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘Lifesaving’ devices to be sold in airports after British man died in Ecuador

Hudson Foley, 24, died from carbon monoxide poisoning at a homestay in Ecuador in August 2023

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3 d. ago British tourist dies on Greece holiday on ventilator after GP's 'don't worry' advice

Alan Kirby, 67, went into "septic" shock and passed away on Monday, his family have confirmed.

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4 d. ago British tourist dies in Athens having been left stranded after £14,000 insurance issue

Alan Kirby, 67, had been on life support in Greece

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4 d. ago Haplessly unprepared British TikToker boasts of surviving 18 days trapped in Amazon rainforest because he 'didn't realise' it was wet season

Haplessly unprepared Callan Bole was given a bed, drinks and football on the TV by kindly locals in a remote indigenous town in Brazil.

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4 d. ago British rider Sarah Yorke, 37, died after getting trapped underneath horse when it failed to jump a fence and landed on top of her, inquest hears

Primary school teacher Sarah Jayne Yorke, 37, died from chest and abdominal injuries following the horrific accident at the horse trials in Northamptonshire on August 8.

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4 d. ago British TikToker got trapped in the Amazon rainforest for 18 days because he 'didn't realise' it was the wet season

Callan Bole's trip of a lifetime to the Amazon turned into a nightmare when he was left isolated in a remote indigenous village after his boat broke.

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4 d. ago British tourist dies in Greece where he was stuck on a ventilator facing £59,000 hospital and air ambulance bills after holiday insurance error

Alan Kirby, 67, was enjoying a family trip to Zante when he suffered a 'septic' shock and was diagnosed with pneumonia and suspected lung cancer.

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4 d. ago British tourist dies suddenly in Greece after suffering mystery pain in his side

Alan Kirby initially put the pain down to playing with his stepdaughter's children in the sea.

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4 d. ago British man stuck in Greek hospital after 'pain in side' has died

Alan Kirby thought the pain was from throwing his stepdaughter's children in the sea in Zante

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5 d. ago British indie band The Ultra Violets announce drummer Tyler Harris has died

British indie band The Ultra Violets have been left devastated following the sudden death of their bandmate, drummer Tyler Harris, just weeks after they performed at the Isle of Wight Festival. 

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6 d. ago Dame Prue Leith makes Great British Bake Off 'diet' admission ahead of new series

The 85-year-old food expert is a judge on the Channel 4 show and is set to return for the upcoming series

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6 d. ago Teenage girl dies while boy and woman are rushed to hospital after falling ill at British festival

Police have launched a probe into sudden death of a girl - in her late teens - at the Emerge dance festival, which is held at Boucher Playing Fields in the south of the Northern Ireland capital.

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7 d. ago Dolphin dies and another is rescued by medics in British river after pair get stuck in thick mud four miles from the sea

British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) scrambled to the scene at Penpoll near the River Fowey, in Cornwall after receiving reports of two stranded dolphins on Tuesday.

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7 d. ago Two married couples in their 30s are dead after 'British car ploughed into tree in Germany'

Two married couples have died after a British car crashed in Germany. 

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8 d. ago Fears British beers will die out for good as European lager giants close breweries

EXCLUSIVE: Beer campaigners fear for the future of British cask ales and losing 'part of our heritage' with Carlsberg and Heineken both closing down historic breweries

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1 week ago Man feeding stray dogs dies after 'water bomb' hits popular Brit holiday hotspot

At least one person has died after being swept away by floods in a popular British holiday destination after the extreme weather forced people to scramble to safety to evade the raging river

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1 week ago Heathrow flight 'passenger from hell' vomits and 'spits wine at family' at 30,000ft

A passenger on a British Airways flight from Heathrow to San Diego was reportedly arrested after harrassing a family on the plane

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1 week ago British Airways tourist 'vomited on family and spat wine at them' on Heathrow flight

Police were primed at San Diego Airport to arrest the passenger, who had been travelling on British Airways Flight BA273 for California from London Heathrow in the UK

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2 w. ago Terence Stamp remembered by Priscilla director Stephan Elliott: ‘Those eyes turned everybody to jelly’

The Australian director reflects on his 32-year friendship with Stamp, who was initially ‘absolutely terrified’ to play a trans woman – and their work on the Priscilla sequelTerence Stamp, face of 60s British cinema, dies at 87Stamp was the mesmerising dark prince of British cinemaTerence Stamp: a life in picturesI first saw Terence in The Collector (1965) when I was a kid. It struck in my head as the ultimate horror film – it terrified the daylights out of me. Terence’s greatest beauties were his eyes – in some of the early films you don’t see it, but in person, when they were shining, he could hold a room. He’d sit there and say, “Watch this, I’m going to stop a restaurant.” And he could do it. I saw him do it! It was extraordinary. He once told me that he used to have real fun on Superman when he was bored, stuck on top of the ice castle. “I’d just stare down until everyone went quiet,” he said.We tried many actors when casting Bernadette in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of ...

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