35 h. ago Looking After by Caroline Elton: Why I didn't tell my autistic brother he was dying

In her poignant book, Caroline Elton recounts the highs and lows of caring for her autistic brother, Lionel.

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48 h. ago Huge sum raised for family of 'one of the best' killed in crash

Dai Roberts from the Carmarthen area died 13 years after his brother was also killed in a rally crash. He's been described as a 'winner in life' who had a 'big, big heart'

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1 week ago Welsh rally driver killed in crash 12 years after his brother died in a racing accident

Dai Roberts was killed in a crash at the Jim Clark Rally in Scotland

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1 week ago Welsh rally driver killed in crash 13 years after his brother died in a racing accident

Dai Roberts was killed in a crash at the Jim Clark Rally in Scotland

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2 w. ago Paul Danan's heartbroken brother insists troubled actor 'didn't mean to die' and had been sober before tragic final relapse

The Hollyoaks star, 46, was found unresponsive at his flat in Bristol on January 15 before being pronounced dead by emergency service workers at the scene.

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2 w. ago The Boys by Leo Robson review – a likeable debut with aimless charm

The critic turned author’s witty, eccentric novel follows a Londoner reading Susan Sontag and looking for loveEarly on in Leo Robson’s debut novel, the narrator, a likable, aimless, rather detached young Londoner named Johnny Voghel, reads “a book of Susan Sontag essays and interviews”. Johnny’s copy of what he later identifies as A Susan Sontag Reader is an heirloom. It has been extensively underlined by his mother, who has just died, and by his estranged half-brother Lawrence. Johnny wonders if reading Sontag, or his family’s other heavily annotated books, will “unlock a secret or hint at one, offer a glimpse of their dreams or invite them into mine”.A Susan Sontag Reader includes Sontag’s 1968 defence of Jean-Luc Godard, the great modernist and Marxist provocateur of French New Wave cinema. If Johnny, in search of family connection, happened to read that essay, he would encounter a paragraph that rather neatly describes the novel that he is in the process of narrating. Godard’s f...

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2 w. ago Death of man after surgery at Altnagelvin Hospital ‘was avoidable’, says coroner

John McHugh, brother of Sinn Fein MLA Maoliosa McHugh, died in 2019 after surgery to remove a tumour from his tongue.

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2 w. ago I’ve studied the history of death. I know how we can better face up to our grief – and our own mortality | Molly Conisbee

How we deal with bereavement has changed enormously over the years. But not all the old traditions should be forgottenMany years ago, as part of a school homework project, I asked my grandparents what the most significant social change had been during their lifetime. Two of them answered “child mortality”. I was surprised. Weren’t there other, more significant experiences in long lives that had stretched from the first and second world wars to the 1980s?But now that I am older and have experienced bereavement, I understand their replies. Both grandparents had sisters who died of diphtheria. And my grandfather’s younger brother died of sepsis, meaning his parents had buried two of their four children before the age of three. Their childhoods had been profoundly shaped by loss. Child mortality was, at that time, horrifyingly common, and from their earliest years many people spent a great deal of their lives coping with the emotional fallout of grief, which shaped their lives into olde...

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2 w. ago 'People always tell me I wish you died instead of him': PETER HITCHENS remembers sibling rivalry with late brother CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS on new Mail podcast

Christopher Hitchens, the brother of Alas podcast host, Peter Hitchens, was a prodigious author and journalist, known for his divisive atheism and left-wing politics.

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2 w. ago A Texas man is seeking justice for his brother who died in police custody: ‘He was a good person’

Glenn Smallwood had schizoaffective disorder. Instead of a hospital, police took him to jail and strapped him to a chairTwo days before he died, a 33-year-old father and US army veteran named Glenn Smallwood Jr was talking about building a house. His younger brother, John, was remodeling a home in Lufkin, Texas, where both brothers lived, and Glenn asked whether he could help.“He was so happy about the idea of working with me and turning his life around,” John said. “He was thinking positively about his future. I think about this memory often.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Kate’s touching words to brother of teenage girl who died from cancer

The Princess of Wales made a touching gesture to the brother of a teenage girl who died from cancer.

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2 w. ago Sarah Silverman claims her baby brother was killed by her 'violent' grandfather

Sarah Silverman has claimed that her grandfather was responsible for the death of her baby brother, after previously believing the infant had died from suffocation

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2 w. ago Princess Kate’s touching words to brother of teenage girl who died from cancer

The Princess of Wales made a touching gesture to the brother of a teenage girl who died from cancer.

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2 w. ago Jeff Goldblum looks back: ‘My brother was an interesting dude. When he died it was terrible, monumental’

The actor and musician on the power of puberty, overcoming his fear of acting and what Michael Winner yelled at himBorn in Pennsylvania in 1952, Jeff Goldblum is an actor and musician who has starred in some of the most acclaimed and highest-grossing movies of all time: Jurassic Park, Independence Day, The Fly, The Tall Guy, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and Wicked. He is also known for TV roles such as Zeus in Netflix’s Kaos, and his work in theatre. Beyond acting, Goldblum has been performing jazz with the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra since the 1990s. His latest album, Still Blooming, came out in April. Jeff has two sons with his wife, Emilie Livingston, a former Olympic rhythmic gymnast.Here I am in my house in Whitaker, Pennsylvania. My mom needlepointed the Grecian bench I’m sitting on. Little did I know I was going to be Zeus some day. I started playing the piano when I was nine but I was not good. Not disciplined. My teacher would come once a w...

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3 w. ago Former West Coast player Adam Selwood dies months after twin brother’s death

Midfielder played 187 games for Eagles, including 2006 premiershipSelwood family says ‘words cannot express the grief and sadness we feel’The West Coast premiership player Adam Selwood has died aged 41, three months after the death of his twin brother and fellow former AFL player Troy Selwood.Adam Selwood played 187 games for West Coast, including the 2006 premiership, before retiring from football in 2013. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity star dies aged 60: German performer's pop star ex leads the tributes as cause of death is revealed

German singer and actress Naddel, whose real name was Nadja Abd el Farrag, has passed away aged 60.

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3 w. ago Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity star dies aged 60: Performer's pop star ex leads the tributes as the cause of death is revealed

A Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity star has aged 60 with their pop star ex leading the tributes.

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3 w. ago Big Brother and I'm A Celeb star dies aged 60 as tragic cause of death shared

Nadja Abd el Farrag, also known as Naddel, has died aged 60 from organ failure. The German TV star was best known for her appearances on the German versions of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here and Celebrity Big Brother

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3 w. ago Big Brother and I'm A Celeb star dies aged 60 as tributes pour in and cause of death shared

German reality TV star Nadja Abd el Farrag, who is best known by her stage name Naddel, has died at the age of 60 - with the star's fans paying emotional trfbutes

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3 w. ago Scot treks Great Wall of China in memory of brother who died tragically

Lewis Mckay wore a t-shirt with his brother's face on it.

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