84 m. ago Brit gran facing firing squad for smuggling drugs tells executioners 'get on with it'

Lindsey Sandiford, 69, was arrested in Bali in 2012 for smuggling £1.6 million worth of cocaine and has been in prison ever since. She is now facing the death penalty

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3 h. ago REVEALED: Weight loss injections now linked to FIVE deaths in Scotland

Fat jabs have been linked to the deaths of five people in Scotland, including one reported to watchdogs this year.

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5 h. ago Phil Tufnell is among sports stars paying tribute at funeral of England cricketer David 'Syd' Lawrence who lost battle with motor neurone disease aged 61

Fast bowler turned nightclub owner, Lawrence, 61, died after a year-long battle with the debilitating Motor Neurone Disease (MND) on June 21.

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5 h. ago Woman dies at Tomorrowland festival days after stage burns down as investigation launched

The woman reportedly fell ill at the festival and was rushed to hospital where she was tragically pronounced dead. The death adds to an already tragic start to the packed-out music festival.

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6 h. ago Doctors issue urgent warning over popular Botox treatment as they say women are taking 'ridiculous risks' and face paralysis, blindness and even death

Doctors have issued an urgent warning over a growing trend - driven by social media - for self-injecting the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox.

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7 h. ago Haunting moment Felix Baumgartner prepares paraglider for doomed flight before death

Extreme sports athlete Felix Baumgartner tragically plunged to his death during a paragliding accident in Italy. His partner has shared what he was doing before the deadly flight

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7 h. ago Woman dies at Tomorrowland days after devastating fire on main stage

Prosecutors in Antwerp are investigating the 35-year-old’s death

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7 h. ago Fiona Phillips' daily torment in her husband's words as Alzheimer's takes hold

The much-loved broadcaster and her TV producer husband have written a book about her life in the public eye and what it's like to live with early-onset Alzheimer's disease - and it includes an agonising admission

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8 h. ago State pension 'upper limit' policy could help manage triple lock costs

State pension payments increase each April in line with the triple lock

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8 h. ago Chilling final wish of drug smuggling Brit mum who faces death by firing squad

Lindsay Sandiford, 69, was sentenced to death by firing squad in Indonesia after being caught smuggling cocaine into Bali

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9 h. ago Gene therapy maker Sarepta tells FDA it won't halt shipments despite patient deaths

Drugmaker Sarepta Therapeutics says it won’t comply with a request from U.S. regulators to halt all shipments of its gene therapy

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9 h. ago The Trump administration is making viruses great again | Arwa Mahdawi

Measles cases are at their highest rate in the US in decades. Robert F Kennedy doesn’t seem too botheredDo you enjoy getting sick from preventable diseases? Do you have a hankering to make once-declining viruses great again? If so, why not pop over to the US where the health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and his anti-vaccine cronies are making a valiant effort to overturn decades of progress in modern medicine?Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Below Deck star HUGO ORTEGA reveals the dark reality for women who want to be a 'yachtie' as superyacht crew member is 'murdered' in Bahamas: 'There's rape, violence... stewardesses are like toys

The superyacht captain and newest bosun on the hit reality show has spoken out to warn of the dangers faced by female crew after the death of stewardess Paige Bell.

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11 h. ago Former GMTV host Fiona Phillips inundated with support after rare video message

The former GMTV presenter was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease in 2022

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11 h. ago Death in Paradise fans thrilled as detective returns to iconic role in spin

The spin-off series, Beyond Paradise, is already filming in Cornwall, and fans are delighted.

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12 h. ago 'Processed' food that could actually reduce heart disease risk

We all know the age-old saying that too much of anything is bad for you - but when it comes to chocolate, could a little bit actually be good for you?

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13 h. ago A doctor laughed in my face when I said I felt like a ghost was touching my body

For nearly 20 years, UK author Chris Bridges lived with bizarre, unexplained symptoms, numbness, fatigue, and sensations that felt like ghostly touches. Doctors told him it was stress.

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13 h. ago Roger Norrington: a maverick, an irresistible firebrand and a musical visionary

The conductor, whose historically informed evangelism helped transform the classical music world, has died. Tom Service remembers a man who looked to the past to find a fresh and thrilling present.• Five key Norrington recordingsThe conductor Sir Roger Norrington, whose death was announced yesterday at the age of 91, remains still the maverick presence that classical music needs. His mission wasn’t only to make us hear the repertoire we thought it knew through the prism of the techniques and playing styles of its time, rather than the ossifications of later traditions. He was also an irresistible firebrand in performance, whose energy wasn’t only about inspiring his performers to get closer to the music they were playing, it was also an invitation to his audiences that their listening should be involved too. Norrington wanted everyone to feel the urgency of Beethoven’s rhetorical power and rudeness, from the radiance of one of his favourite pieces, the Missa Solemnis, to the emetic ...

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13 h. ago Miriam Margolyes: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? When the media reported my imminent demise’

The actor on disappointing her mother, the only time she will tell a lie, and a terrible spat with Glenda JacksonBorn in Oxford, Miriam Margolyes, 84, began acting at Cambridge University. In 1994, she won a Bafta for her role in The Age of Innocence and was later cast as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films. Her stage credits include Wicked, The Vagina Monologues and Dickens’ Women; her TV work includes Trollied and Blackadder. In 2002, she was made OBE, and in 2022 received a BBC Audio Drama lifetime achievement award. She takes Margolyes and Dickens: More Best Bits to the Edinburgh fringe at the Pleasance at EICC, Pentland theatre from 9-24 August. She lives in London.When were you happiest? On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Air India pilot's final words as he left home on day of plane crash that killed 260 'after he turned off fuel switches'

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, was the senior pilot onboard the Boeing 787 Dreamliner that plummeted into a residential area, killing 241 people on board and 19 people on the ground.

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