2 h. ago Grandmother who went to see her new granddaughter in maternity ward was run over and killed by nurse as she left, inquest hears

Mary Owen-Jones, 51, was run over by nurse Chloe Thelwell's grey Audi on New Year's Day in 2023 as she left Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan, North Wales.

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2 h. ago ‘Fantastic’ teenager found dead in lake near Birmingham as school and football club lead tributes

Daniel Drewitt, 16, died after he went missing in a pool in Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield, on Thursday

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3 h. ago Horse named after vet who tragically died months on from saving champion Lady Eli wins

Cherie DeVaux-trained colt Dr Agne charged through under Jose Ortiz to win on his Saratoga Racecourse debut - a performance which was extra special for connections

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3 h. ago Andy Robertson's touching Mo Salah gesture spotted during Diogo Jota tribute

Liverpool paid tribute to Diogo Jota and his brother Andre on Friday as they each laid a single rose outside Anfield in honour of the siblings, who tragically died last week

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4 h. ago Death of man in Indiana jail highlights cruelty of solitary confinement: ‘A national disgrace’

Adam Bryant, 29, died on Christmas while confined in a solitary jail cell. Advocates say significant reforms are neededThrough the tinny reception on the jail’s phone lines, 29-year-old Adam Bryant told his mom he didn’t want to die.It was late 2022, and Bryant was incarcerated at Vigo county jail in Terre Haute, Indiana, a city roughly 75 miles west of Indianapolis. Bryant had been arrested for domestic battery on 8 December, and for most of the time between then and the 19 December phone call, he’d been unable to eat without vomiting. He had severe stomach pains, too, which only worsened when he was attacked and beaten. Some of his inmates had heard about his battery charge, and they wanted the ring Bryant was wearing. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Britain's oldest Second World War veteran dies aged 110: Donald Rose survived D

Donald Rose, who died yesterday at 110, was born on Christmas Eve in 1914 and was just 25 when he signed up to fight on the front line in the Second World War.

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4 h. ago M40 crash: Man, 27, killed as police hunt four who fled Mercedes on foot

Police are searching for two men and two women who fled a Mercedes on foot following a crash on the M40 after a 27-year-old man from High Wycombe died

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4 h. ago 15 children have died in hot cars in the last two months. Why expert warns it’s a tragedy that could happen to anyone

Forgetting your child in the backseat of a car seems incomprehensible, but competing brain memory systems mean the tragedy could happen to anyone, experts say

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4 h. ago ‘Why did he cut off?’: what the report on the Air India Flight 171 crash found

Main points from the preliminary report on the 12 June crash in which 260 people diedA preliminary report from investigators looking at the Air India Flight 171 crash, which killed 260 people on 12 June, has been published. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Artist or activist? For Juliet Stevenson and her husband, Gaza leaves them with no choice

Film-maker Hugh Brody hopes to honour his mother, a Holocaust survivor, with a show of solidarity for PalestineRead any celebrity-signed open letter advocating for social justice over the past few years and you’ll probably spot Juliet Stevenson’s name. When the veteran actor is not gracing screens or on a stage somewhere, she’s out on the streets brandishing a placard or giving speeches about human rights, gender equality and the Palestinian right to self-determination.Just last month, she wrote in the Guardian about the British government’s “complicity” in the Gaza atrocities and what she called an attempt to repress civil liberties by proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago 15 children have died in hot cars in the last two months. Expert warns it could happen to anyone

Forgetting your child in the backseat of a car seems incomprehensible, but competing brain memory systems mean the tragedy could happen to anyone, experts say

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5 h. ago Two dogs die in Renfrewshire after being 'left in car' during hot weather

A Maltese and an Alsatian Lurcher Cross died after enduring scorching heat while left inside a vehicle on Thursday afternoon.

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5 h. ago Tragic life and death of Home and Away star who cleaned windows after fame

Dieter Brummer was a household name in the UK thanks to his role as Shane Parrish in Home and Away, but his life was marred by tragedy and he died at the age of 45

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5 h. ago UN says fuel shortage in Gaza at ‘critical levels’ – Middle East crisis live

A lack of fuel means ‘lifelines will vanish for 2.1 million people’, the UN saidIsraeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including four children, hospital officials said on Saturday, the Associated Press (AP) reports. The four children and two women were among at least 13 people who were killed in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, after Israeli airstrikes pounded the area starting late on Friday, officials in Al-Aqsa Martyr’s hospital said.Another four people were killed in strikes near a fuel station, and 15 others died in Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, according to Nasser hospital. The Israeli military said in a statement that over the past 48 hours, troops struck approximately 250 targets in the Gaza Strip, including militants, booby-trapped structures, weapons storage facilities, anti-tank missile launch posts, sniper posts, tunnels and additional Hamas infrastructure sites. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Police officer, 44, with nearly 20 years on the force dies suddenly after being arrested for sending sensitive information

PC Claire Browne had previously been arrested following a probe into the sending of sensitive police information from her work email to her personal account. She suddenly died on July 7.

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6 h. ago Man 'beheaded' his mother after 'kneeling on her neck' until she died

Bowen Fladland admitted to killing his 70-year-old mother Marlene in South Dakota before cutting off her head and burying her body in the garden of the home they had been living in

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6 h. ago Revealed: The 2,000 schools where more than HALF of pupils don't speak English as their first language... so is YOUR child's one of them?

No children at two primary schools - one in Tower Hamlets and another in Kirklees, West Yorkshire - have English as their mother tongue.

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7 h. ago Voices: I don’t just have ‘normal’ worries about my child starting school – I’m scared she could die

For parents of kids with severe food allergies like mine, the rite of passage that is starting primary school is fraught with very real, very deadly fears that they will come to serious harm – or worse, writes Hannah Fearn

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7 h. ago Inside Home and Away star's harrowing death at 45 after tragic final job

Dieter Brummer was a heartthjsonrob in Australia and the UK after he played Shane in Home and Away - but he had a tragic ending in 2021 after his career fell apart

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7 h. ago Schoolboy found dead in lake named as football team shares emotional tribute

Daniel Drewitt died after getting into difficulty at Sutton Park in Birmingham, with his local football team offering a heartbreaking tribute as police continue investigations

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