99 m. ago First picture of man accused of assisting woman to take her own life

Miles Cross, 33, appeared in court accused of assisting with the death of a woman and the attempted suicides of three other people

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10 h. ago The Iris Affair review – it takes real guts to write TV this thrillingly preposterous. Strap in!

Tom Hollander and Niamh Algar star in this fun, propulsive tale of a genius code-cracker, an oddball entrepreneur and an evil supercomputer known as Charlie Big Potatoes trapped in a secret lair. Brace yourself for a wild rideThere’s in media res and then there’s the opening of The Iris Affair. The new caper-drama opens with a man being beaten half to death while a woman (Niamh Algar) looks on unmoved and refusing to hand over a MacGuffin to the man ordering the beating (Tom Hollander, channelling Michael Caine). They are watched by a rather more concerned teenager, Joy (Meréana Tomlinson), who becomes infinitely more concerned when Hollander-Caine’s character realises that jamming a gun into her neck might be a better way to elicit a response from MacGuffin lady. Then he realises he can’t quite bring himself to shoot the child. But he can order his heavy to do so. The hired gun swings around and we cut to Sardinia, Italy, the day before. And that, my friends, is how a prologue shou...

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12 h. ago Woman, 23, dies after game of RUSSIAN ROULETTE went tragically wrong

Rachel Counts, 23, (left) died from gunshot wound to her chest earlier this month, after her friend Omarion Horne, 23 (right) allegedly shot her during a game of Russian roulette.

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17 h. ago Bones of young woman 'abandoned' at South Pole could rewrite history of Antarctic exploration

Chilean woman's identity and the exact circumstances of her death remain a mystery

Culture

20 h. ago Woman 24 hours from death after thinking illness was pulled muscle

Lauren Carson had back pain while in Majorca on holiday, which she put down to being abroad

Events

21 h. ago Man is charged with killing 'remarkable' woman, 24, five years after her death

Daniel Birtwistle is charged with the manslaughter of tattoo artist Georgina Ward, 24, after she was found dead at home in Brierley Hill, West Midlands, on November 24 2020.

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42 h. ago Inside apartment where Polish woman was found 'close to death' after she was 'locked up by her parents' for 27 years: Images reveal 42

Mirrella was only 15 years old when she last stepped outside of her family's apartment in southern Poland. 

Society

58 h. ago Daytona Beach woman mauled to death by four dogs after suffering medical episode at home, police say

Police said no evidence of foul play or human involvement was found at the scene

Events

61 h. ago Woman 'locked in room' for 27 years found 'days from death' after police after tip off

The woman who was last seen in public in 1998 has been identified as Mirrella - and she has been found in her home in the city of Swietochlowice in southern Poland.

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63 h. ago Missing woman, 42, found 'days from death' after 27 YEARS 'locked in room'

A 'missing' woman has been found 'days away from death' after she was allegedly kept locked in a room by her parents in Poland for 27 years

Events

63 h. ago Husband and wife found dead at Cornwall home treated as suspicious by police

Devon and Cornwall Police say the woman’s death is being treated as suspicious

Events

65 h. ago Emaciated woman, 42, is found 'days from death' after 27 YEARS 'locked in her room by parents' who claimed she had disappeared as a teen

A 42-year-old Polish woman has been found 'days away from death' after she was allegedly kept locked in her room by her parents for 27 years. 

Events

4 d. ago Second death investigated at care home where woman fell from window

SPECIAL REPORT: A coroner has raised questions about the death of another pensioner

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4 d. ago Woman, 43, is arrested on suspicion of murdering two children

A 43-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of two children in Stafford, Staffordshire Police have said.

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6 d. ago Young woman's laughing gas warning from ambulance days before death

'It's easy to think it's just a quick buzz, but the risks are very real'

Events

7 d. ago Violent husband kicked wife to death after he found texts from another man

When Alan Wang saw messages on Hongyan Yang's phone from another man, he flew into a fit of rage and attacked the woman, causing injuries that later led to her death

Events

7 d. ago Tragic details of woman's Fiat 500 cleaning death as 'window crushed her neck'

Bernadette Delmotte, 60, was cleaning her Fiat 500 in the French village of Bissy-sur-Fley when she was killed in a freak accident, with her family and friends left devastated

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7 d. ago Teen denies manslaughter after woman, 25, plunges to death from block of flats

Jaiden Hassan-Agard, 18, has been denied manslaughter as he appeared in court in relation to the death of Tia Langdon, 25 in Southampton

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8 d. ago Woman stabbed to death 'by jealous boyfriend' suffered 27 knife wounds, trial hears

Rebekah was also found with suspected defensive wounds from trying to fight off the attack

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8 d. ago Woman suffocates to death after getting stuck in Fiat 500's electric window

The 60-year-old woman died after a freak accident resulted in her neck being crushed in the window of her Fiat 500 - she had been trying to stop her car rolling away after leaving the handbrake off

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