42 h. ago ‘They entrusted me with their daughter’s memory’: Women’s prize winner Rachel Clarke on her story of a life

The Story of a Heart, which won this year’s award for nonfiction, tells how one child saved the life of another. The author talks about the amazing families involved, campaigning for a better NHS, and how being a doctor frames the way she writesTo read Rachel Clarke’s The Story of a Heart, which has won this year’s Women’s prize for nonfiction, is to experience an onslaught of often competing emotions. There is awed disbelief at the sheer skill and dedication of the medical teams who transplanted the heart of nine-year-old Keira, who had been killed in a head-on traffic collision, into the body of Max, a little boy facing almost certain death from rapidly deteriorating dilated cardiomyopathy. There is vast admiration for the inexhaustible compassion of the teams who cared for both children and their families, and wonder at the cascade of medical advances, each breakthrough representing determination, inspiration, rigorous work, and careful navigation of newly emerging ethical territ...

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4 d. ago NASA issues urgent update on 'city killer' asteroid heading towards the moon in 2032

The 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 may not be on a collision course with Earth anymore. But NASA has raised the odds of it hitting the moon in just seven years' time.

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4 d. ago Police appeal after motorcyclist seriously injured in crash with car

A man remains in hospital after the collision which saw a road shut for several hours

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1 week ago Crowds gather at castle to remember 'one of a kind boy' who died in quadbike crash

20-year-old Ethan Powell was killed in a collision on Saturday

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1 week ago Community heartbroken as victim of A465 quadbike crash named locally

20-year-old Ethan Powell has been described as 'a one of a kind boy' and a 'loving young man' after he was killed in a collision on Saturday

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1 week ago Man in hospital with serious injuries after crash in Swansea

A serious road traffic collision left a 27 year old in hospital

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2 w. ago Motorcyclist injured in collision which killed garda dies in hospital

A Garda spokesperson said the man aged in his 30s died in Beaumont Hospital on Saturday evening.

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2 w. ago Motorcyclist killed in A36 crash as air ambulance attends major collision

Police are now appealing for witnesses following the multi-vehicle collision on the A36 in Knook, Warminster

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2 w. ago Russian captain denies unlawful killing of crew member in North Sea collision

The Solong’s master, Vladimir Motin, of St Petersburg, is accused over the death of Mark Angelo Pernia.

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3 w. ago Teacher, 4 students from Walkerton school killed in London area collision

Teacher, 4 students from Walkerton school killed in London area collision  cknxnewstoday.ca

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last month British businessman, 62, died in front of daughter in horror van smash

Millionaire Paul Gerard Tustain was killed in a shock head-on collision between a van and a motorbike whilst on holiday with his daughter in Pamplona, Spain

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