45 m. ago DJ Steve Wright's will is revealed with BBC Radio 2 legend leaving behind surprisingly small sum after his tragic death aged 69

The BBC Radio 2 legend died aged 69 from a ruptured ulcer in his stomach at his £2million home in London on February 12 2024.

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46 m. ago YouTube star Mikayla Raines dead at 29: Husband confirms death in heartbreaking statement

Mikayla Raines has died after being 'relentlessly bullied' in a targeted online campaign. Her husband confirmed her death.

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47 m. ago Man celebrating his honeymoon dies after being hit by lightning on beach

The 29-year-old man, who was visiting from Colorado, was on his honeymoon with his wife when he was struck on Symrna Beach, Florida, last Friday

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55 m. ago BBC Radio 2 DJ Steve Wright's will revealed with touching move

The veteran radio broadcaster died at the age of 69 in February 2024

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59 m. ago BBC Radio 2 DJ Steve Wright's will revealed as he left astonishing gift behind after death

DJ Steve Wright died aged 69 in February last year. He left behind some money to his kids and charity in his will

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67 m. ago Republican Lisa Murkowski on Trump’s America and the ‘intensity on the security of our democracy’

The Alaska senator, who helped deal Trump’s first big legislative setback, believes there can be only so much fear that Americans can handleLate one night about six months into Donald Trump’s first term, John McCain stepped onto the Senate floor and with a dramatic thumbs-down gesture dealt the president his first major legislative setback by defeating an attempt by his fellow Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act.It was the last major political effort of the Arizona senator, who would die the following year from brain cancer, but his no vote would not have been effective had he had not been joined by fellow Republicans Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska – who gives that incident, and many other brushes with Trump, a prominent place in Far from Home, the memoir she released on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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98 m. ago Tragedy as 'caring and kind' son, 23, dies after being hit by car

Joel Sheldon's family have paid tribute to him

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2 h. ago Jury in crash inquest told they ‘may not record there was a police pursuit’

Muhammad Qasim, 29, died when he lost control of his car and hit a tree on Island Road in Birmingham in the early hours of October 2 2023.

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2 h. ago British tourist dies on Greek island sun lounger after resort lifeguard alerted

The 73-year-old was discovered by fellow stunned holidaymakers at Agia Paraskevi in Skiathos, Greece.

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2 h. ago Girl, 12, repeatedly raped by three Slovakian men who snatched her from Asda in Kent 'wanted to die' after 72

The schoolgirl was subjected to the living nightmare after depraved Kevin Horvath, 26, and bodybuilding brute Ivan Turtak, 38, lured her into their car in an Asda car park in Dover, Kent.

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2 h. ago I transformed my body after just 5 months on Mounjaro....what happened when I came off it was shocking

'I thought it was going to be another diet trend but the food noises got switched off,' said Ms Ogley, who used the injections for five months.

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2 h. ago Mum's 'world fell apart' after teen daughter dies in horror car crash at hands of speeding boyfriend

Lily-May Vaughan, 17, died when the car she was in flipped and hit a pole - with her mum now calling for law changes to protect others after the driver kept their license for 13 months following the crash

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2 h. ago Madame Lynch: how an Irish woman joined the ranks of Paraguay's heroes

Eliza Lynch was at her warlord partner’s side in a cataclysmic war and died in obscurity in Paris but is now being honoured – although not without controversyBy the time she turned 21, Eliza Alice Lynch had fled famine-stricken County Cork for Paris, married and left a French officer, become entangled with a South American warlord-in-waiting, and returned with him to Paraguay.Ten years later, her partner – by then, president and grand marshal Francisco Solano López – led Paraguay into a cataclysmic four-year war against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Half of Paraguay’s population was wiped out. López was cornered and shot on a jungle battlefield called Cerro Corá, along with their 15-year-old son. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Star Wars actor earns standing ovation for rousing speech condemning Trump’s ‘unfair’ immigration policy

‘The multiple times that this country has had to rebuild itself, immigrants were always there to pick up the slack,’ said Diego Luna in an powerful monologue

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3 h. ago Honeymoon horror as Florida man dies in freak lightning strike on beach in front of wife

The 29-year-old victim, who was visiting from Colorado, was on his honeymoon with his wife when he was struck by lightning on Symrna Beach, Florida, last Friday

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3 h. ago Inquest opens into deaths of mother and three children killed in house fire

Nusrat Usman, 43, daughter Maryam Mikaiel, 15, and sons Musa Usman, eight, and Raees Usman, four, died after the fire on May 24.

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3 h. ago BBC newsreader George Alagiah left wife and family miniscule sum of money in will

George Alagiah was one of the BBC’s longest-serving newsreaders and died at the age of 67 after being diagnosed with bowel cancer in July, 2023

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3 h. ago BBC News legend who died of cancer left wife small sum in his will despite huge wage

The will of the former News at Six presenter revealed that George Alagiah had £49,387 to his name at the time of his death, with his widow Frances Alagiah receiving this sum

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4 h. ago Bride shot dead on wedding day by gang of masked men in 'mafia

The 27-year-old bride died as she left her wedding reception in a picturesque town, while her new husband and a 13-year-old guest are believed to have sustained serious injuries

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4 h. ago Mikayla Raines dead: YouTube star who rescued foxes tragically dies by suicide aged 29

YouTuber and founder of an animal rescue organisation Mikayla Raines has died by suicide, her husband confirmed

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