79 m. ago Double tragedy as at least two people die while 'trying to rescue teenage girl who was swept into freezing sea'

Rescue crews launched a dramatic search following reports of a 'number of people in difficulty in the water', near Withernsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, on Friday afternoon as an Arctic chill grips Britain.

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80 m. ago Here are Quentin Letts' gloriously irreverent caricatures from the past year at Westminster. So can you guess his victims?

From that Budget disaster to Trump's swaggering on the world stage, 2025 was a year of new lows in politics.

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1 hour ago 'It all looks a little bit desperate': The truth about Vernon Kay's bizarre new money

Dressed in a red sequinned jacket, Vernon Kayguffaws on stage at a Glamorgan holiday camp.

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2 h. ago Second body pulled from freezing water during major search operation off Yorkshire coast

Rescue crews launched a dramatic search following reports of a 'number of people in difficulty in the water', near Withernsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, on Friday afternoon as an Arctic chill grips Britain.

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2 h. ago Second death confirmed in Withernsea tragedy as search continues

A second body has been pulled from the water after people got in trouble in the sea off the East Yorkshire Coast as emergency services continue to look for one missing person

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2 h. ago Second body pulled from the sea after incident off East Yorkshire coast

Humberside Police said it was called to attend Central Promenade in Withernsea at 3.15pm on Friday.

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3 h. ago Firefighters tackle huge warehouse blaze near Meadowhall shopping centre

People have been urged to avoid the area and close their windows due to a large plume of smoke

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4 h. ago Man, 67, dies after being pulled from sea as search under way for two missing off coast

Humberside police confirm death of man pulled from water unconscious as search operation continues off Withernsea A man has died as a search continues for two people believed to be missing off Withernsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire.Humberside police confirmed the death of a 67-year-old man, who was pulled from the water unconscious but died later. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Man dies after being pulled from sea as search continues for two missing off Withernsea

Humberside police confirm death of 67-year-old as rescue operation under way in ‘horrendous conditions’A man has died as a search continues for two people believed to be missing off Withernsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire.Humberside police confirmed the death of a 67-year-old man, who was pulled from the water unconscious but died later. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Man, 67, dies after getting into difficulty in freezing water off Yorkshire coast

Emergency crews were called to Central Promenade in Withernsea at around 3.15pm on Friday afternoon following reports that people in the water had gotten into difficulty.

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4 h. ago Inside Jamie ‘Iceman’ Stevenson’s plot to flood Scots town with dodgy street valium as EncroChat messages exposed 

JAMIE ‘Iceman’ Stevenson ordered a notorious dealer to flood the  streets with ‘blue plague’ pills from his Breaking Bad-style drugs factory — as he used a top-secret chat network to run a  multi-million-pound narcotics empire. An investigation by The Scottish Sun has revealed how Scotland’s No1 gangster urged Lee Docherty to take delivery of 500,000...

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4 h. ago BBC Traitors fans work out 'doomed' contestant just two episodes in

The Traitors viewers are convinced they know what will happen to one contestant, who has found himself at the centre of the other players' suspicions

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4 h. ago Hundreds forced to evacuate as Mexico struck by 6.5 magnitude earthquake

The quake’s epicentre was near the town of San Marcos in the southern state of Guerrero, according to authorities

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5 h. ago After nearly four years, BTS announces their return to the stage

The 2026 release will be their first full album since 2022’s anthology Proof

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5 h. ago Huge blaze breaks out near shopping centre as thick plumes of smoke billow and locals are warned to stay away

A huge fire engulfed a warehouse near a major shopping centre in Sheffield, with fireballs seen exploding from the scene.

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6 h. ago Liam Rosenior already facing dressing room fury over Chelsea move as 'implosion' underway

Strasbourg boss Liam Rosenior is being heavily linked with taking charge as Chelsea manager following the departure of Enzo Maresca from Stamford Bridge this week

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6 h. ago Desperate rescue mission launched after a 'number of people' go missing in freezing water off Yorkshire coast

Emergency crews were called to the area off the East Yorkshire coast just after 3pm on Friday afternoon, including HM Coastguard, the RNLI, and ambulance, police and fire services.

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6 h. ago Eternal 31 makes Crawley the tallest small person in England’s Ashes pyre

Series in Australia was meant to bring the best out of opener but he goes into Sydney Test with questions unansweredIt seems a little distant now, a little by-the-by, that this Ashes series was billed, among other things, as a referendum on Zak Crawley’s England career. The tour he was groomed for. The hidden sub-menace in his one-year central contract offer. Here was a chance to justify the high-wire walk of the last few years, to find an answer, perhaps, to the eternal question: is Zak Crawley actually any good?In the event other things have happened, other warning lights blinked, other elements of England’s collective failure creaked more urgently. Shoaib Bashir, the project spinner, plucked from social media for this tour, is in the 12 for Sydney. He hasn’t taken a wicket in a proper game since July. Good luck babe! Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Sheffield fire LIVE: Huge blaze near Meadowhall shopping centre as black smoke fills sky

Pictures and video of the fire shows flames growing on an embankment near the shopping mall

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7 h. ago Whalley Range and Firswood declared Greater Manchester's 'property hotspot' of 2025

House prices in the city centre are also down by 20 per cent

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