64 h. ago Schoolboy, 15, who beat dog walker to death is jailed for just seven years: Pensioner, 80, was killed just metres from his home

Bhim Kohli, 80, was slapped in the face with a slider shoe and kicked and punched by the balaclava-clad male at a park near Leicester, while the female filmed and laughed.

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65 h. ago Pensioner killed in brutal park attack was ‘adored’ by community, daughter says

Bhim Kohli, 80, was attacked in a Leicestershire park just yards from his home as he walked his dog Rocky.

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3 d. ago Mum inspired by daughter to volunteer with Girlguiding Scotland

Ellen Tasker is a volunteer at the 156th City of Edinburgh Guide unit. After offering her support to the unit during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, she has since taken on a leadership role alongside her 16-year-old daughter May Gatward. The pair support the young members to be more confident, be bold and build lasting friendships.

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5 d. ago Moment teenagers lob a firework into a house that started a massive blaze and killed an OAP: Pair are jailed for manslaughter

Robert Price, 76, had been the victim of a years-long campaign of harassment and criminal damage before he died in the horror fire.

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5 d. ago Teenagers who killed pensioner in firework attack on his east London home jailed

Killers were caught on CCTV punching a hole in Robert Price’s window and pushing a firework into his home in Dagenham

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7 d. ago Jamie Dimon warns that the US’s biggest problem is not China but ‘the enemy within’

‘The amount of mismanagement is extraordinary. By state, by city, for pensions and that stuff is going to kill us,’ JPMorgan Chase CEO says

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8 d. ago As a Muslim girl in Bradford, I saw my story in Jane Austen’s novels. Now I’ve directed a TV series about her | Ali Naushahi

I soaked up her sharp insights into class, gender and power. Reading more about her life, the parallels between us became clearI grew up as the daughter of an imam in a conservative British-Pakistani community in Bradford. Our early years were spent in a large Victorian terrace owned by the local mosque council. When my father was replaced, we downsized overnight to a much smaller house on the other side of town. The loss of a beloved home, close friends and community was a deeply disorienting experience.Decades later, directing the new BBC series Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius, I found myself thinking back to that time. On the surface, my life and Jane Austen’s couldn’t be more different – an English novelist born in the 18th century and a working-class British-Pakistani woman. Austen’s novels had always resonated with me when I read them as a girl. But learning more about her life as part of my director’s prep, I realised just how many shared realities we had. I saw how similar Aus...

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9 d. ago Woman, 77, killed and two people in hospital after horror crash on Scots road

Pensioner killed and two people in hospital after horror crash on Scots road

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2 w. ago Patient who absconded from psychiatric unit jailed for killing pensioner

David Parish, 38, attacked Beryl Purdy with a large golf umbrella he had taken from her porch and inflicted fatal head injuries

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2 w. ago Safety alert issued for crash death bus station where drivers 'fail to let pedestrians cross the road'

Health and Safety Executive sends TfL another warning about Walthamstow bus station, where a pensioner was killed by double decker

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3 w. ago Pensioner, 72, is killed after being hit by an electric motorbike as police release suspect, 17, on bail

The motorbike slammed into Shaat Bibi on Leeds Old Road in Bradford on Wednesday.

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3 w. ago Murderer jailed for life for 'ferocious, brutal' attack on homeless man he left to die in park

"This was a senseless death which undoubtedly had a devastating effect on his family"

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3 w. ago Partir Un Jour (Leave One Day) review – foodie musical is an undercooked turkey

Cannes film festival opening filmDreadful songs add no flavour to dreary tale of a big-city gourmet returning to her home-cooked rootsThe opening gala of Cannes can be such a gamble: a very exposed festival slot which few films need or want, and whose occupants so often turn out to be the squawking overfed turkeys of the big screen. Such a one, sadly, is this listless and supercilious musical – ostensibly on the theme of heartwarming home town values – which flatlines like a hedgehog run over by an 18-wheeler the moment the female lead opens her mouth to sing one of the film’s many terrible songs.Cécile (played by French singer Juliette Armanet) is about to open a restaurant in the big city having recently won a top-rated TV cooking show, and she is dating her colleague Sofiane (Tewfik Jallab). But when she hears that her adorable, exasperating old dad Gérard (François Rollin) has had a heart attack, brought on by the strain of running the family’s truck-stop cafe out in the boondoc...

Society

3 w. ago 'Terrified' vulnerable pensioner, 76, was taunted by teenagers who branded him a 'paedo' before they shot fireworks into his house and killed him, court told

Robert Price, 76, had early signs of dementia and had been targeted so much by local youths that all his ground floor windows had been boarded up, the Old Bailey heard.

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3 w. ago 'Terrified' vulnerable pensioner, 76, was taunted by teenagers who branded him a 'paedo' before shooting fireworks into his house and killing him, court told

Robert Price, 76, had early signs of dementia and had been targeted so much by local youths that all his ground floor windows had been boarded up, the Old Bailey heard.

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