4 d. ago Retired teacher left in coma after contracting disease from water during TUI holiday

Juliet Leith spent four days in an induced coma and her daughters flew out to be by her bedside

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5 d. ago Flu left me fighting for life in a coma – I could feel and hear EVERYTHING but was totally paralysed

AT JUST 14 years old, Trinity Shores thought she was coming down with a bad case of the flu. Eight years later she can finally talk about how the common illness left her in a medically induced coma, hooked to life support, and forced to relearn how to walk, talk and breathe. Now a licensed...

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5 d. ago Woman in coma for four days after falling ill on Gran Canaria holiday

Juliet Leith was left in a coma for four days and in intensive care for 12

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7 d. ago Three shark attacks in 24 hours leave boy, 12, in coma and swimmer seriously injured

Three separate shark attacks in just over 24 hours have left a 12-year-old boy in a coma and a man critically injured, as beaches are now closed and locals are urged to stay alert

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1 week ago Amazon workers at Coventry warehouse tested for tuberculosis after outbreak

Company says TB testing carried out as ‘precaution’ after small number of workers contracted lung diseaseAmazon is testing workers at its Coventry warehouse for tuberculosis after an outbreak of the lung disease.A handful of workers from the site were found to have contagious tuberculosis (TB) last year, prompting the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to begin running a screening programme in September. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Man 'driving like a maniac' before he ploughed into woman tried to blame her following horror smash

Preeti Dhunna was left in an induced coma in intensive care after being hit by Syed Raza Rizvi

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1 week ago How ‘delay after delay’ at Essex hospital led to early death of cancer patient

The retired history teacher from Chelmsford, identified only as Mrs S., passed away in 2023

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2 w. ago 'Doctors said my son, 4, faked limp for attention – but the truth was terrifying'

A mum whose four-year-old son contracted a rare disease that's been associated with Victorian slums says she doesn't blame her GP for initially missing his shock diagnosis

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2 w. ago Sarah Moss: ‘I never liked Wuthering Heights as much as Jane Eyre’

The author on the trouble with the Brönte novels, what she gained from reading John Updike and Martin Amis – and the brilliance of Barbara Pym My earliest reading memory Swallowdale by Arthur Ransome, aged seven. I didn’t learn to read in the first years of school and became entrenched in illiteracy until my grandmother, a retired primary school teacher, intervened. I loved the Swallows and Amazons series, and especially Swallowdale in which a shipwreck is redeemed and the adults provide exactly the right support when the children mess up.My favourite book growing up The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose politics I now find obviously objectionable. I often tell students that what you don’t get is what gets you, and I’m sure the obsession with rugged independence and the repression of foundational violence did me no good, but I liked the landscapes and the combination of domesticity and adventure. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago EastEnders stars rally behind colleague in coma after horror Colombia fall

EastEnders star Jake Wood has appealed to fans to help raise money for a BBC colleague who was left in a coma and requiring multiple emergency surgeries after falling from an 11-storey building in Colombia

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2 w. ago EastEnders star Jake Wood asks for help after colleague plunges 11 floors and left in coma

The actor has appealed to fans to raise cash after the man fell from a multi-storey building while on holiday.

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2 w. ago EastEnders' Jake Wood appeals for help after BBC colleague left in coma after 11

EastEnders actor Jake Wood has appealed for help for a colleague who was left in a coma and required multiple emergency surgeries after a fall from an 11-storey building

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2 w. ago Jake Wood begs for help after EastEnders colleague plunges 11 floors and left in a coma

The 'loving son, brother uncle and friend' spent nine days in a coma and required multiple life-saving surgeries after falling from the roof of an 11-storey building

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3 w. ago 'Porta Potty' adult model shares update after being left for dead with a broken spine

Ukrainian Maria Kovalchuk, 21, was left unable to walk after being found in a coma by the side of the road in Dubai last year and has bravely endured a 10-month recuperation

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3 w. ago Food delivery driver leaves man in a coma after attacking him for strange reason

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Lloyd Poole, 75, was left in a coma after he was allegedly punched by a DoorDash driver in Michigan. The driver, Ryan Turner, was charged with aggravated assault

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3 w. ago When a heart attack left me in a coma, my hallucinations inspired a novel – and a new life

After his heart stopped beating for 40 minutes, the former lawyer experienced weeks of hallucinations. The visions he experienced during his recovery set him on the path to a new careerOn the evening of Monday 1 February 2021, during the third Covid lockdown, my wife Alexa and I sat down on the sofa to have sausages and chips in front of the TV. The children were tetchy, and we were worn out from trying to home-school them while working from home, me as a lawyer in the music industry and Alexa as a charity fundraiser. But at least, Alexa said to me, we had made it through January.Then I started making strange noises. “Are you joking?” she asked. Then, “are you choking?” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Cyclists caught running red lights in London will be given the option of watching a film about a serious collision that left a cyclist in a coma

Cyclists caught running red lights in London will be given the option of watching a film about a serious collision that left a cyclist in a coma  Road.cc

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3 w. ago Retired teacher who has never smoked fined for dropping cigarette in Nottingham

Ray Weatherburn, 76, was eating breakfast in Normandy, France, when he was accused by Nottingham city council of littering from his silver Vauxhall Corsa.

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3 w. ago Meet The Traitors cast including Scots nursery teacher, retired detective, crime writer and a psychologist

Scot Netty, 42, is a nursery school teacher and mum and wants to win the cash prize to travel more with her seven-year-old

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4 w. ago Wayne Lineker's 'seven weeks of pure hell' as he finally leaves hospital after health battle

Infamous Brit bar owner Wayne was taken to hospital at the beginning of November after contracting a dangerous disease, but has since come out — and could not be happier

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