2 h. ago Derby tragedy as Norman's Cay dies in heartbreak for football agent Kia Joorabchian

The football agent’s joy at winning the first juvenile race of the Flat Turf season in March turned to despair at Epsom when Norman’s Cay went wrong

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5 h. ago Scotsman Obituaries: Professor Allan Langlands, Scottish oncologist who made a big impact in Australia

Professor Allan Ogilvie Langlands AM, cancer treatment pioneer. Born: 1 August, 1931 in Edinburgh. Died: 28 March 2025 in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia, aged 93

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6 h. ago Electric Spark by Frances Wilson review: Muriel is as intriguing as her novels

What is so fascinating about Muriel Spark? In the last decade before she died aged 88 in 2006, any interview with the Scottish author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie became an event. The excitement was firstly because she was an artist of the old school, famous not only for her brilliant and complex novels, but also for her unconventional life in Italy, where she lived up a hill with her friend Penelope Jardine, who was also her assistant (and now, in her nineties, her literary executor).

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7 h. ago How groundbreaking gay author Edmund White paved the way for other writers

Edmund White, a pioneer of contemporary gay literature, died this week at age 85

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22 h. ago Family of tragic Glasgow DJ who died from childhood cancer launch research fund

Niamh Jobson had been battling a rare form of childhood bone cancer when she died aged 22.

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22 h. ago Cheers star George Wendt cause of death revealed after his sudden death

George Wendt died in his home at the age of 76 on May 20, and police have now released medical details

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25 h. ago Cheers star George Wendt’s tragic cause of death revealed as certificate released

Cheers icon George Wendt, who played beer-swilling Norm Peterson in the hit show, died last month at the age of 76 and his cause of death has now been released

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29 h. ago Hollywood legend behind John Wick and Saw dies aged 55 as tributes paid to 'fearless spirit'

Jason Constantine, who was co-president of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, died at home after a 'fearless' battle with cancer, the studio said in a statement

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29 h. ago Scotsman Obituaries: Lord Ross, former Lord Justice Clerk and one of the great Scottish judges

Donald MacArthur Ross, Lord Ross, Lord Justice Clerk. Born: 29 March 1927 in Dundee. Died: 26 April 2025 in Edinburgh, aged 98

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39 h. ago Khadiyah ‘KD’ Lewis death: Former Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star dies aged 44

Lewis appeared on two seasons of the VH1 show

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43 h. ago Edgar Lungu: Former Zambian president who left chequered legacy dies aged 68

Edgar Lungu’s death comes six months after a court ruling prevented him from running for president again

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49 h. ago BBC Race Across The World's emotional tribute to contestant after tragic death

Sam Gardiner who appeared in the BBC Two show back in 2020 tragically died following a car crash at the tender age of only 24.

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52 h. ago Michael Mosley's family say 'hardest of our lives' as they mark one year since TV doctor's death

The TV doctor tragically died aged 67 after going missing while on holiday with his wife Dr Clare Bailey Mosley last year

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52 h. ago Jazz, Paris and war’s brutality: the radical watercolours of Edward Burra, British art’s great unknown

He called art ‘fart’ and hated talking about his work, but a rare retrospective offers the chance to celebrate the radical visions of the 20th-century British painterOn any objective reading, Edward Burra occupies a distinguished place in the history of 20th-century British art. His work, especially his watercolours of demi-monde life in interwar Paris and New York, is a distinct and vivid record of the times. His paintings are held in major institutions – as is his extensive archive, which is housed at Tate Britain in London.And yet he remains “one of the great known unknowns of modern British art”, according to Thomas Kennedy, the curator of a new retrospective show at Tate Britain. It is being held more than half a century on from Burra’s last show at the Tate in 1973, three years before he died aged 71. There are lots of reasons for Burra’s “unknown” status, explains Kennedy. “He worked alone, and not being part of a defined group doesn’t help to place an artist. But probably mo...

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61 h. ago BBC Race Across the World pays heartbreaking tribute to contestant after sad death

Race Across the World paid tribute to a former contestant at the end of tonight's episode, after it was revealed that Sam Gardiner has died aged 24 in a car crash

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69 h. ago First picture of toddler found dead as grandparents are accused of murder

Ethan Ives Griffiths was aged just two years and four months old when he died

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69 h. ago Edmund White remembered: ‘He was the patron saint of queer literature’

Colm Tóibín, Alan Hollinghurst, Adam Mars-Jones and more recall the high style and libidinous freedom of a writer who ‘was not a gateway to gay literature but a main destination’• Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85 Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Bobby George lifts lid on Eric Bristow's wild lifestyle before tragic death aged 60

Eric Bristow, who died aged 60 of a heart attack, used to drink 16 pints of Guinness in a night while smoking non-stop before finishing the night by eating a curry

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3 d. ago Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85

The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man has diedEdmund White, the American writer, playwright and essayist who attracted acclaim for his semi-autobiographical novels such as A Boy’s Own Story – and literally wrote the book on gay sex, with the pioneering The Joy of Gay Sex – has died aged 85.His death was confirmed to the Guardian by his agent, Bill Clegg, on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Days of Our Lives kills off Drake Hogestyn’s character eight months after actor’s death

Star of the long-running soap opera died in September 2024 from pancreatic cancer, aged 70

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