8 h. ago Scottish Olympic hero retires at 28 after moment of realisation

Tokyo and Paris medallist calls time on cycling career

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3 d. ago Moment British lorry driver realises stowaway migrant has hitched a ride... but gets off when he tells him they're going to Belgium

Sam Sullivan, 26, was at the Calais truck stop picking up his export paperwork just before 5pm on Friday when he saw the young man get on the back of his lorry.

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7 d. ago Peter Kay broke down in tears as his 'world collapsed' before emergency surgery

Peter Kay has revealed the moment he realised he needed emergency surgery after being hit by excruciating kidney stones, admitting the ordeal brought him to tears

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2 w. ago Revealed: The moment Keir Starmer realised he needed to attack Reform

Exclusive: The scale of the Unite the Kingdom march shocked Sir Keir, who decided to launch a fightback on rherotic ‘that has become too common place’

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2 w. ago The kindness of strangers: a Los Angeles bus driver got everyone onboard to sing me happy birthday

The jolly driver had already done me a favour when I’d left my camera on board. Then he got on the microphone and said ‘Hey folks, it’s this guy’s birthday today’Read more in the Kindness of strangers seriesBack in my native Austria, people don’t even bother to lock their front doors. So when I set off in the 1980s to backpack through the US, I was warned about the country’s high crime rate and made to fear this big, scary place.I had my 21st birthday while I was in Los Angeles, and I’d been out having a few beers. Tired and ready to go home, I jumped on a public bus. The moment I stepped off I realised I’d left my camera on the seat – a disaster, as it was very precious to me. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago After his cocky taunts, the moment he realised the game was up

Winstanley used street couriers to deliver cocaine and cannabis across Bury

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3 w. ago Moment lorry driver realises he had killed someone caught on video after motorway crash

Danny Aitchison died after his Hyundai Kona became sandwiched between two lorry's on the M58 on May 17 last year.

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3 w. ago Moment HGV driver on motorway realised he'd just killed beloved dad

'It beggars belief that while in charge of that multi-tonne vehicle you were looking at social media and scrolling X'

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3 w. ago Elite swimmer Archie Goodburn, 24, who vowed to keep fighting after being diagnosed with incurable brain cancer is given 'new hope' with breakthrough drug

Elite Scottish swimmer, Archie Goodburn, 24, whose Olympic dreams were quashed by incurable brain tumours has been given a 'new hope' thanks to a breakthrough drug. 

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4 w. ago Peter Kay, 52, reveals 'shameful' moment he realised he had a binge eating problem as he admits he spent 'the first 48 years of his life' trying to lose weight

Peter Kay has said he spent the 'first 48 years of his life' trying to lose weight as he spoke in a rare personal interview on Monday.

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