16 h. ago Elvis fans, carnival and Orthodox Christmas: photos of the day – Wednesday

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17 h. ago Family forced into 'important update' after 'dead' teen son suddenly wakes from coma

Police said a boy was killed in a horror car crash just days before Christmas, but his family issued a shocking update about the teenager just three weeks later

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21 h. ago BBC Breakfast's Sally Nugent says 'it's terrible' as grieving mum opens up on loss

Presenters Sally Nugent and Jon Kay spoke to a mum whose 18-year-old daughter was killed in a car crash

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32 h. ago Anthony Joshua driver charged over crash that killed boxer’s two close friends is pictured as he faces life in prison

THIS is the chauffeur charged with causing the deaths of two of boxing superstar’s Anthony Joshua's best pals in a horror smash. Adeniyi Kayode, 47, was at the wheel of the black Lexus SUV which had its passenger side torn open in a crash into a parked lorry in Nigeria. Strength and conditioning coach Sina...

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33 h. ago Facing jail, driver high on cocaine who killed mum of four in smash

A man who killed a mother of four in a head-on crash while high on drugs and driving on the wrong side of the road has been locked up.

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34 h. ago Slackline warning was issued before helicopter crash that killed groom and nieces on wedding day

The pilot was taking his nieces on a helicopter ride before his wedding ceremony, family said

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36 h. ago Police tell wrong family their teenager had died after fatal crash

South Yorkshire Police say they mixed up the identities of two teen boys involved in a car crash - one was killed while the other was sedated in hospital - telling the wrong family their son had died

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37 h. ago Top Russian army officer killed in 'suspicious car crash' in latest odd death

Colonel Erik Selimov was killed in a road accident near Alchevsk in Ukraine's occupied region of Luhansk on Sunday alongside three others as Russia shows no sign of stopping its brutal war

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37 h. ago Police told wrong family that teenager had been killed in deadly crash

South Yorkshire Police told the family of a 17-year-old who was badly injured in a crash in Rotherham last month that he had died.

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39 h. ago Buckingham Palace issues explanation after true use of royal helicopters emerges

Buckingham Palace has defended the Royal Family and one of their modes of transport after reports emerged that their helicopter fleet racked up tens of thousands of miles in less than a year

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40 h. ago Bride miraculously survives car crash but is killed by lorry seconds later

Newly-wed, Samara Prado Martin 24, pulls herself from a flipped car but another tragedy struck as she was then killed by passing lorry moments later

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40 h. ago Two teenagers killed in horror crash as car 'swerves off country road'

Two teenagers died and a third was injured after their car left a country road near the Kent town of Sittingbourne on Saturday evening

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40 h. ago Anthony Joshua 'will retire from boxing', his 'uncle' claims, after car crash that killed his two best friends in Nigeria

The British boxer, 36, miraculously survived a huge car crash which killed two of his close friends Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Makun last week.

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41 h. ago Girl, 16, and boy, 17, killed as car 'swerves off country road' in horror crash

Flowers have been left at the roadside in tributes to the young teenagers

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41 h. ago Bride, 24, miraculously survives car crash but is killed by lorry seconds later

Newly-wed bride Samara Prado Martins died after pulling herself from a flipped car, only to be struck by a lorry - her new husband Thiago is fighting for his life

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41 h. ago Anthony Joshua's 'reckless' driver is pictured as he faces potential life sentence over Nigeria crash that left boxer in hospital and killed two of his close friends

EXCLUSIVE: Adeniyi Kayode, 47 - pictured for the first time - was at the wheel of the black Lexus SUV when it ploughed into the back of a stationary truck in Nigeria while carrying Anthony Joshua.

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41 h. ago Anthony Joshua 'retires from boxing' after fatal car crash that killed friends

Anthony Joshua has 'retired' from boxing according to his uncle following the fatal crash in Nigeria that he miraculously escaped from but tragically killed two of his close friends

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49 h. ago Dad who lost leg in devastating health battle fights back to walk daughter down aisle

Frank Dunlop lost his right leg to vascular disease through diabetes and is now using Muay Thai to build up the strength to walk his daughter down the aisle on her wedding day.

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54 h. ago Child, 5, killed & another, 12, injured after electric car dad was sitting in ‘quickly accelerated of its own accord’

A FIVE-year-old was tragically killed and another injured after a dad's electric car 'accelerated of its own accord', a court heard. Ashenafei Demisse, 52, was sitting in his Volkswagen ID.4 when the horror unfolded in November 2022. He was with his son in a car park outside their flat close to London Bridge station, in south...

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54 h. ago Teenage girl, 16, and boy, 17, are killed in crash on country lane after car 'swerved off road'

Emergency services were called to reports that a car had left the carriageway on Old Ferry Road at Iwade, near Sittingbourne, Kent, at around 8.30pm on Saturday, January 3.

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