9 h. ago Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody says it took him a year to cry after father’s death

The singer said he would be ‘absolutely delighted’ if his new book, detailing his grief, helped somebody ‘in some small way’.

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51 h. ago Fans of Father Brown, Vera and Death in Paradise should watch this cosy crime drama next

With the season finale of Death in Paradise looming, another crime drama could fill its place, but what is it?

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67 h. ago Our only child collapsed and died while playing the Field Game alongside his father at Eton College

Raphael's father Michael Pryor saw him fall down and CPR immediately being performed before the teenager was taken to Wexham Park Hospital and kept alive until his mother arrived.

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67 h. ago 'Fit and healthy' father of two's death at work sparks crucial awareness campaign

Ste Snell died without warning, after he collapsed at the factory where he worked. Tributes have poured in for the 'best dad' whose kids were 'his entire world'

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3 d. ago Love Island: All Stars' Gabby Allen opens up about heartbreak and debt after father's death

Gabby Allen triumphed in the latest series of Love Island: All Stars, but the 33-year-old star has also faced heartbreak after the tragic death of her beloved father

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5 d. ago Love Island star emotionally announces the death of his father in a heartbreaking tribute following cancer battle

The reality star and fashion model, who was a bombshell on the seventh series of the ITV show, took to his Instagram story to share the heartbreaking news.

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6 d. ago Director opens up on ‘painful’ experience of working with Luxembourg’s Prince Frederik before his death

Prince Frederik’s death was announced by his father on March 7

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7 d. ago Courteney Cox's Snow Patrol boyfriend rushed to hospital for surgery after nasty injury

Snow Patrol star Johnny McDaid has undergone emergency surgery after suffering a horror injury to his hand with his bandmate Gary Lightbody sharing an update on his condition

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8 d. ago ‘If you don’t get early years right, children are unlikely to catch up’: why South Africa is trying to reboot its school system

With 80% of 10-year-olds unable to read for meaning, the government is prioritising literacy and numeracy among pre-school pupils as it tackles its education problemsWhen she noticed children hanging around with nothing to do after school in the sprawling Johannesburg township of Soweto in 2016, Faith Nedoboni decided to start an after-school programme. But as she helped them with their homework, she realised many, some as old as 13, were struggling to read and write.Nedoboni, a 57-year-old single mother of three adult children, had never been a teacher. But she was an entrepreneur, first taking over her father’s restaurant and grocery store business after his death and then also selling secondhand clothes. Continue reading...

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1 week ago How Dungeons & Dragons helped my siblings and me grieve our father’s death

Fantasy realms offer a place to escape when our own world is too intense, too boring, too heartbrokenThe idea of being present with your grief might evoke virtuous images of letting ashes blow in the wind like dandelion seeds, days spent flipping through family photo albums, or crossing the finish line of a charity run in honor of your person. Grief at different times in your journey might look like all those things to you.Perhaps your life might call for you to find the off switch. Or if there’s not one to be found, to turn the volume up on something else in your life to drown out the noise that all this grappling with death can stir up. Fantasy football. National politics. FBoy Island. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Gene Hackman's daughter breaks down in tears as she hears key detail over phone

She was too upset to chat with police when they called following the death of her father and his wife Betsy Arakawa.

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2 w. ago Harmony Montgomery’s father appeals murder conviction in daughter’s death

Adam Montgomery was sentenced to 45 years to life for the murder of his daughter Harmony

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2 w. ago The Bay's Marsha Thomason unveils 'unbelievable' moment that reduced her to tears on set

The Bay will return to ITV on Sunday, March 2 and Marsha Thomason is back as Jenn Townsend, who is reeling from the death of her father as she returns to work

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2 w. ago Revealed: All the royals and socialites who have been caught secretly smoking cigarettes

The late Queen Elizabeth II was fiercely anti-smoking - and she had good reason to be. Smoking played a large part in the death of her beloved father King George VI who died of lung cancer in 1952.

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2 w. ago ‘Books picked me up on bad days’: how reading romance helped Lucy Mangan through grief

After the death of her father, the writer took refuge in the kinds of stories she had once written off – discovering a comforting world of funny heroines and happy endingsGrief is an intensifier. It doesn’t often – despite what films and television would have you believe – cause you to act massively out of character. Like motherhood or any other huge life upheaval, its actual effect is to strip away the nonsense and leave your essential nature, your core, not just intact but now unobscured by everyday concerns and frivolities.So it was no real surprise to find myself, in the immediate weeks after the death of my beloved dad in 2023, flinging myself into books. I would have done so literally, if I could. I wanted to gather my physical books into a wall – or better yet, a cave – around me that would both protect me from this new reality and let me cry in peace within it. Failing that, I took mental refuge in them instead. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Gene Hackman's daughter makes devastating admission on father's mysterious death

Hollywood great Gene Hackman was found dead with his wife Betsy Arakawa and their beloved dog at their mansion in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Wednesday (February 26)

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2 w. ago Gene Hackman's daughter breaks silence on her reclusive father after his mysterious death

Gene Hackman's daughter Leslie has broken her silence following her father and stepmother's mysterious death in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com.

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3 w. ago Elizabeth Struhs death: father jailed for 14.5 years as sect faces sentencing for eight

Jason Struhs is the first of 14 members of Toowoomba religious group the Saints to be sentenced for Elizabeth’s 2022 death by withholding insulinFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe father of eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs has been sentenced to 14-and-a-half years in prison, with a minimum of 80% to be spent behind bars, for the death of his eight-year-old type 1 diabetic daughter by denying her life-saving insulin.Jason Struhs was the first of 14 members of Toowoomba-based religious sect the Saints to learn his fate at a sentencing hearing in the Queensland supreme court on Wednesday, after they were found guilty of manslaughter over Elizabeth’s January 2022 death by diabetic ketoacidosis.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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3 w. ago EastEnders' Bex Fowler return confirmed after devastating death of Martin Fowler

EastEnders' Bex Fowler is making a return to the BBC soap very soon following the death of her father Martin Fowler, with actress Jasmine Armfield reprising the role

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3 w. ago BBC EastEnders confirms Bex Fowler's return for heartbreaking storyline after five years

EastEnders has confirmed that Bex Fowler will be making a return to Albert Square following the death of her father Martin, with actress Jasmine Armfield reprising her role

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