6 h. ago Distracted driving: Motorists using their mobile phones at the wheel killed 42 people last year and caused hundreds of serious accidents

Distracted motorists caused a total of 655 serious accidents, the latest data shows.

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8 h. ago Wedding guest accidentally shoots groom dead and triggers 57

A wedding turned to tragedy in an instant after a guest, firing an automatic weapon in celebration, accidentally killed the groom and sparked a massacre

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20 h. ago Paul Scholes slams Ruben Amorim as 'final nail in coffin' barb speaks volumes

Paul Scholes recently criticised Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim over his comments on Kobbie Mainoo

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21 h. ago Man United icon Paul Scholes' Ruben Amorim attack speaks volumes after 'final nail in coffin' dig

Paul Scholes recently criticised Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim over his treatment of Kobbie Mainoo

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30 h. ago Are failing brakes in £200,000 Ferrari supercars causing a raft of devastating accidents? Robert's Ferrari killed someone, Ricardo broke his neck and Tony ended up in a Somerset hedge

British banker Robert Ebert braked so hard his back slid up the seat - yet his Ferrari killed a car park attendant. Read these devastating tales of Ferrari drivers that will make your hair stand on end

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69 h. ago Former king speaks for first time about accidentally killing his brother 70 years ago

Juan Carlos I’s memoir paints a different picture to an official statement released at the time

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3 d. ago Supervisor in tears as he describes horror workplace accident that killed beloved dad

Anthony John Paul McLaughlin was killed instantly while working on a ‘vertical borer’ at Oldham Engineering

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3 d. ago Horror as weightlifter killed in freak accident while working out

Trinutes have been paid to an amateur weightlifter killed in a horror accident while he was bench-pressing during a gym workout.

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3 d. ago Spain’s former king finally speaks about accidentally killing his brother 70 years ago

Juan Carlos I’s memoir paints a different picture to an official statement released at the time

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3 d. ago In a new memoir, Spain's exiled former king seeks redemption. Spaniards seem unmoved

Spain's former King Juan Carlos has published a memoir titled "Reconciliation" in an attempt to repair his tarnished reputation

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3 d. ago Cringeworthy moment Harry jokes about Meghan's cooking as he finally gets a speaking part on her Netflix show 

The Duke of Sussex was seen mocking what he called her 'anti-salad' in the new seasonal special of Meghan's With Love series, released in the UK today.

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3 d. ago Prince Harry finally gets a speaking part on Meghan's Netflix show

The Duke of Sussex was seen mocking what he called her 'anti-salad' in the new seasonal special of Meghan's With Love series, released in the UK today.

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6 d. ago Joshua Zirkzee admission speaks volumes as Man Utd forward finally ends goal drought

Joshua Zirkzee ended a goal drought of almost eight months when he scored the equaliser in Manchester United's 3-1 victory over Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park on Sunday

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7 d. ago EastEnders spoilers reveal Harry Mitchell to overdose as popular couple breakup after proposal

Harry recently killed Okie by accident on the BBC soap after being freed from captivity

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8 d. ago Stranger Things finale dubbed an 'emotional betrayal' by fan

A Stranger Things fan has dubbed the finale as an 'emotional betrayal' speaking out about how unfair it is that the new year will be dominated by the popular Netflix show

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9 d. ago Brit dad, 28, died after being hit by ‘speeding’ jet ski in horror accident on Dubai boat trip, inquest hears

A BRIT dad was killed in a horror jet ski accident as his partner watched on holding their four-month-old baby, an inquest heard today. Ali Watson, 28, tragically died when a “speeding” jet ski ploughed into him in Dubai, a UK court heard. Assistant coroner Luisa Nicholson concluded Ali died as a result of an accident,...

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9 d. ago Driver's catastrophic decision decapitated his best friend as they drove home from night out

A 21-year-old killed his friend in a freak accident as he was driving drunk and his friend's head was hanging out of the window and was decapitated by a telephone pole

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1 week ago ‘My mother had dementia but beautiful things unfolded’: Cheryle St Onge’s best photograph

‘She wasn’t very fond of Skipper, our jack russell, who loved the hose. But they were dancing together – two beings in the afternoon sunlight, having their own conversation’I am an only child. My father was killed in a car accident when I was 14 and my mother was 47. We were really tightly bonded after that. She worked at a university and was an artist: she painted and carved birds. She was a wonderful person, who lit up a room and was someone everyone wanted to be around. She was very giving.Later in life, she developed dementia. I left my teaching position to stay home and look after her. She was very active – she would go outside and rip up bulbs, put the horses in the wrong stalls. It was very stressful to come home – I would enter the driveway and think: “Oh my word!” Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘I tried to capture her inner world – but couldn’t’: Tom de Freston on painting his wife pregnant and nude

The artist and his wife, novelist Kiran Millwood Hargrave, lost seven pregnancies before their daughter was born. They explain how his nude paintings of her helped them process their grief – and eventual joy‘The subject comes with huge baggage and I like that,” says Tom de Freston. The painter and I are in his studio in a village outside Oxford, surrounded by nude portraits of his wife, the novelist Kiran Millwood Hargrave. “I wanted to ask, ‘What does it mean as a male artist to be looking at the female figure? And where does the agency sit?’”We have been talking about Titian’s Poesie series, how those paintings – commissioned by the most powerful man in the world at the time, King Philip II of Spain – fetishise the naked female body. “Obviously there’s other things going on in them I think Titian’s often prodding at morality and power,” De Freston says. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Original member of huge rock band killed in horror farming accident

He was a talented and much-loved musician before he faced an extraordinary death that shocked locals, when he was crushed by a rolling hay bail in the countryside of Devon

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