7 h. ago Stephen Mulhern cries while filming first TV show since his father's death amid 'incredibly tough' year

The presenter, 48, collapsed in Pizza Express and was taken to hospital shortly after his beloved father’s death

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7 h. ago Stephen Mulhern 'emotional' during first TV show since his father's death

Stephen Mulhern has opened up about his emotional new TV show The Accidental Tourist

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37 h. ago Romería review – Carla Simón’s gripping pilgrimage tackles Aids, parents and the legacy of secrets

Cannes film festivalA young woman arrives in a Spanish coastal city to meet the family of her dead father, who are hiding information about his life and death, in Simón’s distinctive dramaIs biology destiny? Spanish film-maker Carla Simón brings to Cannes her very personal and in fact auto-fictional project Romería (meaning “pilgrimage”) – about an 18-year-old girl, arriving in Vigo in Galicia on Spain’s bracing Atlantic coast. She is on a mission to find out more about her biological father who died here of Aids after he split from her mum, who has since died, too, and about her dad’s extended – and very wealthy – family.Romería returns Simón (and her audiences) to the complex and painful subject of her mother and father, which she first approached in her wonderful autobiographical debut Summer 1993 although for me the more conventionally enclosed fictional transformation of the material there might have given that film a sharper arrowhead of storytelling power. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago Former tennis star Jelena Dokic confirms death of estranged father, Damir Dokic

Father and coach of former tennis world No 4 died on FridayPlayer shares ‘conflicting and complex emotions’ after 10-year estrangementDamir Dokic, the estranged father and coach of former tennis star Jelena Dokic, has died.Jelena confirmed in a social media post Damir died last Friday, saying she had “conflicting and complex emotions and feelings” about the news.In Australia, support is available at Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636, Lifeline on 13 11 14 and the national family violence counselling service on 1800 737 732. In the UK, the charity Mind is available on 0300 123 3393 and Childline on 0800 1111. In the US, call or text Mental Health America at 988 or chat 988lifeline.org Continue reading...

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65 h. ago Serial killer dad buried 10,000 bones in garden after sex game murders

The Fox Hollow Farm murders saw father-of-three Herb Baumeister strangle at least 25 men to death during sex before burning their remains and scattering their bones around his family home

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5 d. ago Prince William's reduced King Charles 'to tears' with unexpected comment about future

Prince William has been the Duke of Cornwall for just over two years, since his father King Charles acceded to the throne following the death of his mother the Queen in September 2022

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9 d. ago Death of Brit father who fell 600ft from Benidorm cliff will be reinvestigated by police as family insist there was 'foul play'

Detectives previously thought Nathan Osman, 30, had suffered an accident or possibly even taken his own life while on holiday at the tourist hotspot.

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9 d. ago April Jones: A timeline of her final moments revisited as her father dies

 April Jones was abducted and killed at the age of five and now her father has passed away

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9 d. ago Tributes paid to father of murdered schoolgirl April Jones after sudden death

Paul Jones, 55, died from a brain disease he contracted in 2018, six years after the death of his daughter.

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1 week ago Campaigner describes how ‘hero’ father chose assisted death in Canada

Fiona Anderson’s father, John Bird, who had stage four cancer. went to Ontario on 2022.

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1 week ago My brother was bludgeoned to death by his new wife and her FBI agent father

Limerick-based Tracey Corbett-Lynch described her brother Jason and Molly Martens' marriage as a 'toxic nightmare' while honouring the memory of her 'hero' brother - 10 years after his murder.

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2 w. ago A Deadly American Marriage: Jason Corbett was bludgeoned to death by former beauty queen wife and her ex

The violent story of how an Irish father-of-two was bludgeoned to death by his second wife and her ex FBI father will be explored in an upcoming Netflix documentary.

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2 w. ago Liam Payne's poignant commitment to son Bear as he's set to inherit father's fortune

Liam Payne's son is set to inherit his father's millions after his tragic death - and the singer shared a powerful admission about Bear not long before he passed away

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2 w. ago TV Chef Simon Rimmer breaks down in tears remembering his late father on new Mail podcast

In tears, Simon described the death of his father and how remembering some advice he had given him as a child cured him of his gloom at turning sixty. Listen to the full interview on The Apple & The Tree.

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2 w. ago The big breath secret: can I improve my lung capacity, efficiency and power?

My father’s death from cancer showed me you need to look after your lungs. But apart from not smoking, what should you be doing? I headed to a laboratory, strapped on a mask and heart monitor and started pedalling Lungs are amazing. There they sit, inflating and deflating from dawn to dusk, dusk to dawn, sucking in air, stripping out oxygen and exchanging it for carbon dioxide. They do this 20,000 times a day, 7.5m times a year, 600m times in the average lifetime, keeping our trillions of cells ticking over and saving them from choking on their own exhaust fumes. And we ignore them until something goes wrong and we’re gasping, wheezing, panicking – or worse.When I think about lungs, it’s often in the same breath as cancer, which killed my dad 39 years ago. He only realised his lungs were knackered after a heart attack, which was probably also down to smoking. Sixty Senior Service a day, cigarette number two often lit as soon as number one was stubbed out. He stopped overnight, but i...

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2 w. ago Man charged in deputy's death was the father of teen shot by Cincinnati police, authorities say

Police in Cincinnati say a man who struck and killed a county deputy with his car on Friday is the father of a teenager who was shot and killed by Cincinnati police a day earlier

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3 w. ago Virginia Guiffre’s dad insists she didn’t die by suicide, claims someone ‘got to’ her

Virginia Giuffre was 41 when she died in Neergabby, Australia

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3 w. ago Question 7 by Richard Flanagan audiobook review – a bold memoir of life and near

History and autobiography are brilliantly intertwined as the Booker-winning author explores the choices and chance connections that shape our existenceAt the start of this boldly experimental memoir, the Booker prize-winning author Richard Flanagan visits the site of a Japanese labour camp where his late father was interned during the second world war and where he ends up awkwardly having his photo taken with a former guard, Mr Sato. The war ended weeks after the US launched an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing 60,000 people in less than a minute. That bomb also led to Flanagan’s father, then days from death, being freed, which in turn allowed him to father a child who would grow up to become a writer. “How many people need to die in order that you might read this book?” Flanagan asks.Question 7, named after a riddle posed by Chekhov, is a book about the connections and choices that shape our lives, for better or worse. Flanagan is the narrator, his reading by turns mournful, reflec...

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3 w. ago Christina Applegate breaks down in tears as she announces family death

Christina Applegate broke down in tears during the latest episode of her podcast as she revealed the recent death of her father.

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3 w. ago My father poured boiling water on my dog and threw me across the room. He was a drunk

Dr Charlotte Proudman remembers the last time she saw her father. It isn't a happy memory. Then he died a week after her fourth birthday - freeing her from what would have been a life of 'sheer hell'.

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