9 h. ago UFC star Nathaniel Wood: ‘I blamed my opponent when my newborn daughter was in intensive care’

Exclusive interview: British UFC featherweight Wood opens up to The Independent on the dark thoughts he used to get into the frame of mind to fight when his newborn daughter was fighting for her life

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58 h. ago Sue Johnston says Brookside dark storyline 'helped' her deal with real

Sue played Sheila Grant on the Channel 4 soap

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58 h. ago Sue Johnston 'had to fight for her life' after actress attacked in terrifying assault

Sue Johnston, who played Sheila Grant in Channel 4 soap Brookside, has spoken out about the soap's groundbreaking rape storyline - and how it helped her

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4 d. ago Dad tells of legal fight with NHS to keep his daughter alive

Doctors wanted to move Fatima Ali, 11, on to palliative care within days before her parents Gohar and Rabia launched a historic legal fight to save her life

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5 d. ago EastEnders Vicki Fowler star reveals 'massive part' of making Joel Marshall story 'work'

The actress' character was rushed to hospital after being attacked by her boyfriend's son on the BBC soap

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9 d. ago Sue Johnston and Paul Ready star in Diane Morgan’s new AI sitcom

Filming has already started for the new series, Ann Droid, which follows a friendship between Sue and Linda, a humanoid robot.

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2 w. ago Man accused of stabbing Mark Sanchez in self defense told police he thought he was in ‘fight for his life’

The former athlete got into a drunken fight with another man, according to court documents

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2 w. ago Two members of the public killed in synagogue rampage as three others 'fight for life'

Two people have been confirmed as dead, with another said to be left 'fighting for their lives' as a stabbing at a Jewish synagogue at Manchester Heaton Park took place earlier today

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3 w. ago Sheffield Wednesday medics claim 'aggressive' ambulance crews hindered fight to save life of tragic West Bromwich Albion fan who collapsed during game

IAN HERBERT: A paramedic working for Sheffield Wednesday's private medical company has accused the local ambulance service of hindering their attempts to save the life of a fan.

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3 w. ago My mother was shot by the police – and that bullet changed everything

Lee Lawrence was 11 when his mother, Cherry Groce, was paralysed during a botched police raid. It was the end of his childhood and the start of his fight for her life and legacyWhen Lee Lawrence’s son, Brandon, picked him up from hospital after a minor operation recently, Brandon thought he saw a car following them. Lawrence looked round and told his son he didn’t think it was anything to worry about. But then the car – which turned out to be an undercover police vehicle – put its siren on. It overtook them and did a hard stop. “I expected to see guns come out next,” says Lawrence. “I thought: ‘What the hell is going on?’ I got upset. My son was trying to calm me down, because I was thinking: ‘How could this be happening to my son?’”Lawrence was 11 when his mother, Cherry Groce, was shot and paralysed in 1985 by an armed police officer during a botched raid on her home. Community fury over Groce’s shooting would spark a two-day uprising in Brixton, south London. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Statement in full: JK Rowling in blistering attack on Hermione Granger actress Emma Watson

Harry Potter author JK Rowling blasted Emma Watson of being 'ignorant' and having 'little experience'

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3 w. ago Rachel Reeves faces the fight of her life to duck the blame for tax rises

Editorial: The chancellor is entitled to point out that her Tory predecessors are partly responsible, but she cannot avoid the consequences of her own decisions

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3 w. ago 11 dead and 10 fight for life after drinking homemade booze in holiday hotspot

Multiple methanol poisoning deaths have been reported in the Barranquilla area of Colombia this week, thought to be caused by homemade alcohol known as 'cochoco'

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4 w. ago A drunk driver hit our car, my three friends died, and I began a fight for my life – and my ballet career

At 20, Marc Brew was the sole survivor of a terrible crash that killed his fellow dancers. Paralysed from the chest down, he had to learn to live in a new, uncharted realityMarc Brew was sitting in the back seat of a car on a motorway near Johannesburg, telling jokes and laughing with his friends, when a pickup came hurtling down the wrong side of the road towards them. “Out of nowhere, I just remember seeing this white flash,” says Brew, who was 20 at the time. The truck, which he later found out had a drunk driver at the wheel, drove straight into the car he was in. The crash killed everyone else in the vehicle.Nine months previously, Brew had moved from Australia to South Africa to join the Pact ballet company, based in Pretoria. That Saturday, he had attended his usual morning dance classes, before he and his friend Joanne, another member of the company, set off with her brother, Simon, and Simon’s fiancee’s brother, Toby, towards a game reserve where they had planned to go bush...

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