2 d. ago Death of boy, 12, awaiting autism diagnosis 'was not foreseeable', inquest hears

Riley Townsend died in September 2024 after struggling with his mental health for years

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7 d. ago Pensioner who died after being hit by BMW in Scots town is named

Andrew Dick, 93, from Kilmarnock, was involved in a collision with a car in the town centre on Wednesday.

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8 d. ago Shooting at Chicago's Christmas tree lighting event leaves one dead and eight hurt with terrified families forced to run for their lives

Holiday celebrations turned to chaos as gunfire erupted just hours after the city lit its official Christmas tree.

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9 d. ago Over £30,000 raised to bring woman's body home to Scotland after crash in Ireland

Chloe Hipson sadly died in the two-vehicle collision in the townland of Gibstown in Dundalk, County Louth, at 9pm on Saturday.

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1 week ago Girl, 11, dies one day after being 'taken unwell' in coastal Scottish town: Mother pays tribute as police probe 'unexplained' death

Olivia Curley, 11, was taken to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow on Sunday after falling ill. She died the following day. The youngster became unwell at home before being raced to hospital.

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1 week ago Girl, 11, dies one day after 'taken unwell' in coastal Scottish town: Mother pays tribute as police probe 'unexplained' death

Olivia Curley, 11, was taken to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow on Sunday after falling ill. She died the following day. The youngster became unwell at home before being raced to hospital.

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1 week ago Fundraiser to bring body of 'beautiful' young woman home to Scotland after Ireland crash

Chloe Hipson, 21, from Bellshill, sadly died in the two-vehicle collision in the townland of Gibstown in Dundalk, County Louth, at 9pm on Saturday.

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2 w. ago Boy, 2, 'strangled to death' in nursery tragedy as manslaughter probe launched

Leonardo Ricci, two, was found unresponsive in the garden of the nursery after getting tangled in a tree - he was strangled by his own jumper and pronounced dead at the scene

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2 w. ago Tragic M1 crash sees two in their 20s dead after car collided with tree

South Yorkshire Police have issued a statement after a man and a woman in their 20s were killed in a horror crash on the M1, which saw their car leave the motorway before crashing into a tree

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2 w. ago Customers trapped as 'huge fireball' rips through working men's club

John McCartney and Philip Townsend died in the deadly blaze

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3 w. ago Elizabeth Olsen believes she will die old and alone in a foggy English coastal town. Here are her options

While promoting new film Eternity, the actor outlined a specific end-of-life scenario that should be cold, wet and include one cheese shopOver the last few years, the promotional circuit for movie stars has transformed entirely. Where once you could expect sit-down interviews and hagiographic magazine profiles, now any time an actor makes a film they have to be subjected to a flurry of YouTube parlour games; eating weird sweets and trying to remember lines from their old films or, in the case of Hot Ones, willingly giving themselves diarrhoea.Now the goalposts have shifted again. Elizabeth Olsen was recently at the premiere of her new movie Eternity, about a woman who has to pick a partner for the afterlife. And rather than hitting the usual circuit, Olsen has decided to promote the film by expressing her belief that she’s going to die alone.When I was in high school, I dreamt of being a very old lady on the coast of England, alone actually. I might have had an animal, and it would ...

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3 w. ago Town’s ‘dying’ 35ft Christmas tree with dead branches is slammed as ‘diabolical disgrace’ & ‘roadkill’

A CHRISTMAS tree has been slammed as an "absolute disgrace" by a local town council. Wisbech Town Council fumed that the festive offering appeared "half dead or dying" when it was delivered to the Cambridgeshire area and demanded a fresh one be sent over. Councillors seethed that the tree was brown in places, was missing...

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3 w. ago Town’s ‘half dead’ Christmas tree replaced after council brands it a ‘disgrace’

Wisbech Town Council said its supplier said the growing of the initial tree had likely been affected by the hot weather earlier this year.

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