68 h. ago BBC star feared dead in Air India plane crash after tragic final post

Jamie Greenlaw-Meek, 42, was among the 53 British nationals due to be on board the doomed Air India flight

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3 d. ago Owners of Air India reveal the amount they will pay families of plane crash victims

The owners of Air India, Tata Sons, have revealed how much they will pay the families for each person who died in the Ahmedabad plane crash tragedy which killed almost everyone on board.

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3 d. ago Tragedy as man found dead near Greater Manchester playing field

A cordon was in place with a forensic tent at the scene

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4 d. ago Inside the new £400m UK train line that will never be used by normal passengers

The new £400million project, in the mountains of Neath Port Talbot, will have miles of railway tracks and station platforms - but it's not for everyday passengers

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4 d. ago Tragedy as person found dead near Greater Manchester railway station

Emergency services were called out to the scene

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6 d. ago Girl, 9, and dad killed in devastating house fire as child fights for life

They died in the house fire in Heckmondwike

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7 d. ago Moment 'fare dodger' is warned he could be committing fraud after only paying for short part of his journey

The train passenger was stopped by a revenue protection officer at the barriers at London Waterloo station after arriving on a South Western Railway (SWR) service.

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8 d. ago £140m revamp of Cardiff Central railway station is 'money well spent'

The revamp will see changes made to the foyers, subway, front and back of the building - as well as a new building constructed at the west wing

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1 week ago Army private who carried out ‘harrowing’ rape of stranger jailed for nine years

Video released by police captured the moment John Harvey, 25, was arrested while hiding in a toilet cubicle at Shrewsbury railway station.

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1 week ago Plans submitted for works to make Bridgend railway station more accessible

They would see dedicated areas created for passengers who need extra help when travelling

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1 week ago Tragedy as person dies on railway line in Greater Manchester

Trains were stopped as emergency services responded

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1 week ago Family of Greg Monks found dead after going missing on Portugal stag do 'truly heartbroken'

The family of missing Greg Monks have said they are "truly heartbroken" after a body was found in Portugal

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1 week ago Britain's railway deserts revealed: Map shows which UK towns are furthest from their local train station as some face two

The UK's most remote town for rail travel is Campbeltown in Argyll and Bute, which is 87 miles or more than two hours' drive away from the nearest station at Oban.

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1 week ago Former rugby league star, 50, named as 'murder victim' after he was found dead at a flat in a Manchester estate

A murder inquiry was launched immediately with the cause of the popular ex player's death 'undetermined' but being treated as 'suspicious' by Greater Manchester Police.

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1 week ago New West Lothian railway station plans 'imminent' amid hope it could open by 2030

The business case for development of the station is near completion and designs are ready to go to planning consent.

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2 w. ago US rock star turns up at Welsh railway station with a guitar for impromptu performance

The singer was seen enjoying a stroll along the beach and playing guitar whilst waiting for the train

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2 w. ago Paedophile who was found dead in bed told his ex 'If I died you'd get the kids back'

Ricki Hillman, 39, died almost a year after his convition for sex offences

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2 w. ago Along Came Love review – l’amour, loss and lingering shame in eventful French relationship movie

Director Katell Quillévéré explores the ravages of romance in an intelligently performed period piece about a shamed mother and a closeted husbandThe title of Katell Quillévéré’s first movie, Un Poison Violent from 2010, was taken from Serge Gainsbourg’s song Un poison violent, c’est ça l’amour, and the awful toxicity of love is a theme that has run through her work ever since. It is an underground stream that has become very much an overground stream in this new, heartfelt movie. It’s robust and a little unsubtle, without the nuances and indirections that govern her best work, but handsomely produced and resoundingly performed, avowedly autobiographical and inspired by her grandmother. Quillévéré has said that her influences are Maurice Pialat for the tough realism and Douglas Sirk for the melodrama and the sense of buried shame. I wonder if there isn’t some David Lean in there for the final scene at the railway station.Madeleine is a young single mother played by Anaïs Demoustier;...

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2 w. ago Syrian refugee, 19, praised after pinning down assailant in Hamburg knife attack

Muhammad Al Muhammad called a hero after helping to halt train station attack in which 18 people were injuredA 19-year-old Syrian refugee in Germany has been hailed as a hero after he pinned down an assailant at Hamburg’s main railway station, helping to halt an attack in which 18 people were injured.Police on Friday said a 39-year-old German woman had been arrested at the scene of the attack and that she was believed to be in a state of psychological distress. The 18 people injured were later reported to all be in stable condition, while the woman was placed in psychiatric care. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Five skiers found dead on Switzerland glacier near popular Swiss resort

The bodies of five skiers have been found near a luxury resort in Switzerland

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