36 h. ago Actor injured in 'horror' train crash as 39 dead and victims 'injured by glass'

An actor was involved in a train collision after carriages derailed, crossed onto opposite tracks and collided with an oncoming train, leaving 39 people dead as rescue operations continue

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5 d. ago Igor Stravinsky: Late Works album review – kudos to Reuss for bringing this spellbinding music to life

Daniel Reuss/Noord Nederlands Orkest/Cappella Amsterdam(Pentatone)Noord Nederlands Orkest and Cappella Amsterdam breathe colour and light into work from the composer’s most austere periodIn his later years, Igor Stravinsky became fascinated by serialism, both as a means of distilling musical thought and as an intellectual and stylistic challenge for a composer entering his 70s and 80s. The results struck some contemporary listeners as austere, but there’s a self-effacing purity and beauty about this complex, intellectually probing music that deserves a wider audience than hitherto. Kudos, then, to conductor Daniel Reuss, whose precise yet vital interpretations teem with colour and light.There are four main works here. In Memoriam Dylan Thomas from 1954 is an extended, impassioned setting for solo tenor of Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Threni, a spiny, multifaceted jewel from 1958, sets words from the Book of Lamentations. The haunting Introitus and bristling Requiem Canticl...

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5 d. ago Woman suffers fatal cardiac arrest after plastic surgery procedures

Maria Jose Torres Osorio suffered cardiac arrest and multiple organ failure following breast augmentation and abdominoplasty at a private clinic

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6 d. ago Killer's jail sentenced almost doubled after what police found in his house

Police went to his house to arrest him over a fatal attack outside a pub when they made the discovery

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7 d. ago Two boys, 16, among three arrested as murder investigation launched after fatal stabbing in London

Two boys, 16, among three arrested as murder investigation launched after fatal stabbing in London  Sky News

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7 d. ago Rachel Reeves set to cut VAT on public electric car charging to offset fears EV demand will plummet when pay

The Government is could make EV charging on the public network cheaper by clashing VAT by 15%. The aim is to stop EV demand being killed from pay-per-mile tax in 2028.

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1 week ago Pedestrian, in his 30s, dies after being hit by police vehicle on 999 call on near Borough Market

The Metropolitan Police officers behind the wheel of the car were responding to an emergency 999 call when the tragic collision occurred.

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2 w. ago Boy, 16, dies after car crashed into teen while he walked across road as cops arrest 18

A 16-YEAR-OLD boy has died in a horror crash after being hit by a car as he walked across the road. Cops and emergency services rushed to scene in Burnage, Manchester, at around 6.40pm on Friday, January 2. The teenage pedestrian - who was named by cops as Alfie Moran - was hit by a...

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2 w. ago Retired dentist hit by car and carried for a mile ‘deserved better end’ – family

Two Albanian men have been charged over Tom Wallace’s death.

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2 w. ago Two arrested after fatal New Year's Eve stabbing in Deptford

Two arrested after fatal New Year's Eve stabbing in Deptford  BBC

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2 w. ago Albanian pair 'removed and dumped number plates' of car involved in a crash which left a man dead, court hears

Thomas Wallace was struck by a grey Mercedes estate car in Gillingham, Kent, just after 12pm on Monday and was then carried on the roof of the car for more than a mile.

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2 w. ago Two Albanians are charged with killing pedestrian in his 80s in Kent 'hit and run'

Two Albanian men have been charged after a pedestrian in his 80s died when he was hit by a car and carried on top of it for as much as a mile.

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2 w. ago Two Albanian men charged after pedestrian in his 80s killed when he was hit by a car and carried on it for a mile

Two Albanian men have been charged after a pedestrian in his 80s died when he was hit by a car and carried on top of it for as much as a mile.

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2 w. ago Two Albanian men charged after pensioner ‘hit & killed by car which carried him 1.5 miles from where he was struck’

TWO men have been charged after a pedestrian in his 80s died when he was hit by a car and carried on top of it. The pensioner was struck by a grey Mercedes estate on the A289 Gads Hill in Gillingham, Kent, just after 12pm on Monday. Albert Matraxhiu, 28, of Orange Hill Road, Edgware,...

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2 w. ago Third man arrested after fatal hit and run that saw pedestrian in his 80s 'carried on top of car for more than a mile'

The pensioner was struck down by a grey Mercedes in Gillingham, Kent, on Monday afternoon.

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2 w. ago Pensioner 'carried on roof of car for up to a mile' and killed in crash

Three men have been arrested in connection with the crash

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3 w. ago Two arrests after fatal hit and run: Pedestrian in his 80s was struck at crossing 'and carried on top of the car for more than a mile'

CCTV Images released by police show two hooded men dressed in dark clothing fleeing the area on foot while one holds a yellow number plate following a fatal crash in Gillingham.

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3 w. ago Two arrests after fatal hit and run: Pedestrian was struck at crossing 'and carried on top of the car for more than a mile'

CCTV Images released by police show two hooded men dressed in dark clothing fleeing the area on foot while one holds a yellow number plate following a fatal crash in Gillingham.

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3 w. ago Hunt for men carrying numberplate fleeing fatal hit and run where pedestrian was struck at a crossing and carried on top of the car for one and a half miles

CCTV Images released by police show two hooded men dressed in dark clothing fleeing the area on foot while one holds a yellow number plate following a fatal crash in Gillingham.

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3 w. ago Pedestrian dies after crash in Gillingham as police release CCTV images as part of investigation

Kent Police attended to a collision in Gad Hill in Gillingham just after midday on Monday, December 29, after a car hit a pedestrian who later was pronounced dead

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