1 hour ago The 40 young revellers killed in Swiss bar inferno: Boxer who died trying to save friend, and the boy caught by a twist of fate... amid claims fire extinguishers were 'kept in a locked room'

The fire, at Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, claimed the lives of forty victims; 26 were aged between 14 and 18.

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43 h. ago Withernsea: Search for missing person called off as two die trying to save girl

Tragedy struck at Withernsea, East Yorkshire, when a teenage girl was washed into the sea and people rushed into the water to help her

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44 h. ago Withernsea search for missing person called off after two die trying to save girl

The search for a third person missing in the Withernsea tragedy that has already taken two lives, has been called off after a teenage girl was 'washed away' on Friday

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50 h. ago Two dead off coast were ‘trying to save teen girl’ as one person still missing

Rescuers are battling snowy and icy conditions during their search.

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52 h. ago Two dead off East Yorkshire coast ‘were trying to save teenage girl’

Searches are continuing on Saturday after two bodies were pulled from the sea off the East Yorkshire coast.

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3 d. ago Teen survivor of Swiss bar blaze ran BACK into flames to save victims but found one so burned he could ‘only see teeth’

A TEEN survivor of the tragic Swiss bar blaze has revealed how he ran back inside to save trapped victims of the massacre that killed 47 people. Student Ferdinand Du Beaudiez, 19, was partying with seven pals - including his brother and girlfriend - inside Le Constellation when it went up in flames in the...

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1 week ago At least five dead after Mexican Navy 'medical mission' plane crashes off Texas coast

Officials are now searching waters off the Texas coast as authorities confirmed four Navy officers and four civilians were aboard

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1 week ago Galveston plane crash: At least 5 people dead after Mexican Navy plane goes down

The small Mexican plane was carrying out a medical mission when it crashed off the Texas coast, five people have been confirmed dead as a result and a search mission is underway

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2 w. ago Lily Allen reveals she's been 'shopping like an insane person' to celebrate the success of her new album

Lily Allen has said she has been 'shopping like an insane person' to celebrate the success of her new album, West End Girl. 

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2 w. ago Bog Queen by Anna North review – a tale that could dig deeper

This story of a teenage druid whose body is discovered in a peat bog has memorable moments – but its evocation of time and place is unconvincingAnna North’s fourth book, Bog Queen, is a stranded or braided novel. First “a colony of moss” speaks – or rather, does not speak, but “if such a colony could tell the story of its life”, here’s some of what it might say. Then we have Agnes in 2018, American, tall, awkward, expert in forensic pathology and uncertain about everything else, including much of life in England. And then, in the first person, there is an iron age teenage girl, the druid of her village, riding towards a Roman town with her brother Aesu and friend Crab: “I had been druid for two seasons at that point and everyone said I was doing very well.”Agnes has a post-doctoral fellowship in Manchester, from which she is summoned to the discovery of a body in a peat bog in Ludlow. The story shadows that of Lindow Man, found by peat harvesters in a bog near Wi...

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3 w. ago Girl, 11, left 'speechless' after becoming youngest person to be honoured with MBE

Carmela Chillery-Watson, who has a rare muscle wasting condition, raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for the charity Muscular Dystrophy UK

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3 w. ago Incredible reason girl, 11, becomes youngest person to be honoured with an MBE

Carmela Chillery-Watson, 11, was recognised in the King's Birthday Honours for her services to charitable fundraising after raising over £400,000 for Muscular Dystrophy UK

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3 w. ago Girl, 11, becomes youngest person to be honoured with an MBE

Carmela has a rare muscle-wasting condition, which affects just one in a million children across the world.

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3 w. ago Girl, 11, ‘speechless’ after becoming youngest person to receive MBE

Carmela Chillery-Watson was recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours for her services to charitable fundraising

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