17 h. ago 'What gave you the right to stop her heart beating?' Killer gets life as he faces grieving mum's powerful words

Alcwyn Thomas killed Victoria 'Vicki' Thomas after drinking heavily and taking cocaine but had denied murder saying the pair regularly enjoyed adventurous intercourse including strangulation.

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3 d. ago Adventurer, horse photographer, killer: Eadweard Muybridge’s extraordinary life told in a comic book

He is famed for being a pioneer of the moving image – but there was so much more to Muybridge than that. The great graphic novelist Guy Delisle explains why he turned his life into a rollicking readIt was one of the biggest talking points of the 19th century: whether a galloping horse lifted all four hooves off the ground simultaneously. Painters struggled with the notion, often wrongly depicting the animals doing a sort of leap, their limbs outstretched front and back. Then, in the 1870s, the great British adventurer Eadweard Muybridge closed the debate, devising photography with quick enough exposure times to isolate the horses in motion – and airborne.“Lots of people didn’t accept it,” says Guy Delisle. “When they saw a photograph of the horse gathering its hooves, they said it looked like a dead spider. But when the photographs were projected in sequence, they said, ‘It’s true!’” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Xiao Guodong leads Chinese charge as snooker’s balance of power tilts

Xiao’s fine start against Matthew Selt serves notice of China’s strong presence at the Crucible this yearThere are few sports as synonymous with one place as snooker is with Sheffield. For two weeks every year, this city becomes the beating heart of the sport, with supporters from across the globe descending upon South Yorkshire – but this year there is a distinct feel of significant change on the horizon.That is not to suggest that the future of the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible is any more under threat than usual: there have been almost annual murmurings about the event being moved from its spiritual home, though there is hope a new deal can be agreed to keep it here beyond the end of the current deal in 2027. It is more on the baize this year where there is the potential for a seismic shift. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Love Island star's girlfriend, 22, rushed to hospital amid cardiac arrest

The young woman's suffered a cardiac arrest and her heart stopped beating

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6 d. ago Love Island's Sam Taylor's girlfriend, 22, suffers cardiac arrest and is rushed to hospital

Love Island star Sam Taylor supported his girlfriend Em Leah as she was rushed to hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest and her heart stopped beating

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6 d. ago Brighton’s Carlos Baleba: ‘My dad said if I learn acrobatics it will help my timing’

Midfielder on overcoming Premier League nerves, adapting while grieving for his mum and what shaped his work ethicNot much fazes Carlos Baleba. The Brighton midfielder likes to spend his spare time watching horror films – “they don’t scare me; nothing has ever scared me” – or even dancing on his own to Mbolé music from his native Cameroon. “Sometimes I need to move my body,” Baleba says with a smirk.Thanks to a strict training regime that he began at the age of 10 under the watchful eye of his father, Eugene, Baleba has developed into one of the Premier League’s most imposing figures. The 21-year-old is tipped to become the latest big-money transfer to leave Brighton after Moisés Caicedo was sold to Chelsea for a British record £115m in the summer of 2023. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago 'My nagging wife saved my life when I dismissed killer infection as pink eye'

Jordan Niles, 28, was urged by wife Courtney Niles, 25, to get his eye checked out after it suddenly ballooned in size - when he got to A&E, he discovered he had a potentially deadly infection

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8 d. ago British troops use new futuristic 'drone killer' to zap enemy kamikaze craft

British forces conduct secretive exercise in which they successfully brought down a swarm of 'enemy unmanned kamikaze planes' using a life-saving new weapon dubbed the 'drone killer'

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8 d. ago My heart stopped for 10 minutes... what I saw in the afterlife and sign it wasn't part of God's plan

The 45-year-old from Wills Point, Texas, has almost died twice following two cardiac arrests and the first time, her heart stopped beating for 10 minutes.

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1 week ago Killer who stabbed neighbour 'murdered' by fellow prisoner at high security jail

A 44-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a convicted killer, who was serving a life sentence after stabbing his elderly female neighbour to death in 2006.

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1 week ago Soho Food Scene: Standard alumnus Jimi Famurewa to lead new Carnaby Street initiative

Soho has always been the beating heart of London’s food culture, Famurewa said

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1 week ago Comedian Bob Mortimer makes devastating death confession after live

TV star Bob Mortimer revealed he no longer fears death after he was rushed to hospital to undergo a triple heart bypass surgery when his heart stopped beating

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2 w. ago Killer wife jailed for life after husband found buried in her garden, not 'dead abroad'

Jeremy Rickards, 65, was found dead behind the property in St Martin's Road, Canterbury, on July 11 last year, and his wife Maureen has now been jailed for life

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2 w. ago Killer who hid husband’s dismembered body in garden jailed for life

Maureen Rickards was sentenced to life with a minimum of 22 years after being found guilty of murdering Jeremy Rickards.

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2 w. ago Brutal killer who murdered father in savage attack given life sentence

John Farquhar was ordered to serve at least 22 years in prison after he repeatedly stabbed his neighbour Garry Thomson with a knife at a flat in Guardbridge, in Fife.

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2 w. ago Convicted killer Taylor Schabusiness tackled after she lunges at attorney in court

The convicted killer, who is serving a life sentence for decapitating her lover, was back in court for allegedly attacking a prison guard

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3 w. ago Inside the heartbreaking hospital life of killer mum who drowned five children in bathtub

Andrea Yates rejects an annual hearing that could lead to her release

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3 w. ago Scarlett Vickers: Family of killer dad 'seek experts' to appeal murder life sentence

Simon Vickers was jailed for life for the murder of his daughter Scarlett Vickers, 14, after she was stabbed in the heart - his family believe he is innocent and are searching for expert witnesses

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3 w. ago Scots trans killer has life saving treatment restored after it was removed by medics

Sophie Eastwood has been in hospital since August of last year, after swallowing razor blades.

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3 w. ago Killer nurse Lucy Letby's life behind bars exposed: Card games with a notorious child killer, her astonishing cell perks, why she lives in fear of attacks and how she feels she's 'wasting away'

Three weeks ago and in a packed hall on the outskirts of west London there's a standing ovation as the cast of Made in Dagenham take their first night bow.

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