19 h. ago Death of a cocaine kingpin: The last time drugs lord was seen alive as gang ambushed him to be tortured to death after he was betrayed by his wife

Chilling CCTV footage shows the group swarming Thomas Campbell's quiet cul-de-sac hideaway after his vengeful ex-wife gave them the address.

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44 h. ago The 20 greatest British rock bands of all time: from The Beatles to Arctic Monkeys

While rock and roll may seem to be fading in the UK, our list of the top 20 greatest bands of all time proves that the genre is far from forgotten — it’s alive and kicking in our hearts and minds

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55 h. ago This was Emma Raducanu unbound. This was a player who looked as if she was having fun again at last, writes OLIVER HOLT

OLIVER HOLT ON CENTRE COURT: Raducanu turned back the clock to a time when her tennis was carefree and alive with positive possibility.

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63 h. ago Fred Sirieix's Olympian daughter, Andrea, drops out of World Championships after opening up on her mental health struggles in heartbreaking statement: 'I'm getting all the help I need'

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix has pulled out of this year's diving World Championships in Singapore due to 'mental blocks'. The 20-year-old Olympic bronze medal winner shared an update.

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8 d. ago Pastor's daughter, 3, dies in hot car after he forgot to drop her at nursery

Rones Mota, who works as an evangelical pastor, has been arrested on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter after leaving his three-year-old daughter Ana Liz in a hot car where temperatures soared to 50C

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2 w. ago Boarding school gave me PTSD but I locked it away until my daughter started to board. Then it triggered a breakdown that saw me sectioned: DR CATHY WIELD

I had just dropped my daughter off at the Royal Ballet School, where she was to be a boarder. But the trauma of my own boarding experience brought the dread and horror flooding back to me.

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2 w. ago Serpentine boss Hans Ulrich Obrist's guide to London: the River Cafe and the Zoo's aviary

Kensington Gardens. Whenever I’m here, I spend most of my time in the park. I go jogging at about 6 or 7am, head to the office early, and often hold my meetings as walks through the park. We also install exhibitions, build pavilions and host open-air concerts. In the summer, we often host events in the pavilion until 10 or 11pm. So yes, the park is very much alive, and it’s where I spend nearly all my time.

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3 w. ago ‘She was a wonder’: Ahmedabad reels amid aftermath of Air India plane crash

True scale of the tragedy still unfolding, as accounts of those onboard begin to emergeAs he dropped off his only daughter at Ahmedabad airport, Suraj Mistry seized the opportunity to take one final family selfie before she went back to London. Kinal Mistry, 24, had laughed lovingly at her father as he made her promise that they would meet again soon. “Yes, Daddy, very soon,” she said.Instead, the photo – of Kinal smiling beside her mother and father – would commemorate the last time his family was a whole. In scenes of horror that have since reverberated around the world, just a few minutes after the flight took off from Ahmedabad airport on Thursday morning, it plummeted from the sky, exploding in an inferno of fire and black smoke. Only one of the 242 people onboard survived. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Air India plane crash: Among dead, two sisters going on vacation to London, mom returning after dropping daughter

Air India plane crash: Among dead, two sisters going on vacation to London, mom returning after dropping daughter  The Indian Express

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3 w. ago Love Forms by Claire Adam review – the power of a mother’s loss

Forty years on, a Trinidadian woman has never stopped looking for the daughter she gave up for adoption, in a quietly devastating novelClaire Adam’s 2019 novel Golden Child was her debut, but it felt like the work of a master. It was tender, ravishing, shattering – you believed every word of it. The book had an effortless narrative authority that most first-time novelists would kill for.Love Forms is every bit as alive and convincing, and returns us to Trinidad, with its potent fizz of colour, heat and political instability. But unlike the earlier book, it’s also set partly in south London – the writer’s own home turf – and has a mother, rather than a father, at its heart. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Death row inmate who savagely murdered his girlfriend gave a peace sign in final moments

Before his execution today, Gregory Hunt had spent more time on death row than his victim Karen Lane was alive as he became one of the longest-standing inmates on Alabama's death row

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3 w. ago When they dropped off their daughter at nursery, they never imagined it'd be the last time they'd see her alive

Katie Wheeler and John Meehan have spoken out about their beloved daughter Genevieve Meehan, known as Gigi, who was killed by her nursery worker

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