74 m. ago Tragedy as couple found dead in ditch 'hours after being followed by police'

Ryan Duffy, 24, and Ellie Marsden, 20, had travelled from their hometown of Wigan to Cumbria for an evening away but were tragically found dead just hours after their van was followed by police as they left a pub

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2 h. ago Couple on holiday found dead in ditch 'hours after their van was followed by police'

Ellie Marsden, 20, and Ryan Duffy, 24, both from Wigan, were found dead on a narrow country road in Cumbria having earlier been followed by police, an inquest heard

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2 h. ago Brit couple on holiday found dead in ditch hours after their van was 'followed by police'

Ellie Marsden, 20, and Ryan Duffy, 24, both from Wigan, were found dead on a narrow country road in Cumbria having earlier been followed by police, an inquest heard

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2 h. ago Holidaying couple found dead in ditch 'hours after van was followed by police'

Ellie Marsden, 20, and Ryan Duffy, 24, had travelled to spend a night away on holiday before they were found dead at the side of the road.

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2 h. ago State Department official boosted fake rumor about Rubio’s sexuality and called him ‘low IQ’ in since

Conservative Darren Beattie was appointed by Rubio last month to be the acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs

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2 h. ago Opticians warn Davina McCall's brain tumour could have been picked up in eye test

Optical Express is urging the public to take vision changes seriously, following TV star Davina McCall's surgery to remove a brain tumour

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2 h. ago A big thank you to Reform for the comic relief in dark times

Very public squabble between Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe has been a joy to witness – even if predictableThese past few weeks have been grim. The world hasn’t felt less safe in decades. European leaders desperately scrabbling to secure a peace in Ukraine that isn’t a capitulation to Russia. A US manchild president who is giving a convincing impression of a Russian asset. Vladimir Putin struggling to believe his good fortune.So a big thank you to Reform for providing so much comic relief. Never has the UK needed a good laugh more than now. Which isn’t to say that the very public squabble between Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe was in any way unexpected. Given enough time away from dissecting the niceties of the Nazi salute – these things matter to supporters of Reform. Strictly arm out to the front, not the side – Nige can usually manage to fall out with anyone. Apart from Richard Tice. Dicky only exists as an echo to Farage. Without a mind of his own. His tragedy has been to be born a ...

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2 h. ago Utah will be the first state to ban fluoride in drinking water

Utah's governor intends to sign legislation making the state the first to ban fluoride in public water systems

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2 h. ago Chess Masters: The Endgame review – so dull it’s almost unwatchable

Sue Perkins does her best presenting this show that pits embarrassingly named stars like the Unruly Knight and the Chess Princess against each other but even she can’t get around the fact that chess is the least telegenic thing everAppropriately enough, I suppose, what Chess Masters: The Endgame is doing in the television schedules is a bit of a puzzle. The Queen’s Gambit, the adaptation of Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel about a chess prodigy that became an unexpected hit for Netflix, made a star out of Anya Taylor-Joy and brought the game to wider public attention. But that was five years ago. The flurry of interest it roused in the subject has long since fallen back to normal levels. Chess Masters has no moment to capitalise on, except for what it assures us is “Britain’s booming chess community”, 12 of whose “rising stars” compete over eight episodes to, well, beat the other 11 at chess.This has clearly presented the producers of the show with a number of problems, none of which has b...

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2 h. ago Maura Higgins 'is "in a bad way" and struggling to cope with public backlash' following her drunken kiss with Danny Jones as she distracts herself with work in Los Angeles

The Love Island star, 34, and the married McFly star, 38, have been in the headlines all week after being spotted kissing at Universal's BRIT Awards afterparty.

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3 h. ago Murder charged in court after man found dead with car dumped near Glasgow home

James Jarvis was found dead at a property in Hamiltonhill on Wednesday March 5 - while his black VW Golf was recovered half a mile away.

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4 h. ago Police tape off area beside River Irwell after person found dead

Police, forensics and fire crews were called to the scene in Lower Broughton

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4 h. ago How did deadly Syria clashes start and who is responsible for civilian killings?

More than 1,000 people are believed to have died so far in fighting between security services and Assad loyalistsClashes between Syrian security services and fighters loyal to the ousted Assad regime erupted on Wednesday, kicking off five days of still-ongoing fighting which has killed more than 1,000 people, including 745 civilians, according to a war monitor.The clashes, some of the deadliest in the country since the beginning of its civil war in 2011, were the biggest challenge Syria’s new authorities faced since taking power in December. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago US envoy’s secret talks with Hamas anger Netanyahu administration

Adam Boehler says Hamas proposed a ceasefire and prisoner exchange in negotiations that did not involve IsraelA US envoy has said Hamas proposed a five-to-10-year ceasefire and a full prisoner exchange during backroom talks that have provoked angry responses from the administration of Benjamin Netanyahu and his conservative backers in Israel and the US.Adam Boehler, the US special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, told Kan News, an Israeli public broadcaster, that he “does believe” Hamas would eventually lay down its weapons and leave power in Gaza. While he said the series of interviews was meant to explain the US position, he also defended the talks by saying that Washington is “not an agent of Israel”. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Tragic holiday couple found dead in ditch 'hours after van followed by police'

Ellie Marsden and Ryan Duffy were found dead at the side of a Cumbrian road

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5 h. ago Solong ship was carrying deadly chemical before oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate crash in North Sea

According to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), sodium cyanide is a white crystal-like almond-coloured solid that is typically used industrially for metal cleaning

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6 h. ago Tragic reason why Gene Hackman and his wife weren't found for days after they died

Hollywood legend Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead on February 26, and an expert has weighed in on why it took so long for their bodies to be found

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6 h. ago Appeal launched to trace relatives of Ayrshire woman found dead at home

Tameside Police are looking to trace the relatives of Ann Smith, originally from Kilmarnock, after she died at her home.

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6 h. ago ‘He said I sounded hysterical’: Celia Paul on lover Lucian Freud, his cold friends and the ‘devastating’ YBAs

In prose and in paint, the great artist Celia Paul is exorcising the ghosts of her past – from the cruelties of her lover Freud, to his offhand cohorts, and the YBA revolution that declared painting deadPainter Celia Paul has lived in the same flat in Bloomsbury – bought for her by her then lover Lucian Freud – for 40 years. To ascend to it, up the 80 steps to bring you level with the pediment of the British Museum opposite, is to enter a different world. The main room contains little but a lumpy and ancient chaise longue and a metal-framed bed. One wall is stacked with freshly stretched empty canvases. Next door a mountain range of old sheets, stiff and stained with paint, obscure what might be a sofa. There is a huge, dusty mirror in which we both appear, spectrally: she a slight figure in a brown floor-length skirt, her slippers paint-encrusted. I ask her if she sleeps in the metal-framed bed. Sometimes, she says, but she shows me her bedroom. It is equally spartan, but for the i...

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7 h. ago DOGE is ‘urgently’ looking for wins to show public as they try to clean up PR ‘mess’

‘PR is viewed as a big mess internally right now,’ one source said of DOGE

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