13 h. ago Young brothers find their 'bubbly and caring' mother dying on the sofa from 'brain bleed' after coming home from school

Lorraine Probert, 45, had dropped her two sons at school before collapsing soon after returning home.

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14 h. ago Heartbreak as young brothers find their 'bubbly and caring' mother dying on the sofa from 'brain bleed' after coming home from school

Lorraine Probert, 45, had dropped her two sons at school before collapsing soon after returning home.

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21 h. ago Keir Starmer attacks 'toxic, divisive disgrace' Nigel Farage as PM blasts Reform's 'racist policies'

Nigel Farage has come under fire for his comments about bilingual school pupils in Glasgow.

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37 h. ago 'Traumatised' mother, 41, left note for someone to care for her beloved French Bulldog and took her own life after she was arrested over car accident, inquest hears

Paulina Szafert, 41, from Christchurch, Dorset, was found in her bed by a friend having taken an overdose and left a note asking for someone to look after her dog Fifi.

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44 h. ago Teaching children finance more important than history or science, new report reveals

TEACHING children about financial education is more important than history or science, a major survey shows. A new global report from Santander finds that people rank financial education second only to maths in a list of the core school subjects. The study come after Ministers announced last month that financial literacy will be required in...

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62 h. ago Death of Irish mother in ‘free birth’ reveals how poor maternity care is pushing women towards extreme influencers

Women in Ireland and the UK linked to Free Birth Society among scores around world to have suffered loss or serious harm after birthsFull story: How the FBS is linked to baby deaths around the worldOver a weekend in late June 2024, Emilee Saldaya, the leader of the Free Birth Society, hosted a festival on her 21-hectare (53-acre) property in North Carolina. It was a celebratory gathering for FBS, a multimillion-dollar business that promotes a radical approach to giving birth without medical support.Promotional footage from the Matriarch Rising festival shows Saldaya dancing beside her private lake, wearing a crown. That same weekend, more than 3,000 miles away, in Dundalk, a town on the east coast of Ireland, Naomi James, bled to death after freebirthing her son. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Boy died of brain cancer less than 12 months after first symptom

His bereaved mother says it is ‘not fair’ that a child’s care can depend on where they live

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4 d. ago Mammoth series two review – it is a subversive thrill to laugh at these offensive jokes

This old-school sitcom about a PE teacher who wakes after being frozen since the 70s is an impeccably deadpan send-up of masculinity. But it hits hardest when this unreconstructed man turns out to be right about life todayYou can lay the demise of political satire at the door of stranger-than-fiction governmental turmoil. You can attribute the disappearance of pop culture pastiche to a fractured zeitgeist and the thinning out of the artistic mainstream. Yet there’s no obvious reason for the scarcity of jokes about contemporary society in comedy. Maybe it has something to do with the decline of the sketch show; perhaps it’s simply because there’s far less funny stuff on TV in general (during the 2010s, the BBC’s comedy output almost halved). Whatever the reason, when we get a chance to laugh at modern mores, we should probably take it.Re-enter Mammoth, an old-school sitcom from the Welsh comedian Mike Bubbins. The 53-year-old stars as the eponymous Tony Mammoth, a PE teacher who was ...

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7 d. ago UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa

Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruinedAn eight-year-old girl left destitute in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa has been barred from coming to the UK to join her parents.The Guardian reported on the case of Lati-Yana Stephanie Brown after the hurricane. Her mother, Kerrian Bigby, a carer, moved from Jamaica to be with Lati-Yana’s British father, Jerome Hardy, a telecommunications worker, in April 2023, leaving their daughter to be cared for by her grandmother. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Schools and councils warn rising cost of special needs support is unaffordable

Ministers promise reform, but teaching unions say Send spending must not come at the expense of school budgets

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9 d. ago Samuel West touched by ‘outpouring of love’ for Prunella Scales

Actor West said his mother Scales’ acting career means she can still be watched ‘at all times of her life’, after her death last month.

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1 week ago Katie Price's ex Alex Reid is rushed to hospital with a suspected bleed on his brain after walking around 'punch drunk'

Alex Reid has revealed he has been rushed to hospital with a suspected bleed on his brain as he gave a health update on Instagram on Tuesday. 

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1 week ago Hope in Nigeria as 50 schoolchildren escape captivity but 253 more still held

School kidnappings have come to define insecurity in Africa's most populous nation

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1 week ago Grandma mauled to death by pet deer she helped to save and looked after

Grandmother Jodi Proger, 64, died after being killed by a deer that she had been caring for - she had been taking deer into her care since adopting a fawn that lost its mother back in 2013

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2 w. ago Digitised official records of Nuremberg trials made available online

Launch on 80th anniversary of groundbreaking legal effort comes after 25-year project by Harvard law school libraryA fully digitised collection of the records of the Nuremberg trials is being launched online to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the groundbreaking legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice.Open access to every official document from the trial, held by the Harvard law school library, will be available to all researchers, whether amateur or professional, for the first time from Thursday after a 25-year endeavour by a 30-strong team of historians, metadata curators and librarians. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Jake Paul’s Joshua fight is all about fame and bluster, money and eyeballs | Jonathan Liew

When a prankster meets a puncher it’s not about sport but an elaborate viral hoax that keeps us wanting more“If it’s all straight up and proper, you would worry that he takes this kid’s head off,” reckons Barry McGuigan. “Could get his jaw broke, his head smashed in, side of his head caved in, God forbid he could get a brain bleed,” says Carl Froch on his YouTube channel. “It could be the end of him. It could be his last day on Earth,” David Haye tells Sky News, with the sort of apocalyptic glare I try to give my children when they want to jump in a muddy puddle.Yes, this week everyone appears to be deeply concerned for the wellbeing of 28-year-old YouTube celebrity Jake Paul. The announcement of his fight against Anthony Joshua next month has generated a flood of foreboding prognoses, and fair enough. Stepping into the ring with a two-time world heavyweight champion when a) you’re not even a heavyweight, b) your record consists almost entirely of novices and geriatrics and c) you s...

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2 w. ago UK school closures as snow and ice weather warnings come into force

Met Office warns of ‘substantial disruption’ as cold snap grips northern half of UK

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2 w. ago 'I went to school with Prince William and have never forgotten one comment he made'

Actor and comedian Humphrey Ker went to school with Prince William and said the future King left everyone in hysterics with what he wanted to be when he grew up

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3 w. ago Killer out on bail for stabbing gets just five years for knifing love rival through the heart after hiding blade down side of sofa

Kai Sainz-Stafford, 24, attacked carpenter Sam Siviter, 35, with a knife he had hidden down the back of a sofa. A neighbour dialled 999 but he died in the ambulance on the way to hospital.

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4 w. ago Campaign director: Zohran Mamdani’s ideas are indebted to the films of his mother, Mira Nair

The passionately inclusive politics of the newly-elected New York mayor have clear echoes in boundary-breaking movies such as Salaam Bombay! and Monsoon WeddingWhen Zohran Mamdani was elected as New York City’s first Muslim mayor and the youngest since 1892, headlines naturally focused on his groundbreaking political rise. But for many, the spotlight also turned to a name that had already long resonated on the global stage – his mother Mira Nair.A pioneering film-maker with a career spanning more than three decades, Nair has continually reshaped how south Asian identity is portrayed on screen. Now, with her son taking a major public office, the cultural legacy she built appears to echo in the next generation. Continue reading...

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