4 h. ago Zoe Ball supported year on from mother's death as she says 'miss you beyond words'

The BBC Radio 2 DJ announced the death of her mum, Julia Peckham, last year

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5 h. ago Zoe Ball marks one year since mum's death as she says she misses her 'beyond words'

The BBC Radio 2 DJ announced the death of her mum Julia Peckham last year, after revealing that she'd been diagnosed with cancer.

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5 h. ago Zoe Ball marks one year since mother’s death, saying: I miss you beyond words

The DJ is set to return to BBC Radio 2 in May to host a new weekly show, from 1pm to 3pm on Saturdays.

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8 h. ago Texas man set to be executed for the 2004 strangling and stabbing death of a young mother

A Texas man is facing execution for the strangling and stabbing death of a young North Texas mother more than 20 years ago

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49 h. ago Bishop of Motherwell pays tribute to Pope Francis following Pontiff's death

Bishop Joseph Toal, who was named by Pope Francis as the fifth Bishop of Motherwell in 2014, is currently in Lourdes with a group but gave a short statement after receiving the news.

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3 d. ago Stephen Mangan: ‘With three people in a bed, who goes in the middle?’

The Split actor and children’s author on throuples, using his sons as a focus group, and running the London marathonStephen Mangan, 56, was born in Enfield to Irish parents. He studied law at Cambridge but took a year out to care for his mother, who died of colon cancer aged 45. Weeks after her death, he successfully auditioned for Rada and went on to become a stage actor. His TV breakthrough came in Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years. He has since starred in Green Wing, Episodes and The Split. He co-hosts Landscape and Portrait Artist of the Year on Sky Arts, and a weekly show on Classic FM. He is currently appearing in throuple comedy Unicorn in the West End and is the author of six bestselling children’s books. His seventh is out in May.Your sister Anita illustrates your books. What’s it like working with a sibling? Great fun. Essentially we’re trying to make each other laugh, like we have done since childhood. But because I’m her annoying older brother, I deliberately put things ...

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3 d. ago Real Housewives star Lydia McLaughlin 'devastated' as brother shot dead by police

Lydia McLaughlin shared the tragic news just six months after the death of her mother.

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4 d. ago Pictured: Boy, 14, crushed to death in horrific farming accident as his mother says her world has 'fallen apart'

Harry Moss, from Birmingham, was fatally injured by machinery on a farm in Malvern, Worcestershire, on Thursday morning.

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7 d. ago Hollyoaks star Ali Bastian, 43, announces her mother's death in tragic post after cancer battle

Ali Bastian has revealed the devastating loss of her mum on Instagram on Tuesday following her announcement that she is cancer-free. 

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7 d. ago A Kansas father disappeared five years ago without a trace. Now police believe he was murdered

Five years ago, at the height of the pandemic, Detreck Foster vanished without a trace from Independence, Kansas. Police are now investigating his death as a suspected homicide. But his former wife and the mother of his two children tells Andrea Cavallier why she fears they will never have answers in his case

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7 d. ago Paddy Higson death: Taggart producer called ‘mother of Scottish film’ dies, aged 83

Paddy Higson OBE has died following a battle with cancer

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8 d. ago Hollyoaks' Ali Bastian shares heartache as she announces mother's death in emotional post

Former Hollyoaks star Ali Bastian has taken to social media to share the tragic news she has lost her mother, after previously announcing she was free from cancer

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8 d. ago Mother axes her baby and two young children to death before taking her son, seven, to visit his grandparents because she 'did not have the strength to deal with him'

Mytko is under investigation for the multiple murders of her children 'with particular cruelty' in Kansk, Krasnoyarsk region on April 14.

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9 d. ago ‘Nobody cares about another missing Black man’: Family pleads for answers in case of missing and murdered dad

Five years ago, at the height of the pandemic, Detreck Foster vanished without a trace from Independence, Kansas. Police are now investigating his death as a suspected homicide. But his former wife and the mother of his two children tells Andrea Cavallier why she fears they will never have answers in his case

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1 week ago JK Rowling vows to back bereaved mother faced with prosecution after posting about police 'failures' probing daughter's death

The Harry Potter author declared she would 'fund' the mother's defence after Gloucestershire Police warned Caroline Charters to delete the file which exposed their botched probe.

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1 week ago Cold case appeal by daughter to find 'baffling' killer of mother

Mother-of-three Janet Brown, 51, was bludgeoned to death at her home in Radnage near Chinnor in Buckinghamshire, in 1995, 30 years ago to the day.

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2 w. ago TV actress sues gym owner for £100,000 over mother's death in sauna

Milanka Brooks’ mother died from heatstroke in a gym sauna

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2 w. ago ‘Barcelona or death’: mothers watch and wait as Senegal’s men risk all to reach Europe

For many the perilous journey to Spain seems the only future. Can the country’s new government create enough jobs and prospects to make them stay?The view from the plastic chair in which Fatou Samba sits, looking out to sea, takes in many of the elements of the sorry tale of Senegal’s lost men. She can see the distant shapes of the big industrial foreign fishing ships and tankers, from Europe and China, strung across the horizon.Closer to shore are dozens of empty pirogues, Senegalese wooden fishing boats, rocking idle on a sea mostly denuded of fish. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Drunk woman kicked her sister in the face as she laid flowers at their mother's grave on the anniversary of her death

Michelle Stecko had drank three glasses of wine when she kicked her sister in the face, while she was tending to flowers on the anniversary of their mother's death.

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2 w. ago Inside the tragic death of Jamie Fraser's mother Ellen in Outlander

Outlander fans will be treated to a prequel series this summer

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