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“People always think: ‘Oh, that’s not going to happen to me, it’s not going to happen to my child,’” says Ellen Roome. She’s sitting in her peaceful garden in Cheltenham, bumblebees trundling around in the bushes behind her. “I didn’t expect it to be my child.” Image: Ellen Roome Jools, Ellen’s son, was 14 years…
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Top Boy actor Micheal Ward has been charged with two counts of rape and is due to appear in court next month. Ward, 27, has also been charged with two counts of assault by penetration and one count of sexual assault. The offences relate to one woman and are reported to have taken place in…
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An Australian woman has been found guilty of murdering three people after serving them poisonous mushrooms. Mother-of-two Erin Patterson, 50, has been convicted of the 2023 murders of her former parents-in-law, Don and Gail Patterson, both 70, and Gail Patterson’s sister, Heather Wilkinson, 66, along with the attempted murder of Reverend Ian Wilkinson, Heather’s husband.…
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A Palestinian community leader has been killed in an area in the West Bank which was documented in the Oscar-winning film No Other Land, according to the movie’s directors. The local leader, Awdah Hathaleen, was killed in front of a community centre in the Israel-occupied West Bank on Monday evening, film co-director Basel Adra, who…
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If you’ve ever spent your morning commute daydreaming about starting afresh with your career, this feature is for you. Each Monday, we speak to someone from a different profession to discover what it’s really like. This week we chat to Harry Skelton, National Hunt jockey and winner of the David Power Jockeys’ Cup… Jockeys are…
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A Russian airstrike on a prison in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region has killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 80 others. Four guided aerial bombs hit the Bilenkivska Correctional Colony in the southeastern province, according to the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine. At least 42 inmates were taken to hospital with serious injuries…
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A number of European leaders have hit out at the terms of the United States and European Union trade deal. Speaking after talks in Turnberry, Mr Trump told reporters it was the “biggest deal ever made” and will be “great for cars” as well as having a “big impact” on agriculture. European Commission chief Ursula…
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Anglian Water is the latest supplier to face down the prospect of a large bill for failures in its handling of sewage, leading to “excessive spills”. The industry regulator Ofwat – soon to be scrapped under a planned shake-up of industry oversight – said it was proposing a £62.8m penalty and remedial action following an…
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A charity has warned 25% of young children and pregnant women in Gaza are now malnourished, with Sir Keir Starmer vowing to evacuate children who need “critical medical assistance” to the UK. MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders, said Israel’s “deliberate use of starvation as a weapon” has reached unprecedented levels – with patients…
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A fierce tropical storm has torn through the Philippines’ mountainous north, in a week which has already seen floods and landslides claim at least 25 lives. Typhoon Co-may struck the town of Agno in Pangasinan province Thursday night with winds reaching speeds of 120 kilometres (74 miles) per hour. By Friday afternoon, as it moved…