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Man charged with murder after fatal stabbing of Amie Gray in Bournemouth

31 May 2024 at 17:24

Nasen Saadi, 20, also charged with attempted murder of another woman following incident on beach, Dorset police say

A 20-year-old man has been charged with murder and attempted murder over the stabbing of Amie Gray and another woman on a beach in Bournemouth, police have said.

Nasen Saadi, from Croydon in south London, was arrested by Dorset police on Wednesday and will appear at Poole magistrates court on Saturday.

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Father and son in Scottish Highlands probably died from fall, police say

31 May 2024 at 14:48

Bodies of Tom and Richie Parry identified as Gemma Parry pays tribute to ‘caring and loving father’ and ‘energetic, loving boy’

A father and his 12-year-old son who were found dead after going missing in the Scottish Highlands probably died as the result of a fall, police have said. Tributes have been paid to Tom Parry, 49, and his son Richie, from Cheshire, who did not return home on Wednesday after visiting Glen Nevis and Glen Coe to go hillwalking.

Their car was found in the Three Sisters car park in the area on Tuesday, and at about 7.25pm on Wednesday rescuers recovered two bodies from Stob Coire nan Lochan, Glen Coe.

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John Lennon guitar sells for $2.9m, breaking Beatles auction record

29 May 2024 at 18:16

Lennon’s 12-string Hootenanny, heard on Help! album and film, had not been seen or played for half a century

A guitar used by John Lennon has sold for $2.9m (£2.3m), setting what organisers have called a new world record for the highest-selling guitar at auction in Beatles history.

The 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar, used in the recording of the Beatles’ 1965 Help! album and film, had not been seen or played for more than 50 years.

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Man and son, 12, missing after hillwalking in Scottish Highlands

29 May 2024 at 16:36

Tom Parry, 49, and Richie were due home in Cheshire after visiting Glen Nevis and Glencoe

A man and his 12-year-old son are missing after a hillwalking trip in the Scottish Highlands, police have said.

Tom Parry, 49, and his son Richie were due to return to their home in Cheshire on Wednesday after visiting Glen Nevis and Glencoe.

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Bournemouth beach stabbing: man arrested on suspicion of murder

28 May 2024 at 16:43

Dorset police make arrest after fatal stabbing of Amie Gray, 34, on Friday evening

A 20-year-old man from south London has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was fatally stabbed on a beach in Bournemouth, police have said.

Two women from Poole in Dorset were stabbed on Durley Chine beach at about 11.45pm last Friday. A 34-year-old woman died at the scene while a 38-year-old woman sustained serious injuries and remains in hospital.

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Teenager, 17, arrested over fatal stabbing of 16-year-old boy in London

25 May 2024 at 17:39

Boy arrested on suspicion of the murder of Kamari Johnson, who died at the scene in Hayes on Friday

A 17-year-old boy has been arrested after another teenage boy, 16, was stabbed to death in London.

An investigation was launched after police were called at about 1.30pm on Friday to reports of a stabbing in Hayes, west London.

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British climber and Nepali guide feared dead after reaching Everest summit

25 May 2024 at 14:54

Dan Paterson and Pastenji Sherpa went missing during descent after landslide of snow and ice on mountain

A British man and his Nepali guide are believed to be dead after reaching the summit of Mount Everest on Tuesday, a guiding company said.

Dan Paterson, 40, and Pastenji Sherpa, 23, reached the peak just before 5am on Tuesday but have not been heard from since, according to Paterson’s partner, Becks Woodhead.

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Nicki Minaj’s Manchester show postponed after Netherlands arrest

25 May 2024 at 14:48

Rapper detained at Schiphol on suspicion of ‘possessing soft drugs’ hours before concert at Co-op Live

Nicki Minaj’s concert at Co-op Live has been postponed after she was arrested at a Netherlands airport hours before.

Fans had been let into the Manchester venue in the evening despite the star’s detention.

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Excess weight may have caused Mallorca building collapse, officials say

Investigation under way after four people killed and 16 injured in Medusa Beach Club in Palma

Investigators on the Spanish island of Mallorca are looking into whether overloading and structural issues caused the collapse of a beachfront restaurant and club, killing four people and injuring 16 others.

The two-storey Medusa Beach Club in Palma de Mallorca collapsed at about 8.30pm local time (7.30pm BST) on Thursday night. One firefighter told the local newspaper Última Hora he had arrived to find a “nightmarish” scene, with people screaming and crying and rubble piled high on the ground floor.

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Building collapses at Mallorca beach killing at least four and injuring 21

23 May 2024 at 18:40

Ceiling of Medusa Beach Club on the seafront at Palma de Mallorca gave way, according to reports

At least four people have been killed and about 21 people injured after a building collapsed on a beachfront in Mallorca on Thursday, emergency services said.

Rescue workers were trying to reach several people who were believed to be trapped by the collapse, which happened at about 20.30 local time (19.30 BST) at the two-storey Medusa Beach Club in Palma de Mallorca.

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London-born boy who died aged 15 to become first millennial saint

23 May 2024 at 17:45

Second posthumous miracle attributed to leukaemia victim Carlo Acutis, qualifying him for canonisation

A London-born teenager who died of leukaemia aged 15 is to become the Catholic church’s first millennial saint.

Carlo Acutis was a computer prodigy who helped to spread Roman Catholic teaching online before his death in 2006. On Thursday, Pope Francis decreed that a second posthumous miracle has been attributed to Acutis, qualifying the teenager for canonisation.

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Tory MP Craig Mackinlay reveals his hands and feet have been amputated due to sepsis

21 May 2024 at 17:25

Mackinlay will return to public life on Wednesday for the first time since being diagnosed last September

The Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay has revealed that he had both his hands and feet amputated last year due to sepsis.

Mackinlay, who will return to public life on Wednesday for the first time since the ordeal, was taken to hospital last September and diagnosed with sepsis, a life-threatening reaction to an infection that occurs when the immune system overreacts and starts to damage the body’s own tissues and organs.

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Ex-Royal Marine charged with spying for Hong Kong found dead in park

Matthew Trickett, 37, who was charged with surveillance of activists, was found on Sunday evening in Maidenhead park

A former Royal Marine commando who was charged with spying for the Hong Kong intelligence service has died, police have said.

Matthew Trickett, 37, who was on bail, was found by a member of the public in a park near where he lived in Maidenhead, Berkshire.

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Matthew Trickett appeared at Westminster magistrates court last week to face two charges under the National Security Act 2023.

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Matthew Trickett appeared at Westminster magistrates court last week to face two charges under the National Security Act 2023.

Saturday Night Fever dancefloor to be auctioned with $300,000 estimate

21 May 2024 at 15:07

Multicoloured floor is part of sale along with Raiders of the Lost Ark prop prototype and The Big Lebowski costumes

So, how deep is your pocket? The dancefloor used in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever has been put up for auction with an estimated price of about $300,000 (£235,800).

John Travolta, playing the role of Italian-American Tony Manero, strutted his moves on the multicoloured floor to the film’s Bee Gees soundtrack, which featured hit songs including How Deep is Your Love, More Than a Woman, Open Sesame and Stayin’ Alive.

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Ebrahim Raisi: what we know so far about Iranian president’s helicopter crash

19 May 2024 at 13:42

Raisi and the foreign minister are missing after their aircraft came down in mountain terrain near border with Azerbaijan in heavy fog

A rescue operation is under way in the mountains close to the Iranian-Azerbaijani border after one of the helicopters in a convoy carrying Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, was involved in a “hard landing” on Sunday, according to Iranian state media. This is what we know so far.

The incident, which involved one helicopter in a convoy of three, was described by Iranian state television as an accident.

An unnamed Iranian official told Reuters that the lives of the president and his foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, were “at risk” after a “crash” as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog.

Three rescue workers searching for the crashed helicopter were reported missing by the Red Crescent but were later accounted for. A spokesperson said the search and rescue operation will slow down as the weather is expected to get “severely cold” soon with more rain forecast.

Raisi was travelling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV described the area of the helicopter incident as being near Jolfa, a city on the border with Azerbaijan.

The president had been in Azerbaijan earlier on Sunday to inaugurate a dam with the country’s president Ilham Aliyev. The dam is the third one that the two nations have built on the Aras River.

Iran’s army chief of staff said all army resources will be used for the search and rescue operations, state TV reported. Maj Gen Mohammad Bagheri has also ordered guards to take part in the search efforts, it said.

Iraq has instructed its interior ministry, the Red Crescent and other relevant bodies to offer help to neighbouring Iran and assist in the search.

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Ebrahim Raisi: search and rescue operation after helicopter crash

President was travelling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province when helicopter came down in bad weather

Here is a video of the Israeli war cabinet minister, Benny Gantz, threatening to resign if Benjamin Netanyahu fails to adopt an agreed plan for Gaza:

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Hospitals to share waiting lists under Labour plans for quicker care

18 May 2024 at 18:43

Party says pooling resources across regions would deliver 40,000 extra appointments a week for patients

Hospitals would have to share waiting lists and pool resources under Labour’s plans to reduce waiting times by delivering up to 40,000 extra NHS appointments a week.

The party has announced that patients would be offered appointments at nearby hospitals, rather than necessarily at their local one, which would enable people to receive faster treatment. Hospital staff and resources would be pooled across a region and would run evening and weekend surgeries.

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Nadhim Zahawi says it was a mistake for Tories to force Boris Johnson from No 10

18 May 2024 at 16:30

Former chancellor, who was one of those who urged Johnson to go, says Tories should have realised ‘Twitter was not the country’

Former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has said he and his Conservative colleagues were wrong to force out Boris Johnson as prime minister in 2022.

Johnson resigned after less than three years in No 10 after more than 50 resignations from government of MPs and staff and waves of backbenchers urging him to quit over the handling of the Chris Pincher affair and numerous other scandals. He resigned as an MP a year later.

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Thousands in Devon no longer have to boil drinking water, says supplier

18 May 2024 at 12:28

But authorities say households in some areas need to continue safety measures amid waterborne parasitic disease

Thousands of people in Devon can now safely drink their tap water again without having to boil it first, the region’s water supplier has announced after a parasite outbreak.

South West Water said about 14,500 households in the Alston supply area could use their tap water safely, although about 2,500 properties in Hillhead, the upper parts of Brixham and Kingswear should continue to boil their supply before drinking it.

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