All news by author: Antony Thrower
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Woman admits stabbing to death 'caring' boyfriend during 'domestic disturbance'
Katie Yeomans, 28, is set to be sentenced next week after admitting the manslaughter of Rees Howarth, 28, in Hyde, Greater Manchester, in April this year
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Man kicked out of city Premier Inn because of what he didn't wear to restaurant
Blake Kerr, 31, was left fuming when a restaurant at a Premier Inn insisted he leave and put on shoes when he came downstairs for breakfast, despite it saying "make yourself at home"
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Urgent warning after newborn dies as common condition 'turned son blue'
Mum Vicky Swales, 38, rushed newborn Noah to hospital when he was three days old of a common infection, and his desperate parents have urged others to be aware of it
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Diver dies in horror incident at UK pier as second person rushed to hospital
Police Scotland have confirmed a male diver, 58, has died in an incident in Orkney earlier today, while another was rushed to hospital to recover in a hyperbaric chamber
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Mum dies with girl, 2, clinging to her after paramedics said she was 'fine'
Lauren Page Smith, 29, had called 111 for advice when she suffered chest pains and vomiting but died hours after a visit from paramedics who performed brief assessments
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Shameless couple had sex session on public towpath in front of horrified family
Chloe Dobson, 21, and her partner Peter Penman, 32, were spotted having sex on a public towpath in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, in broad daylight during the summer
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Paedophile's sick question to boy, 12, who asked him to help fix his broken bike
Paedophile Kai Huston, 21, has been jailed and ordered to sign the sex offenders' register after he sexually assaulted a schoolboy, 12, who had stopped to fix his bike in Salford
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Brit mum on holiday dies suddenly after feeling 'dizzy' at airport on way home
Nicola Davies, 40, had been preparing to fly home to Edinburgh after a trip to Africa to visit her boyfriend when she suddenly collapsed at the airport and later died
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Jet2 passenger attacked crew on flight forcing pilot to declare an emergency
Heather Anne McCarroll, 38, was handed a four month jail sentence for her behaviour aboard a Jet2 flight to Turkey, which forced a pilot to declare an emergency
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Dad who 'was always cracking jokes' dies suddenly after watching football match
Paul McHugh, 37, had played football on Saturday before going to watch Liverpool beat Everton but later the same day he was rushed to hospital by ambulance and later died
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Predator breaks into elderly housebound woman's home and sexually assaults her
Anthony Shackleton, 33, was jailed after he broke into the home of a woman in her 80s as she slept and woke up to find him standing over her, before sexually abusing her
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'My cousin, 6, has only known life of terrifying bomb raids blasting Palestine'
Palestinian Alia Al Ghussain, 31, lives in London and has shared her experiences of visiting Gaza as a child, where she still has family who have all lost their homes to Israeli bombing
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Woman who lost nose to cancer begs for funding to help grow new one – on her arm
Donna Chisholm, 53 is forced to wear a prosthetic nose after losing hers to an aggressive form of cancer, but has the opportunity to regrow on in a ground breaking operation
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Dad buys pub but decides to open it as a hotel after surprise discovery upstairs
David Gell and business partner Chris Brannigan took over the Liverpool-based Turpins Pub in 2020 but were shocked when they discovered how much room there was behind a door closed for 20 years
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XL Bully sellers trying to flog dogs on Gumtree at knockdown prices as ban looms
Owners of XL Bully dogs are selling their pets online for far less than in previous years, as one vendor said they are concerned about the coming ban brought in by Rishi Sunak
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'Social butterfly' teenager, 18, dies of cancer weeks after having stomach pains
Kaya-Imaani Chambers, 18, complained of stomach pains in February this year and multiple visits to her GP and then the hospital missed the truth until she was diagnosed with cancer
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Man got so angry with his rhubarb pie he sent it to chief executive of Morrisons
The fuming Morrisons customer says he bought a rhubarb pie but only later realised its use by date was for the day before and was so cross he posted it to the firm's CEO
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Ashley Dale's final moments revealed as gunman shot her in kitchen
Ashley Dale, 28, from Liverpool, was found with gunshot wounds in the back garden of her home in August last year and an expert has today spoken of her last moments
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Girl, 2, who caught 'every bug going' diagnosed after mum finds lump
Danielle Wylie, 38, from York, and her partner James were terrified when their two-year-old daughter Sophie kept getting ill before taking her to the doctors who revealed the truth
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Hero toddler, 4, waiting on heart transplant goes into septic shock
Evie Green, four, has been in Freeman Hospital Newcastle for eight months waiting on news of a heart transplant and recently had a scare when she went into septic shock
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Mum and daughter lucky to be alive after powerful landslide sweeps car off cliff
A mum and her daughter driving on the A83 in Argyll and Bute narrowly avoided being swept into a 30ft deep ravine as a landslide of mud and water overcame their car
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Student nearly dies after dismissing symptoms of silent killer as fresher's flu
Psychology student Levi Lawrence nearly died when he felt ill for several days but ignored his symptom, eventually spending more than a week in a hospital bed with a killer disease
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Postman bludgeoned mum to death before hiding her body for 11 days
Postman Mark Nicholls, 43, repeatedly hit mum of three Emily Sanderson around her head with a dumbbell before binding her with parcel tape and hiding her in his Sheffield home
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Teen killed by best friend 'clowning around' weeks after passing her test
Tayla King, then 18, crashed her car on the A4067 Swansea Valley road a month after passing her driving test, killing her passenger and best friend Chantelle Thomas
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'Beautiful' baby went to sleep and never woke up as family share heartbreak
Lucy Louise was found unresponsive on September 17 in her Wolverhampton home by her distraught mum, Alisha Batty, and despite the best efforts of paramedics was pronounced dead
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