All news by author: Ryan Merrifield

Christian Hawksworth, 48, from Sheffield, believes his five-year-old daughter Violet's doll 'Normand' is possessed and must be treated well or leave him suffering bad luck

The Lotto draw for Saturday, July 7, has been made with a jackpot set at £4million. The Thunderball numbers - worth £500,000 - are also in

Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a surprise visit to Snake Island to mark the 500th day since the Russian invasion began - with the site becoming iconic after defenders told warship operators to: "Go f*** yourself"

Armaan Kadeer, 18, died after being shot in the head on a canal towpath in Nechells, Birmingham, on July 3 with five arrests having been made in connection to the murder

Tony Dodd has warned people about open water after his brother Wayne drowned in Ashton Canal, Greater Manchester, in 2011 aged 43 after falling in while walking home from a night at the pub

Rob O'Malley, 50, saw his Ryanair flight to Bristol Airport delayed at Alicante Airport after a birthday trip to Benidorm before taking the airline to court for his compensation

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is being spread by ticks across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, with scientists warning it is "highly likely" it will reach Britain

An 18-year-old man was found dead near a canal in Nechells, Birmingham, with gunshot wounds and head injuries with four men arrested on suspicion of murder

A Russian missile targeted an apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, destroying around 60 homes and leaving residents trapped under the rubble, according to authorities

Nine-month-old Harlow Collinge died in March last year, leading to a lengthy police investigation before childminder Karen Foster, 61, was charged with his murder

Childminder Karen Foster, 61, is accused of murdering nine-month-old baby boy Harlow Collinge, who died on March 5 last year, as well as assaulting a one-year-old

Karen Foster, 61, is due to appear before magistrates today after being charged with the murder of a nine-month-old baby and a separate assault on a child aged one

Jorge Garay, 46, is accused of murdering girlfriend Karla Godoy between September 21 and October 2 last year - with her body found wrapped in a blue plastic sheeting in Lima, Peru

Royal Welsh Fusilier Alexander Garms-Rizzi, 21, was deployed to Estonia for NATO's Operation Cabrit when he went AWOL for six months, joining the war in Ukraine

A British holidaymaker died after falling from a second-floor balcony of an apartment block near the seafront in San Antonio, Ibiza, in the early hours of Tuesday

A Sussex Police PCSO has been criticised after being filmed by a witness of an alleged assault a few hundred yards away apparently refusing to deal with the incident

The father and son who died in the devastating house fire in Swansea, Wales, on Saturday afternoon have been named locally as Lawa Efmahil, 51, and three-year-old Mohammed

The OceanGate Titan submarine vanished on June 18 before its occupants were confirmed dead - now wreckage has been recovered by Pelagic Research Services

The boy, now 10, was wearing a sheep costume made of cotton wool next to another child who tripped while holding a candle in a plastic cup and accidentally set his outfit on fire

Duncan Lougee set off from Plymouth in his 26ft Varne folkboat 'The Minke' at midday on June 18 and was due in Baltimore, Ireland on June 22 but subsequently vanished

British families were among dozens of tourists forced to evacuate a boat by diving into the sea after it caught fire off a beach in Rhodes, Greece, hundreds of metres from shore

The unnamed passenger, aged 57, lost her foot after it was sliced off when she fell on a 'death trap' travelator at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand

Choon Seng Goh told an employment tribunal he was left "humiliated" by Asda colleague Mercy Asante during multiple incidents while they worked together in Croydon, south London

Moneybarn has released new data showing which of the world's major commercial airports charge the most for parking - with Heathrow and Gatwick both featuring in the top five

Sadia Shafiq, 42, died following a devastating house fire in in Oldham, Greater Manchester, on Saturday which also left her 15-year-old daughter in a critical condition