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ANDREW PIERCE recounts the emotional search for his birth mother
12+ hour, 11+ min ago (112+ words) Most people didn't know until I wrote my book, Finding Margaret, that I had spent nearly the first three years of my life in an orphanage in Gloucestershire. By ANDREW PIERCE, DAILY MAIL CONSULTANT EDITOR AND COLUMNIST Most people didn't…...
Teacher left paralysed after boyfriend snapped her neck, court hears
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (1038+ words) By LIZ HULL, NORTHERN CORRESPONDENT and ANDY RUSSELL A landscape gardener flew into an 'uncontrollable rage' and broke the neck of his teacher lover when she threatened to leave him, a court heard today. Trudi Burgess, 56, was left paralysed from…...
Radar worker killed after ignoring warnings to photograph polar bears
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (560+ words) Christopher Best exited the safety of the radar site where he worked for the Nasittuq Corporation on Brevoort Island on August 8, 2024." The 34-year-old from Labrador walked past a large polar bear warning sign and thought he had kept a safe…...
Iconic Florentine diamond FOUND in unusual location after 100 years
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (604+ words) By WILKO MART'NEZ-CACHERO, US REPORTER A giant Florentine diamond once owned by two of Europe's most powerful dynasties that was thought to have vanished has been discovered in a shocking location. The 137-carat Florentine Diamond that belonged to the Habsburg…...
Armed police swarm Reading college after student is wounded in attack
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (449+ words) Armed police have been seen swarming Reading college after a student was left wounded following an attack as officers arrested a person in connection. A boy suffered injuries which are not believed to be life-threatening at the college on Kings…...
UVA students told to run and hide amid reports of 'active shooter'
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (428+ words) By CLAUDIA AORAHA, US SENIOR EDITOR Students at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville'were told to run, hide, and fight on Monday afternoon, following reports that there was a shooter on campus.' UVA's police division sent out an alert just…...
Pictured: Mummified CAT found buried in the walls of historic church
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (720+ words) Mystery surrounds the discovery of a mummified cat buried close to the reputed grave of England's last Anglo-Saxon king. The desiccated feline was found in the walls of Waltham Abbey Church, where Harold Godwinson is believed to have been buried…...
Father who 'shot dead man found with daughter' campaigns for sheriff
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1107+ words) By LAUREN ACTON-TAYLOR, US NEWS REPORTER A father in Arkansas has launched a campaign to become sheriff while awaiting trial for the murder of a man accused of abusing his teenage daughter." Aaron Spencer, 37, is running to become sheriff of…...
Inside the whites-only town where new arrivals are strictly vetted
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1733+ words) When Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first black president of South Africa'on May 10, 1994, the world watched with awe as the brutal system of racial segregation known as apartheid seemed to finally crumble. But if you were to walk 20 minutes…...
Cat Deeley fights back tears as man sobs about forgetting his children
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (671+ words) Cat Deeley'fought back tears on This Morning as a man sobbed down the phone during a devastating dementia call-in to discuss his symptoms.' The TV presenter and her co-star Ben Shephard invited members of the public to call into the…...