The National Lottery Jon Waring and his wife Lucy from Paignton won the jackpot A couple who won a £3.97m Lotto jackpot say they are planning to “slow down” and “enjoy life” at a more relaxed pace. Jon Waring, 57, and his wife Lucy, 48, from Paignton, in Devon, said they could not believe they...
A couple who went to India to celebrate their engagement have been named among the victims of the Air India plane crash. More than 240 people were killed on Thursday when a Boeing 787 bound for Gatwick crashed shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad. Prayers have been taking place at the Shree Hanuman Temple in Leicester...
An Italian museum has called on patrons to “respect art” after a couple was filmed breaking a chair covered in hundreds of glittering crystals. Footage released by the Palazzo Maffei, in Verona, shows a man and woman taking pictures of each other while pretending to sit on the so-called “Van Gogh” chair. The man then...
Asha Patel BBC News, Nottingham NUH Craig had travelled three hours every day to visit his fiancee in hospital before deciding they could not wait any longer to be married A couple held their wedding at a hospital after an attempted “party trick” at the hen do led to the bride being paralysed. Craig Bolton...
SWNS Two people, including a 18-month-old child, suffered potentially life-changing injuries A couple who saved the lives of four children and two adults have been praised for their “heroic bravery” after a boat exploded on the River Thames. Josh Hobbs, 35, and Hannah Lloyd-Hobbs, 34, from Rhayader, Powys, leapt into the water to save six...
A couple who kept 29 pets in a flat have been banned from keeping animals for eight years. Exeter Magistrates’ Court heard Mark West and Rebecca Sowden had kept 14 snakes, 12 cats, a tortoise, a bearded dragon and a leopard gecko in a one-bedroom flat in Taunton Close, Exeter. The court was told the...
US President Donald Trump says he’ll be issuing a pardon for a couple who starred in a reality TV show before being jailed in a multi-million dollar fraud and tax evasion case. Todd and Julie Chrisley were cast in the reality TV series Chrisley Knows Best, which followed the duo in their career as property...
Shyamantha Asokan BBC News, West Midlands Harry Rashid Harry Rashid, from Solihull, was at the victory parade with his wife and three daughters on Monday “People going flying and people screaming and just terror, pure terror… I thought I’d lost everything.” Daniel Evason from Telford, Shropshire, was one of multiple pedestrians hit by a car...
Ilya Barabanov and Anastasia Lotareva BBC News Russian BBC Sergei and Tatyana Voronkov had long been disillusioned with modern Russia when they decided to move to Ukraine It was shortly after Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 that Sergei and Tatyana Voronkov decided they would leave Russia. The couple, who had long been critical...
Two people found dead at a property in Devon both suffered gunshot wounds, police have said. Husband and wife, John Perkins, 66, and Kathryn Perkins, 67, were pronounced dead at a property at Briar Close, Exmouth, at 18:30 BST on 7 May. A spokesperson for Devon and Cornwall Police said the fatalities were linked and...
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Albert Alfonso/Flickr Yostin Mosquera, 34, Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, pictured on a boat in Colombia A man murdered a couple, dismembered their bodies and then froze some of their remains before taking the rest in suitcases to the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, a court has heard. Yostin Andres Mosquera filmed himself...
Sanchia Berg and Tara Mewawalla BBC News BBC As they walked through arrivals at Manchester Airport, a couple seemed to be behaving oddly towards their baby. Something did not sit right with Border Force officers. One worried the relationship between the three was “not genuine”. Officers pulled the couple for questioning. The man, Raphael Ossai,...
Robin Jenkins Trevor Greenfield and his wife, Eileen, were among the group of passengers stranded at Swindon Train passengers were left “distressed” and “confused” when the driver of a packed train encouraged them to get off at a station for some fresh air – only to leave without them. Trevor Greenfield, 74, and his wife,...
Danai Nesta Kupemba BBC News Guardia Civil Ministry of Interior Police say the couple’s activities were connected to a larger global trafficking organisation Spanish authorities have arrested a couple suspected of selling exotic cats online, including protected species like white tigers, pumas and clouded leopards. Civil Guard police raided the couple’s home on the island...