BBC Exeter Coroner’s Court was told a doctor at Derriford Hospital thought Theo Tuikubulau had an ear infection The mother of a three-year-old boy who died from sepsis a day after he was discharged from a Plymouth hospital felt she was “being fobbed off” by doctors, a court has heard. A doctor at Derriford Hospital...
Belinda Taylor was doing her first jump while strapped to skydiving instructor Adam Harrison. Read full article at source...
Marianna Spring Social media investigations correspondent BBC/Getty Images Gabriel and Sebastian Shemirani watched with concern as their mother Kate rose to notoriety during the pandemic, eventually getting struck off as a nurse for promoting misinformation about Covid-19. Then, their sister Paloma was diagnosed with cancer. Doctors told her she had a high chance of survival...
Alison Holt & James Melley BBC News BBC Carole Charles’s husband Winbourne’s death is one of 20 involving the same NHS hospital trust where coroners have raised serious concerns An NHS mental health trust, recently found guilty of serious failings in the care of a young patient who took her own life, has had serious...
Divya Talwar & Tammi Walker BBC Tassie Weaver says she was treated like “a hysterical woman” by a midwife When Tassie Weaver went into labour at full term, she thought she was hours away from holding her first child. But, by the time she was giving birth, she knew her son had died. Doctors had...
Tributes have been paid to two women who died after being pulled from the water at one of Wales’ national parks. Hajra Zahid, 29, and Haleema Zahid, 25, were found in pools on the Watkin Path – which leads to the summit of Yr Wyddfa – also known as Snowdon – on 11 June. University...
Two people who died in a skydive accident in Devon have been named by police. Belinda Taylor, 48, from Totnes, and Adam Harrison, 30, from Bournemouth, died in the accident at Dunkeswell Aerodrome at about 13:00 BST on Friday, Devon and Cornwall Police said. Read full article at source...
Anna Jameson BBC News Reporting fromBolton Coroners’ Court Paul Burnell BBC News, Liverpool Family handout Alex Eastwood suffered a severe traumatic head injury during a kickboxing match, the coroner concludes A 15-year-old three-time world kickboxing champion died from a severe traumatic brain injury after an unsanctioned fight which had no safeguards, a coroner has ruled....
One police official told the BBC more than 200,000 people packed the streets to see the team parade through the streets to the stadium but police expected half of that amount. An official said a stampede occurred when people tried to push through a small gate. On Thursday, RCB said they would give 1,000,000 rupees...
Four men have appeared in court charged with murdering a man who died in a garden in Devon. The 24-year-old man died from a stab wound in the garden of a property at Ashfield Close, Exmouth, on Saturday. Police were called at about 00:45 BST to reports of an assault. The man died at the...
Lewis Adams BBC News, Buckinghamshire Sam Read BBC News, Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Police Ann Eyre died in the house fire in Bletchley, police confirmed A 15-year-old girl who died in a house fire with a 67-year-old woman has been named by police. Ann Eyre was in the property with the other woman, who has not...
South Africans are paying tribute to actor Presley Chweneyagae, who has died at the age of 40. In a statement announcing his death, his agency described him as a “South African icon” and one of the country’s “most gifted and beloved actors”. The South African government published a post on X describing him as “a...
Phil Bodmer BBC News, Yorkshire BBC/Phil Bodmer Dawn Higgins lost her husband Craig to a cardiac arrest when he was 48 The widow of a police officer who died of a heart attack aged 48 said there was “no reason” why he should have succumbed to an unknown cardiac defect. Craig Higgins, from Sowerby Bridge,...
Fatalities are rare in motorbike racing, but unfortunately not unheard of. British Superbikes rider Chrissy Rouse died after a crash at Donington Park in 2022. Superbikes can reach speeds of up to 200mph, and the bikes used in Supersport regularly clock well in excess of 100mph. Former rider and MLav Racing owner Michael Laverty told...
BBC Keeleigh Plant fell 100ft on to a rocky beach A Devon woman died after she tried to retrieve her dog from a cliff edge, an inquest has heard. Keeleigh Plant, from Galmpton, Devon, had been walking her two pet cockapoo dogs with her boyfriend one afternoon in May 2023 when she died. The 18-year-old...