A 13-year-old boy has died after he was pulled from a canal in Exeter, police have confirmed. The incident happened at about 16:35 BST on Monday at Clapperbrook Lane East. Emergency services were alerted when the child failed to surface after jumping into the canal. After he was pulled from the water, he was taken...
Former Cambridge United, Northampton Town and Bury forward Tom Youngs has died at the age of 45. Youngs started his career with the U’s and made 180 appearances between 1997 and 2003. He won promotion to the third tier with Cambridge in 1998-99. After 30 appearances in an injury-hit three seasons with Northampton, Youngs had...
McParland began his career with Dundalk before he was signed by Villa in 1952, spending close to 10 years with the club. As well as the FA Cup win, McParland helped Villa to the Second Division title in 1959-60. The following year, he scored the extra-time winner which secured a 3-2 aggregate victory over Rotherham...
A man who was attacked with acid in his own home has died in hospital, police have said. Danny Cahalane, 38, who was described as an “outstanding father and son”, was attacked in Lipson Road, in Plymouth, on 21 February. He died on Saturday, Devon and Cornwall Police said. Mr Cahalane’s family said in a...
One of the last survivors of the assault on the D-Day beaches in 1944 has died, his family has said. Aged 101 Cecil Newton, from Aldbourne, in Wiltshire, who served in the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday. Aged 20, after boarding a landing craft at Lepe Beach in the...
Jill Sobule, a ground-breaking American songwriter whose hit I Kissed a Girl is widely considered the first song with openly-gay themes to crack the Billboard Top 20, has died in a house fire in the US city of Minneapolis, her publicist has said. Sobule, whose satirical anthem Supermodel featured in the 1995 coming-of-age film Clueless,...
Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News Reuters Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas was born in 1908 The world’s oldest person, Brazilian nun Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, has died at the age of 116. Born on 8 June 1908 in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, Inah Canabarro Lucas became a Catholic nun in her early...
BBC Part of the park was taped off after emergency services were called A 16-year-old boy has died after getting into difficulty while swimming in a lake in Nottinghamshire. Emergency services were called to Colwick Country Park when the boy went missing at 17:20 BST on Wednesday, Nottinghamshire Police said. A police underwater search team...
A man has died in a single-vehicle crash in Devon, police say. Devon and Cornwall Police said officers were called to reports of a collision involving a car on Pinn Lane, near Otterton, at about 02:15 GMT. on Tuesday An 18-year-old man from the Holsworthy area was pronounced dead at the scene. Two other men...
Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images Mike Peters fought cancer three times and was recognised for his advocacy and charity work Mike Peters, front man of Welsh rockers The Alarm and a long-standing cancer campaigner and fundraiser, has died aged 66. His band was formed in 1981 in Rhyl, Denbighshire, out of the punk era and had a...
A man suspected of carrying out an attack involving a crossbow which left two women injured in Leeds has died, police have said. Owen Lawrence, 38, was arrested and taken to hospital with a self-inflicted injury following the incident on the popular Otley run pub crawl in Headingley on Saturday. Counter Terrorism Policing North East...
Drag star Bianca Castro-Arabejo, who performed as Jiggly Caliente, has died aged 44, her family has said. The performer, who found fame on the fourth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, had part of her leg amputated on Thursday after suffering a “severe infection”. Caliente had served as a judge on the show’s Philippines spin-off, and...
PA Media Philip Lowrie played Dennis Tanner in the ITV soap who went on to marry Rita Sullivan played by Barbara Knox Original Coronation Street star Philip Lowrie has died aged 88. Lowrie, who appeared in the first episode of the ITV soap in 1960 as the original bad boy Dennis Tanner, died on Friday,...
Jim Herriot, the Scotland goalkeeper who gave his name to the character in the books and TV show All Creatures Great and Small, has died at the age of 85. Read full article at source...
Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, has died by suicide aged 41, her family has confirmed to the BBC. They said in a statement on Friday that “the toll of abuse” became too heavy in a statement confirming her death. “She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of...