Matt Taylor & Ben Jackson BBC News, Leicester BBC Lyndzi Hargrave bought the bus in August 2023 and spent the entirety of 2024 turning it into a home before moving in in January “I wanted to be a bus driver when I was younger. Then I wanted to own a bus cafe. It’s always been...
Asha Patel BBC News, East Midlands Supplied Izabela Helena Zablocka had been living in Derby when her family lost contact with her in 2010 Human remains have been found as part of a murder inquiry following the disappearance of a woman last seen 15 years ago, police have said. Derbyshire Police launched an investigation into...
A man charged with murdering a woman in Devon has pleaded not guilty. Rowan Sutton, 30, of West Charleton Court, Kingsbridge, appeared at Plymouth Crown Court on Monday charged with the murder of Aimee Pike. The 22-year-old died on the A379 Embankment Road in Kingsbridge in the early hours of Wednesday 23 April. A trial...
Samira Hussain South Asia correspondent BBC A British woman accused of attempting to smuggle a large quantity of cannabis into Sri Lanka has appeared in court in the country. Charlotte May Lee, 21, from south London, was arrested earlier this month after authorities allegedly found 46kg of the drug in her suitcases when she arrived...
Ady Dayman & Conor O’Grady BBC News, Leicester PSPA Raynor and Moth Winn are continuing to fundraise for research into Moth’s incurable illness A woman who travelled across the South West Coastal Path with her terminally ill husband has said a film depicting their journey took her “right back” to those difficult moments. Raynor Winn,...
A man has been charged with the murder of a 54-year-old woman in Plymouth. Mark Anthony Fitzgerald, 61, of Rendle Street, was charged with the murder of Lisa Paris, who was found dead on 18 March 2024, Devon and Cornwall Police said. Police said Ms Paris’s body was found at a property on Rendle Street...
BBC A South African woman convicted of kidnapping and trafficking her six-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life in prison, along with her two accomplices. The jail terms for Racquel “Kelly” Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno van Rhyn’s come more than a year after Joshlin Smith mysteriously disappeared outside her home...
Image Credit: WXIA A 30-year-old Black woman in Georgia has been kept on life support for three months against her family’s wishes because of the state’s “fetal heartbeat” anti-abortion law. Adriana Smith was declared legally dead in February after a medical emergency caused her brain function to cease. Smith, a nurse, had been initially turned...
An Garda Síochána Fiona Pender, 25, was seven months pregnant when she disappeared The disappearance of a pregnant Irish woman almost three decades ago has been upgraded to a murder inquiry. A new search is under way to try to find the remains of Fiona Pender, 25, who went missing in County Offaly. She was...
A rescue team has filmed the moment they found an elderly woman stranded in her flooded home in Taree. The Australian prime minister, Antony Albanese has described the floods affecting New South Wales as horrific. Tens of thousands of people remain cut off after floods engulfed parts of the Taree region which is a few...
A pregnant Israeli woman has been shot and killed in what Israeli authorities say was a terrorist attack in the north of the occupied West Bank. Tzeela Gez, 30, was driving to a hospital with her husband Hananel to give birth when a gunman opened fire on their car near their home in the settlement...
A woman accused of having an illegal abortion has been cleared by a jury. Nicola Packer, 45, cried as she was acquitted of “unlawfully administering to herself a poison or other noxious thing” with the “intent to procure a miscarriage”. Her trial at Isleworth Crown Court heard she took abortion medicine at home during the...
A woman has been killed and a man has been severely injured in an axe attack at the University of Warsaw on Wednesday, according to Polish police. A 22-year-old Polish man has been arrested in connection with the attack which the university has called a “huge tragedy”. Both victims worked at the university. In a...
A man and a woman have been charged with murder after the death of a five-week-old baby. Sean Jefferson, 34, of Walsall, and Amy Leigh Clark, 33, of Lichfield, were charged with murder and with causing or allowing the death of a child. The pair were also charged with two counts of grievous bodily harm...
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...