A woman has been arrested after a man in his 70s was hit by a car in Paignton suffering serious injuries. Devon and Cornwall Police said the collision between a green Citroen C1 saloon and the pedestrian happened on Great Western Road at about 15:55 BST on Monday. The local man in his 70s was...
Fergus Walsh Medical Editor Watch: New mum Grace (left) and her sister Amy (right) talk about the “miracle” of baby Amy A “miracle” baby has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated womb. The baby’s mum, Grace Davidson, 36, was born without a functioning uterus, and...
The British woman at the centre of a Netflix documentary on how she allegedly duped her son and left him in debt to fund her champagne-sipping lifestyle has been charged with fraud in Singapore. Alleged victims of Dionne Marie Hanna, 84, filed police reports after watching Con Mum, local media report. They accuse the Singapore...
A woman at the centre of a free speech controversy involving the US government has been found guilty of breaching a “buffer zone” outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic. Livia Tossici-Bolt was convicted at Poole Magistrates’ Court of two charges of breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order on two days in March 2023. The 64-year-old anti-abortion...
Roy Ikohora Sally Wynter said her situation “could have been so much worse” A woman who was attacked on a Tube train in central London has said she was then left standing on a platform for a “harrowing” 30 minutes because no one answered the emergency calls she made from a help point. Sally Wynter...
BBC A coroner’s report found Mary Pomeroy suffered fractures after an incident at Derriford Hospital and died 12 days later An 89-year-old woman died at a Devon hospital after being pushed to the ground by a fellow patient who had carried out similar attacks, a report has found. Mary Pomeroy suffered fractures after the incident...
Chloe Aslett BBC News, Yorkshire NHS The NHS Blood and Transplant service can arrange for families and transplant recipients to meet. A woman has met the transplant patient who received her sister’s hands, describing the feeling of transforming another person’s life as “absolutely incredible”. Deborah Gosling took her twin, Julie Wild, to hospital in January...
A former Devon and Cornwall Police officer has been jailed for eight years after he raped a woman he met on a dating website. PC Stuart Mines, 49, was off-duty when he raped the woman at his home in south Devon in October 2022. He denied rape and said sexual intercourse had not taken place...
The murder of a young Sicilian woman by a stalker in broad daylight has sent shockwaves across Italy, where 11 women have been killed since the start of the year. University student Sara Campanella, 22, was killed by an acquaintance on Monday afternoon in the Sicilian city of Messina. Witnesses told media that they saw...
Sonja Jessup BBC London Home Affairs Correspondent BBC Lorraine says she suspected the Met did not investigate her complaints because it had incorrectly recorded she had mental health issues A woman who was groomed by a predatory police officer has received an apology from the Metropolitan Police after the force blamed her and spread false...
BBC A woman in her 30s has been arrested after a newborn baby boy was found dead in a carrier bag in Notting Hill, west London, last week. The woman, believed to be the baby’s mother, was detained on Saturday on suspicion of concealing a birth, neglect and infanticide, the Metropolitan Police has said. She...
Three victims of a house fire at a converted railway station have been named as Mayci Fox, four, her mother Emma Conn, 30, and Louie Thorn, 23. They died after a blaze at a Grade II-listed property in Rushton, near Kettering, Northamptonshire, at about 22:30 GMT on Friday. A 54-year-old man from Kettering who was...
PA Media Camilla Hempleman-Adams completed her challenge a day earlier than anticipated An explorer has completed her attempt to become the first woman to solo traverse across Canada’s largest island. Covering 150 miles (241km) on foot and by ski while pulling a sledge across Baffin Island, Camilla Hempleman-Adams battled temperatures as low as minus 40C...
Rescuers in Myanmar pulled a woman alive from the debris of a collapsed apartment block in Mandalay, more than a day after she was trapped. After several hours of painstaking work, 30-year-old Phyu Lay Khaing was pulled from the wreckage and carried away by stretcher as bystanders cheered. She embraced her husband before she was...
A woman has been charged as part of an investigation into the alleged stalking of Madeleine McCann’s family. Karen Spragg, of Caerau, Cardiff, has been charged with one count of stalking involving serious alarm or distress between 3 May 2024 and 21 February this year, Leicestershire Police said. The 60-year-old is due to appear at...