A teenage swimmer who had "everything taken away from her" after contracting sepsis has said she is excited to be making her Paralympic debut in Paris. Olivia Newman-Baronius, from Leighton Buzzard, in Bedfordshire, equalled the Women’s S14 100m Butterfly world record at the Aquatics GB Swimming Championships in London earlier this year.

Teen aims for Paralympic medal after 'scary time'

A student with a hereditary heart condition has been selected to compete at the Commonwealth Powerlifting Championships. Hayden Simmons, from Portishead in north Somerset, is representing Team England in the bench press competition in October - set to take place in Sun city, north of Johannesburg in South Africa. Mr...

Powerlifter with heart condition in championships

A 31-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell at HMP Fosse Way, police say.

Six arrested after inmate dies at prison

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It's been eight years since former TV child star Sawyer Sweeten, best known from Everybody Loves Raymond, died tragically by suicide at only 19 years old. Sawyer Sweeten, his twin brother Sullivan Sweeten, and their older sister Madylin, played Ray Romano's TV children on Everybody Loves Raymond, the Emmy-winning sitcom that originally aired on CBS 1996 to 2005.

The Tragic Suicide of Former TV Child Star Sawyer Sweeten ('Everybody Loves Raymond'): 9 Years Later

The US Sun

A "BRAIN DEAD" woman has stunned doctors with a "miracle" hours before her life support was set to be switched off. Emma Price, 32, from Pitsea in Essex, suffered significant brain damage after attempting to take her own life. Last week doctors told Emma's family that she was brain dead...

‘Brain dead’ woman, 32, stuns doctors with ‘miracle’ hours before her life support was switched off

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KFC says it has launched an investigation into the bullying allegations. 
The post KFC worker allegedly bullied wakes up from coma after overdose appeared first on Talker.

KFC worker allegedly bullied wakes up from coma after overdose

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One raunchy piece of advice made Haliey Welch an internet sensation — though her fame has come with a price. The 23-year-old, best known as "hawk tuah girl," has had to deal with some rather creepy fans ever since a video of Welch giving a tip about intercourse went insanely viral online.

'Hawk Tuah' Girl Haliey Welch Says She Was Offered $600 to 'Spit in a Jar' After Her Lovemaking Tip

A bakery which has traded in a Herefordshire town for 70 years has announced it will be closing its doors for the final time in September. Central Bakery in Leominster has been run by the Burke family for more than 50 years, with three generations at the helm. Announcing the...

Bakery to close after 70 years of trading

HEARTBREAKING tributes have been paid to a “wonderful” Brit holidaymaker who died after allegedly being assaulted by a nightclub bouncer in Gran Canaria. Scott Lacey’s devastated “partner and friends” were said to have been partying with him when the doorman put him in a chokehold known as the ‘Lion Killer’ during a night out in […]

Tributes to ‘wonderful’ Brit tourist who died after ‘bouncer put him in horror Lion Killer chokehold’ in Gran Canaria

One of a fleet of 1970s trains which served Merseyside for more than 40 years will ride the tracks for a final time in a farewell tour. Merseyrail’s Class 507 fleet, which began operating in the region in 1978, are being replaced by a more modern Class 777 service.

Farewell tour planned for 1970s train fleet

NEGLECT by striking junior doctors may have killed an NHS patient in Carlisle, a coroner has ruled. Daphne Austin died of sepsis on June 18 last year after a three-day walkout by the British Medical Association. She had been an inpatient at Cumberland Infirmary for nearly a month following a...

Woman, 71, died of sepsis after blood tests missed ‘due to neglect during three-day junior doctors’ strike’

South Yorkshire Police are investigating Alicia Douglass's death as murder and have arrested man.

Woman found dead at home named by police

The incident was witnessed by two women playing tennis at Montpellier Gardens in Cheltenham.

Man seen committing indecent act in park bushes

A motorbike pillion passenger has died in hospital after a crash in Aberdeenshire. Vineta Lozenberga, 55, from the Banchory area, was on a Triumph Rocket which was in collision with a Nissan Qashqai in the Bridge of Canny area at about 15:00 on Sunday 4 August. She was taken to...

Motorbike pillion passenger dies after crash

A New Order gig has been cancelled on "health and safety grounds" after a weather warning was issued. The band were due to play at Alexandra Head, near Cardiff Bay Barrage, on Thursday evening. Although the Friday weather warning covers north Wales, organisers said the cancellation was due to "extreme...

New Order cancel gig amid weather warning

Former UFC champion Ronda Rousey has apologised for sharing a conspiracy video about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. Eleven years ago then UFC champion Rousey posted a YouTube video on Twitter that questioned what happened. Twenty students and six staff members were killed in the shooting on 14 December...

Rousey apologises for sharing Sandy Hook conspiracy video

The grim discoveries come two days after the Bayesian sank in a freak storm off Sicily.

Divers find five bodies in wreck of Sicily yacht

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The mantis shrimp is one tough customer. Beautiful and deadly are two words you don’t typically use to describe shrimp, but the mantis shrimp is definitely in a class of its own; earning a reputation as the ‘savage boxer of the sea’ and one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. And, they're right at home here in South Carolina.

Savage Boxer of the Sea: The Deadly Beauty of Mantis Shrimp

The Independent

 A police officer cries as he recalls how he thought he would die from his injuries following a savage attack on duty.PC Ashley Aspinall suffered a horrific brain injury when he was attacked by Ian Scott, 50, as he tried to apprehend him outside a bar in Blackpool on 7 April, last year.PC Aspinall, of Lancashire Police, lay injured on the ground as Scott continued his assault.The police officer feared he would never see his daughter again as he lay critically injured.Scott appeared at Preston Crown Court on 30 April, and was given a 24-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to wounding of an emergency worker.

Police officer cries recalling savage attack outside seaside bar

Police are urgently hunting two dogs they believe were involved in killing a man found dead outside a home in Birmingham. The 33-year-old man, who was looking after his brother's dogs, was found dead in the back garden of a home in Rubery on Wednesday. Police said two dogs had...

Hunt for two dogs suspected of killing man

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Tully Kearney: 18-month fight just to swim in Paris

Swimmer Tully Kearney will defend her Paralympic title in France after a battle to recover from a head...

Tully Kearney: 18-month fight just to swim in Paris

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