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A mother and daughter were rescued from waist-deep quicksand at Southend’s Three Shells Lagoon yesterday evening. The local amusement park staff intervened as the tide was coming in, ensuring the pair were safely extracted.
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A widow in Oldham seeks answers after her husband’s body was returned from Cyprus without his heart following his sudden death last summer. An inquest into Michael Graley’s death commenced this morning.
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Tube drivers are set to strike for 24 hours on March 24 and 26, April 21 and 23, and May 19 and 21. The action is due to disputes over proposed changes to working hours.
A large fire at Bicester Motion, a former RAF base in Oxfordshire, resulted in the tragic deaths of two firefighters and a civilian.
MPs are set to debate the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill again on Friday, following major amendments and months of committee scrutiny. The bill, first passed in November by 330 votes to 275, would allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to seek assisted dying.
Several of Thursday’s newspaper front pages lead on the new government plans to address overcrowding in prisons in England and Wales. Yesterday, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced plans including early release and building new prisons.
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced emergency measures to limit how long certain offenders can be recalled to prison, as the government faces projections that England and Wales will run out of prison space by November.
Reece Galbraith, 33, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for manslaughter following a house explosion in Newcastle that resulted in the deaths of seven-year-old Archie York and 35-year-old Jason Laws.
Peter Sullivan, who spent nearly 40 years in prison for the 1986 murder of Diane Sindall in Birkenhead, has had his conviction quashed after new DNA evidence emerged identifying an unknown attacker.
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