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Parliament Revisits Assisted Dying Bill as MPs Vote on Controversial Legislation
MPs in the House of Commons rejected a fresh attempt to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales, voting 286 to 270 against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at its Second Reading after a four-hour debate. The defeat, met with cheers in the chamber, came after several MPs who had previously backed…
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Family’s utter despair as daughter, 13, dies in hospital days after bicycle crash that also killed 12-year-old son
A 13-year-old girl from Williamston, Michigan, has died in hospital days after a road crash that also killed her 12-year-old brother, leaving their family devastated. Karalee and Calvin Shepard were riding their bicycles along the shoulder of a road near Lansing on 5 September when a Ford Explorer, driven by a 64-year-old woman, struck them…
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Melbourne GP caught with meth and ketamine fled to Canada – where he was allowed to keep practising as explosive details emerge at tribunal
A Melbourne GP with a suspected history of drug use, Stewart Mawdsley, appeared before the Victoria Civil and Administrative Tribunal facing findings of professional misconduct after being caught with methamphetamine and ketamine, and later moving to Canada where he continued practising. The case has drawn scrutiny because Mawdsley failed to notify the Medical Board of…
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Tartuffe (Remixed) review – Mark Rylance sinks his false teeth into Molière’s trickster comedy
Mark Rylance stars in Darren Raymond’s Tartuffe (Remixed), a modern update of Molière’s 1664 comedy about a religious fraudster who infiltrates a devout household, now transplanted to the eve of a Jamaican-Nigerian wedding at London’s Marylebone theatre. The production continues a trend of relocating the play’s central hypocrite figure to new cultural settings, following earlier…
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Australian man arrested in Bali allegedly with large amount of cannabis and drug paraphernalia after local tip off about a ‘dealer’ in the area
Denpasar Police have arrested Australian national Arron Robert Brokenshire, 36, from Mona Vale in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, on suspicion of possessing and dealing drugs in Bali. He was detained on 10 August 2026 at an apartment in Pemogan Village, Denpasar, following a tip-off from local residents about a foreign man allegedly distributing narcotics in the…
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The cancer sufferer wrongly given six months to live…and a daughter whose dying mother begged ‘put me out of my misery’: The two sides of assisted dying debate as MPs vote on bill
MPs have rejected the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in the House of Commons, voting 286 to 270 against the assisted dying legislation. The defeat reverses the bill’s progress after it had passed two earlier Commons votes, with support narrowing sharply at the most recent stage before falling at this final hurdle. The…
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Three-year-old girl seriously ill in hospital with E.coli after paddleboarding in a polluted harbour
A three-year-old girl, Ivy Foster, has been hospitalised repeatedly after contracting E.coli while paddleboarding with her mother at Christchurch Harbour in Dorset in August. Dirty seawater is believed to have entered her body through an open wound on her foot, and she has since developed an antibiotic-resistant infection that has spread to her right kidney,…
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He’s One of Just 50 People With Olive Garden’s Lifetime Pasta Pass. You Choose What He Eats Next
Braden Sinclair, a 33-year-old father of two, is one of only 50 people worldwide to hold Olive Garden’s Lifetime Pasta Pass, a gold card giving him unlimited pasta, toppings, breadsticks and soup or salad at the Italian-American chain for as long as he lives and it operates. He secured the pass in 2019 after upgrading…
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Star of 7 Up who died three years ago makes surprise appearance in 70 Up documentary after he filmed interview just three days before he passed away
Nick Hitchon, a scientist who first appeared as a seven-year-old in 1964’s Seven Up!, will feature in the new ITV documentary 70 Up despite having died in July 2023, just three days after filming his final interview. Hitchon had been diagnosed with terminal throat cancer and revealed his illness in 63 Up seven years earlier,…
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‘Pelicot 2.0’ husband ‘boasted of selling his wife for £400 per rape’ before she died from injuries sustained by the sexual assaults, relative claims
An Austrian truck driver, Robert Aichinger, 51, is under investigation after his wife Daniela, 39, died on 25 June from injuries sustained during sexual assaults he allegedly arranged. Prosecutors have dubbed the case “Pelicot 2.0”, drawing comparisons to the French case of Gisele Pelicot, who was drugged and raped by dozens of men arranged by…