The family of a 15-year-old girl who died in a kayaking tragedy said she was the happiest she had ever been at the time she died. Ellice Murray, 15, had been in a double kayak with her father, Fraser, 44, when it overturned on Monday, with brother Ben, 17, nearby. Tragically she was just out of … Read more
A man has married his own mother-in-law after divorcing his wife of eight years and getting a 500-year-old law overturned. Clive Blunden, 65, and Brenda, 77, have been together for over 30 years and officially tied the knot in 2007. But Clive, from Warrington, Cheshire, was arrested in 1997 after the pair announced their plans … Read more
A rapper jailed for killing the daughter of a Holby City actor with party drugs saw his manslaughter conviction quashed at the Court of Appeal today. Ceon Broughton, 31, supplied John Michie’s daughter Louella Fletcher-Michie, who was his girlfriend, with the hallucinogenic intoxicant 2-CP at Bestival in Dorset. But his conviction was overturned after his … Read more
Rapper has his conviction overturned for killing Holby City actor’s daughter with party drugs at Bestival By Mark Duell for MailOnline Published: 11:17 BST, 18 August 2020 | Updated: 11:25 BST, 18 August 2020 A rapper today had his conviction overturned for the manslaughter of his girlfriend who died after taking a hallucinogenic drug at … Read more
The family of a train guard who overturned a ban on non-white staff at British Railways in the 1960s has said his contribution to UK race relations should be taught in schools. Asquith Xavier applied for a promotion that would see him move from Marylebone Station to Euston in 1966, a shift that would boost … Read more
Manchester City have won their battle with UEFA and their European ban has been lifted. The Premier League club were banned from European football for two years in February after UEFA found they had committed ‘serious breaches’ of its Financial Fair Play regulations. But many of the alleged breaches were more than five years old while … Read more
The bus lane bandits! More than 80% of fines for driving in bus lanes are overturned on appeal as councils are accused of turning roads into ‘money-making traps’ Figures show up to 86% of fines for driving in bus lanes are overturned on appeal In Doncaster 526 of 658 drivers who appealed were let off in … Read more
A Pakistani court has overturned the death sentence of a British-born Islamist militant convicted of beheading a US journalist in 2002. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, of Wanstead, in east London, UK, was found guilty of the abduction and murder of south Asia bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Pearl, in 2002. Pearl, 38, disappeared in … Read more