UK Deaths

Father's Grief Over Teenagers' Train Deaths

Posted 19.06.2013 | UK

The father of a teenager who was killed by a train in an apparent suicide pact with a school friend has spoken of his grief. The 18-year-old, named...

Mother Dies, Daughter Gravely Injured After Being Found In Premier In Hotel Room

PA | Posted 11.05.2013 | UK

A woman has died and her daughter is critically ill in hospital after they were found injured at a hotel. A guest at the Premier Inn in Greenock, I...

Man Held After Two Cyclists Die In Hit-And-Run

PA | Posted 27.01.2013 | UK

A 38-year-old man has been arrested after handing himself into police following a hit-and-run accident in which two cyclists were killed. A man and...

Father Killed As Family Cars Plunge Into Icy River During School Run

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 25.01.2013 | UK

A father taking his daughter to school in Derbyshire has been killed after his car skidded into an icy river, only minutes before his wife, on a schoo...

British National 'Killed In Gas Field Terror Attack'

Posted 16.01.2013 | UK

"Several" British nationals have been caught up in a terrorist attack on an oil facility in Algeria, Downing Street have said. UK sources were unab...

Third Man Dies From Edinburgh Legionnaires' Outbreak

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 02.09.2012 | UK

A third person has died of Legionnaires' disease, the Scottish Government has confirmed. The man, who was in his 60s and from south west Edinburgh,...

NHS Failures Lead To Deaths Of 24,000 Diabetics Each Year

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 23.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle

Treatment for diabetic patients is a postcode lottery with a massive variation in quality of care from one region to another, a report has revealed. ...

Police Treating West Bridgford Deaths As 'Unexplained'

PA | Posted 26.06.2012 | UK

The deaths of two people whose bodies were found at a house are being treated as unexplained, police have said. Nottinghamshire Police said forensi...

Schoolboy Dies After Collapsing During Rugby Match

PA | Posted 21.03.2012 | UK Universities & Education

A 15-year-old boy has died after collapsing on a rugby pitch. The teenager, named locally as Luke Chapman, was a pupil at Haybridge High in Hagley,...

Captors Under 'Standing Orders' To Kill

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 10.03.2012 | UK

The terrorists who killed Chris McManus and his Italian co-worker Francesco Molinara had “standing orders” to shoot the hostages should they come ...

PICTURES Nigeria Hostage Row Between Britain And Italy Downplayed After Copenhagen Meeting

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 09.03.2012 | UK

The diplomatic row that broke out between Britain and Italy following a hostage rescue operation in Nigeria has been downplayed in a joint statement f...

Staffordshire Car Crash Kills Two

PA | Posted 19.02.2012 | UK

Two people have been killed and another two airlifted to hospital after a car crash in Staffordshire, police said. Inspector Mike Harding, from Sta...

Mother And Baby Son Killed By Single Stab Wound, Say Police

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 13.12.2011 | UK

A mother and her two young children found dead in their Pudsey home all suffered stab wounds, reportedly inflicted by their father wielding a knife ag...

Mystery After Bodies Of Two Women Found At House In Merseyside

PA | Posted 03.02.2012 | UK

Police are investigating after two women were found dead at a house. Merseyside Police were called to the address in Fairhaven Road, Southport, at ...

Two Babies Die Of E.coli In Swansea Hospital

PA | Posted 22.01.2012 | UK

Two babies have died of an E.coli infection, health officials have confirmed. Both cases are under investigation at Singleton Hospital, Swansea, so...

Hajj Stoning Of Satan: Awe Inspiring Eid Al-Adha Pilgrimage Pictures

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 07.01.2012 | UK

Millions of Muslims flooded into the Saudi Arabian city of Mina for one of the most important Islamic rituals of the Eid al-Adha: the symbolic stoning...

Three-Year-Old Fends For Herself By Eating Leftovers For Two Days After Mother Suddenly Dies

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 04.01.2012 | UK

A three-year-old girl, left to fend for herself after her mother suddenly died, survived for two days by eating cheese and leftover lasagne. Shylah...

Could The English Diet Help Save Lives?

PA | Posted 02.01.2012 | UK Lifestyle

Thousands of lives could be saved in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland every year if people adopted the English diet, according to new research. ...

Pretty, Meaningless Pictures: Save Us From Infographics!

Peter Byass | Posted 09.10.2011 | UK
Peter Byass

Technological capacity for producing graphics has mushroomed in recent years, and the consequences are obvious across all the media