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Former Premier League defender Sol Bamba has died at the age of 39 after falling ill before a match in Turkey. Bamba, who used to play for Cardiff City and captained Leeds United, was the technical director at Turkish side Adanspor. A club statement read: “Our technical director Souleymane Bamba, who fell ill before the

Two people have died after being attacked in separate incidents at Notting Hill Carnival last weekend. Cher Maximen, 32, was at the event last Sunday with her child when she was stabbed. She died this morning. Police said officers gave emergency treatment to Ms Maximen until paramedics arrived. She was then taken to hospital in

“His room is still the same” and “there’s always a missing chair around the table”, says Pip, whose younger brother Sanjiv Kundi was 41 when he vanished in Paris 11 years ago. She has visited the French capital many times since he left the family home in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, for a week’s holiday –

Oasis have issued a warning against people reselling tickets for their reunion tour at higher prices. The band wrote on X: “We have noticed people attempting to sell tickets on the secondary market since the start of the pre-sale. Please note, tickets can ONLY be resold, at face value, via @Ticketmaster and @Twickets.” It added

A murder investigation has been launched after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death. Police were called at 4pm on Thursday to a home on Lovett Avenue in the West Midlands market town of Oldbury. West Midlands Police say a team of detectives is investigating. Detective Superintendent Shaun Edwards, from the force’s homicide team, said:

A teenager has been found guilty of stabbing a 15-year-old girl to death in the street after following her for 45 minutes. Holly Newton was left with 36 knife injuries after an attack in the Priestpopple area of Hexham, Northumberland, in January last year. A 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named, admitted a charge of

An arrest has been made in Sweden after the remains of two Britons were found in a burnt out car. Juan Cifuentes, 33, and Farooq Abdulrazak, 37, were reported missing in July after failing to return home from a business trip to Denmark and Sweden. The pair’s car was found in Malmo, with Swedish media

Three people have been killed in a road collision in Anglesey, police have confirmed. North Wales Police say it responded to the incident in the town of Beaumaris shortly after 2.45pm on Wednesday. Police attended Alma Street, close to Beaumaris Pier, along with ambulance and air ambulance crews. Officers say work is continuing to establish

Hundreds of cannabis couriers have been caught trying to smuggle suitcases full of the drug through British airports. They are being duped by traffickers into thinking the UK authorities are soft on cannabis and will let them off with a fine, according to the National Crime Agency. A man who landed from Los Angeles with

The October budget will be “painful”, Sir Keir Starmer has said, giving the biggest hint yet of tax rises. Speaking from Downing Street, the prime minister said: “I will be honest with you, there is a budget coming in October and it’s going to be painful.” He added: “Just as when I responded to the

Oasis have confirmed it’s happening – Noel and Liam Gallagher are reuniting, with shows planned for 2025. The announcement comes just ahead of the 30th anniversary of Oasis‘s seminal debut album Definitely Maybe, released on 29 August 1994, and 15 years since the last time the brothers performed together before their infamous fall-out. Both Noel

Sven-Göran Eriksson doubted so much whether England could ever have a foreign manager that an initial approach was considered a joke.  Intrigued eventually by the ground-breaking opportunity, rather than being deterred by the indignation, the Swede would launch the Three Lions into five of the most frenzied years in their history. Everything belied his suave

Over 200 firefighters are responding to a blaze in Dagenham, east London, as two people have been taken to hospital. Parts of the ground to sixth floors, scaffolding surrounding the tower block, and the roof caught fire overnight. Plumes of smoke could be seen rising into the sky as 40 fire engines and 225 firefighters

A British citizen has been found dead after a Russian airstrike in eastern Ukraine, local authorities say. The Briton was found dead under the rubble of Hotel Sapfir in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Sunday, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty reports. A Russian missile struck the building on 24 August, which was Ukraine’s

A woman found dead in her flat in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, was the victim of a “heinous and evil” attack, police said. A fire was reported at a bottom-floor flat on Harvey Street, Londonderry, at around 4.15am on Saturday. Emergency services found the woman – believed to be aged in her 40s to 60s –

Police have made two more arrests after a house fire in Bradford killed a mother and her three children earlier this week. Bryonie Gawith, also known as B, and her three children – Denisty, 9, Oscar, 5, and 22-month-old Aubree Birtle – died in the early hours of Wednesday morning after a fire broke out

Jermaine Jenas has admitted to sending “inappropriate messages” to women after he was sacked by the BBC. The former footballer, who worked as a pundit on Match Of The Day and was a co-host of The One Show before his BBC contract was terminated over allegations about his behaviour, insisted “nothing physical ever happened” but

The funeral of Elsie Dot Stancombe, who died in the Southport attack, is under way – as her parents released a new photo of their “truly unforgettable” daughter. The seven-year-old was one of three girls killed in a knife attack at a dance class in the Merseyside town last month. Her family said they want

Former footballer Jermaine Jenas has said he is “not happy” with his sacking from the BBC while live on air at talkSPORT, adding that his lawyers are dealing with the situation. The broadcaster earlier confirmed Jenas is “no longer part” of The One Show’s “presenting line-up”. Jenas, 41, has also been dropped from his punditry

A lung cancer patient has become the first in the UK to receive a new experimental vaccine to help his body fight the disease. Janusz Racz, 67, had six syringes of the jab, each containing genetic material for a different part of the tumour, to train five billion cells in his immune system to go