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Not only did Twyanna Williams, 65, graduate high school this week, she was also the valedictorian of her class at Philadelphia’s South Philadelphia High School. Williams was among the students who got their degrees through the city’s Educational Options Program that enables adults to earn their high school diploma. She says she was stunned when […]

A devastated mum who became a widow at the age of 31 has shared how their three-year-old daughter asked if they could ‘go to heaven to visit daddy’. Emma Godfrey’s husband Thomas died in a road accident in Burton, Staffordshire, in the early hours of March 12, 2020. He was a pedestrian and involved in […]

A devastated mum has warned of the dangers of cold water shock after her son tragically died when he jumped into a freezing lake. Keivan Ulhaq, 20, had been socialising with friends at Lochore Meadows, Fife, when he entered the water on the evening of June 20. The confident swimmer who loved showing off and […]

A heartless hospital worker who used a patient’s bank card to buy crisps, sweets and fizzy drinks just minutes after she died from Covid has been spared jail. Shameless Ayesha Basharat, 23, took the 83-year-old woman’s card after she died at Birmingham’s Heartlands Hospital on January 24. The assistant, who was working on a Covid […]

A coroner said the death of an 11-year-old schoolboy who “had his whole life ahead of him” was one of the saddest cases she had ever dealt with. Dylan Afandi died in hospital nearly three weeks after being found seriously ill near a playing field, an inquest heard. He was discovered on a mountain path […]

Eye-witnesses to a terrifying crocodile attack that left one woman in a coma after her sister heroically fought it off have spoken of the chaos during the incident. On Sunday Melissa Laurie was dragged under the water by a crocodile while swimming in a lagoon with her sister Georgia, near Puerto Escondido in Mexico. The […]

Four planets locked in a perfect rhythm around a nearby star are destined to bounce off each other just like in a pinball game, a new study suggests. Astronomers modelled how the change in gravitational forces in the system when their sun dies and becomes a white dwarf will cause its planets to fly loose […]