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Three people have died after a fire in a Northamptonshire village

[ad_1] Three people have died after a house fire in a village.Firefighters, police officers, and paramedics were called to the blaze at the former station house in Beswick Close, in Rushton, near Kettering, Northamptonshire, at about 22:30 GMT on Friday.Northamptonshire Police said three people later died. Three police officers needed hospital assessment after breathing in smoke.A fire investigation has begun. [ad_2] Source link
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British man praised for tackling Amsterdam knife attack suspect

[ad_1] A British man has been praised for tackling a suspected knifeman to the ground in central Amsterdam.The tourist, who does not wish to be named, restrained the suspect after five people were stabbed near the Dutch capital's Dam Square on Thursday. Video of the incident shows the Briton, wearing jeans and a black hoodie, kneeling on his back and twisting his arm until police arrived.Amsterdam's Mayor Femke Halsema said
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TUV’s first conference since Allister’s Westminster election win

[ad_1] The Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) will "continue to beat the drum" against the Irish Sea border, Jim Allister will say later.The party leader will make his remarks at his party's annual conference, which is taking place in Cookstown on Saturday.Members will gather for the first time since Allister got elected to Westminster, after he won the North Antrim seat from Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party in the
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How a granddad ‘vanished’ from his family

[ad_1] Sue Mitchell & Ben MilneBBC NewsBBCJohn Wilcox with his granddaughter AmyDavid remembers the moment he found his elderly stepfather, John, unkempt and suffering from dementia, living alone in an unclean hotel room."I didn't think you'd leave an animal in the state that room was in," he says. " There was no care at all. You would not leave a vulnerable old man like that."Months earlier, John had vanished. His
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Justin Welby tells BBC abuse in Church was ‘overwhelming’

[ad_1] The former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has told the BBC he failed to follow up abuse allegations within the Church of England because the scale of the problem was "absolutely overwhelming".In November he became the first Archbishop in more than 1,000 years to quit, after a damning independent review found he did not follow up rigorously enough on reports of John Smyth, a serial abuser of children and
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Do home crowds make a difference in esports?

[ad_1] Andrew RogersBBC NewsbeatRLCSFans at last year's RLCS competition in LondonConventional wisdom tells us professional athletes perform best in front of a home crowd.Great Britain's Olympic team won a record medal haul at London 2012 and England's Lionesses won the Euros at Wembley in 2022, 56 years after the men's national football team won the World Cup at home.Does that same home advantage apply in esports?BBC Newsbeat asked four competitors
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Andrew Tate sued by ex-girlfriend for alleged sexual assault

[ad_1] Andrew Tate, the controversial social media figure, is facing a new lawsuit by his ex-girlfriend, accusing him of sexual assault, battery and gender violence.The lawsuit filed by Brianna Stern in Los Angeles details their relationship and how Tate initially seemed like a "dream come true" but then she claims he became emotionally and physically abusive.It details a violent encounter that allegedly took place on 11 March at The Beverly
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How criminology student was caught

[ad_1] Charlotte AndrewsBBC News, BournemouthDorset PoliceNasen Saadi, now aged 21, stabbed Amie Gray to death on a beach in BournemouthCriminology student Nasen Saadi has been jailed for life with a minimum of 39 years for the murder of Amie Gray and the attempted murder of Leanne Miles on a Dorset beach.The BBC explores how police put him behind bars despite having no DNA evidence.It was a Friday night and the
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‘Hundreds feared dead in quake’ and Reeves likened to Truss

[ad_1] DAILY EXPRESSThe death toll from the earthquake which hit Myanmar and Thailand on Friday could be in the hundreds, with the Daily Express reporting the 7.7 magnitude quake caused tremors as far away as India and China. Thailand's capital Bangkok has been declared an emergency zone.DAILY STARThe striking photo of a skyscraper's collapse at a work site in Bangkok features on a few front pages this morning, including the
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I used face recognition app to hunt man behind whisky fraud

[ad_1] Samantha PolingBBC Investigations CorrespondentWatch Craig Brooks being confronted about whisky cask investmentsIt was the last thing I was expecting as I sat in my office late one evening.I had been using some new facial recognition software, seeing how well it worked.I put a photo of Craig Arch – the CEO of Cask Whisky Ltd, the multi-million-pound international award-wining cask whisky business – into the software. I wasn't expecting to