David Seidler, the award-winning screenwriter of the acclaimed drama film The King’s Speech, has died at the age of 86. He died on Saturday, March 16, Deadline reports, during a fly-fishing expedition in New Zealand. No official cause of death has been
A schoolboy who died in a horror truck crash has been pictured for the first time as his family pays tribute to the “kind, charming and funny” teen. Llŷr Davies, 16, died on March 12 in a horror accident in which a truck
A man died after ‘setting himself on fire’ at a train station. Police rushed to Church and Oswaldtwistle Station in Lancashire just before 6.30am today to reports a man was on fire. He was pronounced dead at the scene after emergency services
A polio survivor, known as “Polio Paul”, has died after living for more than 70 years with the help of an iron lung. Paul Alexander earned his nickname “the man in the iron lung” after being left paralysed by polio when he
Highland Hunter has been put down following the Ultima Handicap on Day One of the Cheltenham Festival. The legendary horse fell during the third race of Tuesday’s action and was later announced as dead. MORE TO FOLLOW We’ll be bringing you the
A gunman is being hunted by police after a man was killed by a single gunshot wound. An injured man in his 30s was found in Catford Broadway in Lewisham, south London at about 4.30am today. Hero passers-by attempted CPR to save
Marines injured in Japan rollover accident The Marines were injured after a tactical vehicle rolled over. They were ‘transported to U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa with non-life-threatening injuries,’ according to the Marine Expeditionary Force Okinawa. Akira Toriyama, the creator of the best-selling Dragon
Baseball star Joe DiMaggio, a towering figure of American popular culture both on and off the field, died in Hollywood, Florida, after a battle with lung cancer on this day in history, March 8, 1999. The New York Yankees legend was 84
King Charles has been dealt another heartbreaking blow as one of his close friends has died. Ian Farquhar, a longstanding pal of the King and Queen Camilla died on Wednesday, March 6 aged 78. Mr Farquhar lived on the King’s Highgrove estate
One of Britain’s last surviving D-Day veterans has died aged 99, months before the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings. Walter Bigland was just 19 when he disembarked from a landing craft on Sword Beach with 45 Commando on June 6, 1944,