Base jumper is rushed to hospital after parachute fails to open when jumping off 530ft cliff at Beachy Head The alarm was raised at about 9.15am today when the parachute failed to open The casualty was rescued from the base of the cliffs by a Coastguard paramedic Others from the team of basejumpers were taken … Read more
Steelworker kills himself by jumping into furnace at Chinese factory after losing £6,000 in a day on the stock market Wang Long, 34, was captured throwing himself into furnace in Inner Mongolia Haunting last image shows him silhouetted against the fiery well of molten steel Police believe he killed himself due to large debts and … Read more
Steelworker kills himself by jumping into furnace at Chinese factory after losing £6,000 in a day on the stock market Wang Long, 34, was captured throwing himself into furnace in Inner Mongolia Haunting last image shows him silhouetted against the fiery well of molten steel Police believe he killed himself due to large debts and … Read more
A council questioned whether an employee was ‘jumping on the Grenfell bandwagon’ when she told them she suffered PTSD after losing five members of her family in the fire, a tribunal heard. Labibun Nessa, 42, launched a discrimination claim against her employers the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea after suffering PTSD, anxiety and suicidal … Read more
Heartbroken boy, 11, SURVIVES jumping from 23rd-floor window after landing on a truck below: Russian child was upset that a girl he wanted to ask out liked someone else Mazar, 11, fell 230ft from an apartment block in Novocheboksarsk, Russia He suffered ‘fractures’ on impact and is said to be in a ‘grave’ condition Officials believe … Read more
Rob James, a jockey who won at Cheltenham in 2020 on a Gordon Elliott trained horse, has appeared in a shocking video where he appears to sit on a dead horse. Irish trainer Elliott has been temporarily banned from entering horses into British races and is being investigated by the British Horseracing Authority after a grotesque … Read more
Fat cat council bosses including chief executive on £180,000-a-year are accused of jumping the queue after getting Covid jab – as authority admits it doesn’t know how many staff have already had jab Chief executive Paul Robinson and an assistant director known to have got jabs Jonathan Fitzgerald-Guy proudly posted about it on his social … Read more
Health chiefs said today they are ‘horrified’ at reports of people trying to jump the queue for coronavirus vaccines on the NHS. Dr Vin Diwakar, NHS London’ medical director, tonight slammed Britons attempting to bypass the priority list, describing them as ‘morally reprehensible’. It emerged yesterday that an IT loophole in the booking system allowed … Read more
A 31-year-old Briton was arrested by French police in Coquelles after he was caught travelling through the Channel Tunnel from Kent on foot. The man, whose identity has not been released by authorities, was seen disappearing into the mouth of the 31-mile tunnel at Folkestone a week ago. He is thought to have scaled four … Read more
Russian doctors have demanded a probe into Covid-19 patients jumping from high rise buildings after a 101-year-old paratrooper became the latest to fall to his death. The war hero, who had recently fought off coronavirus, jumped to his death from a high floor in Moscow. Valery Severinov – born under Lenin’s rule two years after … Read more