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Fire-fighters are battling a large gorse fire in County Tyrone. A number of fire engines and water tankers are at the scene of the fire in Coalisland, in bogland close to the Derrytresk Gaelic football ground. Dry ground and strong winds are hampering their efforts and smoke from the fire can be seen from miles …

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Hospital staff have been praised for helping a three-year-old cancer patient mark the end of his treatment by moving the celebratory bell outside. Brodie Halliday went through 35 rounds of radiotherapy at Merseyside’s Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. Only one visitor per patient is currently allowed due to coronavirus rules, so staff unscrewed the bell for a …

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A former British paratrooper is isolating on an uninhabited Shetland island after lockdown measures were introduced midway through a fundraising challenge to walk the UK coastline. Chris Lewis has walked 12,000 miles after setting off from near his home in Swansea in August 2017. He has now been given special permission to live in the …

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P&O Ferries say its Liverpool to Dublin service has been “indefinitely delayed” after its vessel was prevented from leaving the English port. The company has said Peel Ports presented the ferry company with a sudden demand for payment of almost £600,000. In a statement, Peel Ports said that “any decision to detain a vessel is …

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A detective with British Transport Police (BTP) has died with coronavirus, the force has said. Det Con John Coker, 53, who was based at Euston’s criminal investigations department, leaves a wife and three children. He was “charismatic, kind and thoughtful” and “much-loved and respected by all those he worked with”, Chief Constable Paul Crowther said. …

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Detectives investigating the deaths of two men in Renfrewshire have said one of the deaths is being treated as murder. It follows the deaths of a 60-year-old man and a 23-year-old man at a house in Lanfine Road in Paisley on Thursday. Police said a post-mortem examination had suggested 60-year-old James Mooney was murdered. The …

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A community carer was doused with water in the street and branded a Covid-19 “disease spreader”, according to her employers. Abby Jones was in between calls in Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, when squirted by a runner’s bottle on Thursday, Ebbw Vale-based Trusting Hands said. Domiciliary carers “were putting their lives on the line” and it was …

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Tributes have been paid to a cyclist who was killed in a crash with a car. Retired steel worker Philip Bamsey, 67, died in a crash with a silver Ford Fiesta on Afan Way, Port Talbot, at about 14:00 BST on Wednesday. In a statement, his family said they were “devastated” at the loss of a …

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