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Father said ' I can't keep fighting' hours before succumbing to coronavirus

Father-of-two Ryan Storrie, 45 - from Ardrossan, Ayrshire - suffered from Asthma. Mr Storrie's wife Hilary found him dead in his bed the morning after he said 'I can't keep fighting'.




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Scientists who cloned Dolly the Sheep developing new coronavirus treatment using immune cells

Scientists behind the cloning of Dolly the Sheep in Edinburgh, 1996 (pictured) say the new treatment could be available for the NHS to treat the coronavirus by July.




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Thirteen people die in just seven days as coronavirus sweeps through care home 

Burlington Court care home (pictured), in the east end of Glasgow, has seen 13 residents die in just seven days due to illnesses 'linked to covid-19', as two staff members are treated for the virus.




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Paige Turley PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Love Island star puts on a leggy display in white blazer dress

The Love Island winner, 22, showcased her toned and tanned pins in the thigh-grazing number, which also featured a racy plunging neckline.




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Single care home sees 15 residents die in coronavirus crisis

The deaths at Castletroy Residential home in Luton, which has 69 beds for elderly people with nursing or personal care needs, were announced by Public Health England today.




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Female A&E doctor is suspended for nine months after abusing a police officer

Dr Karen Clark, from Glasgow, threatened the officer in February in the latest in a string of offences which have landed her in court over the last eight years.




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Coronavirus UK: Celtic players and manager Neil Lennon take 'significant reduction in salaries'

Celtic have put some non-playing staff on furlough but insisted the furlough scheme would be supplemented by the club so no employee suffered a shortfall in salary.




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Scottish newsagent sells coronavirus antibody test kits for £30 each

Nadeem Anwar, who runs Patrick Superstore in Glasgow, has already bought 100,000 kits from China and is waiting for another 225,000 to arrive.




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Great-gran, 81, with terminal cancer beats coronavirus in time for her birthday 

Mavis Torrance, from Bishopbriggs, told STV she displayed a high temperature days after her daughter Angela Grubb and son-in-law Gus started to show symptoms of Covid-19.




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Bertie Auld recalls when 136,505 people watched Celtic beat Leeds at Hampden in European Cup semi

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY KIERAN GILL: The front page of The Glasgow Herald on Thursday April 16, 1970, was split in two. On the right-hand side, the headline read: 'Apollo 13 off course for the Earth.'




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IAN BIRRELL: The care home coronavirus scandal goes into the bedrock of our society

IAN BIRRELL: The carnage is horrific as this hideous pandemic carves through care homes across the country, killing hundreds of residents despite the best efforts of devoted staff.




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Inside MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo's tragic life

MasterChef Australia viewers are already falling in love with 'hot' new judge Jock Zonfrillo.




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Thug jailed for beating up man is in prison after smashing lantern over his nurse girlfriend's head

Thug David Newlands (pictured) has been jailed for 20 months after attacking his former lover Jennifer Watson at her home in Glasgow when he suspected her of cheating on him.




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Nurse who won giveaway contest was refused her prize because she was working 12 hour shift

Lara Harper, from Glasgow, who entered a competition for NHS workers has told how she was refused the prize after she was unable to join their live event due to working on the frontline.




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Coronavirus is killing its victims up to 13 YEARS before they would have died naturally, study finds

Men who die of COVID-19 are losing, on average, 13 years of their lives, while women have 11 years cut off their life expectancy, according to a study carried out by Public Health Scotland.




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Home listings drop by 82 per cent on average across UK

The worst affected boroughs in London are Hillingdon and Bromley, which have both seen a 91 per cent drop in listings. Woking, Surrey, is the worst affected place in the UK.




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Aristocrat sells off 4,000 acres of estate to be developed into ski and mountain tourism resort

The 10th Duke of Baccleuch, Richard Scott, is expected to sell the chunk of his 83,000 acre Queensberry Estate in Dumfries and Galloway. The deal has not yet been finalised.




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Toddler unexpectedly dies after falling asleep while watching a film

David George's father found him unconscious in his bedroom in Glasgow after David left play-time with his brother and sister to watch Transformers. The toddler died of SUDC after falling asleep.




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NHS 'refuses' to send doctor to 78-year-old cancer patient because of coronavirus lockdown

Old Kilpatrick Medical Practice in Glasgow, 'refused' to send a doctor to Stuart Cameron, 78, who died of a heart attack brought on by lung cancer five days after he was diagnosed.




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Princess Anne marks the opening of the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow

The Princess Royal, 69, appeared in a clip on the Royal Family's Twitter account to congratulate those involved in the building and preparation of the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow.




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Inside Princess Anne's lavish office at Gatcombe Park

The Princess Royal, 69, gave a glimpse inside her living room at her home on the Gatcombe Park Estate in Gloucestershire as she marked the opening of the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow.




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Costa Coffee will reopen another 29 stores across Britain for deliveries and drive-through orders

Four branches re-opened in Manchester and Bristol on April 24, a month after the lockdown began - but 12 delivery only and 17 drive-through stores will re-open today in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Leeds.




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This weekend marks 40 years since Sir Alex Ferguson lifted his first top-flight trophy as a manager

BRIAN MAJORIBANKS: On a magical afternoon in Leith exactly 40 years ago, unfancied Aberdeen confounded the odds - and their critics - to break the spell cast over the land by the Glasgow giants.




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A woman travelled to Uganda to discover the truth of her adoptive 'twin' brother  

EXCLUSIVE: Michaela Foster Marsh, 53, from Glasgow, longed to know where her adopted brother Frankie came from after he was welcomed into their family aged 13 months in 1967.




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Heart-melting moment 15-month-old boy tells his parents 'I love you' for the first time

Aimee-Jane Strang, 20, and her partner William Ronan, 22, from Glasgow, Scotland, were thrilled when their 15-month-old son Blair repeated 'I love you' back to them in a sweet recording.




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Intern makes incredible discovery of unknown papers written by Abraham Lincoln in 1844

The 21-year-old, who just finished his junior year at St. Mary’s University in Minnesota, was preparing a stack of old papers to be logged in a database and put into storage.




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Woman arrested on her own property for filming traffic police making a bust outside her house

Emily Good found herself in handcuffs after filming police arresting a man just outside her New York home.




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Distraught mother speaks of devastation after 15-year-old son is stabbed to death in Spanish shopping centre

Andrew Milroy died from a single stab wound to the chest in Lloret de Mar during the early hours of yesterday morning.




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Humpback whale 'thanks' rescuers who saved it from dying tangled in fishing nets

The whale performed a breathtaking display of breaches after being freed from certain death off the coast of California. It was all caught on camera.




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Briton Suzanne Cassidy sucked into propellers after jumping off boat in Ibiza

Suzanne Cassidy, 26, (pictured) from Glasgow, only survived by grabbing the side of the boat as the razor-sharp blades hacked into her leg.




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Motorcyclist dies after being dragged for quarter of a mile under truck of illegal immigrant 'drink driver'

Police said the 23 year old victim Matthew Denice was still alive when he became trapped in the wheel arch of Guaman's truck.




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Harbin Ice and Snow Festival: Spectacular sculptures spring up in China

The 28th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival, which opened on Christmas Day, features work by some of the country's best ice sculptors and attracts thousands of visitors from around the world.




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Pilot on Boeing 757 dies of heart attack mid-flight with 239 passengers on board

A pilot onboard a plane flying from Bangkok to Novosibirsk in western Siberia died from a heart attack, transportation prosecutors said Friday.




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Scientists behind Armageddon flu virus suspend their research because it 'could put world at risk of catastrophic pandemic'

Researchers studying a potentially more lethal, airborne version of bird flu have suspended their studies because of concerns the mutant virus they have created could be used as a devastating form of bioterrorism or accidentally escape the lab.




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Australia Day 2012: Fireworks and lightning combine to light up Perth's skies

An estimated 250,000 people turned out to watch the 28th annual Australia Day fireworks display in the western Australian city, despite fears weather conditions could disrupt the event.




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Grocery worker who handed out samples of semen-tainted yoghurt gets two years in prison

Anthony Garcia admitted adding a sample of the bodily fluid to a sample of yoghurt while working at a grocery story in Albuquerque, New Mexico.




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Bugs: Amazing photos show microscopic insects coping with a downpour

Tiny droplets of water make the bugs take on an altogether different look - looking inflated by the covering of liquid.




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Baby sloths saved from infection by with 'onesie' bandage treatment YouTube video

The twin sloths may look cute in the alternative outfits but actually it is a way of ridding their tiny bodies of the parasitic mites.




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Photographer captures the moment 5,000 birds create an exclamation mark formation in the sky

Photographer Nuray Gonulalan was amazed when she looked up and saw the familiar punctuation symbol - often associated with shock or panic - hovering above her in Mogan Lake, Ankara, Turkey.




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Furious father bites off six-year-old son's penis in China before spitting it out

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: Witnesses in Shenzhen, in the Guangdong province of China, said the 32-year-old father was walking with his naked son and four-year-old daughter on the street when he launched the sickening attack.




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Muslim insurgents kill eight and wound dozens more with bomb blast in Thailand

The devices were hidden inside inside motorbikes and cars and detonated by mobile phones.




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Britons urged to leave Mali as rebel gunmen attack northern city of Gao ten days after claiming capital

British citizens currently in Mali, in west Africa are being urged to leave after the Foreign Office has changed its travel advice.




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135 bungee jumpers take leap at the same time in world record attempt

A video posted on You Tube shows the group of unnamed thrillseekers, who are all harnessed together with bungee cords, jumping from the bridge at the same time.




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Kim Jong-un's wife Ri Sol-ju makes first appearance after two months of home detention

The young wife of North Korea's leader has made her first public appearance in two months, bringing to an end what might have been a period of 'home detention' for being too carefree.




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Man, 57, 'had sex with girl, 14, and gave her a cellphone so he could send her explicit texts'

Francisco Alcala, from Indianapolis, was arrested after the teen's father quizzed his daughter about the cell phone, which she said the man had given to her.




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Hurricane Sandy: Michael Bloomberg and Andrew Cuomo blame hurricane on climate change

Since New York City's foundation in the early 17th century, the lower tip of Manhattan has been at the heart of metropolitan life - despite its vulnerability to flooding from the harbour. Two possible links between global warming and the damage wrought by Sandy are the raised sea levels which make it easier for the coast to flood, and warm air in the Atlantic Ocean increasing the fierceness of the storm.




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Could Sandy postpone next week's presidential election? Yes, in theory

But the probability is unlikely despite the devastating effect superstorm Sandy had on 60 million people across the north-east, or one-sixth of the population.




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Hurricane Sandy miracle: Couple survive superstorm to welcome a baby boy

Though only 35 weeks pregnant, Christine Schleppy, 34, began having contractions at her home in Skillman, New Jersey just residents were warned to seek shelter and stay indoors.




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Superstorm Sandy: Over 120 people trapped on remote New York island

Twelve oceanfront houses were swept away and officials said there was damage to 80 per cent of the remaining homes on Fire Island, off the south shore of Long Island.




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Radio host attacked: Bolivian journalist Fernando Vidal set on fire live on air in Yacuiba

A Bolivian radio presenter was set on fire by four masked men while hosting his show in the southern city of Yacuiba. Radio Popular journalist Fernando Vidal, 78, is being treated for burns.