More than two weeks after George Floyd took his last breath under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, the 46-year-old ‘gentle giant’ has been laid to rest alongside his mother in Texas. Floyd died on May 25 after officer Derek Chauvin, 44, kneeled on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Chauvin was … Read more
Met Police guarded the Winston Churchill statue from crowds of Black Lives Matters protesters who gathered this afternoon for George Floyd’s funeral – as police officers in Henley-on-Thames ‘take a knee’ during a demonstration. Around 200 protesters had gathered by the statue to Nelson Mandela on Parliament Square as Mr Floyd, an African-American who died after … Read more
Families of Spain‘s coronavirus victims attended a mass funeral service at Seville Cathedral in one of the largest social gatherings since lockdown. More than 500 people wore face masks and sat in chairs separated by two meters – instead of pews – on Thursday as they paid tribute to family members who had died from … Read more
Brian May has admitted he felt like he had died and attended his own funeral as he discussed the aftermath of his heart attack. The Queen guitarist, 72, returned to social media on Tuesday to thank fans for their support and well-wishes, as he likened the messages to reading funeral tributes. Confessing he was ‘battling … Read more
‘We came here to find safety’: Father of model law student Aya Hachem, 19, tells of heartbreak as family returns to Lebanon for her funeral 10 years after they escaped from brutal war Aya Hachem was walking to a supermarket in Blackburn when she was shot Her father Ismail Hachem – a former soldier – … Read more
More than two-thirds of Brits think Dominic Cummings broke lockdown rules by driving to Durham while in self-isolation, with more than half believing he should resign, a snap poll has found tonight. The survey of 3,707 adults, carried out by YouGov today, found just 28 per cent think he should stay on, and another 20 … Read more
Paul Elliot, known as Paul Chuckle, has spoken out about ‘the worst day of my life’ – when he was forced to perform on stage on the day of his baby daughter’s funeral. The comic, one half of the stand-up duo The Chuckle Brothers, was torn apart by grief when his three-month-old daughter Nicola died … Read more
Funeral directors have been told to expect up to 85,000 extra deaths this summer if second Covid-19 spike hits Researchers carried out report for National Association of Funeral Directors If lockdown has been successful, 33,000 could still die in best case scenario Different parts of the UK could also be affected more than other regions … Read more
A mother has described the pain of having to watch her parent’s funeral with her children via video link after they both died from coronavirus two days apart. Katie Orchard, 30, lost her parents Richard and Pat Telford from Bestwood, Nottingham on Easter Sunday and April 14. Richard, 87, and Pat, 72, had been married … Read more
Emergency workers and NHS staff lined the streets in tribute to a nurse and his parents who died after contracting Covid-19. Father-of-two Keith Dunnington, who worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, as a staff nurse and spent 30 years on the front line, was 54 when he died after contracting coronvirus … Read more