Brian Farmer
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Center Parcs worker death leads to safety upgrades, says company (opens the original)
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Center Parcs has said it has taken extra steps to encourage staff to wear helmets following the death of a staff member in a freak accident three years ago. Housekeeping supervisor Penny Bulpitt was riding a work bicycle when she was hit from behind by a maintenance worker riding an electric buggy at the company's Woburn Forest resort near Ampthill in Bedfordshire. An inquest heard the 67-year-old grandmother was not wearing a helmet at the time. The coroner concluded the two-day hearing earlier
We Will Rock You theatregoer who attacked singing woman is jailed (opens the original)
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A 75-year-old man who strangled a woman after she started to sing along at a West End show has been jailed for two years. Malcolm Potier was sitting near victim Kirsty O'Donnell in the audience at We Will Rock You at the London Coliseum in June 2023. He said he had no recollection of being at the show, or of attacking O'Donnell, but was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday after being found guilty of non-fatal strangulation by jurors. Potier, a businessman and surveyor of Sarratt near
We Will Rock You theatregoer who attacked singing woman is jailed (opens the original)
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A 75-year-old man who strangled a woman after she started to sing along at a West End show has been jailed for two years. Malcolm Potier was sitting near victim Kirsty O'Donnell in the audience at We Will Rock You at the London Coliseum in June 2023. He said he had no recollection of being at the show, or of attacking O'Donnell, but was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday after being found guilty of non-fatal strangulation by jurors. Potier, a businessman and surveyor of Sarratt near
Great Denham family died from head injuries after alleged murder (opens the original)
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A mother and her two children, who are believed to have been murdered by their father, died from head injuries, an inquest has heard. Nothabo Zandile Tshuma, 42, and her daughters Natalie, 15, and Nala, five, were found dead by police in a house in Great Denham, near Bedford, on 7 July. Coroner Emma Whitting opened and adjourned an inquest into their deaths at a hearing in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, on Tuesday. Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma, 45, who is Nothabo's husband, was arrested in South Africa ear
High Court gives travellers one month to leave Flamstead site (opens the original)
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A judge has given travellers who set up an unauthorised camp on green belt land near a village a month to leave the site. Deputy High Court judge Christopher Kennedy has ruled in favour of a Dacorum Borough Council after it took legal action in a bid to clear the camp near Flamstead, Hertfordshire. Billy Pither, the chairman of Flamstead Parish Council, told the BBC after the ruling: "We are delighted, to say the very least. It seems that justice has prevailed." The judge, who made the ruling on
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