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A Greater Manchester council ward that will soon cease to exist goes out on a high

By the time of the next all out council elections on May 4, Atherleigh will cease to exist

Manchester Evening News

Ex-firefighter is getting kids back into fire stations after Covid layoff

“I have seen the devastating results of fires many times over a long career"

Manchester Evening News

House plans rejected after being described as 'one of the worst applications ever seen'

Wigan Council’s Planning Committee decided that increased dangers for school children with added cars to an ‘extremely busy road’ were enough to refuse the application.

Manchester Evening News

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Two UK men missing in Ukraine including 28-year-old volunteer

Chris Parry, from the South West, and Andrew Bagshaw have not been seen since Friday

Wales Online

Earthmovers go from competitors to comrades as Murray River locals share gratitude for non-stop levee works

When they're not working around the clock to protect Riverland levees, these earthmovers are fiercely competing for business. However, while saving the community, they're having a ball and residents are sharing the love right back.

ABC News

Hostage delivers final message to daughters of dad who did not make it

Paul Urey died after being captured by Russian separatists in Ukraine

Liverpool Echo

Captured Brit waterboarded and Tasered by sadistic Russians in months of torture

Dylan Healy has spoken of the months of torture, including beatings and waterboarding, that he suffered after being ambushed by Russian troops alongside fellow aid worker Paul Urey in Ukraine

Daily Mirror

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Freed British hostage delivers tragic final message from aid worker to his daughters

Dylan Healy and Paul Urey were ambushed while they undertook an aid mission in war-torn Ukraine. The nation is continuing to fight against Vladimir Putin's invasion

Daily Mirror

Aiden Aslin says he was stabbed in Russian captivity and told would die a 'beautiful death'

'It was literally a matter of surviving'

Nottingham Post

Brit captured by Russians beaten, stabbed and forced to listen to Soviet music all day

Aiden Aslin was one of five Brits recently released from captivity by Russian-backed forces and he has revealed the horrific ordeal he went through including torture and being stabbed

Daily Mirror

Freed Briton Aiden Aslin opens up on traumatic Russian detention

Aiden Aslin was beaten, stabbed and forced to listen to Soviet songs in a small cell 24-hours a day

Evening Standard

Freed British fighter admits he did not think he would survive captivity

Aiden Aslin was beaten, stabbed and forced to listen to Soviet songs in a small cell 24-hours a day.

The Independent UK

‘I wish they’d kill me’ – British POW reveals torture by Russians, and a flight home with Roman Abramovich

One of the British prisoners of war released by Russia has described his brutal ordeal at the hands of Russian forces, where soldiers jumped on his body and broke most of his ribs, leaving him so injured that there was blood in his urine.

Irish Independent

British PoW Shaun Pinner celebrates escaping execution with egg McMuffin at home

British soldier Shaun Pinner, who was captured six months ago while fighting in Mariupol with the Ukrainian army and sentenced to death by firing squad, is back home with his family

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The Independent UK

Paul Urey: Daughter of British aid worker killed in Ukraine reveals heartache after POWs freed

‘Our dad’s not returning home,’ Paul Urey’s daughter said

The Independent UK

Britons freed from Russian captivity in Ukraine ‘evacuated by Roman Abramovich on his luxury jet’

Billionaire told he looked like Roman Abramovich, to which he replied, ‘That’s because I am him, sir’

Manchester Evening News

Brits freed from Russia captivity welcomed onto flight by Roman Abramovich

John Harding revealed that Roman Abramovich had played a "key part" in their release

Irish Independent

Briton freed from captivity by Russian-backed forces says ex-Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich welcomed them onto plane

One of five Britons released from captivity by Russian-backed forces has said that former Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich welcomed them onto their flight out of Russia.

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Daily Mirror

Brit freed from captivity says Roman Abramovich welcomed them onto plane

A British man who was released this week after capture by pro-Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine says he was welcomed onto a flight to freedom by ex-Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich

The Independent UK

Briton freed from captivity says Roman Abramovich welcomed them onto plane

John Harding said Mr Abramovich identified himself to Shaun Pinner.

Belfast Live

Roman Abramovich negotiated release of British POWs jailed by Russian separatists in Ukraine

The freed men revealed the news to Co Down man, Alec Pettet on a London-bound flight from Saudi Arabia

The Independent UK

It has been harrowing time, says family of Briton freed by Russian-backed forces

Shaun Pinner’s family hailed the ‘happy resolution’ after he was released from captivity alongside four other Britons.

The Independent UK

Britons freed by Russian-backed forces hailed as ‘defenders of democracy’

It is understood that John Harding, Dylan Healy and Andrew Hill were set free alongside Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin.

Al Jazeera

Prisoners of war return to UK, Russia following swap deal

Five British nationals reunited with their families in London as Moscow welcomes back 55 freed troops.

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine war: Lavrov walks out of UN security council; Russians flee country to avoid military draft – as it happened

Queues seen at Russia’s land borders and flights sell out as Moscow begins drafting citizens into army to fight in Ukraine

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