Parents of electrocuted boy, seven, weep as court sees CCTV of his final moments

The parents of a seven-year-old boy who was electrocuted by ‘significantly faulty’ pub garden lights wept in court as CCTV was shown of his final moments.   Harvey Tyrrell died on September 11 2018 after he suffered an electric shock in the garden of the King Harold pub in Romford, east London, when he sat on … Read more

A croak, a cough, then hot tears of joy… HENRY DEEDES watches the Health Secretary weep on live TV

Gwyneth at the 1999 Oscars. Gazza at Italia 90. To that list of lip- wobbling blubberers, we can now add the name of Matthew Hancock. With the arrival of the coronavirus vaccine, the Health Secretary was on Good Morning Britain yesterday to witness the first inoculations take place live on air. Of course he was! … Read more

DIY SOS: The Big viewers ‘weep’ as family are given wheelchair accessible home

DIY SOS: The Big Build viewers were left in tears over the stunning transformation of a cramped terraced house into a spacious wheelchair-accessible family home.  Cat and Chris Sweet live in Weston-super-Mare with their three children, Louisa, 14, Max, 11, and Henry, six, who all have degenerative illnesses. Soon they will all need to use … Read more

DIY SOS: The Big Build viewers ‘weep’ as family are given wheelchair accessible home

DIY SOS: The Big Build viewers were left in tears over the stunning transformation of a cramped terraced house into a spacious wheelchair-accessible family home.  Cat and Chris Sweet live in Weston-super-Mare with their three children, Louisa, 14, Max, 11, and Henry, six, who all have degenerative illnesses. Soon they will all need to use … Read more

These heartbreaking stories of families torn apart by Covid-19 rules that will make you weep

When a blanket ban on care home visits was imposed in March as the pandemic took hold of the country, elderly residents were dealt the shock of loved-ones suddenly vanishing from their lives. Eight months on, they are still forbidden from holding hands with their husbands and wives or hugging their sons and daughters. The … Read more

The lions weep tonight: ‘Lonely’ zoo animals around the world are missing visitors during pandemic

Zoos across the world say their animals are becoming ‘lonely’ without visitors as a result of the coronavirus lockdown. Zoo keepers have shared their wide-ranging methods to keep animals active and engaged as even those that have since reopened struggle to pull in the usual number of visitors to their sites.  Since the coronavirus pandemic … Read more

Brad Pitt turned down a role in Almost Famous causing director Cameron Crowe to weep

Brad Pitt turned down a role in Almost Famous at the eleventh hour… as director Cameron Crowe admits he WEPT when he found out By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 01:02 BST, 15 July 2020 | Updated: 01:04 BST, 15 July 2020 It may come as a shock to realize that Almost Famous, the beloved … Read more

DAN HODGES: Coogan and Dimbleby can weep and wail, but the BBC licence fee MUST be scrapped 

Alan Partridge is taking to the streets.  ‘I would man the barricades to defend the BBC,’ actor Steve Coogan pledged last week, before warning Ministers that ‘they’ll have a fight on their hands if they threaten it’. He won’t be alone. Yesterday BBC royalty, in the shape of veteran broadcaster David Dimbleby, joined the uprising. ‘The … Read more