Emergency services at Ashton-under-Lyne station (Picture: MEN MEDIA)
A casualty on the tracks has sparked a mass response from emergency services.
Police and ambulances raced to Ashton-under-Lyne after an incident sparked mass cancellations on the railway.
A British Transport Police (BTP) spokesman said: ‘Officers were called at around 5pm today (6 November) to reports of a casualty on the tracks at Ashton-under-Lyne railway station.
‘Officers responded with paramedics, but sadly a person was pronounced dead at the scene.
‘The death is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner.’
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In an update, National Rail said: ‘The emergency services dealing with an incident between Manchester Victoria and Stalybridge means all lines are closed.
As a result, trains may be cancelled, delayed by up to 30 minutes or revised.’
Disruption is currently expected until 8pm.
Northern services have been impacted between Southport, Wigan North Western and Stalybridge
TransPennine Express services have also been impacted between Liverpool Lime Street and Hull, Newcastle, and between Manchester Airport and Redcar Central, Saltburn, and also between Manchester Victoria and Scarborough.
English Heritage has provided emergency training to help staff ‘stay alert to suspicious behaviour’ (Picture: Elena Di Vincenzo/Archivio Elena Di Vincenzo/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)
It would surely take a superhuman gang of villains to have the strength to steal a 30-tonne Stonehenge stone from rural Somerset.
But nevertheless, volunteers have reportedly been put on high alert after French crown jewels worth £76million were stolen from the Louvre in Paris last month.
English Heritage, the charity which manages the historic site, is now giving staff ‘hostile reconnaissance training’ to ensure thieves stand no chance of getting away with another daylight robbery.
The ancient stone circle – believed to have been built 5,000 years ago – was estimated to be worth £51million in 2010.
But exactly how one might lift the stones remains a mystery.
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Charity bosses now want volunteers at the site to take a course that issues guidance on ‘how to recognise suspicious behaviour’.
One, however, believes the training may be no use. They told The Sun: ‘I’m not sure how a gang of thieves, no matter how big it is, is going to carry away a stone menhir.
Thieves stole French crown jewels worth £76million from the Louvre last month (Picture: DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)
‘To be honest, it also seems a bit much to ask volunteers to be ready to foil a criminal gang – especially as many of our sites are just old castles with nothing in them.’
On October 19 at around 9.30am local time, shortly after the museum opened, criminals arrived outside the Louvre with a vehicle-mounted mechanical lift to gain access to the Galerie d’Apollon (Gallery of Apollo).
Two thieves got through a first-floor window using battery-powered disc cutters and then threatened security guards, who left the premises.
Ireland’s mystery of a roaming ‘lion’ this week has finally been solved – it was simply a Newfoundland dog named Mouse with a daring new hairdo.
A video taken by a trucker who mistook Mouse for a lion exploring East Clare went viral on social media as people questioned why the beast was running through the woods.
The Gardaí (Irish police) confirmed yesterday that the supposed King of the Jungle was actually a very friendly dog.
Pictures and footage of the dog show his coat has been recently shaved with his bushy tail and mane resembling a lion.
An Garda Síochána Clare posted on Facebook: ‘If you go down to the woods today…..it’s not a lion you will find but the very friendly Newfoundland dog named mouse.’
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The mane attraction: Newfoundland dog named Mouse identified as the ‘lion’ on the loose (Picture: X/Garda Info)
People have taken to social media to express their concern about the Newfoundland’s shaved fur.
It is not recommended to shave a Newfoundland dog because it will interfere with their body temperature regulation, making them overheat.
The breed are double-coated which regulates their body’s temperature by trapping air close to the skin – keeping them cool in the summer and insulating them in the winter.
One Facebook user expressed how glad they were that the dog was found safe: ‘Thankfully he is safe and no hunting fool went on a scouting expedition for the first ‘wild lion’ in Ireland.’
Another commented: ‘No way! I literally thought that could be a newfie shaved! They have the same stride when walking.’
Fur-ocious misunderstanding? The video went viral of a ‘lion’ roaming Irish woods
Gardai’s statement said: ‘Gardaí received report of a large animal in a wooded area in Co. Clare on Wednesday 29th October 2025.
‘Enquiries were carried out.’
Barking up the wrong tree
This isn’t the first time a dog has been mistaken for another animal and vice versa.
In 2016, a stray German Shepherd/Husky mix was repeatedly reported by locals as a wolf running loose in a Los Angeles neighbourhood
An Australian Shepherd mix interrupted a live TV report in Utah where people thought it was a mountain lion
In 2018, Colorado Springs firefighters rescued eight animals from a storm drain, believing they were pups – but they were later identified as baby red foxes
Father-of-two Javed Inamdar told a flight attendant in the rear gallery of the plane that he may have confused the young girl with his wife (Picture: Benedict Elliot/Central News)
An Indian national has been jailed after he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl on his flight to Heathrow.
Javed Inamdar, 34, groped the schoolgirl on a British Airways flight from Mumbai to Heathrow in December last year.
Isleworth Crown Court heard, the shipping company boss had ‘testeed the waters’ by stroking the girl’s hand before touching her chest as she slept.
The young victim woke up crying and screamed out ‘get the f*** away from me’ on the red-eye flight over the Pacific.
When confronted by a flight attendent, the father-of-two allegedly told them he ‘may have confused the young girl with his wife’.
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The shipping boss from Mumbai denied one count of assaulting a girl under 13 by touching but was found guilty by a jury.
Inamdar appeared in the dock at Isleworth Crown Court, assisted by a Hindi interpreter, for sentencing and cried throughout.
Javed Inamdar, 34, repeatedly stroked the youngster’s hand to ‘test the waters’ before assaulting her on the BA flight from Mumbai to London Heathrow. (Picture: Central News/Met Police)
Lee Sergent, defending, said: ‘He comes from a different part of the world in India.
‘He has made some success of his life in India helping his family. He has been on bail in this country because his employers have backed him and got him housing in this country.
‘Being on bail in this country has had a greater restriction on his life than a person from this country. He has not been able to see his wife or children.
‘He has no right to stay in this country and if he was given a suspended sentence he would be leaving straight away on a plane’.
Cabin manager Rebecca Rooney said she found the girl ‘visibly distressed’, and had ‘her knees to her chest and was hugging herself’ at just after midnight on December 14.
Ms Rooney told the court: ‘I asked her what happened, she stated the male in the seat next to her had put his hands up her jumper and had touched her breast’.
She then walked to the back of the plane to find the man and moved him into another seat, the court heard.
Flight attendent Michelle Adams was assigned to deal with Inamdar after the assault.
Inamdar claimed he thought the girl ‘was his wife’ and that he had ‘fallen asleep cuddling her’.
He also insisted he was asleep when he assaulted the girl.
He also told police that he tried to explain to a flight attendant that there had been a misunderstanding.
He later claimed during his police interview: ‘How can anyone specifically remember all this? Whether I moved my hand or anything like that?
‘Yes, it’s possible, accidentally, maybe, but not intentionally – that’s 100 per cent’.
Sentencing him to 21 months in prison, Judge Simon Davis said: ‘This is a tragic case for the young girl. You got on that airplane and sat yourself down on the window seat. At that stage you thought you had the opportunity to assault her.
‘You tested the waters by brushing her hand. You’re shaking your head but the jury has found their verdict. That was an outrageous thing to do. This country will protect people like this young girl, especially at that young age.
‘When she was horrified and protested, you ran as fast as you could, making up what you could say as a way of defence.
‘I have decreased the sentence because of you waiting in this country and not being able to communicate with your wife, which in itself is another tragedy. I consider that as a material factor’.
After he was convicted and led away to the cells, Inamdar shouted: ‘I need to call my wife to let her know what is happening’.
My jaw was on the floor, I was dialling up Ofcom and writing to my MP, and I was swearing at my TV screen: ‘How could you, Emmerdale!? You can’t kill MARLON DINGLE!’
They were heartwarming scenes and as Marlon told the teen that nothing she could tell him would make him stop loving her, she blurted out that she had killed a man!
Finally, thought I. The truth is out and April has done the bravest possible thing.
We truly thought April had come clean (Picture: ITV)
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She tearfully opened her heart to a shocked Marlon as he digested what his vulnerable young child had been put through.
I was rooting for April as she recounted the horrors she had endured, and we all cheered for Marlon when he handled it in the right way, assuring April she had done nothing wrong, and not passing judgement.
But as they prepared to go to the police, Ray burst in and shot Marlon, who then died in April’s arms.
An emotional montage followed, showing the various scenes from the episode of Marlon and April rediscovering their fractured bond.
Paddy without his Marlon – unthinkable! (Picture: ITV)
Well, thankfully not – the episode’s focus was on April imagining what could happen if she told Marlon the truth, and she had envisaged Celia’s threat to kill Marlon coming true.
But boy, did we all go through a minute from hell thinking that Marlon was actually dead.
‘Omg what an episode!’ X user Julie Reed exclaimed. ‘I really thought she told her dad!’
Another user, the, um, strangely named Lisa Swain’s Bathwater (I won’t ask) declared themselves ‘traumatised’, while Daily Robron/Emmerdale was left ‘screaming’.
You and me both!
Amy aka geordiegal, exclaimed that ‘they got me’ and admitted that the scenes had left them ‘crying like a baby’.
There was a lot of praise for the episode, too.
The scenes were bittersweet (Picture: ITV)
JD.Gamz had ‘no words’ except to declare ‘wow’ over it while Metro’s own readers declared it ‘one of the best episodes in years’ and ‘a total rollercoaster, I can barely breathe’.
And meanwhile, Metro’s teasing article encouraging a viewing before delving deep into social media prompted Jen, along with others, to get themselves across it all.
‘This tweet alone has got me watching on the train on my commute to work…’ they said, before adding at the end: ‘Yeah this episode needs a warning, do not watch in public.’
April’s agony is therefore set to continue, with Celia and Ray turning the screws on her – and more peril will come in the form of yet more twists.
I really can’t cope with the rollercoaster – and it feels like you all feel the same as me.
We’re in this together, Emmerdale fans. Let’s brace ourselves.
One Gavin and Stacey star has reportedly been approached for the next series of The Celebrity Traitors (Picture: BBC/Fulwell73 & Tidy Productions/Tom Jackson/PA Wire)
A second series of The Celebrity Traitors is already looking pretty likely, and one hugely popular comedy actress could be heading to the Scottish Highlands.
Beloved for playing Nessa in Gavin and Stacey, Ruth Jones has been elevated to national treasure status since first gracing our screens in her black bob wig and fishnets almost 20 years ago.
In the years since, the screenwriter, 59, who penned the hit series with James Corden, has appeared in numerous other TV shows, written books, and reprised her iconic Nessa character for skits.
And if reports are to be believed, her next on-screen appearance could be among other stars in the Celeb Traitors castle.
While the BBC has yet to officially green-light a second showbiz season of Claudia Winkleman’s hit game show, with series 1 ratings through the roof, it’d be surprising if the spin-off didn’t return. Plus, the civilian edition is also due for two more runs.
According to The Sun, the Beeb is quietly contacting celebrities to make appearances, with Ruth being a big name they’re after.
Comedy icon Ruth Jones is said to have been called up by bosses (Picture: Ian West/PA Wire)
A source told the publication: ‘The celebrity version of The Traitors has been a phenomenal success for the BBC, and they’re already approaching stars for the next run.
‘Ruth is one of the names in the frame, and she’s been approached about taking part.
‘Given the stellar names they secured for series one, the next instalment has to be just as impressive.’
The insider added that ‘Ruth would be an incredible addition to the cast if she can fit it into her schedule’.
However, the Welsh star is said to have one condition before she signs on the dotted line.
‘Ruth would only consider taking part on the proviso she would be a Faithful.’
It’s said the Nessa actress wants to be a Faithful (Picture: Baby Cow)
Ruth is currently working on a new TV series with James Corden (Picture: Lia Toby/Getty Images for Transworld Publishers)
Ruth has got plenty to keep her busy in the meantime, though, as it was recently revealed that she and Smithy actor James, 47, have signed a big-money deal with AppleTV.
Together, they will create an eight-part comedy series titled The Choir, which follows a brother and sister who reconnect after being estranged.
It’s understandable why there’s already hype bubbling around the project, as Ruth and James turned BBC Three comedy Gavin and Stacey into gold with their niche references and comedic storytelling.
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On Christmas Day, almost 20million people tuned in for the final-ever episode, which finally gave us the ending we’ve been waiting for as Nessa and Smithy tied the knot.
As for James, despite having quit hosting duties on The Late Late Show and moving back to the UK, he can’t keep away from the States, as he’s been performing on Broadway in the revival of the Tony-winning play ART, in which he stars alongside Bobby Cannavale and Neil Patrick Harris.
Hey, maybe he’ll also get the Celeb Traitors call next series? Well, after Bob Mortimer, of course, whose absence was certainly felt by fans who were convinced he would be appearing in series 1.
Fans were mightily impressed by the calibre of stars taking part in the first Celeb Traitors (Picture: BBC/Studio Lambert/Cody Burridge/Artwork – BBC Creative)
Can Traitors Alan Carr and Cat Burns triumph in next week’s final? (Picture: BBC/Studio Lambert/Euan Cherry)
It certainly wouldn’t be beyond the realms of possibility, given the calibre of this year’s cast, which included the likes of Sir Stephen Fry and Celia Imrie.
Olympian Tom Daley, broadcaster Kate Garraway, pop star Paloma Faith, rugby ace Joe Mahler, and Welsh songstress Charlotte Church joined them, all of whom were chosen to be Faithfuls.
Despite playing a stellar game for a while, Alan and Cat turned on Jonathan ahead of the final week when suspicions arose regarding his trustworthiness.
It remains to be seen whether the remaining backstabbers will make it all the way to the end and steal the cash, as their fellow players are already suspecting something fishy is going on.
The BBC has been contacted for comment.
The final of The Celebrity Traitors airs on Thursday, November 6, at 9pm on BBC One.
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It looked like Manchester United’s winning run might extend to four games when Casemiro continued his resurgence with the opening goal before half time.
But Nottingham Forest scored two goals in the space of three minutes straight after the interval to take the lead.
Amad’s 81st-minute goal earned Manchester United a share of the spoils and denied Forest, still sitting in the relegation zone, just their second win of the campaign.
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Amorim was frustrated his team lost control of the game in the second half but said it was a fixture that United ‘would have lost last season’.
‘If I think about game, we lost control for five minutes,’ he said. ‘I feel in the recent past if we had had this situation we would have struggled so much more than today.
Amad Diallo earned Manchester United a point (Picture: Getty)
‘My feeling is we played well but we dropped a little bit of energy. When we have the full energy we are the better team. My players are giving everything but we have the potential to do better.
‘Sometimes we have these moments. In the end we lost two points and we need to get three points in the next game.’
On Amad, who opened his account for the season, Amorim said: ‘He has a lot of talent. We have a lot of players who are young and talented.
Nottingham Forest came from behind to lead (Picture: Getty)
‘Amad can be so much better and be more consistent. You could see in first half he had some opportunities. He has potential to do better.’
While Manchester United are currently sixth in the Premier League, Forest remain 18th – four points from safety.
Forest captain Gibbs-White said: ‘It is good to get a point, but the dressing room is frustrated to not get all three [points].
‘We conceded two silly corners, and I don’t think the first one was even a corner. From where I was standing, I was pretty far away, but all the boys were saying at half-time that the ball hadn’t gone out.
‘It is something that needs looking at because it has cost us two extra points today.
‘It is time for us to kick on now. We need to start getting more points and try to climb up the table.’
Manchester United return to Premier League action against Tottenham next weekend. Forest visit Sturm Graz in the Europa League on Thursday.
Scott Parker’s Burnley team became the latest side to be put to the sword by Arsenal (Credits: ALAN MARTIN/Colorsport/Shutterstock)
Scott Parker believes Arsenal have all the ingredients required to be crowned Premier League champions after watching his Burnley side being put to the sword by the league leaders.
Even in the absences of Martin Odegaard, Kai Havertz, Gabriel Jesus and Noni Madueke, all of whom are likely to be back after the international break, Arsenal still had more than enough in reserve to seal three points that extended the gap at the the top.
‘They’re just a very, very good team,’ conceded Parker in his post match press conference.
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‘They’re a team who I believe have every single ingredient to go and win the league this year.
‘In every facet of their game, defensively, attacking-wise, set plays, they’re a top, top team. We just fell a little bit short today.’
Viktor Gyokeres scored Arsenal’s opening goal in their 2-0 win over Burnley(Credits: Sportimage)
Arsenal broke the deadlock from a familiar route when Declan Rice’s corner was headed home by Viktor Gyokeres following Gabriel’s astute pass back across goal.
On Arsenal’s threat from set pieces, Parker added: ‘If you don’t have those players you probably don’t score as many as Arsenal are scoring.
‘It’s not just down to those two (Gabriel and Saliba). You’ve got a delivery taker. Every single time you ask it to be put back post it goes back post. You ask it to be put front post and the runs are there it gets put there.
Declan Rice’s corner helped create a goal for Viktor Gyokeres against Burnley (Credits: Martin Rickett/PA Wire)
‘You’ve also got the timing of the runs, the physicality of the runs and they’re extremely good at it. Other than the actual natural talent they have and the willingness to attack the ball, sometimes it’s difficult.
‘There’s many a team who have had their struggles against them. You’re always trying to find ways.
‘For us it was about trying to get more control than we’ve had against top sides like against Liverpool and Manchester United when we’ve played them. Can we get a certain control while being a threat?’
