As she skied down the mountain slopes on a bright sunny day with the wind in her hair, Kathryn Taylor-Barnes couldn’t have felt more elated. On a break in Switzerland, the 45-year-old GP from Richmond, Surrey, was just thinking how perfect the conditions were. Ahead of her was her fiancé Michael. They had come on [...]
Passengers trapped in cable cars high over the slopes of Mont Blanc are being brought back to an altitude station after repairs to tangled cables were completed successfully, the cable car operator said. Emergency workers scrambled at first light to rescue 33 people, including one child, who were stuck in the cars overnight. The cable [...]
Glowing tributes have poured in for a champion Irish athlete, who sustained serious head injuries in a freak fall, just hours after celebrating winning a bronze medal at the FISU World University Rowing Championships, in Poznan, Poland. Ailish Sheehan, (23), from Kildimo, Co Limerick, accidentally fell on a footpath last Sunday evening. Hours earlier she and [...]
A BBC investigation has uncovered a catalogue of safety concerns at the UK's most hazardous nuclear site. Panorama found parts of Sellafield regularly have too few staff to operate safely and that radioactive materials have been stored in degrading plastic bottles. The programme was told that parts of the facility are dangerously rundown. Sellafield says [...]
Sauber boss Monisha Kaltenborn says she believes her driver Felipe Nasr was not to blame for the incident that ended his race, as well as Renault’s Jolyon Palmer. The Renault & Sauber were racing together on Lap 2 of the race when they exited the first chicane in close proximity. With the Sauber slightly in front, [...]
Mining giant Rio Tinto has been hit with an unprecedented $1.3 million payout order for an injured mine-worker it unlawfully stood down just days after he won a damages claim against the company. The compensation, which comes on top of the $638,000 in damages, represents the highest amount awarded for an employer's breach of the [...]
Following her nine-year-old daughter's injury Last month the mum-of-five caused concern when she wrote on Twitter that she was in hospital. She tweeted: "After an hour for ambulance to arrive at home earlier! Still in hospital so shocked what's happened my poor little baby being so strong." Katie Price ✔@MissKatiePrice After a hour for ambulance [...]
The mother of the cyclist Chris Boardman has been killed in a cycling accident, her son has announced. Carol Boardman, herself a former racing cyclist, died from injuries sustained in collision with a pick-up truck while out riding her bike in north Wales, the former Olympic cycling champion said. “She leaves behind Keith, her partner [...]
Mont Ventoux is often described as a mountain with a personality and a particularly malevolent one at that, so the bizarre Bastille Day finish at Chalet Reynard seemed somehow in character for a mountain which has ended dreams, careers and lives when the Tour de France has scaled its heights. The sight of the yellow [...]
Phillipe Bianchi, father of former Marussia (now Manor) driver Jules who died due to injuries sustained in an accident during the Japanese Grand Prix in 2014, has explained why he and his family have taken up legal action on several Formula One stakeholders. Bianchi questions whether the FIA investigation team were too closely linked with Formula [...]