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Woman in her 60s dies after getting into trouble in the sea at Skegness beach
A woman in her 60s has tragically died after getting in to difficulty in the sea at Skegness. Following reports of a woman in the water, the RNLA launched a major search while an air ambulance flew over the seaside town in Lincolnshire. The woman was rescued from the sea at 5pm and brought back to shore but Lincolnshire Police confirmed she was unable to be saved and sadly passed away. A spokesperson from the RNLI confirmed a lifeboat was launched and CPR carried out on a person at the beach, according to The Sun. The tragic incident comes after the death of Aaron Keightley, 29, who died last month at the same beach where he had been enjoying the summer heatwave. The labourer was taken by the current, his sister Shannon Smith said. Ms Smith launched an online fundraiser to help cover the costs of bringing her 'selfless and loving' older sibling's body home to Leicester, as well as his funeral. The 26-year-old told the Daily Mail that Mr Keightley had 'always enjoyed family holidays, but this was his first proper holiday away with friends'. Speaking from her home in Beaumont Leys, Leicester, she added: 'He went with two friends and they were having the best time. 'He'd been so excited for it. He went last Friday for a week, and they'd been to the beach every day.' Ms Smith said her brother and his friends were 'just messing about in the waves, no more than knee deep', when a 'really big one' knocked them off their feet. She added: 'Aaron could swim, but he wasn't the strongest swimmer, and he was just dragged out and apparently started panicking. 'One of his friends tried to help him, but he said by the time he got to Aaron it was already too late. 'However, he stayed with him the whole time, and did everything he could, even to the point where he was almost drowning himself.' She said that eventually, with the help of another man who appeared with a dinghy, they managed to get him back out of the sea. 'Aaron's friends are absolutely distraught. They are suffering from survivors' guilt - even though what happened wasn't their fault. It was a tragic accident. 'Apparently it happened in 30 seconds. They just did not realise how strong the current could be. There needs to be more warning signs.'
BBC News
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Nicola Sturgeon denies 'conspiracy to destroy' Alex Salmond
Scotland's former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has denied the existence of a conspiracy to destroy her mentor Alex a fresh extract from her memoir, published in the Sunday Times, Sturgeon accuses Salmond of failing to show any contrition for his "inappropriate" behaviour towards 2020 Salmond was cleared of 13 sexual offence charges, including attempted rape, but during the trial his lawyer admitted his client could "have been a better man."The ex-SNP leader and Alba Party founder died of a heart attack in North Macedonia in October last year, aged 69. "It felt to me", writes Sturgeon, that Salmond "would have rather destroyed the SNP than see it succeed without him."She adds: "He impugned the integrity of the institutions at the heart of Scottish democracy - government, police, Crown Office. "He was prepared to traumatise, time and again, the women at the centre of it all."In the memoir, entitled Frankly, Sturgeon describes the moment when Salmond first informed her of the allegations against him."The substance of the complaints, one in particular, shocked me. I felt sick", she writes. At first, she says, Salmond had appeared "upset and mortified" and had "effectively admitted the substance of one of the complaints," calling it a "misunderstanding" for which he had Sturgeon goes on, it quickly became evident that her predecessor as first minister wanted her "to intervene and to stop the investigation in its tracks or divert it into some kind of siding."Her refusal to do so, she says, "made the break-up of one of the most successful partnerships in modern British politics all but inevitable.""I had to face the fact that he was determined to destroy me. I was now engaged in mortal political combat with someone I knew to be both ruthless and highly effective," she him as a friend, Sturgeon continues, resulted in her going through "a grieving process.""I had occasional, vivid dreams in which we were still on good terms. I would wake up from these feeling utterly bereft," she succeeded Salmond as SNP leader and first minister in 2014 until she resigned in March 2023. Sturgeon also writes about the Scottish government's botched investigation into the complaints against 2019, a judicial review had concluded that the process was unlawful, unfair and tainted by apparent was later awarded more than £500,000 in costs."In Alex's narrative, he wasn't just a victim any more," writes Sturgeon, "he was now a vindicated victim."It later emerged that messages had been exchanged between women complainers - a Scots law term for someone alleging that they are a victim of crime - and also between SNP staff writes that Salmond inaccurately "spun these as evidence of people conspiring to bring him down". Rather, she said, the messages were between loyal supporters expressing "deep shock" and "women who considered themselves victims of his behaviour" who were "seeking support and comfort from each other."Sturgeon accuses Salmond of trying to "distort and weaponise" genuine shock or trauma in a way that was "truly disgraceful," adding "it strikes at the heart of why I find it so hard to forgive him"."A conspiracy against Alex would have needed a number of women deciding to concoct false allegations, without any obvious motive for doing so. "It would then have required criminal collusion between them, senior ministers and civil servants, the police and the Crown."This, she says, was "a fabrication, the invention of a man who wasn't prepared to reflect honestly on his own conduct."Reflecting on Salmond's death, while attending a conference in the North Macedonian city of Ohrid, Sturgeon writes that the emotions she felt suggested she had not come to terms with their estrangement."I know I will never quite escape the shadow he casts, even in death", she concludes. The extract is the second to be published from Sturgeon's the first, published in The Times on Saturday, the former first minister described her arrest by police investigating the SNP's finances as the worst day of her describes being questioned by detectives as part of Operation also writes about her "utter disbelief" about police raiding the home she shared with her husband Peter Murrell in April in the extracts, the former SNP leader describes the pain of suffering a miscarriage and sets out her views on sexuality, which she says she does not consider "to be binary".
BBC News
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Sheffield cafe drops alcohol licence bid after objections
A cafe has withdrawn its application for an alcohol licence after police and the building's owner Kitchen in Wybourn, Sheffield, applied for a drinks licence to run as a bar and restaurant, which was due to be decided on Monday at a meeting of Sheffield City Council's licensing cafe on Cricket Inn Road wanted to open until 01:00 seven days a week and build an outdoor seating area at the rear of the came from South Yorkshire Police, the city council health protection service, the building's owner and managing agent and a neighbour. A police letter said: "Our initial concerns focused on the proposed operating hours, which extend until 01:00 in a residential area despite having only operated until 23:00 under temporary event notices."The applicant provided insufficient detail on how they intend to mitigate noise and disturbance, particularly in relation to dine-in customers."The letter also said the applicant failed to attend a site visit on 3 July, according to the Local Democracy Reporting added: "While waiting at the location, officers engaged with a neighbouring operator of a licensed premises, who voluntarily expressed concerns about the area particularly regarding antisocial behaviour from local youths and confirmed he chooses to close earlier than his permitted hours for this reason."The building owner and managing agent objected because the lease is for use as a cafe only and there are tenants living above the resident wrote to say they were concerned about noise as they had an eight-month-old baby and start work early.A council spokesperson said no reason had been given for the withdrawal of the application. Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North
