Motorcyclist dies in late night Herne Bay crash
In particular, they would like to hear from anyone who saw or knows of a light coloured car believed to have been in the area at the time of the crash.
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Daily Mail
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I've been left homeless and living out of hotels with my baby after a drunk driver crashed into my living room just moments after I changed his nappy - we're lucky to be alive
Dressed in her pyjamas and enjoying a quiet Sunday morning with her baby and partner, Stacey Sibbald-Wright's life was torn apart when a car smashed through her front room. Just moments before, the doting mother had been changing her 10-month-old baby near the window and Ms Sibbald-Wright revealed if the shocking incident had happened just 10 minutes earlier, they could've been killed. Now six weeks later, the family of three are homeless and relying on friends and family to support them as they burn through their life savings in an ongoing dispute with insurance companies. Reduced to living in hotels, the mother-of-one has been forced to buy new baby clothes and live off takeaway meals while she continues to pay rent on a home she can not longer live in. Her family have now launched a GoFundMe to help with the costs of living in hotels and caravans as their home is repaired. Last month Ms Sibbald-Wright, 36, from North Shields outside Newcastle was shocked to find her living room destroyed by a drunk driver who crashed in to her house. At 9am on Sunday morning Ms Sibbald-Wright heard a loud crash downstairs and at first believed a cupboard had fallen off the wall. But she was shocked to find dust covering everything and a car though her living room windows. She said: 'It was me and my baby and my partner all in the house at nine o'clock, and then we heard this massive bang. 'I thought a cupboard had fallen off. I went downstairs and there was just dust everywhere, just covering everything. You couldn't see anything.' Ms Sibbald-Wright explained she and her family had had a lucky escape as just 10 minutes before the crash she had been changing her baby by the window while her two dogs ran around. 'Ten minutes before, I changed my baby by the window and then we were out in the garden. And then we went upstairs with the baby. I called the dogs in. My partner was in the in the front room and then there was the front end of a car in it. Ms Sibbald-Wright said she struggled to process what was happening at first and said she looked through the hole in her house and noticed a man in a car with 'a slight graze on his nose'. The mother added that initially the driver tried to run away but was apprehended by neighbours who pinned him down until the police arrived. After the emergency services came, Ms Sibbald-Wright said she and her family were ushered out, still in their pyjamas and without any support. 'I went and got my my little boy, and we went out the back, but the police ushered us out and I was in my pyjamas,' she said. 'We weren't allowed to grab anything.' As Ms Sibbald-Wright came to terms with the scene in her living room, she told the Daily Mail how the driver of the car that had destroyed her home was 'staggering around'. The shocked mother described the scene as 'really insane' and added that the police arrested the driver but the family are still processing the horrifying ordeal. Following the crash, Ms Sibbald-Wright and her family have been living in hotels and relying on the kindness of family and friends but she told the Daily Mail that less than two months after the incident, she is already in her eighth hotel and has been having to fund the temporary accommodation from her own pocket. She revealed: 'We've had to fund it all ourselves, straight up. The insurance are paying it back, but we've had to pay up front. 'We had a tiny, tiny little pot of savings, because I'm on maternity leave, so I've got no income at all. So we had a tiny, tiny pot of savings, and that's just all gone on trying to fund accommodation, fund food. Just fund everything really. The family initially lived at a local Premier Inn for five days before Ms Sibbald-Wright sourced a caravan for them for a couple of days. But she said it has been challenging and she has been trying to live as meagerly as possible. 'We were in the Premier Inn for five days, and then I managed to source a caravan for a couple of days. So we've just moved and moved and moved. 'The thing is, we live in a seaside holiday resort in in Whitley Bay, and it's summer as well, so we have just had to go with what's available, really. 'And the insurance said that we can't really spend too much. I've been looking for discount codes. 'We've been in caravans most of the time, the eight moves has been really difficult. She added: 'One of the worst things is you leave at 10am and you can't check in anywhere till 4pm so we're just hanging around in restaurants spending money we don't have to wait until we can check into the next place.' The mother also revealed that she is still paying the rent and bills on her home and was told by the insurance that if she stopped, her accommodation wouldn't be subsidised. She said: 'We're still paying all the rent and the bills and we were just told to keep paying, otherwise they wouldn't fund any separate accommodation. So we're currently funding a house that we don't actually live in.' The worried mother added that the family have now run out of money and just after they were forced to move out, she claims their home was robbed with expensive tools including drills and a lawnmower pilfered by thieves. She said: 'We're at the point now where we've got no money left at all. We've got no income that a couple of days after as well, the property wasn't secured, and we got looted'. Ms Sibbald-Wright confessed that the worst part of the entire ordeal was having the tools from her back garden stolen and she described feeling 'really violated' by the ordeal. She added that her family have been helpful but can only do so much living in Northampton and that her maternity leave has been very difficult. Despite the terrible experience, the Newcastle upon Tyne native said she is relieved no one was hurt and confessed that if the car had crashed in to her home just ten minutes earlier her family would have been 'crushed' and her baby possibly killed. She said: 'Everybody kept saying, "God, you're so lucky" and just ten minutes before, I was changing my baby on the table. 'If me and my partner were at the table, we would have just been crushed. And if my dogs were in the garden, in the toilet, they would have been crushed too'.
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Tommy Robinson arrested in connection to St Pancras assault
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been arrested in connection to an assault at St Pancras railway Transport Police did not name Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, but confirmed a 42-year-old man, from Bedfordshire, was arrested over an assault in London on 28 force said the arrest took place at Luton Airport shortly after 18:30 BST on Monday, following a notification that the man had boarded an incoming flight from man was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and will be taken to custody for questioning, police said. The statement added he had been wanted for questioning after leaving for Tenerife in the early hours of 29 August following the Transport Police previously said that they found a man with "serious but non-life-threatening injuries" following the incident at the railway station in Kings force confirmed on Thursday that he had been discharged from footage on social media emerged shortly after the alleged assault showing Robinson walking back and forth near a motionless man lying on the floor at the station. The clip did not show how the man ended up on the was contacted by a female BBC reporter for comment after the incident, but Robinson responded with a message that said "slag".
Daily Mail
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Brazilian tech company CEO, 44, dies following mid-air collision while skydiving
A telecommunications CEO died tragically after an accidental collision with another person while skydiving in Brazil. Thomas Britis, 44, jumped out of a small airplane at the Boituva National Skydiving Center in Boituva, São Paulo, on Saturday when he was struck in the head by his friend's knee, police said. Each of the skydivers' parachutes were deployed, but Britis lost control of his parachute and crashed in a field away from the landing area, the Boituva city hall said. Britis was rushed to São Luis Hospital, where he died from the injuries he sustained. 'All safety measures required by national and international standards for skydiving have been strictly followed, and detailed analyses of the jumping conditions, equipment, and meteorological factors are also under investigation,' the Boituva government said in a statement. Britis' friend, whose name has not been released, was taken to a private medical facility. Authorities removed one helmet and two parachutes from the scene as part of an investigation. The Forensic Medical Institute is awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine Britis' cause of death. The Brazilian Parachuting Confederation said in a statement that Britis and his friend were performing a maneuver in which the parachutist uses the body to create lift and horizontal displacement. Britis' cousin, Mayra Britis, told Brazilian news outlet G1 that she was on her way to a nail salon appointment when she received a phone call informing her of his death. Britis had been skydiving since 2014 and shared the passion for the sport with his 26-year-old son, she said. 'He worked very hard, was very loving to his son, to his family,' Mayra said. 'He was so experienced, it was such a silly accident. No one ever imagined it would happen.' Britis was the owner of a Voluy Telecom, a company that offered fiber-optics internet plans out of based Pouso Alegre, a city in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais. 'He was so young, he was in the best phase of his life, doing something he loved so much,' Mayra said. 'Despite the distance, we were always close,' she added. 'Thomas was also best man at my wedding. There was no one who didn't love him.'
