Brit dies after being struck by lightning on holiday as girlfriend filmed from beach - The Mirror

A young British tourist has died after he was struck by lightning while paddleboarding on a beach in Greece.

The tragedy happened this afternoon when the man was in the Agia Agathi area of Rhodes while his girlfriend was filming him from the beach.

Emergency services dashed to the scene and the man was taken to the shore, where rescuers frantically tried to save his life.

One witness, who tried to save the Brit, told a local paper: “As soon as I got close to him, I saw that he was face down in the water and his face was bruised.

"I immediately knew that every second was crucial and started pulling him to the shore."

The Agia Agathi area of Rhodes is popular with tourists ( Getty Images)

Rodiaki reports other tourists had urged the man to get out of the water but he got into difficulty at around 1.30pm local time (11.30am BST).

The witness added: "I was worried that the same thing would happen to me as it was still raining but I didn't stop.

"The rescuers arrived shortly afterwards and performed all the resuscitation procedures to keep him alive. Unfortunately, I found out a little later that he didn't make it."

The man was taken to the Archangelos Health Center, where medics desperately tried to resuscitate him.

An investigation by the Central Port Authority of Rhodes has been launched.

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Named: Seven remanded in custody charged over DCI John Caldwell murder bid - Belfast Telegraph

Mr Caldwell was shot several times in front of his young son at a sports complex in Omagh on February 22 after he led a football training session for children.

The seven appeared via videolink at Dungannon Magistrates' Court on Monday morning.

They were Jonathan McGinty, 28, of St Julians Downs, Omagh; Brian Carron, 38, of Claremount Drive, Coalisland; Gavin Coyle, 45, of Killybrack Mews, Omagh; Matthew McLean, 33, Glenpark Road, Omagh; Robert McLean, 29, Deverney Park, Omagh; James Ivor McLean, 72, of Deverney Park, Omagh; and Alan McFarland, 47, of Deverney Park, Omagh.

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Carron and Coyle stand further accused of belonging to a proscribed organisation, namely the IRA.

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McGinty, McFarland and Matthew McLean are also charged with preparation of terrorist acts.

DCI Neil McGuinness said he could connect all seven to the charges.

He told the court it was a well-planned, resourced and wide-ranging operation.

The court heard Mr Caldwell was involved in a number of criminal investigations linked to the suspects and Mr McGuinness described that as a “golden thread” amongst the defendants.

Mr McGuinness, the investigating officer, said Mr Caldwell had been "very gravely injured".

Mr Caldwell, he said, was aware of a "number of threats against him" over the years.

He believes the lengths they went to shows there is an "ongoing threat" against Mr Caldwell now that he has been released from hospital and recovering at home.

Three of the seven accused made bail applications on Monday - Coyle, James Ivor McLean and McGinty.

District judge Steven Keown refused bail for all three on the grounds of risk of further offending and potential interference with the police investigation.

The judge said it was “clearly a meticulously planned attack” and those responsible have indicated they are prepared to engage in similar actions when they get the opportunity.

All seven were remanded in custody to appear before Omagh Magistrates Court, via videolink, on June 27.

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Two motorcyclists dead in crash on Mendips - Somerset Live

Two motorcyclists have died in a crash on The Mendips. Police were called to reports of an accident involving two motorbikes on the B3155 Plummers Lane in Priddy, near Wells, at around 11.50am yesterday (May 28)

Unfortunately, the two riders both died at the scene, and a pillion passenger was air lifted to hospital where they remain in critical condition. The next of kin have been informed.

Police are now appealing for anyone who witnessed the collision to contact them. An Avon and Somerset Police spokesperson said: “Officers would like to speak to anyone who witnessed the collision involving two motorcycles on the B3135 Plummers Lane, Priddy, near Wells, at around 11.50am.

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“The next of kin have been notified and our thoughts are with them during this difficult time. They are being supported by a specially-trained family liaison officer.

“If you were in the Priddy area and witnessed the collision, or have dashcam footage of the motorcycles at or prior to the collision, please call police.

If you can help, please call 101 and give the call handler the reference number 5223124562."

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Metropolitan Police: Move to attend fewer mental health calls sparks alarm - BBC

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BBC News

The Met Police's plan to stop attending emergency mental health incidents is "potentially alarming", a former inspector of constabulary has said.

From September, officers will only attend mental health 999 calls where there is an "immediate threat to life".

Zoe Billingham, who was previously Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue, said the proposals could create a "vacuum".

Mental health charity Mind has also expressed concerns over the plan.

The Met argues the move will free up officers after a significant rise in the number of mental health incidents being dealt with by the force in the past five years.

Some police chiefs believe this is down to the service increasingly being seen as the first resort for people in a crisis, as well as a lack of capacity in the NHS and social services to deal with growing mental health demands.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley wrote to health and social care services in Greater London to inform them of the plan last week, the Guardian first reported.

In the letter, which has been seen by the BBC, Sir Mark said it takes almost 23 hours on average from the point at which someone is detained under the Mental Health Act until they are handed into medical care.

He writes that his officers are spending more than 10,000 hours a month on "what is principally a health matter", adding that police and other social services are "collectively failing patients" by not ensuring they receive appropriate help, as well as failing Londoners more generally because of the effect on police resources.

But Ms Billingham, who is now chair of the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS mental health trust after 12 years as Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue, warned mental health services are "creaking" and "in some places are so subdued with demand they are not able to meet the requirements of people who need it most".

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she warned there is "simply no other agency to call" other than the police for people in crisis, adding: "There isn't another agency to step in and fill the vacuum."

She expressed doubts about the timeframe set by the Met for the change, adding that she would be "very surprised" if mental health trusts across London are able to get extra round-the-clock mental health facilities up and running by 31 August.

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Ken Marsh, chairman of the Met Police Federation - which represent officers up to the rank of chief inspector - broadly welcomed the announcement.

But he said officers will still attend "most" calls because they will be concerned about the consequences of not responding.

"At the end of the day, who makes the decision that you can't go to something and if God forbid this ended up in a coroner's court, what does my officer then say?"

Ms Billingham agreed a total withdrawal is unlikely in practice, but warned it would be "really, really dangerous" if the Met took that approach.

She authored a 2018 study which looked at the increasing demands mental health crises were putting on police, including:

• Officers being called to detain people under the Mental Health Act - half of which result in them having to transport patients to a medical facility
• Long waits in A&E with someone having a mental health crisis when specialist NHS help can't be obtained immediately
• Supporting victims of crime with mental health problems - who are estimated by Mind to be three times more likely to become a victim - and carrying out welfare checks
• Attending mental health crises, including where someone is threatening to take their own life, in order to close roads, speak to them, or protect the public
• Looking for missing people, including those in extreme distress or with dementia

In March, Sir Mark Rowley told BBC Newsnight that the staff hours involved in policing mental health is equivalent to dealing with 500,000 victims of domestic abuse.

He pointed to one case where Met officers spent 30 hours supervising one individual having a crisis because they were unable to find a space in a mental health unit.

"This isn't what [police officers] are trained to do, they're the wrong people to be doing it, we're letting vulnerable people down," he added.

Sarah Hughes, chief executive of Mind, has warned there is not enough capacity in other public services to replace the work police officers currently do.

She told Today she was "not persuaded we've got enough in the system to tolerate a shift to this new approach" and said the Met and NHS "urgently need to sit down together and work out a plan in response to these major concerns".

The charity has also warned that mental health services have been "chronically underfunded for decades", and called for any changes to be made "carefully and collectively so that no-one is left without support".

The College of Policing defines a mental health incident as "any police incident thought to relate to someone's mental health where their vulnerability is at the centre of the incident".

Police officers are estimated to spend 20-40% of their time dealing with such incidents.

The Met's new plan has already been adopted by Humberside Police, who introduced the Right Care, Right Person (RCRP) scheme in 2020 to ensure mental health calls are dealt with by mental health professionals.

A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said the RCRP programme was "hugely successful in improving outcomes, reducing demand on all services, and most importantly ensuring that the right care is being delivered by the right person."

"Police are compassionate and highly skilled but they are not trained to deliver mental health care and spend an average of 10 hours with a patient when they are sectioned under the Mental Health Act.

"In London alone between 500-600 times a month, officers are waiting for this length of time to hand over patients, and it cannot continue," they added.

The government announced a £150m capital investment in January to improve the places and spaces across the NHS for people experiencing - or at risk of experiencing - a mental health crisis.

It said the funding will allow for the procurement of up to 90 new mental health ambulances, which will take specialist staff directly to patients to deliver support on scene or transfer them to the most appropriate place for care.

If you are affected by any of the issues in this article you can find details of organisations that can help via the BBC Action Line.

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Girl, 5, dies in house fire near Crymych, Pembrokeshire - Sky News

A five-year-old girl has died after a house fire in Pembrokeshire.

Alysia Salisbury - who was described by her family as "a beautiful daughter and sister" - died at the scene of the blaze, Dyfed-Powys Police said.

Emergency crews were called to the fire in the Pontyglasier area, near Crymych, shortly before 10pm on Saturday.

Detective Chief Inspector Llyr Williams said: "Our thoughts are with the family and the local community at this tragic time.

"HM Coroner has been informed and officers will now work with colleagues from the fire service to establish the cause of the fire.

"The family request privacy at this difficult time."

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Alysia's family is being supported by specialist officers, police said.

The operation on Saturday evening involved fire crews from a wide area of West Wales, including Crymych, Cardigan, Newcastle Emlyn, Whitland and Fishguard.

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Plans for supermarket price cap on basic food - BBC

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The government is discussing plans for supermarkets to introduce a cap on the price of basic food items to help tackle the rising cost of living.

A voluntary agreement with major retailers could see price reductions on basic food items like bread and milk.

Food prices rose by 19.1% in the year to April - its second highest rate in 45 years.

Downing Street sources have stressed that there are no plans for a mandatory price cap.

The idea of a cap or freeze on basic food items, as first reported by the Daily Telegraph, is said to be at the "drawing board stage".

Supermarkets are expected to be allowed to select which items they would cap and only take part in the initiative, modelled on a similar agreement in France, on a voluntary basis.

Health Secretary Steve Barclay told BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that "this is about having constructive discussions with supermarkets about how we work together, not about any element of compulsion".

He added that the government was also keen to protect "suppliers who themselves face considerable pressures".

For Labour, shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth told the same programme that the reports were "extraordinary", saying "Rishi Sunak is now like a latter day Edward Heath with price controls".

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However there is some doubt over what impact a price cap of food will have.

The British Retail Consortium says that the government should focus more on cutting red tape rather than "recreating 1970s-style price controls".

"This will not make a jot of difference to prices. High food prices are a direct result of the soaring cost of energy, transport, and labour, as well as higher prices paid to food manufacturers and farmers," says Andrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the BRC."As commodity prices drop, many of the costs keeping inflation high are now arising from the muddle of new regulation coming from government. Rather than recreating 1970s-style price controls, the government should focus on cutting red tape so that resources can be directed to keeping prices as low as possible."

Earlier this week the boss of the Sainsbury's denied that his supermarket had been profiteering.

Simon Roberts said his business was "absolutely not" putting prices up to bolster profits - known as "greedflation".

He told the BBC that Sainsbury's and other grocery chains had spent money to "battle inflation" and avoid passing all of the rising costs onto consumers.

The competition watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority, has said it will look at how the grocery market is operating.

At a meeting with food manufacturers last week the chancellor Jeremy Hunt stressed widespread concern about prices and agreed to engage with the industry on possible measures to ease pressure on household budgets.

Mr Hunt has said he would back an increase in interest rates if it curbed higher prices and soaring inflation - even if that risked plunging the UK into recession.

"Businesses don't have a price cap like consumers do and yet some smaller businesses buy energy like consumers do so it's been really hard for them to keep going," Shevaun Haviland, director general of the British Chamber of Commerce, told the same programme.

The rate of inflation can be calculated in various ways, but the main measure is the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) - which tracks the prices of everyday items in an imaginary "basket of goods".

The last figure for CPI was 8.7% in the year to April, down from 10.1% in March and 11.1% in October.

Soaring prices of some food products has meant inflation has not come down by as much as many predicted.

Experts have warned that expensive food is set to overtake energy bills as the "epicentre" of the cost-of-living crisis.

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Two men dead after being pulled from sea in Devon - The Independent

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Two men in their 20s have died after being pulled from the sea in Devon, leading emergency services to urge “everybody to be vigilant to the dangers of the coast” over the Bank Holiday weekend.

Police were called at around 9am on Saturday to assist the Coastguard following reports of concern for two people in the water off the coast of Oddicombe, Torbay.

Following an emergency rescue operation, the two men, who were both in their 20s, were pulled from the water and one was declared dead at the scene.

The second man died after being taken to Torbay District Hospital.

Superintendent Ben Davies said: “With more people likely to be out near water this Bank Holiday weekend, emergency services are urging everybody to be vigilant to the dangers of the coast and follow water safety advice.”

Devon & Cornwall Police said both of the men’s next of kin have been informed, and inquiries continue while a file will be prepared for the coroner.

The operation involved the Coastguard Rescue Team from Torbay and the RNLI’s inshore lifeboat from Teignmouth & Dawlish.

The Devon Air Ambulance was despatched, and Devon and Cornwall Police and the South Western Ambulance Service were also involved.

This comes after Cumbria Police named Lewis Michael Kirkpatrick as the 15-year-old boy whose body was found in a Carlisle river.

Lewis, who was from Carlisle, was found shortly after 1.30pm on Saturday after emergency services received reports that he and three other teenage boys had got into trouble in the River Eden on Friday evening.

A 14-year-old who was airlifted to hospital on Friday remains in a critical condition, while one of the group managed to swim to safety and another was rescued by a member of the public, the force said.

Officers were alerted to the four boys struggling in the water in the city’s Rosehill area at 6.41pm on Friday, prompting the launch of a large multi-agency search.

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