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By Nigel Watson Twenty years ago the belief that a UFO would take them away to a better life led 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult to commit mass suicide on Wednesday, 26 March 1997. The 18 women and 21 men, ranging in age from 26 to 72, killed themselves along with their charismatic leader Marshall Herff Applewhite. Calling themselves the 'Away Team', they believed that they would return to the Kingdom of Heaven, which they called the Next...

This is the heartwarming moment an unsuspecting mum shared her first wedding dance with her disabled son – in a special harness secretly made by his new stepdad. Alex Dieterle, 13, has severe cerebral palsy and is unable to stand unaided and relies on a wheelchair and carers to get around. But when his stepdad Martin Atrill married his mum Jo he was determined to make her big day even more special – by enabling her to have her first...

Dramatic dash-cam footage captured the terrifying accident which took place on the A17 in Newark, Notts., at 9am on Tuesday (28/3). It shows the HGV transporting hay bales coming around a corner before it starts to lean into the path of the oncoming Mid UK Recycling truck as it starts to overturn. Tonnes of bales of gate can then be seen spilling down in front of the camera as the offending lorry comes to precariously rest against the other vehicle...

Police who released footage of a 'mannequin challenge' as part of a theft investigation are still searching for the final suspect. Roger Bosion, 20 of no fixed address, is wanted in connection with two robberies in Salford. On the 16th November last year, a man was attacked on the street in Salford, Greater Manchester by two men. The men had pulled up in a blue Ford Focus before stealing the victims gold-coloured iPhone 5s. Just five minutes later, a separate...

Legendary football manager Sir Alex Ferguson delivered an inspirational talk about leadership to more than 350 university students yesterday(Wed). The former Manchester United boss visited to Glasgow Caledonian University yesterday (Wed) to offer students advice on effective leadership. The 75-year-old gave the students an opportunity to put questions to him about communication, building team morale and delivering results. The event was hosted by the Student Leaders Programme, which is open to any student who is a volunteer at Glasgow Caledonian...

A mum slammed McDonald's for refusing her 13-year-old son a free ice cream prize - because of GAMBLING laws. Teenager AJ Reeves peeled off a voucher for a £1 McFlurry on his Monopoly Prize Choice wrapper after buying a Big Mac last Thursday (23/3). He returned to the fast-food resturant in Blackpole, Worcester, that evening to claim the prize but was left devastated when staff told him he was "too young". McDonald's say only customers aged 16 and over can...

Telegraph Media Group has hired former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as a PR adviser to improve the publisher's reputation. Coulson, who was imprisoned for charges relating to the phone-hacking scandal, has been brought in to promote the Daily and Sunday Telegraph as truthful and authoritative papers, something a journalist working at the publisher has called “wholly inappropriate” given his background, the Guardian reports. The group’s chief executive Murdoch MacLennan is understood to be one of Coulson’s close friends, and even...

A dog has given birth to fifteen puppies in what turned out to be a special Mother's Day. Poppy, an Irish Setter, was due to give birth to an estimated eight to 10 pups, but owner Lisa Wardle could not believe her eyes when the tiny dogs just kept coming. Lisa, 40, says that she plans on selling the majority of the cute pups. Her daughter Abi has claimed one so that two-year-old Poppy can still have contact with one of...

I think it has been well established by now that whatever comes out of Donald Trump's Twitter account is utter horse shit, but now engineers are giving them the attention they deserve. A robot has been designed that automatically prints Trump's tweets, places them over a lighter and transforms them in to ash. Compared to the many Twitter bots circulating the social platform this machine has taken a literal approach. For each tweet, @burnedyourtweet does just what its name suggests: prints,...