Death row prisoner suffers 'hours of pain' in 'longest execution of all time'

Queen's famous sense of humour has been celebrated since the news of her death on Thursday September 8 broke to a shocked nation.And her grandson Harry will testify for it, having recorded the 96-year-old a hilarious voicemail message when she got a first mobile phone.The UK's longest-serving monarch reportedly asked the young tech-savvy prince to come up with a voicemail message for her in the case that she couldn't make it to the phone.READ MORE: Brit Taliban pal condemns 'anti Queen merch aimed at Twitter trolls and the Irish'And Harry delivered. “Hey, wassup? This is Liz," he said on his grandmother's behalf."Sorry I’m away from the throne.

money. The fund is there to help households who are struggling with their energy bills and other essentials. READ MORE: Dads tend to be most generous with pocket money - giving £7.70 a weekIt was first established last year and extended again in the March budget to help those on the lowest income.The voucher or grants on offer vary by location and you'll have to check to see how your council will pay you.

Melanie Sykes has said she's "thrilled" to have been given a prescription for medical cannabis as she deals with autism and anxiety. The former Big Breakfast and Today With Des And Mel star, 52, was diagnosed with autism last year.Opening up in a video on Instagram, she said: "Something incredible finally happened in that I've been trying to get myself a prescription for medicinal or medical cannabis.READ MORE: Melanie Sykes reunites with Italian toyboy lover, 24, who ‘has her heart’"I was finally able to get an appointment with a few GPs who agreed that medical cannabis would help with well, it's some of the fallout of unmasking of my autism."The more I unmask and stop braving everything and getting rid of that thick skin and morphing myself into whatever suits other people, I've become even more sensitive than I already am.

Spice Girl Geri Horner has cancelled her 50th birthday party to pay her respects after The Queen tragically passed away last Thursday (September 8).Geri, who turned 50 last month, had a glamorous birthday party planned at her home in Oxfordshire this weekend but has cancelled the event while the country is in mourning. The Queen passed away "peacefully" last Thursday at her home in Balmoral.

China is planning three new missions to the Moon after discovering a mysterious lunar mineral which become a main energy source in the future.Over the weekend, China's National Space Administration announced it will launch three new lunar orbiters during the next ten years.These will scan the moon for a newly discovered lunar mineral called changesite-(Y), which contains helium-3, a chemical which could be used as a powerful energy source if mined from the Moon. READ NEXT: Weirdest ever Google Maps finds from UFOs to Big FootWith the discovery, China is now the third country in the world to uncover a lunar mineral.

PlatinumGames‘ troubled live-service title Babylon’s Fall is set to shutter its official servers on February 28 2023, just a week before the game’s first anniversary.The game first launched on March 3 this year, and has struggled to find an audience – to the extent that the game’s servers will be closing just under a year into the game’s lifespan.The server closure was announced via the game’s official website, where the game’s development team stated that “it is with deep regret to inform you that we will be terminating the game’s service on Tuesday, 28 February 2023.”This, naturally, means that the team’s planned “large-scale updates” have been cancelled. However, Season 2 will end on November 29 as scheduled, and the final season will begin on the same day.As a thank you to players, PlatinumGames announced that it will be implementing as many events and other initiatives as possible before the end of the service.“Leading up until today, we received a lot of feedback from all our Sentinels through multiple surveys, official livestreams, our official Discord server and social media channels, which has been a great help to us in the development and operations teams,” said the developer.

An investigator into Princess Diana’s death says he had an “emotional” discussion with Prince Harry and Prince William. Lord John Stevens, 79, a former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, recalled speaking to the Princess of Wales’ two sons at their home of Kensington Palace in the immediate aftermath of the 1997 car crash in Paris that killed their mother, aged 36 and her boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed, the 42-year-old son of the former proprietor of Fulham FC and the iconic Knightsbridge department store, Harrods, Mohamed Al-Fayed. He told US Weekly: “I have to say, I was quite emotional about it myself,” before adding that the two teenagers were upset about the “paparazzi” and how they chased the car.

Lorraine, Heather spoke to host Christine Lampard, who is currently covering the show, about Dame Deborah's final months. During that time, the bowel cancer advocate received her damehood from Prince William which her mother has since called "surreal". In her first studio appearance following Dame Deborah's death two months ago, her mother Heather spoke to Christine about her daughter's achievements.

A knife thug who stabbed his best friend to death has been jailed for eight years. Dale Gardiner attacked William Wardrop following a row shortly after they had been playing a PlayStation together at the 25 year-old's home in Larkhall, Lanarkshire.

Dame Deborah James' mother has appeared on ITV Lorraine this morning (18 August) to promote her late daughter's new book, How To Live When You Could Be Dead, which is released today. In her first studio interview since the death of her daughter almost two months ago, Heather told Christine Lampard how Deborah spent the last two years writing the book and described the final chapters, which were penned in the last few weeks of Deborah’s life, as “emotional”.

More details about the end of “The Wendy Williams Show” are coming to light. In The Hollywood Reporter‘s latest cover story, the outlet details the final days of the long-running talk show, which came amid a series of health issues of its eponymous host. ET has reached out to Williams’ rep for comment on THR‘s story.

Channel 5 tonight (August 17) at 9pm.The prison is one of the most unique and controversial facilities in the UK, which is home to some of the country's worst female offenders.HMP Styal is a Closed Category prison for female adults and young offenders, based in Styal, Cheshire.As the Channel 5 TV show on the prison airs, we take a look at HMP Styal's most notorious inmates.Child killer Savannah Brockhill began a 25-year sentence at Styal for the murder of 16-month-old Star Hobson last year.Brockhill, an amateur boxer and security guard who called herself the “number one psycho”, punched the toddler to death in Keighley, West Yorkshire, on September 22, 2020.The murderer also laughed in the dock as the judge announced her sentence.Her girlfriend Frankie Smith, mother of Star, was jailed for eight years for causing or allowing the death of a child, but was cleared of murder.Frankie's sentence was then increased to 12 years earlier this year by the Court of Appeal after it was referred for being unduly lenient.Corinna Smith murdered her husband in 2021 by mixing boiling water with three bags of sugar and pouring it over her sleeping husband, who later died in hospital.The 59-year-old, who lived on Highfield Road in Neston, filled a bucket with two kettles' worth of boiling water and 3kg of sugar after hearing claims from her daughter that her husband, Michael Baines, had preyed on her two children when they were younger.She poured the bucket's contents over her 80-year-old husband while he was sleeping and then went to her neighbour's house to raise the alarm.READ MORE: Woman 'brutally' murdered husband, 81, by pouring boiling water and sugar over himHer neighbour then called 999 after hearing her say "I’ve hurt him really

William Earl “War on the Diamond,” a feature documentary about the only baseball player to die directly of injuries sustained in a game, is set to premiere Nov. 15 on VOD platfoms including iTunes, YouTube, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Vudu.The doc tells the story of Raymond Chapman, a Cleveland Indians shortstop who was hit in the head by a pitch in a game against the New York Yankees.

A date has been set by a Florida judge for a trial in Meghan Markle's half-sister Samantha's lawsuit against her. The Duchess of Sussex, 41, who will make a surprise visit to the UK next month with Prince Harry, is being sued by 57 year old half-sibling over a story in which she claims Meghan made defamatory comments about being "an only child" in the couple's explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021.

READ MORE: Teen hitman from 'Mexico's most dangerous cartel' caught carrying dismembered body parts And an autopsy later revealed several puncture wounds and slices as James "struggled and had to be sedated".Officials claimed the hold-up was caused after the executioners experienced trouble establishing the intravenous lines carrying the lethal drugs into the body of James Jr.

Prince William and Kate Middleton are rumoured to be taking over Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson's Windsor home, according to one royal commentator.

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Prince William is rumoured to be making himself and the Cambridge family more known and relevant to audiences across the pond as part of a deliberate public relations move.. Several royal experts have spoken of the push Will and Kate Middleton are attempting to make as they seek out a "PR boost", but one expert in particular has warned of the "death trap" Will faces.

Prince Harry's former bodyguard believes the Duke of Sussex has made a "mistake" during his battle with the Home Office.Permission has been won by Harry to challenge the Government's decision to deny him police protection in Britain after stepping back from his official Royal Family duties and moving to the United States, where he now lives with his wife Meghan Markle and their two children Archie and Lilibet.READ MORE:Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 'need access to security before it's too late'But that legal action has been described as "unwise" by Ken Wharfe - a former police protection officer who previously worked with Harry, his mother Princess Diana and his elder brother William, reports The Express.Mr Wharfe has argued that Harry and his family would never have been left without protection when they were in the UK.