Police divers have carried out an underwater search of a muddy stream where a mystery body was found next to a quiet estate near Bristol. Residents of the housing complex just 50 yards away from the stream said the discovery was ‘scary’ and ‘frightening for young children’ who play near it. This follows reports of human remains – believed to be decomposed – and ‘skeletal’ being found under a metal bridge, next to Apple Grove, a modern estate.

A desperate Keir Starmer has congratulated Donald Trump in their first phone call since the Republican’s shock election win as he tries to repair ties. The premier sent his ‘hearty congratulations’ to the president-elect amid tensions over Labour activists campaigning for Trump’s rival Kamala Harris, and Foreign Secretary David Lammy previously calling Trump a ‘neo-Nazi’ sympathiser. Sir Keir congratulated Mr Trump on his ‘historic victory’ after US voters returned him to the White House, Downing Street said.

The scope of the UK’s media merger laws could be ‘broadened’ under plans unveiled by the Government. The proposals would allow ‘greater scrutiny’ of deals thatinvolve the sale of UK online news publications and news magazines, it has been announced. This will see the ambit of the current powers extend beyond TV, radio and print newspapers.

Sitting in A&E aged just 19 and in her second year of university with agonising, swollen ankles – the latest in a long line of unexplained health complaints – it dawned on Rachel Hall how unwell she was. The doctor was saying her latest problem was nothing serious, as her partner, now husband, Leon, reeled off the long list of symptoms she had been struggling with for months. ‘Leon described how I had lost weight and my hair was falling out,’ says Rachel, from Lewisham, south-east London.

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From people who see heaven after being declared clinically dead, to those who believe they’ve been reincarnated, there are plenty who are certain that life goes on after death. Now, others are claiming to have had ‘pre-birth experiences’ – and insist they experienced consciousness before they were even born while their soul was already alive and getting ready to enter a human body. Also known as a ‘pre-mortal’ or ‘near-birth’ experiences, self-proclaimed ‘psychics’ on social media claim they remember their soul travelling down a ‘pre-birth tunnel’ and into their human bodies.