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Kelly Louise Randall, 45, was last seen on May 3, 2022, and her partner reported her missing two days later on May 5. Police launched a missing person search and enquiries into Ms Randall's whereabouts began. She was found to be a low-risk missing person despite being a wheelchair user due to a previous leg amputation.

Carroll signed for Amiens after he exercised a release clause in his contract to leave Reading in August last year. However, Carroll managed to score just four goals in 31 appearances across all competitions for Amiens last season and has had to make do with just one start in the 2024-25 Ligue 2 campaign. According to L'Equipe , it looks like the 35-year-old is on the move once more. The report also claims it was Amiens sporting director John Williams who played a key role in convincing Carroll to drop down.

Jared Isaacman, 41, (left) led the four-member team who landed in the ocean at 3.37am, a webcast of the splashdown showed, with a recovery team deploying in the pre-dawn darkness to retrieve the Dragon spacecraft and crew. The capsule was lifted from the water and onto the recovery vessel half an hour later. After brief medical checks, a smiling and waving SpaceX engineer Anna Menon was the first of the crew to exit, followed by engineer Sarah Gillis, pilot Scott Poteet and commander Isaacman. A helicopter was due to transport them to land. The team launched on Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Center, quickly journeying deeper into the cosmos than any humans in the past half century as they ventured into the dangerous Van Allen radiation belt.

There is rising concern that America's buoyant economy is heading for a slowdown, if not recession. Putting so much on any one economic number might be mistaken. But the ripples can spread far and wide. In July, a surprising drop in the pace of employment gains sent share markets across the globe into a tailspin. Now it is happening again.

The bizarre moment was captured by passers-by who filmed the corvette FGS Braunschweig F260 being towed backwards past Tower Bridge on its way out of London on Monday. The onboard crew clearly saw the funny side as they lined up on deck next to a fluttering German flag as their vessel sailed out of the capital. Video footage of the ship was shared to social media with the caption: 'Germany navy ship blasts Imperial March out in the Thames. Just saw this and couldn't stop laughing.'

Premier League footballers are getting smaller - and experts think it's because teams are ditching the traditional 'English' playing style. During the top-tier's inaugural season 1992 season, players stood 180.6cm tall, on average. Growth continued until 2011, when heights peaked at 183.1cm (6 ft 0.09 inches). Since then, however, frames have shrunk. Last year's Premier League squads sat at 182.5cm (5ft 11.8in). John Williams, associate professor of sociology at the University of Leicester and author of 'Football Nation: Sixty Years of the Beautiful Game', told MailOnline the trend points towards the 'English game' becoming less English.

Anochrome Ltd was named by the Environment Agency (EA) as being behind the serious chemical spillage in Walsall, in the West Midlands, on Monday. It has affected a 14 mile stretch of water across the Black Country and into Birmingham, causing dead fish to float to the surface.

Families are being told their late relatives could be owed arrears then left in limbo for months by the Department for Work and Pensions. The amounts involved are not revealed, leaving recipients of letters mystified as to what sums they might eventually receive. Over the past few years, vast errors have led to payouts running into many tens of thousands of pounds, and in some cases awards of more than £100,000.

Jessica Pita, 21, lost her sight at the age of 11. But this hasn't held her back - she's now a qualified scuba diver. She has completed dives around South Africa and has come into close proximity to sharks.

Jonathan Bailey confirmed that he will take on a leading role in the upcoming Jurassic World reboot while appearing on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon on Monday. The Wicked star, 35 - who recently joined his Bridgerton co-stars at the glitzy season three premiere in NYC - opened up about the 'brilliant' opportunity while also gushing about being a fan of the franchise. At one point during the episode, the talk show host showed a recent photo that Bailey had uploaded to Instagram where he teased the role.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Lalo Schifrin and John Williams are great admirers of each other's work, so it's no surprise that Schifrin was allowed to rework Williams's masterpiece. An Argentinian-born American composer, arranger, conductor and pianist, Schifrin is famous for composing the theme for the Mission: Impossible TV series as well as scoring many classic film soundtracks including Dirty Harry, Bullitt and The Amityville Horror. He has always maintained a side career as a jazz musician and his key success in this field was the 1976 album Black Widow, an innovative blend of jazz with the dance-friendly rhythms of the disco scene.

EXCLUSIVE: Five military horses bolted when a lump of concrete or a rock crashed onto the floor during renovation work on the multi-millionaire businessman's townhouse. Three soldiers and a cyclist were injured as the animals galloped through the streets smashing into cars, a taxi and a tourist bus. The Ministry of Defence said six soldiers from the Life Guards and Blues & Royals were on their daily exercise this morning. As they passed through Wilton Crescent in Belgravia builders using a travelator accidentally dropped some rubble onto the floor as the horses passed, an MoD spokesman said.

From a terrifying plot featuring mobster wars to a love story set on a tropical island and compelling historical fiction, check out our critics' picks of the best new books to read this weekend. Our critics have perused hundreds of titles to select the very best of crime , historical and literary fiction - not to mention new releases. So let us help you lie back with a good book and let the weekend drift by...

Tales of life and death, a sleep-deprived mother, and Jack Reacher's return to life are just some of the best new books to sink your teeth into this weekend.

According to West Midlands Police, the woman, who was six months pregnant, was struck by a car in Hill Top, West Bromwich, at about 7.30 p.m. on February 18. The driver escaped the scene, but a 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing significant bodily harm by reckless driving. He has been released as a result of a fresh probe.

Harrison Ford said in a recent biography of the legendary composer John Williams that his music has been a near-constant presence in his life. Williams, who appeared in Steven Spielberg's legendary Indiana Jones films, was even playing when he acquired colonoscopy. In a profile of the 92-year-old composer for Variety, he joked that 'I often remind John that his music follows me wherever I go.' 'They were playing it on the operating room speakers when I had my last colonoscopy.'

Athens, Georgia's Democrat mayor has brushed off criticism of Laken Riley's assassination of Laken Riley, insisting that the sole responsibility for this offence rests solely on the perpetrator.' After it was revealed that the perpetrator in the student's murder was an undocumented Venezuelan immigrant, protesters launched a riot, with others yelling that he has "blood on (his) hands.' Girtz continued to face the outrage as he warned 'against conflating immigration and crime,' and that Athens does not officially fall under the category of "sanctuary city."

In a 2020 interview with Athens Political Nerds, John Williams, who was then running for sheriff, said, 'it is not my intention, when elected sheriff, to work with those detainers,' referring to the detainers detained by ICE on illegal migrants detained on criminal charges. Residents of Athens-Clarke County are now pointing to Williams following the murder of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley, who was allegedly murdered by Jose Ibarra, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela. In the interview, Williams says: "I see it as the sheriff's responsibility to protect the people." We can't help our families deal with a culture of fear, and we can't expect our families to care and support us in times of distress.'

Check out our reviewers' picks of the best new books to read this weekend for enticing debuts, haunting fantasy, paranormal page-turners, and a harrowing account of a war prisoner.

ALISON BOSHOFF: Can anything top the success of Succession after the last series of the hit drama returned home in triumph, sweeping up awards at the Golden Globes and Emmys this month. Jesse Armstrong, the show's British writer, has landed a multi-billion-dollar contract to come up with a new idea for HBO. Armstrong has three or four ideas in mind, but it will not be a Succession spin-off, so there will be no more Tom Wambsgans and Cousin Greg (pictured). Sniff!

It's starting to look a lot like Christmas, which means it's time to get cozy and snuggled up with a holiday classic. FEMAIL has used IMDb to see what the most popular Christmas movies are out there to help you select the right movie to get into the holiday spirit. At first glance, the films in the top ten are what we'd consider modern-day masterpieces - the oldest film to make this list was released in 1988. It's the same motion picture that some holiday purists would not even consider a Christmas film at all. According to IMDb, here are the most popular Christmas movies, ranging from Home Alone and The Santa Clause to Love Actually and The Grinch.

TOM PARKER-BOWLES: To walk into The Ritz Restaurant is to step outside the real world and plunge into a raging riot of naked nymphs, gilded sea gods, and lasciviously ruched drapes. As waiters glide by in pristine tails, opulence drips like rare honey from overly ornate chandeliers.

With 1,168 people in NSW alone, a potentially lethal respiratory virus that few people even know exists is on the rise in Australia. Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) can cause elevated and lower respiratory disease in both ages groups, but it poses a greater danger to young children, older adults, and people with impaired immune systems. Despite the fact that it usually causes a mild infection similar to the common cold, nasal congestion, coughing, shortness of breath, and a fever, it can also lead to bronchitis or pneumonia, especially among those with immunocompromised status, such as people with cancer.

In the Classic FM Movie Music Hall Of Fame 2023, the Lord Of The Rings soundtrack was named the nation's favorite film song. Howard Shore's score put them ahead of Schindler's List, which was runner-up, and Star Wars, which came in third. In a vote to find the country's most popular piece of film music, more than 10,000 votes were cast by members of the public. On Classic FM, the top 100 were played before chat show host and radio host Jonathan Ross revealed the number one right before 7 p.m. on Monday.