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1. Scots woman who coughed up blood makes urgent plea after brother died suddenly in sleep

   Rebecca Elsdon, 34, said her brother's death remains a mystery but her own diagnosis a year later could shed some light on his tragic passing.

2. Met Office forecasts 330-mile snow wall to blanket UK - everything you need to know

   With temperatures set to drop below zero, weather maps are showing snowfall from Scotland to Wales.

3. Brave breast cancer patient opens up on "pulled muscle" symptom that led to devastating diagnosis

   Lorna McNaughton went for an x-ray on her ribs and nothing sinister was discovered.

4. Mum's decapitated body dumped in woods after newborn baby left at monastery

   The grim discovery was made two weeks after the woman's hands were found by a motorway.

5. Serial killer's botched execution as horrified onlookers had to be escorted out

   Jimmy Lee Gray murdered his girlfriend and a three-year-old girl before suffering a botched gas chamber execution in Mississippi so brutal it led the state to abolish the method

6. Archaeologists uncover Father Christmas resting place in massive breakthrough

   St. Nicholas, the real-life figure who inspired the legend of Father Christmas, was buried in what is now modern-day Turkey but his remains are no longer in his original grave

7. 'Granny Ripper' boiled neighbour's head in a pan amid fears she's killed 14

   WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Tamara Samsonova, now in her late 70s, was ruled mentally unfit for trial

8. Inside twisted mind of the 'Chessboard Killer' who dreamed of murdering 64 people

   Russian serial killer bludgeoned his victims to death and impaled their skulls with vodka bottles during a 14-year killing spree

9. Bride's harrowing six final words before drowning in wedding dress

   Maria Pantazopoulos died in tragic circumstances just weeks after her wedding during a 'trash the dress' photoshoot

10. Scottish SPCA appeals for information after six young kittens found abandoned in a carrier

    Whilst walking their dog, a member of the public came across the abandoned animals in Blantyre.