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A 24-year-old woman who had been a volunteer for a drug rehabilitation charity died after taking cocaine and prescription drugs. The family of Lucy White, 24, who had been a promising criminology student at the University of the West of England but “got in with the wrong crowd” and dropped out last year, posted a photograph on social media of her in hospital in Bristol after she suffered a seizure at home.

As the PDC World Darts Championship returns to Alexandra Palace after its Christmas break, Times Sport tells you all you need to know as the tournament resumes. Where are we up to? The third round, with 32 players each five victories away from the title. After a brief Christmas break, the tournament resumes today and there are matches every day except New Year’s Eve until the final on January 3. Are the big guns still in it? Yes. The No 5 seed Dimitri Van den Bergh lost in the second round b

Human rights groups estimate that as many as 100 youngsters are secretly executed in Iran each year in breach of international law, with more than 85 currently on death row for crimes allegedly committed as children.

A Qatari women’s rights activist is allegedly being held in a psychiatric hospital against her will, a family member claims, raising fears over her safety. Noof al-Maadeed, 23, fled to Britain in 2019 after years of domestic violence, documenting her escape from Qatar on social media. She returned on October 13, with her silence on social media raising fears the activist had either been detained or killed.

The state’s forest authorities will give out 4,500 evergreens to encourage people to give blood

A Kurdish woman suffered hypothermia and a miscarriage after crossing the Belarusian-Polish border

Poland continued to ban free press access to the border (w Bruno Waterfield)

As many as 140 British troops are to help secure Poland's border with Belarus

Leaders negotiated with Belarus to resolve the border crisis

The standoff has worsened, with both countries massing troops on the border

Miles from the border, a 19-year-old Syrian was buried by a historic local Muslim community

Desperate migrants tell of the horrors on the Poland-Belarus frontier (w Paulina Olszanka)

The migrant crisis on the EU’s eastern flank escalated

The EU prepared to impose further sanctions on Minsk for engineering a migrant crisis

Thousands of migrants and soldiers face off on Poland’s border with Belarus

The woman suffered septic shock after doctors waited to remove her foetus

Belarus has been accused of “weaponising” migrants to provoke the European Union

Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United are just over a quarter of the way into their Women’s Super League seasons, but the late drama that concluded their encounter at The Hive yesterday could be viewed as season defining come the spring. With seconds of second-half stoppage time to play, Ria Percival’s free kick — way too far out for a shot to be considered — eluded everybody and snatched a point for Spurs, sparking joyous home celebrations. United, who had taken the lead courtesy of Alessia

Poland's dissident hero said documents suggesting he collaborated with communist police were forged

The call to fortify the 260-mile frontier shows a shift in tone (w Oliver Moody)

The court has fined Poland €500,000 a day for refusing to close a coal mine

Right-wing activists have defaced more than 140 war memorials in Warsaw

Beautiful women in designer gear stepped out of Lamborghinis, Bugattis and Ferraris alongside stylishly dressed young men last night, eager to set foot in Float Dubai, the emirate’s latest nightspot, where a bottle of Dom Perignon starts at £975 on a champagne list that goes up to £78,000 for a Methuselah (six litres) of Dom Perignon Rosé Gold.

A surge of migrants is seeking to enter Gemany from the east by way of Belarus (w Oliver Moody)

Wojtek, the Polish “soldier bear”, helped forces in WW2 before retiring to a zoo in Scotland

Thousands have tried to cross the border and some have frozen to death

The skirl of bagpipes carried through the trees in a Polish forest that is forever Scotland

Before the internet, it was all about word of mouth. What holiday you booked, what restaurant you ate at, what builder you used… personal recommendation was all that stood between you and the Yellow Pages — or a collapsed roof. Now, in an age of online reviews and smartphone convenience culture, asking a neighbour to recommend a handyman seems quaint.

Brussels is expected to freeze almost €60 billion in EU pandemic recovery funds