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Updated: 07:46 EST

Colombia plane crash: Crew member who survived reveals final moments of doomed flight

Erwin Tumiri (centre) said terrified passengers left their seats and started screaming as the CP-2933 plane, struck by catastrophic electrical problems, began to plummet into a mountainside. He says he was one of only six to survive the disaster which killed 71 - including all but three members of the Chapecoense football team (top right) - because he 'followed safety procedures'. Another survivor, stewardess Ximena Suarez (inset), told a government official the lights went off as the jet started to go down. It comes as it emerged that Alan Ruschel (bottom, second from left), one of the players who survived, asked rescuers 'My family, my friends, where are they?' as he was being lifted from the crash site. As Brazil declared three days of mourning, Colombia's civil aviation authority identified the players who had survived the crash. As well as Ruschel, 27, Helio Neto (top, second from left), 31, and goalkeeper Jackson Follmann (bottom left), 24, were found alive at the crash site (bottom right). Journalist Rafael Valmorbida (top left), who worked for Chapeco's West Capital Radio and had 20 years of experience in the industry, also survived.

Premature baby miraculously saved after her mother dies while eight months pregnant

A baby has been saved by doctors after her mother died suddenly while eight months pregnant. Pamela Ewart (top) was taken ill on Sunday at her home in Airdrie, Scotland, after complaining of severe headaches and died in Monklands hospital (pictured) just one day later. But the 31-year-old's daughter Poppy was saved by medics and is fighting for her life in intensive care with her father at her bedside. Poppy’s grandfather said the next 48 hours were ‘critical’ for the newborn baby.

An air traffic controller told a Flybe pilot on a commercial flight 'er, I'm not sure which way to go now' as it narrowly avoided crashing into a private jet on the approach to Exeter Airport.

National Lottery bosses have admitted 26,000 players' online accounts have been hacked and in some cases had their details personal changed.

Priscilla Terumalai, of Leytonstone, East London, was told by her daughter Annalise that she could not stop giggling whenever she heard her teacher’s name at Mayville Primary School.

Women have taken to the anonymous website Whisper to admit the ways in which they are trying to get pregnant. Some are so desperate for children that they don't mind if their partner leaves them.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Simon John, 45, and his five month old Harrison were attacked while enjoying a family break at a holiday camp in Breen, Somerset.

Hollie Osborne found two of the notes with the AK47 numbers but spent one while out for 'a few lagers' in Risca, south east Wales, and fears she may have lost out on thousands of pounds.

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The headline of a diary item on November 8 said that TV presenter Ben Fogle had received a £25,000 fee for speaking at an event that raised money for charity.

Biker tried to return driver's wallet only to be sworn at gets revenge by smashing phone 

This extraordinary footage shows the moment a seemingly kind-hearted biker returned a driver's wallet only to then smash his phone by dropping it to the ground. In the video, the driver pulls out of a petrol station onto a road and his wallet flies out the window. The biker, riding behind him, stops to retrieve it and later returns it to the motorist. However, at the same time, he spots his phone on the roof of his vehicle. He picks it up and brandishes it in a mocking gesture in front of the driver, before casually dropping it to the floor.

Shenel Osman, 28, and Rachel Cousins, 26, of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, booked a vehicle home after a night out but what was supposed to be a 20-minute journey turned into a nightmare.

Luke McKenna, 24, was riding his motorbike into work in County Durham when Jonathan Kirkup, 31, overtook two cars in the opposite direction. Kirkup was jailed for three years and six months.

Julie Maynard, from Bodmin, in Cornwall, detailed her son's abuse online after growing frustrated with police and her son's school, who she claimed to have not taken her seriously.

Gang of travellers threaten bailiffs in a shocking 5-hour eviction in Taunton

The bailiffs remain calm and composed while the men, one of whom is carrying a wooden bat, try to intimidate them by throwing insults and threats. In a heated exchange, one traveller calls the bailiff a 'monkey in a suit', telling him he's going nowhere and daring him to touch his caravan. The traveller, who is staying illegally on the land, thrusts his forehead on the bailiff's head before telling him to 'get the f*** out of here' in the field in Taunton, Somerset.

The elderly woman was hit when the Renault van ploughed into the pedestrian area outside the store in Shoebury, Essex, yesterday afternoon.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd, pictured, told the College of Policing conference today that officers should need a licence similar to the system for firearms officers.

Syed Shah, 30, persuaded the woman to hand over £6,000 for help to 'purify' the 28-year-old woman's relationship after she came to him for help, Birmingham Crown Court heard.

Ministers were told the dangerous inmates – thought to include killers, rapists, violent thugs and burglars – were exempt from being deported from UK jails under an EU transfer deal.

The driver was seen scrolling through what appeared to be graphic images of naked women (pictured) on his tablet while sitting in his car on the M4 near Bristol.

UK weather: Country wakes up to a coating of ice after temperatures plunged to -10C

Large swathes of southern England and Wales woke up shivering today as temperatures plunged as low as -10C. And there were problems for railway passengers as trains were cancelled or delayed. Commuters on Greater Anglia services into London faced disruption, with dozens of trains arriving from Essex, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Hertfordshire were cancelled or delayed. Meanwhile Southern passengers in East Sussex were delayed due to a track fault between Seaford and Lewes. The coldest place in Britain overnight was Sennybridge, in Powys, Wales, where it was just -9.7C (as shown in the map, top left). Pictured today: An aerial view of a frosty Surrey (left), the fountains at Trafalgar Square in London which had frozen over this morning (top right) and a jogger runs through Richmond Park in South West London (bottom right).

The scale of the problems in the welfare system have been laid bare in a report warning the government is spending more checking up on claimants than it is clawing back in penalties.

World-renowned composer Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber is embroiled in a spat with his local council over speeding motorists ‘terrifying’ horse riders near his Hampshire mansion.

The Bank of England governor said businesses needed to know 'as soon as possible' what 'endpoint' the Prime Minister will seek in looming negotiations with the EU.

Youngsters continue to be outperformed by children in East Asia, with our pupils almost four years behind those in the highest ranking country, Singapore, by the age of 14.

BT has been ordered to give more independence to Openreach, the subsidiary responsible for running the nation's broadband and telephone cables, after complaints it has abused its monopoly.

The Bellevue Medical Centre in Birmingham, where Professor Steve Field, chief inspector of general practice at the Care Quality Commission, is a partner, has been told it 'requires improvement'.

Abuse victim’s mother calls Eric Bristow ‘the most offensive man on earth' over Tweets

Marilyn Hawes, right today, whose three children are victims of sexual abuse, called the 'Crafty Cockney', left, a 'bully' on live TV and told him: 'If I had a set of darts I'd stick them where the sun don't shine'. She added: 'I find you the most deeply offensive man that's breathed oxygen. I was up until midnight helping people devastated by what he has said. He could have blood on his hands. He is an abuser himself'. Bristow, 59, caused outrage on Twitter by claimed abuse victims should have stood up to those who assaulted them and 'sorted them out' as adults. In an uncomfortable Good Morning Britain interview Bristow spoke out about his string of offensive tweets for the first time. The BBC claimed today that the former darts world champion, sacked by Sky Sports yesterday, had demanded £5,000 to appear on its news channel to discuss the scandal.

The organisation launched a review of child protection measures across all its clubs in England in 2001 but withdrew funding just two years later amid claims people were being 'bullied' into staying silent.

Workmen were spotted nailing wooden panels to the windows and doors of Barry Bennell's Milton Keynes bungalow this morning hours after he was charged with sexual offences against a child.

A statement from the west London club said a law firm has been appointed to investigate claims of sexual abuse dating back to the 1970s.

Zoe Lowdon (pictured) said she was made to feel like a 'naughty child' when a guard accosted her because she had taken pictures of Champagne and whisky in Newark, Nottinghamshire.

Lindsey Briggs, 40, from Merseyside, pictured with her husband and daughter Ella, told a judge that her husband Paul's life support treatment should be withdrawn so he can die with dignity.

Forty youngsters watched as the teenager was dragged by the hair and punched in the face by another girl at Green Park in Southampton, it has been claimed.

Drunken bridegroom kicked and punched his new wife in bridal suite on wedding night after

Kevin Joseph McGrath (left, with his new wife) 28, had started drinking on his wedding day at 10am and became so drunk that he cannot remember anything after the wedding meal. When he and his new wife Melissa (right) returned to the White River House Hotel in Toomebridge, Co. Antrim, Mr McGrath threw up on the floor and Mrs McGrath began 'scolding' him for his behaviour. The groom, a joiner, then attacked his bride, putting his hands on her throat and causing her to feel 'very scared'. Police were then called to the hotel and Mrs McGrath was taken to hospital, while her husband was passed out in the room. She told police her husband had kicked and punched her several times before falling asleep and he was kicked out of the hotel.

Insiders say half of the tickets for high-demand music concerts, theatre performances and sporting events are now being bought using sophisticated touting software.

Last weekend, GB Energy became the first UK power firm to go bust since 2008, blaming soaring wholesale costs. Its 160,000 customers will be passed to Co-operative Energy.

Town halls in England were accused of fuelling Britain's social care crisis last night by hoarding extra council tax revenue - instead of passing it to struggling care homes.

The review, published in the journal Human Reproduction Update, examined 16 studies taking in 1.04 million women. It challenges guidance from the World Health Organization.

Doctors say cognitive behavioural therapy is more effective at controlling the symptoms of PMS than antidepressants. Up to 40 per cent of women are affected by PMS.

Playing squash, tennis and badminton is the best way to reduce the risk of suddenly dying, a study has found.The racquet sports reduce the risk of death by 47 per cent compared to doing nothing.

Colombia plane crash: Experts suggest plane carrying Chapecoense team 'ran out of fuel'

Investigators say it is 'very suspicious' that the plane did not explode on impact as it smashed into a mountain on its way from Bolivia to the Colombian city of Medellin. A surviving flight attendant is believed to have told authorities that the plane, which was carrying 77 passengers and crew, ran out of fuel minutes before its scheduled landing at Jose Maria Cordova airport. The theory comes after claims that the pilot of the jet Miguel Alejandro Quiroga Murakami (centre) had deliberately circled before landing in a bid to burn off or dump fuel and avoid a blast on impact. Six people miraculously survived the crash (left) on Monday night, but the disaster virtually wiped out the up-and-coming Brazilian football team Chapecoense Real whose players were preparing to play in the Copa Sudamerica final - the equivalent of challenging for the Europa League title. Brazilian authorities have declared three days of mourning following the tragedy. This morning it emerged that one survivor, goalkeeper Jackson Follmann, had to have his right leg amputated while being treated at San Vicente Foundation Hospital outside Medellin. Inset: The plane’s flight path as it approached the airport.

Miguel 'Micky' Quiroga was flying the Bolivian Lamia plane when it crashed in Colombia, killing 71 people early this morning - including all but three of the Chapecoense football team.

Lined up and ready for battle, the players were pictured before their clash with Argentinian side San Lorenzo in the semi-final of the Copa Sudamericana - South America's version of the Europa League.

Miguel 'Micky' Quiroga, 36, was flying the Bolivian Lamia plane when it crashed in Colombia, killing 71 people early this morning - including all but three of the Chapecoense football team.

British Influence - set up by the arch-Europhile Peter Mandelson (pictured) - yesterday claimed the Government has no mandate for leaving the European Economic Area.

Residents in Margate and Thanet in Kent have spotted the fatbergs of deadly palm oil - which can kill dogs - on beaches following Storm Angus which battered the UK earlier this month.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has confirmed Britain won't withdraw from the rest of the world, despite voting to leave the European Union and the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president.

KATIE HOPKINS: I came to Cuba to bury Fidel Castro but ended up praising him as a dictator

I came expecting to uncover the truth behind the monster Fidel Castro. To mock the liberal press sat in Islington and Brooklyn, shopping at Whole Foods, cheering a man who even in death still has his people fed from ration books, searching about for milk. To scorn the commie b*stard mentality where everyone is equal. But I have not found what I came for. I found something quite different, says KATIE HOPKINS in Havana (inset). Center, students of Havana University march in thanks for the late leader.

The former Manchester United and England pictured in broad daylight while driving the black i8. The 41-year-old was leaving the hotel he co-owns - Hotel Football, in Manchester.

Margaret Hampshire, 69, and her husband Alan, 67, pictured today, are accused of using the money to convert the two properties into one large country pile in Nottinghamshire.

CCTV video captures a dognapper brazenly snatching the beloved pet in Peterborough

A veterinary student who loves her dog so much she had his face tattooed on her leg (inset), was left devastated when a brazen thief stole him in broad daylight. Abigail Box tied five-year-old Boston Terrier Ziggy outside as she ran into the Post Office in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, before a woman walked off with him. The 25-year-old (pictured with Ziggy, left) was 'heartbroken' to discover her best friend was missing and said her worst fears were brought to life as she watched CCTV footage (right) of the theft 15 minutes later. Miraculously, the pair were reunited after seven days following an anonymous tip-off - but police are still hunting the thief.

Professor Simon Baron-Cohen said vicar's son Lauri Love did not understand the 'bigger picture' when he allegedly hacked US government websites

Widower Joe Bartley, of Paignton, Devon, placed the ad in his local paper after becoming sick of sitting at home alone with nothing to do.

Derek Noon, 35, died despite a 'massive collective effort' from paramedics, lifesavers and bystanders to revive him after he got into difficulties in waters off Mettam's Pool beach, near Perth in Western Australia.

Anyone who doubts that comedy is the new rock ’n’ roll need look no further than the finances of roly-poly comic Peter Kay (pictured), writes SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE.

A blonde woman ripped out flowers from hanging baskets and hurled them at a cafe in Kirkham, Lancashire, causing 'complete destruction' in a shocking act of vandalism.

Northfleet schoolgirl secretly brands her mother a BED WETTER in her homework

Freya Cronin (left), eight, had been out shopping with her mother Maria Cronin (right, with Freya and her other two children) at Bluewater Shopping Centre, Kent, when she saw a pair of Heelys which she wanted. Ms Cronin told Freya that the shoes were too expensive, prompting Freya to call her the 'worst mother in the world'. But Freya later decided to get her revenge by secretly embarrassing her mother in her homework. The schoolgirl had been asked to write three sentences using the words 'peculiar, question and recently'. Later that evening, in her sentence using the word 'peculiar', Freya wrote: 'There was a peculiar wet patch in my mum's bed when she woke up in the morning. P.S. (it was her)' (inset).

Sean Paul Carnahan (pictured with his mother Tracey) weighed 11st 9lbs when he was admitted to Belfast City Hospital with a severe brain injury - but he died in July 2013 weighing just five stone.

Sophoullis Kyriacou and his daughter Nikki Kyriacou, from Blackburn, Lancashire, left precious pooch Neville with Victoria Powles while Nikki underwent a blood transfusion.

Martin French arrived home to find that all of the flowers had been destroyed and removed from the flowerbed (pictured) outside his home in Otford, Kent.

Mother 'sedated daughter with heroin and methadone so she wouldn't disturb sex'

Michala Pyke, 37, (right) and John Rytting, 40, (inset) from Grimsby, allegedly gave four-year-old Poppy (left) drugs over a six-month period. The schoolgirl died in June 2013 after being found lifeless on the sofa. Tests showed the 'dance drug' ketamine, heroin and methadone - a heroin substitute - were in her system. Pyke and Rytting deny two charges of child cruelty.

David Russell, now 25, from Northampton, lured Maricar Benedicto, then 19, to woodland after she flew across the Atlantic to meet him. He blindfolded her and said he was going to give her a gift.

Sian Roberts was murdered at a house in Salford a year ago. Police have charged a man in connection her death but are trying to find a witness who could have 'vital' information (pictured).

Krissie Ann Lees, 27, was out with work colleagues in Manchester city centre before a Christmas meal when she fell seriously ill on Saturday night. Medics who treated her believe she was possibly drugged.

Fred Walden, from Oxford, says he was told to stop dancing at a Jive Addiction event in London last year after it was claimed his wheels were marking the floor.

eBay pop-up shop tells you which Christmas presents to buy based on your facial reactions 

With just under a month to go until Christmas, shoppers can be found on high streets around the world frantically trying to stock up on presents. But there may be a less stressful way to shop this year. eBay has launched the world's first emotionally powered shop. The pop-up shop in London, called the 'The Ultimate do good, feel good Shop' allows shoppers to browse through a selection of items and discover products they genuinely want to buy.

Stella Margarshack, 87, is in critical condition after suffering a brain haemorrhage shortly after the attack in her flat's communal lobby. She had been to Waitrose in Camden, north London.

Pritesh Ladwa, 29, of Yardley, Birmingham, was handed the grant to beautify the former Orgreave colliery site at Waverley in South Yorkshire - but no forest was ever built.

Kevin O'Neil, from Inverkeithing, Fife, was forced to undergo grueling surgery to remove the cancerous growth on his shoulder. This was then followed by 30 rounds of radiotherapy.

Amazon's distribution centre in Dunfermline is the size of 14 football pitches

Amazon workers navigate their way between the aisles (inset) of the retail giant's largest UK distribution centre as the Christmas shopping season gets into full swing. The centre (pictured), in Dunfermline, Fife, is packed with more than one million items being snapped up online. Hundreds of employees are responsible for finding and putting together orders before sending them to the massive on-site dispatch hall to be packaged and later sent to customers.

The bones of a people who died from the Black Death have been uncovered by a Sheffield University team, near a monastery hospital at Thornton Abbey, near Immingham, North Lincolnshire.

Peter Morgan, 54, of Llanmartin, South Wales, allegedly gave a bunch of keys to officers who were looking for Georgina Symonds and told them: 'She's locked in the outhouse.'

Oxford-educated Simon Ball, 42, admitted sexually abusing one girl while he was director of music at Kimbolton School near Huntingdon and Giggleswick School in Settle, North Yorkshire.

Lilly May Page-Bowden’s heart stopped beating after her mother Claire Page (pictured, with Lilly May) and grandmother collected her from Willow Bank Infant School in Woodley, Berkshire.

The reclusive British superstar, 58, has given a rare interview to promote her new album Before the Dawn, which she says is about 'the fear of women's power'.

Inspectors found the droppings all over the kitchen at the ICA Bar in The Mall, it is claimed. The plush venue was owned by Peyton & Byrne, which is co-owned by the BBC Great British Menu judge.

Prince Harry is set to star in a new documentary about Lesotho

A new documentary follows the prince's continued work in Lesotho. After he first visited the Aids-stricken southern African nation in 2004, he set up a charity called Sentebale before returning in 2014 (left) and again last year (right). The programme also captures the moment Harry was reunited with Mutsu, a local boy who was orphaned by Aids, whom the prince first met when Mutsu was four and with whom he has remained in regular contact (inset).

Prince Harry has been criticised for snubbing a request to help raise awareness of missing RAF serviceman Corrie McKeague. The gunner went missing on September 24.

Nicknamed the Trellis, its 1,000ft design is expected to dwarf its neighbours in the heart of London's financial district, and will replace the Aviva Tower which is due to be demolished.

The bubbles in Robert Rauschenberg's work called Mud Muse 1968-71 will be measured by microphones, which then cause the pumps to release more air and create more bubbles.

Mosul's emaciated babies left in the rubble of the bombed-out ISIS battleground

A mother has described the heartbreak of watching her two starving sons who are 'dead already' after days without food in the ISIS-held city of Mosul in Iraq. The boys (pictured) were already emaciated when they arrived at the Hasansham refugee camp near Mosul this week and they do not seem to be responding to treatment by UNICEF, who run the camp. One of the children (inset) is aged nine, but he is so wasted away that he looks less than half his age.

The propaganda video shows what are claimed to be ISIS snipers demonstrating frightening accuracy, as they peer through the scope of their rifles before taking aim and firing at Iraqi soldiers.

A group of experts from state and federal police have come together in an operation called 'Silvester' to analyse last year's events and decide how best to minimise the risks of a repeat this year.

An Austrian collector claims that the woman in the photos, which were found in an attic, is none other than Eva Braun - longtime mistress and short-term wife of the Nazi Führer.

For the first time since the natural disaster, scientists have been allowed into the area surrounding the epicentre in New Zealand, and discovered the massive Hadrian's Wall-like rock formation.

Flags flew at half-mast at official buildings across North Korea as a mark of respect for the former Cuban leader, despite a relationship that was often warmer in rhetoric than reality.

Sebastian Marroquin, 39, pictured with his father Pablo Escobar, said it was always the drug lord's plan to kill himself by taking a gun to his own head and he is 'absolutely certain' that is what happened.

WORLD NEWS

       

Petro Poroshenko unveils world's largest land-based moving structure at Chernobyl site

The €2billion structure will allow specialist engineers to safely dismantle the failed nuclear reactor which led to the world's worst atomic accident in April 1986. The massive shield was moved over the doomed reactor on large hydraulic jacks in one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever attempted. Speaking at a special event just yards from the shield, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said: ''Let the whole world see today what Ukraine and the world can do when they unite, how we are able to protect the world from nuclear contamination and nuclear threats.'

The ban on 'face-covering clothing' was approved by a large majority in the lower house in The Hague. The legislation must be approved by the upper house to be passed into law.

Park Geun-hye said she would resign if a 'safe transfer of government' can be reached by parliament amid claims her longterm friend Choi Soon-il had a say in policy despite holding no official role.

Despite November being considered cold season in the country, temperatures are still expected to reach 27 degrees Celsius tomorrow, but in Tabaraj today in northern Al-Jawf it was -3 degrees.

This year's Pirelli calendar merely serves to make all us mere mortal women feel less graceful, less well-preserved, more dragged about by life and motherhood, says LIBBY PURVES.