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Father and son presumed dead while kayaking on spring break trip, family says

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Jennifer Thompson misses “her boys.”

Five days since her husband and son disappeared while kayaking on Beaver Lake in Arkansas, Thompson said that law enforcement is now working to recover their bodies. Lt. Shannon Jenkins of the Benton County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the two are presumed dead. Thompson believes they likely drowned after one fell into the cold lake from a kayak and the other tried to rescue him.

“What saved me from the beginning of this is that they died together; they were together,” Thompson said.

Her son, Charley Morris, 20, was a sophomore at Ohio Wesleyan University where

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Family trip abroad ends in ‘bad dream’ as Home Office strands father in Turkey | Home Office

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For more than two months, Siyabonga Twala’s life has been in a strange state of purgatory, waiting in an unfamiliar country to see if the Home Office will let him back into Britain.

Since New Year’s Eve he has been stuck in Turkey after being barred from boarding a return flight to Manchester, waking each day and wondering if he will ever live with his British son again.

The case of Twala, who told the Guardian of being “stuck in limbo’”, gives an insight into the continued impact of the so-called hostile environment on families at a time when the

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British father died on family trip to Disney World in Florida after ingesting fentanyl, inquest told

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A British father died on a family trip to Disney World in Florida after ingesting the synthetic opioid fentanyl, an inquest has been told.

Philip Weybourne, from West Malling in Kent, was on holiday in the United States with his wife and young son when he suddenly fell ill in May. 

The 40-year-old, who was the director of an international IT company, collapsed and died after going to a bar at the Yacht Club hotel in Epcot.

An inquest into his death held at Maidstone County Hall heard while he was rushed to hospital, his condition deteriorated quickly and he

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