A four-year-old boy has been crushed to death after a 450lb iron gate fell on him while he played football on a family holiday in italy 

Angelo Quirino, from Manchester, was visiting family near Rome when the freak accident happened on Saturday.

Reports suggest the youngster was playing with his brother when the tragedy occurred.

His uncle and neighbours near the property they had hired in Anzio, 40 miles south of the capital, rushed to help after hearing screams, but found him unconscious. The Manchester Evening News reports the youngster sustained injuries to his collarbone and head.

An air ambulance arrived at the scene and medics tried to resuscitate the youngster for more than 45 minutes, but to no avail.  

Italian media have suggested the boy was with his mother, brother and little sister and his father has flown out from Manchester after learning the news. 

Police immediately cordoned off their family's holiday villa and an investigation has since been launched to find out how the 200kg - 450lb - gate fell on him. 

The family of six-year-old football fan Bradley Lowery has announced they are 'mega excited' after a charity set up in his name is finally official. 

The huge Sunderland supporter died last month after he was diagnosed with neuroblastoma when he was just 18 months old.

His story touched the hearts of people across the world, with celebrities, football stars and clubs supporting him throughout his brave battle.

A Just Giving page which was set up to help other families in similar situations has raised more than £390,000 after almost 11,000 people donated to the cause. His mother, Gemma Lowery, from Blackhall Colliery, Co Durham, announced the news on Tuesday that the Bradley Lowery Foundation is now a registered charity. 

She said: 'We're mega excited to announce that after a lot of behind the scenes work, we've got a registered charity number for the Bradley Lowery Foundation.

'We're hoping to support, advise and encourage families on their fundraising campaigns to reach their target and get their child medical treatment and equipment. 'We'll give out some grants, but we'll also spend time building rapport with families to support them in all kinds of different ways. 

'We're also hoping to get a holiday home for families to use for short breaks, to give them some normality in their lives.'

It comes as Bradley will be remembered with a charity match held by Everton FC next month.  

A host of celebrities are set to form teams Bradley's Blues and The Lowery Legends for the game at Goodison Park on September 3.

He was a mascot for Everton, Sunderland and England last year. On Tuesday, Everton FC's Twitter account posted a video of the youngster, including clips of him on the pitch at Goodison, along with a link to buy tickets to the charity fixture.

The Sunderland fan was shown wearing an Everton shirt with the message 'Cancer has no colours' written on the back.

Everton Chairman Bill Kenwright said: 'There's little that I could ever add to the tributes to Bradley, that have already been fulsome throughout the world of football - and onwards.

'I didn't know him for long. But from the second he walked out onto the pitch with his beloved Sunderland Football Club against us, I felt an overwhelming 'blue' need to support him.

'(Majority shareholder) Farhad (Moshiri) and my Everton colleagues immediately supported that need.

'Everyone at Everton feels honoured to support this match to celebrate the short life of one of football's all-time greats - there's only one Bradley Lowery.'

Tickets cost £10 for adults or £5 for under-16s and can be booked online at evertonfc.com/bradley. 

Police today arrested a man found with class A drugs at a 'kink rave' after a reveller in his 50s was found dead in a tent and a woman in her 40s was airlifted to hospital. 

Clean-up teams allegedly found the duo as they cleared the controversial Flamefest site after the three-day event over the weekend near Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent. 

The man was pronounced dead and the woman was taken away in a helicopter. This afternoon, a man in his 20s was arrested on suspicion of possession of class A drugs.

It was also revealed tonight that the woman was out of intensive care in hospital.

The festival caused uproar in the exclusive town after it was announced, offering an 'adult play area' staffed by dominatrix and a variety of kinky workshops. Police will be searching a number of addresses in relation to the investigation, but said they do not expect to make any more arrests. 

Only yesterday organiser Helen Smedley praised everyone involved including stewards and 'dungeon monitors' for helping to run the 'brilliant' event.

Miss Smedley had previously said members of the public would not witness 'outdoor sex' as revellers would go to 'safe places' to romp at the 'private event'.

Around 250 people paid up to £600 to attend the weekend-long festival - which finished on Sunday - and organisers drafted in extra security to stop gatecrashers.

But South East Coast Ambulance Service were called to reports of two people found unconscious at a field in the Southborough area of the town at 6am today.

Witnesses reported seeing five police cars and two ambulances today at the site.

Police were pictured focusing the investigation close to a white bell tent among other bell tents on the site. An area outside one of the tents was taped off. One neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, said he was woken by the sound of the air ambulance landing at around 6am today.

He said: 'We heard at about 6am this morning the helicopter flying over. We heard at the beginning it was two ladies who had died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

'We've since been told it was a man in his 50s and a young woman. We don't know for sure. It's so sad.

'Maybe they were cold and put a stove in their tent or something? That's all we know. The police have been there all morning.'

A black private ambulance drove out of the campsite today carrying the body of the man. A post mortem will now be held to establish the exact cause of death. 

Zulhash Uddin, ward councillor for High Brooms and Tunbridge Wells at the local council, has called for a full review of safety measures at future events. 

He said: 'It is so sad to hear that somebody has lost their life. My heart goes out to the family affected.

'More importantly safety is a number one issue at events like these and this will trigger a review when we do get the council issuing permits and licensing.

'Obviously local people did raise concerns about the festival. I am sure this will be looked at by the appropriate agencies.

'As a local representative obviously I will be speaking to the relevant agencies to make sure if there's anything we can learn to make sure it never happens again.

'This is very tragic. Obviously for now we need to be patient and find out the exact cause of this incident.'

A 10-year-old girl fought off a pervert after he sexually assaulted her as she walked through the woods.

The schoolgirl was attacked when she was walking through the woods in Claygate, Surrey, but managed to kick the man and sprint off.

Police have now launched a manhunt for the bearded Asian man, who was wearing blue Chelsea jogging bottoms. 

Officers released an e-fit of the suspect, who is described as being 40 to 45 years old and 6ft 1ins tall with a 'stocky build'. 

He has collar length black hair and a full black beard and was wearing a grey or white T shirt.

The suspect was later spotted by witnesses running in Claygate and was heading towards nearby Chessington.  

The assault took place in the woods which run parallel a street, Foxwarren, between 6pm and 6.30pm on Thursday, August 17.      

Detective Constable Helen Flower, who is investigating the incident said: 'I'd like to reassure the community that we're making every effort to identify this man as quickly as we can. Alternatively the independent charity Crimestoppers can be contacted anonymously on 0800 555 111

After roaming the planet for 165 million years, it is thought the dinosaurs were wiped off the face of the planet when an asteroid crashed into Earth 66 million years ago. 

The impact of the asteroid would have thrown up huge amounts of debris, and new computer simulations have revealed the extent to which this affected our planet. 

The findings suggest that Earth would have been plunged into darkness for as long as two years. The new results were found by the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) with support from Nasa and the University of Colorado Boulder.

The team used computers to model what Earth might have looked at the end of the Cretaceous Period, after a large asteroid struck what is now the Yucatán Peninsula, beneath the gulf of Mexico.

The impact is likely to have set off earthquakes, tsunamis and even volcanoes across the planet.

Now the new computer models may help scientists understand why more than three quarters of the species on the planet at the time died, while some survived. 'The extinction of many of the large animals on land could have been caused by the immediate aftermath of the impact, but animals that lived in the oceans or those that could burrow underground or slip underwater temporarily could have survived,' said NCAR scientist Charles Bardeen, who led the study.

'Our study picks up the story after the initial effects - after the earthquakes and the tsunamis and the broiling.

'We wanted to look at the long-term consequences of the amount of soot we think was created and what those consequences might have meant for the animals that were left.'

In March this year, core samples revealed life quickly re-emerged all around the globe after the Yucatan Peninsula asteroid struck, according to Dr Christopher Lowery, a researcher at the University of Texas-Austin, speaking at a conference at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference (LPSC) in Houston.

But the new study showed life on Earth would have looked very different for years after the collision.

The simulations found 15,000 million tons of soot would have been sent into the atmosphere after the asteroid hit, forming a barrier between the Earth and sunlight. 'At first it would have been about as dark as a moonlit night,' said co-author Owen Toon, a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Gradually the layer of soot would have dispersed, brightening the sky, but photosynthesis would have been impossible for more than a year and a half.

As the asteroid would have already damaged the plants on Earth beyond repair, the lack of sunlight would have hit phytoplankton in the oceans the hardest.

An Australian burns survivor, who was doused in methylated spirit and set alight by a jealous woman, has vividly recalled the horror of the attack in a new book.

Dana Vulin, 31, from Perth, has undergone more than 200 surgical procedures since she was set on fire in February 2012 by Natalie Dimitrovska - who was jealous Dana had spoken to her estranged husband during a party. 

Dana was at home the night Dimitrovska visited her, accompanied by a friend, Daniel Stone.

Dimitrovska demanded to know where her husband was - wrongly thinking Dana and he were romantically linked. 'The flames were everywhere: my shoulders, my naked stomach — only my boobs were protected by my tiny boob tube.

'The flames spread to my head, my hair went up in seconds, and when I reached up to wipe the burning chemicals off my face, my hands were already on fire.'

Dana said her instinct was to drop and roll - but by doing so spread the fire further around her body. 'The pain was excruciating, but through my screaming I could hear Natalie and Daniel making their escape through the sliding door,' Dana wrote in her book.

'They were laughing at me while I burnt alive.

'When I stood up the flames were getting worse, and I could barely think through the pain. 

'Panicked, I turned to the sink, trying to put the flames out by pouring a bucket of water over myself. Dana said she kept screaming for help - desperate for anyone to hear - while across the room her beloved dog, Killer, was whining in terror. 

'I knew that I needed to get help. I was as good as dead without it. 

'As I fumbled with the front door I could feel the skin falling from my fingers,' she wrote.

'I managed to get the door open and crossed the hallway to the unit next to mine, kicking at the door while yelling for help. 

'Long moments passed. There was no answer. 'Even after the fire was finally extinguished the chemicals continued burning me and it was so intense.

'I screamed so loud and for so long that when someone finally came, he wasn’t even my neighbour.

'The guy who turned up was working out in the gym of an apartment building next to mine, and he’d heard my screams and come running. 

A 38-year-old schizophrenic man launched an unprovoked knife attack on a train passenger after yelling 'I want to kill all the Muslims', a court heard today.

Adrian Brown was said to be suffering a 'severe psychotic episode' when he stabbed Muhammed Ali on a London Overground carriage in the south of the capital.

The intervention of other passengers on the train - which was travelling between Honor Oak Park and Forest Hill - might have saved the victim's life, the trial heard. Brown accepted that he carried out the attack, but pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempted murder on the grounds of insanity at Southwark Crown Court.

Prosecutor Alan Kent QC told the court: 'The defendant was living in a hostel on the morning of December 12 (2016), he left that hostel armed with a knife - he was determined to find and kill Muslim men.

'He went to the train station at Honor Oak Park which isn't very far away from the hostel where he was living. He had with a knife which he took from the hostel.

'He walked up and down the train threatening passengers, threatening death to Muslims while looking for any Muslim men to stab and kill.

'He saw the victim, Mr Muhammed Ali, who was sitting on the train with his wife. The defendant approached Mr Ali who was sitting down and repeatedly stabbed him to his head and his body. 'Other passengers on this train came to Mr Ali's rescue and it would seem it was their bravery coupled with medical attention from a doctor and a nurse who happened to be on a train, that they may well have saved his life through their quick medical intervention.'

Mr Ali suffered injuries to his head and torso, as well as a punctured lung. Jurors at the trial of issues will consider whether Brown was insane at the time of the attack.

He is also accused of carrying a knife and assault by beating of Filipe Dias, who worked at the hostel, during an earlier incident, both of which are denied on the grounds of insanity.  The court heard Brown had become agitated over the absence of hot water and set upon Ms Dias, who had previously confiscated knives from him.

Mr Kent said: 'He was unhappy about a problem there with the hot water system.

'But there was something much more serious going on in his head at that time because what he suddenly came out with is "I'm going to destroy Isis, Isis are the problem".'

Ms Dias then came across his path and was grabbed by the throat and shouted at. 'As he left the defendant was heard to say: 'I'm going to kill some Muslims'.'

When at the station he was allegedly heard saying 'where are all the Muslims? I am going to kill all the Muslims' before holding a knife to the throat of another woman, who was unhurt.

He is then said to have spotted the victim, whose wife was wearing a hijab and a burka.

'He called him a "f***ing Muslim" before attacking him with a knife, stabbing him repeatedly and repeatedly shouting "f***ing Muslims" as he did so,' Mr Kent said.

'He stabbed Mr Ali numerous times, the crown say, clearly in an attempt to kill him.'

Brown, of Brockley Rise in South East London, appeared via video link from Broadmoor Hospital during the hearing, wearing a brown tracksuit.