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A WOMAN told a court how she attempted to perform the Heimlich maneuver on a man who choked to death on a train. David Clark, 56, died after pieces of kebab meat became lodged in his throat as he travelled home from a football match on March 2 2019. Mr Clark and his friend Jon Waite had been at the Lancaster FC v Farsley Celtic match and had been drinking in Lancaster before boarding the train back to Barrow shortly after 9pm. They joined David Noble, 32, his sister Nicole Cavin, 22, an...

A MAN has told a court he thought a brother and sister accused of “force feeding” a man on a train were “having a laugh with him.” David Clark, 56, choked to death on a Barrow train on his way home from a football match in March 2019. Paramedics retrieved a large piece of kebab meat from his throat, approximately the size of an egg. But David Noble, 32, and Nicole Cavin, 22, deny manslaughter. Cavin’s ex partner Daniel Shepard told the jury at Preston Crown Court he had been...

A MAN has told a jury about the shocking moment his friend choked to death on an egg-sized piece of kebab. A brother and sister are standing trial for manslaughter after it is alleged they ‘force fed’ David Clark, 56, with pieces of meat during a food fight. Mr Clark, known to his friends as “Titch” collapsed on a train bound for Barrow following the Lancaster FC v Farsley Celtic match on March 2 2019. He and his pal Jon Waite had been drinking in pubs around Lancaster before bo...

File Photo SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Coronavirus cases have climbed to an all-time high in Santa Barbara County.  Between Thanksgiving and the New Year, the county experienced a tenfold increase in new COVID-19 cases. This week, the Public Health Department needed to extend the axes on its graphs that track virus data. “When we look at COVID data by day, what we see is off the chart increases,” public health director Van Do-Reynoso said. “When I say off the chart, I literally mean off th...