However, the widower's tangled love life was exposed on the programme, and there was tragedy for him when he and his pregnant mistress Serena Donovan were held hostage during a siege at the hospital.

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When tragedy strikes, there are always those who look for someone to blame.

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"The Gulf of Mexico explosion was a terrible tragedy for which--as the man in charge of BP when it happened--I will always feel a deep responsibility, regardless of where blame is ultimately found to lie, " Hayward said.

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"I think when you go through tragedy as a city you kind of look for something to cling on, and really I believe that the city of Boston lives and dies with our sports teams and they're going to be watching closely, " longtime Celtics star Paul Pierce said.

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In 1958 tragedy struck when eight players were killed in an air crash at Munich after competing for the European Cup against Red Star Belgrade in Yugoslavia.

BBC: 14 January

The tragedy happened when the Kirkcudbright-based St Amant left Holyhead late at night, heading for Cardigan Bay.

BBC: An RNLI lifeboat