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Police watchdog to investigate Devon and Cornwall Police over Plymouth shooter
The police watchdog has said it will be launching an investigation into the Devon and Cornwall force.


Afghanistan: what has endless war achieved?
All the Afghan, British and American lives lost and the decades spent bogged down in the conflict.


Plymouth vicar says ‘life changed very quickly last night’ after five died in shooting
We spoke to Luke Pollard, the MP for the area, and Father Richard Silk, who's been leading the effort to support people here.


Plymouth gunman kills five people, including his mother and three-year-old girl
It took less than 10 minutes for 22-year-old Jake Davison to gun down five people, including his own mother and a three-year-old girl, before turning his weapon on himself.


‘I’ve almost been in tears listening to my former colleagues in Afghanistan’, says former British ambassador
We spoke to Sir William Patey, a former British ambassador to Afghanistan, and started by asking him for his thoughts on what's happening in the country now.


Plymouth shooting: What does ‘incel’ mean?
We spoke to the writer Laura Bates, who spent two years researching online misogynistic groups and began by asking her to explain the term “incel”.


Plymouth shooting: What do we know about Jake Davison?
What do we know about Jake Davison? He had been working as an apprentice for defence and engineering company Babcock International.


Moments of joy for A-level students from some of the most disadvantaged backgrounds
It's been A-level results day for students in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, and despite all the disruption caused by the pandemic, record numbers of them have won top grades. 


Streatham terrorist inquest shown dramatic footage of his final moments
Dramatic footage showing the final moments of Sudesh Amman's life after he was shot by undercover police has been shown at his inquest.


‘Nobody should be diminishing those results’ A-level students have achieved, says Universities Minister Michelle Donelan
We spoke to the Universities Minister Michelle Donelan, and began by putting it to her that if you can't compare these results to any other year - as her boss Gavin Williamson said - then doesn't that defeat the point of the exam system?


Record number of Scottish students win university places despite slight fall in Highers passes
In Scotland, pass rates in Highers and Advanced Highers have slipped since last year, but they're still far above pre-pandemic levels, as Scotland’s education secretary praised students for achieving such strong results "under extraordinary circums...


Record high in top grade A-level results
There’s something to celebrate for students whose education has been disrupted for another year by the pandemic - a record number of A and A* grades in A-levels in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. 


Prince Andrew ‘can’t ignore judicial process’, says Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer
We spoke to Virginia Giuffre's lawyer David Boies - he's also chairman of the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner - and began by asking him what was being alleged about the involvement of Prince Andrew in her coercion. 


Virginia Giuffre sues Prince Andrew in US over alleged sexual assault
An American woman who says she was a victim of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has filed a lawsuit in New York, accusing Prince Andrew of sexually abusing her when she was just 17.


Mother dies after calling police seven times about abusive boyfriend
Daniela Espirito Santo died after her boyfriend assaulted her hours after he was released on bail for attacking her earlier in the day.



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