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Fri, 19 Nov 2021 09:54:54 GMTDomestic abuse victim ‘living in fear’ after being wrongly told she could not appeal ex-partner’s ‘lenient’ sentence
Exclusive: Victims’ commissioner urging policing bill to be amended so victims are ‘clearly’ informed of their rights
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 09:53:20 GMTBexleyheath: Two children and two women die in London house fire
Crews in breathing apparatus rescued four people but all died at the scene
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 09:50:23 GMTBeekeeping ‘breaks connection with trauma’ for refugees, says charity founder
‘When you learn beekeeping, you’re working with the bees - you don’t need to speak to anyone... You can just be, ‘ Mr Alzein
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 09:36:38 GMTEx-ministers accuse Priti Patel of ‘patronising’ voters with ‘unworkable’ policies to reduce Channel crossings
Former ministers say ‘macho-sounding’ asylum proposals will never come to fruition
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 09:35:10 GMTStop criticising people on social media, culture secretary Nadine Dorries says
Dorries says social media has been ‘hijacked’ by left-wingers who keep challenging her views
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 08:00:52 GMTBertie Ahern urged to apologise for saying loyalists in ‘ghettos’ do not understand Brexit deal
Ex-Taoiseach’s comments are ‘demeaning and degrading’ says DUP MP for East Belfast
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 07:38:34 GMTHungary opposition leader vows to restore western alliances
An independent conservative candidate for prime minister in Hungary is vowing to restore western alliances he says have frayed under the leadership of right-wing leader Viktor Orban
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 02:25:01 GMTMore British troops deployed to guard Polish border amid Belarus migrant crisis
About 100 soldiers from Royal Engineers reportedly being sent to help reinforce frontier
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 01:56:42 GMTHamas to be declared terror group with supporters in UK facing 10 years in prison
Supporters of Palestianian group to face up to 10 years in prison under Terrorism Act
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 01:40:16 GMTDefence chiefs ‘funding slaughter of bears’ with £1m fur hat spend
Boris Johnson - reportedly supportive of sparing the animals - faces call to halt purchases of real skins
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 23:31:33 GMTAfghan girl footballers airlifted to UK on flight funded by Kim Kardashian West
Players aged as young as 12 escaped Afghanistan following Taliban takeover
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:59:10 GMTDrop in racial disparity in stop and searches last year but ‘shocking’ inequality remains
Black people still seven times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:41:28 GMTHow did the Thames recover from being a ‘dead’ river to homing venomous sharks?
London’s storied waterway now home to unexpected collection of fish, mammals and birds and thriving salt marshes but was once a stinking open sewer rife with cholera
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:42:55 GMTMeghan aide ‘regretted’ not giving evidence in High Court privacy battle
Court of Appeal set to rule on newspaper’s bid to overturn privacy judgement
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:28:55 GMTMan charged with trespassing at Buckingham Palace with knife and cocaine
Cameron Kalani is also accused of possessing a knife and class A drugs
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:26:06 GMTNazir Ahmed: Former Labour peer accused of trying to rape young girl in 1970s
Lord denies denies two counts of attempting to rape a girl under 16, indecent assault of a boy under 11 and buggery of a boy under 11
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:21:38 GMTInquiry launched into claims money for Prince Charles’ foundation went to Saudi billionaire’s charity
Charity Commission opens statutory probe into Mahfouz Foundation
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:21:15 GMT‘Betrayal of the north’: Furious leaders demand free Commons vote as Johnson slashes rail plans
‘Everybody in the north is getting a bargain-basement solution’ says South Yorkshire mayor Dan Jarvis
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 19:34:46 GMTRoyal Navy and US salvage team work to recover F-35 that crashed in Mediterranean
The fighter jets cost about £100m each
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 19:22:36 GMTMet Police officer faces gross misconduct proceedings over arrest of Black teen in Tottenham
Constable’s attitude towards 16-year-old was ‘disrespectful’, says IOPC
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 19:08:49 GMTPolice leaders back making misogyny a hate crime after Boris Johnson rejects mounting calls
Change could ‘prevent things escalating from minor offences up to sexually motivated crime and murder’
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:53:03 GMT‘Act of a conman’: Leeds commuters rue PM’s broken promises on HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail
The government’s integrated rail plan reneged on three years’ worth of Boris Johnson’s promises
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:40:50 GMTBrexit causes ‘severe’ slump in seasonal jobs for young Britons in EU, says travel industry
Government urged to consider youth mobility visa
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:34:09 GMTHS2 news – live: Starmer accuses PM of ‘failing’ first levelling-up test after Tories axe northern rail plans
Transport secretary insists changes benefit communities previously promised high speed links
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:25:18 GMTLabour MP refuses to withdraw word ‘dodgy’ to describe Tories in new Commons row
‘I don’t think another word suffices the level of corruption’, says Zarah Sultana
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:24:28 GMTBoris Johnson’s pledge to build 40 new hospitals by 2030 ‘unachievable’, watchdog warns
‘Red’ rating means programme faces ‘major issues’ which ‘do not appear to be manageable or resolvable’
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:22:41 GMTInsulate Britain activist starts hunger strike in jail
‘Our demand will save lives - I must take the fight wherever I go,’ says scientist
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:11:28 GMTBin storage room advertised as ‘studio flat’ for £600 a month rent
Property mocked as ‘essentially a dungeon with an ensuite’ before listing swiftly removed by OpenRent and Rightmove
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:00:21 GMTUK ‘dangerously close to elected dictatorship’ under Boris Johnson, Ken Clarke warns
‘He gets angry if the courts or parliament try to interfere ... he thinks he should not be impeded in these ways’
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:49:17 GMTMan who made neighbours’ lives a ‘misery’ by blaring James Blunt songs landed with £1,400 fine
Singer-songwriter’s 2004 mega-hit ‘You’re Beautiful’ was identifiable on multiple occasions
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:35:28 GMTMajor investigation as water companies admit ‘unpermitted sewage’ may have been dumped in rivers
Firms gound guilty could be fined up to 10 per cent of annual turnover or prosecuted
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:16:47 GMTCovid cases: UK suffers highest daily tally in a month
Another 46,807 new infections recorded in 24 hours
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:01:48 GMTDawn Sturgess: Public inquiry to be held into death of Salisbury novichok victim
Home secretary Priti Patel announced there will be an inquiry into the novichok death
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:36:46 GMTIrina Izmestieva: Wife of jailed Russian tycoon found dead in west London home
Friends are calling for MI5 to investigate but so far no signs of foul play
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:30:02 GMTOxford Street store evacuated following reports of man with knife
No arrests made and no reports of injuries
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:00:36 GMTNo 10 backs away from its proposals for limiting MPs’ second jobs after criticism
Chris Bryant, head of the Commons standards committee, said the plans were ‘for the birds’
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 15:28:42 GMTMan stabbed to death girlfriend after ‘psychotic’ reaction to cannabis brownie, court told
Lauren Bloomer ‘recorded her own murder’ on mobile phone as she was stabbed more than 30 times
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 15:17:29 GMTMan who killed university worker during Birmingham stabbing spree jailed for life
Paranoid schizophrenic who also knifed seven others must serve at least 21 years, initially in hospital
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 15:10:44 GMTLiverpool bomb attack: Police confirm discovery of ‘significant items’ at home of Emad Al Swealmeen
Police also said that they have traced a relative of al-Swealmeen and would be speaking with them soon
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:11:38 GMTNorthern transport chiefs brand government’s rail plan ‘woefully inadequate’ and ‘second class’
Government cutting back HS2 leg to Leeds and Northern Powerhouse Rail plans
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 13:58:02 GMT‘Immoral’ developers ‘targeting rural areas and refusing to build on brownfield sites’
‘We need to direct councils and developers to use these sites’
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 13:19:58 GMTSocial care architect ‘very disappointed’ and ‘uncomfortable’ with government changes to cost cap
Poorer pensioners ‘will be much less protected against catastrophic risk’
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 12:35:50 GMTAlbanian ambassador strenuously denies country will hold Britain’s asylum seekers
Qirjako Qirko slams reports that country may hold UK migrants while they are processed as ‘totally unacceptable’, saying it ‘would never happen, because it’s against international law’
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 11:58:45 GMTWarwick stabbing: Teenagers arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after attack at university halls
a 19-year-old was taken to hospital following the attack
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 11:53:46 GMTBus drivers being offered £4,000 sign-on bonus amid staff shortages
First Glasgow announced the extra incentive to drivers
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 11:31:59 GMTGovernment eyeing deal to send migrants to Albania and other ‘international partners’, says justice secretary
Ministers looking at ‘all legitimate means’ to deter migrants, says Dominic Raab
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 11:18:54 GMTJeremy Corbyn to take legal action over Tory councillor’s tweet on Liverpool attack
Paul Nickerson has apologised and claims his account was hacked
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 11:06:48 GMTHospital chief apologises after staff played ‘Halloween bingo’ in A&E with points for spotting spiking victims
Categories that staff were urged to tick off for points included ‘Spiked’ and ‘Stabby McStabberson’
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 11:05:40 GMTSleaze reforms could place cap on MPs’ second job earnings, says government
Changes could limit amount earned, says deputy PM – as standards committee chief dismisses government plan as ‘for the birds’
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:58:36 GMTAristocrat who sexually abused child at stately home spared jail due to brain injury
The judge condemned the ‘unacceptable’ delay in prosecuting Howard
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:16:44 GMTPrisoners to be banned from drinking when freed and get sobriety tags to cut alcohol-fuelled crimes
Serious and prolific offenders to be tagged with devices which monitor alcohol levels