One person has died in a collision involving a car and a train at a level crossing in Cambridgeshire. The person was pronounced dead at the scene at the Dimmocks Cote level crossing in Ely, British Transport Police (BTP) said. Police were first called at 10.15am on Tuesday following reports of a collision at the […]
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China used a Border Force officer to carry out “shadow policing operations” in the UK including spying on dissidents and forcing entry to a suspected fraudster’s flat, a court has heard. Retired Hong Kong police superintendent Chung Biu (Bill) Yuen, 65, is alleged to have tasked Chi Leung (Peter) Wai, 38 – who worked for
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The economic impacts of the Iran war are already being felt in global markets, and could raise energy prices and wider consumer bills in the UK before long. The immediate impact of American and Israeli attacks on Iran, and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes on numerous neighbours in the Middle East, has been to push up oil
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The after-effects of a debacle that has seen taxpayers pay hundreds of millions for a pair of ferries at nearly four times the original budget, are continuing with the harbour that was too small to fit the ships set to be taken into public ownership. The affair has been one of Scotland’s biggest political scandals
A gang that used drones to smuggle drugs, weapons and phones into prisons has been jailed by a judge who likened their operation to “Uber Eats or Deliveroo”. Harrow Crown Court heard that Shafaghatullah Mohseni, 29, had orchestrated dozens of “drops” to inmates across London and southeast England between 2 December 2024 and 26 February
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The UK’s economic forecast has been downgraded for 2026 but will then improve – and unemployment will peak this year, the chancellor has revealed. Giving her spring statement in the House of Commons, Rachel Reeves said gross domestic product (GDP) will now grow “slightly slower in 2026” than forecast at November’s autumn budget, but will
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More than 1,000 British nationals have arrived back in the UK on commercial flights from the Middle East, Sir Keir Starmer has said. It comes as an estimated 300,000 Britons are believed to be in affected regions of the Middle East and the US-Israeli attacks on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes are into their fifth
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BAFTAs host Alan Cumming has spoken out about the controversy surrounding the broadcast of the film awards, describing it as a “trauma triggering shitshow”. During the ceremony, as Sinners stars Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting an award on stage, a racial slur was shouted out by Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson, who was
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A man has been charged after a “disturbance” in Edinburgh, in which two people needed hospital treatment. Armed police locked down the Calder Gardens area of the Scottish capital following reports of a man with a bladed weapon at about 8.25am on Monday. A stand-off followed within the Cobbinshaw House tower block, which eventually came
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England players have raised concerns with their union about not wanting to be pressured into speaking out on political issues around the World Cup in the US, Sky News can reveal. There are 100 days to go until another politically-charged tournament, with concerns raised by rights groups about Donald Trump’s travel bans, immigration crackdowns, the
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