The mother of one of the Nottingham attack victims has told Sky News it “felt like validation” to hear police themselves had believed the killings were murder rather than a lesser charge. Valdo Calocane admitted manslaughter and attempted murder, but said he wasn’t guilty of murder due to diminished responsibility – a plea prosecutors accepted. […]
Tributes have been paid to journalist and broadcaster Dame Jenni Murray, who has died at the age of 75. Dame Jenni hosted the BBC’s Woman’s Hour for more than 30 years, stepping down in 2020. She received her damehood in recognition of her contribution to broadcasting in 2011, having been awarded an OBE in 1999.
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Senegal says it will appeal the “unfair, unprecedented, and unacceptable decision” to strip it of its Africa Cup of Nations title after a chaotic final against host Morocco. On Tuesday, the appeals board of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) ruled that Senegal had forfeited the final in January by walking off the field in
The IRA was “undefeated” and “defied all attempts to criminalise them”, Gerry Adams told the High Court, as he denied being a member. Mr Adams, who served as president of the Irish republican party Sinn Féin from 1983 to 2018, is facing a legal challenge from three men who were injured in bombings carried out
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Two Iranian nationals have been charged with spying on locations and individuals linked to the Jewish community for Iran. The Crown Prosecution Service said two men had been charged with a National Security Act offence. Frank Ferguson, head of the CPS’s Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said: “We have decided to prosecute two men
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The King has paid tribute to the contribution of people of Nigerian heritage as he held a state banquet for the country’s president. President Bola Tinubu and his wife Oluremi Tinubu are in the UK for a two-day state visit. The King said Britain was “blessed” that many people of Nigerian heritage are “at the
Rwanda has demanded the UK pay more than £100m over the failed migrant deportation deal which Sir Keir Starmer scrapped in 2024 when Labour came to power. During a hearing at The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration, the East African country claimed Britain owed the money under the agreement which was struck by Rishi Sunak’s
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There is a small fraction of the population for whom the release of the government’s new Steel Strategy represents an extraordinarily fascinating, not to mention important, moment. The chances are you are not one of those people. However, allow me to make the case that this document published by the government today represents something very
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Angela Rayner’s return to frontline politics began in earnest this week as the former deputy leader set out the challenge in the upcoming May elections. “We are running out of time,” she told MPs at a party event. “The very survival of the Labour Party is at stake.” The intention is clear: Rayner wants to
As Iran’s government buried its fallen heroes, its supporters came out in strength. Senior security official Ali Larijani was killed in an airstrike two days ago, honoured today along with the crew of the Iranian navy ship sunk by the US at the start of the war. Thousands of mourners gathered for the combined funeral.