A girl’s body has been found after a car carrying five people crashed into a river in Cambridgeshire. The vehicle left the road and entered the River Nene near Wisbech at about 8.20pm on Tuesday, according to police. There were two males and three females aged between 16 and 18 in the car when the […]
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Fly-tippers in England could be forced to carry out unpaid clean-ups of streets, parks and dumping hotspots under new plans announced by the government. So-called “clean-up squads” will see fly-tippers given conditional cautions by local authorities, making them clear up waste for up to 20 hours. Currently, fly-tippers are only punished after conviction, often after
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A grieving widow has received a criminal conviction over an unpaid £35 tax bill on her husband’s car, which wasn’t paid in the weeks after his death. The 51-year-old woman was taken to court by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) over the slip-up – which happened last July while she was in mourning
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An advert for an AI video editing tool which said it could “erase anything” – implying users could remove a woman’s clothing – has been banned. The advertising regulator found the YouTube ad for PixVideo – AI Video Maker, seen in January, showing “before” and “after” images of a young woman, the first with a
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Warning: This article addresses child sexual abuse that readers may find distressing Marie and Dan say their daughter’s childhood stopped when she was just 12 years old. “Her innocence was taken away,” Dan says. Their child believed she was talking online to a 14-year-old boy from London. In fact, she was being preyed on by
Graves which are more than a century old could be reused in cemeteries across England and Wales under new proposals – but relatives will be able to object and war graves will be protected. The Law Commission has recommended modernising laws, some of which have not been altered for more than 170 years,- to tackle
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Hamid Karzai has claimed that the Pakistani government wants to promote “anarchy and weakness” in Afghanistan to ensure the country is “downtrodden”. Speaking to Sky’s Yalda Hakim, the former Afghan president condemned the bombing of his country by Islamabad. Fighting began in late February when Pakistan began targeting Afghanistan with airstrikes that they claim targeted
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Senegal has been stripped of the Africa Cup of Nations for misconduct in the tournament final, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has ruled. The CAF Appeal Board said that Senegal is “declared to have forfeited” the final in January. The result will be recorded as a 3-0 win for Morocco, the tournament hosts. Senegal
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The UK government is preparing a possible court case against former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich after he missed a deadline to release £2.5bn he raised from the sale of the club. It comes after Sir Keir Starmer announced in mid-December that the Treasury was issuing a licence for the transfer of the frozen funds to
The human cost of Israel and America’s air campaign on Iran is mounting, nowhere more painfully felt than in the children’s wards of its hospitals. In the intensive care unit of one, four-year-old Anita lies in a coma with severe head injuries a few days after being pulled out of the rubble of her home
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