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There is “no end in sight to the rain”, forecasters have warned, despite downpours having lashed Britain every day in 2026. A yellow rain warning is in force for the West Midlands, and parts of the south of England and Wales, running until 9pm on Friday. Homes and businesses could flood, power supplies could be […]

It was hardly a ringing endorsement of the deal. But it could have been a lot worse. And after the week Sir Keir Starmer has just been through, President Trump’s grudging support for the controversial Chagos deal will have come as a relief. The good news for the PM was the president signalling he won’t

The only surviving victim of “Suffolk Strangler” Steve Wright has told how if police had taken her story seriously, the other women he went on to murder may still be alive today. The serial killer attempted to kidnap Emily Doherty in the Suffolk town of Felixstowe in 1999. Wright went on to murder five women

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a teacher was attacked, police have said. The assault happened at a school in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed-Powys Police said. Officers said they responded to a report on Thursday afternoon that a teacher had been assaulted by a pupil. They said the teacher

Sir Keir Starmer risks being toppled by the fiasco around Lord Mandelson “unless he takes action”, Baroness Harman has warned. The former deputy Labour leader said the prime minister “seems to have drifted so far away from [his] values in appointing Peter Mandelson” to be US ambassador, and that he must return to them to

In a crowd of hundreds, two voices on the royal visit to Essex would inevitably end up grabbing some of the attention. A man heckling about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in an apparent reference to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, and a reporter asking a question, neither getting any kind of response from the King. The monarch was

A cyber security student at De Montfort University who was fatally stabbed in Leicester city centre has been named as Khaleed Oladipo. The 20-year-old died in hospital on Tuesday night after being stabbed in the chest. Mr Oladipo, who was living in Leicester but was from London, was attacked in Oxford Street, close to the