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When will the rain end? What the Met Office is saying after heavy downpours across UK

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 […]

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Nancy Guthrie: A neighbourhood left stunned by a crime that’s mystifying America

The Catalina Foothills, a desert community just north of Tucson, Arizona, isn’t the sort of place where these things happen. But it’s now the focus of a crime that’s mystifying America. A long line of TV reporters from all over the world are positioned outside Nancy Guthrie’s home, an expansive red brick bungalow set back

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Only surviving victim of ‘Suffolk Strangler’ Steve Wright says others may have lived if police had taken her seriously

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

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Bank of England chief Andrew Bailey ‘shocked’ by Peter Mandelson’s alleged leaks to Jeffrey Epstein

Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, is not given to emotional outbursts or shooting from the hip. Being measured in your public comments is part of the job description for running a central bank, and Mr Bailey has stuck to it since succeeding Mark Carney in 2020. (To understand the constraints of the

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‘The market’s in seek and destroy mode’: The new Anthropic AI model scaring lawyers and legal firms

Anthropic, one of the biggest and most influential tech companies in the world, is launching a new model: Claude Opus 4.6. Until now, this would mostly be big news for techies, where Anthropic is admired as the maker of Claude Code, the code-writing AI tool which many engineers say is taking over their work entirely.

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15-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after teacher attacked, police say

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

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Mandelson saga will bring PM down unless he takes ‘necessary action’, Harman warns

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

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King dodging heckler question on Andrew will frustrate those who want him to say more

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

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Student from De Montfort University who died after being stabbed in Leicester named as Khaleed Oladipo

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

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