The body of a man who disappeared during a Christmas Day swim in Devon is believed to have been found. It is thought to be Matthew Upham, one of two men who went missing at Budleigh Salterton last month. Formal identification hasn’t yet taken place, but Devon and Cornwall Police said the family of a […]
A new mural warning the US not to launch a military strike on Iran has been unveiled in a square in central Tehran. The painted image features damaged planes on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier with the slogan: “If you sow the wind, you will reap the whirlwind,” in Farsi and English. The
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I feel like I’ve seen this horror movie before. Having grown up in Northern Ireland and reported from there for 30 years, reporting the United States now triggers déjà vu. Minnesota is not Belfast and the United States is not Northern Ireland in 1972, but history does not need to repeat itself exactly to rhyme.
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Andy Burnham has said he is “disappointed” after Labour’s governing body blocked him from standing as an MP at the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election. Mr Burnham formally requested permission on Saturday to stand for the contest. As mayor of Greater Manchester, he needed approval to contest a different political election. Mr Burnham’s return to
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It has been a frenzied 48 hours of Labour leadership speculation after Andy Burnham tried to throw his hat in the ring for a return to parliament. On Sunday, Starmer’s allies emphatically tried to shut that down, as the NEC’s panel voted 8-1 to block the Manchester mayor’s bid. Only the deputy Labour leader and
The Met Office has issued a series of yellow warnings for heavy rain covering Monday and Tuesday. The first one is for central and southern parts of Northern Ireland, affecting areas including Enniskillen, Omagh and Newry. It begins at midday on Monday and continues until 6pm. The warnings for Monday. Pic: Met Office Image: The
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There’s a lot in the announcement, though none of the proposals are exactly new. There have been calls for merging our 43 local police forces into bigger regional constabularies for two decades at least, almost as long as I’ve been a crime reporter. The government argument – difficult to counter – is that it’s a
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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said there is a “strong case” for banning under-16s from social media. While the government does not yet have an official position on an Australian-style ban on children accessing the platforms, Ms Mahmood‘s intervention makes it more likely. However, as the minister responsible for policing, the home secretary rejected the
Some 140,000 households are without power in the United States as a huge winter storm stretches from the southern Rocky Mountains in the west of the country to New England on the northeast coast. Heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain are threatening almost 180 million people – more than half the population – the National
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More than 810,000 homes are without power and thousands of flights have been cancelled as a huge winter storm hits the US, from the southern Rocky Mountains to New England. At least 180 million people in 37 states – more than half America’s population – are affected, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). Seventeen