Gerry Adams was “directly responsible for and complicit” in the decisions made by the Provisional IRA to detonate bombs on the British mainland, the High Court has heard. Three men are bringing legal action against the former Sinn Fein president and are seeking £1 in damages. John Clark, a victim of the 1973 Old Bailey bombing in […]
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Cancer death rates in the UK have fallen to a historic new low, Cancer Research UK has announced. The charity, which analysed figures, said death rates had fallen by 11% in the past decade. It added that 247 in every 100,000 people in the UK are thought to die from cancer in any given year.
General Sir Richard Barrons told Sky News this meant politicians would have to make “very difficult choices” to shift investment away from peacetime priorities such as health and welfare but that – following the eruption of war between the US and Israel against Iran – the world has become even more dangerous than when his
Who is this man? So far, that question has proved impossible to answer. Detectives hope that revealing the face of the man they found dead in a wetsuit can unlock a long-running mystery. It began just after 8am on 17 October 2024, when a dog walker found the man’s body in a reservoir in Mid Wales.
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A fire at a vape shop has forced the closure of Scotland’s busiest railway station “until further notice”, Network Rail says. Dozens of trains were cancelled on Sunday after a four-storey building in Union Street, close to Glasgow Central Station, caught fire. The building has partially collapsed, and the station will not reopen on Monday
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Two drivers have died after a four-vehicle collision near Bristol. Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash, on the A370 at Yanley, near Long Ashton, at about 7.45pm on Saturday, Avon and Somerset Police said. Two car drivers died at the scene despite the efforts of the emergency services, the force added.
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Fans were involved in what police have described as “shameful” clashes on the pitch after Celtic knocked Rangers out of the Scottish Cup on penalties. Some Celtic fans ran on to the field at the final whistle to celebrate after their team secured a 4-2 win in the shootout, and a place in the competition’s
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Specialists from Britain’s Health Security Agency (UKHSA) are investigating a cluster of Legionnaires’ disease cases linked to north and southwest London. The public health body is working to discover whether the cases are linked and to establish their possible source. Legionnaires’ disease is a severe pneumonia, which is caught by breathing in tiny droplets of
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Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has called on Sir Keir Starmer to cancel the King’s US state visit over the war in Iran. The King is due to visit the US next month. Politics Live: PM ‘learning lessons from what went wrong in Iraq’ Sir Ed said: “Keir Starmer should advise the King that
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“We will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!” The latest late-night broadside from Donald Trump has torn another strip off the tattered remains of the special relationship Sir Keir Starmer has spent the past year trying to cultivate. Politics Live: ‘PM learning lessons from what went wrong in Iraq’
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