A man has been arrested after two teenagers were found dead at a holiday park in east Yorkshire. Police were called to Little Eden Holiday Park in Bridlington on Wednesday, where a 15-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy were found dead inside one of the rental properties. A 33-year-old man was arrested on Thursday on […]
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The advisory firm founded by Lord Mandelson is on the verge of being placed in administration, a member of staff has told Sky News. Global Counsel (GC), which severed its connection to the former government minister and ambassador to the US earlier this month amid his association with the late paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, employs
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Hillsborough Law will make it a criminal offence for prime ministers and cabinet ministers to deliberately mislead the public – but not backbench MPs. Democracy campaigners say a “historic” measure within the flagship legislation has gone under the radar, which is a move to “criminalise lying” by senior politicians. That is through a new standalone
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson were both arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office – but what is the offence? Misconduct in public office refers to “serious wilful abuse or neglect” of powers relating to the role in public office, according to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). It states there must be a direct
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UK Athletics has admitted causing the death of a Paralympian who was hit on the head by a metal pole. Abdullah Hayayei, 36, who represented the United Arab Emirates, was fatally injured at Newham Leisure Centre, east London, while training in 2017. He was preparing to represent his country in the F34 class discus, javelin
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Pubs will be allowed to stay open until 2am during the World Cup knockout stages this summer – but only if any of the home nations have got that far. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has agreed to extend opening hours for the later rounds of the tournament, which is being hosted jointly by the US,
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A man is dead and a teenage boy is in a critical condition after being stabbed at a skate park in Northampton. Four people have been arrested in connection with Wednesday’s incident in the Briar Hill area, police said. They are two teenage boys, a man, and a woman all from Northampton. All remain in
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Number 10 will be nursing its whiplash this evening as Donald Trump once again throws a diplomatic hand grenade into the UK’s Chagos deal with Mauritius. Posting on Truth Social, Donald Trump implored Sir Keir Starmer to scrap the deal, saying: “DO NOT GIVE AWAY DIEGO GARCIA!” In his long post online, the US president
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Technology firms that do not take down abusive images from their platforms within 48 hours face being blocked from the UK under new rules proposed by the government. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he was putting tech companies “on notice” to take down non-consensual intimate images, and will leave “no stone unturned” to protect
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The towns of Gorton and Denton feel less like political battlegrounds and more like working towns getting on with the day. And perhaps that’s the point. In places like these, elections are rarely theatrical. They are quieter, more incremental, the odd conversation among friends who might pass each other in the street. But that doesn’t mean feelings don’t run deep. In the