A turkey butcher who killed her girlfriend and cut her in half before burying her in a garden has been found guilty of murder. Anna Podedworna, from Poland, killed Izabela Zablocka with a horse figurine before trussing her up “like a chicken” with electrical tape and burying her remains wrapped in bin bags in a […]
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A man is being sought by police after a rape was reported on a university campus. The victim, a man in his 20s, said they were raped by another man at the Bognor Regis campus of the University of Chichester in West Sussex. Police said the incident took place between 10pm and 10.45pm on 5
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Rainfall records have been broken across Britain as a phenomenon called a “blocking pattern” is causing the wet weather to linger. Blocks are “areas of high pressure that remain nearly stationary and distort the usual […] progression of pressure systems,” the Met Office says. The pattern has settled over northern Europe, preventing weather fronts from
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A teenage boy who murdered 12-year-old Birmingham schoolboy Leo Ross by stabbing him in the stomach in a random attack has been detained for a minimum of 13 years. The 15-year-old, who was 14 at the time of the attack and cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to murder at a hearing in
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Eighteen-year-olds will soon be permitted to drive trains, the government has said, following concerns about the number of drivers approaching retirement. Legislation to lower the minimum age limit from 20 to 18 will be brought before parliament this week, the Department for Transport (DfT) has announced, with the change due to come into effect from
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“New facts meant the need for a new response” – that is how one palace source described this latest statement and why it was issued now. The timing was still extraordinary. Do not underestimate how significant it is that it was released just a matter of hours after Prince William had landed in Saudi Arabia.
With a prime minister under extreme fire and unable to command a majority in the Commons on matters of personal authority, is politics too self-absorbed to fix a problem as broken as the system for special educational needs provision? Plans to reform the 12-year-old approach to SEND are expected to be announced within weeks –
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A member of a US congressional committee investigating the Epstein affair has said: “Maybe this will be the end of the monarchy.” Congressman Ro Khanna says he thinks King Charles has questions to answer about the scandal that has embroiled his younger brother, adding: “I think this is the most vulnerable the British monarchy has
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Sir Keir Starmer will chair a cabinet session today after earning a lifeline from Labour MPs during a crunch meeting in which he declared: “I’m not prepared to walk away.” The prime minister started the week amid the biggest crisis of his premiership amid the fallout from his appointment of Lord Mandelson as his US
Buckingham Palace says it will support police if contacted over allegations about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The palace also said King Charles had “profound concern” over claims about his brother, in a statement released following revelations in the Epstein files. Thames Valley Police has said it is assessing claims that Andrew shared confidential documents with the late