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Kirsty Gallacher calls for more police on streets after she was attacked in London

Broadcaster Kirsty Gallacher has called for more police on the streets and greater action on violence against women and girls after she was attacked last year. Gallacher said she was assaulted by a man as she walked to her car after work in central London – but he has never been found. “He turned around […]

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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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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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Northern towns ‘shafted’ in new funding formula that favours London, MPs say

Northern towns could be in line for a funding boost after complaints from MPs that a new system for allocating cash to councils favours London. Ministers have been holding talks with northwest MPs about making tweaks to the fair funding formula – which some MPs claim left them “absolutely shafted”. Politics Live: Trump says Starmer’s

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Man who stabbed nine-year-old Lilia Valutyte in the heart found guilty of murder

A man who stabbed a nine-year-old girl playing outside her mother’s embroidery shop has been found guilty of murder. Deividas Skebas, 26, knifed Lilia Valutyte in the heart as she played with a hula hoop in Boston, Lincolnshire, on 28 July 2022. Skebas, a Lithuanian who has schizophrenia and moved back to the UK just

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