Three men have denied involvement in a plot to rape and sexually assault another man’s wife after she had been drugged by her husband. A man in his 60s, who is from the Stockport area but cannot be named as it would identify the alleged victim, last month denied 48 offences dating back to 2004. […]
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British households have been told to brace for a surge in inflation and multiple interest rate hikes this year after surging oil and gas prices sparked by Donald Trump’s war on Iran. Tehran has launched a series of retaliatory strikes on energy sites in the Gulf since the conflict began, and has throttled the key
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A Russian warship and a sanctioned oil tanker was shadowed by a Royal Navy warship and helicopter for 48 hours in the English Channel. HMS Mersey, based in Portsmouth, and a Wildcat helicopter were scrambled to monitor the Russian Steregushchiy-class frigate RFN Soobrazitelny and tanker MV Anatoly Kolodkin. A Royal Navy spokesman said the operation
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The government has said it will directly fund the clear-up of 48,000 tonnes of waste at illegal tips in the north of England, following criticism of a north-south divide on tackling waste crime. Sky News had highlighted how local people in Bickershaw, near Wigan – whose homes have been infested with rats because of the
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Gerry Adams has said he came to London’s High Court “to assert the legitimacy of the republican cause” and “reject the allegations” he was behind three IRA bombings. Three men injured in those incidents accuse the former Sinn Fein president of having been a top member of the Provisional IRA at the time. Mr Adams
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Nicola Sturgeon, the nationalist firebrand who dominated Scottish politics for almost a decade, has bowed out with an emotional valedictory speech. Addressing the Scottish parliament for the final time, the former first minister said it was a wrench to leave Holyrood, but the time was right to move on. She was elected to the newly
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The selling of crossbows and hunting arrows will be banned under government plans following a series of violent attacks. The Home Office said existing crossbow owners will also need a licence. It follows the death of BBC racing commentator John Hunt’s wife and two of his daughters, who were murdered in a crossbow and knife
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Former Google executive Matt Brittin is expected to be the next director-general of the BBC. He would follow in the footsteps of the outgoing Tim Davie, who has held the position for nearly six years. And yes, despite a female deputy director-general in 2016 – Anne Bulford – all 16 who came before have been
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Angela Rayner was “wrong” to stage a high-profile intervention criticising the direction of Sir Keir Starmer’s government this week, Harriet Harman has said. Speaking to Sky News’ political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast, the veteran Labour peer said Ms Rayner had offered just “one criticism after another” rather than “positive proposals”. Politics
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The NHS “came close to collapse” during the pandemic, the chair of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry has said. “We coped, but only just,” Baroness Heather Hallett concluded in the inquiry’s third report, released on Thursday. She said UK healthcare systems “teetered on the brink of total collapse”. Module 3, the third of the inquiry’s 10
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