Police investigating the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy in Surrey have charged two teenage boys with murder. The victim, named by police as Luis Gabriel Guembes, was stabbed to death in Guildford on Monday. The suspects, aged 15 and 16, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were also charged with conspiracy to rob […]
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Senior Tories claim the government is in retreat on its controversial Chagos Islands handover, after the latest showdown in parliament was unexpectedly postponed. The government has withdrawn a debate and votes in the House of Lords due on Monday in the latest round of parliamentary “ping pong” on the Chagos legislation. Welcoming the move, a
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A grieving mother has said her teenage son, who died in a car crash that also killed three others, was “my heart, my soul, my everything”. Mohammad Danyaal Asghar-Ali, 19, who was killed in the head-on collision in Bolton earlier this month, “never failed to put a smile on anyone’s face”, his mother said. The
Labour’s high command is attempting to bounce Andy Burnham into a super-quick decision on a Commons by-election comeback, giving him just 24 hours to decide. The party has published a timetable, with the whole selection process being completed next Saturday, suggesting Labour could be planning a dash to the polls as early as next month.
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He is the Lewisham-born actor who, at the age of 73, finds himself in the running for an Oscar. While Delroy Lindo can now reflect that being an Oscar nominee “has a certain ring to it”, the Sinners star says he was taken by surprise at the news when it first broke. “My son called
I have rarely seen Sir Keir Starmer angry. He is a politician who keeps his emotions buttoned up – in public, at least. But he was clearly brimming with anger as he called US President Donald Trump out for his “insulting and frankly appalling” remarks over non-US troops that served in Afghanistan. Trump latest –
Prince Harry has joined Sir Keir Starmer in criticising false claims by Donald Trump that British and NATO troops were not on the frontline in Afghanistan. The Duke of Sussex, who undertook two tours of Afghanistan, said British “sacrifices deserve to be spoken about truthfully and with respect”. “I served there. I made lifelong friends
Over 1,000 non-US NATO troops died in Afghanistan and at least double that number were seriously wounded in supporting US policy there. It is for this reason that many in the UK have condemned Donald Trump, who claimed during the war in Afghanistan that NATO troops stayed “a little off the frontlines”. Beyond the outrage
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The London-listed trading and investing platform IG Group has broken ranks with industry rivals by backing Rachel Reeves’s plans to overhaul Britain’s most popular savings product. Sky News has seen a letter from Michael Healy, the UK managing director of IG Group, in which he argues that cash ISAs “have become too popular relative to
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Cambridgeshire Police have begun a murder investigation after the death of a baby boy with a head injury. Atijus Elertaite, who was three months old, was taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition on January 3. Officers were called to a property in St John’s Chase in the town of March just after 11am. Atijus