The King has paid tribute to the contribution of people of Nigerian heritage as he held a state banquet for the country’s president. President Bola Tinubu and his wife Oluremi Tinubu are in the UK for a two-day state visit. The King said Britain was “blessed” that many people of Nigerian heritage are “at the […]
Sir John Major has attacked Donald Trump over the Iran war and accused Sir Keir Starmer of a “demeaning” policy of “tiptoeing” around the president. The former prime minister said President Trump should have sought United Nations backing for the war and claimed it would not end hostilities in the Middle East. In a hard-hitting
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Rwanda has demanded the UK pay more than £100m over the failed migrant deportation deal which Sir Keir Starmer scrapped in 2024 when Labour came to power. During a hearing at The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration, the East African country claimed Britain owed the money under the agreement which was struck by Rishi Sunak’s
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Angela Rayner’s return to frontline politics began in earnest this week as the former deputy leader set out the challenge in the upcoming May elections. “We are running out of time,” she told MPs at a party event. “The very survival of the Labour Party is at stake.” The intention is clear: Rayner wants to
A girl’s body has been found after a car carrying five people crashed into a river in Cambridgeshire. The vehicle left the road and entered the River Nene near Wisbech at about 8.20pm on Tuesday, according to police. There were two males and three females aged between 16 and 18 in the car when the
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A man who raped a 14-year-old girl after offering her a lift home at an Aberdeen taxi rank has been jailed for 12 years. Victor Popa, 35, lured the drunk teenager into his vehicle during the early hours of 15 January 2023 and subjected her to the serious sexual assault in the Gordon’s Mills Place
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Fly-tippers in England could be forced to carry out unpaid clean-ups of streets, parks and dumping hotspots under new plans announced by the government. So-called “clean-up squads” will see fly-tippers given conditional cautions by local authorities, making them clear up waste for up to 20 hours. Currently, fly-tippers are only punished after conviction, often after
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A grieving widow has received a criminal conviction over an unpaid £35 tax bill on her husband’s car, which wasn’t paid in the weeks after his death. The 51-year-old woman was taken to court by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) over the slip-up – which happened last July while she was in mourning
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An advert for an AI video editing tool which said it could “erase anything” – implying users could remove a woman’s clothing – has been banned. The advertising regulator found the YouTube ad for PixVideo – AI Video Maker, seen in January, showing “before” and “after” images of a young woman, the first with a
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Warning: This article addresses child sexual abuse that readers may find distressing Marie and Dan say their daughter’s childhood stopped when she was just 12 years old. “Her innocence was taken away,” Dan says. Their child believed she was talking online to a 14-year-old boy from London. In fact, she was being preyed on by