All news for 2025-06-07

Civil protection agency chief says country is ill-prepared for conflict and calls for urgent upgrades to cold war shelters

A mother of two who stole more than £400,000 from her workplace and spent most of it on TikTok ‘tokens’ for her favorite content creators has been jailed.

Explosives concealed in the carcasses of animals are being employed as a tactic by Russia in the war in Ukraine, it has been alleged.

The 24-year-old man was reportedly the subject of an Interpol red notice issued by French authorities.

In the famous movie "The Devil’s Advocate," one of the main characters, law firm owner John Milton, advises his young colleague, "Learn to profit from everything, and then forget about it"... "You have to play the cards you’re dealt."

A blaze erupted at the Appleby Horse Fair in Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria, engulfing a tent, stall, and van in flames as firefighters worked to tackle the fire.

The watchdog charged with holding MI5 to account rewrote a report into the handling of a violent neo-Nazi agent after the Security Service gave it false information, the BBC can reveal.

The football agent’s joy at winning the first juvenile race of the Flat Turf season in March turned to despair at Epsom when Norman’s Cay encountered a problem.

Ministers have been accused of being “asleep at the wheel” over threats to the UK’s soft power around the world, as some of their own advisers warned a funding crisis is undermining key institutions promoting British influence.

Russia has launched its “largest attack” on the city of Kharkiv since Putin began his invasion of Ukraine, killing at least three people and injuring 21 more.

Thousands of arrests have been made over the past year as part of Labour’s crackdown on illegal working, the government has said.