All news by author David Wilson

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Brexit delays to seed imports could hit crop production
Tomato and pepper growers call for UK to strike deal with EU to avoid disruption and duplicate testing
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Girl, 13, died after taking sip of Costa Coffee hot chocolate
Hannah Jacobs died within hours of drinking a hot chocolate that was supposed to be made with soya milk in February 2022, a coroner is told. Her mother says she informed staff her daughter had a severe dairy allergy when ordering the drink.
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Boris Johnson ’courted for Telegraph role’ as Nadhim Zahawi plots leadership bid
Backers are reportedly told the former prime minister has been sounded out as paper’s global editor-in-chief
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Heat aggravated by carbon pollution killed 50,000 in Europe last year
Continent is warming at much faster rate than other parts of world, leading to fires, drought and health problems
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Girl, 11, stabbed in ‘targeted attack’ in London’s Leicester Square, saved by tea shop worker
A security guard tackled a knifeman to the ground as he attacked an 11-year-old girl and a woman in central London’s Leicester Square.
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Majority in UK support new tax on producers of ultra-processed and junk food
Poll findings prompt calls for ministers to impose sugar tax-style levy on companies to combat obesity
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Justice secretary warns impact of far-right riots will be felt for months and years to come
The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) said 779 people have been arrested over the riots, with courts working extended hours to deal with those who were charged.
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Team GB staff saved the life of an Olympic boxing coach after he suffered a cardiac arrest in Paris
A Team GB doctor and physio helped to save the life of the head coach of the Uzbekistan boxing team at the Paris Olympics.
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Ministry of Defence pays out £1.7m in fines of discrimination claims last year
Earlier this year the department revealed there had been 93 formal complaints of bullying made by staff in 2023 – more than four times the number in 2019
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The family of Georgian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili owns undisclosed real estate in Russia
Ivanishvili also appears to retain a Russian company through an offshore structure, despite promising to divest from Russia.
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Israeli airstrike hits Gaza school killing at least 60 Palestinians sheltering inside
At least 60 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Tabeen school in central Gaza City on Saturday morning – the facility was being used as a shelter
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How day 14 of the Olympics went for the UK team
Roberts wins bouldering gold; track cycling, athletics and more
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Slovakia Gov’t plans to disband the police agency responsible for investigating corruption
Slovakia’s government confirmed this week that it would disband a police agency investigating associates of ruling party politicians, while the justice minister freed a former prosecutor who was jailed after accepting bribes from a crime boss.
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Sellafield issues an apology after pleading guilty to a series of cybersecurity failings
Nuclear site awaits sentencing over breaches that it admitted could have threatened national security
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Huge gas cylinder fire shuts major rail line in and out of London
A huge fire involving a gas cylinder has shut down a major train line between Suffolk and London.
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Repossession claims in England and Wales reach five-year high
Both bank and landlord cases rise but remain below pre-Covid levels, despite tough cycle of interest rate rises
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British crocodile expert Adam Britton jailed for raping, torturing and killing dozens of dogs
Britton, a renowned zoologist, was sentenced at the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Australia, by a judge who had to warn the gallery that details of his offences could cause a "nervous shock".
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Chilling image shows a teenage Taylor Swift ’ISIS suspect’ posing with zombie knives after allegedly admitting to a suicide bomb plot
A suspected ISIS-inspired terrorist who plotted a terror attack at a Taylor Swift concert has been pictured posing with zombie knives.
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’Match-match’ politicians violated electoral ban
A Facebook page paid millions of pesos to promote content favorable to politicians from the Citizen Movement, including Samuel García, Mariana Rodríguez and Jorge Álvarez Máynez.
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Why Elon Musk is taking on Keir Starmer over UK’s far-right riots
From posting about civil war being ‘inevitable’ to tweeting at Keir Starmer about the Rotherham grooming gang scandal – surely Musk knows exactly what he’s doing with his platform, writes James Moore
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UK arrests two in "Russian Coms" scam, shuts down platform
U.K. authorities announced Thursday in London the arrest of two individuals suspected of developing and administering the “Russian Coms” caller ID spoofing service, believed to have defrauded hundreds of thousands of people out of millions of dollars.
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Retailers advised to shut early amid concerns over potential riots
Some retailers have been advised to "err on the side of caution" amid worries of further disorder following vandalism, arson and looting in recent days.
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Spanish journalist or Russian spy? The mystery of Pablo González’s double life
Among the Russians freed in this week’s historic exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West was a Russian-born freelance journalist from Spain who had been based in Poland since 2019
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Thousands of police ready as rioters warned they will be dealt with quickly
Police are preparing for more possible riots across England - with reports at least 30 protests could be planned for Wednesday
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Dirty money flows into the world’s most powerful banks
Thousands of secret suspicious activity reports offer a never-before-seen picture of corruption and complicity — and how the government lets it flourish.