All news by author David Wilson

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Man in his 30s shot dead in the street as police hunt gunman and ’piece together events’
A man was shot dead in East London today, according to police. Officers were called to reports of an injured man on Linton Road, Barking, at around 4:35 am.
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SpaceX launches Starship rocket and captures booster with giant metal arms
Elon Musk’s huge rocket sets off on test flight before upper stage splashdown and explosion in Indian Ocean
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Palermo mafia organization taken down in worldwide operation
Italian authorities have arrested four people in Palermo. They are accused of being involved with the mafia, extortion, money laundering, and making fake deals with assets.
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Poacher turned gamekeeper: the gambler who outsmarted bookies and now lobbies for a UK tax rise
Multimillionaire Derek Webb, a Labour donor, goes all-in with support for levy on online casinos and bookmakers
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Daughter’s startling confession to police who turned up to check on her parents
Chilling police bodyworn footage shows a woman calmly telling officers how she murdered her own parents, hid their bodies and carried on living alongside them for four years.
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Mine accident leaves one dead and 12 trapped in 1000ft deep defunct goldmine following fatal equipment failure
Tourists plummeted hundreds of feet below the earth’s surface after an ’equipment malfunction’ that has left one person dead, multiple injured, and a dozen people trapped at -1000ft
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Donald Trump will need NATO if re-elected as president, says new alliance chief
Mark Rutte says US would risk isolation if Republican candidate decided to withdraw from military alliance
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£40 million worth of cocaine found in inflatable boat on UK beach; six arrested over 500kg haul
A £40million stash of cocaine hidden on an inflatable boat off the West Sussex coast has been uncovered by investigators.
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Croatian police accused of burning asylum seekers’ phones and passports
Photos of burnt belongings – including documents needed to apply for asylum – are the latest alleged evidence of brutality on EU borders
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Meta launches its AI chatbot in the UK on Facebook and Instagram
The assistant, which has sparked privacy concerns, can also be accessed on £299 Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses
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Urgent warning issued over ’convincing’ fake NHS dentist website that ’steals personal details and money’
Do you know how to spot a dodgy site from the real deal? Find out below
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How private equity and an ambitious landlord put Steward Health Care on life support
Nearly 300,000 internal documents leaked from Steward Health Care to OCCRP show how a private equity firm, real estate investors and top executives drained billions from the hospital operator as it lurched towards bankruptcy and failed hospital patients.
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Disgraced presenter Huw Edwards lists six-bedroom Dulwich home for sale at £4.75 million
Disgraced newsreader Huw Edwards has put his six-bedroom Dulwich home up for sale for £4.75 million after being convicted of child porn offences.
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UK auction house cancels ’disrespectful’ sale of shrunken heads and skulls
Museums and Indian minister criticised Swan auction house in Oxfordshire over sale of human remains
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Yemenis in Russian military plead for help to escape the war in Ukraine
After leaving his war-torn homeland of Yemen, “Hamza” was working for subsistence wages in neighboring Oman when he heard about an attractive opportunity: sign up for a non-combat role with the Russian military for about $3,000 a month.
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Court of Appeal rejects challenge to London Metal Exchange nickel ruling
Commodity trader Elliott previously said the LME’s decision to suspend and cancel nickel trades in March 2022 caused it to lose millions in profit.
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TikTok star Taylor Rousseau Grigg dies suddenly at 25
TikTok star Taylor Rousseau Grigg has died aged 25.
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British food companies lobbied to delay the £1.7 billion plastic packaging tax, as revealed by documents
New scheme to improve recycling rates and tackle pollution was pushed back by Tories after industry complaints
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Five areas of Britain set to be slammed by polar blast
Temperatures are soon going to tumble - from the balmy 18C recorded by the Met Office on Friday in Santon Downham, Suffolk, to freezing in places, including across Perth and Kinross
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Shameless Boris Johnson says he regrets saying sorry over Partygate
The disgraced former PM declined to comment on whether he regretted apologizing to the Queen over celebrations held on the eve of Prince Philip’s funeral.
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Met Police officer charged over death of woman hit by motorcycle escorting Duchess of Edinburgh
Christopher Harrison, 67, will appear in court charged with causing death by careless driving after 81-year-old Helen Holland suffered serious injuries in the collision and died two weeks later.
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Met officers allegedly took hampers and cash bribes to help Fayed persecute staff
Scotland Yard faces claims corrupt officers helped Harrods owner quash potential complaints of abuse
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"Began to complain of a sharp pain in the stomach": official documents received by journalists confirm that Navalny was poisoned in prison
The Insider has obtained access to hundreds of official documents related to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death in the Polar Wolf penal colony in the Russian Far North on Feb. 16, 2024.
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Jenrick condemned for claim UK special forces ‘kill rather than capture terrorists’
Tory leadership candidate made claim in video calling for UK to leave European convention on human rights
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US appears unable to dissuade Netanyahu from his planned invasion of Lebanon
An emboldened Israel appears to believe it can safely ignore a lame duck US president and grab the chance to reset the Middle East’s security dynamics