All news by author Elizabeth Baker

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Dark update on Liam Payne’s ’erratic’ hotel struggles as texts from escorts come to light
Liam Payne’s last movements before he fell to his death from the third-floor balcony of the Casa Sur Palermo hotel are being traced by police - with now five names being investigated
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Tory peer faces suspension over ’Lord Poppadom’ comment
Lady Meyer found to have breached harassment rules with behaviour towards Lord Dholakia that had ‘racial element’
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Oligarch’s daughter buys £32.5m mansion, then sues seller over ’millions of moths’
Iya Patarkatsishvili and husband Dr Yevhen Hunyak are suing the previous owner of their luxury £32.5million London mansion after alleging he did not disclose a moth infestation
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Baby girl fights for life after attack by ’XL Bully’ dog
A baby girl is fighting for her life in hospital after being bitten by an ‘XL Bully-type’ dog in Kent.
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11-year-old girl rescued off Italian coast after three days clinging to tire tubes
Girl from Sierra Leone is only person rescued after shipwreck that is feared to have killed more than 40 people
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How the drug trade funded Bashar al-Assad’s £5 billion regime in Syria
Syrian rebels seized control of Damascus in an offensive that toppled the iron-fisted ‘tyrant’ President Bashar al-Assad and took the world by surprise.
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UK uses DragonFire laser to shoot down aerial drone in a groundbreaking test
An industry team has for the first time destroyed an aerial target using a high-power shot with its DragonFire laser, the British Defence Ministry announced Friday.
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Hundreds of tractors converge on Westminster in latest farmers’ protest
Farmers and tractors have started to descend into London today to protest against the Labour government’s changes to inheritance tax.
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Family’s screams captured as house explodes, but they achieve a ’miracle survival’ in London
The neighbour to an East London house which was destroyed in an explosion last night says it was a ‘miracle’ no one in his property was hurt.
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UK monitoring British jihadists in Syria closely
Any prospect of British jihadists returning from Syria would be "a concern" and the UK is keeping "a very close eye" on the situation, a Home Office minister has said.
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A woman has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Irish boy Kyran Durnin
Eight-year-old boy believed to have disappeared two years ago but only reported missing in August
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Teen accused of fatally stabbing girl in Croydon over ’fight about a teddy bear
A teenage boy has been accused of stabbing a girl in Croydon in a fight over a teddy bear.
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Bashar al-Assad’s plane ’disappears’ as family flees Syria amid rebel capture of Damascus
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s plane has disappeared from flight tracking information after he and his family reportedly fled the country as rebels took Damascus
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South Korea arrests former defense minister over failed martial law attempt
Kim Yong-hyun, who resigned earlier this week, is seen as central to President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief martial law declaration
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King Charles and Queen Camilla unveil royal Christmas card
The King and Queen have unveiled this year’s royal Christmas card, unveiling a photograph taken in the garden at Buckingham Palace.
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Team GB Olympic champion hospitalized after high-speed bike crash into spectators
Team GB’s Olympic champion cyclist Katy Marchant was taken to hospital after crashing into spectators during an event in London on Saturday.
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Four-year-old boy dies after being struck by bus in Tipton
Officers are seeking dash cam footage of the incident which happened shortly before 4.55pm on Friday in High Street, Tipton, in Sandwell.
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Teenage Everton fan spent ‘all his savings’ flying from Australia for postponed Merseyside derby
Football fans were left frustrated by the postponement of Saturday’s Merseyside derby between Everton and Liverpool, but none more so than a teenage Everton supporter who spent ‘all his savings’ flying from Australia to attend the game.
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Contract for 14 new trains from FirstGroup will help give County Durham site a future
A £500m deal for 14 new trains has secured hundreds of jobs at Hitachi’s factory in north-east England.
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Bloody Sunday: former soldier pleads not guilty to double murder in Belfast trial
Attempt to have case dismissed refused as Soldier F accused of killing James Wray and William McKinney
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Syrian insurgents advance on Homs, aiming for Damascus and forcing thousands to flee
Islamist-led opposition forces have captured Aleppo and Hama, catching President Assad’s regime off guard, and could soon have a route to the capital
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Girl, 12, third child arrested on suspicion of arson over ex-Debenhams fire
A 12-year-old girl has become the third child to be arrested on suspicion of arson following a blaze at a former Debenhams in Kent.
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Loganair flight forced to return to Manchester Airport after lightning shatters windshield
Loganair Flight LM26 returned to Manchester "under emergency conditions" after a "potential lightning strike" fractured the aircraft’s windshield
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Property tycoon sentenced to death for £34 billion bank fraud
A property tycoon in Vietnam is facing having to come up with more than £7 billion in a race to save her life.
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Crypto ‘Laundromat’ linked to Russian financial sector and cocaine trade, police say
Britain’s National Crime Agency said the money laundering bust was its biggest in a decade.