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Two British men plead not guilty to charges of spying for China
Two Britons, including a former researcher for a senior British lawmaker, pleaded not guilty on Friday to a charge of spying for China.
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CPS offers plea deals to Entain suspects before deciding on charges
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has offered plea discussions with suspects from Entain as it gears up to make charging decisions by the end of the year.
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British climber rescued after going missing on 23,000-foot mountain
A British climber and her counterpart have reportedly been rescued safely after their food and equipment fell down a ravine.
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EasyJet captain pleads with ‘drunk’ passengers during midair brawl
Shocking footage has emerged of two men attempting to brawl in the middle of a flight to Turkey.
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Four migrants including child die while trying to cross English Channel
French minister Bruno Retailleau said the child was ‘trampled to death in a boat’
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Orpington dog attack: Several out-of-control dogs mauled a woman and two children, aged 4 and 6
Two children aged four and six along with a woman have been savagely mauled by four dogs in a street in St Paul’s Cray, southeast London this morning and have been rushed to hospital
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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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Two Met police officers sacked over stop-and-search of Team GB athlete Bianca Williams reinstated ’with back pay’
Two Metropolitan Police officers who were sacked over the stop and search of black athlete Bianca Williams and her partner have been given their jobs back.
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London has narrowly avoided "other deadly Grenfell tragedies" on multiple occasions, the fire chief told LBC
London has come close to suffering another Grenfell tragedy several times since 2017, the capital’s top firefighter has told LBC.
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Stephen Cox: GP found guilty of indecently assaulting women during ’routine examinations’
Stephen Cox was convicted of 12 counts and acquitted of four at Reading Crown Court, where the jury heard he took "sexual gratification" from indecently touching his female victims during a nine-year period from 1988 to 1997.
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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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’Blue plaque’ in Walthamstow Tesco honors the lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss
Star of Daily Star’s web stunt given fake heritage mark after proving itself less perishable than Truss’s premiership
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Kidnapped Chloe Ayling’s manager finally reveals the truth about her abduction after years of false claims
The Celebrity Big Brother contestant’s former agent Phil Green claims: ’The way she behaved after being released, it looked like she loved all the attention’
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Teenage girl, 17, dragged down street for 15 seconds after leg gets caught in bus door
This is the moment a teenage girl was dragged along a street for 15 seconds after a bus door shut and trapped her leg.
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Car has deliberately mowed down a group of people outside a nightclub
Five men were injured when a car ploughed into a crowd in a ‘targeted attack’ outside a Birmingham nightclub this morning.
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An investigation has revealed that a private London college taught students primarily by showing videos
Business students at £9,250-a-year Regent College London raised series of complaints with Office for Students
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Woman has been found guilty of manslaughter for the deaths of her two sets of twins in a house fire
The boys were locked inside the property before the blaze broke out in December 2021 - with police saying the flames spread quickly because of the amount of rubbish strewn across the floor.
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A 35-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a west London school acid attack that left a 14-year-old girl scarred for life
Police hunting for a suspected acid attacker who targeted two children outside a London school have made an arrest
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GP injected her mother’s partner with a flesh-eating chemical to secure an inheritance, the court has heard
Trial told Thomas Kwan, 53, disguised himself as a nurse and told Patrick O’Hara he was getting a Covid jab
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Britain has agreed to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, bringing an end to years of dispute over the territory
Agreement to hand back UK’s last African colony follows rounds of negotiations and international pressure
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Labour donor Waheed Alli is under investigation by the House of Lords regarding the register of interests
Peer who gave gifts to Keir Starmer is being investigated after complaint he did not declare interests correctly
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Girl, 14, in ‘shock, pain and trauma’ after suspected acid attack outside London school
A father describes severe injuries as police search for a male suspect believed to have ridden an e-scooter to a Westminster academy.
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Sellafield has been directed to pay nearly £400,000 for its cybersecurity failings
Nuclear waste dump in Cumbria pleaded guilty to leaving data that could threaten national security exposed for four years, says regulator
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Chris Kaba had "no space to escape" when a Metropolitan Police firearms officer shot him, the court has heard
Met Police officer Martyn Blake is accused of killing 24-year-old Chris Kaba on September 6, 2022. Mr Kaba died after being shot once in the head through the windscreen of an Audi car
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The Metropolitan Police has settled a £1 million civil case following the wrongful arrest of a Black bank manager in 2017
Dale Semper ‘feels some justice has been done’ after apology and settlement but moment ‘bitter sweet’