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Woman arrested following Buckingham Palace staff Christmas party
Police officers were called to a bar in central London following reports a customer had smashed glasses and tried to assault a member of staff.
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Primary school on lockdown after man in his 40s stabbed; attacker still on the run
A primary school was locked down this morning after a man in his forties was stabbed and the attacker fled.
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Man arrested after pensioner carrying Christmas presents dies in crash
Police have made an arrest after a 72-year-old woman was hit by a car and killed last night.
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Queen Camilla’s son speaks out on the ’barbaric’ treatment of Prince William and Prince Harry
Tom Parker Bowles has candidly revealed his thoughts about his stepbrothers Prince William and Prince Harry in a rare interview where he’s expressed ’sympathy’
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Monster who stamped 2-year-old girl to death and paraded her body in a pram jailed for life
Isabella Wheildon was just two years old when she was found dead in a shower, covered in blankets after suffering "extensive external traumatic injuries" by her mum’s boyfriend
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Police van hitting 13-year-old boy with a water pistol off his bike was ’reasonable force,’ inquiry finds
Armed cops who swarmed a 13-year-old boy after his water pistol was mistaken for a real gun have been cleared of wrongdoing by the police watchdog.
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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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Prince Andrew’s ’close confidant’ denied entry to the UK over national security concerns and ties to China
Known as H6, the man was invited to the royal’s birthday party in 2020, but the Home Office said he was considered to have engaged in "covert and deceptive activity". A judge has ruled the Chinese businessman had an "unusual" degree of trust from the royal.
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Singer Sting condemns Russia’s aggression against Ukraine but sells his wine in Moscow
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, devastating parts of its territory, the aggression was condemned not only by Western politicians but by many celebrities as well.
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’Thor’ and his gang smuggled £140m of cocaine into the UK from Sierra Leone
Members of the organised crime group have been locked up for a combined total of more than 75 years
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Tories shaken as billionaire married to Holly Valance takes major role in Reform UK
Nick Candy, who donated £270,000 to the Conservatives between 2020 and 2022, will become Nigel Farage’s party treasurer after he and wife Holly Valance attended several Reform events
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Sean ’Diddy’ Combs faces lawsuits from three accusers in New York over rape allegations
Sean ’Diddy’ Combs is facing new allegations from three accusers in the State of New York who claim the star drugged and then raped them. The star is currently in jail awaiting trial for other charges.
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All is fair in steel and war: Italian equipment used for military armor production continues to be supplied to Russia
Russian metallurgists, who supply their materials to manufacturers of weapons and armored vehicles, are critically dependent on foreign equipment.
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Cabinet Office to cut 400 jobs in effort to create a ’smaller, clearer structure’
Staff told 400 civil servant roles will go in voluntary exit scheme, with Whitehall braced for further cuts
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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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British businessman Sanjay Shah sentenced to 12 years for £996m Danish tax fraud
Shah found guilty of gross fraud and given longest sentence for financial crime in country’s history
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Meta donates $1m to Donald Trump’s inaugural fund
Donation comes after CEO Mark Zuckerberg dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago and appears to be an effort to improve relations
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What Syria’s uncertain future could mean for Britain’s security
Events in Syria have moved at lightning pace over the last two weeks.
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Body discovered in the search for former England rugby star Tom Voyce after his car was swept away in Storm Darragh
A body has been found in the search for missing England rugby star Tom Voyce.
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Donald Trump joins the exclusive club of leaders like Hitler, Stalin, Khrushchev, and Khomeini
President-elect Donald Trump has for the second time joined an exclusive club in the company of global figures and leaders – some controversial.
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NATO warns of the need to ’prepare for war’ and admits ’we’re not ready for what’s coming’
Britain and other members of Nato have been urged to shift to a ‘wartime mindset’ amid the ongoing threats from Russia.
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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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Rioter at asylum hotel sentenced to nine years in prison
A man who tried to set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers has been jailed for nine years, the joint-longest prison sentence in connection with the UK’s summer of riots.
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Shamima Begum and 65 other Britons with IS connections detained in Syria face an uncertain future
US voices concern over continuing offensive by Turkish-backed rebel groups against Kurdish groups guarding prisons and camps
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Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market
Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’