56 minutes ago Conservative councillor's wife is jailed for 31 months for inciting racial hatred on Twitter on day of Southport attacks

Lucy Connolly, the wife of West Northamptonshire Conservative councillor Raymond Connolly, has been jailed for inciting racial hatred on X on the day of the Southport attacks.

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58 minutes ago Tory councillor's wife Lucy Connolly jailed for 31 months for inciting race hatred during riots

Lucy Connolly has been held in prison since her August arrest

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58 minutes ago Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar 'is DEAD': Israeli officials 'confirm terror chief has been killed in IDF Gaza strike' local media claims

Israel has been investigating whether Sinwar was killed in a ground operation by the IDF which left three terrorists dead, with official confirmation expected in the coming hours.

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59 minutes ago ECB’s Lagarde: ‘We’re breaking the neck of inflation’ after cutting interest rates – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsNewsflash: Inflation across the eurozone fell by more than initially thought last month, which may cement the chances of interest rate cuts today.Consumer prices across the euro area rose by 1.7% in the year to September, statistics body Eurostat reports, down from 2.2% in August.The lowest annual rates were registered in Ireland (0.0%), Lithuania (0.4%), Slovenia and Italy (both 0.7%). The highest annual rates were recorded in Romania (4.8%), Belgium (4.3%) and Poland (4.2%).Compared with August 2024, annual inflation fell in twenty Member States, remained stable in two and rose in five.“We have always said we won’t be taking plans for HS2 phase 2 back off the shelf after the Conservatives took a wrecking ball to the project and...

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61 minutes ago Businessman Sir Tom Hunter paid to return Alex Salmond’s body to Scotland

The entrepreneur said he ‘deserved the dignity and privacy of a private return to the home of his birth’.

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61 minutes ago Air India flight from Mumbai to London is latest target of bomb threats

Almost 40 hoax bomb threats have been made against Indian carriers so far this week

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62 minutes ago Air India flight from Mumbai to London is latest target of hoax bomb threats

Air India flight from Mumbai to London is latest target of hoax bomb threats  The Independent

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64 minutes ago TfL issues warning to 'Tube Girl' over filming paid partnerships on the London Underground 'without permission'

Sabrina Bahsoon - dubbed 'Tube Girl' on social media - has more than 800,000 followers on TikTok since going viral last summer. But the Standard reported TfL has warned her about some of her clips.

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66 minutes ago Ukraine's former armed forces chief endorses 'victory plan' in first speech since his dismissal

Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, has expressed his support for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s “victory plan,” despite the tensions between the two that led to his dismissal in February

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67 minutes ago Tory councillor’s wife bragged she would ‘play mental health card’ over race hate post

Lucy Connolly jailed for 31 months for inciting racial hatred on X

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