42 minutes ago Coroner wants new restrictions on young drivers after four teens killed in crash

Jevon Hirst, 16, Harvey Owen, 17, Wilf Fitchett, 17, and Hugo Morris, 18, all died after a crash in north Wales

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86 minutes ago Changes to HS2 are being 'actively considered' by ministers amid reports line will reach Crewe

Minister Simon Lightwood refused to deny reports that the Government is looking at re-extending the high speed line north from Birmingham

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2 hours ago Woman jailed for killing boyfriend with antifreeze poison after inheritance row

A North Dakota woman will serve 25 years in prison in connection with the antifreeze poisoning death of her boyfriend

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2 hours ago Former porn store worker hits back at ‘bizarre’ allegations by North Carolina lieutenant governor

Mark Robinson is running against Democratic Josh Stein in the campaign to succeed Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper

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2 hours ago ‘Not in a weird way, but he’s charming’: Meet the young men who love JD Vance

Eric Garcia speaks to men in North Carolina who believe women only like Harris because she’s female and who are impressed by Vance’s supposed coherence and bravery

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3 hours ago North Dakota woman to serve 25 years in prison for fatally poisoning boyfriend

A North Dakota woman will serve 25 years in prison in connection with the antifreeze poisoning death of her boyfriend last year

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4 hours ago Police insisted second Salisbury novichok attack was drug overdose, inquiry told

Inspector dismissed emergency services’ concerns that incident was similar to Skripal poisonings, KC saysPolice officers urged paramedics and firefighters to treat the second novichok incident in 2018 as a drug overdose despite warnings from the ambulance and fire services that it had similarities to the first poisoning four months earlier in Salisbury, a public inquiry has heard.The UK government believes the novichok was brought into Britain by agents tasked by Vladimir Putin to target the former spy Sergei Skripal, who had been settled in Salisbury after a spy exchange, the inquiry heard earlier this week. Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned on 4 March 2018 and both survived. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Government cannot guarantee job for every laid off Grangemouth worker – Murray

Scottish Secretary Ian Murray said both the UK and Holyrood Governments were trying to secure work for the employees facing redundancy.

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4 hours ago Teenage girl with unbearable itch was told to stay away from family pets, but the real cause was devastating

Niamh Connell, 15, developed a constant irritating itch across her body in June, which was initially dismissed as an allergic reaction, but it was something far more sinister

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