5 minutes ago Rioter dies in prison after being jailed for two years for shouting racist abuse at police and calling asylum seekers 'child killers' during anti

Peter Lynch, 61, died on Saturday night at HMP Moorland near Doncaster, in south Yorkshire. He was serving a two year and eight months prison term after being jailed in August.

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6 minutes ago Moment suspected crooks escape police raid by squeezing out of toilet window in 'Benny Hill Show

A pair of suspected crooks escaped a police raid by squeezing out of a ground floor toilet window - right under the noses of the dozen oblivious cops trying to smash down their front door in Dorset.

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6 minutes ago No 10 says Starmer won’t offer reparations or apology over Britain’s role in slavery at Commonwealth summit – UK politics live

Government opposed to idea of paying reparations for Britain’s historic role in slave trade and will not issue apology at Commonwealth meetingIn the past the weirdest budget tradition was the convention that the chancellor is allowed to drink alcohol while delivering the budget speech. But since no chancellor has taken advantage of the rule since the 1990s (and no one expects Rachel Reeves to be quaffing on Wednesday week), this tradition is probably best viewed as lapsed.But Sam Coates from Sky News has discovered another weird budget ritual. On his Politics at Jack and Sam’s podcast, he says:Someone messaged me to say: ‘Did you know that over in the Treasury as they’ve been going over all these spending settlements, in one of the offices, its full of balloons. And every time an indivi...

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8 minutes ago Award to Elizabeth Line is a damning indictment of British architecture

Four years late and massively over budget, of course the Lizzie line is winning awards, writes Helen Coffey – our expectations have become so low when it comes to public transport in the UK, we’ll give anything a prize

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9 minutes ago Family of Paul Taylor 'torn apart' by dad's death as teen killer found guilty of murder

Jack Crawley, 20, was found guilty of murdering the 56-year-old father-of-two last year.

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14 minutes ago Kinahan crime boss tried to fool police in elaborate 'put up job' he ran from jail... but was undone

Thomas Kavanagh tried to dupe police officers

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15 minutes ago Rioter dies in prison after being jailed for two years for racially abusing police and calling asylum seekers 'child killers' during anti

Peter Lynch, 61, died on Saturday night at HMP Moorland near Doncaster, in south Yorkshire. He was serving a two year and eight months prison term after being jailed in August.

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23 minutes ago Update on boy, 7, fighting for life after M6 crash that killed mum, her partner and his children

Arran Martin, 7, continues to fight for his life following the collision near Tebay services on the M6

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29 minutes ago Boy, 10, who crossed Channel by himself denied phone call to mother by officials

A review by inspectors find a litany of issues including migrants still being held for too long at processing centres

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30 minutes ago Woman arrested after 'disturbance' at cafe where child was 'assaulted'

Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward

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