49 minutes ago 'Your nursing team are fully behind you': Senior hospital manager told Lucy Letby 'hang in there, girl' after she was accused of harming babies, public inquiry hears

Karen Rees admitted she got 'too close' to the nurse after she was moved off the neo-natal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital. She told bosses it was 'immoral' Letby was taken off the neonatal unit.

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2 hours ago Who makes Scotland's autumn Test squad: Injuries cast a shadow, position surfeit, prop problems

Visit of world champions South Africa is jewel in the crown of Test series

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2 hours ago Philippe Clement told how long he has to save his Rangers career as reality of 'high stakes position' sets in

The pressure is mounting on the Belgian - who only penned a new contract earlier this year

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2 hours ago Chris Kaba killing updates: Dozens gather for Old Bailey protest after marksman cleared of murder

Martyn Blake shot dead the 24-year-old Chris Kaba and told the Old Bailey he feared for the safety of his colleagues

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3 hours ago Can Democrats still win in rural states? Montana’s Senate race offers litmus test

Jon Tester is fighting to keep his Senate seat amid the prospect that Democrats like him are now facing political extinction in the stateHe was a young and little-known underdog. So Max Baucus, candidate for Congress, decided to trek 630 miles across Montana and listen to people talk about their problems. “As luck would have it, on the first day, I walked into a blizzard,” he recalls, pointing to a photo of his young self caked in snow. “It was cold! But the blizzard didn’t last that long.”Baucus shed 12lbs during that two and a half month journey in 1974. He also made friends. The Democrat defeated a Republican incumbent and would soon go on to serve as a Montana senator for 36 years. He never lost an election but saw his beloved home state undergo many changes. Among them is the prosp...

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3 hours ago 'I told murderer it would be OK if he didn’t have anywhere to go, I didn’t mind if he stayed'

Beautician Elle Edwards, 26, was killed by Connor Chapman outside a pub on Christmas Eve

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3 hours ago Nearly 450 refugee children disappear from asylum hotels in UK, Parliament debate on family visas told

More than 130 of the youngsters who went missing have never been found

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3 hours ago Hamas 'will keep new leader's identity SECRET to avoid another assassination' following Yahya Sinwar's death

An official from within the terror group told the BBC that the movement intends to elect its new head in March 2025 but until then it will be run by a five-member committee.

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3 hours ago Chris Kaba killing updates: Family 'devastated' after Met marksman cleared of murder

Martyn Blake shot dead the 24-year-old Chris Kaba and told the Old Bailey he feared for the safety of his colleagues

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4 hours ago Luka Modric may be Real Madrid’s oldest ever player but he’s still got it | Sid Lowe

It’s not the moments or the music, the joy in how he plays. It’s something simpler with ‘the eternal solution’Ferenc Puskas played pregnant, teammate Amancio Amaro liked to say. The day he arrived at Real Madrid in 1958, he was 31 years old, 18kg overweight and, banned by Fifa for defecting after the Hungarian uprising, hadn’t played football for two years. He couldn’t possibly go on a pitch like this: signing me is all well and good, he told the club’s president Santiago Bernabéu, but have you seen me? “I was the size of a large balloon,” he recalled and the coach, Luis Carniglia, didn’t know what to do with him either. That, Bernabéu replied, was their problem not his. As it turned out, blessed with a left foot like no other, 242 goals followed, the only problem that he hadn’t come so...

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