66 minutes ago No 10 says Starmer ‘shares public anger’ at early prisoner releases but system facing paralysis without it – UK politics live

Downing Street says government ‘shocked’ at inheriting prisons crisis as hundreds of prisoners get early releaseThe funeral of Alex Salmond, the former Scottish first minister who died suddenly earlier this month after delivering a speech in North Macedonia, will be held on Tuesday 29 October, his family has announced.The funeral will be at Strichen parish church in Aberdeenshire. It will be conducted by Rev Ian McEwan, a friend of the family, and only family and close friends are invited. Salmond will be laid to rest in Strichen cemetery.According to the Eurostat data, England and Wales had 144 prisoners per 100,000 head of population, the 8th highest rate among EU countries and the highest amongst western European jurisdictions. Scotland had the 9th highest with 137 prisoners per 100,...

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66 minutes ago Kevin De Bruyne and Kyle Walker injury latest as Pep Guardiola issues Man City update

Guardiola discussed his squad’s fitness ahead of City’s Champions League match against Sparta Prague on Wednesday

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70 minutes ago Linda Nolan 'doesn't know how long she has left' as Coleen shares heartbreaking update

In light of the harrowing news surrounding athlete Chris Hoy, Coleen Nolan has opened up about her sister, Linda.

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71 minutes ago Dog found abandoned and chained up on industrial estate was deaf and pregnant

Crossbreed Polo was discovered by the RSPCA team in Bradford, West Yorkshire, where she was chained on an industrial estate and found to be pregnant

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75 minutes ago Anna Kendrick: 'We've all been alone with somebody and wondered – how bad is this situation about to get?'

The acclaimed actor talks about making her directing debut, being a cry-baby on set and how she is turning the serial killer movie on its head

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77 minutes ago Major update on Premium Bonds as winning odds and prize fund are both set to change

NS&I , the Government-backed provider said the Premium Bonds’ odds of winning will change from from December in response to a 'changing saving market'

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81 minutes ago UK export of millions of endangered eels to Russia attacked as ‘bonkers’

Critics say eels could be smuggled eastwards towards Asia but exporter says they are for ‘restocking’ projectMillions of critically endangered eels have been exported from the Severn estuary to Russia this year and conservationists fear export quotas will be increased next year.A tonne of glass eels, the young elvers that swim into European estuaries from the Sargasso Sea each spring, was flown to Kaliningrad this year, double the amount exported to the Russian port the previous year. Continue reading...

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81 minutes ago Black Box Diaries review – inside the remarkable events that triggered Japan’s #MeToo movement

Japanese journalist Shiori Itō tells how she pursued her rape case against a prominent TV executive This is the remarkable story of Japanese journalist Shiori Itō, who waived a legal right to anonymity to pursue her rape case against prominent TV news executive Noriyuki Yamaguchi. The film gives us fly-on-the-wall video footage of her embattled life as she prepared her legal case and later as she wrote her memoir of the events, Black Box, named after the closed files on her case: the black boxes.As a young journalism intern in 2015, she had turned up for what she thought would be a career-help chat with Yamaguchi. She was confused and uncomfortable to find it was at a bar where turning down his hospitality would be impolite; she became drunk and says she regained consciousness in a hote...

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83 minutes ago Man saves pregnant girlfriend's life after realising her 'snoring' was a heart attack

Magnus Kviske, from Sweden, was frightened for his partner's life after she suddenly suffered a heart attack in their bedroom. He said he was 'like a machine with only one goal. Keeping Maja alive'

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86 minutes ago This Morning's Deidre Sanders gives update on breast cancer diagnosis as she awaits results

This Morning agony aunt Deidre Sanders has given fans a health update after undergoing surgery for breast cancer, which she announced had returned earlier this month

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