4 hours ago Keir Starmer 'shares public's anger' as prisoners pictured leaving prison early

Around 1,100 inmates are due to be freed in a second wave of early releases under the Government's policy to free up prison space.

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7 hours ago Starmer ‘shares public’s anger’ as prisoners pictured leaving prison early

Around 1,100 inmates are expected to be freed in a second wave of early releases under the Government’s policy to free up prison space.

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8 hours ago ‘Big up Keir Starmer’ says inmate as he poses with Bentley after early prison release

Around 1,100 inmates to be freed early on Tuesday as part of government’s policy to free up prison space

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11 hours ago Susan Smith fights for prison release 30 years after drowning her children in fake carjacking

Smith has frequently written to reporters, true crime aficionados and potential suitors from prison

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21 hours ago Behave yourselves! Prison bosses attempt to curb sickening scenes of celebration outside jails as next set of prisoners set to be let out under Labour's early release scheme

Labour's emergency scheme to ease overcrowding led to jubilant criminals dancing in the street and being sprayed with bottles of bubbly.

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29 hours ago ‘Bob Dylan was an endearing young scallywag!’ Barbara Dane, the singer who burned a path through folk, blues and activism

The US singer-songwriter, who has died aged 97, encountered Louis Armstrong and more as she championed civil rights as much as music. In her final interview conducted last week, she explained why she was still angryAs a singer-songwriter who was as devoted to social change as she was to her craft, Barbara Dane, who has died aged 97, is a singularly inspiring figure in American music.Amid a crop of reissues and a new film, I spoke to her just last week over the phone as she was cared for in a home hospice in Oakland, California, due to heart disease. As a singer, songwriter and activist over almost 80 years, finding kinship with everyone from Bob Dylan to Louis Armstrong, she demonstrated formidable quantities of courage and compassion, as documented in that new film, The 9 Lives of Barb...

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