2 hours ago Palestine Action activists plead not guilty over raid on Israeli defence firm's UK base

Palestine Action activists are accused of a violent raid on an Israeli defence firm

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3 hours ago Pair who took own lives in Polmont ‘given death sentence’, families’ lawyer says

A sheriff has ruled the deaths of Katie Allan, 21, and William Brown, 16, could have been avoided.

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16 hours ago Top attorney, Supreme Court news site publisher accused of using company funds to cover poker debts

Prominent Supreme Court attorney Tom Goldstein, publisher of SCOTUSBlog, was indicted on tax charges

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6 hours ago Ruben Amorim sends demand to Man Utd fringe player after dropping transfer hint

Christian Eriksen is expected to leave Manchester United this summer but Ruben Amorim believes he should still be able to make an impact for the team this season

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40 minutes ago One dead at North Carolina’s North Hills mall as Raleigh police rush to scene of ‘active shooter’

The shooting reportedly took place in an affluent part of Raleigh

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2 hours ago Teachers sacked for astonishing reasons – including taking '20 years off sick'

A school teacher was banned from the classroom this week after she was caught swigging wine in a supermarket car park - and she's not the only one to be sacked for inappropriate behaviour

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5 hours ago New details emerge in case of teacher, 34, who gave birth to her student’s baby

The Independent has now seen the criminal complaint detailing the full extent of the horrific child sex abuse allegations

Society

27 hours ago Police hunt men with bolt cutters who stole £21k worth of designer bags from boutiques in London and Surrey

Detectives appeal for information after latest raid which has left retailers across the capital in fear

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97 minutes ago A year of bloodshed on streets of Lawless London: Map shows how many teenagers have been killed since start of 2024 amid knife crime epidemic gripping the capital

London has seen a total of 11 teenage homicides over the last 12 months, prompting one community leader to warn that stabbings ' can happen to a child anywhere'.

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3 hours ago Trump’s inauguration speech to trade ‘American carnage’ for ‘unity’, aides say

Aides signal his address will be noticeably more upbeat compared to grim ‘American carnage’ speech in 2017Who’s on the Trump inauguration guest list?Donald Trump’s aides have signaled that Monday’s inauguration speech will strike a noticeably more upbeat tone than his equivalent address eight years ago, when he talked darkly about “American carnage” and depicted the US as a country riddled by violent crime, drugs and economic degradation.The news website Axios cited Trump associates as saying “light” and “unity” would be the guiding themes – exemplified by a “one America, one light” prayer service for donors. Continue reading...

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33 hours ago 'I suffered headaches at age 14 and doctors said I had months to live'

Jade had dismissed the headaches as just hormonal until one day she was in so much pain she was sick

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1 hour ago Comedian loses copyright court case against company Steve Coogan founded

Joshua Rinkoff had claimed the copyright of sitcom Shambles was infringed by Baby Cow Productions series Live At The Moth Club (LATMC).

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4 hours ago Inside The Crow Girl star Katherine Kelly's life from famous partner to freak accident

The Crow Girl actress Katherine Kelly has been a familiar face on the small screen for two decades and now stars in the Paramount+ crime thriller.

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1 hour ago Man murders paedophile suffering with Alzheimer’s in ‘brutal attack’ after ‘exploiting him for money’

Anthony Gardiner carved ‘I am a n**** killer’ onto his dinner plate while in prison for a violent robbery, after killing 76-year-old John Coxon

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5 hours ago Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's 'disturbing' nightmare as expert pleads 'move on'

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been on the receiving end of brutal criticism in recent days after being spotted visiting a Los Angeles wildfires relief hub as well as speaking out about huge changes to Facebook

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2 hours ago ‘Does prison achieve anything?’, family ask after son’s killer recalled

Jake Fahri, then 19, was given a life sentence in 2009 with a minimum term of 14 years for killing schoolboy Jimmy Mizen, 16.

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7 hours ago BBC star Dion Dublin reveals heartbreak as he is prosecuted for speeding

Dion Dublin was ordered to pay more than £1,300 after being prosecuted for speeding

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2 hours ago ‘He was gone in a flash’: Police investigate as London woman’s ponytail slashed in surprise attack

The 55-year-old woman said she was set upon by a mystery man as she emptied her bins down the communal rubbish chute on Tuesday evening

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9 hours ago Outlander fans ‘sick to their stomachs’ after unexpected reveal that could ‘ruin’ the show

Fans of the hit drama are conflicted following the latest reveals in Outlander’s season seven finale

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3 hours ago Man who murdered convicted sex offender jailed for minimum of 20 years

Anthony Gardiner went to John Coxon’s home and subjected him to a violent assault, the court heard.

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13 hours ago Explosive development in Melbourne socialite Rebekah Behbahani's nude photos scandal as cops close in on prime suspect after menacing messages appeared online

Detectives are zeroing in on the perpetrator who leaked nude photos of socialite pop singer Rebekah Behbahani as AFL launches separate probe into footy club boss's naked pic scandal.

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3 hours ago Woolwich stabbing: Inquest opened after schoolboy knifed to death on bus

Kelyan Bokassa was fatally injured on a route 472 bus last week

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16 hours ago One in three Gen Z workers have called in sick over stress recently... and far more than their older colleagues

Workers under the age of 25 were more likely to need time off because of poor mental health caused by stress than any other age group.

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3 hours ago Missed chances to probe patient safety during Letby attack spree, inquiry told

Professor Sir Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, gave evidence to the Thirlwall Inquiry on Friday.

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20 hours ago Brighton beat Ipswich to claim first Premier League win since November

Kaoru Mitoma and Georginio Rutter scored second-half goals at Portman Road.

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4 hours ago He was sitting in the barber's chair trying to disguise himself when his crimes caught up with him

Ryan Morgan was trying to change his appearance by having facial hair shaved off when he was exposed as a member of an organised crime group

Events

23 hours ago David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream

From disturbing debut Eraserhead to his masterpiece Mulholland Drive, Lynch’s dark tales combined radical experiment with everyday AmericanaDavid Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78No director ever interpreted the American Dream with more artless innocence than David Lynch. It could be the title of any of his films. Lynch saw that if the US dreamed of safety and prosperity and the suburban drive and the picket fence, it also dreamed of the opposite: of escape, danger, adventure, sex and death. And the two collided and opened up chasms and sinkholes in the lost highway to happiness.Lynch was a film-maker who found portals to alternative existences and truffled in them like they were erogenous zones, moist orifices of existential possibility. He was the great American surrealist, but his vision was so distinctive that he became something other than that: a great fabulist, a great anti-narrative dissenter, his storylines splitting and swirling in non sequiturs ...

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4 hours ago Loodunnit mystery deepens: Gang steals 25 portable toilets in night raid just three days after 13 were swiped 150 miles away

Southern and eastern England appears to be in the grip of a bizarre crime wave after 25 portable toilets were stolen from a depot in Ipswich, just three days after a near-identical incident in Oxfordshire.

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24 hours ago Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is an early contender for 2025’s silliest game

The latest in the Like a Dragon series of Japanese crime drama is taking an improbably nautical turn – but its makers want you to know that it’s still got heartIn May last year, an anonymous forum poster shared details of what they claimed would be the next game in the Like a Dragon series, the Japanese gangster drama with a unique spirit of melodrama and ridiculousness. It would star the series’ most theatrical, violent villain, Goro “Mad Dog” Majima, as a pirate with amnesia, and it was called Project Madlantis. This leak went under the radar, quite possibly because it sounded so silly that nobody would believe it. But then, at 2024’s Tokyo Game Show in September, Sega surprised everyone by announcing exactly this. It is called Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. That’s it. That’s the game.Madlantis sounds like a theme night at a noughties student bar, but is in fact the game’s pirate hub, a nautical Vegas where captains battle and bet on each other in coliseum face-offs. Ships are outfitted...

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4 hours ago Man accused of stabbing daughter told police ‘I must be unluckiest man in world’

Simon Vickers denies both the murder and the manslaughter of his daughter Scarlett, in the kitchen of their home in Darlington.

Events

28 hours ago Bonnie Blue: Disturbing reason '1,057 men' who queued for sex with star wore balaclavas

A man who was one of the men queueing up to sleep with notorious adult star Bonnie Blue revealed the way the 'volunteers' hid their identities while being filmed sleeping with her

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5 hours ago Leicester Square stabbing: Man accused of attempted murder of girl, 11, on Taylor Swift concert trip in court

Ioan Pintaru is currently set to stand trial in May over the stabbing of an 11-year-old girl in Leicester Square

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29 hours ago Mike Amesbury among Labour’s top 50 largest majorities at 2024 election

He won Runcorn & Helsby with 53% of the vote, with Reform in second place on 18%.

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5 hours ago Cannibal killer who ate pensioner becomes 'inspirational' social media influencer

From grim cannibal who ate three bodies to social media star, the man known as Sumanto spent just three years in prison for his horrific crimes but is now a social media star

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29 hours ago Play that funky noise intoner! The rumblers, gurglers and howlers of the world’s strangest orchestra

With their funnel-like hooters and cupboard-like shapes, they looked bizarre, sounded wild and left audiences baffled. Now, more than 100 years on, Luigi Russolo’s orchestra of futurist machine instruments is back Today it is the venerable home of the English National Opera, but back in June 1914, the London Coliseum welcomed an act quite unlike anything seen there before or since: an orchestra of futurist noise machines. With their aggressively boxy chassis and funnel-like hooters, they resembled a flock of cubist birds or an artillery battery designed by Tove Jansson. Even stranger were the sounds they made. Each one had its own onomatopoeic name and in combination they evoked more a diagnostic toolkit for gastroenterologists than a set of musical instruments: there was the rumbler (or rombatore), the gurgler (gorgogliatore), and, most disturbingly of all, the howler (ululatore). It was a pretty far cry from The Pirates of Penzance.All things considered, the response of the London...

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5 hours ago Trio jailed over conspiracy to smuggle migrants across the English Channel

Canterbury Crown Court heard the vessels were ‘beset with boat failures’ during the attempts in August 2018

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29 hours ago Former football club chairman bailed on £10m stadium loan inquiry fraud charge

Ex-Northampton Town chairman David Cardoza appeared before a judge alongside property developer Howard Grossman and two other men.

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6 hours ago ‘Currently no prospect’ of Madeleine McCann suspect facing charges, German prosecutor says

Suspect Christian B is set to be released from prison on unrelated charges in September, prosecutor says

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33 hours ago Biden's farewell 'oligarchy' speech divides nation on the dawn of Trump's inauguration

Joe Biden 's final speech divided the American public, with people on all sides declaring it a disappointing and even disturbing affair.

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6 hours ago Drug cartel boss Liam Byrne linked to Steven Gerrard released early from prison

The 44-year-old career criminal – who is set to share granddad duties with Steven Gerrard – must wear an electronic tag and abide by strict house arrest conditions including a curfew

Events

34 hours ago Man's disturbing insight into queueing with 1,000 guys for sex with Bonnie Blue

What it was like to be one of the men who queued for hours in a 1000 man line to bed Bonnie Blue as part of her world record attempt has been disturbingly described.

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6 hours ago No Mean City: Glaswegian accent most 'honourable' in study of accents and crime

Study ‘undermines traditional stereotypes’ about working class and higher status men when it comes to criminal tendancies

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38 hours ago Man's disturbing insight after he queues with 1,000 others to have sex with Bonnie Blue

Ali Walker eventually changed his mind despite queuing for hours in the hope to bed Bonnie Blue, whose real name is Tia Billinger, as part of her world record attempt

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7 hours ago Deaths in custody at Polmont YOI could have been avoided, inquiry finds

Katie Allan, 21, and William Brown, 16, also known as William Lindsay, separately took their own lives at the facility in 2018.

Events

7 hours ago Jake Fahri recalled to prison after reports he rapped about murdering schoolboy

Jake Fahri, then 19, was given a life sentence in 2009 with a minimum term of 14 years for killing schoolboy Jimmy Mizen, 16.

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