21 minutes ago Daniel Khalife’s jailbreak laid bare crisis and chaos at HMP Wandsworth

The prison was “still reeling” from Khalife’s “very high-profile” escape and that security remained a “serious concern”

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32 minutes ago ITV I'm A Celebrity fans warn Dean McCullough 'don't you dare' amid 'unpopular' defence

The BBC Radio 1 star has been dividing viewers with some of his camp antics, having headed Down Under to take part in the hit reality show

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78 minutes ago Former British Army soldier Daniel Khalife who broke out of Wandsworth Prison guilty of spying for Iran

Daniel Khalife broke out of Wandsworth prison by strapping himself under a food delivery truck

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78 minutes ago Prisons crisis and chaos at HMP Wandsworth laid bare in wake of Khalife’s escape

Khalife made his escape in September last year, while being held on remand over spy charges, by strapping himself underneath a food delivery lorry.

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84 minutes ago Gary Neville's ‘selfish’ statement on Pep Guardiola after dramatic period at Man City

Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City tenure has taken a brief but sharp downturn as of late, but Manchester United icon Gary Neville still fears the Spaniard’s resurgence

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91 minutes ago Daniel Khalife is found guilty of spying for Iran: British soldier, 23, who escaped from prison under food van DID sell state secrets to Iranian agents

British solider Daniel Khalife, 23, who escaped from HMP Wandsworth by clinging to the bottom of a food truck has been found guilty of spying for Iran.

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95 minutes ago Pet owners will need 'passports' to travel from one part of UK to another

Pet owners travelling with their cats, dogs or even ferrets will have to follow a new set of rules under a pet passport system which is being introduced across the UK

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1 hour ago Number of cases in asylum backlog down 22%, says Home Office, but still higher than before 2022 – UK politics live

Number of applications waiting to be processed at 97,000, lower than peak at end of June 2023Here is a chart from the ONS report illustrating the latest figures.Here is the PA Media story on the figures.Net migration to the UK hit a higher than previously thought record of 906,000 in the year to June 2023, revised official estimates show.The measure for the difference between the number of people arriving and leaving the country then dropped by 20% in the latest period, the 12 months to June 2024, and now stands at 728,000. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago ‘Holding space’: Wicked has made the term famous. But what does it mean?

In the earnest press tour for the film, actor Cynthia Erivo was in tears at the idea that fans were ‘holding space’ for the song Defying Gravity. But is it more self-help jargon or something more powerful?The journalist Tracy E Gilchrist had just four minutes with the Wicked actors Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande – and she had to make them count. She just didn’t bargain on becoming part of one of the year’s most-used memes as a result of saying the phrase “holding space”. “I just went in and did my job, which was to try to get an authentic answer to a question in a very short amount of time,” she says. “It felt like the right term for what I was trying to get across to Cynthia, which is the idea that you can interact with a work of art like Defying Gravity and feel something within your...

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2 hours ago UK's least safest places to live if nuclear strike launched on 'seat of power' – see full list

EXCLUSIVE: A new list details which areas in the UK might be in most danger if a nuclear bomb were to drop as tensions across the world grow further amid World War 3 rumours

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