4 h. ago Special forces chief tried to cover up concerns about SAS conduct in Afghanistan, inquiry told

Whistleblower says chain of command failed to stop extrajudicial shootings, including of children, after alarm was raisedThe former director of UK special forces and other senior military officers tried to cover up concerns that SAS units were carrying out unlawful killings in Afghanistan, an inquiry has heard.A senior special forces whistleblower said the chain of command failed to stop extrajudicial shootings, including of two small children, after the alarm was first raised in early 2011. That failure allegedly allowed them to continue until 2013. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago British father unlawfully killed by suspected Iranian drone on empty Middle East oil tanker, inquest finds

A BRITISH father was unlawfully killed by an Iranian drone while on an oil tanker, an inquest found.  Adrian Underwood, 44, was working as a security officer on the empty vessel near Oman when the device hit.  The Army veteran, of Andover, Hants, joined a maritime security agency in 2020.  The motive behind the strike on...

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15 h. ago British father was unlawfully killed by an Iranian drone while on an empty oil tanker in the Middle East, inquest rules

Adrian Underwood had been working as a security officer when the vessel was attacked in August 2021 off the coast of Oman.

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21 h. ago Lessons not learned after Georgia Barter driven to suicide by abuse, says her mother

Family ‘saddened’ by minister’s response to London coroner’s concerns over police database accessGeorgia’s story: how a domestic abuse victim’s suicide was ruled an unlawful killing by her partnerThe family of a woman judged to have been unlawfully killed by her partner after she took her own life following years of domestic abuse has said “lessons have still not been learnt” after the government indicated it would not make changes to how officers use the police national database.An inquest earlier this year found that Georgia Barter, 32, experienced years of abuse at the hands of Thomas Bignell.• In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...

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2 d. ago UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa

Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruinedAn eight-year-old girl left destitute in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa has been barred from coming to the UK to join her parents.The Guardian reported on the case of Lati-Yana Stephanie Brown after the hurricane. Her mother, Kerrian Bigby, a carer, moved from Jamaica to be with Lati-Yana’s British father, Jerome Hardy, a telecommunications worker, in April 2023, leaving their daughter to be cared for by her grandmother. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago British father, 28, was killed in jet ski crash in front of his wife in Dubai, inquest told

Ali Watson was working in the United Arab Emirates as a marketing manager and went out on an organised boat trip in December 2020.

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6 d. ago Giorgia Meloni takes on Italian judges over decision to remove British father's children from 'crumbling ruin' where they live 'off

The family, who gave up the rat race to live a simple life in a woodland cottage found themselves at the heart of a national scandal last week.

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7 d. ago Italian government clashes with its own judiciary over decision to remove British father's children from 'crumbling ruin' where they live 'off

The family, who gave up the rat race to live a simple life in a woodland cottage found themselves at the heart of a national scandal last week.

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9 d. ago British father has his three children taken away by Italian authorities after he took them to live 'off

Authorities were called to the homestead in September 2024 after all five members of the family needed to be taken to hospital because they had been poisoned by mushrooms.

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1 week ago Girl, 13, inflicted more than 140 knife wounds on victim, murder trial told

The teenager, who cannot be named due to her age, accepts unlawfully killing Marta Bednarczyk but denies murder, claiming diminished responsibility.

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2 w. ago Father of teen whose death was linked to social media has ‘lost faith’ in Ofcom

Ian Russell says watchdog lacks ‘urgency’ and is not willing to use its powers ‘to the extent required’ The father of Molly Russell, a British teenager who killed herself after viewing harmful online content, has called for a change in leadership at the UK’s communications watchdog after losing faith in its ability to make the internet safer for children.Ian Russell, whose 14 year-old daughter took her own life in 2017, said Ofcom had “repeatedly” demonstrated that it does not grasp the urgency of keeping under-18s safe online and was failing to implement new digital laws forcefully. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Inside the incestuous upstairs, downstairs tryst that could rock British aristocracy

Northamptonshire labourer Robbie Calder, 65, has filed a legal request that could force the 10th Duke of Buccleuch, to take a DNA test to prove definitively whether the men are related.

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2 w. ago Seven men from Syria, Iran and Britain are charged with more than 40 offences after grooming gang investigation in Bristol

The suspects include two Syrians, one Iranian, two British nationals and two men - aged 19 and 26 - who cannot be identified.

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3 w. ago Brit dad dies after reaching mountain top in Sri Lanka during daughter's birthday hike

The British father-and-daughter duo decided to scale Ella's Rock in Sri Lanka to celebrate the daughter's 34th birthday, but tragedy struck once they reached the top of the mountain

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3 w. ago European Union to reveal ratings for candidate countries – Europe live

Kaja Kallas to issue update this afternoon on progress countries are making towards becoming union memberIn other news, Czechs are mourning the archbishop emeritus of Prague, Dominik Duka, who has died overnight at the age of 82.Cardinal Duka – whose father flew in the British RAF during the second world war – was one of the most influential religious leaders in the Czech Republic, serving as a dissident priest under communism who eventually got imprisoned alongside playwright turned president Václav Havel. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago British father dies while celebrating his daughter's 34th birthday with hike up Sri Lankan mountain

A British man has tragically died while celebrating his daughter's 34th birthday with a hike up a Sri Lankan mountain. 

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3 w. ago British father fights to keep his three children after moving with his wife to Italian 'crumbling ruin' to live 'off

A British father is fighting to keep his three children after he moved them, along with his wife, to live an off-grid life in a 'crumbling ruin' in the Italian wilderness. 

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