2 h. ago Migrant faces ‘real risk of destitution’ if removed to France, High Court told

The legal challenge comes as reports suggest deportations of migrants under the deal with France are yet to begin.

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3 h. ago Just Stop Oil stunt could have had ‘catastrophic’ consequences, court told

Two activists appeared in court accused of criminal damage after a stunt targeting aircraft at Stansted Airport as Taylor Swift flew to UK.

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7 h. ago Teenage killer taunts victim's family yelling 'I'm still breathing' as he is jailed for vape shop murder

Abdurrahman Summers, 19, shouted at victim Reuben Higgins' family in court after he was told he would serve a minimum of 19 years in jail over the attack.

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13 h. ago What We Can Know by Ian McEwan review – the limits of liberalism

A century from now, a literature scholar pieces together a picture of our times in a novel that quietly compels us to consider the moral consequences of global catastropheThe sheer Englishness of Ian McEwan’s fiction may not be fully visible to his English readers. But it is clearly, and amusingly, visible to at least this Irish reader. It isn’t just McEwan’s elegiac, indeed patriotic, attentiveness to English landscapes – to the wildflowers and hedgerows and crags, to the “infinite shingle” of Chesil Beach, to the Chilterns turkey oak in the first paragraph of Enduring Love. Nor is it merely the ferocious home counties middle-classness of his later novels, in which every significant character is at the very least a neurosurgeon or a high court judge, everyone is conversant with Proust, Bach and Wordsworth, and members of the lower orders tend to appear as worrying upstarts from a world in which nobody plonks out the Goldberg Variations on the family baby grand. No, McEwan’s English...

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24 h. ago Builder 'stole Banksy from London gallery to add to his collection of love hearts artworks', court told

The iconic Girl with Balloon print worth £270,000 was taken from the Grove Gallery in central London

Economics

26 h. ago Soldiers disgraced British army in ‘unjustified’ use of force on Bloody Sunday, trial hears

Soldier F is charged with two murders and five attempted murdersSoldiers disgraced the British army by targeting unarmed civilians in an “unjustified” and “gratuitous” use of force on Bloody Sunday, the murder trial of an army veteran has heard.The shooting by the former paratrooper and his comrades was “unnecessary” and had a profound impact on Northern Ireland, a prosecutor told Belfast crown court on Monday at the opening of the long-awaited trial. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago ‘Gratuitous’ use of force on Bloody Sunday disgraced British army, trial told

Trial of former paratrooper Soldier F, charged with two murders and five attempted murders, begins in BelfastSoldiers disgraced the British army by targeting unarmed civilians in an “unjustified” and “gratuitous” use of force on Bloody Sunday, the murder trial of an army veteran has heard.The shooting by the former paratrooper and his comrades was “unnecessary” and had a profound impact on Northern Ireland, a prosecutor told Belfast crown court on Monday at the opening of the long-awaited trial. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Thugs who abducted schoolgirl, 12, from Asda car park and raped her are jailed

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Kevin Horvath, 26, Ivan Turtak, 38, and Ernest Gunar, 27, were all convicted at Canterbury Crown Court after jurors were told the child was 'used, abused, and discarded'

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3 d. ago Cheese grater torture thug threatened to carve up victim's feet

The court was told that the victim sustained a fractured eye socket, a broken rib and swelling to his head and legs as a result of the savage attack.

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4 d. ago Trio who kidnapped schoolgirl, 12, from Asda car park and raped her jailed

Kevin Horvath, 26, Ivan Turtak, 38, and Ernest Gunar, 27 were all convicted after a trial at Canterbury Crown Court, when prosecutor Hannah Llewellyn-Waters told jurors that the vulnerable youngster had been "used, abused, and discarded like trash"

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4 d. ago Countdown champion stabbed fellow competitor after feeling 'cheated'

John Cowen lunged at his victim with a knife, a court was told

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5 d. ago Eleanor Donaldson to undergo further medical tests ahead of trial, court told

Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson and his wife deny historical sex offences.

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6 d. ago Countdown champion heard ‘growling’ before lunging across table to stab rival, court told

John Cowen, 31, is said to have to run across a room with a knife and lunged across a table to attack a rival

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6 d. ago North Londoner 'murdered sex worker seven months after raping another', court told

Simon Levy has been charged with murdering Sheryl Wilkins, 39, on August 24 and with two counts of rape against a second woman in January

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6 d. ago Corrupt police calls handler stole confidential info about probe for drug dealer pal

Dundee Sheriff Court was told that Moran spent three years abusing the force's computer network to access sensitive information to pass on.

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7 d. ago Terror suspect ‘may need gang for protection if jailed in US’, court told

Daniel Andreas San Diego, 47, was one of the agency’s ‘most wanted fugitives’ after bombings in San Francisco, California, in 2003.

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7 d. ago Man 'snatched girl, 5, and sexually assaulted her' before mum heard her crying

A jury sitting at Birmingham Crown Court has been told the defendant, Mohammed Abdulraziq, 32, was found in a state of undress with a five-year-old child after her mother heard her crying from inside his property

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7 d. ago Dad 'had no chance' in fatal crash after brothers raced BMW and Audi, court told

Abubakr Yusaf and Umar Yusaf both deny causing Rhys Jenkins' death

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8 d. ago Boy, 17, stabbed nine times in fatal London group attack, court told

A 15-year-old boy appeared at the Old Bailey on Monday charged with murdering 17-year-old Yeray Sanchez-Morales.

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1 week ago Trans woman feared vigilante violence after Graham Linehan’s social media posts, court told

Father Ted creator on trial accused of harassing transgender activist Sophia Brooks

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