4 h. ago Court grants order to keep captain of seized oil tanker in Scotland

Avtandil Kalandadze's tanker was seized by US authorities, and his wife's lawyers argue that the US is attempting to bypass extradition processes.

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17 h. ago Film crews set to return to Glasgow as busy streets to be closed

MORE Glasgow streets are set to be closed down as film crews work on a new project in the city. Another production is set to be filmed in the city in the coming months. Glasgow City Council have confirmed a number of roads will be closed over the filming restrictions. Several streets in the West...

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28 h. ago Top Scots footballer’s bank account used for Marc Webley’s assassination payment

A FOOTIE ace’s bank account was used to pay the hitman who killed gangster Marc Webley. East Kilbride forward John Robertson’s thug brother Gary, 22, used his star sibling’s details to funnel £300 to assassin Grant Hunter, 34, the High Court in Edinburgh heard. But the League Two star, 24, was unaware of the link...

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4 d. ago Liz Hurley became involved in phone hacking campaign after Hugh Grant gave her 'puppy dog eyes', High Court hears

Model Elizabeth Hurley gave courtroom evidence alleging Mail journalists commissioned people to place secret microphones on her dining room windows. The publisher says it is 'simply untrue'

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4 d. ago Liz Hurley tells High Court: ‘Yet again, everyone’s privacy is being invaded’

Associated Newspapers Limited strongly denies wrongdoing and says the claims against the publisher are ‘threadbare’.

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4 d. ago Real Madrid could face trial over noise pollution from stadium concerts

Judge has brought indictment after nearby residents launched legal action in 2024 saying the concerts made their lives a miseryReal Madrid could face trial for alleged environmental offences after a Spanish judge ruled there was sufficient evidence that loud concerts held at the club’s Bernabéu stadium, which has been dubbed “the torture-drome” by local residents, could have broken the law.The Residents’ Association for those Affected by the Bernabéu (AVPB) began legal action against the football club and the city council in 2024, saying a series of punishingly loud concerts held that spring and summer had made their lives a misery. Performers included Taylor Swift, Luis Miguel and the Colombian star Karol G. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago AD FEATURE: University of Salford and Salford City Council sign historic agreement

The Civic University Agreement coincides with Salford’s centenary year

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7 d. ago People baffled after unexpected item keeps washing up on beach

Residents in Brighton & Hove have reported discovering numerous 'random' items wash up on the shore, prompting the city's council to issue an important warning

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7 d. ago Council under fire after bench 'resting place for the elderly' was erected facing a brick wall as part of £1m city renovation project

A council are set to review part of their £1million city renovation project - after a bench placed as a 'resting place for the elderly' was put facing a brick wall.  

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8 d. ago Councillor who called Rotherham grooming gang victims 'white trash' could keep seat for extra year after Labour election delay

Labour councillor Dennis Jones stepped down from his role at Peterborough City Council and was suspended from the party after his messages to a fellow councillor were made public.

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9 d. ago ‘You don’t want this smoke’: US sheriff reflects on her viral remarks about ICE

Philadelphia sheriff Rochelle Bilal’s words have become a rallying cry against Trump’s immigration crackdown“You don’t want this smoke,” Rochelle Bilal, Philadelphia’s sheriff, warned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during an 8 January press conference. Her words have since become a rallying cry for resistance to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. At the conference with Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s district attorney, and city council members, Bilal spoke out against the 7 January fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. “We stand here today with all those who stand against the made-up, fake, what you can call ICE, professional law enforcement,” she said at the conference. “I don’t call them none of that. I call them made-up, fake, wannabe law enforcement. Because what they do is against not only legal law, but the moral law.”Bilal is part of a growing body of elected officials who are speaking out against the Trump administ...

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9 d. ago Stirling council leader 'proud' after city named best place to visit in the UK in 2026

Edinburgh and Caithness also earned a spot on the list.

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1 week ago Sadiq Khan plans to raise London council tax by more than £20 a year to fight phone theft

Sir Sadiq Khan has proposed raising the average Band D bill by more than £20, meaning the amount of council tax City Hall receives will exceed £500 per bill for the first time.

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1 week ago Sadiq Khan to increase council tax to help fund Met Police crackdown on phone thefts

If approved, the plans would mark the first time City Hall’s share of council tax would exceed £500

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1 week ago ICE arrest of NYC Council employee sparks outrage and protests

City Council Speaker said the employee was legally permitted to work in the U.S. until October

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1 week ago NYC Council employee’s arrest sparks protests and a dispute over his immigration status

A New York City Council employee has been arrested in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown

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1 week ago Adelaide writers’ week 2026 cancelled as board apologises to Randa Abdel

Almost all remaining festival board members have resigned following backlash to decision to disinvite the Palestinian Australian authorFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAdelaide writers’ week 2026 has been cancelled after more than 180 authors and speakers dropped out in protest of the decision to disinvite the Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah.In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, the Adelaide festival board announced the event, which was scheduled to begin at the end of February, would no longer go ahead. The statement also said the remaining members of the board would resign – with the exception of the Adelaide city council representative whose term expires in February. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump administration sued by Minnesota and Illinois after Renee Good killing

The state and cities filed a lawsuit in federal court on Monday, along with a request for a temporary restraining order to halt the enforcement action or limit the ICE operation

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2 w. ago Met Police officer sexually assaulted boy, 17, in hotel while watching Love Island

Former Police Constable Grant Fulker, 32, was convicted by a jury at Southwark Crown Court on Friday, January 9, of sexual assault and attempted sexual assault

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2 w. ago Former Met Police officer found guilty of sexual assaulting teenage boy in Heathrow hotel room

Former PC Grant Fulker was convicted of the offences at Southwark Crown Court

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