3 h. ago Coronation Street star gives birth to second baby with very unusual name and meaning

Rebecca Ryan, who played Lydia Chambers on Coronation Street, has welcomed her daughter with husband Dan Acraman two years after the birth of their first daughter Aurora

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3 h. ago Soldier is 'stabbed while walking his dog in random attack' near British Army base

The 20-year-old soldier was off duty and dressed in plain clothing while walking his pet just two miles from the Swinton Barracks at Perham Down, Wiltshire.

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29 h. ago CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN: 'Donald Trump's attack dog Marjorie Taylor Greene is furious

Marjorie Taylor Greene clearly didn't read Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" spending bill before she voted for it - because she's now saying she didn't know about a key section

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35 h. ago Revealed: How Nicola Peltz has hired Harvey Weinstein's former attack dog to beat the Beckhams in PR battle

Like so many little girls, Nicola Peltz has always idolised her father. From when she was tiny, she would watch intently as the abrasive businessman conducted his work affairs ruthlessly.

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45 h. ago What police found during Madeleine McCann search and what happens next in race against time

A team of German and Portuguese investigators have finished an extensive search

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65 h. ago Police race to residential Liverpool street after teen, 15, 'spotted with gun'

Police were called to a road in Childwall, Liverpool, after a 15-year-old boy was spotted carrying what is believed to have been a gun and he has now been taken into custody where he is being questioned

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67 h. ago Teenagers sentenced for 'cowardly' filmed attack on pensioner walking his dog

"Losing dad in these cruel, violent and deeply shocking circumstances feels like our hearts have been pulled apart."

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68 h. ago Schoolboy, 15, who racially abused and killed dog walker metres from his home in 'wicked' attack is locked up for seven years

Bhim Kohli, 80, was slapped in the face with a slider shoe and kicked and punched by the balaclava-clad male at a park near Leicester, while the female filmed and laughed.

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68 h. ago Teenagers sentenced for killing elderly dog walker in park attack

Bhim Kohli, 80, was fatally injured while walking his dog just yards from his home near Leicester.

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2 d. ago YouTuber admits killing wife as she pushed their baby in a pram down street

Kulsuma Akter was stabbed several times in last year's attack

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4 d. ago Shovels, pickaxes and an abandoned farmhouse: Inside the new search for Madeleine McCann as police race against time

With police scouring derelict farm buildings in Praia da Luz, time is running out to find evidence linking Madeleine’s disappearance to the only suspect, The Independent’s crime correspondent Amy-Clare Martin writes

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4 d. ago CCTV captures horror dog attack as man desperately tries to save his own pet

WARNING: This article contains images some may find distressing

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4 d. ago Man and his partner rushed to hospital and their pet seriously hurt in brutal dog attack

WARNING: This article contains images some may find distressing

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5 d. ago Father's fury after man who rained down blows on him as he cradled his three

CCTV footage shows the shocking moment Smith, 22, was punched in the head on a street in Manchester unable to defend himself while holding his baby girl.

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5 d. ago Police use radar for major new search for Madeleine McCann's body as suspect release looms

A new search for the body of Madeleine McCann is underway in Praia da Luz, Portugal, as police race against time to bring charges against the prime suspect

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5 d. ago Strategic defence review live: Details of Starmer’s military plan revealed as Army to be ‘10 times more lethal’

But prime minister fails to make firm commitment to 3 per cent defence spending target

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5 d. ago Defence review plans will make army ‘10 times more lethal’, says John Healey – politics live

Defence secretary says ‘the world is more dangerous’ as he addresses MPs about strategic defence reviewHere is the clip of Keir Starmer in his Today programme interview refusing to say when the government will raise defence spending to 3% of GDP.In an interview with the Times published on Saturday John Healey, the defence secretary, said that he had “no doubt” that Britain would reach the 3% target by 2034 – ie, before the end of the next parliament. Yesterday he described this as an “ambition”. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Starmer defends not putting date on 3% defence spending target as UK to announce plans to build new submarines – politics live

Prime minister to launch strategic defence review in Glasgow this morningHere is the clip of Keir Starmer in his Today programme interview refusing to say when the government will raise defence spending to 3% of GDP.In an interview with the Times published on Saturday John Healey, the defence secretary, said that he had “no doubt” that Britain would reach the 3% target by 2034 – ie, before the end of the next parliament. Yesterday he described this as an “ambition”. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Keir Starmer to unveil strategic defence review and put UK on ‘war

Prime minister to launch strategic defence review in Glasgow this morningStarmer repeats his claim that he has an ambition to get defence spending up to 3% of GDP in the next parliament.Q: But “ambition” is not a commitment. I can have a commitment to lose weight. That does not mean it will happen.What you can take from this is, yes, that 3% but I am not, as the prime minister of a Labour government, going to make a commitment as to the precise date until I can be sure precisely where the money is coming from, how we can make good on that commitment, because I don’t believe in performative fantasy politics, and certainly not on defence and security.Nato has been the single most effective alliance for keeping the peace for 80 years, and our job is not just to celebrate that as we do, but to ask ourselves the searching question as I ask myself on a daily basis, which is, how do we ensure that Nato preserves the peace for decades to come for this generation? Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Boy, 4, attacked by dog and sustained injuries 'like something out of a horror film'

Amanda Holmes' son, Antonio Quinn, was attacked by a Pocket Bully while outside a friend's house

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