11 h. ago Murdered MP’s daughter says decision not to prosecute Kneecap ‘disappointing’

The Metropolitan Police said the Belfast-based rap trio would face no further action following the comments in November 2023.

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12 h. ago Mother loses High Court challenge over murdered son’s inquest

Jada Bailey sought to challenge the decision not to resume the inquest into the death of her son, Jaden Moodie, who was murdered in 2019.

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18 h. ago Met Police will not charge Kneecap over ‘kill your MP’ video

The Irish rap group performed at Glastonbury on Saturday in one of the most talked-about shows of the weekend

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20 h. ago Met Police won't charge Kneecap rapper over video showing him telling crowd to 'kill your local MP'

The Irish rap trio were filmed shouting 'the only good Tory is a dead Tory' while playing a gig in November 2023.

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30 h. ago Metropolitan Police will not charge Kneecap over 'kill your local MP' comments at London gig

Counter-terrorism officers from Scotland Yard investigated the footage from a gig at Camden’s Electric Ballroom in November 2023

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39 h. ago Young man fighting for life after BMW overturns in Piccadilly Circus

The black car crashed in the early hours of Sunday.

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41 h. ago MP writes to BBC calling for 'withdrawal of Glastonbury coverage' over controversial acts

Bob Vylan and Kneecap sparked fury with their politically charged sets in which they criticised Israel's military action in Gaza, prompting police to probe video footage from the festival

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61 h. ago Kneecap to play Glastonbury’s West Holts stage amid terror charge controversy

Keir Starmer has said it wouldn’t be ‘appropriate’ for festival to give the trio a platform

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3 d. ago Fourth man charged after death of man who was trying to be ‘mediator’ in fight

Mohammed Ali, 35, from Hounslow, is due to appear at Willesden Magistrates’ Court on Saturday charged with murder.

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3 d. ago Daniel Anjorin’s parents describe heartbreak after sword killer jailed for life

Ebenezer Anjorin says justice has been served, but their family was devastated by the loss of their ‘kind’ and ‘gifted’ 14-year-old son.

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3 d. ago Man arrested for murder following death of a woman in east London

Man arrested for murder following death of a woman in east London  Metropolitan Police

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3 d. ago Man charged with murder following death of a woman in east London

Man charged with murder following death of a woman in east London  Metropolitan Police

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3 d. ago Death of Daniel Anjorin in Hainault rampage was father’s ‘worst nightmare’

The 14-year-old was murdered by Marcus Monzo in April last year.

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3 d. ago If Britain is broken, what is to blame – big money and big tech, or graffiti on your train? | Tom Whyman

A new cadre of agit-prop campaigners has been cleaning the London underground, but there is more to the political stunt than meets the eyeBritain, let’s face it, is crap. Crap, I mean, in quite a specific sense: we might not be teetering on the brink of civilisational destruction, as the post-Brexit right can often seem to think. But there nonetheless remains a vast, ambient sense of rubbishness. Everything is expensive but nothing works. Our streets are full of potholes; our houses are full of mould. All the shops are shut, except for a Tesco Express, where there are security tags on the eggs. It takes about a million years to build a railway line.Up to now, the response to Britain’s enshittification has, by and large, seemed remarkably fatalistic: Keir Starmer spent the first year in government repeatedly insisting that there just wasn’t any money, and so really nothing could be done. Thank God then, one might think, for Looking for Growth, a new campaign group led by young (well,...

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3 d. ago Teenager forced to expose herself in Met Police strip search says she may ‘never feel normal again’

Two Metropolitan Police officers have been sacked for gross misconduct following a four-week tribunal examining the strip-search in a Hackney school in 2020

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3 d. ago ‘There was no time for fear’, says officer who confronted sword

Marcus Monzo killed 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin during a 20-minute rampage in Hainault, east London

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3 d. ago Criminal trials linked to Post Office Horizon scandal could wait until 2028

Commander Stephen Clayman, the police officer leading the investigation, said it is ‘making some real progress’.

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3 d. ago ‘There was no time for fear’, says officer who confronted Hainault attacker

Inspector Moloy Campbell said his thoughts were entirely focused on the need to ‘preserve life’ including that of his officers on the ground.

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4 d. ago ‘I don’t know if I’m going to feel normal again’ Child Q says over strip search

Two Met Police officers have been dismissed after being found to have committed gross misconduct in relation to the ‘disproportionate’ search.

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4 d. ago Met Police officers who strip searched black schoolgirl, 15, are SACKED

Metropolitan Police officers Pc Kristina Linge and Pc Rafal Szmydynski strip searched the young girl after her school wrongly suspected her of carrying cannabis in December 2020

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