20 m. ago Death row killer Gregory Hunt makes hand gesture moments before he's executed

Gregory Hunt was found guilty of capital murder during sexual abuse and burglary by a jury, with jurors recommending by an 11-1 vote that he should receive a death sentence

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23 m. ago Company linked to Baroness Mone must pay back £121m for ‘faulty’ PPE, court told

The Department of Health and Social Care is suing PPE Medpro for allegedly breaching a deal for 25 million surgical gowns.

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39 m. ago Amazon's XL Cadbury chocolate bar not available in Tesco or Asda slashed to £11

"Perfectly delicious chocolate. There is nothing to dislike. I bought it for myself and I'm in chocolate heaven right now"

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41 m. ago Pheobe Bishop's mum has been through hell after the alleged murder of her teenage daughter. Now her life has been made even more unbearable

Pheobe'Bishop's body was found last week in remote bushland near her home in Gin Gin, close to Bundaberg in central Queensland , three weeks after she vanished.

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65 m. ago Boys accused of murdering Ibrahima Seck, 14, on his way to play football appear in court as their families watch on

Three teenage boys have appeared in court accused of his murder

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82 m. ago Ibrahima Seck death sees three teens in court charged with murder of boy, 14

Ibrahima died in hospital after he was attacked on Sunday as he was on his way to play football with his brother and friends, magistrates in Manchester heard

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84 m. ago Ayrshire pupils among funniest in Scotland at national joke telling competition

Ayrshire's school pupils proved to be the funniest in Scotland after Saffron Barrett, Freya McVie Branley and Craig Speirs competed in the VoiceBox competition.

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1 hour ago Boy, 14, stabbed to death on way to play football in park, court hears

Three teenagers are accused of the murder of Ibrahima Seck on Sunday afternoon in Manchester.

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1 hour ago Netflix period drama has viewers 'mesmerised' with 'great twist'

The Pale Blue Eye, a 2022 mystery film, stars Christian Bale as detective Augustus Landor who partners with a young Edgar Allan Poe, played by Harry Melling, to solve a murder

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1 hour ago Scots soldier jailed for four years after man killed in Canadian bar brawl

Corporal Craig Gibson, 30, struck Brett Sheffield three times with an elbow to the head and neck that later resulted in his death.

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2 h. ago Magdalena, Woman of Joy review – sex, sin and saintliness with a tour de force host

Playhouse East, LondonLily Sinko rages, writhes, provokes and teases her way through the horrifying life story of her storyteller with cartoonish abandonMagdalena appears from the dark, perched on a bar stool, cigarettes and liquor by her side, an array of hanging lamps casting a sultry glow. Her first words set the tone – “You want to fuck me,” she says – and lead us into an uncompromising introduction, littered with sex, violence and sideways jokes.She is the creation of French-English actor and writer Lily Sinko, and as her character’s name suggests, we’re hurled through a life of saintliness and sin, despair and redemption, as Magdalena does the best with the hand she’s dealt. We travel to her childhood in Marseille with a hostile “Papa”, an airport abduction that sees her deposited at the Virgin Mary School for Bad Bad Girls (Cash Only), and a wild escape through the streets of France, finding fleeting refuge in a cathedral.At Playhouse East, London, until 28 June Continue read...

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2 h. ago Prolific burglar back behind bars after latest crime got him just £15

"He has committed several burglaries and despite attempts to engage with him continues to offend"

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2 h. ago Murderer makes a chilling last hand gesture before convulsing as he's suffocated to death in 'cruel' nitrogen mask execution in Alabama

An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman in 1988 was put to death Tuesday evening in the nation's sixth execution by nitrogen gas.

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2 h. ago Death row killer's chilling last words as he's executed for murdering mum

Anthony Wainwright was put on death row after abducting mum-of-two Carmen Gayheart, 23, from a supermarket car park in broad daylight, and killing her in Florida

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2 h. ago Coatbridge clubber who attacked another man at closing time jailed for 21 months

Josh Preston was told that he was lucky not to be facing a murder charge.

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3 h. ago Student jailed for life for trying to stab MP to death after being radicalised online by extremist preacher is to be freed after just 15 years

Roshonara Choudhry was just 21 when she was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in 2010 for trying to murder Labour MP Stephen Timms because he voted in favour of the Iraq War.

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3 h. ago Bargain Nespresso bundle cut to almost half price in Amazon flash sale

Coffee lovers, rejoice.

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3 h. ago Rachel Reeves says she ‘chooses investment’ as she prepares to unveil Labour’s spending review – UK politics live

Chancellor will reveal how the government plans to spend almost £1.4tn in 2026-27, rising to almost £1.5tr in 2028-29In Wales politcians from almost all parties have been complaining for years about the UK governments decision to categorise HS2 as a project for England and Wales, even though the line does not go through Wales at all. Treating it as a project that nevertheless benefit Wales means Wales does not get equivalent money for its own infrastructure, under the Barnett formula.According to a report by ITV Cymru, Wales will get £445m for rail in the spending review. ITV quotes a Welsh Labour source as saying:This investment is more than Wales would have had so far had HS2 been Barnettised. It will make a massive difference economically and politically.We need to go much further and faster to get one step ahead of the tactics used by small boat gangs.That is why we will boost investment to secure our borders, with up to £280m per year in the Border Security Command by 2028/29. ...

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3 h. ago Three teenagers charged with murder of boy, 14, killed in Manchester stabbing

Ibrahima Seck’s family described him as a ‘well-liked young boy’

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3 h. ago Something in the water: how kelp is helping Maine’s mussels boom

When a US firm saw the seaweed was making their shellfish the ‘biggest and best’ scientists realised they’d hit upon a natural way to combat ocean acidificationPhotographs by Greta RybusMore on this story: A drop in the ocean: does experimental technology hold the key to saving the world’s seas?On a glimmering May morning, Tom Briggs pilots a 45ft aluminium barge through the waters of Casco Bay for one of the final days of the annual kelp harvest. Motoring past Clapboard Island, he points to a floating wooden platform where mussels have been seeded alongside ribbons of edible seaweed.“This is our most productive mussel site,” says Briggs, the farm manager for Bangs Island Mussels, a Portland sea farm that grows, harvests and sells hundreds of thousands of pounds of shellfish and seaweed each year. “When we come here, we get the biggest, fastest-growing mussels with the thickest shells and the best quality. To my mind, unscientifically, it’s because of the kelp.”Zoe Benisek, oyster l...

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