15 h. ago Man City release third kit for 2025/26 season with special message in shirt

Manchester City have announced the release of the third of their three kits for the 2025/26 season

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27 h. ago Princess Kate releases special summer video during holiday with family

The Princess of Wales has released a new video where she celebrates the summer season and discusses the importance of creating memories with your loved ones.

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1 week ago Plans for new offence to crack down on promoting Channel crossings online

Anyone advertising crossings or illegal working could face up to five years in prison and a large fine.

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3 w. ago ‘I’d had 28 years of depression – now it was gone’: Comic Paul Foot on three seconds that changed his life

Driving through Manchester one Sunday, at the wheel of a Nissan Micra, Foot suddenly woke from decades of anxiety, anger and misery. He talks about the friends who tried to help him, and the forgiveness he struggled to findFor three years and four months, Paul Foot has been living in a state of joy. He is in it now, he says, sitting across a table, overlooking London’s Regent’s canal. He’s wearing one of his trademark blue LF Markey boilersuits, and seems serene rather than ecstatic, half smiling. But that’s because the joy doesn’t spike or yo-yo. It’s a “constant”, so reliable that even when someone he knows dies, “there’s still a peace beneath it and a joy in it as well”.Life was not always like this, and the story of how Foot, 51, overturned 28 years of “crushing, all-encompassing depression and anxiety” is told in his critically acclaimed 2023 show Dissolve, the filmed special of which is released this week. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Prisoners let out ‘in error’ or held illegally beyond their release date in ‘squalid’ prison, watchdog warns

Inspector issues urgent notification over mice and cockroach infested HMP Pentonville after staff monitoring suicidal inmates caught sleeping on the job

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3 w. ago Prison illegally detaining inmates after release date put in special measures

The chief inspector of prisons also said the backlog in sentencing calculations at HMP Pentonville has seen some prisoners freed early.

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4 w. ago Families of UK prisoners abroad urge ministers to keep promises to help

David Lammy said he hopes to appoint special envoy for British nationals detained overseasFamilies and lawyers of prominent British prisoners detained abroad have called for the government to deliver on promises to help secure their release and appoint a special envoy.Last week, David Lammy, the foreign secretary, said he hoped to appoint a special envoy for British nationals arbitrarily detained overseas by the end of the year, after vowing to do so in November 2024 and as part of a Labour manifesto pledge. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Families of UK prisoners detained abroad urge ministers to keep promises of help

David Lammy said he hopes to appoint special envoy for British nationals detained overseasFamilies and lawyers of prominent British prisoners detained abroad have called for the government to deliver on promises to help secure their release and appoint a special envoy.Last week, David Lammy, the foreign secretary, said he hoped to appoint a special envoy for British nationals arbitrarily detained overseas by the end of the year, after vowing to do so in November 2024 and as part of a Labour manifesto pledge. Continue reading...

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