31 h. ago Paddy Power loses millions and has its 'pants pulled down' after betting offer exploited

The action-packed Nations League semi-final between Spain and France may have been a stellar watch for football fans but not for Paddy Power who had a night to forget

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57 h. ago Oxford Street is being overrun by shoplifters and phone snatchers as underfunded police struggle to cope in lawless London, retailers warn

The West End shopping destination has struggled in recent years as big names have moved out and it has become known for phone snatching, anti-social behaviour and theft.

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62 h. ago London's Oxford Street 'at serious risk' from shoplifters and phone snatchers, warn retailers

High Streets UK, a group that represents 5,000 UK businesses, is calling for ring-fenced funding for police to protect key shopping destinations

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2 d. ago Retailers call for urgent national action on high street crime

High Streets UK, a group that represents 5,000 UK businesses, is calling for ring-fenced funding.

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8 d. ago Perth and Kinross councillor calls for urgent review of national planning policy on retail developments

The Planning and Placemaking Committee convener believes the current policy on retail developments "lacks coherence" and risks "stifling competition"

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1 week ago Liverpool parade crash aftermath in horror photos as cops piece tragedy together

Water Street remains a crime scene littered with debris and abandoned belongings - as police investigate how a car managed to speed along a closed-off street and injure almost 50 people

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1 week ago 'Hell on earth': Moment car ploughs into Liverpool fans during title parade

Footage of the incident shows the car speeding up as it veers into pedestrians on both sides of Water Street, knocking people to the floor

Sport

2 w. ago Teachers and doctors to get 4% pay rises but strike threat looms

The Government has confirmed NHS staff and teachers in England will get above-inflation pay hikes but the British Medical Association is threatening strike action, while the National Education Union warned it could register a dispute

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2 w. ago Doctor ‘doubted judgment’ after death of teenager Martha Mills from sepsis

Professor Richard Thompson denies all the allegations against him.

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2 w. ago Doctor ‘gave misleading information’ on girl, 13, who later died of sepsis

The GMC says Martha Mills was referred to a paediatric intensive care unit ‘far too late’ after being described as ‘stable’.

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2 w. ago Union sparks criticism after urging teachers to bring Palestine struggle into schools

The National Education Union (NEU) encouraged teachers to hold a day of action at schools on Thursday to highlight 'the Palestinian struggle for freedom'.

Culture

3 w. ago Home attacked on mob boss Mark Richardson's street as gang war explodes

A home on the same Edinburgh street as crime boss Mark Richardson’s family has been targeted in the latest escalation of Scotland’s brutal gangland feud.

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3 w. ago ‘These murders still live with me’: the show that goes inside Fred and Rose West’s ‘house of horrors’

Featuring moving interviews from the relatives of victims and chilling new footage of a handcuffed Fred locating the bodies at Cromwell Street, a new Netflix documentary pushes the true crime genre to its limitDez Chambers waited 15 years to get the news she didn’t want. All that time, she thought her missing little sister, Alison, might still be out there. Dez would watch documentaries about homelessness to see if perhaps she’d recognise a face, and even attempted the Salvation Army’s family tracing service. “It was hope,” she says from her home in the Netherlands.Hope faded one day in 1994. Calling her from the UK, Dez’s mother-in-law cried down the phone. There was panic, there was confusion, “so I had to ask her. And then she said it was in the papers that the remains had been identified as Alison.” Continue reading...

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4 w. ago The Guardian view on the impact of Trump’s film tariffs: a disaster movie waiting to happen | Editorial

The US president’s proposed levies will badly hit the UK industry just as it is recovering from a series of blowsBarbieland, the Emerald City and a galaxy far, far away were all built – at least in part – at film studios just outside London. Now the UK film industry has come crashing down to earth with Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on all movies “produced in foreign lands”. “Hollywood is being destroyed,” Mr Trump announced, like an action hero on a mission. “Other nations have stolen our movie industry.” In the UK the news was met with warnings that the British film sector would be “wiped out” by such a “knock-out blow”. Brian Cox, the Succession star, called the proposed tariffs “an absolute disaster”. Roll the opening credits.Mr Trump has a point. New instalments of Marvel’s Avengers and Spider-Man are filming around London this summer. No wonder the president wants “MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!” The UK’s generous tax incentives, skills base and state-of-the-art ...

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