18 m. ago Trump live: President orders reopening of Alcatraz prison and attacks ‘radicalized judges’ on deportations

Commander-in-chief insists notorious San Francisco penitentiary should be revived as he ramps up his moves to deport illegal immigrants

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47 m. ago VE Day 2025 flypast and parade LIVE: 80th anniversary celebrations start with Red Arrows display and Churchill speech

Britain today begins its celebrations to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day

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63 m. ago GMB viewers praise new 'presenter' as he makes 'amazing' debut at remarkable age

Good Morning Britain host Ranvir Singh thanked veteran Colin Bell for stepping up as a presenter after the oldest surviving RAF veteran began questioning the Veterans Minister

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84 m. ago Donald Trump hits movies made in the UK with 100% tariffs: Blow to Britain's film industry as President turns up trade war to save 'dying' Hollywood

Incentive programmes for years have influenced where movies are shot, increasingly driving film production out of California and to other states and countries with favourable tax incentives.

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84 m. ago Naoya Inoue overcomes knockdown to stop Ramon Cardenas and retain undisputed status

Inoue was dropped early on but recovered as referee waved fight off in eighth round

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98 m. ago Louise Haigh delivers blow to Keir Starmer with 'economic reset' demand to fight Farage

Former Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said she was 'alarmed' at Keir Starmer's response to last week's election results and called for an 'economic reset'

Economics

1 hour ago Uber announces major shake up to the way customers can pay for rides

The app-based firm said it wanted to make transport more accessible for its passengers as it announced an 18-month trial in several cities would be extended across to most places in Britain.

Economics

2 h. ago VE Day 80 celebrations begin! Britain to kick off four days of commemorations with iconic Red Arrows flypast and street parties galore

Thousands of people are expected to line the streets of central London today, watching a ceremony that includes a military procession of 1,300 members of the armed forces.

Culture

3 h. ago Scotland included in £40m project to connect rainforest habitat along UK coastline

The nature programme is being funded by insurance giant Aviva.

Economics

3 h. ago Here’s a radical way to save England’s collapsing justice system: get rid of juries | Simon Jenkins

We’re saddled with an archaic system. As record numbers of trials stall and costs soar, it’s time for us to ditch this relicAre the middle ages about to end? We all know Magna Cartaset the principle that justice delayed is justice denied. These days, outmoded British judicial systems amount to precisely such a denial of justice, playthings of a legal profession supremely confident of its perfection. No aspect of these systems is more superfluous than juries. There is no conclusive evidence they are more “just” than systems based on judges in the rest of Europe – or in non-jury courts in Britain.As of September 2024, a record 73,000 trials in England and Wales are, like A&E patients, waiting their turn in a bureaucratic corridor. In March, a trial of a man alleged to have been threatening members of the public with a machete was postponed for three and a half years to 2028. According to a 2023 report by the charity Rape Crisis, on average adult survivors of rape in England and Wa...

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3 h. ago Berlin still bears scars 80 years after pivotal battle that sealed the defeat of Nazi Germany

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over the Nazis in an intense fight for the German capital in May 1945

Events

4 h. ago A massive coastal restoration project is in peril amid claims Louisiana concealed a critical report

An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast devastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has been thrown deeper into disarray amid claims by Gov. Jeff Landry that his predecessor concealed an unfavorable study that could imperil the $3 billion effort

Politics

4 h. ago ‘Fight back’: journalist taking Trump administration to court calls for media to resist attacks

Patsy Widakuswara, lead plaintiff in lawsuit fighting order to dismantle Voice of America, says US government is becoming more aggressiveThe lead plaintiff in a lawsuit fighting Donald Trump’s order to dismantle Voice of America has said the media has to resist as the administration becomes increasingly aggressive against the press.“I never in a million years thought I would have to fight for freedom of the press in the United States of America. And yet here we are,” says Patsy Widakuswara, the White House bureau chief for the broadcasting network. “As journalism is under attack, it feels empowering to fight back. We need more people to resist and fight back.” Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Con artist lambasts 'chaotic' UK asylum system on Albanian TV... while running scheme to defraud it

New arrivals from the Balkan state in Britain, she complained, were scared to register at schools and hospitals because they feared they would be deported.

Events

8 h. ago Reform promise to use 'every instrument of power available' to ban migrant hotels in areas where they control the local council

Over the weekend the party's chairman Zia Yusuf also said young people needed a moral re-education and schools would teach a love of Britain if his party was in power.

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9 h. ago ‘Scale is so important’ – the fight to revive Britain’s vanishing rainforests

Conservationists are battling to secure the future of the ‘jewel in the crown’ of British habitats as climate change looms.

Politics

10 h. ago Oscar Piastri wins F1 Miami Grand Prix to stretch lead in title race

Lando Norris second as McLaren dominateGeorge Russell third, Max Verstappen fourthDemonstrating with emphatic effect that he must be considered now the front runner for the championship, Oscar Piastri’s drive from fourth on the grid to victory at the Miami Grand Prix was the stuff that defines the battling Aussie spirit. Taking the win for McLaren with a piece of relentlessly controlled dominance and in so doing determinedly maintaining his place out front in a tight title fight, Piastri laid down a marker in Florida that he will be exceptionally hard to beat this season.Disappointed on missing out on a win in the sprint race on Saturday, Piastri and his team executed with perfection to secure a remarkable win from fourth place, beating his teammate Lando Norris into second place, the British driver’s hopes of victory extinguished within moments of the lights going out when he went wheel to wheel with Max Verstappen, went off and fell to sixth. Verstappen could manage only fourth fr...

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11 h. ago Keir Starmer's poignant letter to veterans as debt to WWII victory 'can never be repaid'

In a powerful open letter to veterans, as we approach the VE Day anniversary, Prime Minister Keir Starmer thanks them for their 'selfless dedication' to protecting Britain

Events

11 h. ago Woman who was missing for more than 60 years is found 'alive and well' decades after vanishing without a trace

Audrey Backeberg left behind a husband and two children in what was is said to have been an abusive home when she disappeared in July 1962.

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11 h. ago Inoue vs Cardenas: Fight time, undercard, latest odds, prediction, ring walks tonight

‘The Monster’ looking to make a statement in first US fight for four years as he defends undisputed status at super-bantamweight

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