5 h. ago Sheku Bayoh's family hold 'brutally honest' meeting with Police Scotland chief

It came after Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes rejected their request to extend the remit of the inquiry examining his death.

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5 h. ago Sheku Bayoh family in ‘brutally honest’ meeting with Police Scotland chief

It came after Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes rejected their request to extend the remit of the inquiry examining his death.

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10 h. ago Top female jockey puts thriving career on immediate hold to start a family

Maryline Eon finished 14th in France’s Flat jockeys championship in 2024 but after taking part in the International Jockeys Challenge in Saudi Arabia has announced she is pregnant

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32 h. ago Sheku Bayoh inquiry will not examine Crown Office decision not to prosecute police

Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes said extending the inquiry's remit was not in the public interest.

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32 h. ago Sheku Bayoh inquiry remit unchanged and will not examine lack of prosecutions

His family had asked for the terms of reference of an inquiry into his death to be extended.

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59 h. ago How 'widower's fire' consumed me: When my wife died I joined an affairs dating app, discovered casual sex and put fatherhood on hold, says author CHARLES BOCK in a brutally honest account

Six months after the death of his wife, novelist Charles Bock was reading a book detailing the history of grunge music, when one particular paragraph leapt out at him.

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67 h. ago How 'widowers fire' consumed me: I joined an affairs dating app, discovered casual sex and put fatherhood on hold when my wife died, says author CHARLES BOCK in a brutally honest account

Six months after the death of his wife, novelist Charles Bock was reading a book detailing the history of grunge music, when one particular paragraph leapt out at him.

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3 d. ago Ruben Amorim sets alarm bells ringing with brutally honest admission on Man Utd struggles

Manchester United delivered an embarrassing first-half performance against Everton before fighting back to claim a draw, but Ruben Amorim has admitted he is struggling to turn his side around

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3 d. ago Pep Guardiola makes brutally honest sack admission as Man City struggles laid bare

Manchester City have endured a difficult season and Pep Guardiola is under no illusions about the fact that he could have been facing the sack at any other club

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4 d. ago Police officer who removed burglar's tag so they could meet up for sex is jailed

Natasha Conneely, 31, who was part of the offender management unit at Bedfordshire Police, removed the burglar's tag in April so he could visit her house without being tracked.

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4 d. ago Luke Littler makes brutally honest Manchester United admission after dream stadium gesture

The latest Man Utd news as PDC world champion Luke Littler addresses his beloved Old Trafford giants.

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5 d. ago Scots cops 'under stress due to criminal English officers such as Wayne Couzens'

David Kennedy said claims by the force’s former chief constable that Police Scotland is institutionally racist and sexist also had a “negative impact” on officers.

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6 d. ago CDC vaccination committee meeting postponed days after RFK Jr. took over at HHS

A panel of experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy will not meet as previously scheduled next week

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6 d. ago Police Scotland chief warns national insurance hike could risk officer numbers

Jo Farrell was speaking at a meeting of the Scottish Police Authority on Thursday.

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7 d. ago Department of Education workers brace for Trump to shut agency down: ‘Everybody is distraught’

Education department meeting in wake of new Trump policies was ‘incomplete and chaotic’, staff sayWorkers inside the US Department of Education have described a “horrible, intimidating and unnerving” atmosphere among the rank-and-file as Donald Trump vows to shut it down.Widespread panic and confusion over the department’s future led to an “incomplete and chaotic” staff meeting on Wednesday, according to sources, as managers tried to explain new policies. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Two police officers face 'gross incompetence meetings' after standing outside home for 35 minutes while husband beat his wife to death with son's skateboard

'Ruthless' Olubunmi Abodunde strangled his wife before using his son's skateboard to cave in her skull, repeated hitting her during a frenzied attack in November 2023 while officers dithered outside.

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7 d. ago Stacey Solomon breaks down in tears and walks off camera as fans say 'life is cruel'

Stacey Solomon was unable to hold back her emotions as she helped a family from Leeds during the latest episode of her BBC show Sort Your Life Out

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7 d. ago James Murdoch has spilled the beans, and the reality is more miserable than we – or Succession – ever imagined | Zoe Williams

From the psychological torture to the inexorable rightward drift of the family business, it’s not much fun being a MurdochIt is a life-defining moment, for James Murdoch, to describe his father and wider family in an interview with the Atlantic. Much of the rough and tumble and backstabbing – Rupert essentially pitting James against the older Lachlan, in a fight that continually vexed him because his favourite (Lachlan) never won – has existed in the public domain for years as rumour. Much of it has been proved or demonstrated within reason, either by biographers – Michael Wolff in particular – or by events, culminating in Rupert and Lachlan’s legal case to secure Lachlan’s hold on the Murdoch family trust, against the other siblings, James, Liz and Prue, at the end of last year, which Rupert lost.Yet none of those machinations, spanning decades, could really encompass the sheer unbridled nastiness of this family. James describes a meeting with Rupert’s lawyer, Rupert himself sittin...

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9 d. ago Why Chief Constable was right to act over threat to reopen Sheku Bayoh case against police officers

A last-minute attempt to change the remit of the inquiry into Sheku Bayoh’s death, so that it could reconsider whether to prosecute police officers, prompted a highly unusual, but justified, move from the Chief Constable

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9 d. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: European leaders spat out their dummies when the US Vice President delivered that brutally honest speech. I just hope Keir Starmer was listening...

The fallout from American Vice President JD Vance 's brutally honest speech in Munich continues to reverberate around Europe. Knee-jerk reaction has been entirely predictable.

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