66 h. ago 'This is a brilliant day, Rachel Reeves has lifted 350,000 kids out of poverty and more'

Britain's first woman chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has ended the barbaric rape clause introduced by the last Tory government.

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3 d. ago Holborn fire LIVE: Firefighters tackle underground blaze in heart of London

Around 70 firefighters have been called to the scene on Theobolds Road

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4 d. ago ‘Killer’ asylum seeker ‘Chris Jude’ beat & raped another woman, 30, days before murdering teen cyclist Lisa, court hears

THE accused killer of a Dutch teen cyclist raped another woman just days before the shocking murder of Lisa, a court has heard. Prosecutors gave a painstaking minute-by-minute account of Chris Jude's alleged actions across two nights in August, leaving one woman traumatised and a teen girl dead. The accused has reportedly been calling himself...

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4 d. ago Jingle Bell Heist cast, release date and plot of new Netflix romcom

The forthcoming Netflix film follows a risky festive robbery in the heart of London

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7 d. ago ‘I knew I was doing something I shouldn’t’: Karl Ove Knausgård on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition

The Norwegian author on his autofictional epic, moving to London, and the psychopath at the heart of his new novelFifteen years ago, discussing the success of his six-volume autofictional work My Struggle on Norwegian radio, Karl Ove Knausgård said he felt as if he had “actually sold my soul to the devil”. My Struggle had become a runaway success in Norway – a success that would subsequently be repeated across the world – but the project provoked anger in some quarters for its portrayal of friends and family members. This was a work of art that came at a price. Hence, for its creator, its Faustian aspect.That experience lies at the root of Knausgård’s latest novel, The School of Night, the fourth volume in his Morning Star sequence, in which his typical character studies and fine-grained attention to the minutiae of daily life are married to a compelling supernatural plot involving a mysterious star appearing in the sky and the dead returning to life. Volumes one and three, The Morn...

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8 d. ago Strictly rape arrest: Star arrested on suspicion of raping woman as show rocked by new scandal

The alleged incident took place just weeks after another male star of the BBC show was arrested in August on suspicion of rape

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8 d. ago British vigilantes film themselves smashing migrant boat engines on French beaches to stop crossings

VIGILANTES who led the push to cover our streets in Union flags have filmed themselves smashing small boat engines hidden on French beaches.  The Raise the Colours activists are trying to stop would-be migrants from crossing the Channel.  In their latest clip, they dig up a dinghy engine buried in the dunes by people smugglers.  They can be heard...

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9 d. ago Former Met officer David Carrick sentenced for rape and molesting child

Convicted serial offender given further life sentence for crimes against 12-year-old girl in 1980s and former partnerFormer police officer and convicted sex offender David Carrick has been sentenced at the Old Bailey to life with a minimum of 30 years for molesting a 12-year-old girl and raping a former partner. Carrick, 50, who served as an armed officer in the Metropolitan police, sexually assaulted the child in the late 1980s, his trial heard. More than 20 years later, he repeatedly raped a woman and subjected her to “degrading and humiliating” abuse during the course of a toxic relationship.Mrs Justice McGowan sentenced Carrick for the fresh convictions on Thursday after he was found guilty of two charges of rape, one of sexual assault and coercive and controlling behaviour towards the woman between 2014 and 2019, and five counts of indecent assault relating to the girl in the late 1980s. Carrick’s offences came to light after he pleaded guilty in 2022 and 2023 to 71 sexual offe...

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9 d. ago The play that changed my life: ‘It was frightening at first but The Inheritance let me discover myself’

Roles as EM Forster and a young, gay American dying of Aids in the 2018 play allowed an opportunity for deep personal and social reflectionIn 2018 I had recently lost my mother, so I was looking for connections with the spirit. The Inheritance allowed me to talk about matters of the heart.It was the world premiere at the Young Vic in London, so we were making something brand new, which is always thrilling. They’d already done a week’s rehearsal with another actor who had pulled out of what became my role. I stayed up all night reading Matthew López’s script before my audition. It was so gripping. I was nervous of Stephen Daldry going into the audition, as he has an enormous status and he’s very front-footed in the rehearsal room. I like to be in the background and find my way, so his working methods frightened me a little bit. But I put all of that aside to serve this story. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Senior criminal barrister, 53, who prosecuted sex offenders in complex rape cases has been disbarred for groping a woman

Kevin Barry, a high-flying lawyer who had tackled complex rape cases for the Crown Prosecution Service, preyed on his victim at two separate social events just weeks apart.

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9 d. ago French police plan to use nets to stop small boats ‘risks turning Channel into a graveyard’

France has been under mounting pressure from the UK to intercept migrant vessels at sea amid growing public anger over illegal migration

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9 d. ago Let us try safe, legal routes before putting up nets to stop the boats

Editorial: Tough action is needed to bring order to the asylum system, but that cannot include putting migrants’ lives at even greater risk

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1 week ago Inside the 'tent village' in heart of London which dozens of rough sleepers are calling home

Westminster City Council has been managing small numbers of encampments since Covid, The Standard understands

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1 week ago Man accused of captaining migrant boat that capsized, killing 4, is charged

Federal officials have charged a man believed to be the captain of a boat carrying migrants that capsized near San Diego, killing four passengers

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1 week ago BREAKING: Teen 'raped by two men' as search launched for Good Samaritans who helped her

Two teenage boys are believed to have rushed to the aid of the young girl and fought off the attackers, before a woman made sure the victim was alright after the alleged rape

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1 week ago Brodie Park incident: Woman raped in Paisley park subjected to 'horrendous ordeal' as police probe launched

Police have launched a man hunt for the suspect.

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1 week ago Manhunt for rapist as woman attacked in UK park in 'frightening' horror incident

Police Scotland are searching for a man after a woman was raped in Brodie Park, Paisley, Renfrewshire, at about 4.30am on Sunday. The woman was left frightened after the attack

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1 week ago Scots park taped off after woman raped in horror early morning attack

The woman was within Brodie Park in Paisley when she was seriously sexually assaulted by a man at around 4.45am on Sunday.

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1 week ago Four killed after boat carrying migrants from Bangladesh capsizes off Libya

Status of second boat carrying 69 people, including dozens of Sudanese nationals, still unclear

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1 week ago I saw the dark heart of lawless Britain at a west London car boot sale

I saw the dark heart of lawless Britain at a west London car boot sale  The Telegraph

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