39 m. ago Reform’s newest MP Danny Kruger: ‘On a personal level I deeply regret rejecting the Tory party’

Danny Kruger became Nigel Farage’s biggest scalp after the shadow minister defected to Reform. Alex Ross visited the East Wiltshire MP at his office to find out why he left the Tories – and what the future holds for Reform

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2 h. ago The Chosen Adventures cast from Paul Walter Hauser to Yvonne Orji

The Chosen Adventures is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video

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2 h. ago Tragic story behind one of the world's most iconic photos of vulture waiting for a starving child to die: How famed photographer killed himself after being tormented by guilt over shocking image

The shocking scene was captured in a picture titled The Vulture and the Little Girl - although the child was later revealed to be a young boy - by South African photographer Kevin Carter in 1993.

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3 h. ago Race riot grandad Peter Lynch took own life after breaking prison rules, inquest hears

Lynch died two months after being jailed following riots outside a hotel housing asylum seekers last summer, where he was at the front of a mob, shouting 'scum' and 'child killers' at police

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3 h. ago Britain's longest serving prisoner can make calls from his cell...and exercise in yard

Robert Maudsley, 72, went on hunger strike over the removal of his PlayStation, TV and other privileges. The quadruple killer was once regarded as the UK's most dangerous inmate

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4 h. ago ‘There were stoats in kitchen cupboards’: AI deployed to help save Orkney’s birds

Stoats have been an existential threat to Orkney’s rare birds but technology is helping to eradicate themAt first, the stoat looks like a faint smudge in the distance. But, as it jumps closer, its sleek body is identified by a heat-detecting camera and, with it, an alert goes out to Orkney’s stoat hunters.Aided by an artificial intelligence programme trained to detect a stoat’s sinuous shape and movement, trapping teams are dispatched with the explicit aim of finding and killing it. It is the most sophisticated technology deployed in one of the world’s largest mammal eradication projects, which has the aim of detecting the few stoats left on Orkney. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago China warns Britain will 'bear all the consequences' if its new London super embassy isn't approved without delay

China's foreign ministry has hit back in open fury at further delays to permission for its planned embassy in the heart of the City of London.

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5 h. ago ‘Indecency has become a new hallmark’: writer and historian Jelani Cobb on race in Donald Trump’s America

In a new essay collection, the dean of Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism makes a compelling argument that everything is connected and nothing is inevitable about racial justice or democracy“From the vantage point of the newsroom, the first story is almost never the full story,” writes Jelani Cobb. “You hear stray wisps of information, almost always the most inflammatory strands of a much bigger, more complicated set of circumstances.”The dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in New York could be reflecting on the recent killing of the racist provocateur Charlie Kirk. In fact, he is thinking back to Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American student from Florida who was shot dead by a white Latino neighbourhood watch volunteer in 2012. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Death Row inmate's final meal after slaughtering four members of same family

Twisted killer Richard Kenneth Djerf, 55, has been executed more than 30 years after the brutal murders of four members of the same family in which he tied them up and tortured them

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5 h. ago Afghanistan and Pakistan to hold peace talks in Doha after airstrikes kill cricketers

Kabul and Islamabad seek to defuse border conflict after latest Pakistani strikes kill at least 10 Afghan civilians

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6 h. ago SeaWorld trainer butchered by killer whale who turned 'psychotic' in captivity

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Dawn Brancheau, 40, was a seasoned SeaWorld trainer who had worked with killer whales for 15 years - but during a petting session, Tilikum grabbed her by the ponytail and dragged her into the pool

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6 h. ago Big Brother icon says one thing has killed TV show and it’s not what fans think

EXCLUSIVE: Celebrity Big Brother's Nicola McLean says the show’s "sensible drinking" rules have killed its wild spirit, claiming the booze cap has made the reality show "boring"

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6 h. ago The woman with the world's most powerful men at her feet: As Trump fawn's over 'beautiful' Giorgia Meloni, how the 5ft 3in cigarette

Italy's first female prime minister might be 5ft 3in, but that's never stopped her from going head-to-head with the political heavyweights of our time - and winning.

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6 h. ago Four men are arrested in France over plot to kill Putin critic who fled Russia after exposing prison abuses

Police in France have detained four people suspected of plotting to kill a high-profile Russian critic of Vladimir Putin.

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6 h. ago Dominic Cummings says Nigel Farage will be Britain's next Prime Minister

Cummings says the Reform UK leader will succeed if he can extend his reach beyond being a 'one man band with an iPhone ' to bringing in 'genuinely talented people'.

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6 h. ago Government spends £115,000 on ‘influencer marketing’ in less than a year

Minister said cash supported ‘multiple campaigns’, but Tories say it ‘makes a mockery’ of spending pledges

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7 h. ago Woman's texts predicted killer boyfriend's actions days before she died

Rebekah Campbell, 32, was murdered by her partner Michael Ormandy, 34, after he bursted into her home wearing a bullet proof vest. He has been jailed following the attack

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7 h. ago Convicted Lewisham murderer admits killing girlfriend when she refused abortion

Convicted Lewisham murderer admits killing girlfriend when she refused abortion  This Is Local London

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7 h. ago Convicted murderer admits killing his pregnant girlfriend by stabbing her 19 times after being released from 'life sentence' on licence

Shaine March, 47, attacked Alana Odysseos (pictured) who was pregnant with her third child at her Walthamstow home in east London on July 22, 2024.

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8 h. ago ‘A glimpse of genius’: what do unpublished stories found in Harper Lee’s apartment tell us about the To Kill a Mockingbird author?

When she died, the writer left behind a cache of notebooks and manuscripts. Her biographer reveals what they tell us about her unlikely rise to literary stardomWhen To Kill a Mockingbird was published in the summer of 1960, it seemed to have sprung from nowhere, like an Alabamian Athena: a perfectly formed novel from an unknown southern writer without any evident precedent or antecedent. The book somehow managed to be both urgently of its time and instantly timeless, addressing the era’s most turbulent issues, from the civil rights movement to the sexual revolution, while also speaking in the register of the eternal, from the moral awakening of children and the abiding love of families to the frictions between the self and society.But no writer is without influences and aspirations: Harper Lee had, of course, come from somewhere and worked tremendously hard to become someone. It was only because she did not like talking about herself that her origins seemed so mysterious, and i...

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