25 m. ago Inmate death reported as illegal prison guard strike stretches into 2nd week

A 61-year-old inmate died over the weekend at one of the New York prisons where National Guard troops were deployed to replace corrections officers who walked off the job in an illegal strike

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2 h. ago Disgraced MP Mike Amesbury, jailed for punching a man, facing calls to quit

His prison sentence leaves him liable to the recall process, which would trigger a by-election if 10 per cent of registered voters in his seat sign a petition calling for it

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2 h. ago ‘He got exactly what he deserves’: Mike Amesbury’s constituents react after MP jailed for assault

After the 55-year-old was jailed for assaulting a constituent, Barney Davis asked Frodsham locals how they felt now their MP was behind bars

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3 h. ago Every word judge said as he jailed MP Mike Amesbury over shameful taxi rank punch

He pleaded guilty to the assault last month

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3 h. ago He's spent his life in public service, now he'll serve time behind bars

Cheshire MP Mike Amesbury has been jailed for 10 weeks following a shameful incident outside a Frodsham taxi rank

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6 h. ago Video: Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury punches man in street and tells him: ‘You won’t threaten an MP again’

This is the moment Labour MP Mike Amesbury punches a man in the street, before telling him: “You won’t threaten an MP again”.

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6 h. ago ‘Application refused’: Judge bluntly denies jailed MP Mike Amesbury’s request for bail to appeal sentence

Runcorn MP arrived in court without a bag of belongings with him, unlike many defendants

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7 h. ago Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury jailed for punching man during drunken street row

His conviction is likely to pave the way for a by-election in a new blow for Sir Keir Starmer

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7 h. ago Former Labour MP Mike Amesbury jailed for punching man in street

The Runcorn and Helsby MP pleaded guilty in January to assaulting Paul Fellows in Main Street in Frodsham, Cheshire, in the early hours of October 26.

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7 h. ago Video: Labour MP Mike Amesbury punches man in street and tells him: ‘You won’t threaten an MP again’

This is the moment Labour MP Mike Amesbury punches a man in the street, before telling him: “You won’t threaten an MP again”.

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8 h. ago Who is Mike Amesbury, the Runcorn MP who has been sentenced to 10 weeks in prison?

Amesbury served in a number of frontbench positions between 2018 and 2023 under Sir Keir Starmer and Jeremy Corbyn.

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17 h. ago Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury to be sentenced for punching man in street

The politician admitted assaulting a man in Frodsham, Cheshire, at a hearing last month.

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3 d. ago Jimmy Mizen's drill rapper killer faces parole hearing just weeks after being recalled to prison for boasting about murdering altar boy in music

Jack Fahri, then 19, was sentenced to life after he threw a large glass dish that shattered, severing an artery in Jimmy Mizen's neck, at a bakery in Lee, south-east London in 2008.

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