21 h. ago Southport victim’s family criticises police plan to share suspects’ ethnicity

The grandfather of Bebe King said the ethnicity of serious crime suspects is ‘completely irrelevant’.

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39 h. ago Cheer up, Ice Cube, your War of the Worlds movie may be really bad, but it's not worthless | Saranka Maheswaran

Awful clunkers occasionally emerge from both Hollywood and Bollywood, but I have found value in most cinematic calamitiesIf the latest adaptation of HG Wells’s 1898 novel The War of the Worlds, a movie starring Ice Cube and Eva Longoria, was designed to make us pause and ask questions, it has certainly succeeded. Unfortunately, what a lot of viewers have been asking is why it was inflicted on the public in the first place. Is War of the Worlds “one of the worst movies ever made?”, asked the BBC. “Shockingly bad War of the Worlds is one of the worst movies of the decade,” said the New York Post. “Amazon’s War of the Worlds update should never have been released,” declared the Telegraph.The 2005 adaptation, starring Tom Cruise, was a smash hit. Now people are flocking to the remake to see just how bad a film can be – it’s in the top 10 films watched in the UK and US on Amazon Prime. It seems that we have come to love “bad” films almost as much as those deemed good. The website Rotten ...

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47 h. ago Traders on one of Cardiff's busiest streets say they are targeted by thieves daily

Amid the ongoing disorder UK home secretary Yvette Cooper visited the neighbourhood to offer some reassurance

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47 h. ago Welsh street where shops are robbed every day among street drinking, drugs, and fighting

Amid the ongoing disorder UK home secretary Yvette Cooper visited the neighbourhood to offer some reassurance

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47 h. ago Welsh street where shops are robbed every day and people drink, take drugs, and fight

Amid the ongoing disorder UK home secretary Yvette Cooper visited the neighbourhood to offer some reassurance

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61 h. ago Cooper defends live facial recognition expansion amid privacy row

The Home Secretary said ‘safeguards and protections’ would govern use of the cameras.

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63 h. ago More migrants arrested under new returns deal with France, confirms Home Secretary

Yvette Cooper said that the first referrals for people who came to Britain in small boats to be sent back across the English Channel have already been made

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3 d. ago Live facial recognition to be widened in neighbourhood policing drive

A new legal framework will be drawn up to support the expanded use of the technology, the Government said.

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3 d. ago Channel migrants reaching 50,000 under Labour ‘unacceptable’ – ex

Baroness Jacqui Smith of Malvern, now an education minister, said criminal gangs were allowed to become entrenched under the Conservative government.

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4 d. ago Reform UK's DOGE efforts 'save more than £100m in council spending in 100 days' since local elections as Nigel Farage's party 'rolls back Net Zero'

Nigel Farage 's party won more than 650 council seats and took control of 10 local authorities in contests across England in May.

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4 d. ago Harvey Willgoose mother says son’s murderer needs to be ‘made an example of’

Caroline Willgoose says she feels sorry for the 15-year-old boy who stabbed her son to death at their Sheffield school.

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5 d. ago ‘Deport now, appeal later’ scheme expanded in drive to remove foreign criminals

The scheme allows the UK to deport offenders who have had a human rights claim against their removal rejected.

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5 d. ago In using terror laws to pursue the deluded protesters of Palestine Action, Yvette Cooper is the REAL extremist: STEPHEN GLOVER

We expect to be able to say whatever we want within the confines of the law, and to demonstrate peacefully. These are rightly said to be precious liberties.

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5 d. ago Total number of Palestine Action support arrests rises to 522

Hundreds attended the demonstration in Parliament Square on Saturday, organised by Defend Our Juries.

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5 d. ago Campaigners criticise UK plans to reveal suspects’ ethnicity and migration status

Yvette Cooper wants guidance to change after row over claims police ‘covered up’ status of two men on charges relating to an alleged rapeAnti-racism campaigners have criticised proposals to allow police to reveal the ethnicity and migration status of suspects, after a row triggered by claims police “covered up” the backgrounds of two men charged in connection to the alleged rape of a child.The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, this week told the BBC she hoped the Law Commission would “accelerate” a review of contempt of court and that “guidance needs to change” about information released when a trial is pending. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Police arrest 466 people over Palestine Action support at protest

Hundreds attended Saturday’s demonstration in Parliament Square, organised by Defend Our Juries.

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6 d. ago More than 50 arrested at protest against Palestine Action ban

Defend Our Juries, which organised the demonstration, said between 600 and 700 people were in Parliament Square on Saturday afternoon.

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6 d. ago Hundreds to risk arrest at protest against Palestine Action terror ban

The ban means that membership of, or support for, Palestine Action is a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

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7 d. ago Hundreds to face arrest at protest against Palestine Action terror ban

The ban means that membership of, or support for, Palestine Action is a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

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7 d. ago Council leader concerned protests could be ‘hijacked by agitators’

The leader of Warwickshire County Council has urged people to act in a peaceful manner at protests in Nuneaton on Saturday.

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