1 hour ago Alex McIntyre,BBC News, West Midlands UK Parliament Julian Knight was suspended by the Conservatives following allegations of sexual assault A former Conservative MP who was suspended from the party over allegations of sexual assault has announced he will stand as an independent in the election. Julian Knight confirmed on X, formerly Twitter,...
A blind couple from Staffordshire are preparing for the performance of a lifetime on Friday after making it through to the live semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent. Opera singer Denise Leigh and her husband Stefan, from Audley, say the support for them has been “overwhelming”. Denise has overcome breast cancer and says the side effects...
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Diane Abbott is “free to go forward as a Labour candidate”, ending days of speculation about the veteran left-winger’s future. Ms Abbott, the first female black MP, had claimed she had been banned from standing as a Labour candidate at 7 July’s general election. Sir Keir has now given...
Russia has accused Nato and the US of “provoking a new level of tension” after the US and Germany became the latest allies to let Ukraine’s military to use Western-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia. A Berlin spokesman said Germany was convinced Ukraine had the right to defend itself from Russia, especially from cross-border...
Hackers are attempting to sell what they say is confidential information belonging to millions of Santander staff and customers. They belong to the same gang which this week claimed to have hacked Ticketmaster. The bank – which employs 200,000 people worldwide, including around 20,000 in the UK – has confirmed data has been stolen. Santander...
DPA via AP The attack on Mannheim market square took place just before noon on Friday A man has attacked a number of people with a knife at a market square in the south-west German city of Mannheim, police say. The incident was caught on a YouTube livestream and showed the attacker stabbing a man,...
Police have been granted more time to interview a 20-year-old man arrested on suspicion of stabbing two women on a beach. Amie Gray, a 34-year-old personal trainer, died at the scene, while a 38-year-old woman was taken to hospital with serious stab wounds. She has since been discharged. The pair, from Poole, Dorset, were attacked...
Getty Images “It’s a very sad day for America,” said one man outside the New York court room where Donald Trump was found guilty of all charges in his so-called hush-money case. “I think justice has been done, Donald Trump brought all of this on himself,” said another. The two reactions eclipse the huge divergence...
Athena A court heard Katherine Hill withdrew the money from an account for which she was a trustee A mother who stole £50,000 of inheritance from her two daughters out of “greed and spite” has been jailed. Katherine Hill, 53, from Alltwen in Pontardawe, Neath Port Talbot, and her 93-year-old father Gerald Hill from Fairwood...
An MTV crew filming a riot on the night journalist Lyra McKee was killed were told the disorder had been “set up” for the camera, a murder trial has been told. Lyra McKee died after being shot while observing rioting in Creggan, Londonderry, in April 2019. Three men from Derry are on trial at Belfast...