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Duke and Duchess of Sussex intend to relocate from US, with children to start British school in SeptemberHarry and Meghan: the key moments, conflicts and controversies since their US moveThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex are planning to return to live in Britain, six years after leaving for the US, it is understood.The couple and their two children, Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, a...
Joanna Boydell steps down after widespread criticism over company’s handling of guest safety issuesThe boss of Travelodge has resigned after widespread criticism of her handling of security failings at the hotel chain, including a shocking case where a domestic abuser was given a key to a woman’s room before assaulting her.In a brief company statement on Thursday, Travelodge said Joanna Boydell ha...
Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast‘Outrageous’: Greens leader says sending Israeli ambassador home should be on the tableGreens leader Larissa Waters says strong words are not enough, and the government should sanction the state of Israel after its defence force decided not to pursue a criminal investigation into the killing of World Central Kitchen...
Students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are starting to open the envelopes containing their GCSECompulsory GCSE resits in England harm teenagers’ mental wellbeing, study findsEducation secretary Lucy Powell is on the media round this morning as students prepare to pick up their GCSE results, including her own daughter.She said it was a “big day” that marks “a really important moment in...
This blog is now closedCase against Erin Patterson is ‘overwhelming’ and mushroom killer’s appeal should be dismissed, prosecutors sayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastProsecution turns to argument Patterson wasn’t severely ill after beef wellingtonMcWilliams is touching on the prosecution’s argument in its closing address that Patterson was not severely ill after the pois...
Children’s hospital and residential areas hit in latest bombardment of capital and surrounding regionA heavy Russian bombardment has killed at least 13 people in Ukraine’s capital and its surrounding region overnight, authorities have said.A missile attack on Kyiv struck residential areas and warehouses, said the mayor, Vitali Klitschko. The attack damaged residential buildings, a medical facility...
Crown prosecutor tells Victorian court that all seven of Patterson’s grounds for appeal should fail while arguing for tougher sentenceGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTriple murderer Erin Patterson should have been given no possibility of ever being released from prison, or a non-parole period so lengthy that she was likely to die behind bars, Victoria’s highest court has...
South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas says there have still been no detections in poultry or livestock and no mass deaths involving mammalsSouth Australian premier Peter Malinauskas has declared a “significant escalation” in H5 bird flu in the state after the detection of three mass mortality events involving more than 1,000 greater crested terns.Malinauskas said the cause of the deaths was p...
Sydney court hears complainant was more than 40 years younger and far less powerful than the shock jock when he started working as his driverAlan Jones’s defence team has suggested his alleged victim was never groomed because “grooming is something that happens to young children”.Complainant C was on Thursday cross-examined in a Sydney court over allegations the former 2GB star broadcaster touched...
Former archbishop of Canterbury also has ‘awkward questions’ for activist Tommy Robinson on his claimed faithA former archbishop of Canterbury has accused Nigel Farage of misusing the UK’s Christianity “to channel anti-Muslim feeling” and said he also had “some awkward questions” for the far-right activist Tommy Robinson.Dr Rowan Williams, who was the archbishop of Canterbury for 10 years until 20...
A ‘capacity for despair’ forged by political oppression has long been consider a Magyar national trait. But after Orbán, writers in the country remind us that melancholy must not always be bleakA lone visitor looks for a garden outside an empty monastery. A morose housekeeper won’t let anyone behind the door of her own home. A retired general living alone on a crumbling estate waits 40 years to co...
Students will begin receiving this years exam results online and in person from 8am (GMT) this morningGood morning and welcome to our GCSE results day live blog.Today, like every year, hundreds of thousands of pupils across England, Wales and Northern Ireland anxiously await their grades. Continue reading...
Children’s hospital and residential areas hit in latest bombardment of capital and surrounding regionA heavy Russian bombardment has killed at least 12 people in Ukraine’s capital and its surrounding region overnight, authorities have said.A missile attack on Kyiv struck residential areas and warehouses, said the mayor, Vitali Klitschko. The attack damaged residential buildings, a medical facility...
Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast‘Outrageous’: Greens leader says sending Israeli ambassador home should be on the tableGreens leader Larissa Waters says strong words are not enough, and the government should sanction the state of Israel after its defence force decided not to pursue a criminal investigation into the killing of World Central Kitchen...
Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast‘Outrageous’: Greens leader says sending Israeli ambassador home should be on the tableGreens leader Larissa Waters says strong words are not enough, and the government should sanction the state of Israel after its defence force decided not to pursue a criminal investigation into the killing of World Central Kitchen...
Five hundred people turn up to adopt plants from conservatory that will reopen in 2030 after renovation projectAbove the waxy monstera leaves and bright pink hibiscus flowers in the Barbican conservatory hangs a giant net to catch the panes of glass that are at risk of falling from the ceiling on the unwitting plant lovers below.This precarious situation has caused the estate to shutter its greenh...
Dwindling donations and stiff competition from secondhand sellers online prompt review but ‘no plans for closures yet’Oxfam is reviewing the operations of its three warehouses in Batley, Bicester and Milton Keynes and says it “cannot give guarantees” on the future of its high street shops in a “difficult economic climate”.The charity said it had no plans to close warehouses or shops but insiders f...
US president pivots towards ‘crushing’ economic operation against Iran and its trading partners as military strikes fail to bring Tehran to the tableDonald Trump has announced a new campaign to isolate Iran’s economy, threatening “tremendous economic consequences” on any country that helps or does business with Tehran, a move that could set up a fresh confrontation with China if implemented.“Today...
Victorian court of appeal will consider whether triple murder and attempted murder convictions should be quashedErin Patterson argues mushroom murder convictions should be quashed due to ‘catastrophic’ failure of justiceGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastProsecution turns to argument Patterson wasn’t severely ill after beef wellingtonMcWilliams is touching on the prosecutio...
Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast‘Outrageous’: Greens leader says sending Israeli ambassador home should be on the tableGreens leader Larissa Waters says strong words are not enough, and the government should sanction the state of Israel after its defence force decided not to pursue a criminal investigation into the killing of World Central Kitchen...
Crown prosecutor tells Victorian court that all seven of Patterson’s grounds for appeal should failGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastVictoria’s highest court has been urged to dismiss Erin Patterson’s appeal against her triple murder conviction, hearing that the case against her during trial was “overwhelming”.On Thursday, three judges of Victoria’s court of appeal continu...
Ben Carroll releases terms of reference for inquiry that will include examining allegations of CFMEU corruption on state government building sitesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast“Nothing is off limits” to Victoria’s royal commission into the construction sector, Ben Carroll has said, as he released the inquiry’s terms...
Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast‘Outrageous’: Greens leader says sending Israeli ambassador home should be on the tableGreens leader Larissa Waters says strong words are not enough, and the government should sanction the state of Israel after its defence force decided not to pursue a criminal investigation into the killing of World Central Kitchen...
The Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator says Dershowitz, who also defended Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein, ‘only has himself to blame’ for being ostracisedLarry David has opened up about the collapse of his friendship with Alan Dershowitz, saying that Dershowitz “made a deal with the devil” when he became Donald Trump’s lawyer.Dershowitz, a former Harvard University law professor, has ...
Death reported after residential areas and warehouses hit in heavy bombardment in capital and surrounding regionA heavy Russian bombardment killed at least nine people in Ukraine’s capital and its surrounding region overnight, authorities said on Thursday.A missile attack on Kyiv struck residential areas and warehouses, said the Kyiv mayor, Vitali Klitschko. The attack damaged residential building...
Death reported after residential areas and warehouses hit in heavy bombardment in capital and surrounding regionA heavy Russian bombardment killed at least six people and wounded dozens in Ukraine’s capital and its surrounding region overnight, authorities said on Thursday.A missile attack on Kyiv struck residential areas and warehouses, said the Kyiv mayor, Vitali Klitschko. The attack damaged re...
St Gregory’s College says alleged attack on Saturday ‘antithesis of what we stand for and the values that we embrace’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThree teenage boys, including two from a private school in Sydney’s south west, have been charged over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl on Saturday.New South...
Premier Chris Minns tells parliament ‘this is obviously devastating’ after earlier announcing 18-year-old had been ‘found alive’ with half a bottle of waterFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe body of missing 18-year-old bushwalker Lily Hooper has been found in a remote New South Wales national park more than a week af...
Independent senator urges prime minister to reconsider, arguing $5,000 cap for allied health services did not go far enoughFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJacqui Lambie has slammed Labor over its controversial $5,000 cap for allied health services for veterans, and accused it of a “callous disregard for veterans’ heal...
Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast‘Outrageous’: Greens leader says sending Israeli ambassador home should be on the tableGreens leader Larissa Waters says strong words are not enough, and the government should sanction the state of Israel after its defence force decided not to pursue a criminal investigation into the killing of World Central Kitchen...
