All news for 2024-04-04

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Death row convict executed for brutal double murder delivers chilling four-word final statement
Michael Smith claimed he was innocent of the murder of Janet Moore and Sharath Pulluru in February 2002 and couldn’t remember being arrested because he had taken too many drugs
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Moss Side stabbing: Boy fighting for life with knifeman-one-the run as cops shut down street
A teenager has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a reported stabbing in a park in Moss Side, Greater Manchester, earlier this afternoon
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National Lottery winners complete bizarre life-long dream after winning mega £2.7 million jackpot
Grandparents Derek and Elaine Thompson, from Newcastle, have taken up visiting horse racing tracks as a full time hobby after scooping a massive £2.7million on the National Lottery and packing in their jobs
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Teachers warn they’re putting Tories ’on notice’ of more school strikes as ballot delayed
The National Education Union (NEU) said its members will first take part in a ’snap poll"’on the Tories’ pay and funding offer for 2024/25 - once it is published
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Whooping cough outbreak leaves two dead and 50 ill at popular holiday hotspot
Cases of whooping cough, also known as the 100-day cough because of its longevity in patients, has boomed at the start of 2024 with sufferers at the highest in more than a decade and cases reported across Europe
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Gang steals £24 million in Ocean’s Eleven-style heist sneaking in roof & dodging alarms…before vanishing without a trace
Cops have no idea how they accessed the building - but new footage has revealed what could be a large hole
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Devastating update on horror funeral home investigation after bodies and ashes removed by cops
Horrified relatives kissed empty coffins and wore jewellery they wrongly believed contained their loved ones’ ashes
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How did the Bank of England handle four years of unexpected events?
Seven days after Andrew Bailey became governor of the Bank of England in March 2020, Britain’s first covid-19 lockdown began.
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Heart-stopping photos show 18th century house dangling off edge of crumbling cliff after landslides
The owner of Cliff Farm, in Norfolk, bought the idyllic property five years ago at auction for a sum of £132,000 - he has since been evacuated from the home for his own safety
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Asda slips from top spot for cheap fuel prices as it rakes in bigger profits
A senior industry source said Asda deliberately undercut rivals by at least 1p on fuel to lure shoppers in
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Premier League star’s wife ends marriage following exposure of affair by Ring doorbell camera
The Premier League star, who also plays international football, struck up an eight-month affair with the glamorous model after spotting her on social media
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NATO ministers’ doubts, fears and eye-rolls over €100B Ukraine plan
Making military aid to Kyiv more predictable would send a message to Russia that it won’t win the war, said the alliance chief.
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Royal Mail is proposing to reduce second-class letter deliveries to alternate weekdays.
Royal Mail anticipates "fewer than 1,000" voluntary redundancies and no compulsory redundancies as part of this proposed overhaul
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Brit survives after helicopter crashes in Swiss Alps and saves two brothers before it slides off summit
Edward Courage, Teddy and Guy Hitchens were the three British skiers who survived an avalanche and monstrous helicopter crash in Verbier in the Swiss Alps
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Scotland’s recent hate crime legislation inundated police with nearly 4,000 unsubstantiated reports within just 24 hours
The Scottish Conservative shadow justice secretary cautioned that soon the volume of complaints would surpass the number of actual crimes.
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Labour now projected to win more than 400 seats in new blow for Sunak
YouGov polling predicts the worst general election result for the Tories since John Major’s 1997 defeat
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Arms sales to Israel: Top judges urge UK to halt weapons trade
Three former Supreme Court justices have joined more than 600 legal experts in calling for the UK government to end weapons sales to Israel.
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British farmers want basic income to cope with post-Brexit struggles
Schemes to replace EU subsidies will not plug gap left by loss of EU subsidies for most farmers
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A deadly dogfighting ring, led by ’Doctor Death’ and his gang, operated out of a suburban garage, motivated solely by financial gain
Phillip Ali, known as ’Doctor Death’, operated a brutal international contest circuit where participants could win thousands of pounds while animals were subjected to horrific acts of violence in Essex
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South African footballer shot dead in botched car hijacking
Comments flooded in from heartbroken fans after awful news