All news for 2024-07-07

07 Jul 2024 612

Inside the ’UK’s worst city’ where junkies deal £10 heroin in ’Oliver Twist’ crack dens and a ’wrong look gets you knifed’

Watch our video as even the local buskers say they are mugged for money by thugs

News

07 Jul 2024 697

Shopping centre catches fire as huge plumes of smoke rise into the sky

Flames are rising from the top floor of a shopping centre in Thurrock, Essex.

Crime

07 Jul 2024 653

A man and woman have been charged with murder after a 14-year-old girl was found dead in a house

Two people have been charged the murder of a 14-year-old girl who was found dead inside a house.

News

07 Jul 2024 548

The children’s watchdog will investigate the treatment of young asylum seekers at Manston

Rachel de Souza to visit processing facility in Kent as source claims Home Office guidelines are not being followed there

Finance

07 Jul 2024 592

The UK will push for job guarantees in exchange for investment in Port Talbot

New business secretary Jonathan Reynolds confirms that negotiations with owner Tata Steel are continuing

News

07 Jul 2024 453

Royal Mail proceeds with cuts to UK flights despite the recent takeover

Three more freight flights to go this month as parent company’s CEO Martin Seidenberg pursues transformation

Politics

07 Jul 2024 509

Familiar faces, but not all from politics: meet the surprising new Labour ministers

Keir Starmer made some eye-catching new appointments, including a human rights barrister and a rehabilitation campaigner

News

07 Jul 2024 451

Urgent travel warning: Brit nearly loses life after failing to secure £20 item

Dennis Stewart, from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, plunged backwards down a flight of stairs at his accommodation in Durban, South Africa, and was left unconscious

Sport

07 Jul 2024 596

Lewis Hamilton sends Silverstone into a frenzy with his first F1 win since 2021 at the British GP

George Russell started the Silverstone race on pole and Lando Norris also led for a spell, but it was Lewis Hamilton who did it for Britain by beating Max Verstappen to the chequered flag

Crime

07 Jul 2024 616

A married general has become the first special operations chief to be charged with sexual assault in military history

Major General James Roddis, who is a father of three, was awarded an MBE in 2009

Politics

07 Jul 2024 436

Keir Starmer is ’proud’ to have the most cabinet ministers from comprehensive schools ever

Speaking from Downing Street on his first full day as Prime Minister, he vowed to start the work of rebuilding Britain at pace - kicking off with a tour of the UK’s four nations.

World

07 Jul 2024 452

A man who spent 45 years on death row in Japan hopes to clear his name

Iwao Hakamada, 88, who spent longer than anyone in the world awaiting execution, awaits murder retrial verdict

Sport

07 Jul 2024 647

Bukayo Saka overcomes Italy demons to become England’s penalty hero in Switzerland win

BBC’s pundits were full of praise for England’s hero

News

07 Jul 2024 394

Inside ’inhumane’ HMP Wandsworth, inmates openly smoke drugs and ’sleep with guards’

HMP Wandsworth has been slammed yet again as the fallout continues from the viral video that allegedly showed a guard sleeping with an inmate in one of the cells inside the prison

News

07 Jul 2024 758

Two missing British girls were found ’abandoned in a car’ near the Jay Slater search site in Tenerife

Two British girls were found ’abandoned’ in a car near to the site of the search for Jay Slater in Tenerife, with a 38-year-old man questioned over the discovery

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18.09.2024, 11:05 • Politics