All news for 2024-09-27

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MoD to investigate the conduct of British troops in Kenya amid rape and murder allegations
Defence secretary to meet family of woman allegedly killed by soldier, as ITV airs documentary alleging fresh abuses
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First person to admit UK riot charge jailed for over four years after unrest in Sunderland
Kieran Usher, 32, was part of a group of 20 people who threw missiles at police during unrest in Sunderland in August.
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’Britain’s richest plumber’ Charlie Mullins says he left the country due to Labour ’letting in all the illegals’
’Britain’s richest plumber’ Charlie Mullins has revealed that he decided to leave the country due to Labour ’letting in all the illegals’.
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Madeleine McCann suspect scored top marks on a psychopath test and is ’in the absolute top league of dangerousness’
Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner is in the top “one per cent of abnormal”, a leading forensic psychiatrist has said.
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Three arrested as Just Stop Oil targets Van Gogh paintings again after two activists jailed for ’souping’ Sunflowers
Three people have been arrested after Just Stop Oil activists targeted more Van Gogh paintings following the sentencing of two activists earlier for throwing soup over the iconic ’Sunflowers’ piece.
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Britain’s youngest knife killers stabbed stranger to death in a ’horrific’ machete murder
Boys murdered teenager Shawn Seesahai in random and ‘senseless’ attack in Wolverhampton
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Former ’rudest restaurant in London’ fined after mice found in the kitchen
Chinatown’s renowned Wong Kei prosecuted for food hygiene offences and fined more than £40,000
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Chris Eubank’s son Joseph cleared of raping teenage girl, 16, in Brighton
Chris Eubank’s 27-year-old son has been cleared of raping a teenage girl on Brighton beach.
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Ex-councillor in West Yorkshire jailed for ’voyeurism on a vast scale’
Robert Holden used hidden cameras to film 28 women in bathrooms and bedrooms over a period of almost 15 years
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Cinema in mafia boss’s Sicilian hometown refuses to screen film about his life
Venue owner says Sicilian Letters, about the Cosa Nostra leader Matteo Messina Denaro, ‘doesn’t interest me’
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Labour’s policy on non-doms largely copied from Conservatives, say Whitehall sources
Rachel Reeves said to have dismissed concerns about policy, even though some claim it contains ‘basic errors’
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Alabama executes death row prisoner using nitrogen gas
Alan Miller, 59, second person in US to be executed via controversial technique, shook and trembled on gurney
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Tesla home visits to workers on sick leave defended by boss in Germany
Carmaker wants to ‘appeal to employees’ work ethic’ but move prompts outrage from plant’s union
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Sanctioned Cambodian senator linked to alleged Chinese crime figures
A Cambodian tycoon and ruling party senator – who the U.S. recently sanctioned, citing links to human trafficking – had business relationships with alleged organized crime figures from China, company records show.
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Alert over animal euthanasia drugs that may have been sold to the public
Police have released an urgent warning after medication used to euthanize animals has been stolen from a car.
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Football stadium submerged after thunderstorms and flash floods across the UK
A football club’s pitch is barely visible after heavy rainfall left it completely underwater.
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Harry Potter and Downton Abbey star Dame Maggie Smith dies aged 89
Dame Maggie Smith, the award-winning British acting legend whose work ranged from Downton Abbey to Harry Potter, has died at the age of 89.
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Unauthorized student absences drop in England as fines for parents increase
School absence fines have increased from £60 to £80 under the changes. and figures suggest this has had an impact
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Naomi Campbell banned from charity work after £7,800 hotel stay controversy
Naomi Campbell has been banned from being a charity trustee for five years by regulators. A Charity Commission probe found serious mismanagement of funds at Fashion for Relief, which the supermodel founded.
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M5 flooding leaves motorists stranded and needing rescue after heavy downpour
Heavy rain overnight has caused floods on the M5 as Avon Fire and Rescue warned the road is partly closed in both directions this morning