All news for 2025-02-02

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Four university students dead in Colchester car crash, vehicle left ’unrecognisable
Four students from the University of Essex died in a horror car crash in Colchester in the early hours of Saturday morning, as police urged people to keep their curtains shut.
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Angela Rayner called Prince Andrew a derogatory term and attempted to prevent him from stepping in for the King
A new book claims Angela Rayner lobbied civil servants and Buckingham Palace to ensure that Prince Andrew was struck from the list of counsellors of state.
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Man Utd star Lisandro Martinez suffers serious injury, leaves the field in tears on a stretcher
Lisandro Martinez suffered a dreadful injury during Manchester United’s clash with Crystal Palace, with the defender having to be stretchered off the pitch at Old Trafford.
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Barclays IT glitch derails house purchase, leaving family homeless
Paola Mereu, 39, sold the house her and her husband and their daughters lived in at Uxbridge and were meant to buy their new home on Friday.
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The offshore trail of the Yusufov family of Russian oligarchs: How unprofitable companies become a channel for money laundering
The funds associated with the notorious businessman Igor Yusufov, who, according to some reports, has retired, began to be withdrawn by his sons Vitaliy and Maxim.
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Man arrested following the burning of the Koran in Manchester city centre
The book appeared to be set alight in footage that was livestreamed on social media on Saturday.
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Meloni’s offshore migrant detention scheme fails for the third time, forcing Italy to take back asylum seekers
An Italian navy ship was forced to take migrants back to Italy from asylum processing centres in Albania on Saturday, dealing a fresh blow to far-right PM Meloni.
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Spain’s Foreign Minister fires ambassador for taking a ’siesta’
Spain’s ambassador to Belgium will be sacked for taking a ’siesta’ while his boss gave an hour-long speech during a summit in Madrid last month.
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Canadian hockey fans boo ’Star Spangled Banner’ at NHL game following Trump’s tariff announcement
Canadian NHL fans booed the Star Spangled Banner at an Ottawa Senators game Saturday, hours after President Donald Trump’s tariff on the country became official.
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Top lawyer renews call for Prince Andrew to be questioned by the FBI
The FBI previously asked the Home Office for help to quiz the royal in 2020, before the investigation was paused last year.
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Man arrested after slapping Nando’s employee in the face with a plate
A 32-year-old man has been arrested after a Nando’s employee was slapped in the face with a plate by a customer nearly a year ago.
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Canada and Mexico retaliate after Trump signs order for punitive tariffs
Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, announces tit-for-tat 25% tariffs and warns of impeded access to ‘vital goods critical to US security’.
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Avanti West Coast passengers experience major disruptions as rail strikes resume
Sunday’s stoppage to be worsened by engineering works, as dispute threatens to affect every weekend until June.
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Britain’s $333 billion trust sector to face additional votes amid US activist’s campaign
U.S. activist investor Boaz Weinstein may have suffered a defeat in the first vote on his plans to shake up Britain’s investment trust industry, but bosses in the 269 billion-pound ($333 billion) sector will not be sleeping easy.
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Kremlin-run bot network uses fake websites to disseminate articles predicting a ’catastrophe’ for Europe after U.S. cuts aid to Kyiv
The Kremlin’s “Doppelgänger” bot network has launched a campaign to spread pseudo-journalistic articles claiming that the decision of newly sworn in U.S. President Donald Trump to freeze aid programs for Ukraine is the right move...
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Major anti-corruption protests in Serbia increase pressure on President Vučić
Tens of thousands rally against government and in memory of railway station roof collapse that killed 15.
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Canada and Mexico retaliate against Trump’s tariffs, while Beijing promises ’countermeasures’
Canada, Mexico and China have promised to hit back after the imposition of sweeping US tariffs announced by Donald Trump on Saturday.
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Barclays advises customers to contact food banks as IT glitch persists for a third day
The bank has apologised as hundreds of customers complain about service disruption and missing funds.
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Former Harrods employee accuses Mohamed and Salah al Fayed of assault in the 1990s
Describing her ordeal on camera for the first time, Rachael Louw told Sky News that Salah al Fayed climbed into her bed while she was working as his assistant on a yacht in Monaco. She also recounted Mohamed al Fayed’s attempts to coerce her.
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Trump imposes tariffs, prompting retaliation from Canada and Mexico
US President Donald Trump has announced sweeping new tariffs on all goods imported from America’s three largest trading partners, China, Mexico and Canada.
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Drone footage reveals the aftermath of the fire that destroyed Maghull Town Hall
Drone footage has captured the aftermath of a large fire engulfing a town hall in Merseyside.
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Two arrested after boy and girl killed in Essex hit-and-run
Two people have been arrested after a boy and a girl were killed in a crash on a residential cul-de-sac in Essex.
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Mother of four, 37, discovered dead beside her ill daughter’s bed in Stoke hospital tragedy
Stoke-on-Trent pathologists found traces of several different drugs in 37-year-old Lindsey Owen’s body, and concluded she fell into a deep, drug-induced sleep before she died.
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Jess Phillips pledges to crack down on AI child abusers, expressing concern that it wasn’t already illegal
As Britain becomes the first country to announce tough laws to crush the vile trade in AI generated child sex abuse material - safeguarding minister Jess Phillips tells the Mirror she was "shocked" so little was done for years.