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Bradford house fire: Two arrested on suspicion of murder after blaze claims lives of a mother and her three children
Bryonie Gawith, 29, and her children Denisty, nine, Oscar, five, and Aubree Birtle, 22 months, all died after their home was set alight with West Yorkshire Police since making a series of arrests
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Storm Lilian leaves 63,000 homes with power issues as Leeds Festival closes stages
Weather warnings were in place as the storm hit and brought winds of up to 80mph to parts of England and Wales.
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Arms company abandons plan to test bombs at Scottish World Heritage site
Firm says it had no idea proposed test site on Lib Dem peer’s land included part of Strathmore peatlands in Flow Country
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British Airways flights canceled at Heathrow as Storm Lilian is set to hit the UK
British Airways has axed flights at Heathrow Airport as Storm Lilian is making its way to the UK with 80mph winds forecast.
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NSPCC sees threefold increase in reports of child physical punishment
The NSPCC finds the surge in reports of child physical punishment alarming and calls for law reforms in England and Northern Ireland in line with rest of UK.
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Row at Royal Society over bid to re-elect former president
Sir Paul Nurse puts forward for role never held by a woman.
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Rape investigations delayed as officers diverted to football matches and festivals - watchdog
Officers are having to cancel appointments with victims and delay arrests as they are routinely diverted to police other events including football matches.
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Post Office pays £250 million to law firms over Horizon IT scandal
Amount paid to 15 firms and two barristers chambers since 2014 is almost equal to payouts for victims
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Bodies found in superyacht wreck are Mike Lynch and his daughter
Two bodies recovered from the wreckage of the sunken Bayesian yacht are those of Mike Lynch and his teenage daughter Hannah, the Italian authorities believe.
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Afghan women arrive in Edinburgh to complete medical degrees after Taliban restrictions cut their studies short
Three-year campaign by parents of aid worker killed in Afghanistan brings 19 trainee doctors to Scotland
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Divers ’open hole’ in sunken superyacht - but have just 10 minutes to search for bodies
The Bayesian superyacht is still largely intact on the seabed, but the depth makes it difficult to access, and the time window divers have make searches incredibly tight.
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Huge fire erupts at block of flats in south-east London
A block of flats has caught on fire in south-east London with 70 firefighters called to put out the blaze.
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UK schools are removing LGBTQ+ books after complaints from parents
A special investigation reveals more than half of UK school librarians surveyed by Index have been asked to remove books from their shelves.
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Beloved BBC actor John Clegg, known for his roles in "It Ain’t Half Hot Mum" and "Dad’s Army", dies as tributes pour in
It Ain’t Half Hot Mum star John Clegg, who was best known as Gunner Graham, has died, aged 90, with tributes pouring in for the BBC actor
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King Charles to visit Southport to meet people affected by stabbings and riot
King to meet some of children who survived attack in which three girls were killed and thank emergency workers
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Divers resume search for six missing in bayesian yacht sinking
Tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, often referred to as the British Bill Gates, is reportedly missing after his Bayesian superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm on Monday.
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Rocket explosion during testing at the new UK spaceport in Shetland
Rocket Factory Augsburg reports that an ‘anomaly’ caused the ‘loss of the stage,’ confirming no injuries occurred.
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All trains cancelled on railway line ‘until further notice’
Passengers have been warned of disruption on the rail network after signalling fault in Suffolk this morning.
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Morgan Stanley boss Jonathan Bloomer among those missing after Sicily superyacht disaster
Morgan Stanley chairman Jonathan Bloomer was confirmed to be among those missing in the Sicily superyacht disaster, which has also seen British tech tycoon Mike Lynch disappear
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Prison crowding emergency measures described as a ’sticking plaster,’ Starmer told
Ministers activate Operation Early Dawn, so defendants can be held in police cells as more are sentenced over riots
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Mike Lynch’s teenage daughter among those missing after the Bayesian yacht sinks in Sicily
Mike Lynch’s daughter is among the seven people still missing after a British-flagged superyacht capsized off the coast of Sicily in the early hours of this morning, it was reported.
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Woman sentenced to two years in jail for throwing a brick at police during a riot in Hartlepool
Donna Conniff, 40, encouraged boy to throw missile at police and was seen kicking out at an officer
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London City airport expansion given green light by ministers
Climate campaigners criticise decision to allow capacity to increase from 6.5m to 9m passengers a year
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Who is Mike Lynch, the UK tech boss missing in superyacht sinking?
After selling his company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard he was cleared in June of 15 counts of fraud
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Sicily yacht incident: British tycoon Mike Lynch missing after boat sinks in Palermo storm
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch is among seven people missing after a £14 million yacht sank off the coast of Sicily early this morning.