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Crime

‘Stop Brexit Man’ cleared of flouting ban on playing music near Parliament

Steve Bray, 56, was playing music on March 20 last year before then-PM Rishi Sunak arrived for Prime Minister’s Questions.
14 Apr 2025
UK

Residents unable to return home after fatal Worksop ‘gas explosion’

A major incident was declared after the blast on Saturday evening.
14 Apr 2025
UK

Man found dead after suspected gas explosion in Nottinghamshire home

Emergency crews were called to the incident in John Street, Worksop, at 7.39pm on Saturday.
13 Apr 2025
Crime

Government to review how ‘Manchester bomb plotter could attack prison guards’

Hashem Abedi threw hot cooking oil over three officers before stabbing them with ‘home-made weapons’, the Prison Officers’ Association said.
13 Apr 2025
Politics

Israel’s latest strike on Gaza hospital is ‘appalling’, says Archbishop of York

Patients were forced to evacuate and a girl died as people fled the Anglican-run Al-Ahli Hospital.
13 Apr 2025
UK

Charles and Camilla hear music written for their 20th anniversary at service

The King and Queen were returning to Birkhall, where they had their honeymoon in 2005.

13 Apr 2025
UK

King and Queen attend Sunday service with music composed for their anniversary

Charles and Camilla arrived at Crathie Kirk near Balmoral on Sunday morning.
13 Apr 2025
Crime

Prison officers ‘stabbed by Manchester bomb plotter’ now stable

The Prison Officers’ Association said Hashem Abedi threw hot oil over three officers on Saturday before stabbing them with ‘home-made weapons’.

13 Apr 2025
UK

Emergency crews respond to ‘gas explosion’ in Nottinghamshire town

Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service received its first report about the incident in John Street, Worksop, at 7.39pm on Saturday.
12 Apr 2025
UK

Manchester Arena bomb plotter ‘attacks three prison guards with hot cooking oil’

The Prison Service confirmed three prison officers were treated in hospital after an attack by a prisoner at HMP Frankland, County Durham.
12 Apr 2025
UK

Light aircraft crashes into holiday park on Isle of Wight

Police were called at 2.23pm on Saturday to a report that a light aircraft had crashed in Whitecliff Bay Holiday Park.
12 Apr 2025
UK

Fox rescued after being trapped in pit for two days

The animal was trapped in a pit flooded with heating oil inside a derelict building.

12 Apr 2025
Crime

Former Russian minister jailed for UK sanctions breaches

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov was previously found guilty of six out of seven counts of circumventing sanctions between February 2023 and January 2024.
11 Apr 2025
Crime

Stop Brexit Man made Braverman’s then-chief of staff ‘feel a victim’, court told

Steve Bray, from Port Talbot, is known as Stop Brexit Man.
10 Apr 2025
Crime

Just Stop Oil protesters deny criminal damage after latex poured on Tesla robot

Nigel Fleming, 63, and Catherine Nash, 74, denied causing £2,696.40 in criminal damage after the incident at a Westfield Tesla store.
8 Apr 2025
Crime

Harry and King ‘did not meet before duke’s High Court date’

The Duke of Sussex came to the UK to attend the Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday morning.
8 Apr 2025
UK

Award-winning actors to star in Second World War film released for VE Day

Olivier Award-winning actor Julian Glover will feature in The Next Morning, written by James Graham.
8 Apr 2025
Crime

‘International man of mystery’ denies aiding Russia sanctions breach, court told

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, 48, the former mayor of Sevastopol in occupied Crimea, is facing seven counts of circumventing sanctions.
4 Apr 2025
Crime

Trial of former Russian minister ‘not about Vladimir Putin’, jurors told

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov is facing seven counts of circumventing sanctions in the UK.
3 Apr 2025
UK

Queen praises ‘wonderful’ large Easter egg installed at Buckingham Palace

The blue and gold-painted Green Man Humpty Dumpty Egg is one of 123 painted eggs scattered in a charity trail across the capital.
1 Apr 2025
UK

Pictures by ‘most celebrated royal photographer’ Queen Alexandra to be exhibited

The photographs will be on display at The Edwardians: Age Of Elegance exhibition at Buckingham Palace from April 11 to November 23 2025.
1 Apr 2025