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Crime

Celia Marsh: Family criticise yoghurt company for failing to flag allergen risk

Mrs Marsh, who had an acute dairy allergy, died after eating a Pret a Manger sandwich containing a vegan yoghurt contaminated with milk protein.
22 Sept 2022
UK

Octopus Energy to take on Avro customers after collapse

The energy regulator said Octopus had been chosen after a ‘competitive process’ to get the best deal for Avro’s clients.
26 Sept 2021
UK

Leak allegations ‘nonsense’, says haulage association executive

Rod McKenzie has denied briefing the media about a meeting between fuel industry chiefs and the Cabinet Office to discuss possible petrol shortages.
26 Sept 2021
UK

Distributors working hard to replenish stocks, petrol body says

People have been queueing over the past two days to fill up on fuel, leaving some forecourts low on stock.
25 Sept 2021
UK

400 jobs at risk after food delivery firm’s collapse

EVCL Chill, based in Alfreton, Derbyshire, has also faced the loss of key customers.
25 Sept 2021
UK

Teesside Airport runway closed after light aircraft incident injures three

Fire crews were forced to cut the three people out of the plane.
25 Sept 2021
UK

Delay to consultation on conversion therapy ban ‘disappointing’ – rights group

Nancy Kelley, head of Stonewall, said further delays to the ban on the practice leaves LGBTQ people at risk of ‘abuse and harm’.
25 Sept 2021
UK

‘You can’t turn baggage handlers into butchers overnight’, CBI chief warns

Tony Danker has called for a ‘temporary and managed’ system to urgently bring in foreign labour for a number of sectors.
25 Sept 2021
UK

Panic-buying causing fuel shortages, not supply chain issues, AA head says

Edmund King said the problem should pass in a matter of days if people fill up normally.
25 Sept 2021
UK

Three teenagers detained over murder of autistic 13-year-old

Olly Stephens was lured to Bugs Bottom field in Emmer Green, Reading, on January 3 this year where he was knifed to death.
24 Sept 2021
UK

Parents ‘broken’ by ambush murder of 13-year-old Olly Stephens

The three defendants, all now 14 years old, cannot be named because of their age.
24 Sept 2021
UK

Love Island star and TV doctor urge teenagers to get Covid-19 jab

Medical student Priya Gopaldas and Dr Emeka Okorocha have helped make a film about the safety and efficacy of the jab.
24 Sept 2021
UK

Two men arrested in connection with fatal shooting in Kilburn

Jeffrey Wegbe, 26, was shot in the chest in Hansel Road at around 12.20am on August 12.
23 Sept 2021
UK

Peter Shilton backs campaign to end gambling advertising in football

The England great battled a gambling addiction for 45 years and wants to see branding of betting firms removed from the sport.
14 Sept 2021
UK

Prof Chris Whitty says anti-vaxxers ‘should be ashamed’

England’s chief medical officer said some people were knowingly ‘peddling untruths’ to stop others getting a life-saving jab.
14 Sept 2021
UK

Man arrested on suspicion of Westminster double murder

A 49-year-old man has been detained in connection with the investigation in to the deaths of Sharon Pickles and Clinton Ashmore.
27 Aug 2021
UK

Climate protesters throw red paint over London’s Guildhall

Extinction Rebellion campaigners said the stunt aimed to ‘highlight the blood-soaked profiteering of our financial system’.
27 Aug 2021
UK

Kabul explosions are ‘what defeat looks like’, Conservative MP says

Tom Tugandhat, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, said the West no longer has any say over the future of Afghanistan.
26 Aug 2021
UK

Taliban threatened to murder British student because of his passport

A fighter told the 25-year-old he would have been murdered at a Kabul check point if the world was not focused on Afghanistan right now.
23 Aug 2021
UK

Anti-vaxx protesters ‘force their way into ITN’s London headquarters’

Police were called to the premises in Camden after a group pf people ‘unlawfully gained access’ to the building.
23 Aug 2021