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Read our privacy notice . Detectives have released a CCTV image of a man they wish to speak to in connection with a sexual assault on board a London Underground train. A woman was sexually assaulted on September 29 at…
Read our privacy notice . Musician Christopher Butler has told of his shock after learning that Olivia Rodrigo used one of his songs as inspiration for her new festive track Take Me Home (4 Christmas). Butler led the…
Prosecutors claim that Hall, a pagan worshipper, groomed a suicidal Ms Exelby into travelling 4,000 miles to Florida, where she agreed to pay $4,000 (£3,000) for her own torture and death. Ms Exelby's body was found in a…
Read our privacy notice . A man has been charged with murder following the death of a woman in east London in 2022. Lorena Ciupeanu, 28, was taken to Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone on November 4, 2022 after being…
Proposals are finally due to be put out for consultation early next year, following decades of bitter wrangling. The plans - estimated to cost £80million - are moving forward after shopping mecca Oxford Street was partly…
His wife, Laura, was the only person to appear as a witness in his defence. Brand said that since the 2023 allegations emerged, his former friends and colleagues won’t “touch him with a bargepole”. It’s a world away from…
The Scotland Yard chief said his proposals, set out in a major speech were the “opposite of Beeching” – in reference to the “Beeching Axe” of local railway services in the 1960s. In his speech, the Met chief said…
It is built in a beauty spot in what locals claim was a ‘blatant’ breach of planning permission. The home on the edge of the historic city in Somerset was built significantly higher and with a larger footprint than what…
Prison staff trigger a code blue in a severe medical situation such as a drugs overdose, where symptoms could include breathing difficulties or unconsciousness. Multiple ambulances have been called to HMP Ranby - a…
Join today Already a member? Log in Concerns have been raised that new rules on pornography could lead to “healthy” and “consensual” sexual acts becoming criminalised. Pornography depicting strangulation or suffocation…