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Bryant accused of ‘abdication of responsibility’ over victims’ scheme

Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Chris Bryant (Oliver McVeigh/PA) PA Wire Secretary of State Sir Chris Bryant has been accused of an “abdication of responsibility” to victims of the Troubles, after declining to extend a…

Water outage shuts Chessington World of Adventures amid London heatwave alert

Read our privacy notice . Chessington World of Adventures has been forced to shut its doors following a water outage in the local area on Monday. The theme park announced on its website that it would be closed as the…

Suffolk heathland fire stood down as major incident

The service stressed "the incident itself is not over" and said people must stay away from the heathland, where firefighters remained to dampen down, monitor for hotspots, and any further fire activity. Jon Lacey, the…

Belfast welcomes more than a million visits during the Fleadh

Footfall figures - provided by Belfast One Business Improvement District - say 1.65 million visits were made to the city centre during the eight days of the Fleadh. At least 4,000 were in the grounds of Belfast City Hall…

Six arrested after woman found dead

Police were called at 09:33 BST on Thursday, following concerns for the welfare of a woman at a residential address on Bollinder Place, Clerkenwell. Officers attended alongside the London Ambulance Service and found an…

Swimming pools and car washes could be banned as drought to be declared across most of England

If granted and put into action, the policy would prevent businesses from activities like washing cars with hosepipes, and filling private swimming pools. It comes as half of England and all of Wales have been plunged…

Predator used nickname ‘Epstein’ to force more than 100 girls to self-harm online

Members are mainly teenage boys driven by a desire for status, rather than sexual desire or money. Notoriety is achieved by sharing more extreme content and committing increasingly serious crimes. Swaddle’s devices were…

Shoppers warned of supermarket price rises ‘within months’ due to extreme heat

The chairman of the House of Commons’ Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee has said consumers can expect to see the impact of this summer’s record-breaking weather in six to 12 months time as growers have warned…

The subjects A-level students are most likely to cheat in

Speaking ahead of A-level results being published this week, he said students’ achievement would be similar this year compared to last year, when a record proportion of students received A and A* grades. ‘AI is getting…

Actor Brad Pitt says he had ‘one little period’ of having suicidal thoughts

The 62-year-old Fight Club star said that after feeling that way his “survival instincts” kicked in and stopped him, and added that he had not considered suicide before or since. He said: “I was never suicidal in any…