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Police are considering corporate manslaughter charges in the ongoing Post Office Horizon investigation. The criminal probe into the scandal, in which hundreds of postmasters were wrongly convicted of theft and false accounting through the Horizon software, has been widened to include additional persons of interest and another suspect. One further individual has been interviewed under caution, the National Police Chiefs’ Council said. Material has been passed to the Crown Prosecution […]

Sir Keir Starmer is set to deliver a speech on Monday defending the government’s budget decisions, following criticism over tax rises and accusations that the chancellor misled the public on finances. Downing Street says he will outline how the budget, which included £26 billion in tax increases across the economy, supports the government’s programme of national renewal and sets the “right economic course” for Britain. The prime minister will also […]

Donald Trump says the airspace above and around Venezuela is being closed completely. The US president announced the decision on Truth Social during rising tensions with the government of Nicolas Maduro. He warned airlines, pilots, drug dealers and human traffickers to consider the area shut in its entirety. Slough Jets enjoyed a dominant return to home ice with a ten nil win over Cardiff Fire. Scoring built slowly before the […]

Airline passengers are being warned about possible travel disruption after Airbus identified a significant number of A320 aircraft affected by a software problem. The company says analysis of a recent event showed intense solar radiation can corrupt data vital to flight controls. The alert follows an incident involving a JetBlue flight from Cancun to Newark on 30 October. Rachel Reeves is accused of making the economy appear in a worse […]

Vladimir Putin says Russia is ready if Europe wants to fight a war. Speaking after an investment forum in Moscow, he claimed European countries do not have a peaceful agenda and are taking the side of war, adding that their demands from the conflict in Ukraine are unacceptable to Russia. He repeated that Russia is not planning to go to war with Europe, saying he has made that point many […]

Two military personnel have been shot near the White House in Washington DC. Police confirmed a suspect has been taken into custody and the area secured. The White House was placed into lockdown while US President Donald Trump was in Florida. Mr Trump posted on his Truth Social platform saying the two National Guard members had been critically wounded. He added that the "animal" who shot them is also severely […]

A fifteen-year-old boy has been arrested after a sixteen-year-old was shot on a busy stretch of London Road in Sheffield shortly before twenty past five on Monday evening. The area was crowded with rush hour traffic when the attack took place. The victim was taken to hospital and remains in a life-threatening condition. South Yorkshire Police say the teenager who has been detained is being held on suspicion of conspiracy […]

Police have appealed for information after a man was charged with murdering two women and raping a third. Simon Levy has been charged with murdering 53 year old Carmenza Valencia Trujillo from Colombia, who died on the Aylesbury Estate in south east London on 17 March. A police investigation began after a post mortem examination was unable to determine her cause of death. Levy, of Beaufoy Road in Tottenham, was […]

Former prime minister Lord Cameron has revealed he has been treated for prostate cancer. The former Tory leader, who was prime minister from 2010 to 2016 and foreign secretary until last year’s general election, went public in an interview with The Times. The 59-year-old joins Olympic cycling champion Sir Chris Hoy, former Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan, and ex-PM Rishi Sunak in campaigning for improved diagnosis and treatment. He has […]