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A woman killed in a house fire near Middlesbrough has been described by her mother as a beautiful soul who would have done anything for anybody. Thirty-four-year-old Natalie McDonald died alongside her seven-year-old niece, Valentina Foster, in the blaze in Grangetown early on Wednesday. Cleveland Police confirmed a forty-eight-year-old woman remains critically ill in hospital, while three others received treatment for non-life-threatening injuries. Two men, aged twenty-three and thirty-one, have […]

A murder investigation has been launched following the death of a young man who was stabbed at a council headquarters near Wembley Stadium. Emergency services were called to Brent Civic Centre in north London at around twenty-five past two on Tuesday afternoon. Paramedics treated the victim, believed to be a teenager or in his early twenties, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The building has been evacuated and […]

Andy Burnham has promised to keep up the pressure on Russia despite Moscow's outrageous threats, speaking on his first official visit to Ukraine as UK prime minister. Mr Burnham met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and chaired a meeting of the coalition of the willing, established under predecessor Sir Keir Starmer. He said the coalition is doing everything possible while urging the US Congress to ratchet up economic pressure on Russia. […]

Train operator CrossCountry will run a full train service on Monday following major disruption to services across the country. The operator said it plans to run a very limited number of trains from around six o'clock on Sunday evening, and a full service tomorrow. It comes after a power outage affected its control centre in Birmingham, resulting in mass cancellations across the network on Sunday. A spokesperson said their priority […]

Seven people, including two police officers, have died following a collision on the A66 near Middlesbrough. Cleveland Police confirmed the crash occurred in South Bank at twenty to four this morning. The victims include two serving officers travelling in a marked police vehicle and five members of the public who were in a Volkswagen Passat. Redcar MP Anna Turley paid tribute on social media to the officers who lost their […]

A murder investigation is under way after human bones were uncovered at a west London park following a wildfire. Emergency services were called to Bedfont Lakes Country Park in Hounslow on Wednesday evening, the twelfth of August, after a member of the public found the remains in woodland known as The Pits. A post-mortem examination confirmed the bones belong to a woman aged between twenty-five and forty-five. Police say it […]