A Berkshire man has been found guilty of murder after two people were attacked in Slough. Jakub Nowicki was convicted by a unanimous jury of murdering 46-year-old Tomasz Kopec and assaulting another person at a property on Grant Avenue in April. Police were called to the address at around 6.45 in the morning, where they discovered both victims with serious injuries. Mr Kopec died in hospital two days later. The […]

Tim Davie has resigned as the BBC’s Director-General, along with the corporation’s Head of News, Deborah Turness. Their departures come ahead of an expected BBC apology on Monday over concerns about impartiality — including how a Panorama documentary edited a speech by US President Donald Trump. The programme, Trump: A Second Chance?, aired before last year’s US election and featured spliced clips from the former president’s January 6th address, making […]

The chief inspector of prisons says the string of mistaken early prisoner releases is “a symptom of a system close to breaking point.” Charlie Taylor’s comments come after it was revealed two inmates wrongly freed last year remain at large, along with two more believed to have been released in error this summer. Writing in The Daily Telegraph, he described the situation as “embarrassing and potentially dangerous,” blaming it on […]

James Watson, the scientist who helped unlock the secret of life, has died at the age of 97. Watson shared the 1962 Nobel Prize with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for discovering the double-helix structure of DNA — a breakthrough that transformed medicine, forensics and genetics. Their 1953 discovery paved the way for modern genetic research and testing. Despite his scientific legacy, Watson’s later years were marred by controversy after […]