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Two men from Dewsbury, aged 52 and 21 have been arrested

Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg is joining LBC to host a live phone-in as part of the new spring schedule. The prominent politician will take calls every other week for a 30-minute phone-in during Nick Ferrari at Breakfast. He joins Nigel Farage and Theresa May's PR man Tom Swarbrick on the books at the broadcaster, with "no topics off limit" according to an official statement. Rees-Mogg said: “I am greatly looking forward to conversing with LBC’s listeners every fortnight. "In the programmes I have...

Commenters on Guido Fawkes have been accused of being so racist they create their own language to be antisemitic and get past the algorithms. Last night after right wing blog Guido Fawkes published a secret recording of a private Passover seder ceremony that Jeremy Corbyn attended to attack all those present for supporting the Labour leader, eagle eyed people started questioning some of the comments on the blog. While the Jewdas organisation that the blog describes as "radical" has a history of...

Police have launched two separate investigations after a teenage boy was shot and critically injured - and a 17-year-old girl was shot and killed. The Met Police say the two incidents are unrelated, after another night of violence in London. The 17-year-old girl died after she was shot in Tottenham, north London, at around 21:30 on Easter Monday. A Met Police spokesperson said: "Officers attended along with the London Ambulance Service and found the teenage girl suffering from a gun...

By James Gale  Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been urged to tackle gun crime after a freedom of information request revealed that some boroughs have higher homicide rates than major UK cities. There have been 53 murders in the capital since 2012, with London's murder rate overtaking New York City's for the first time ever in February according to a new report. An FOI request submitted on behalf of The London Economic found Brent is the capital’s highest borough for gun murders, with...

  Tonight in perhaps the most bizarre chapter in the Jeremy Corbyn anti-Semitism row, he has come under criticism from the usual suspects for celebrating Passover with Jews in his constituency. But these are the wrong sort of Jews apparently. - Left wing Jews. According to right wing political blog Guido Fawkes which leaked photos and a secretly made audio recording of the Passover seder attended by the Labour Leader, who brought some beetroot from his allotment as a gift,...

The most amazing underwater pictures in the world have been revealed - including a close-up snap of an angry crocodile. More than 6,000 pictures were entered for the underwaterphotography.com contest across 17 categories - from macro close-ups to wide angle shots, with two Brits claiming gold medals. A lemon shark glides through the late-afternoon sunlight off the coast of Grand Bahama Tanya Houppermans One of these was Tom St George who scooped a gold in the Wide Angle/Marine Life category...

Giant dinosaurs bigger than a double decker bus roamed the Isle of Skye 170 million years ago, say scientists. Dozens of footprints belonging to early sauropods - the largest animals ever to walk the planet - have been unearthed in a lagoon on the remote Scottish hideaway. Others were made by the older theropod cousins of T Rex as herds splashed about in the muddy shallows off the north east coast. They were identified by their claws. The discovery adds...

He was caught by a woman posing online as a gay schoolboy