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Expert finds Jeffrey Epstein’s injuries more consistent with homicide than suicide
A witness hired by the well-connected late paedophile financier’s family has contested the inquest finding of prison suicide.
Lower paid royal staff set for backdated 4% pay rise
– if they get a positive performance review.
Notting Hill Carnival: police call for ‘full review’ after 30 Met officers assaulted-over 125 at past 4 carnivals
Notting Hill Carnival 2019 saw 353 people arrested including 37 for assaulting police. Over 125 officers have been assaulted at carnival over the past four years.
Priti Patel urged to consider people ‘fleeing for their lives’ across the channel with humanity
“The lack of safe and regular routes available for people seeking protection to enter the UK leaves people with no alternative other than placing themselves into the hands of people smugglers.”
Brazilian President Bolsonaro demands Macron apology before he will accept aid for Amazon fires
The Brazilian president accused his French counterpart of questioning Brazil’s sovereignty.
Mum caught on CCTV single-handedly fighting off three carjackers to protect three-year-old in car
West Midlands Police have released the footage in a bid to catch the trio of thugs who struck in Moseley, Birmingham
Pensioner who has lived 9 decades in one of Britain’s first council homes calls on government to make more
Cyril Hall, 92, and his family were the first to move into the then-new build estate in 1926 - and he says when he leaves it "will be in a box".
Fourth teenager stabbed to death in London in just 15 days
The 18-year-old victim, who has not been named, was repeatedly knifed in Plaistow, east London, in the middle of Monday afternoon
New images give secret glimpse of Crossrail progress
The project was due to be completed in December last year, but has encountered several delays.