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Isaiah Popoola and Ben Drummond, both 18, were part of an eight-strong group who launched five attacks on February 20

Putman is alleged to have used a fake ticket to claim the seven-figure sum in 2009

A private school has withdrawn an advert and apologised after an advert for the elite school appeared to suggest that those who attended the school would one day be rich enough to “buy their dad a jag.” The advert for Vinehall School in East Sussex told the story of a boy arriving in his father's Volvo, but wishing he had the headmaster's Jaguar. After attending the school and being "very successful in business" he buys his father a Jaguar when...

International students should be able to access skilled jobs in the UK more easily after they graduate, the government’s chief migration advisers have said, but the committee has ruled out the suggestion from industry that students should be removed from immigration statistics. The independent migration advisory committee (MAC) recommended changes to immigration rules that would give certain types of students more time to stay in the UK to find employment. However, the committee did not recommend removing students from the net migration...

Now it is the time for the confectionary market to share its concerns over a hard Brexit. Cadbury’s have said they are stockpiling ingredients, biscuits and chocolates to deal with the fall out from a no-deal Brexit. Hubert Weber, the European boss of its owner Mondelez, said the UK was "not self-sufficient in terms of food ingredients". Mr Weber told The Times: "Like the whole of the food and drink industry in the UK, we would prefer a good deal that...

The UK public spending watchdog have said that Ministers are not aware of the impact of funding cuts on the police service. The National Audit Office called the approach to funding the police force are “detached” and “ineffective” from the demands that law and order staff face on a daily basis. The spending watchdog felt that the loss of 45,000 police officers had not been dealt with properly by the Home Office, and they had not thought through how this...

In Scotland alone, a total of 37 carcasses of a species, Cuvier’s beaked whales, have been discovered - all in an advanced stage of autolysis, or self-digestion, since the start of August

“With the workload of MPs set to rise after Brexit, with thousands of pieces of important legislation expected to come through parliament, it would be utterly ludicrous to go ahead with these boundary changes.”

Elusive Snailfish found during the expedition to the Atacama Trench