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Cast your mind back to the heady days of early July, as a beaming Sir Keir Starmer swept into Downing Street to a cheering crowd and the promise of “change”. Britain’s seventh ever Labour prime minister had won a landslide that deservedly drew parallels between himself and the party’s most successful election winner Tony Blair.

Oasis are finally reuniting 15 years after they split, having announced a huge UK tour. The iconic Manchester band’s official social media accounts shared the dates of its 14 UK and Ireland shows, which will take place over July and August next year. Speculation about a reunion grew in the weeks leading up to the

Sven-Göran Eriksson doubted so much whether England could ever have a foreign manager that an initial approach was considered a joke.  Intrigued eventually by the ground-breaking opportunity, rather than being deterred by the indignation, the Swede would launch the Three Lions into five of the most frenzied years in their history. Everything belied his suave

The Metropolitan Police has urged the public to come forward if they can help prevent any further violence at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival. The force said the annual event in West London celebrating Caribbean culture was “marred by unacceptable violence” on Sunday after three people were stabbed, only “narrowly avoiding a fatality”. One of

A British citizen has been found dead after a Russian airstrike in eastern Ukraine, local authorities say. The Briton was found dead under the rubble of Hotel Sapfir in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Sunday, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty reports. A Russian missile struck the building on 24 August, which was Ukraine’s

The August bank holiday has arrived – the cue for millions to get back to work after whatever holidays they have managed to enjoy. Over this weekend many Britons will be coming home from Europe through ports, airports and the Channel Tunnel. Their trips may have included frustrating delays and border checks but there won’t

A woman found dead in her flat in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, was the victim of a “heinous and evil” attack, police said. A fire was reported at a bottom-floor flat on Harvey Street, Londonderry, at around 4.15am on Saturday. Emergency services found the woman – believed to be aged in her 40s to 60s –

Former footballer Jermaine Jenas has been sacked by the BBC over allegations of inappropriate behaviour. While he was on air on a radio show on Thursday, the BBC announced the One Show co-host and Match Of The Day pundit, 41, was “no longer part of our presenting line-up”. The news of his sacking broke moments

Jermaine Jenas has admitted to sending “inappropriate messages” to women after he was sacked by the BBC. The former footballer, who worked as a pundit on Match Of The Day and was a co-host of The One Show before his BBC contract was terminated over allegations about his behaviour, insisted “nothing physical ever happened” but

Parts of the UK are facing power cuts and widespread travel disruption thanks to Storm Lilian – with high winds forcing Leeds Festival organisers to shut two stages. The storm surged across Wales and England this morning and left more than 60,000 homes across the north of England without power or facing supply issues. Northern

A lung cancer patient has become the first in the UK to receive a new experimental vaccine to help his body fight the disease. Janusz Racz, 67, had six syringes of the jab, each containing genetic material for a different part of the tumour, to train five billion cells in his immune system to go

A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a delivery driver in Leeds, police have said. The 32-year-old from Leeds was arrested last night on suspicion of murder in relation to the death of Claudiu-Carol Kondor, aged 42 from Sheffield. It is understood that Mr Kondor had delivered a package for Amazon

Two bodies have been found by divers searching for six missing people who were on the superyacht that sunk off the coast of Sicily. British tech billionaire Mike Lynch and his daughter are among those who remain unaccounted for after the Bayesian went down as a result of being hit by a tornado on Monday

A murder investigation has been launched after a delivery driver died trying to stop the alleged theft of his van in Leeds. West Yorkshire Police said the victim, who is aged in his forties and has not been named, delivered a package at about 6.45pm on Tuesday and returned to his van to find a

The British mother who says she held her baby daughter above the waves as the yacht sank near Sicily was sleeping on deck as the storm hit, an Italian doctor has said. Charlotte Golunski was among 22 people on board the Bayesian when a tornado struck on Monday morning, with one dead and another six

The Bayesian, the award-winning superyacht, sank during a tornado off the coast of Sicily in the early hours of Monday. The body of one person has been found, but six others – including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch – remain missing. But what do we know about the ship? The British-flagged 56 metre ship –