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The prime minister has said the first deportation flights to Rwanda will leave “in 10 to 12 weeks”, hours before MPs are due to vote on his emergency legislation. Rishi Sunak added that the government has “an airfield on standby and booked commercial charter planes”. “No ifs, not buts, these flights are going to Rwanda,”

A tense, extended stand-off between police and an antisemitism campaigner where he was called “openly Jewish” and threatened with arrest yards from a pro-Palestinian march was caught on film by Sky News. The footage gives context to the lengthy and fraught exchanges amid an increasingly volatile atmosphere, as the head of the Metropolitan Police faces

An antisemitism campaigner has called for the head of the Metropolitan Police to resign after he was called “openly Jewish” by an officer and threatened with arrest at a pro-Palestinian march in London. Gideon Falter, the chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, said Jewish Londoners cannot have confidence in the Met under Sir Mark

Police are investigating after a man and a woman in their 70s were found dead at a house in Stoke-on-Trent. Officers were called to a report of two bodies found at a property on Catalina Place, Meir Park, at 1pm on Saturday, Staffordshire Police said. They were pronounced dead at 2.15pm. Staffordshire Police said: “An

A former model who almost died trying to cure her cancer with a juice diet has warned others against “cutting out” traditional medical advice and trying to source alternative information online. Irena Stoynova forked out £2,000 on juicers and would spend up to three hours a day preparing liquid meals for the next day, believing

People who are fit to work but do not accept job offers will have their benefits taken away after 12 months, the prime minister has pledged. Outlining his plans to reform the welfare system if the Conservatives win the next general election, Rishi Sunak said “unemployment support should be a safety net, never a choice”

Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell has been charged by police after he was arrested amid an investigation into the SNP’s funding and finances. Police said he has been charged in connection with the embezzlement of funds from the party. The former SNP chief executive, 59, was questioned by detectives after being taken into Police Scotland

This is a tale that’s more than just a marmalade dropper. It’s a story so astounding you have to pick yourself up off the floor.  Mark Menzies MP last December allegedly made a 3.15am phone call to an elderly party volunteer asking for £5,000 as a matter of “life or death” because he had been

Dozens of people around the world have been arrested after police disrupted a UK-founded website scamming victims on an industrial scale. LabHost, a site set up in 2021, tricked as many as 70,000 UK victims, obtaining 480,000 card numbers and 64,000 PINs worldwide, the Metropolitan Police said. It was created by a criminal network and

The government has agreed to have an independent expert review of a Post Office IT system predating Horizon, amid claims dozens more sub-postmasters may have been wrongly convicted. The Capture software was rolled out across branches in the 1990s, years before the notorious Horizon system was introduced. Post Office minister Kevin Hollinrake has met with

A man has been arrested after a police officer was stabbed in the shoulder in north London. The Metropolitan Police said the officer had been responding to reports of a man with a knife in Mandeville Road, Enfield, on Tuesday afternoon. A 30-year-old man was later arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the officer

Birmingham Airport has temporarily suspended operations due to a “security incident on an aircraft”. A Birmingham Airport spokesperson said: “The aircraft landed safely and all passengers and crew have disembarked. “All customers due to travel should make their way to the airport and check in as normal.” This breaking news story is being updated and

The prime minister is facing another rebellion from his party over his plans to ban young people from ever smoking again. Should the Tobacco and Vapes Bill eventually be passed into law, it would be an offence to sell tobacco products to anyone born after 1 January 2009. This means children aged 15 or younger

A woman has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a baby in 1998. Baby “Callum” was discovered in a woodland area in Warrington 26 years ago. Police arrested a man and a woman from Liverpool in relation to the incident in July 2023 and they were subsequently released on bail. The

Three men have been killed and one critically injured after a car was involved in a crash near the Brent Cross shopping centre in north London. Officers were called to reports of a car crash at Staples Corner retail park at 11.26pm on Sunday, the Metropolitan Police said. They found five men, believed to be

The parents of an eight-year-old boy who died after he was hit by a car while playing in Wiltshire have said he was “the light of our small village”. Police said Lennix Sutcliffe was fatally injured while riding a toy scooter when a driver was pulling into a driveway in Woodland View, Dilton Marsh, at