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Ambulance called 38 times to 'prison-like' asylum site

Alarming rise in suicide attempts at Wethersfield centre

Predator teacher jailed after sex with two teenage boys

A paedophile teacher who had sex with two teenage boys, having a baby with one, has been jailed for six and a half years.

Twisted world of 30st loner in Willoughby murder plot

Essex neighbours rarely saw isolated’ Gavin Plumb, who was planning a horrifying attack on former ITV This Morning star

May receives peerage in dissolution honours list

The former prime minister Theresa May has been given a peerage while the former environment secretary Therese Coffey has been handed a damehood in the dissolution honours list.

Sleaze, greed and broken vows catch up with Tories

The exit poll? It’s historic, unprecedented, asteroidal. But, as with any object hurtling through space to destroy a planet, we could all see this coming.

Poll-axed: Tories are swept away by Labour's red tide

Sir Keir Starmer is poised to complete one of the most remarkable turnarounds in British political history as the exit poll indicates a huge Labour victory that will sweep him into Downing Street with a majority of 170.

Fisher one step from joining lucrative heavyweight party

Johnny Fisher is one of a dozen British heavyweights waiting to fill the void when Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury finally call it a day.

'Friendly' transfer deals are put under the microscope

Finance rules see a flurry of June Premier League signings

Alcaraz says staying calm is the secret to SW19 success

Carlos Alcaraz turned to his box, clenching his fist in delight with that familiar intensity.

Raducanu destroys Mertens to raise Wimbledon hopes

Briton needed just 75 minutes to beat Elise Mertens 6-1, 6-2 in a powerful display reminiscent of her 2021 US Open win

Google blames AI as growth in emissions continues to jeopardise net zero targets

Google partly blamed AI for the fact that its carbon pollution continued to grow last year, threatening the search giant’s commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2030.

DADDY ISSUES

The compulsive sperm donor at the centre of a controversial new Netflix docuseries, 'The Man with 1000 Kids', tells Kevin EG Perry why he refused to take part in the show

CAN'T BUY ME LOVE?

Calls to find a 6ft 5in man working in finance with a trust fund were everywhere at Glastonbury, harking back to a viral video. It's all a bit tongue in cheek, writes Olivia Petter, but it does reveal a truth about dating during a cost of living crisis

Will Heathrow Express pay up if our flights are missed?

You have been reporting on the collapse of the Heathrow Express and Elizabeth Line from central London to Heathrow airport.

MAN AND SUPERMAN

Brain fog, mood swings and low libido can often affect men over 40. Could testosterone replacement therapy help, or can it actually be harmful?

Sunak's Starmer swipe let on what he thinks about mums

He could have kept quiet. As a father-of-two, Rishi Sunak will be very familiar with trying in vain to step away from his desk to spend a few hours with his family.

Johnson's intervention was, as ever, mainly about himself

Boris Johnson’s surprise last-minute appearance at a Conservative election rally in London was not a sign of the party’s strength or unity, but a reminder of its weakness, divisions and sheer desperation.

Tories try to rewrite history by bringing back the Morlock

Boris Johnson Saves the World is probably the movie that our disgraced former prime minister sees himself starring in as he ascends the stage at the National Army Museum in London, surrounded by the tattered colours and worn muskets of past battles lost and won – Waterloo, Dunkirk, Goose Green.

North Korea balloon attacks on South ‘are soft terrorism'

North Korea’s campaign of sending hundreds of rubbish-filled balloons into South Korea is a “form of soft terrorism” that shouldn’t be taken lightly, an American think tank has said.

'No one is pushing me out'

Joe Biden tells campaign staff he's in race 'to the end' but ally admits next few days in the spotlight will decide leader's fate

Man receives death threats after tracking stolen iPhone

Victim was sent messages from Shenzhen in southern China

'Mummy makeover' adverts being removed by watchdog

Hundreds of ads a day pushing surgery and weight-loss jabs

Slapping therapy healer previously prosecuted in death of six-year-old boy

An alternative “healer” accused of the manslaughter of a 71-year-old diabetic woman who died after stopping taking her insulin at his slapping therapy workshop was previously prosecuted for the death of a six-year-old boy, a court has heard.

Help my father, son of jailed media mogul tells Labour

The son of a jailed British citizen detained by China has urged a Labour government to help release his father amid fears he could die in prison.

Could the Tories actually come third in the election?

Even when the situation is hopeless, the leaders of a doomed party in a general election usually try to show a brave face.

Rishi the Robot has failure down to a fine (body) art

Oh, Rishi. We’ve all been there, waiting for the results of an exam we know we flubbed, or the rejection email for a job where we accidentally called the interviewer “mum”, or the voters to consign us to the dustbin of history after leading our party to electoral ruin.

Bombshell poll forecasts the Tories will win only 82 seats

Rishi Sunak will lead the Conservatives to their worst election result in history, with a major poll for The Independent suggesting that the party will hold on to just 82 seats.

A slow train to Manchester

With HS2 firmly on the scrap heap, Simon Calder inspects proposals from companies eager to fill the yawning gap

'We just want him to stop'

Netflix docuseries The Man with 1000 Kids’ explores the case of a sperm donor who was banned from fathering any more children. Two mothers at the centre of the controversy talk to Kevin EG Perry about how their lives were upended

Keir clocking off wouldn't make him a part-time PM

Is anyone else worried that Keir Starmer is deluding himself? The Labour leader has said that if he makes it to No 10, he hopes to continue his routine of carving out “protected time” to spend with his wife, Victoria, their 16-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter.