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Italian 'unlawfully removed' from UK despite Home Office certificate

An Italian man has been removed from the UK despite holding a Home Office certificate explicitly stating he has a right to travel in and out of the country while officials process his application to live and work in the country post-Brexit.

British army veteran prosecuted for 1972 killing of man in Belfast

A British army veteran is to be charged with murdering a man and attempting to murder six others during Northern Ireland's Troubles.

Surprise Moana sequel to arrive in cinemas this year, says Disney

Disney has announced a surprise sequel to its hit animated musical film Moana, which is due to arrive in cinemas in November.

Evaristo defends royal society over ageism and lower standards claims

Bernardine Evaristo, the president of the Royal Society of Literature, has launched a staunch defence of the organisation, which she says has been subjected to \"false accusations\" of ageism, censorship and a lowering of standards.

Agency accused of letting Wye fall into 'death spiral'

One of the UK's favourite rivers is going into a \"death spiral\" campaigners said, as lawyers argued in court that the Environment Agency was failing to apply the law and save the waterway from pollution.

Travel disrupted and schools forced to close as snow, high winds and heavy rain hit UK

Schools were shut and major travel disruption was reported yesterday as snow fell across parts of the UK and weather warnings are expected to last for days.

Bushnell's raw, riotous tale is a racy fan pleaser

Do you want to hear the story of the real Mr Big?\"

Esther Ghey Bravery has humanised transgender debate - MP

Brianna Ghey's murder has \"humanised the debate\" around transgender people in her native Warrington, and stopped local Conservative politicians from using trans lives in \"culture war\" attacks, according to Warrington North's Labour MP.

Love me for a season: Boyzone to team up with non-league Chorley FC

The Irish pop stars Boyzone are set to become \"the face\" of Chorley football club in a duet that perhaps no one saw coming.

Police in Italy 'shared illegally accessed data with Ulez firm'

The names and addresses of thousands of EU drivers were unlawfully accessed by Italian police and shared with the company that collects Ulez penalties on behalf of Transport for London (TfL), investigators believe.

Scores of female MOD staff report harassment

More than 120 female civil servants have said they have experienced sexual harassment at the Ministry of Defence or public sector defence agencies in a survey by a trade union.

Zelenskiy replaces Ukraine's top general

Volodymyr Zelenskiy fired his top army commander, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, yesterday in Ukraine's biggest military shake-up since Russia's full-scale invasion nearly two years ago.

Fury as Starmer stages U-turn on £28bn green investment pledge

Campaigners, unions and energy boss criticise Labour leader’s decision to halve spending

Trapped In Rafah With Nowhere Left To Flee, Palestinians Await Israeli Attack

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians crammed into the small southern Gaza border city of Rafah are being forced to contemplate being displaced once more as an Israeli offensive looms.

Swift In Legal Threat To Student Tracking Her Private Jet Journeys

Lawyers for Taylor Swift are threatening legal action against a student who is tracking the pop star's jet use via social media, with some Swift fans calling the legal move unnecessary.

Pakistan Elections State Authorities 'Harassing' Khan Party Workers

For months, police have blocked Arsalan Hafeez from entering the Pakistani constituency where he will be standing for election this week. Since he put himself forward as the candidate for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the political party led by Pakistan's now incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan, Hafeez alleges that the state's machinery has done everything to prevent him from contesting his district of Narowal in the state of Punjab.

Netanyahu Rejects Hamas Ceasefire Plan And Confirms Operation In Rafah

Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the terms of a ceasefire in Gaza proposed by Hamas and rebuffed US pressure to move more quickly towards a mediated settlement to the war, saying there could be no solution to Israel's security issues except "absolute victory" over the militant group.

P14, W14: United's under-18s offer hope for the future

Perfect league record suggests more academy talent will follow Mainoo and Garnacho into the first team

FA to oppose Uefa reform allowing possible fourth term for Ceferin

The Football Association will vote against controversial reforms that would allow the Uefa president, Aleksander Ceferin, to run for an unprecedented fourth term.

Brentford call for action as racists target Toney again

Brentford have condemned the \"vile harassment\" of Ivan Toney after the England striker was the target of online racist abuse. The Premier League club also labelled the response of social media companies to such incidents as \"underwhelming\".

Dream debuts McCullum and Stokes make first England cap a magical moment

A tilt of the head towards the sky with both eyes closed. That's how it ends, or rather, that's how it begins. Shoaib Bashir became England men's Test cap No 713 last week in Visakhapatnam and as is now customary he was presented with his dark-blue headpiece in a short but meaningful pre-match huddle on the outfield. The man to lead this one was Bashir's Somerset teammate, Jack Leach.

Homebuilder Barratt to buy rival Redrow in £2.5bn deal

The UK's biggest housebuilder, Barratt, has struck a deal to buy its rival Redrow for more than £2.5bn.

Ørsted to cut 800 jobs amid rising costs for windfarms

The Danish company developing the world's largest offshore windfarm in the North Sea is to cut hundreds of jobs and pause its dividend to try to recover from a chaotic 12 months.

Dozens held in Sicily over farm subsidies fraud case

Police in Sicily have arrested 37 people, including alleged mafia members, in an investigation into fraud involving EU agricultural subsidies.

Republican party 'wants Haley to dropout to boost funds'

Top officials at the Republican National Committee want the former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley to drop out of the race for the GOP nomination so it can launch a joint fundraising committee with Donald Trump to bolster its finances, according to insiders.

'Another attack on our state' as more missiles rain down on Ukraine

A barrage of Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukrainian cities killed five people yesterday and injured 50 more, including a pregnant woman.

'One part of the solution' Care at home on virtual NHS wards given cautious welcome

Harold Chugg spent much of early 2023 in hospital because of worsening heart failure. In June, the 75-year-old received several blood transfusions, which led to fluid accumulating in his lungs and tissues.

Hypnotist back in the room after 1950s ban is repealed

It was put in place more than 70 years ago to protect citizens from the \"dark arts\", but now an old-fashioned law banning hypnosis and mesmerism has been overturned by a comedy hypnotist and he did it without putting anyone under.

'Betrayed': Primodos patients excluded from health scandals review

Campaigners have accused the UK government of betraying them after a review of redress for victims of health scandals excluded families who might have been affected by the hormone pregnancy test Primodos.

'The destruction is massive' Israeli soldiers tell of fighting in Gaza war

Demobilised Israeli reservists have described how they deployed massive firepower in a brutal, complex and often one-sided war of sporadic but intense clashes that has reduced much of Gaza to ruins.