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Former Arsenal player charged after £600,000 of cannabis seized at Stansted

A former Arsenal and Queens Park Rangers footballer has been charged in connection with an attempt to smuggle £600,000 of cannabis through Stansted airport.Jay Emmanuel-Thomas was arrested by National...

Met investigates four officers over case of double domestic murderer

Four Metropolitan police officers are facing a misconduct investigation after two women were murdered by a man they...

Death Of Boy, 5, Who Drowned In Holiday Park Swimming Pool Was An Accident, Inquest Rules

The death of a five-year-old boy who drowned in a holiday park swimming pool after becoming separated from...

UK summer’s ‘last hurrah’ set to give way to heavy rainfall at weekend

The UK is enjoying “summer’s last hurrah” before heavy rainfall is expected to drench the country over the...

Met police budget ‘heading off a cliff’, commissioner warns in funding plea

Scotland Yard needs hundreds of millions of pounds in new funding to drag itself out of crisis as...

Keir Starmer warns of tough times ahead to fix ‘Tory ruins’

British people will have to endure even worse economic and social ­pressures in the months to come as the Labour government takes “unpopular decisions”...

Man dies after alleged assault at Southwark tube station in London

A man has died after allegedly being assaulted at a London Underground station, British Transport Police (BTP) said. The victim, currently identified only as a...

Unite calls for 1% wealth tax on super-rich to fund UK public sector pay rises

Britain’s second biggest trade union is calling on the new Labour government to introduce an emergency 1% wealth tax on the assets of the...

‘This is the future’: why turbines that float could be the new wave in British wind power

Head 10 miles out from the coast of Aberdeen in Scotland and a cluster of five giant wind turbines spin at a height of...