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Police investigating the disappearance of a woman who was last seen leaving work have found her body - as a man has been charged with murder.Paria Veisi, 37, was reported missing after leaving work in Cardiff at around 3pm on 12 April.Her disappearance was described by police as "totally out of character" and prompted a widespread search.Her Mercedes GLC 200 was later found on Dorchester Avenue in the Penylan area […]

The Conservatives leapt on Labour's idea for third country migrant "returns hubs" as evidence that cancelling their controversial Rwanda plan was a mistake.In fundamental terms, the Rwanda plan was very different, not least because it was implacably opposed by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which is now - in principle at least - backing this concept. The Tories were intending to deport everyone who arrived in the UK […]

A cat whose "back end had almost been cut off" by a train managed to survive after dragging himself back to his owners.Rescue cat Hector, aged two, had to have his leg and tail amputated after being hit by a train near Fairlie station in North Ayrshire. Hector dragged himself 229 metres uphill to get back home, hauling himself over the garden fence before being found by owner Sharon Joyce […]

It would be "foolish" to stop engaging with China, the chancellor has said, as Sir Keir Starmer held his first call with Donald Trump since he put 10% tariffs on goods imported from the UK.Rachel Reeves will hold talks with the US next week amid efforts to establish a trade deal, which the government hopes will take the sting out of the president's tariffs. There has been speculation Washington may […]

Police are appealing for help to find a woman who is believed to be injured after she was carried on a car bonnet for 30 yards in a hit-and-run crash.Footage filmed by a member of the public shows the woman dancing in the road in Engineers Way, near Wembley Arena, at around 11.10pm on Thursday. The Met Police has said the video shows her narrowly avoiding passing vehicles before a […]

A migrant has died attempting to cross the English Channel in a small boat.The RNLI confirmed it had launched its all-weather lifeboat and a group of migrants were brought to Dover in a Border Force boat on Friday morning. A blue forensics tent could be seen outside the Dover Lifeboat Station.It is unclear how many migrants were on board the small boat.A Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokesperson said: "HM Coastguard […]

It was perhaps not quite how officials, in London at least, had envisaged the announcement of the state visit would be made.In the Oval Office, Donald Trump revealed the news in his own way. "I was invited by the King and the great country. They are going to do a second fest - that's what it is. It is beautiful," he said during an impromptu Oval Office moment.The question was, […]

Donald Trump has said his second state visit to the UK could take place in September.Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer handed over an invitation from the King when he visited Washington in February. Trump teases return to UK - latest updatesBuckingham Palace previously only said the visit would happen "when diaries allow", but Mr Trump told reporters on Thursday: "I think they are setting a date for September.""I don't know […]

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an elderly couple died in a fire in Hampshire.Police were called to reports of a blaze at a house in Heron Close, Alton, at 4am on 14 April. Officers and firefighters went to the location, but a man aged in his 90s and a woman in her 80s were pronounced dead at the scene, Hampshire Constabulary said.In an appeal […]