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The prime minister has visited Southport after the fatal knife attack on a children's holiday club there sparked violent protests in cities around the UK.Sir Keir Starmer met Liverpool mayor Steve Rotheram and Merseyside Police's chief constable Serena Kennedy - as well as faith, health, and education leaders in the town on Friday. He later travelled to Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool where some of the children injured in […]

The culture secretary has said former BBC newsreader Huw Edwards should return his salary after he admitted accessing indecent images of children.Edwards was paid £200,000 after he was arrested in November while he was suspended by the broadcaster up until he resigned in April on medical advice. On Wednesday, the 62-year-old BBC veteran pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children.Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told Sky News […]

Levi Bellfield's civil partnership has been blocked after a new law came into force stopping the most serious offenders getting married behind bars.Bellfield abducted and murdered 13-year-old Milly Dowler in 2002, then killed Marsha McDonnell in 2003 and Amelie Delagrange in 2004. He also tried to murder 18-year-old Kate Sheedy and has been suspected in other cases.One of the UK's most notorious criminals, he is serving two whole-life sentences and […]

Robert Jenrick thinks the Tories can win at the next election - but he added the party has a "mountain to climb" and must show "where we went wrong".The former immigration minister will formally launch his campaign for the Conservative leadership on Friday. He will say the Tories need to undergo "serious changes" to restore voters' trust following the party's worst-ever general election result.Follow politics latestThe Newark MP is expected […]

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will undertake a four-day visit to Colombia later this summer.Harry and Meghan were invited to the country by the vice president, Francia Marquez. It's understood the trip will showcase the heritage of Colombia and will also focus on ways to create safer spaces online.This visit follows the couple's trip to Nigeria earlier this year. Image: Meghan and Harry in Nigeria in May. Pic: AP […]

Stephen Lawrence's body will be returned to the UK from Jamaica 31 years after his racist murder, his mother has said.In a statement issued through her lawyer, Baroness Doreen Lawrence said images of her son's grave had appeared on social media after his body had been exhumed, which had caused the family "distress". It said: "My family and I have been made aware of the recent images of my son's […]

A lead investigator into maternity scandals says the treatment of families failed by a Welsh hospital's maternity unit is "appalling".Senior midwife Donna Ockenden says an independent review into failings at Singleton Hospital, commissioned by the Swansea Bay University Health Board, is "not fit for purpose" and should be "closed" immediately. It comes after the maternity unit at the hospital came under considerable scrutiny in a number of internal and external […]

Information abhors a vacuum.So when the police and media, for legal reasons, put out only a few details about the Southport attacker - that he was 17 years old and born in Cardiff - misinformation rushed in instead.As far-right groups then began reposting the false claims and organising on messaging app Telegram, it made for a violent outcome.The misinformation started almost as soon as news of the knife attack on […]

A 31-year-old woman and an eight-year-old girl have died after a house fire in Huddersfield which police are treating as "suspicious".The force added that a 10-year-old girl remains in hospital in a critical condition. West Yorkshire Police said they were called to a blaze on Leeds Road by the fire service at 2.24am this morning.The force said the woman and two children were all rescued from the property before being […]