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Police have launched an appeal to find a teenager who vanished 53 years ago today when she was aged 15.Tina Whittamore was placed in the Whitaker Mother and Baby Unit in Grasmere Road, Luton, in 1971. She was last seen in the Bedfordshire town on 31 May the same year at about 2.30pm when she said she was going for a walk.She never returned.Her case is now being reviewed by […]

A woman who, along with her partner, lay undiscovered in a crashed car for days probably would have survived, but for "organisational failure" in police call handling procedures, an inquiry has found.Lamara Bell, 25, and John Yuill, 28, died after their car careered off the M9 near Stirling on 5 July 2015 as they drove back from a camping trip. They lay in their Renault Clio for three days before […]

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will vow on Friday to "get working within months to build clean power across the United Kingdom" if his party wins the general election. At an event in Scotland - and joined by Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar - the prime ministerial hopeful will reiterate his plans for Great British Energy, first announced at the party's conference in 2022. Headquartered north of the border, the […]

Two people have been arrested by police investigating a robbery at a jewellers.Two men entered a shop on Kew Road, Richmond, south London, at around 2.50pm on Saturday 25 May. They assaulted a member of staff and stole high-value watches, before fleeing the scene.The victim, Oliver White, was not seriously injured in the attack but was found dead in Surrey the following day.His death is being investigated by Surrey Police, […]

Two bodies have been found in the search for a man and his son who went missing during a hike in the Scottish Highlands.Tom Parry, 49, and his son Richie, 12, were due to return to their Cheshire home on Wednesday after visiting Glen Nevis and Glencoe. Their car was found in the Three Sisters car park in Glencoe where they stopped the day before to go hillwalking.In an update […]

A child is among four people shot near a restaurant in east London.Police have said the child is in a serious condition and are waiting for updates on the health of three adults also injured in the incident in Hackney. All four were taken to hospital with gunshot injuries.Officers were called to the scene in Kingsland High Street at about 9.20pm on Wednesday, according to the Metropolitan Police, with specialist […]

Does Diane Abbott and the row over her future matter?Keir Starmer clearly calculated not so much, although I'm told it blew up far more than the leader's office expected, with the mess and delay a product of disagreements internally about what to do with her. High-profile Labour politicians like Jess Phillips are now kicking off, and televised rallies in front of supporters in Hackney have undoubtedly obliterated the party's attempts […]

Former Manchester United midfielder Roy Keane has told a court he was left "in shock" after allegedly being headbutted during a Premier League football match.Scott Law, 43, of Waltham Abbey, Essex, pleaded not guilty to a charge of common assault at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Wednesday. The incident allegedly took place on 3 September last year, shortly after Arsenal beat Manchester United 3-1 in a Premier League match at […]

Junior doctors in England are set to strike for five days starting next month - part of a long-running dispute over pay.The strike is set to run from 7am on 27 June to 2 July. It means the dispute will be held during the general election campaign, with polling day on 4 July.Dr Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi, co-chairs of the British Medical Association's junior doctors committee, said: "We […]