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Dozens of people around the world have been arrested after police disrupted a UK-founded website scamming victims on an industrial scale.LabHost, a site set up in 2021, tricked as many as 70,000 UK victims, obtaining 480,000 card numbers and 64,000 PINs worldwide, the Metropolitan Police said. It was created by a criminal network and enabled more than 2,000 users to set up phishing websites designed to steal personal information such […]

Samantha Davis, the wife of Star Wars and Harry Potter actor Warwick Davis, has died aged 53.Samantha co-founded the dwarfism charity Little People UK and featured in the final Harry Potter film, alongside Warwick. Warwick announced the news in a statement shared to the BBC, revealing she had died on 24 March."Her passing has left a huge hole in our lives as a family. I miss her hugs."She was a […]

The House of Lords has delayed the passing of the government's Rwanda bill until next week - in a blow to Rishi Sunak's attempts to get planes off the ground deporting illegal migrants to the country.MPs overturned Tuesday's attempts by the House of Lords to dilute the plan - but peers have now put forward even more changes to the proposed new law. It is now expected that the Commons […]

A man whose dog had to be put down after he abandoned it inside a cage for several days with "food out of reach and no water" has been jailed for six months.The Scottish SPCA found the animal lying in the container on a blanket soaked in urine and covered in faeces. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) said the dog was "so weak he couldn't even lift […]

The governor of the Bank of England has signalled the UK is still on course for an interest rate cut as official figures show a further easing in the pace of price growth in the economy. Andrew Bailey was speaking hours before the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that the consumer prices index (CPI) measure of inflation slowed to 3.2% in the 12 months to March - the weakest […]

One in every 52 children in Blackpool is in care compared with one in 140 across England, according to new analysis which researchers said exposes "deeply rooted social inequalities".The report also found the North of England accounts for just over a quarter (28%) of the child population, but more than a third (36%) of the children in care, the analysis by the Child of the North All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) […]

Immigration enforcement staff have had their leave cancelled as the government hopes its plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda will become law this week.Speaking to Sky News, Lucy Moreton from the ISU, the union for borders, immigration and customs, said the staff who will be expected to arrest and remove people still know very little about how they will be expected to force people on to planes. She […]

EasyJet has suspended all flights to Tel Aviv over safety concerns for journeys to Israel - days after Iran's attack caused chaos for airlines.Flight data showed dozens of journeys that would have travelled over the Middle East turned back on Saturday after Iran fired more than 300 drones and missiles into Israel. Now easyJet has said that its flights to Israel are suspended for the remainder of the summer "as […]

A weaker than expected easing in the pace of pay rises means real earnings growth, when inflation is taken into account, is at its highest rate in almost two and a half years, according to the latest official figures.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said average regular pay, excluding bonuses, stood at 6% in the three months to February compared with a year earlier. In real terms, when the rate […]