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Police have searched five properties as they hunt for Clapham chemical attack suspect Abdul Ezedi - with bodycam footage showing officers entering a home in Newcastle where empty containers with corrosive warnings were found.The Metropolitan Police has said forensic tests are currently ongoing to see if the containers held the substance used in the attack on Wednesday 31 January. The force added that searches have taken place at two addresses […]

A power-sharing government will return to Northern Ireland today, as Michelle O'Neill makes history as the first nationalist first minister.Politicians will gather at Stormont later for a sitting at which a series of ministers will be appointed to the executive, bringing an end to a two-year political quagmire. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the country's largest unionist party, had signalled it was ready for the recall of the political institutions […]

The family of Scarlett Jenkinson - who has been jailed for 22 years for murdering Brianna Ghey - have said they are "truly sorry".The killers, both 16, who were named for the first time on Friday, had denied murder and blamed each other for the attack, which was described as "horrific" by detectives.Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe were 15 when they carried out their "disturbing" plan to murder her in a […]

Tyson Fury has said he is "absolutely devastated" after a "freak" sparring injury forced him to postpone his fight against Oleksandr Usyk, the winner of which will be crowned undisputed heavyweight champion.The British boxer, the WBC champion, was scheduled to meet his Ukrainian opponent, who holds the WBO, WBA and IBF belts, in Riyadh, later this month. Fight promoters, Queensberry Promotions, published a picture of Fury showing a cut over […]

A spa pool installed in an unauthorised building at the home of Captain Sir Tom Moore's daughter has been lifted out by crane.Pictures showed the tub, chained up to a yellow crane, as it was hoisted up through the open roof of the block by a team of scaffolders, on Friday afternoon. Workers, who arrived at the property in Marston Moretaine in Bedfordshire on Tuesday, removed a section of the […]

Tony Blair and Elton John joined other famous mourners at the funeral of Derek Draper, the husband of television presenter Kate Garraway, in London today.Draper, a former political adviser and psychotherapist, died last month. Image: Derek Draper in 2009. Pic: PA He was said to be one of the UK's longest-suffering COVID patients after catching the disease in March 2020 and spending 13 months in hospital.Garraway followed behind the coffin […]

A manhunt is continuing for the suspect in the Clapham chemical attack amid reports he was granted asylum after being convicted of a sexual assault.Abdul Shokoor Ezedi is believed to have targeted a mother and two children with an alkaline substance in Clapham, south London, on Wednesday evening.Sky News understands Ezedi was handed a suspended sentence for a sexual offence in Newcastle in 2018, and was discharged from probation supervision […]

A former police officer who said he felt "powerless" to resist having sex with a drunk and vulnerable woman while responding to her 999 call is facing jail after being found guilty of misconduct in a public office.Jordan Masterson, 28, was a probationary officer with Cheshire Constabulary when he went to the home of a woman, named in court as female G, in the early hours in December 2021. Chester […]

Margaret Thatcher was the Iron Lady, Theresa May was "strong and stable" and on Thursday, Rachel Reeves sought to emulate aspects of both these former Conservative prime ministers.As she addressed Labour's annual business conference in central London, she threw out what have become the watchwords of her shadow chancellorship. She will run the economy with "iron discipline" while repeatedly promising "stability" and "certainty" for business. Labour will be a "pro-business" party […]