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An MMA fighter known as the "Italian Stallion" has been jailed for 15 years and five months for drugs and firearms offences.Pietro Menga had a day job as an MMA fighter, even signing for UFC, but Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said he also had a "lucrative job as a middleman for an organised crime group". The force said Menga was involved in sourcing "large quantities of cocaine".On Tuesday, the former […]

JK Rowling has called on Sir Keir Starmer and other ministers to apologise after the Supreme Court ruled on the definition of a woman last week.Last week, the court unanimously decided that the definition of a "woman" and "sex" in the Equality Act 2010 refers to "a biological woman and biological sex". The ruling caused consternation among some politicians and tens of thousands of people protested in central London on […]

Sir Keir Starmer says he doesn't believe in God and US President Donald Trump rarely speaks of religion. But both will attend the Pope's funeral.After all, Catholics are the second biggest religious group in both countries, with six million in the UK and more than 50 million in the US. Here in the UK, regular church going is reported to be up from 8% to 12%, while the US president […]

Open water swimming events without regulation are putting people's lives at risk, according to a new report following a keen swimmer's death in Sunderland.The warning comes following a coroner's report into the death of Joel Kenneth Ineson, 55, who drowned at Hetton Lyons Park on 1 June 2023 after suffering a cardiac event during an organised open water swim. David Place, senior coroner for the City of Sunderland, found his […]

The Prince and Princess of Wales will spend their 14th wedding anniversary helping the community of Mull in the Scottish Highlands.They are due to arrive in the Inner Hebrides on 29 April - the day of their wedding at Westminster Abbey in 2011. The couple, known as the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay when in Scotland, will begin their visit in the town of Tobermory, where the children's television series […]

A league table of foreign criminals and their offences is set to be published for the first time.The plans, due to be announced on Tuesday, will reportedly focus on those offenders awaiting deportation from the UK. The latest data shows there were 19,244 foreign offenders awaiting deportation at the end of 2024, a rise from 17,907 when the Conservatives left office in July and 14,640 at the end of 2022.Despite […]

A woman who was stabbed to death in north London has been named by police - as a man was arrested on suspicion of murder.Pamela Munro, 45, was found with a stab wound and died at the scene in Ayley Croft, Enfield, on Saturday evening, the Metropolitan Police said.A 29-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder on Monday and is in custody, the force added.Detective Chief Inspector Neil John […]

Three men have been charged with manslaughter over the death of a woman who was struck by a van at a golf course following a police pursuit.Suzanne Cherry died in hospital four days after she was struck by the vehicle on the morning of 11 April.Two police cars had been following a grey Nissan van in Lichfield, Birmingham, after receiving reports of suspicious activity, the Independent Office for Police Conduct […]

The family of a student who was fatally shot and stabbed while cycling home from a friend's house have appealed for the public's help to get justice a decade after his death.Ola Raji, 21, was shot and stabbed in Peckham in 2015 by two men on the East Surrey Grove estate, near Commercial Way, and later died in hospital.Police say he had been cycling home after watching a football match […]