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Police are appealing for help to find a woman who is believed to be injured after she was carried on a car bonnet for 30 yards in a hit-and-run crash.Footage filmed by a member of the public shows the woman dancing in the road in Engineers Way, near Wembley Arena, at around 11.10pm on Thursday. The Met Police has said the video shows her narrowly avoiding passing vehicles before a […]

A migrant has died attempting to cross the English Channel in a small boat.The RNLI confirmed it had launched its all-weather lifeboat and a group of migrants were brought to Dover in a Border Force boat on Friday morning. A blue forensics tent could be seen outside the Dover Lifeboat Station.It is unclear how many migrants were on board the small boat.A Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokesperson said: "HM Coastguard […]

It was perhaps not quite how officials, in London at least, had envisaged the announcement of the state visit would be made.In the Oval Office, Donald Trump revealed the news in his own way. "I was invited by the King and the great country. They are going to do a second fest - that's what it is. It is beautiful," he said during an impromptu Oval Office moment.The question was, […]

Donald Trump has said his second state visit to the UK could take place in September.Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer handed over an invitation from the King when he visited Washington in February. Trump teases return to UK - latest updatesBuckingham Palace previously only said the visit would happen "when diaries allow", but Mr Trump told reporters on Thursday: "I think they are setting a date for September.""I don't know […]

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an elderly couple died in a fire in Hampshire.Police were called to reports of a blaze at a house in Heron Close, Alton, at 4am on 14 April. Officers and firefighters went to the location, but a man aged in his 90s and a woman in her 80s were pronounced dead at the scene, Hampshire Constabulary said.In an appeal […]

A man has gone on trial accused of leaving a woman "scared and nervous" after allegedly making sexual advances towards her at his Highland home.Kevin Booth, 65, is charged with directing "sexual communication" towards the woman, who is now 40.The alleged offences are said to have taken place at Booth's home at Lochdhu Lodge in Altnabreac, where he lived with his wife and young child, between 8 August 2022 and […]

The King has released an Easter message reflecting on the examples of "great cruelty and great kindness" that "daily come before our eyes" - saying they should remind the world of the importance of the "virtues of faith, hope and love".Charles wrote: "One of the puzzles of our humanity is how we are capable of both great cruelty and great kindness. "This paradox of human life runs through the Easter […]

A former Labour MP who quit the party over Sir Keir Starmer's leadership has welcomed the landmark Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman as a "victory for feminists".Rosie Duffield, now the independent MP for Canterbury, said the judgment helped resolve the "lack of clarity" that has existed in the politics around the issue "for years". She was speaking to Ali Fortescue on the Politics Hub on the […]

A murder investigation is under way after a 93-year-old woman was found dead at a property in Greater Manchester - with a 39-year-old woman arrested at the scene.Police said they found the elderly woman after being "alerted to an address" in Altrincham Road, Gatley, at 9.38am on Wednesday. The force has referred itself to the IOPC (Independent Office for Police Conduct) due to previous contact with the deceased.Greater Manchester Police […]