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An inmate who escaped from a prison van on a motorway has been found after a three-day search.Jamie Cooper, 33, fled from the vehicle on the M55 motorway near Catforth, Preston, as it was travelling to Lancaster Magistrates' Court shortly before 9am on Wednesday, Lancashire Police said in a statement. He was found in Blackburn on Saturday afternoon after officers stopped a car that had travelled from Bolton, the force […]

The government is considering sending failed asylum seekers, including those arriving on small boats, to overseas 'migrant hubs', Sky News understands.A Home Office source has told political correspondent Amanda Akass that the government is in the "very early stages" of discussions around the idea, and is keen to learn about what Italy has been doing in Albania. The right-wing Italian government has built two facilities in the Balkan country aiming […]

A 103-year-old Second World War veteran has been sharing his stories of the frontline with primary school children in Salford - as part of a new project to celebrate the anniversary of VE Day.Bombardier Tom Jones was called up to serve in the Royal Artillery as the war broke out in 1939 - when he was aged just 17. He spent time defending the Liverpool Docks and was later posted […]

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman in her 40s was found dead at a home in Essex.Police have said the suspect - a man inn his 20s, has been taken to hospital in a serious condition.Officers were called to a property on Skelmersdale Road in the seaside town at 11:30am on Friday.Essex Police said officers attended with ambulance crews and an air ambulance but […]

Three teenage boys have been charged with rape of a girl under the age of 16, police have said.The incident happened on 10 February last year in Newbold, Rochdale, according to Greater Manchester Police.The force said each of the boys, aged 13,14 and 15, have been charged with one count of rape of a female under 16.Additionally, they have all been jointly charged with two further counts of rape of […]

Tommy Robinson has lost a bid to bring a High Court challenge over his segregation in prison.A judge has refused permission for the far-right activist's application for a judicial review after he brought legal proceedings against Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood. The High Court was told Robinson, 42, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was moved to a "closed" unit at Woodhill prison in Milton Keynes after intelligence suggested he "would […]

As the clock ticked down towards 12.01am Eastern Standard Time on 12 March, Liam Bates kept refreshing his browser.Over the preceding weeks, Marcegaglia, the stainless steel company whose long products division he headed up, had rushed to melt and ship as much metal as it could from its furnaces in Sheffield across to the east coast of America, ahead of the imposition of tariffs. Stainless steelUK and US industrially interlockedOf […]

Olympic gold medallist Tom Ford has become the fourth rower to be barred from competing for Cambridge at this year's Boat Race - as a row over eligibility criteria threatens to overshadow the historic event.Ford recently started an MBA at the University of Cambridge but enrolled for his undergraduate degree at Newcastle University in 2011. This means he fell foul of a rule introduced after double Olympic gold medallist James […]

A 15-year-old boy accused of killing an elderly man has told so many lies he has "difficulty keeping track", a murder trial has heard.The child allegedly racially abused 80-year-old Bhim Kohli, as well as kicking and punching him as he was on the ground, while a girl, then aged 12, filmed the attack and laughed. Mr Kohli suffered a spinal injury and fractured ribs in the alleged assault in Franklin […]