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👉 Listen to the full series of Unreliable Witness on your podcast app 👈A new court case finally exposes abuse in Barrow. Jason and Liz have known about these allegations for years but they can only reveal the facts now.The case involves three brothers and it's taken their victims more than a decade to get justice.Now we can tell the story of their crimes and follow a thread leading back […]

Usually, correspondence written by the King is not made public, but Donald Trump held up the letter in the Oval Office.The letter, which was inviting him to the UK for a historic second state visit, was handed to him by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Here is what we are able to make out from the photos.In the opening paragraph, the King references the "breadth of challenges across the world", […]

The most asylum applications on record - but also, perhaps, the beginning of a crackdown under Labour.There were 108,138 people claiming asylum in 2024, beating a record that had stood for more than 20 years. But drill down into the numbers and, for the first time since 2020, more applications were refused than granted. That means despite a record number of applications, fewer people - 39,616 - were given asylum […]

Hackers have stolen $1.5bn (£1.19bn) worth of digital money in what could be the biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft. The Dubai-based Bybit exchange said an attacker gained control of an Ethereum wallet and transferred its holdings to an unidentified address. The firm, which has more than 60 million users worldwide, said no other wallets were affected and withdrawals were proceeding normally."Bybit is solvent even if this hack loss is not recovered, all […]

A major police search is taking place for a runner who has been missing for three days - as officers say they are becoming "increasingly concerned".Jenny Hall, 23, was last seen leaving her home in Barracks Farm, Tow Law, County Durham, in her car just after 3pm on Tuesday. In an update on Friday, Durham Constabulary said her last known location was on the B6278 between Stanhope and Eggleston - […]

Apple's decision to withdraw its most secure cloud storage service from the UK is just the latest turning point in a battle that has been rumbling on between US tech companies and successive British governments for some time.The dispute centres on end-to-end encryption, a method of secure communication which enables only the sender and receiver to view messages. Ministers have long argued that the technology, in its current form, is […]

A local council is assessing whether any families who were evacuated after a sinkhole appeared in Surrey can return home.A 62ft sinkhole appeared in the small village of Godstone on Monday night, forcing residents from 30 properties to leave their homes, with local roads closed. But since then, local authorities have faced criticism from those living and working in the area for failing to give information about when anyone can […]

An investigation has been launched after a man died following his arrest by Border Force officers at Manchester Airport.The man, 27, was detained after "displaying unusual behaviour" at the airport where he was set to travel on Wednesday, according to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). In a statement, the watchdog said: "He was subsequently arrested by officers and taken to a holding area where he became unwell and […]

One of the men convicted of the notorious "Essex Boys" murders will be released from prison on licence after 27 years.Michael Steele, who is now in his 80s, was jailed for life in 1998, alongside Jack Whomes, for the murders of Patrick Tate, 37, Tony Tucker, 38, and Craig Rolfe, 26. They were shot dead at point-blank range in a Range Rover on an isolated farm track at Rettendon, Essex, […]