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Top Boy actor Micheal Ward has been charged with two counts of rape and is due to appear in court next month.In a statement, Catherine Baccas, deputy chief crown prosecutor for CPS London South, said: "Having carefully reviewed a file of evidence, the Crown Prosecution Service has authorised the Metropolitan Police to charge Micheal Ward, 27, with two counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration, and one count […]

A powerboat driver has died after crashing into a houseboat during a racing event near Lowestoft.Brett Duncan, 51, was injured during a lone racing accident at about 6.50pm on Thursday at the Lowestoft and Oulton Broad Motor Boat Club, the Circuit Powerboat Association (CPA) said. Suffolk Police said: "The East of England Ambulance Service, Coastguard and a volunteer paramedic from Suffolk Accident Rescue Service (SARS) were also on the scene […]

It was a cold, typically rainy Manchester evening, October 1993, when Michael Spencer Jones set out to meet a new guitar band he had been commissioned to photograph.The weather was miserable, he didn't know their music, wasn't totally in the mood. "I had to drag myself from home, thinking: is it going to be worth the trouble?" On the drive to the Out Of The Blue studio in Ancoats, on […]

Thousands of cancer cases could potentially be prevented if more women were offered breast removal surgery, according to a study.A mastectomy is offered to some people who already have breast cancer, but research suggests about 6,500 cases could be prevented each year if more preventative procedures were done. Risk-reducing mastectomies (RRM) are currently only an option for women with the BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2 genes.But the study says people with other […]

The father of a two-week-old baby has been found guilty of murdering him in hospital.Daniel Gunter, 27, killed his son, Brendon Staddon, on 5 March 2024, a jury at Bristol Crown Court has concluded. Baby Brendon suffered "catastrophic injuries" to his head, neck, legs and jaw, while he was a patient at the special care baby unit at Yeovil District Hospital in Somerset. Image: Brendon Staddon. Pic: Avon and Somerset […]

A man who stabbed his partner 27 times before telling detectives "I did really love her" has been jailed for at least 18 years for the "monstrous" murder.Corey Dryden, 32, fatally attacked mother-of-two Megan Hughes, 31, at their home in Chirnside, in the Scottish Borders, in February this year.The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Dryden was arrested by police soon after the assault and taken into custody.Prosecutor Tracey Brown […]

Former Sheffield United and MK Dons footballer George Baldock died from drowning in his own swimming pool, an inquest has found.The 31-year-old died as the result of an accident and had no drugs or alcohol in his system, the inquest at Milton Keynes Coroner's Court heard on Wednesday. The Buckinghamshire-born defender, who played for Greece, was found in the pool at his address in the Glyfada district of Athens on […]

Essex Police has strongly denied claims by Nigel Farage it "bussed" counter-demonstrators to a protest outside a migrant hotel in Epping.The Reform UK leader had called for the force's chief constable to resign over the accusations. In a video posted on X on Wednesday morning, the Clacton MP said: "This video proves @EssexPoliceUK transported left-wing protesters to The Bell Hotel in Epping. There is no way Chief Constable BJ Harrington […]