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The foreign secretary said people should "follow the rules" of other countries when asked about a British 18-year-old who has been sentenced to a year in prison in Dubai.Marcus Fakana, from Mr Lammy's Tottenham constituency, had a "holiday romance" with a girl who was 17 while with his family in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The girl, who is also from London, is now 18. But after campaign group Detained […]

Police are appealing for the driver of a Porsche who fled after a two-year-old boy was killed in a car crash to hand themselves in.A woman aged 29 and a 30-year-old man are in a serious condition following the incident in Smethwick near Birmingham, while another man and woman aged 30 are stable, West Midlands Police said.The force believes the Porsche Cayenne was travelling from the island on Kenrick Way […]

The United Kingdom is made up of four nations: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England, but they are not equal.England alone accounts for more than 80% of the Union's population, wealth and Members of Parliament. Ensuring fairness between all the citizens in the UK is a permanent headache for any Westminster government.Thanks to devolution brought in by the last Labour government, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have elected parliaments […]

More migrants have been removed from the UK since Labour was elected than in any other six-month period over the past five years, the government has claimed.The Home Office announced today that almost 13,460 people had been removed since Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party won by a landslide in July. It claimed the government was "on track" to deliver on its pledge to return more people who do not have […]

Davina McCall has become emotional during her first public appearance since undergoing brain surgery, speaking at a Brain Tumour Research Campaign (BTRC) event on Thursday.The 57-year-old presenter took to the podium at All Saints Church in Fulham, sharing her personal story with the audience. Earlier this month she had an operation to remove a benign brain tumour called a colloid cyst after a company offered her a health scan in […]

British actress Jane Seymour has said she left her home "just in time" with flames "right up to my house" as fast-moving wildfires ripped through Malibu, California.The 73-year-old star said she left with just the clothes she was wearing and has been sleeping elsewhere since the blaze started on Monday evening. Seymour said her "whole house smells of smoke" when she returned home three days later.Speaking on the red carpet […]

Construction workers are four times more likely to die by suicide than the national average, making it one of the deadliest professions for mental health problems in the UK, according to a new report.Social media company On The Tools, the UK's largest community of tradespeople, has found that 73% of the country's 2.1 million construction workers have been affected by mental illness. In the last decade, 7,000 have taken their […]

A goalkeeper from West Ham's youth academy has died after being diagnosed with cancer - with a club legend calling him a "true Hammer" and a "fantastic young person".Oscar Fairs - the Premier League club's U15s academy goalkeeper - was diagnosed with a rare 7cm ependymoma brain tumour in August last year. Despite undergoing seven surgeries, one round of chemotherapy and one round of radiotherapy, the teenager, from Benfleet, Essex, […]

Prince Andrew says he "ceased all contact" with a businessman accused of being a Chinese spy after concerns were raised with him by the government.In a statement from his office, the Duke of York said he had cut ties following "advice" from officials but insisted the pair had never discussed anything of a "sensitive nature". It marks the first public comment from the royal since it emerged on Thursday that […]