Sam Hall
Politics
Police investigate alleged attack on prison officer by Southport killer
Axel Rudakubana was jailed for a minimum of 52 years in January for the murders of three girls.
By Sam Hall
10 May 2025
UK
Man, 87, who died after being robbed ‘would do anything for anyone’
Police said the man died on Thursday in Manor House, north London, and his family have been informed.
By Sam Hall
9 May 2025
UK
MP calls for Canada to honour pilot who died in flight over England
Pilot Officer William McMullen was captaining a training flight in a Lancaster Bomber on January 13 1945 when the plane caught fire above Darlington.
By Sam Hall
8 May 2025
Business News
UK-India deal a ‘tremendous statement to the world’, says Trade Secretary
Jonathan Reynolds said ‘the world needs a story like this right now’, a month after Donald Trump’s tariffs were announced.
By Sam Hall
6 May 2025
Crime
Former civil servant, 25, denies lying about being GCHQ intelligence analyst
Ifthikhar Alam is also charged with fraud over allegedly lying about being the Cabinet Office’s ‘Head of Western Balkans’.
By Sam Hall
1 May 2025
UK
RAF veteran, 99, will remember friends ‘who didn’t make it’ on VE Day
Dennis Bishop visited RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on Wednesday as it prepares for the VE Day flypast.
By Sam Hall
1 May 2025
UK
More than 50,000 children contact veterans through VE Mail
Together Coalition, which organises the VE Mail programme, said more than 1,300 schools and youth organisations had requested a letter from a veteran.
By Sam Hall
1 May 2025
Health
Probe begins after visitors to farm petting sessions suffer parasitic infection
Public Health Wales said it was investigating 28 cases of cryptosporidium infection linked to the Cowbridge Farm Shop.
By Sam Hall
30 Apr 2025
Environment
UK has hottest day of the year and could reach 30C at earliest point on record
The Met Office said the highest temperature recorded on Tuesday was 24.9C in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire.
By Sam Hall
30 Apr 2025
UK
Three admitted to hospital after shooting in London
The London Ambulance Service (LAS) said it was called at 2.51pm on Tuesday to reports of a shooting on Upton Lane in Forest Gate, east London.
By Sam Hall
29 Apr 2025
Environment
Hot spell to continue with highs of 25C forecast for Tuesday
The Met Office said the highest temperature recorded on Monday was 24.5C in St James’s Park, London.
By Sam Hall
29 Apr 2025
UK
How the papal conclave elects a new pope
Edward Berger’s film imagined the tension, bureaucracy, twists and turns of the papal conclave.
By Sam Hall
21 Apr 2025
London21 Apr 2025
Bank holiday weekend to end with a whimper as rain forecast for London
The Met Office said that Monday would be ‘rather cloudy with rain continuing eastwards’
Politics
RAF fighter jets intercept Russian aircraft flying close to Nato airspace
The Ministry of Defence said two RAF Typhoons were scrambled from Malbork Air Base in Poland on Tuesday.
By Sam Hall
20 Apr 2025
Politics
Parents should stop being ‘child’s friend’ over phones – children’s commissioner
Nearly a quarter of children spend more than four hours a day on an internet-enabled device, a survey suggested earlier this month.
By Sam Hall
20 Apr 2025
Environment
Dry and ‘pleasant’ Easter Sunday forecast for much of UK
The Met Office said most of the country would see ‘some warm spells of sunshine’.
By Sam Hall
20 Apr 2025
UK
Man charged with murder after woman’s body discovered
Paria Veisi was reported missing after leaving her workplace in the Canton area of Cardiff on April 12.
By Sam Hall
19 Apr 2025
UK
Elderly couple who died in house fire named by police
Stan Rickman, 91, and Roma Rickman, 88, were found dead on Monday after a fire at their home in Alton, Hampshire.
By Sam Hall
19 Apr 2025
UK
Vandalised church hides graffiti with plants to host wedding
Lancashire Constabulary said officers were called to a report of criminal damage to the church building and a number of gravestones in Leyland.
By Sam Hall
19 Apr 2025
Crime
Constance Marten used ‘summer’ sleeping bags in winter, court told
Marten, 37, and Mark Gordon, 50, are accused of the manslaughter of their daughter Victoria, who died after they went off-grid in early 2023.
By Sam Hall
16 Apr 2025
Showbiz
Warwick Davis’s wife died from cardiac arrest in London hospital
Samantha Davis died aged 53 hours before University College Hospital was planning to discharge her
By Sam Hall
15 Apr 2025