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Reeves crushes hopes of higher growth with record tax raid




Rachel Reeves has crushed hopes of higher growth with a record £40bn tax raid that will damage living standards…

Watch: Drink-driver crashes into Prime Minister’s Chequers estate




This is the moment a drunk driver crashed into Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country residence…

Southport ‘attacker’ charged with having al-Qaeda manual refuses to speak in court




The teenager accused of murdering three young girls in Southport refused to speak as he appeared in court charged with a terror offence and the production of ricin…

The hot-tempered communist inspiring Rachel Reeves




As Rachel Reeves unveiled her much-debated Budget in the House of Commons on Wednesday, one voice the Chancellor might well have had in her head is that of Ellen Wilkinson, aka “Red Ellen”, the trailblazing former Labour education minister and one of the founders of the Communist Party of Great Britain…

Former US air force pilot denies possessing indecent images of children




A former US air force pilot has denied possessing indecent images of children, a day after being cleared of kidnapping a nine-year-old girl outside Harrods…

Woman lost unborn child after drink spiked with abortion drug




A woman lost a baby at 15 weeks after her drink was spiked with abortion drug, a court heard…

Ben Stokes’ house burgled by masked robbers while family were inside




England Test cricket captain Ben Stokes has revealed that he has lost a number of “irreplaceable items” after his house was broken into by masked burglars while his family were inside…

The UN aid agency that can’t shake its terror links




In February the Israeli Defence Force announced the discovery of a subterranean Hamas data centre below the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Rimal neighbourhood in Gaza…

Date set for Menendez brothers to be resentenced over 1989 killings




Erik and Lyle Menendez’s resentencing hearing has been set for December 11, when a judge will decide whether they will have a shot at freedom after spending 34 years behind bars for the shotgun killings of their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills home…

Rome tourists suffer ‘100 muggings a day’ in crime wave




Tourists in Rome are being targeted in a street crime wave, with muggings and pickpocketing doubling in a year…

Israel bombs Lebanese city after ordering entire population to leave

Israel launched heavy air strikes against Hezbollah targets in the historic Lebanese city of Baalbek on Wednesday, hours after issuing a city-wide evacuation order…

British man among at least 95 dead in ‘apocalyptic’ Spanish flash flooding

At least 95 people are dead and dozens more missing after the deadliest flash floods for decades wreaked havoc across eastern and southern Spain…

Germany’s AfD wants to turn ‘haunted’ Nazi castle into ‘patriotic centre’




Germany’s hard-Right AfD party is seeking to buy a “haunted” castle that was once a Nazi training academy and turn it into a “patriotic centre…

‘Mr Safe’ speedboat skipper ‘ignored rules’ in crash that killed 15-year-old girl




A schoolgirl who died in a speedboat accident may still be alive if the skipper had not ignored rules, an inquest has heard…

I feed foxes at home. We have a moral duty to share our space with these majestic creatures




We never intended to start feeding foxes…

The 3D graphics that ‘prove’ the Shroud of Turin is a fake




The Turin Shroud cannot be real because the “image of Christ” would be distorted if it had actually been wrapped around the three-dimensional body of Jesus, an expert has found…

NHS staff told my parents I was in hospital – but I was safe at home in bed




NHS staff told a man’s parents their son was in hospital before realising they had got the wrong person…

Damaged Renaissance drawing unseen for 400 years is restored for Buckingham Palace show




A 16th-century drawing that has not been on display for more than 400 years because of its poor condition will finally be exhibited after a painstaking conservation project…

Migrants fall overboard in struggle to cross Channel in dinghy




Migrants trying to cross the English Channel have been pictured falling into the sea as they struggle to board an inflatable dinghy on a beach in northern France…

Date set for Menendez brothers to be resentenced over 1989 killings




Erik and Lyle Menendez’s resentencing hearing has been set for December 11, when a judge will decide whether they will have a shot at freedom after spending 34 years behind bars for the shotgun killings of their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills home…

Mother plunges from Niagara Falls with child and baby




A young mother climbed over a safety rail and plunged into Niagara Falls with her baby and nine-year-old son,  according to New York state police…

Joe Biden’s ‘vindictive’ remarks altered by White House, claim Republicans




Republicans have accused the White House of altering a transcript of Joe Biden in which he appeared to call Donald Trump supporters “garbage…

Pro-Palestine protesters to demand removal of Lloyd George statue




Pro-Palestine protesters have called for a statue of David Lloyd George to be torn down because his government supported establishing a Jewish homeland in the Middle East…

Breast cancer survival time doubles with three-drug therapy, trial finds




A three-drug therapy targeting breast cancer could double the amount of time patients live without the disease progressing, a trial has found…

Billions for NHS is just the start of Reeves’s tax-fuelled spending spree




Britain’s tax raid appears to have one clear winner…

How sun-baked soil and an unusual weather phenomenon caused Spain’s deadly flash flooding




A “perfect storm” of climate change, sun-baked soil and a meteorological phenomenon known as the “cold drop” created the deadliest flash floods in Spain since 1996…

At 90, I’m not ready to hang up my car keys. It’d be like giving up part of who I am




People often say: “There comes a time when you need to hang up your car keys…