An inquest into the death of Soham killer Ian Huntley will open next month in County Durham, it has been announced. Huntley, 52, died earlier this month at Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle after being allegedly attacked with a metal bar in a workshop at HMP Frankland in Durham on 26 February. Senior coroner Jeremy…
Detectives investigating the murder of a woman who was found dead by a canal more than 30 years ago have made a fresh appeal for help to find who killed her. Carol Clark’s partially clothed body was found by a dog walker in reeds and undergrowth at the side of the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal….
Military intelligence specialists from the Ministry of Defence have been helping in the painstaking search for the remains of a mother and son who were murdered nearly 50 years ago. Renee MacRae, 36, and her three-year-old son Andrew were killed by William MacDowell in November 1976. Married MacDowell, who had been having an affair with…
The UK and its NATO allies in Europe must prepare for a “worst case scenario” of the US not defending them in a crisis, an influential committee of peers and MPs has warned. Tensions between Donald Trump‘s administration and Sir Keir Starmer‘s government could also compromise the reliability of critical pillars of UK national security,…
The UK and its NATO allies in Europe must prepare for a “worst case scenario” of the US not defending them in a crisis, an influential committee of peers and MPs has warned. Tensions between Donald Trump‘s administration and Sir Keir Starmer‘s government could also compromise the reliability of critical pillars of UK national security,…
First a Grammy, then the Brits – now singer-songwriter Olivia Dean is queen of the MOBO Awards, picking up three of the top prizes. Dean was named best female act at the ceremony, held at Manchester‘s Co-op Live, and bagged both the album and song of the year prizes for chart-topper The Art Of Loving…
Olympian Keely Hodgkinson has riled up West Ham United’s fanbase in a row over London Stadium being used for the 2029 World Athletics Championships. The Premier League club have reportedly blocked the use of the stadium, which was originally built for the 2012 London Olympics, because it would clash with the football season. World Athletics…
Former Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen kicked a reporter out of a press conference ahead of Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver, 28, refused to speak to journalists at the media session until The Guardian’s Giles Richards left the room. Verstappen said: “One second, I’m not speaking before he’s leaving.” The four-time world…
A benefit cheat who defrauded more than £23,000 by claiming she was too ill to go outside was caught surfing and ziplining in Mexico. Catherine Wieland, 33, claimed her anxiety was so severe it left her housebound. But the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said it discovered she had been lying about her condition….
Police have reopened an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against Andrew Tate. Hertfordshire Constabulary confirmed it will reinvestigate alleged rape and sexual assault offences reported to the force between 2014 and 2015. It comes a day after the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it was investigating how the force dealt with the…
