Image copyright Instagram/Spencer Matthews Image caption The group smashed the window of Hour House on Tuesday morning Made in Chelsea’s Spencer Matthews had to hide in a jeweller’s shop vault as a moped-riding gang carried out a smash-and-grab. The reality TV star said he was at the Hour House in Duke Street, Marylebone, when armed […]
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Image copyright PA Image caption The spitfire (file photo) nearly crashed mid-air with a light aircraft, a report has found A Spitfire almost crashed into a light aircraft after doing a mid-air stunt near a London airport, a report has revealed. The near miss happened near Biggin Hill Airport on 29 September last year, the […]
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England captain Eoin Morgan will have a precautionary X-ray on a finger injury suffered less than a week before the start of the World Cup. Morgan took a knock to his left index finger during catching drills as his side prepared for a World Cup warm-up game against Australia on Saturday. The England and Wales […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The woman and her ex-partner went on trial at the Old Bailey in 2019 A family court judge has refused to reopen the case of a man accused of subjecting a three-year-old girl to female genital mutilation (FGM) after he was cleared by a jury. In April 2018, Judge […]
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Image copyright Royal Mail Royal Mail has announced plans for the UK’s first-ever parcel postboxes. The company said 1,400 of the new postboxes would be installed across the country in more than 30 locations over a six-month period, starting in August. Locations will include Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cardiff and Leeds. Customers will be able to post […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Fry and Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall both attended the ceremony on Friday night Stephen Fry and pop stars Little Mix were among those honoured at the 2019 British LGBT awards for defending the community and advancing LGBT rights. Presenter Fry was hailed as a “hero of the people” as […]
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Founded in 1971, Millwall Lionesses were said to be the first English women’s team to affiliate with a men’s club in the 1980s, and have won two Women’s FA Cups Millwall Supporters’ Club say they are “saddened” that the management of their women’s team are to form a breakaway side called “London City Lionesses” and […]
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Billy Vunipola hopes to complete a European and Premiership double this season Saracens number eight Billy Vunipola thanked his team-mates after capping off a difficult month with the match-winning try in the Champions Cup final. Vunipola left the field to boos after helping Saracens beat Leinster to win a third European title in four years. […]
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Image copyright Google Image caption Police were called to High Road in Ilford, east London A gun was fired outside a mosque in east London during Ramadan prayers. Police were called to reports of a man with a firearm entering the Seven Kings Masjid in Ilford on Thursday night. Worshippers ushered him out of the […]
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Image copyright PA Image caption An interim report into the fire was due to be released this spring Grenfell Tower families have accused corporations of having “amnesia” during the public inquiry into the fire. Bereaved families told a report private companies and public authorities had answered “I don’t recall” a lot during the first phase […]
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