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A double murderer has been awarded Β£7,500 compensation by the High Court over breaches of his human rights. Fuad Awale, who is serving a life sentence for shooting two teenagers in the head in 2011, was moved to a close supervision centre (CSC) – a special unit for dangerous prisoners – after helping to take…
Children from struggling families will be able to be vaccinated at home across parts of England in a new government pilot scheme. Health visitors – specialist public health nurses who support families with children under five – will administer the jabs during routine health visits, which removes the “obstacles” that some families face in accessing…
π Tap here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app π Ten years on from the referendum that rewired British politics, Beth, Ruth, and Harriet are joined by one of the architects of Brexit, Michael Gove, to rewind through some of the biggest moments. From David Cameron’s surprise 2015 decision to take a…
Sir Keir Starmer is promising that the change he pledged to deliver in the 2024 election will finally arrive in 2026. In his New Year’s address, the prime minister accepted that his government had not yet delivered on the promise plastered on the front of their manifesto. Sir Keir admitted that “for many, life is…
Labour has accused the Conservative shadow attorney of a “conflict of interest” after it emerged he is acting as a lawyer for Roman Abramovich, despite UK sanctions against him. Justice minister Jake Richards told Sky News Lord Wolfson needs to “do one or the other” – serve Kemi Badenoch on her shadow front bench or…
The Cabinet Office has blamed an “administrative error” after historical royal documents relating to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor were released by mistake. A Downing Street file on royal visits, from 2004 and 2005, was briefly shared with journalists under embargo ahead of the annual release of government papers to the National Archives in Kew, west London, under…
Yvette Cooper has ordered an urgent Foreign Office review of “serious information failures” in the case of a freed British-Egyptian activist. “Abhorrent” social media posts by Alaa Abd El-Fattah emerged after he returned to the UK on Boxing Day following several years of imprisonment in Egypt. Ms Cooper, the foreign secretary, said successive prime ministers…
From the election of a new pope to a singer blasting off into space and a president giving a huge body of water a new name, 2025 has been a year of breaking news and bizarre headlines. Some moments dominated the headlines for weeks, while others flew by, but had just as much of an…
Downing Street has said it was right for a freed British-Egyptian activist to apologise following the discovery of “abhorrent” social media posts. The historic tweets by Alaa Abd El-Fattah emerged after he returned to the UK on Boxing Day following several years of imprisonment in Egypt. He has since apologised “unequivocally” for his “shocking and…
An Afghan special forces veteran trained in the UK who was left homeless after resettling here following the Taliban takeover is pleading with the government to allow him and his former colleagues to join the British Army. Major Noor Aziz Ahmadzai is one of more than 1,400 Afghans and their families to have faced homelessness…
