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Labour won Thursday's Scottish by-election with a majority of over 9,000 Sir Keir Starmer has pitched Labour as the “party of change” as he set his sights on the general election after Labour’s resounding victory over the SNP in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. The Labour leader said his party “blew the doors off” in the Scottish contest after it enjoyed a higher-than-expected 20.4 percentage point swing from the SNP. The […]

Essex Police say the suspect was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of conspiracy to kidnap and is in custody A 36-year-old man is being questioned by detectives about an alleged plot to kidnap Holly Willoughby. The This Morning presenter, 42, pulled out of the ITV show on Thursday and her London home is reportedly being guarded by police. Essex Police said the suspect was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of conspiracy […]

The Prime Minister has confirmed he's scrapping the leg of the high-speed rail project from Birmingham to Manchester Rishi Sunak has refused to apologise for cancelling the northern leg of HS2, despite heavy criticism from his predecessors in Number 10. The Prime Minister defied senior Tories and business leaders to scrap HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester, saying “the facts have changed” and the cost of the high-speed rail scheme had […]

It follows the hottest August and July that saw wildfires and heatwaves September has smashed the monthly temperature record by “an extraordinary amount”, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has confirmed. It follows the hottest August and July that saw wildfires and heatwaves tearing not just across the Northern Hemisphere but in South America too, which had temperatures reach around 40C (104F) in winter. Land and sea temperatures have shocked scientists […]

Just Stop Oil protesters disrupted a performance of Les Miserables at the Sondheim Theatre in London’s West End on Wednesday night. The protesters entered the stage during a performance of Do You Hear The People Sing? Just Stop Oil said that four protesters then locked themselves to the stage using flexible bicycle locks at around 8.50pm. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, the group wrote: “4 people […]

Voters are going to the polls in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election. The seat was vacated after former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier was ousted in a recall petition. Ms Ferrier was kicked out of the SNP for breaching Covid regulations by travelling between London and Glasgow after testing positive for the virus. Speculation about her position followed by the recall petition and subsequent ballot have led to months of […]

Early man left Africa for Eurasia 80,000 years ago along a “corridor” of rivers across the Sinai peninsula through Jordan, according to new research. Scientists from the University of Southampton working with colleagues from around the world say they have confirmed previous theories that the overland route was used by some of the first migrants from Asia. The Homo sapiens followed the “well-watered corridor” of river channels which have since […]

Rishi Sunak axed the HS2 project from Birmingham to Manchester and promised to use the £36 billion of savings to fund hundreds of other transport schemes. The Prime Minister told his party’s conference, taking place in Manchester, the HS2 project’s costs had “more than doubled”. He said: “I say to those who backed the project in the first place, the facts have changed. “And the right thing to do when […]

The news has been confirmed by Northumbria Police A murder investigation has begun after a man was savaged by what police believe was an XL bully. Residents in Shiney Row, Sunderland, said they saw paramedics working on the man’s badly injured throat after the attack in Maple Terrace at around 6.55pm on Tuesday. Northumbria Police said the dead man was 54 and he died despite the efforts of hospital medics […]