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A police marksman may have been “angry, frustrated and annoyed” when he shot Chris Kaba dead after he tried to escape, a court has heard. Martyn Blake, 40, is on trial at the Old Bailey, where he denies murdering the 24-year-old in Streatham, south London. Mr Kaba was sat in the driver’s seat of an

A suspected gunshot struck a taxi carrying Have I Got News For You star Ian Hislop, it has been reported. According to the Guardian, the Private Eye editor was in the back of the black cab in Soho, central London, when a suspected bullet struck the vehicle’s back window. The incident happened shortly after 10am

A man has been mauled by two large dogs in Sheffield – as police warn people who own such animals to “step up and take action” to prevent similar attacks. The force said the two dogs, thought to be a mastiff and a cane corso, are believed to have escaped from a property before the

A disabled man has said he had to “crawl along the floor” to use the toilet on a plane because the “discriminatory” airline did not allow wheelchairs on to its flights. BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner posted on X a picture of his legs on the floor of an aircraft, which he said was “a

Police have named an eight-year-old boy who died after being shot on a farm in Cumbria. Jay Cartmell of Frizington, West Cumbria, suffered serious head injuries on land not far from the A66, north of Warcop, on Saturday. Police said at the weekend they responded after receiving “a report that a child had been seriously

The BBC has apologised to former Strictly Come Dancing contestant Amanda Abbington, saying it had assessed and “upheld some, but not all” of her complaints about Giovanni Pernice’s behaviour during her time on the show. Sherlock actress Abbington, who pulled out of the BBC One show last year citing “personal reasons”, later claimed she was

Police are looking for a 23-year-old man following a fatal crash involving a van and five other cars on the M40. A woman in her 50s, who was a passenger in one of the cars, died at the scene of the collision on the northbound carriageway. Warwickshire Police said five cars and a Peugeot boxer

Lewis Hamilton has said he has struggled with his mental health “for much of his life”, and blames the pressure of motor racing and bullying that he suffered at school. Hamilton, 39, is one of the most successful Formula One (F1) drivers in history, having won a joint-record seven world titles. The racer, who was

The King has paid tribute to Scotland as a “uniquely special place” for the Royal Family as he marked the 25th anniversary of the Scottish parliament. At the ceremony to commemorate a quarter of a century since parliament opened at Holyrood, the King said: “Speaking from a personal perspective, Scotland has always had a uniquely

One of the country’s most senior doctors broke down in tears several times as he recalled “scenes from hell” inside intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic, a public inquiry has heard. Professor Kevin Fong, who was tasked with helping to direct an emergency response to the crisis, said staff were running out of body

A body has been found in the search for a man missing for over a month. Michael Wheeler, 37, from Yeovil, has not been seen since 24 August. Avon and Somerset made the discovery at a property in Yarlington, near Wincanton, Somerset, on Wednesday afternoon. Yeovil and Yarlington are around a 30-minute drive apart. It

The managing director of Harrods has accused his former boss Mohamed Al Fayed of presiding over “a toxic culture of secrecy, intimidation, fear of repercussion and sexual misconduct”. Five women have alleged they were raped by Fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, with several others alleging sexual misconduct. In a written

Police have released an image of a man they want to identify after a woman in her 70s was sexually assaulted in London – and left with a broken leg. The woman was getting off a bus on Regents Park Road in Finchley when she was pushed into a doorway by an unknown man who

Police investigating the cheese wire murder of taxi driver George Murdoch have identified 200 possible genetic matches to a DNA profile recovered from the scene of the crime. The breakthrough was announced on Thursday – ahead of the 41st anniversary of the brutal killing in Aberdeen – and comes a year after a DNA profile

A police officer who stole cocaine from work to sell on the streets of Manchester has been found guilty of misconduct and supplying class A drugs. Andrew Talbot was a detective in Greater Manchester Police’s (GMP) serious crime division when he took just under 4kg of the drug from an evidence store. He also used

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has revealed a further £500m investment in its Halewood plant on Merseyside to bolster future production of all-electric cars at the site. The country’s largest automotive manufacturer, which revealed plans in 2023 to produce the first emission-free model at Halewood in early 2025, is now targeting a timeframe later that year.

British Transport Police have released a picture of a man in connection with an attempted abduction of a child on a train.  A stranger grabbed a baby out of its mother’s arms as she was preparing to leave the train at Worksop, Nottinghamshire, at 7.30pm on 17 August. The force said “a relative managed to

Hundreds of thousands of Instagram users, including actors Julianne Moore and Ashley Tisdale, have shared a post that supposedly revokes Meta’s right to train its artificial intelligence tool using their information.  “Goodbye Meta AI,” it says before saying the user does “not give Meta or anyone else permission to use any of personal data, profile

A student who heckled Sir Keir Starmer during his speech at the Labour Party conference has told Sky News the prime minister would “not lift a finger” to help the people of Gaza amid the conflict with Israel. Daniel Riley, who is 18 and from Jersey, interrupted Sir Keir’s speech in Liverpool to shout about

The Cure will release their first new song in 16 years on Thursday. The goth rock band shared a short burst of the song titled Alone on social media, along with close-up black and white images of a stone statue’s face. Image: The Cure performs on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury in 2019. Pic: PA