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Police bodycam footage has been released showing a dog attack – taken moments before the animal was tasered and put into a wheelie bin by officers. The footage, taken during the incident in Coventry on Tuesday, shows the dog attacking other dogs while people nervously attempt to separate the animals. It was released by West

No criminal offences were committed in relation to the deaths of two young swimmers off Bournemouth beach, police have concluded. Joe Abbess, 17, and Sunnah Khan, 12, drowned and eight other people were treated by paramedics after they were suspected to have been caught in a riptide next to the pier at the Dorset seaside

Self-driving vehicles could be used to bridge the gaps in the UK’s public transport network, according to the results of a new government-led study. The study, the first of its kind in the country, found up to 72% of people believed the vehicles could be used to improve transport links – particularly in rural areas.

Young adults and renters are some of the groups of people worst hit by rising prices as official figures show around 1 in 20 said they’d run out of food in the past 2 weeks and couldn’t afford more. Those aged 25 to 34 were at greater risk of financial vulnerability than those over the

With Huw Edwards in hospital with “serious mental health issues” and facing no further action by police, the newspaper that broke the story is now under the spotlight. The Sun is facing questions over its coverage of allegations against the 61-year-old newsreader – with some asking whether the claims should have been reported at all.

The government has “no strategy” to tackle the threat from China and has left the UK “severely handicapped” due to its “short-termist approach”, a new report has claimed. The Intelligence and Security Committee has published its work on the threat the country poses, saying China has managed to “successfully penetrate every sector of the UK’s

The UK’s national debt could hit 300% of GDP by the 2070s because of the string of major challenges still facing national governments after a “rapid succession of shocks”, according to a report for the Treasury. The independent Office for Budget Responsibility laid out how climate change, defence and the fact people were living longer

Millions of UK public sector workers, including teachers and doctors, will get pay rises of about 6% after Rishi Sunak decided to accept the recommendations of independent pay review bodies. The bodies had suggested pay rises of between 6% and 6.5% for 2023-24, at a potential cost of £5bn. Mr Sunak met Jeremy Hunt, the

Four police officers who smashed ice with their hands and elbows to try to reach young boys trapped beneath a frozen lake are among the nominees in this year’s Police Bravery Awards. The officers, who ignored safety guidelines, were the first to answer calls to the lake in Solihull where four boys had vanished after

The Sun has said it has a dossier “containing serious and wide-ranigng allegations” it has received about Huw Edwards – “including some from BBC personnel”. However the newspaper said it has “no plans” to publish further allegations about the BBC star. It first reported claims against an unnamed presenter, saying he had paid a teenager

Blue singer Lee Ryan faces sentencing after boarding a flight drunk – but a claim he assaulted a police officer has been dropped. The boyband member, 40, successfully withdrew his guilty plea to the charge after last month claiming he received “poor advice from his solicitor”. Appearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday dressed in

Police investigating Stagecoach founder Dame Ann Gloag and others in connection with a probe into human trafficking allegations have submitted a report to prosecutors. Four people were charged in January by Police Scotland. At the time, a spokesperson for Dame Ann said she “strongly disputes the malicious allegations” made against her, her foundation and members

Teachers at the NASUWT union have voted in favour of industrial action in a dispute over pay. Almost 90% of union members who voted backed strike action. Nearly 95% supported action short of strike, with a turnout of 51.9% – passing the 50% ballot turnout required by law. NASUWT said it will consider dates for

Two police forces have said they are not pursuing action against Huw Edwards over claims he paid a teenager for explicit pictures. The Metropolitan Police and South Wales Police investigated allegations against the BBC presenter and both said there was no information to indicate criminal offences had been committed. Edwards has been named by his

The two most popular hashtags relating to allegations against a BBC presenter have been posted almost 45,000 times on Twitter since Friday. Sky News has analysed data that shows the scale of discussion on Twitter and TikTok around the claims. The volume of posts raises questions over how effective privacy and defamation laws are in

The BBC has said it did not put allegations made by the family of a young person to a presenter accused of paying them thousands of pounds for sexually explicit photos until seven weeks after they were first raised. The BBC has since suspended the unnamed male presenter. A timeline released by the corporation says

The BBC has published its annual report including details of the highest paid stars, as bosses deal with the fallout from allegations made against a presenter. Football star Gary Lineker is once again the broadcaster’s biggest earner, taking home between £1,350,000 and £1,354,999 for his work on Match Of The Day, Sports Personality Of The

The BBC’s director general will face the media today as the scandal over a top presenter deepens. Tim Davie will speak to journalists as he unveils the broadcaster’s annual report, which is set to reveal how much its biggest stars are paid. But the briefing will likely be overshadowed by questions about the unnamed celebrity

A Cabinet minister has suggested the BBC presenter who has been suspended for allegedly paying for sexually explicit images of a teenager should only be named once a “full” investigation has taken place. Justice Secretary Alex Chalk agreed there was a “public interest” in the broadcaster being named but said it would not be appropriate

Joe Biden will meet Rishi Sunak in Downing Street before having tea with King Charles during his visit to the UK. The US president touched down at Stansted Airport on Sunday evening, before he was taken by helicopter to the residence of the US ambassador in central London. Mr Biden’s stopover in Britain comes ahead