Russia’s most prominent opposition figure Alexei Navalny, has been found guilty in a fraud trial on charges rejected by supporters as fabricated. Navalny was jailed when he returned to the country last year, after surviving a poisoning he blames on the Kremlin. He was initially given three and a half years in a penal colony […]
New school buildings for 28 post-primary schools in Northern Ireland have been approved at a cost of £800m. But Education Minister Michelle McIlveen admitted the schools would not be built “until the end of this decade at the earliest”. She also said that construction would depend on funding being available in the future. Only 30 […]
The Metropolitan Police has sent out over 100 questionnaires as it continues to investigate parties that took place in Downing Street while Covid restrictions were in place. The force said it had now begun interviewing witnesses and may need to contact more over the gatherings. The Met launched its investigation in January after a string […]
The police have failed to “bring in enough talent from black communities and ensure they thrive,” the lead for tackling racism within UK forces says. Sir David Thompson, chief constable of West Midlands Police, told BBC Newsnight racist incidents involving officers had been damaging. He added it was a shame the police were not “an […]
Two women in their 50s have died after a violent attack at a secondary school in the southern Swedish city of Malmö, police say. An 18-year-old student at the school has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Local media report that he was armed with a knife and an axe, though police are yet to […]
An “Islamist terrorist” accused of murdering Sir David Amess MP carried out reconnaissance on other potential targets including cabinet minister Michael Gove, his trial heard. Sir David, MP for Southend West, was stabbed during a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, on 15 October. Ali Harbi Ali stabbed Sir David repeatedly in an “assassination for terrorist […]
Rising inflation led to government interest payments hitting a fresh record in February, official data show. Interest payments reached £8.2bn last month, the highest amount for a February since records began in April 1997 and up £1bn on last year. The payments are pegged to the Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure of inflation – which […]
A teenage girl riding an e-scooter has died following a crash with a van in east London. The rider, who police believe was 14 years old, was in collision with the vehicle on Green Street in Upton Park. She was treated by paramedics but died at the scene, at about 13:30 GMT. Detectives said the […]
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has said it should never have taken the government so long to secure her release from prison in Iran. She told a news conference she had been overwhelmed with emotion to be reunited with her husband and daughter, describing the reunion as precious. But she said “what’s happened now should have happened six […]
There is a very big question hanging over tomorrow’s Spring Statement: just how much do the public expect the government to give a helping hand at a time of international emergency? The instinct of the chancellor, is that he can only do so much. In my travels from Ayrshire to Derbyshire over the past week, […]