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Man found guilty of murdering nine year old Olivia Pratt Korbel

A man has been found guilty of fatally shooting nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel as he chased a convicted drug dealer into her home in Liverpool. Thomas Cashman, 34, admitted being a “high-level” cannabis dealer but denied being the gunman in the incident, which also injured Olivia’s mother Cheryl Korbel, 46, and Joseph Nee, the intended target, in Dovecot on August 22 last year. A jury at Manchester Crown Court found him guilty of the murder of Olivia, the attempted murder ofRead More

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Rishi Sunak branded Mr One Percent by Keir Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer branded Rishi Sunak “Mr One Percent” as the Labour leader launched his party’s campaign for the May local elections. With Labour hoping to pick up seats in the May 4 polls in England, Sir Keir sought to contrast its approach with the Tories’ decision in the Budget to ease pension taxes for the well-off with the scrapping of the tax-free lifetime allowance cap. Speaking in Swindon, Wiltshire, he said: “Across the country, everywhere I go, here inRead More

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Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson loses Parole Board bid to be freed from jail

Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson has lost a Parole Board bid to be freed from jail. The decision comes after one of the UK’s longest-serving prisoners – who changed his surname to Salvador in 2014 – took part in one of the country’s first public parole hearings earlier this month. In a document detailing the decision published on Thursday, the Parole Board said: “After considering the circumstances of his offending, the progress that Mr Salvador has made while in custody andRead More

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Transgender guidance for schools to be published for summer term says PM

Rishi Sunak has expressed his concern about a report suggesting some secondary schools are not informing parents as soon as a child questions their gender identity. The Prime Minister said it is important that parents “know what’s going on” as he pledged that Government guidance for schools in relation to transgender issues will be published “for the summer term”. Safeguarding principles are being “routinely disregarded in many secondary schools” when it comes to gender identity, according to a paper byRead More

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National News

Government lays out 381m of EV charger funding

The government has today (March 30) announced £381m of funding for new ‘local’ electric car chargers. Revealed as part of a wider ‘transport decarbonisation’ package, the government has set up the £381m ‘local electric vehicle infrastructure (LEVI) fund. An additional £15m has also been put aside for residential on-street chargers. The government says that the two schemes will ‘support the installation of tens and thousands of new chargers across the country’. Each region is allocated a set amount of money to put towards new chargers,Read More

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Orlando Bloom tells President Zelensky stoicism of Ukraine is awe inspiring

Orlando Bloom has praised the strength of the Ukrainian people as he met the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and encouraged him to “go win” the war. The British actor, 46, who is a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador, travelled to Kyiv in his first visit back to Ukraine since 2016. In the meeting, Bloom told Mr Zelensky it is “remarkable to see how you are holding this country” and said it was a “real honour” to meet the Ukrainian president. He said:Read More

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Ministers unveil plan to power up Britain with boost for offshore wind

It's being pitched as a plan to guarantee the UK's energy security Carbon capture technology and boosts for offshore wind will form a central plank of a plan to “power up Britain”, as the Government unveils the first step of its response to Joe Biden’s multibillion-dollar investment in green technology. Pitched as a plan to guarantee the UK’s energy security, while also avoiding the “distortive” impact of the US Inflation Reduction Act, the new strategy comes with no new government spending andRead More

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Police make three arrests after two men shot dead in Cambridgeshire

The victims were shot in two 'linked' incidents in separate villages six miles apart Three people have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder after two men were shot dead in two “linked” incidents in separate villages around six miles apart. Cambridgeshire Police said officers were first called to reports of gunshots at a property in Meridian Close, Bluntisham at just after 9pm on Wednesday. Officers arrived to find the body of a 32-year-old man inside a property withRead More

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Local News

‘Loving’ man who was found dead in river ‘struggled to adapt to life in UK’

A "loving, easygoing and encouraging" man was found dead by a Lynn river last year after struggling to adapt to life in the UK, an inquest has heard.Norfolk Coroner's Court was told on Wednesday that the main cause of 35-year-old Tolulope Oladosu's death was a self-inflicted stab wound to the abdomen.The inquest heard that Mr Oladosu was reported missing on the morning of August 2, 2022 and was found dead on the banks of Gaywood River in Lynn two daysRead More

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