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Around 90 officers will move to the Directorate of Professional Standards to look into their own colleagues Britain’s biggest police force has moved officers from tackling serious and organised crime and counter-terrorism to internal standards to help clean-up its workforce. The Metropolitan Police – branded institutionally racist, homophobic and misogynist in a major review – has lurched between a series of scandals in recent years, including the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving

His previous 18-month spell in the dugout at Stamford Bridge ended in January 2021 Frank Lampard is ready to complete a shock reunion with Chelsea, returning to Stamford Bridge as interim manager until the end of the season. The PA news agency understands Lampard has held talks with the club and is preparing to return to his old stomping ground in a temporary capacity following the sacking of Graham Potter

They're due to walk out from Tuesday to Friday next week Hospital leaders have expressed serious concerns about how they will be able to maintain patient safety during next week’s junior doctors’ strike. Training doctors in England will stage their longest walkout between April 11 and 15. NHS Providers, which represents NHS trusts, said the timing of the strike and its duration present a “range of challenges over and above the disruption seen

22 year old Connor Chapman, of no fixed address, is due before Liverpool Crown Court A plea hearing is to be held for a 22-year-old man accused of the murder of beautician Elle Edwards in a Merseyside pub on Christmas Eve. Connor Chapman, of no fixed address, faces a total of nine offences in connection with the shooting at the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Wirral. Ms Edwards, 26, was fatally shot just

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Sir David Attenborough has warned that human beings have a “few short years” left to make a “choice” on how to recover the natural world. The 96-year-old naturalist and broadcaster was speaking in a new documentary coming to BBC iPlayer about the people trying to combat the decline in nature as well as looking at the wildlife and habitats at risk in the UK. In Saving Our Wild Isles, Sir

Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis has ended speculation over manager Steve Cooper’s future by confirming the Welshman will keep his job. Cooper had come under mounting pressure after Forest’s 2-1 loss at relegation-rivals Leeds extended their winless Premier League run to eight matches. Forest’s fourth straight league defeat on the road has left them above the bottom three only on goal difference. Marinakis has moved quickly to help stabilise the

President Joe Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland will “mark the tremendous progress” since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement 25 years ago, the White House has said. Mr Biden will also visit the Republic of Ireland to discuss “close co-operation on shared global challenges”. Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed the visit would last from April 11 to 14 and would take in Belfast, Dublin, Co Louth and Co Mayo.

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has leapt to the defence of the Premier League amid concerns its success is creating an imbalance in European football. The gap between the English top flight and Europe’s other big leagues in terms of broadcasting revenues and transfer spending has been highlighted as a problem by a number of observers of the sport at continental level, including LaLiga president and UEFA executive committee member Javier