A man has been extradited to Britain and charged over the death of a schoolboy killed in an alleged hit-and-run more than two years ago. ‘Fun-loving’ Keaton Slater died aged 12 after being struck by a black BMW on Radford Road, Coventry, in June 2024. Latvian national Dolars Aleksanders has now been charged with causing … Read more
A man has been charged with murder after a 36-year-old father was shot dead at a traveller site in Wiltshire. Jimmy Ward suffered fatal gunshot wounds and was declared dead at the scene at about 8.15am on Sunday in Calcutt Traveller Site, a permanent council-approved site near Cricklade, on the outskirts of Swindon. Police announced … Read more
Scandal-hit professor Jason Arday appeared to pass off an inspirational quote as his own in an early draft of his memoir – before editors had to step in to clarify that it was actually said by tennis legend Rafael Nadal. The forthcoming autobiography, Great and Unfortunate Things, tells of Arday’s transformation from an autistic child … Read more
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was met with jeers and profanity when he took the stage at a pro-police celebration in Staten Island before a protester suffered cardiac arrest after attempting to question him. The Democratic Socialist Mayor spoke for less than a minute at the National Night Out Against Crime celebration in Midland … Read more
One of Uganda’s best-known footballers has been beaten to death while trying to fight a group of muggers. Police said David Owori, 27, died after resisting a violent attempt by a gang of people to take his phone and other belongings near the footballer’s home in Kampala, Uganda’s capital, on Tuesday night. Witnesses reportedly saw … Read more
Ed Miliband has insisted his past jibes at Donald Trump as a ‘racist’ and ‘misogynist’ were not raised in talks with his US counterpart Marco Rubio. The Foreign Secretary said his past comments about the US President ‘didn’t come up’ in discussions with Mr Rubio at the US State Department. He added the US is … Read more
Rail passengers travelling on some commuter trains in south-east England are being blocked from buying digital tickets in an attempt to cut fare evasion. Greater Thameslink Railway (GTR), which operates Thameslink, Southern, Great Northern and Gatwick Express trains, is trying to reduce so-called ‘quick scanning’. This tactic sees passengers board a train with no ticket … Read more
A mother spent her final moments recording a video message while trapped in a burning building, an inquest heard. Horse-loving Laura Foulis died aged 38 after a blaze engulfed a rural farm stable in Milnrow, Manchester, on July 3. Police and fire crews rushed to the scene and found Laura, from the Isle of Man, … Read more
Ukraine is aiming to build at least 50,000 combat robots to support and replace its soldiers fighting on the frontline. Ukrainian officials say that using unmanned weapons would help Ukraine optimise its headcount while fighting Russia and free soldiers from dangerous tasks, Bloomberg reports. The country has been struggling to draft enough citizens to replace … Read more
A group of Left-wing councils have warned they will defy new rules on single-sex spaces as they claimed the guidance is ‘harmful to the rights of trans people’. Local leaders from six London boroughs – Lambeth, Waltham Forest, Southwark, Hackney, Haringey and Lewisham – said they could resist guidance prepared by the Equality and Human Rights … Read more