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    Body In The Woods Killer sentenced to minimum of 37 years

    Jack Crawley, 20, has been sentenced to a minimum of 37 years before the possibility of parole for murdering Paul Taylor, 56. Mr Taylor met Crawley online and drove down from Scotland to meet Crawley for a homosexual relationship. Instead, Crawley bludgeoned Taylor to death with a claw hammer...
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    Starmer suspends Labour MP for battering constituent

    Not content with freezing pensioners to death, the Labour Party is now physically attacking its own citizens. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has suspended Mike Amesbury, the Labour MP for Runcorn and Helsby, after CCTV footage shows him battering a man in the street. That's what you get...
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    Theresa May attempts Scottish accent in maiden Lords speech

    Former British Prime Minister Theresa May, 68, attempted a Scottish accent during her maiden speech in the House of Lords. May - now known as Baroness May of Maidenhead - jokingly mimicked a colleague during her maiden speech since being elevated to the British Parliament's upper chamber...
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    Wallace and Gromit: "Vengeance Most Fowl"

    Evil Bond-villainesque penguin Feathers McGraw is back in the first Wallace and Gromit movie since 2005. The family-friendly British comedy clay animation often shown at Christmas and New Year featuring a Yorkshire inventor and his pet dog getting up to bizarre adventures returns to screens for...
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    King and Queen arrive in Samoa for State Visit

    Fresh from their tour of Australia, the King and Queen have arrived in neighbouring Samoa onboard an RAAF plane for their State Visit. Upon arriving in the small Pacific republic which gained its independence from New Zealand in 1962, the British Head of State and his Consort were welcomed by...
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    Trump files complaint over Britain's Labour Party

    Donald Trump's campaign team has called for an investigation into what it claimed was "blatant foreign interference" in the election by Britain's ruling Labour Party. The complaint to the US Federal Electoral Commission claimed there had been "interference" in the "form of apparent illegal...
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    King jokes about "sands of time" as he begins Australia tour

    King Charles III joked about the "sands of time" and expressed his joy at being back in Australia as he addressed politicians. The monarch presented an hourglass - a "speech timer", he called it - to the parliament of New South Wales to mark the 200th anniversary of its upper house. The...
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    One Direction singer Liam Payne dies aged 31

    One Direction singer Liam Payne has died in Argentina aged just 31. Britain's One Direction is one of the most successful boy bands of all time. It's been reported that Payne fell off a balcony in Argentina but it's not yet known if it was an accident or suicide.
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    Thomas Tuchel becomes new England manager

    Thomas Tuchel has agreed to become the new England manager. The 51-year-old German has previously managed Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain and London club Chelsea - with whom he won the Champions League - and Sky News understands Tuchel has already signed the contract and that the English FA...
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    Fresh Loch Ness sonar image astonishes experts experts

    A new sonar image may be the proof that Britain's - and the world's - most famous cryptid Nessie actually exists. Loch Ness is the second largest lake - by volume - on the mainland UK, the second deepest lake in Scotland and it holds more water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined...
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    King's popularity rises in Australia ahead of his visit

    King Charles III and Queen Camilla are to visit Australia on Friday. The Australian King and Queen are to tour the vast country and a new poll shows that a quarter of Aussies have a more favourable view of their King than they did during his Coronation on 6th May 2023.
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    Woman jailed for minimum of 36 years after murdering her parents and living with their bodies for four years

    A woman who murdered her parents and then lived alongside their bodies for four years told police who arrested her: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.” Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with a “cocktail of prescription drugs” and fatally stabbed her...
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    Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond dies aged 69

    Former leader of the Scottish National Party and Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has died aged 69. Salmond - who was behind the 2014 Scottish independence referendum which he and the SNP lost as the Scots voted against independence - died in North Macedonia yesterday just after making a...
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    Britain gives up Chagos Islands

    In the dying embers of the British Empire Britain has ceded the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Unlike previous times where we've let a land become independent on this occasion we've just given it to another country. So we've given it up but it's not independence. It's now ruled by the Mauritians...
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    Queen visits King Charles III Sacristy under construction

    Queen Camilla has visited the King Charles III Sacristy as it undergoes construction. The new building is being erected at Westminster Abbey, which has seen Coronations all the way from King William I on 25th December 1066 to King Charles III on 6th May 2023. The King Charles III Sacristy is...
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    Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh mark anniversary of Maltese independence

    The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh have visited the tiny Mediterranean nation of Malta to mark 60 years of independence. Malta gained its independence from Britain in 1964 and the King's brother and sister-in-law met Maltese President Myriam Debono and her husband in the capital Valletta. Malta...
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    Tory leadership hopefuls make final pitches

    The final four MPs left standing in the race to become the new leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party have made their final pitches at the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham. Tugendhat, Badenoch, Jenrick and Cleverly are all vying to be leader of the world's oldest and most successful...
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    Britain tells EU: "No return to free movement"

    Almost five years since Britain seceded from the EU, today the two powers met for talks with the British telling the EU they have no plans to rejoin. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reiterated that Britain will not rejoin the EU and will not bring back EU freedom of movement as he held...
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    King and Queen mark 25 years of Scottish Parliament

    King Charles III and Queen Camilla have marked 25 years since Scotland gained devolution and acquired her own parliament. Donning a kilt, King Charles III and his wife met with "community heroes" before signing a visitors' book at Queensbury House, which is part of the Scottish Parliament in...
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    Prince William and David Beckham celebrate hitting £15 air ambulance goal

    The Prince of English football and the Prince of Wales met at RAF Northolt as they celebrated smashing the £15 million target to replace London's ageing air ambulances with more modern helicopters. Prince William - a qualified helicopter pilot who has flown British Army Apaches - took to the...