Sue Gray takes seat in the House of Lords
Sue Gray has been introduced into the House of Lords as Baroness Gray of Tottenham. The prime minister’s former chief of staff left her Downing Street role late last year…
Steve Bannon pleads guilty in border wall case and avoids jail time
Steve Bannon, a long-time ally of President Donald Trump, has pleaded guilty to defrauding donors who paid for a wall on the US-Mexico border. Bannon received a sentence of conditional…
Dorset millionaire’s estate overused water during drought
One of the UK’s wealthiest women has had to pay £28,000 after abstracting too much water from a chalk stream during a drought. Ilchester Estate took more than the equivalent…
French prosecutors confirm how Andrew and Dawn Searle died
French prosecutors have confirmed how a British couple died, five days after they were found dead in their rural home in south west France. The bodies of Andrew and Dawn…
Fans bid farewell at Manchester United star’s funeral
Reuters More than 1,000 fans gathered at Old Trafford Family, fans and footballers from across the generations have bade a final farewell to Manchester United and Scotland legend Denis Law.…
Kate’s prison visit to meet mothers and babies
Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent PA Media The Princess of Wales visited a mother-and-baby unit at the prison The Princess of Wales has visited a women’s prison in Cheshire, where she…
Bodies found in river in Aberdeen confirmed as missing sisters
Two bodies found in an Aberdeen river have been identified as a pair of sisters who had gone missing, police have confirmed. Henrietta and Eliza Huszti – both 32 and…
Chelsea star Sam Kerr cleared of racial harassment
Chelsea striker Samantha Kerr has been found not guilty of causing racially aggravated harassment, after calling a Metropolitan Police officer “stupid and white”. A jury at Kingston Crown Court cleared…
Norfolk farmer confronts minister over inheritance tax
Paul Moseley BBC political reporter, Norfolk Reporting fromRoyal Norfolk Showground Paul Moseley/BBC Mark Means said he was “angry” at the planned changes to inheritance tax A farmer who challenged a…
Soldier said senior officer ‘pinned her down’, inquest told
Bea Swallow BBC News, West of England Family Handout Gunner Jaysley Beck stayed on the phone to a friend “all night” following the incident, out of concern for her own…