Murder arrest after body found in Plymouth marina

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a body was found in a marina.Devon and Cornwall Police said Drew Perham, 24, was reported missing on Saturday after he failed to return home from a night out in Plymouth on Friday. Searches were carried out, and a body was found in the water at Millbay Marina on Sunday. Formal identification is yet to take place, but Perham's family have been informed.Police said a 19-year old man…

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Mark Tully, the BBC’s ‘voice of India’, dies aged 90

Getty ImagesTully spent much of his journalist career covering IndiaThe broadcaster and journalist Sir Mark Tully - for many years known as the BBC's "voice of India" - has died at the age of 90.For decades, the rich, warm tones of Mark Tully were familiar to BBC audiences in Britain and around the world - a much-admired foreign correspondent and respected reporter and commentator on India. He covered war, famine, riots and assassinations, the Bhopal gas tragedy and…

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Grail Guard: Still No Future – Album Review

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Grail Guard – Still No Future (TNS Records) LP | CD | DL Out 6 March 2026 – Pre-orders live The debut album from Grail Guard brings the 1970s punk rock cry of No Future crashing up to date. Whose Street? Right up Nathan Brown’s street. 5 decades on from when the Sex Pistols were proclaiming No Future, things are no better than they were back then. In many respects they are a damn sight worse. Grail Guard…

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Russia strikes Ukraine as talks with US to end war continue

Russia launched drone and missile attacks on Ukraine overnight, killing one person and injuring 23 others despite taking part in talks with the US aimed at ending the war.The mayor of Ukrainian capital Kyiv said one person had died and four had been wounded following a "massive enemy attack", while Kharkiv's mayor reported that 19 people had been hurt during a sustained assault on the city.Delegations from Russia, Ukraine and the US have been meeting in Abu Dhabi…

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Improved lighting and CCTV to make people feel safer in Plymouth

BBCA key aim of this scheme was keep people in the city for longer, a councillor saidMore than 20 lights and 14 CCTV cameras are being installed in Plymouth city centre to improve safety and security.The 22 new light columns, the tallest standing at 15m (49ft), are part of the £30m Armada Way scheme. The city council said the lights would be multi-directional and facing downwards to limit light pollution.The authority said some of the CCTV cameras would…

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Alleged drug kingpin and ex-Olympian Ryan Wedding arrested

Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder and alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding has been arrested in Mexico and will be extradited to the US after years on the run, FBI Director Kash Patel has said.Wedding, who had been on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, is accused of running a transnational drug trafficking operation that moved tonnes of cocaine across international borders.Wedding, 44, was also wanted on murder charges. US officials had said they believed Wedding was living in…

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Julio Iglesias sex assault complaint dropped by Spain prosecutors

Spanish prosecutors have dropped an investigation into complaints of sexual abuse against the singer Julio Iglesias.They ruled that Spanish courts had no jurisdiction and were therefore not competent to investigate crimes committed abroad involving complainants who were not Spanish citizens or residents and who had never travelled to Spain with the star.Two female former employees had alleged that the 82-year-old Spanish superstar "normalised abuse" in a coercive, threatening and violent environment while they were working at his properties…

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Plymouth acid attack victim was ‘set up by his ex-wife’

Brodie Owen,South WestandAnna Varle,South West home affairs correspondent, in Winchester Crown CourtDevon and Cornwall PoliceDanny Cahalane was attacked on Lipson Road, Plymouth, on 21 February and died in hospital on 3 MayThe ex-wife of man who died after an acid attack supplied information to the leader of a drug gang so he could threaten him over a £120,000 debt, a court has heard.Danny Cahalane, 38, was attacked with sulphuric acid in his home on Lipson Road, Plymouth, on…

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UN to take over al-Hol camp for IS families in Syria after unrest

The United Nations (UN) says it will take over management of a camp in north-eastern Syria holding holding thousands of people with alleged links to the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).It comes after Kurdish-led forces that had been running the camp withdrew in the face of an advance by Syrian government forces, triggering unrest that forced aid agencies to suspend operations.Residents were reported to have rushed camp perimeters in an apparent attempt to escape, prompting unrest and looting.A…

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Barron Trump called UK police after seeing woman ‘beat up’, court hears

Kerena Cobbina & Maia DaviesPool/Getty ImagesBarron Trump, the president's fifth child, said he met the alleged victim on social mediaDonald Trump's youngest son contacted UK police saying he witnessed a friend in London being "beat up" during a video call, a court has heard.Barron Trump, 19, told police he had friends call 999 from the US so that he could report the alleged attack in January 2025.Matvei Rumiantsev, 22, is on trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court accused of…

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German nurse jailed for murder may face inquiry into 100 more deaths

An ex-nurse convicted of murdering 10 patients in western Germany may be linked to more than 100 additional deaths, an official has said.The chief public prosecutor in Aachen, Katja Schlenkermann-Pitts, told the BBC that there was "a correspondingly high number of suspicious cases" under review.She cautioned that the cases represented preliminary suspicions and that some could be dismissed following forensic examination.In November last year, a regional court in Aachen convicted the former palliative care nurse, who has not…

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Plymouth acid attack victim killed in plot involving ex-wife, court hears

Devon and Cornwall PoliceDanny Cahalane was attacked on Lipson Road, Plymouth, on 21 February and died in hospital on 3 MayA drug dealer who owed £120k to his "boss" and childhood friend was doused in acid at his home in a fatal attack involving his ex-wife, a court has heard.Danny Cahalane, 38, was attacked on Lipson Road, Plymouth, on 21 February 2025 and died in hospital on 3 May.Seven men and three women are on trial at Winchester…

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