Ottilie Mitchell & Martin Heath BBC News, Northamptonshire Dunn family Harry Dunn, 19, died outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in 2019 The family of Harry Dunn, the motorcyclist killed in a crash outside a US military base in the UK, said an inquiry into how the Foreign Office (FO) handled the case would start within...
Divya Talwar & Tammi Walker BBC Tassie Weaver says she was treated like “a hysterical woman” by a midwife When Tassie Weaver went into labour at full term, she thought she was hours away from holding her first child. But, by the time she was giving birth, she knew her son had died. Doctors had...
Keir Starmer has accepted recommendations from Baroness Louise Casey. Read full article at source...
The prime minister has announced there will be a full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs. Sir Keir Starmer said he had accepted the recommendations of an audit by Baroness Louise Casey into the data and evidence on the nature and scale of group-based child sexual abuse. Baroness Casey has recommended a national inquiry is...
A murder investigation has been launched after a teenage boy died in north Manchester. Officers were called to Nevin Road in the New Moston area at about 17:00 BST, Greater Manchester Police said. The force has not yet said how the boy died. Three people have been arrested in connection with the incident. Supt Marcus...
Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into Joe Biden’s actions during his presidency, accusing aides of a “conspiracy” to “deceive the public about Biden’s mental state”. In this latest move to discredit his predecessor, Trump took aim at the aides’ use of an autopen – a device that replicates signatures which presidents, including Trump, have...
An investigation is under way after suspected human remains washed up at two locations on the North Devon coastline. Devon and Cornwall Police officers were informed initially of what appeared to be human remains on Westward Ho! beach in Bideford at about 09:30 BST on Thursday. Officers were then notified of further suspected remains being...
Sir Rob Behrens says it was a “disgrace” how mental health services failed two vulnerable men. Read full article at source...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a judicial inquiry into allegations of political interference in the prosecution of apartheid-era crimes. The announcement comes three decades after the end of white-minority rule – and after a group of survivors and victims’ relatives sued Ramaphosa’s government over a perceived lack of justice. The Truth and Reconciliation...
Detectives are continuing to question a man who was arrested on suspicion of murder in Kingsbridge, Devon and Cornwall Police has said. Det Insp Guy Biggar said “a number of lines of inquiry” were being followed after a 22-year-old woman died on the A379 at New Bridge. The force said it was notified at 04:45am...
A murder investigation has been launched after a woman died following an incident in Kingsbridge, police have said. Devon and Cornwall Police said officers were called to a reported collision involving a vehicle and pedestrian at New Bridge on the A379 Embankment Road in Kingsbridge at about 04:45 BST on Wednesday. Police said the pedestrian,...
More details on the judge-led public inquiry into the Nottingham attacks – which saw three people stabbed to death – have been announced in Parliament. Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were killed by Valdo Calocane in the city on 13 June 2023. The deaths have prompted widespread criticism from the victims’ families over...
The Israeli military has said an “operational misunderstanding” led to the killing of 14 emergency workers in southern Gaza last month. An inquiry into the incident by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) found a series of failings. It said the killing of a UN worker shortly afterwards was “a breach of orders during a combat...
An inquiry has been launched into a Devon charity accused of persistently failing to submit its accounts on time. The Charity Commission said it had opened the investigation into Plymouth Islamic Education Trust (PIETY), which aimed to provide support in the community and advance the faith of Islam across Devon and Cornwall. The regulator said...
Harriet Heywood BBC News, Cambridgeshire Supplied John Mansfield was jailed for a minimum of 30 years after admitting to murder in 2007 A serving prisoner has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a convicted killer was found dead at a high-security prison. The body of John Mansfield was found at HMP Whitemoor, near March...