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Tiger Woods has been banned from driving for five years and hit with a fine after entering a plea agreement for reckless driving following a car crash in Florida in March. The 15-time major winner was arrested and spent eight hours in jail before being bailed after his Land Rover rolled over in a collision with a pick-up truck towing a trailer. He had previously entered a written plea of […]

Ex-pop star Gary Glitter has pleaded not guilty to eight allegations of sexual abuse against a girl when she was aged between eight and 11. Glitter, 82, whose real name is Paul Gadd, is accused of offences against the girl between 1978 and 1981, after allegedly giving her chocolate and inviting her to his home in Kensington and Chelsea, west London. It is said he caused the girl to touch […]

A convicted killer has admitted fatally stabbing his friend in the neck over New Year’s Eve before handing himself in to police, saying: “It’s happened again.” On Wednesday, Daniel Levy, 48, pleaded guilty to murdering Indian national Abdul Kaleem Shaik, 41, at his flat in Vauxhall, south London. It can now be reported that Levy, who has schizophrenia, had previously been convicted of killing his grandmother by stabbing and setting […]

Four people have been charged with murder after a newborn baby girl was stabbed to death in Sheffield. Two men and two women are to appear in court on Wednesday accused of murder, causing or allowing the death of a child, and perverting the course of justice by taking steps to conceal the killing of an infant. A 15-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons due to her […]

Cleveland Police is being given an extra £2 million to tackle serious crime, the Home Secretary has announced, after a spate of incidents in and around Middlesbrough. Shabana Mahmood made the announcement after Prime Minister Andy Burnham paid tribute to two police officers killed in the line of duty on the A66 near Middlesbrough, on Saturday, August 22. Pc Matthew Blades, 37, and Pc Tom Clough, 38, were killed when […]

The German government on Tuesday blamed Russia for an attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month using a drone laden with explosives, and announced that it would shut down a Russian consulate among other measures. The drone was found near a Ukrainian plane on August 4 and the device was defused. German officials said at the time that the incident posed a new level of danger. Moscow has been widely […]

Chelsea have agreed to sell midfielder Enzo Fernandez to Manchester City for £125million as Mykhailo Mudryk and Tosin Adarabioyo prepare to make deadline-day moves to rivals Tottenham. With the 11pm deadline fast approaching, the Press Association understands a British record-equalling deal has been struck to take the Argentina international to the Etihad Stadium. The size of the fee for Fernandez matches that paid by Liverpool to Newcastle for Alexander Isak […]

Britain needs to be “blunt about what went wrong” over the last four decades, Andy Burnham has said as he addressed the House of Commons for the first time since becoming Prime Minister. He hit out at the deindustrialisation and privatisation of the 1980s, and the impact of austerity and Brexit on areas of the UK outside of the South East and London. “Unless we are blunt about what went […]

A man has appeared in court charged with murdering a seven-year-old girl and her aunt who died in a house fire Natalie McDonald, 34, and Valentina Foster died and four others were injured in the blaze in Grangetown, near Middlesbrough, in the early hours of August 26. Jaden Wright, 23, of no fixed address, appeared before Teesside Magistrates’ Court for a hearing which lasted less than two minutes. He briefly […]