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A serial sex attacker left free to kill due to a string of police and court blunders could face a whole life jail term after being found guilty of murdering two women and raping a third. Jobless Simon Levy’s crime spree spanned from 2018 to 2025 and included myriad sex attacks on women in public spaces and two killings, as the Metropolitan Police, the British Transport Police (BTP) and the […]

Nurses are being “exploited” in the social care sector, leading medics have warned. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said some migrant workers coming to England to work in social care are being underpaid, having their visa position used as leverage to demand “huge” repayments and having their pay and conditions altered. The college said it has seen a surge in people seeking support “due to exploitative practices” including excessive […]

Most teenagers intend to opt out of the Government’s planned social media curfews, polling has suggested. Sir Keir Starmer unveiled plans for a voluntary curfew for 16 and 17-year-olds in his final weeks in office. The curfew would prevent teenagers accessing social media sites between midnight and 6am by default, but could be turned off. The poll by Censuswide found 84.6% of 16-18-year-olds said they would opt out of the […]

Three teachers and three pupils have died after another student shot several people at a high school outside Bangkok, police said. Several other people were injured in the shooting at the Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Nonthaburi province north-west of the capital, a Royal Thai Police spokesman said. He later told broadcaster Channel 3 that the shooter was in a serious condition in hospital while 15 others were injured, with two […]

Heatwave conditions continued to bear down on shopper footfall in July, with the high street particularly badly affected, figures suggest. Total UK footfall was down 2.1% on a year earlier, but an improvement on the 3.4% drop seen in June, according to British Retail Consortium (BRC)-Sensormatic data. High street footfall was down 3.8% year-on-year in July, up from the June’s 6.2% fall. Shopping centre footfall was also down, by 1.4% […]

Train passengers face further travel chaos on Friday morning after a power outage ground trains to a halt across the Midlands and north-west England. Electricity cut out in the main control hub for north-west England’s railways, the Manchester Rail Operating Centre near Ashburys station in the city’s east. The failure, shortly before 2pm on Thursday, has caused widespread cancellations and delays to services. Engineers are making “good progress” fixing signalling […]

A European threat to boycott the World Cup remains in place despite FIFA and its president Gianni Infantino apologising over the handling of a private investor plan. Infantino has been under pressure for over a week after a controversial plan to sell stakes in a company to run the World Cup to private investors first emerged on July 28. The plan was rejected by UEFA and two other continental confederations, […]

An electricity supply failure at a communications centre is causing major disruption to trains in the Midlands and north-west England, National Rail has said. The rail group reported the incident shortly after 2pm and expects journeys to be impacted until at least the end of the day. TransPennine Express said: “All trains will be stopped due to a failure of the communication systems on the network. Trains are unable to […]

Disgraced former reality TV star Stephen Bear has been jailed for sixteen months at Chelmsford Crown Court for breaching a restraining order The Crown Prosecution Service said the disgraced former reality TV star Stephen Bear has been jailed for sixteen months at Chelmsford Crown Court for breaching a restraining order by posting on social media about his ex-girlfriend Georgia Harrison. Television personality Georgia Harrison has praised Essex Police after her […]