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Owen Jenner and Shane Richardson died from their injuries Police have launched an investigation after two superbike riders died in a “chain reaction” collision during a championship race. Eleven riders fell at the first corner of the Quattro Group British Supersport Championship at Oulton Park, Cheshire, on Monday afternoon. Owen Jenner, 21, and Shane Richardson, 29, were both treated trackside but later died, organisers MotorSport Vision Racing said. It said […]

The 80th anniversary celebrations for VE Day have begun Senior royals waved to thousands of people from the Buckingham Palace balcony as a Red Arrows flypast continued the commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. The King and Queen, joined by the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, watched on with tilted heads […]

Alan Kennett says he feels very proud to think “I’m still here” A 100-year-old RAF veteran who will be leading VE Day processions on Monday has recalled being “gobsmacked” after bumping into his father by chance during the Allied invasion of Normandy. Alan Kennett, who will turn 101 on May 29, will formally start a military procession of 1,300 members of the armed forces marching through the streets of central […]

They say the government's dragging its feet People given infected blood in one of the worst treatment disasters in NHS history are “scared they won’t live to see compensation”, campaigners have said. The probe into the infected blood scandal is to reopen later this week amid concerns surrounding compensation for victims. Officials said the Infected Blood Inquiry hearings, to be held on May 7 and 8, will examine the “timeliness […]

They include 101 year-old D-Day code-breaker Bernard Morgan (pictured) Second World War veterans, aged from 98 to 104 years old, are to meet the King at a Buckingham Palace tea party in a special event to help mark VE Day, the Royal British Legion has said. A 98-year-old former prisoner of war, a 99-year-old who served in the Desert Rats and took part in the D-Day landings and a 100-year-old […]

Ellen Roome wants social media firms to give bereaved parents access to their child's data Social media firms should be required to hand over children’s data to bereaved parents “now, before its too late”, a mother has urged. Ellen Roome, 48, said she might never understand why her 14-year-old son Jools Sweeney took his own life three years ago. She has called for a change in the law, which MPs […]

Layton Carr, 14, was found inside a building in Gateshead Fourteen children who were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after the death of boy at an industrial estate in Gateshead have been released on police bail. The children, including 11 boys and three girls, were arrested after a body believed to be that of 14-year-old Layton Carr was found inside a building. On Sunday, a Northumbria Police spokesman said: “All […]

It marks the 44th anniversary of his death in prison A statue has been unveiled in memory of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in Belfast, marking the 44th anniversary of his death. The statue of the hunger striker and former MP was revealed at the Republican Memorial Garden in Twinbrook. Sands, a father-of-one, died on May 5 during the 1981 hunger strike, when he was aged 27. Seven IRA prisoners […]

Seven of the men are Iranian nationals Eight men have been arrested in two separate counter-terrorism police investigations. Five men, including four Iranian nationals, were arrested at locations across England on Saturday on suspicion of preparation of a terrorist act after a suspected plot “to target a single premises” was uncovered, the Metropolitan Police said. The force confirmed a further three Iranian men were arrested on Saturday as part of […]