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[ad_1] A man and a woman have been arrested after a watch dealer was assaulted during a robbery at a south-west London jewellers and a day later found dead. Oliver White, 27, was put in a chokehold as two men snatched a number of high value watches from the shop in Richmond on Saturday. Mr...

[ad_1] The Edinburgh International Book Festival has ended its 20-year funding partnership with sponsors Baillie Gifford after pressure from climate change protesters. The move follows a similar decision by the Hay Festival in Wales last week. The investment company, which is based in Edinburgh, has been a major sponsor of UK arts events but has...

[ad_1] Political party leaders were out and about as the election campaign officially kicked off. The general election will be held in five weeks, on Thursday 4th July. A full list of candidates for all constituencies will be available on the BBC News website once nominations are closed. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] BBC Hundreds of Eurostar passengers are being held up at Gare du Nord in Paris due to technical delays. Eurostar said in a statement that a problem with UK Border Force e-gates had caused the delays. “We are sincerely sorry for the inconvenience caused,” the company said, advising customers to delay their journeys to...

[ad_1] A primary school teacher who stabbed her partner to death and buried his body in their garden has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years. Fiona Beal, 50, pleaded guilty to murdering Nicholas Billingham in April and was sentenced at the Old Bailey by Judge Mark Lucraft on Thursday. The partly mummified remains...

[ad_1] BBC Shops around the country have ran out of Mothers Pride Scottish Plain loaves An iconic Scottish product has disappeared from shops after a packaging issue affected supply. Scottish Plain loaves by Mothers Pride have not been seen on bread shelves for about two weeks. Suppliers have blamed a “manufacturing issue” at Hovis, which...

[ad_1] A girl aged nine is “fighting for her life” after a shooting in which three adults were also seriously injured in Hackney, east London. The “innocent victim” was having dinner with her family in a Dalston restaurant when shots came from outside, Ch Supt James Conway of the Metropolitan Police said. Three men, aged...

[ad_1] King Charles III will take part in next month’s Trooping the Colour despite his cancer treatment, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. But the monarch is expected to inspect soldiers from a carriage rather than on horseback. The Princess of Wales’s role at the event will be taken by an military official, as she continues chemotherapy...

[ad_1] 48 minutes ago Chris Mason,Political editor, @ChrisMasonBBC Reuters Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of carrying out a purge of left-wing candidates ahead of the selection deadline for the general election. The Labour leader denies this but some in his party don’t believe him. “This factional, vindictive behaviour is designed to humiliate socialist candidates...