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The inquiry has found they failed to properly consider the danger of combustible materials in high-rise residential buildings The devastating Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people was the result of “decades of failure” by government and the construction industry to act on the dangers of flammable materials on high-rise buildings, a long-awaited report has found. The west London tower block was covered in combustible products because of the “systematic dishonesty” of firms who made […]

More than 700 migrants crossed the Channel on the day two people died attempting the journey – the highest number of daily crossings since Sir Keir Starmer became Prime Minister. The Home Office recorded 703 people arriving in the UK on Sunday in 11 boats, suggesting an average of 64 people per boat. It came as two people died in French waters while trying to cross the Channel, with others […]

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said respect for the police must be restored after they faced “brazen abuse and contempt” during rioting. Attacks on local communities and police are a “disgraceful assault on the rule of law itself,” she said. “As home secretary, I am not prepared to tolerate the brazen abuse and contempt which a minority have felt able to show towards our men and women in uniform, or […]

The BBC has asked Huw Edwards to return the salary he was paid during the period following his arrest in November last year, after his guilty plea to charges of having indecent images of children. It comes after the Culture Secretary had urged the disgraced newsreader to “return his salary”, while she also asked the BBC to look into whether it can recoup an estimated £200,000 paid to Edwards between […]

ABC says both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have agreed to a September 10 presidential debate, setting up a face-off between the Republican and Democratic nominees The announcement on Thursday came shortly after Mr Trump told a news conference that he had proposed three presidential debates with three television networks, saying he agreed on certain dates in September. Mr Trump is rejoining the ABC debate days after posting on his social media network that […]

A teenager has been found guilty of murder after shaking his partner’s four-month-old baby to death when he was aged 16. Carl Alesbrook, now aged 19, caused bleeding on the brain, whiplash-type injuries and multiple bone fractures to Elijah Shemwell seven weeks after meeting the child’s mother, India Shemwell, in November 2021. Alesbrook, of Upper Greenhill Gardens, Matlock in Derbyshire, denied causing any harm to Elijah but was unanimously convicted […]