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The previous highest daily total of arrivals in 2024 was 882 people on 18 June. While there were no recorded crossings in the first three days of October, on Friday, 395 migrants arrived in the UK after making the journey. The total number of arrivals in 2024 so far is …
Read More »Grace Millane’s mother climbs to Everest base camp
“The weather was the worst they have had there for 12 years. It was all very emotional,” she said. “It was freezing, I was wet though to the skin and the altitude was very hard to deal with. We were sleeping in rooms with no heating, there were landslides and …
Read More »Muriel McKay’s family want to buy Stocking Farm in Hertfordshire
Mr Dyer said if his family did buy the property in the future, ownership would only be “transitional”. They would purchase it, hire specialists to conduct a private search for Mrs McKay and then sell it on, he explained. In October 1970, Nizamodeen and brother Arthur Hosein were given life …
Read More »Ex-cabinet secretary says £200,000 job is ‘massively underpaid’
The job involves advising the prime minister, leading implementation of the government’s policies and managing other high-level civil servants. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s The Westminster Hour, Lord O’Donnell described the position as a “huge job”. He said: “It’s massively underpaid in my view – given I’ve been paid a …
Read More »Prison isn’t working for women, ministers say. Can it be fixed?
There are more than 3,600 woman prisoners in England and Wales – a number the Ministry of Justice projects will rise to 4,200 by November 2027. But Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood believes “prison isn’t working” for women. She told the Labour Party conference that after serving a short custodial sentence, …
Read More »Spiking victims ‘let down’ by emergency services
Saraya Haddad told the BBC she was spiked while having three drinks and a meal over three hours at a bar in 2019, shortly before she had been due to perform in a street play in central Brighton. The 27-year-old said she woke up 13 hours later, not remembering anything, …
Read More »Weddings: We celebrated our big day with 99 other couples
When Chris Jamieson-Green was offered a midday spot to get married at The Old Marylebone Town Hall, staff had to double check if he was sure. Only because he had not yet proposed to his then-girlfriend. He popped the question during a trip to the Yorkshire Moors and after Sam …
Read More »Newspaper headlines: PM’s call for calm and ‘private school VAT delay’
Labour’s plans to impose 20% VAT on private school fees may not proceed as planned on 1 January due to “warnings from unions, tax experts and school leaders”, the Observer declares. Numerous organisations within the education sector are calling for a delay until next September to give private schools more …
Read More »Man held after acid attack on schoolgirl bailed
The arrested man was bailed on Friday pending further enquiries. Police are continuing to appeal for dashcam footage of the incident. Detectives said “a lone man” threw a substance at the teenagers before fleeing on an electric scooter along Harrow Road. Corey McFarlane, Teagan’s father, previously said “words could not …
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