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A historic witch’s mark has been discovered on a 16th Century wooden door at a stately home in Derbyshire. The intricate circular design was found by an “eagle-eyed” visitor on a quiet, dimly lit corridor at Hardwick Hall, near Chesterfield. The National Trust, which owns the site, said the faint …

A teenage boy who stabbed a girl at a school searched the internet for a man considered to be an early adopter of incel and manosphere culture, a jury has heard. The 15-year-old girl was knifed in the back at Thorpe St Andrew School near Norwich on 11 March. Speaking …

Hayler said Price was also unfaithful during their relationship. Asked by his defence barrister Arlette Piercy why he took pictures of the messages between Price and the complainant, he replied: “Because she made out that I fancied [the complainant]. “I thought, ‘this is a bit weird’.” He said he accessed …

A woman who was found dead in a stabbing on a street in Manchester has been named by police. Alisha Samuels, 26, was pronounced dead at the scene after police responded to a “disturbance” on Dorking Avenue in the Newton Heath area of the city at about 02:00 BST. A …

A woman who was found dead in a stabbing on a street in Manchester has been named by police. Alisha Samuels, 26, was pronounced dead at the scene after police responded to a “disturbance” on Dorking Avenue in the Newton Heath area of the city at about 02:00 BST. A …

A paramedic who learned life-saving newborn delivery skills on a pioneering training course helped successfully deliver a baby over the phone later that day. Ollie Zorab guided another paramedic through an out-of-hospital delivery hours after he had completed the training at the Great Western Hospital (GWH) in Swindon, Wiltshire. Zorab …

Two men who were arrested on suspicion of murder remain on police bail while inquiries continue, Devon and Cornwall Police said. Det Insp Jonathan Bray said: “We are continuing to explore various lines of inquiry as we seek to understand what happened to Abdellah in the days and hours before …

A total of 50 people have now been arrested as part of a wider police operation against organised crime following a fatal crash. The arrests have been made after the head-on smash on the A66 on Teesside which killed seven people, including two police officers. Ten of the 50 arrested …

A former supply teacher has been jailed for six years after taking more than 100 upskirt photographs of schoolgirls, including in his classroom, across Greater Manchester. Abusali Rahman, 37, from Salford, also used artificial intelligence (AI) to create sexualised fake images from pupils’ social media photographs which he shared online. …

A man was arrested after a taxi driver who was given fake cash drove the suspect straight to a police station. Nottinghamshire Police said the driver picked up the suspect from Nottingham Road at 23:30 BST on Tuesday. When the customer continued to change his route, the taxi driver asked …

ITV News said its reporters were undercover with Reform candidates and councillors across England and Wales in the run-up to the elections in May, as well as four by-election campaigns this year and last. Feeney, who was campaigning to retain his seat on the council after defecting from the Conservative …

The next day, the pair told the victim she was being taken to the house of “a woman, who could help” her and she was given an old hoodie to wear. A member of the public then intervened, the court heard, and extracted the victim from the pair. In her …

A council has said it has launched an investigation after a 14-year-old boy fell from a top-floor window of a double-decker bus. Cambridgeshire Police said it was called to the incident in Doddington Road, Wimblington, at about 15:50 BST on Wednesday. A Cambridgeshire County Council spokesperson said its health and …

A youth football manager has said he “loved it” when his under-9s unexpectedly abandoned their post-match team talk to chase after a steam train. Blandford United Royals’ head coach Adam Day said his players had just finished playing Swanage away on Sunday, close to the Swanage Railway, when the locomotive …

It is not yet clear how many patients at the hospital will be affected or where and when they will be relocated. The hospital trust said it was considering “a range of potential scenarios, some of which may involve relocating services within our hospital estate”. It said “no decisions have …

A café that has not changed since the 1970s has gone viral online after a visitor posted a video asking if it was the most old fashioned café in the country. Colborne House Café, on Wellgate in Clitheroe, Lancashire, is complete with original features, an unchanged kitchen and no music. …

The mum of two, the eldest of which is six, said the family had parked at the Westgate’s multi storey site, and headed back to their car at around 15:30 BST to make it home for “baby bedtime”. At this point, she described seeing “cars backed up along every channel …

Two women who admitted assaulting police officers during an anti-migrant protest have been given suspended jail sentences. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the former Haslar naval base in Gosport, Hampshire, on 22 September, believing that a group of asylum seekers would be landing after being picked up in the Channel. …

A severe drought has been declared across parts of southern England after months of low rainfall. It was declared in parts of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, East Sussex and West Sussex. The announcement by the Environment Agency follows a meeting of the National Drought Group, which reviewed water resources and …

Apurv Patel, who has been in the UK on a Skilled Worker visa since 2023, said he paid Synetal Solutions £3,600 across February and March for healthcare training after he and a friend were verbally promised guaranteed sponsored jobs. Eight months later he has received no job offers, interviews or …