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Harrods is to remove sculptures of Mohamed al Fayed who is accused of raping and sexually assaulting dozens of women. The famous store in Knightsbridge, west London, has submitted a planning application to renovate a detailed Egyptian-themed hall and replace a five-floor escalator which features busts depicting former owner Fayed …

For so long, the Epstein story has cast them in a cameo role. Everyday coverage of the scandal churns through the politics and process of it all, reducing their suffering to a passing reference. Not anymore. Not on a morning when they gathered on Capitol Hill, survivors of Epstein‘s abuse, …

EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock The Bibby Stockholm barge was moored in Portland Harbour before being decommissioned in 2024 A former resident of a barge used to house asylum seekers has been sentenced to a community order for sexually assaulting a teenage girl on a beach. Moffat Konofilia, 48, was living on the Bibby …

Police Scotland James Clacher was found in Spain after two years on the run A man who staged his own death then fled the country has been convicted of raping two women. James Clacher used dating sites to prey on his victims and carried out his crimes in their own …

Gareth GordonBBC News NI political correspondent PA Media Lyons has rejected claims of a failure of political leadership on the issue The Northern Ireland Executive is to send out a “joint and unified statement” on recent racist and sectarian attacks in north Belfast and Ballymena, the communities minister has said. …

Tanya GuptaBBC News, West Midlands West Midlands Police Jalen Denny wounded the scooter rider and left him in need of emergency surgery A man who attacked a scooter rider with a knife, leaving him with wounds to his shoulder and stomach, was tracked down and arrested after detectives used facial …

Glenn CampbellBBC Scotland News political editor and Angus CochraneBBC Scotland News PA Media John Swinney said there was plausible evidence that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza The Scottish government is to pause new awards of public money to arms companies supplying Israel, John Swinney has announced. The first minister …

A teenager who stabbed a 13-year-old boy in a racially aggravated attack has been jailed for more than seven years. Junior Cameron, now aged 18, shouted a racist remark at the boy during the attack in Glasgow’s Queen’s Park on 8 March 2024. The child was punched, kicked and stabbed …

An 80-year-old woman in Japan sent money to an online fraudster who told her he was an astronaut stranded on a spaceship – and needed the cash to buy oxygen. The pair first met on social media in July in what police described as a romance scam. The scammer told …

Julian O’NeillBBC News NI crime and justice correspondent UK Parliament/PA Hilary Benn appeared before a sitting of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on Wednesday The UK and Irish governments are “close” to a new agreement on dealing with the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles, a committee of MPs has …

Up to 200 footballers may have been affected, with some losing their homes and being made bankrupt. “This was not a case of greed or bad decisions,” said the cross-party parliamentarians. “These men did what we ask of everyone – they saved for their futures, trusted regulated professionals and followed …

“Don’t let this fool you.”   That was the response of Democrat members of Congress, and it tells you whether Tuesday’s release of documents relating to the case of Jeffrey Epstein will end the outcry – it won’t. Of 33,000 pages released by the US House committee, they said 97% …

Angie BrownBBC Scotland, Edinburgh and East reporter TikTok PC Steven Jones and PC Greg Tunnock had a picture taken with Tallia Storm on 1 March 2024 in the Cowgate in Edinburgh Two male police officers who had their authorisation to carry firearms removed after posing for a photograph with singer …

Some people killed during a earthquake in Afghanistan had to be buried on a mountain top, because it was too difficult to cross the terrain and get their bodies down, the BBC has been told. More than 800 people died in the 6.0 magnitude quake in eastern Afghanistan, which was …

A man has been shot dead by police in the southern French city of Marseille after five people were wounded in a hotel and a nearby street. The man was armed with two knives and a baton and had ignored police warnings to drop his weapons, Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone …

The Parole Board has confirmed it will consider whether one of James Bulger’s killers is eligible for release from prison. Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, both 10, abducted the two-year-old from a Merseyside shopping centre in 1993 before murdering him. Venables served eight years before being freed on licence in …

A tribute has been paid to an 89-year-old woman who died after being hit by a recycling lorry. Daphne Stallard died at the scene of the incident, which happened at about 09:00 BST on Monday on Brookes Street, near Caroline Road, in Llandudno, Conwy county. A man who was arrested …

PA Media John Finucane is hosting the meeting with agencies and politicians to address the recent attacks Sinn Féin MP John Finucane is to host a meeting after recent sectarian and racist incidents in north Belfast. On Thursday night, a number of homes were attacked in the lower Oldpark area, …

Danny Murphy, Brian Deane and Craig Short are part of a group of footballers who say they are victims of “financial abuse”. Source link

George TorrBBC News, Derby Derbyshire Police Roberts was handed a 44-month sentence for sexual activity with a child by penetration and two counts of sexual assault A school administrator has been jailed after he admitted sexually abusing three girls. Jordan Roberts, 23, committed the offences while working at the Da …