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The doctor behind a landmark review of the NHS’s gender identity services for children and young people has said fears had been raised about her personal safety amid online abuse after the report’s release. Dr Hilary Cass told the Times she wished to address the “disinformation” circulating about the findings and recommendations handed down by the Cass review when it was published on 10 April. She said she had received online abuse in the wake of the report and had been advised to stop using public transport. The report said the evidence base for gender medicine in young people had...

A Moroccan man who stabbed to death a passer-by in the street in northeast England in what he later told police was revenge for Israeli action in Gaza was found guilty of murder on Thursday. Ahmed Alid, 45, who had sought asylum in Britain, killed his 70-year-old victim after approaching him from behind on a road in Hartlepool the early hours of Oct. 15 last year, having previously attacked his housemate with two knives, prosecutors said. After his arrest, he told detectives he had committed the acts because of the war in Gaza, and in revenge for Israel killing ..and...

The SNP's power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens has been scrapped - The Greens said the SNP had "sold out future generations" - It follows the government's decision to scrap key climate targets and a pause on the prescription of puberty blockers for under-18s- The SNP will now form a minority government - In a Bute House press conference, FM Humza Yousaf confirmed he is terminating the Bute House agreement "with immediate effect" - While saying he was proud of the deal and that it had achieved successes, Yousaf said it had served its purpose" and it's in the SNP's...

The former leader of Northern Ireland’s biggest unionist party was jeered as he left court Wednesday following his appearance on sexual abuse charges dating back nearly four decades. Some members of the public shouted at Jeffrey Donaldson and lunged toward him, and he had to be surrounded by police as he left Newry Magistrates’ Court following his first appearance since his arrest last month. Donaldson, 61, faces one charge of rape, a single charge of gross indecency and nine indecent assault charges dating from 1985 to 2006. His wife, Eleanor Mary Elizabeth Donaldson, 58, faces four counts of aiding and...

Former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has appeared in court charged with rape and 10 other historical sex offences. His wife, Lady Eleanor Donaldson, a co-accused in the case, faces four charges. The offences are alleged to have occurred between 1985 and 2006 and involve two alleged victims. The pair were arrested at their home on 28 March and charged by police after a day of questioning. Sir Jeffrey, 61, who remains MP for Lagan Valley, quit as party leader with immediate effect. What is Jeffrey Donaldson accused of?He appeared at Newry Magistrates' Court on Wednesday facing...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that his government's plan to deport illegal immigrants from the UK to Rwanda will begin in 10-12 weeks. The plan sparked a lively debate in the UK, which reminded many of the Israeli plan to deport immigrants, until Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 2018 decision to suspend the plan before it even began. At a press conference held by Sunak, he was asked how many would be deported during the summer, but refused to give a number, saying that "there will be many flights throughout the summer."According to the plan, Sunak said that 2,200...

Actor David Harewood has said actors "should be able to do anything" - including use blackface to portray black characters. The 58-year-old made the comments following recent debate in the film and TV industry about casting and identity politics. In an interview with the Guardian, Harewood said: "The name of the game is acting. "Yes, we’ve got to be representative, but I do think we have to be careful… That even extends to Othello in Blackface." William Shakespeare’s Othello has historically seen white actors use make-up to appear black while playing the titular character.

The charges against activist and independent journalist Tommy Robinson were dropped on Tuesday after a judge at the Westminster Magistrates’ Court found that a police order banning him from a protest in London was unlawful. Mr Robinson, 40, was arrested in central London on November 26th for supposedly violating a ban from attending a pro-Israel demonstration. Police argued that he refused to comply with the order and therefore used synthetic pepper spray on him, placed Robinson in handcuffs and arrested him. ... Speaking outside the courthouse on Tuesday alongside one-time UKIP backer Lord Pearson of Rannoch and broadcaster Katie Hopkins,...

Five migrants including a child have died during an attempt to cross the English Channel in a small boat. A seven-year-old girl, a woman and three men died in the incident off the coast of Wimereux in northern France, local official Jacques Billant said. The French coastguard said there was a failed attempt to cross the Channel and there were several "lifeless bodies". The tragedy came just hours after the UK government's controversial Rwanda bill - intended to deter migrants from crossing the Channel in small boats - was passed. Some 112 people were on board the overcrowded boat, Mr...

A 50-year-old British woman is on trial for killing her cheating husband in 2021. Prosecutors said that Fiona Beal stabbed Nick Billingham in the neck during sex because he was having an affair. Beal then told her friends and family that she tested positive for COVID-19 and had to self-isolate for ten days. During that time, prosecutors allege that Beal buried Billingham in the garden in the backyard of their home. They detailed her purchases of cleaning products, gardening tools, and materials used to wrap the body before she buried it. She then spent the next few months using Billingham's...

The parents at the centre of the Huw Edwards scandal said that they are "still suffering" and "still seeking answers" before he quit the BBC. The news anchor left his role on Monday on medical grounds after 40 years. Huw, 62, was suspended from the BBC last July after allegations were made that he sent a young individual thousands of pounds and received explicit images. He has since not appeared on screen since the claims. Speaking exclusively to the publication, the young person's parents voiced their concern that they "won't get answers" now that Huw has departed the BBC. The...

A UK parliamentary researcher and another man have been charged with spying for China after allegedly providing information which could be "useful to an enemy". Christopher Cash, 29, the researcher, and Christopher Berry, 32, were charged under the Official Secrets Act. They are accused of giving "articles, notes, documents or information" to a foreign state, the Met Police said. China has called the allegations "malicious slander". Counter-terrorism police have described the allegations as "very serious". Mr Berry, from Witney in Oxfordshire, and Mr Cash, of Whitechapel, London, were arrested last March in connection with the investigation. It was previously reported...

The Met Police has apologised after an officer said an antisemitism charity leader looked "openly Jewish" as he was threatened with arrest for being near a pro-Palestine march. Gideon Falter was wearing a kippah skull-cap when he was stopped in the Aldwych area of London on Saturday. He was told by police his presence was causing a "breach of peace", in a video posted online. Scotland Yard apologised for the officer's phrase. The force then withdrew its initial statement, after "reflecting on the strength of the response" to it, and issued a second apology for causing further offence. The original...

London’s police force has been forced to issue two apologies after officers threatened to arrest an “openly Jewish” man if he refused to leave the area around a pro-Palestinian march because his presence risked provoking the demonstrators.

The Metropolitan Police has been branded 'beyond appalling' after an officer threatened to arrest a Jewish man trying to cross the road at a pro-Palestine march because his 'presence was antagonising'. The man, who said he trying to walk around the capital after going to a synagogue, was pulled aside by a police officer who said he was 'breaching the peace' because he was 'quite openly Jewish'. In a video shared by Campaign Against Antisemitism from Saturday's march, the man - who was wearing a kippah on his head - tells the officer: 'I don't want to stay here, I...

The true scale of the number of medical trials using infected blood products on children in the 1970s and 80s has been revealed by documents seen by BBC News. They reveal a secret world of unsafe clinical testing involving children in the UK, as doctors placed research goals ahead of patients' needs. They continued for more than 15 years, involved hundreds of people, and infected most with hepatitis C and HIV. One surviving patient told the BBC he was treated like a "guinea pig". The trials involved children with blood clotting disorders, when families had often not consented to them...

Prince Harry has officially listed the US as his primary residence, according to documents filed in the UK. The change was revealed in a filing for sustainable tourism charity Travalyst, which was founded by Harry, recording the duke under his full name - Prince Henry Charles Albert David Duke of Sussex. Harry and Meghan have lived in California since they quit roles as senior working royals in March 2020. Although the electronic filing to Companies House was only listed on Wednesday, the document shows the change was made on 29 June 2023. This was the same day Buckingham Palace confirmed...

A failed asylum seeker whose deportation was blocked after cabin crew prevented his repatriation flight from taking off has pleaded guilty to raping a 15-year-old girl. Anicet Mayela, 40, who once protested outside a detention centre with a sign that read 'migrants are not criminals', could now face life in jail. Oxford Crown Court heard that there was a high level of 'dangerousness' during the sex attack by the former economics student, The Sun reports.

A full investigation has been launched after an explosion at an arms manufacturing plant in Monmouthshire. South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said they have been dealing with an incident at the premises of BAE Systems Glascoed in the Usk area of the county. The emergency service said they were called to the scene at around 10.49am on Wednesday morning, April 17, after an explosion occurred within a building. They said that they had set up an incident control post to deal with the incident. In a statement shared on X, the emergency service said: "At 10.49am on Wednesday 17th...

A new high-tech laser weapon developed by the UK that is capable of shooting down enemy drones and missiles could be sent to Ukraine. The weapon, dubbed DragonFire, was originally slated for deployment by 2027, but Grant Shapps, the UK defense secretary, said he hoped to "speed up" production so it could be put to use on Ukraine's front line. Speaking to journalists on a visit to the Porton Down military research hub in Salisbury, England, Shapps said he would look to see if the pace can be increased even further "in order for Ukrainians perhaps to get their hands...