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Thug punched girlfriend in face as she recovered from giving birth

Neil Jones attacked his partner over a two-year period, including assaulting her while she was pregnant, and then continued his ‘despicable’ behaviour just hours after she gave birth

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Author: Adam Everett

Vile abuser ‘punched girlfriend in face’ hours after giving birth

Neil Jones subjected his partner to a series of vile assaults over the course of around two years, including while she lay in hospital near her newborn child

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Author: Adam Everett

Justice system pushed to ‘brink of collapse’ by knee-jerk sentencing reform

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Author: Eliana Silver

Prison system crisis due to overreliance on long sentences, says Gauke review

Successive governments’ ‘penal populism’ has driven England and Wales justice system to brink of collapse, report finds

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Author: Eleni Courea

E-scooters blamed for big jump in children caught in UK driving without insurance

Hundreds of teenagers have been given an IN10 police endorsement since 2020, says road safety charity

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Author: Hilary Osborne

‘Tough on crime’ approach fuelling prison overcrowding crisis

David Gauke, former Conservative lord chancellor, has said longer jail terms have been a “knee jerk” policy response to show government action

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Author: Jabed Ahmed

Penal populism has broken Britain’s prisons

Lazy “tough on crime” rhetoric has led to a crisis of overcrowding.

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Author: David Gauke

Starmer vows to ‘spend more’ on UK defence but other areas face cuts

Departments asked to model savings of up to 11% as government battles chronic squeeze on public finances

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Author: George Parker

Badenoch accused of competing with Farage to ‘fawn’ over Trump

Kemi Badenoch has been accused of “competing with Nigel Farage to fawn over Donald Trump” in a speech to a right-wing conference.

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Author: By Amelia Jenne

Celeb hotspot ‘destroyed’ in huge blaze after fire erupted from ‘pizza oven’

A FIRE that destroyed the Chiltern Firehouse and forced 100 people to evacuate erupted from a pizza oven. The celebrity hotspot in Marylebone, central London, was engulfed in flames on Friday eveni…

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Author: Milad Sherzad

Kent pub shooting: CCTV captures sound of gunshots

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Author: Sky News

British soldiers ‘needlessly at risk’ if sent to Ukraine without defence spending increase

Extra spending ‘vital’ if UK troops are to join peacekeeping mission, Starmer warned by former defence secretaries

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Author: Amy Gibbons

Kemi Badenoch: Western civilisation may fall without Tories

The Conservative leader has warned that British culture and identity is being eroded by migrants, adding that ‘some cultures are better than others’

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Author: Aubrey Allegretti, Chief Political Correspondent

UK weather: Is the cold coming to an end?

It has been a cold month so far but much milder weather is on the way.

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Author: @bbcweather

Badenoch likens Conservatives to Trump’s Maga movement

Tory leader says party is in ‘crisis’ and needs to reinvent itself after election defeat

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Author: Lucy Fisher

Freezing rain forecast before ‘spring-like’ temperatures in parts of the UK

Temperatures are expected to reach 15-16C for parts of the UK after wind and rain predicted by the Met Office.

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Author: Lauren Del Fabbro

Moment woman screams ‘he’s killed her’ after mum shot dead outside pub

CCTV footage near the Three Horseshoes Pub in Knockholt, Kent, captured a woman screaming: ‘He’s killed her!’

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Author: Sarah Hooper

Streeting says ‘hell of a lot’ still to do after PM says NHS has met its two million extra appointments pledge

Health secretary said he is not doing ‘victory laps’ as Labour says it has met its manifesto promise early

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Author: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/martin-belam,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/deniscampbell

Police search for man who was ‘dragged down Bury New Road’ during robbery

Three men wearing black are believed to have targeted the victim

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Author: Stephen Topping

Wolves’ reintroduction to Highlands could help native woodlands, says study

Researchers say the animals could keep red deer numbers under control, leading to storage of 1m tonnes of CO2

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Author: Guardian staff reporter

‘Six out of 10’: Iceland boss and Labour backer grades UK government

Richard Walker laments record so far but welcomes more upbeat tone, planning reforms and move to better EU trading ties

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Author: Jasper Jolly

Regional growth and regeneration to be sparked by cash boost for Wales’ critical culture projects

The funding is the latest step in the Plan for Change to deliver economic growth across the country

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Author: Wales Office

Gang ‘ambushes’ hospital A&E after boy, 16, stabbed in broad daylight

Police have launched an investigation after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed in broad daylight before a group of people ambushed a hospital

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Author: Zahra Khaliq, Paige Ingram

Police investigated over man’s death after officers attend reports of child being assaulted

The Independent Office for Police Conduct is investigating after a 45-year-old man died when police officers responded to reports of a child being assaulted.