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Man ‘carrying a gun’ at Elm Park Underground station arrested during rush hour

June 19, 2025

Katie Boyden Published June 19, 2025 3:08pm Updated June 19, 2025 3:51pm A man has been arrested after reportedly being spotted carrying a gun on the London Underground. The 61-year-old was arrested at Elm Park station in east London just after 7am. British Transport Police were alerted and the station was closed during the operation. […]

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Man who filmed himself raping woman has ‘unduly lenient’ sentence increased

June 19, 2025

A man who filmed himself raping a vulnerable woman after a night out before claiming she had “forced” him to commit the offence has had his prison sentence increased after the Court of Appeal ruled it was “unduly lenient”. Gagandeep Gulati, 20, sent some of the nine videos he took of the attack in Leicester […]

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Israel-Iran war: Starmer urges Trump not to attack Tehran’s nuclear sites with bunker-busting bombs

June 19, 2025

Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday urged Donald Trump not to attack Iran’s nuclear sites as he warned that the war with Israel could spiral beyond the Middle East. Amid a growing expectation of US air strikes on Iran and a widening rift between Washington and London, the Prime Minister repeated his call for “de-escalation”. But […]

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Chaos at London station after man allegedly spotted with gun

June 19, 2025

Police raced to a London Tube station after receiving reports of a man allegedly armed with a gun during the morning rush hour. The shocking incident unfolded shortly after 7am on Thursday at Elm Park station, on the busy District Line, prompting authorities to swiftly shut down the station. A 61-year-old man was arrested on […]

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Lillie Clack: Distraught friend tells of terror before 100mph car crash that killed ‘popular princess’

June 19, 2025

A woman has spoken of her terror before the overloaded car she was a passenger in crashed at 100mph on Christmas Day, killing her friend. Drink driver Charlie Hilton, 25, was chased by police before his Mercedes hit a tree, flipped over and burst into flames early on December 25, 2021. Lillie Clack, 21, was […]

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Maintenance fund to give £9bn a year to fix schools, hospitals and prisons

June 19, 2025

At least £9 billion a year will go to tackling the “soaring maintenance backlog” and fixing crumbling schools, hospitals and prisons over the next decade under the Government’s infrastructure strategy, a minister has confirmed. Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones said £6 billion a year would go to repairing hospitals, £3 billion to schools […]

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Defenceless’ grandad, John Murray, 75, found beaten to death in his Chiswick home

June 19, 2025

The family of a grandad found dead at home have said they are ‘devastated and in complete shock’ after detectives launched a murder investigation. John Murray, 75, died in Chiswick in October last year. A post-mortem held that month gave a cause of death as a head injury. But a pathology examination later found it […]

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Jack Draper moves on from ‘looking like a Ferrari that broke down like a Toyota’

June 18, 2025

Jack Draper says he no longer looks like a Ferrari but breaks down like a Toyota after stepping up his Wimbledon preparations by reaching the quarter-finals at Queen’s Club. The British number one almost blew a gasket when he dropped the opening set to tricky Australian world number 21 Alexei Popyrin. But despite feeling under […]

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How HS2 squandered billions to become a national embarrassment

June 18, 2025

HS2 will provide more track, more trains, more seats and faster journeys to improve performance and reliability across Britain’s rail network.” So says the hitherto dysfunctional organisation that has squandered billions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash with precious little to show for it. A more accurate claim might be: “We have an unlimited pot of […]

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British-Iranians struggling to contact friends and family who fear punishment by Tehran regime

June 18, 2025

With Iran now in the midst of a near-total internet blackout, communication is dire – but we’ve managed to piece together a picture of a country where there is fear and panic, but where activists say the ruling regime is still in control. We meet British-Iranians Amir Javadzadeh and Attieh Fard in the UK – […]

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