Day: August 5, 2024
UK riots live: 400 arrested over violent disorder as Keir Starmer puts ‘standing army’ of police on alert
August 5, 2024Home secretary’s warning to rioters: ‘You are a total disgrace and there will be reckoning’ For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Over 400 people have been arrested after far-right violence swept across the country, […]
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Why are people rioting across England and how many are involved?
August 5, 2024Riots have spread across numerous cities and towns in England, and in Belfast in Northern Ireland, over the last week in the worst outbreak of civil disorder in Britain for 13 years. More than 400 people have been arrested since anti-immigrant and far-right unrest erupted after the murder of three young girls in Southport in […]
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Met Police chief was ‘in a hurry’ after throwing Sky News journalist’s microphone
August 5, 2024The Metropolitan Police has said its commissioner was “in a hurry” after he grabbed a Sky News journalist’s microphone and threw it to the ground. Sir Mark Rowley grabbed part of the microphone and discarded it as he walked off after Sky News journalist Rob Catherall asked if he was “going to end two-tier policing”. […]
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Banksy unveils mystery new artwork in London
August 5, 2024Jasper KingPublished Aug 5, 2024, 2:37pm|Updated Aug 5, 2024, 5:11pm Banksy has confirmed that he is behind a new piece of work that has appeared in London. The piece, located on Kew Green in Kew, West London, shows a mountain goat precariously balancing on a pillar as rocks falls below it. But just two hours […]
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Great Britain medal hope Molly Caudery bows out in pole vault qualification
August 5, 2024Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news British medal favourite Molly Caudery vowed to learn from her Olympic debut after crashing out of the qualification session with a no mark. The reigning […]
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PM warns anyone whipping up online violence to face full force of law after Elon Musk ‘civil war’ comments
August 5, 2024Anyone whipping up violence online will face the full force of the law, the prime minister’s spokesman has warned, after Elon Musk said “civil war is inevitable” following days of rioting in the UK. Musk, the billionaire owner of X, made the comments on the social media platform below a video of rioters setting off […]
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UK’s top police officer storms out of Cobra meeting about riots and grabs mic
August 5, 2024To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video This is the awkward moment the head of the Metropolitan Police stormed out of the government’s Cobra emergency response meeting at Downing Street. Footage shows Sir Mark Rowley’s snatching a journalist’s microphone cover as he rushes out of […]
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‘Unique opportunity’ to see Italian Renaissance drawings in London
August 5, 2024About 160 works from more than 80 artists including Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian and Leonardo da Vinci are to go on display in what has been described as the widest-ranging exhibition of Italian Renaissance drawings to be staged in the UK. Taken from the royal collection, the exhibition, which opens at the King’s Gallery at Buckingham […]
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Man attempts 300 press-ups every day for a year to remember mum who had MS
August 5, 2024A software engineer is attempting to do 300 press-ups every day this year to raise £10,000 for charity and remember his mother, who had multiple sclerosis (MS) and died in May. Alex Welford, 25, from Bristol, has challenged himself to complete 100,000 press-ups over the year to raise money for the MS Society, a charity […]
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Hospital reopens emergency department to new admissions after power restored
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