Day: June 9, 2026
As Belfast burned, I was berated for not taking the knee at Tommy Robinson rally
June 9, 2026Brooke Davies Published June 9, 2026 10:26pm Updated June 9, 2026 10:32pm To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video If you weren’t ‘taking a knee for Henry Nowak’ outside Parliament this evening, someone’s angry finger and their iPhone was soon in your face demanding […]
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Train passenger who harassed woman sentenced in first prosecution under new law
June 9, 2026A train passenger who grabbed a young woman’s hair and asked “can I kiss you?” has been sentenced in the first conviction for harassment based on a person’s sex. David Stroud made sexually motivated comments to his victim on a train to London on April 3, two days after a new law came into force […]
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Serena returns: Williams begins her comeback in doubles at Queen’s Club
June 9, 2026Serena Williams is back on a professional tennis court. The 44-year-old Williams was given a standing ovation as she walked onto the grass court at Queen’s Club on Tuesday for her first-round doubles match together with 19-year-old Canadian Victoria Mboko. They were playing third-seeded duo Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe in Williams’ first professional match […]
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Two men jailed for violent disorder after protests over Henry Nowak’s murder
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Baby murder trial told: ‘We can’t bring Preston back’
June 9, 2026Varley denies murder, manslaughter, two counts of assault by penetration, five counts of cruelty to a child, grievous bodily harm, sexual assault of a child, 13 counts of taking indecent photos or videos of a child, one of distributing an indecent photo of a child, to his co-accused, and one of making an indecent photo.
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Tories ‘killed’ North Sea, claims Farage during Scotland visit
June 9, 2026The Conservatives “killed the North Sea”, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has claimed ahead of the Aberdeen South by-election. The contest, triggered by the resignation of former SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn following his election to Holyrood, has increasingly become a battle over the oil and gas sector, given the city’s status as the energy […]
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Appeals for calm as social media stokes tensions after Belfast attack
June 9, 2026Northern Ireland’s police chief urged people not to “duped” into violent disorder by social media in the wake of the Belfast knife attack. A Sudanese man who was given leave to remain in the UK until 2028 has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the attack. The victim, aged in his 40s, was […]
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Rhodri Talfan Davies confirmed as BBC’s deputy director-general
June 9, 2026Former BBC interim chief Rhodri Talfan Davies has been appointed as the corporations’s deputy director-general. Mr Davies, 55, stood in as the BBC’s interim director-general, following the resignation of Tim Davie in April, and headed the corporation until former Google boss Matt Brittin took over in May. Originally from Cardiff, the media executive has worked […]
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World Cup: England and Scotland fans warned they risk arrest in US over holding a pint or open can in public
June 9, 2026England and Scotland fans heading to the World Cup have been warned by the Government that they could be arrested for holding a pint of beer or open can in public in America. Most states in America have strict or partial “open container” laws which ban drinking, or even having an open can, in the […]
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Palantir to sue Sadiq Khan over blocked £50m Met police contract
June 9, 2026Palantir intends to sue the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, after he blocked a contract between the US spy-tech firm and the Metropolitan police. The Met had planned to use Palantir’s software to automate intelligence analysis in criminal investigations, until Khan intervened in late May, sparking a row between the UK’s largest police force and the […]
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