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Five people arrested after being stabbed at late-night party in London
May 17, 2025Brooke Davies Published May 17, 2025 12:40pm Updated May 17, 2025 3:58pm Five people who were taken to hospital after they were stabbed at a music event in south east London have all been arrested. Emergency services were called to Nathan Way, Thamesmead, at 4.19am today after five people were stabbed. Five people were taken […]
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UK, Sweden and Israel compete in Eurovision final
May 17, 2025Sweden, the UK and Israel will compete in the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest final in Switzerland. British girl group Remember Monday, with the genre-shifting What The Hell Just Happened? inspired by their friendship after they met at school in Hampshire, will be the eighth performance on Saturday night in Basel. There has also been speculation […]
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Rachel Reeves faces call from her local Labour party to abandon welfare cuts
May 17, 2025Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks with the media at the Rolls-Royce factory in Derby. (Darren Staples/PA) PA Wire Rachel Reeves’s local Labour party will demand that the Chancellor abandons her plans to cut disability benefits. The Leeds West and Pudsey Constituency Labour Party (CLP), which campaigned to return Ms Reeves to Parliament in […]
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What we know about the father and two firefighters killed in fire at ex-RAF base
May 16, 2025Two firefighters and a “selfless” father have been killed in a fire at a former RAF base. Firefighters Jennie Logan, 30, and Martyn Sadler, 38, died after explosions were heard at Bicester Motion on Thursday. David Chester, 57, from Bicester, was also killed. Here is what PA knows about the victims: Mr Chester’s family-run groundworks […]
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Youngsters the focus as Sturgeon hits campaign trail ahead of by-election
May 16, 2025Nicola Sturgeon will hit the campaign trail in the Hamilton by-election on Saturday, touting the SNP’s record on young people. The former first minister will make her first public appearance in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse Holyrood constituency ahead of the June 5 poll sparked by the death of Scottish Government minister Christina McKelvie. She […]
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Starmer signals youth mobility scheme with EU would not cross red line
May 16, 2025Sir Keir Starmer has signalled that a youth mobility scheme would not cross Labour’s red line on freedom of movement with the EU. The Prime Minister said youth mobility is “not freedom of movement” ahead of a UK-EU summit in London on Monday which is part of efforts to “reset” relations after Brexit. Reports suggest […]
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Campaigner wins court battle that could see Brockwell Park festivals cancelled
May 16, 2025Upcoming music festivals set for a south London park will have to be cancelled, lawyers for a campaigner have said after she won a High Court challenge over its use. Brockwell Park, near Herne Hill, hosts a series of events called Brockwell Live, attracting hundreds of thousands of people to six festivals including Mighty Hoopla. […]
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Boy, 14, ‘stabbed in front of shoppers’ on Walthamstow street
May 16, 2025Witnesses described scenes of ‘chaos’ as paramedics battled to save a schoolboy who suffered multiple stab wounds in front of shoppers on a busy east London street. A cafe worker told Metro: ‘It was chaos. There are lots of shops and cafes which were busy and obviously school children coming home. ‘There was some shouting […]
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Londoners charged £1,000 to park outside their home forced to ‘give up’ their cars
May 16, 2025Londoners are paying more than £1,000 per year to park outside of their home with some forced to give up their vehicles. Islington has the most expensive residents parking permit in the whole UK, with some paying up to £1,073 for an older diesel car. This is around ten times more expensive than the rest […]
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I’m on ‘better side’ of my cancer journey, says Charles during Bradford visit
May 16, 2025The King has spoken candidly about his cancer treatment saying he would like to think he is on the “better side” of his journey. Charles comments were made to a former cancer patient he met during an away-day with the Queen to Bradford to celebrate its status as the UK’s City of Culture. The King […]
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