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Officials are looking into whether a man who took part in a Remembrance Sunday ceremony dressed as a high-ranking navy officer was a fake. The man was involved in the wreath laying in Llandudno, Conwy county on Sunday www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Suspected fake admiral at Llandudno Remembrance event investigated
Members of the Royal Naval Association in Llandudno spotted a man wearing an unusual uniform.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Based on the largest poll of fascists, latent racists and far-right reprobates yet, these charts and maps show five distinct groups that could hand Reform a majority and hark 1930's Nazi Germany within the UK www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party
Based on largest poll of supporters, these charts and maps show five distinct groups that could hand Reform a majority
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November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Trump is asking the #US Supreme Court to review the $5m (£3.6m) civil case that found he defamed and sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll: A New York jury awarded Ms Carroll damages over her civil claim that Trump sexually assaulted her www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn E Jean Carroll verdict
The top court is Trump's last hope of having a jury's unanimous verdict thrown out. Whether it will take the case is unclear.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Two care workers have been charged with the ill-treatment of four people at a mental health unit which featured in an undercove investigation. The Panorama broadcast revealed that patients were humiliated and bullied at the Edenfield Centre in Prestwich www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mental health unit care workers charged after BBC Panorama probe
Two care workers are charged with the ill-treatment of four people at a mental health unit in 2022.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
‘The fear is real’: how Midlands far-right racist attacks have changed Sikh women’s daily lives. Many women are afraid to go out, particularly on their own, after religiously aggravated rapes and assaults www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘The fear is real’: how Midlands attacks have changed Sikh women’s daily lives
Many women are afraid to go out, particularly on their own, after religiously aggravated rapes and assaults
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A #US judge has ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), also known as food stamps, and accused the administration of withholding the food aid "for political reasons" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Snap food benefits - Trump must fully fund aid program by Friday
The federal judge ruled that Trump was choosing to withhold federal food aid due to
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November 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Four senior figures in the #Greek coastguard, including its current commander, are to face criminal prosecution for negligent manslaughter in connection with a 2023 migrant boat disaster in which up to 650 people are thought to have drowned www.bbc.com/news/article...
Greek coastguard chief to be prosecuted over deadly migrant shipwreck
Vice Adm Tryfon Kontizas is one of four senior coastguard figures to face manslaughter charges over the 2023 disaster.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
A record number of referrals were made to the government's controversial anti-terror programme Prevent in the year to March 2025, up 27%. The majority of concerns specified were made for individuals who had "no identified ideology" at 56% www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Record referrals to Prevent anti-terror programme
The number of referrals to the scheme increased 27% in the year to March 2025, according to new data.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Kim Kardashian may be weeks away from finding out if she's passed her law exams, but she says practising divorce law is not in her future www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kim Kardashian: I could never be a divorce lawyer
Kardashian plays a divorce lawyer in drama All's Fair but is more keen on criminal law in real life.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Anthony Williams, 32, from Peterborough, has been charged with 11 counts of attempted murder, one count of actual bodily harm and one count of possession of a bladed article, the Crown Prosecution Service said after incident on Saturday evening www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Man charged after mass stabbing on train in Cambridgeshire
Suspect was arrested after incident on Saturday evening service from Doncaster to London King’s Cross
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November 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
In 2013, Jas Bains was an ambitious young lawyer, enjoying the high life that came with working for an extremely profitable City hedge fund: I blew the whistle on a massive tax fraud - and they sued me www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I blew the whistle on a massive tax fraud - and they sued me
Jas Bains reflects a month on from the end of one of highest value civil cases ever heard in the UK.
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November 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The London Legal Support Trust is calling on the legal community for its most popular fundraising events—the Great Legal Bake and the Great Legal Quiz. The events, which take place in November, raise vital funds free legal advice charities www.newlawjournal.co.uk/content/gear...
Gear up for Pro Bono Week with bake-offs & brain-teasers
The London Legal Support Trust (LLST) is calling on the legal community to don aprons and sharpen their pencils for two of its most popular fundraising events—the Great Legal Bake and the Great Legal ...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
A woman in her 20s has been raped in what police have called a racially aggravated attack by a white man in his 30s. West Midlands Police were called to the Park Hall area of Walsall at about 19:15 BST on Saturday www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Suspect video released after 'racially aggravated' Walsall rape
Police say the woman was attacked on Saturday night in Walsall and have appealed for information.
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October 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM