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Twenty councillors at a local authority in Nottinghamshire have quit Labour, saying the party has “abandoned traditional Labour values” under Keir Starmer’s leadership.

The move means that Labour has lost overall control of Broxtowe borough council, which it gained in 2023, and those defecting include the council leader, Milan Radulovic, …

“Some people say the way your year starts is how the year is going to be, so I’m expecting some adventures, I’ll be like Indiana Jones,” said Alina Abroutkouki.

The 40-year-old interior designer spent the first night of the new year sleeping in Didsbury mosque, having been evacuated from her …

The main timetable is set: no new petrol and diesel cars will be allowed to be sold in the UK after 2030, and sales of all new hybrids will be forbidden from 2035. But that phasing still leaves open the critical matter – for the automotive industry, and for a …

Paddy Hill, who has died aged 80, was the angriest and most articulate of the Birmingham Six – the innocent men convicted in 1975 of the Birmingham pub bombings. The explosions in two city centre pubs in 1974 killed 21 people and injured many more, and took place at a …

A man who was among four pedestrians hit by a car on Christmas Day in London’s West End has died in hospital, the Metropolitan police said. They named him as Aidan Chapman.

Chapman, 25, was seriously injured in the incident on Shaftesbury Avenue and died on New Year’s Eve. Police …

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Israeli airstrikes killed at least 43 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including 11 people in the sprawling al-Mawasi tent encampment designated as a humanitarian safe zone for civilians.

Among those killed in the al-Mawasi strike was the director general of Gaza’s police department, Mahmoud Salah, and his deputy, …

Italy’s foreign ministry summoned the Iranian ambassador on Wednesday and urged the immediate release of an Italian journalist held in solitary confinement in Tehran.

Cecilia Sala, a 29-year-old freelance journalist for Il Foglio newspaper and a podcaster, reportedly spoke of the harsh conditions of her detainment in the notorious Evin …

“Glasgow city centre seems to be dying,” says Anne Gibb, perched on a stone bollard on Sauchiehall Street, watching the Christmas shoppers hustle by. Ahead of her, the human stream parted around yet another segment of the precinct that had been fenced off as contractors dug up paving.

“At one …

Funds raised by increasing council tax bills for second-home owners in Cornwall and Devon are to be used to boost police patrols across the two counties.

Devon and Cornwall police could receive up to £6m when local authorities in their region double council tax rates for holiday homes from April.