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Colleagues of a 19-year-old soldier found dead in her barracks room after allegedly being sexually assaulted by an officer twice her age have strongly criticised how her complaint about the incident was dealt with.

One colleague of Gunner Jaysley Beck confirmed at her inquest he was “incensed” that Warrant Officer …

A consultant paediatrician warned medical colleagues treating her son that they had failed to give him life-saving antibiotics hours before he died from sepsis, an inquest has heard.

William Hewes, 22, a history and politics student, died on 21 January 2023 of meningococcal septicaemia at east London’s Homerton hospital, where …

The start of the Munich security conference has a habit of being disrupted by a display of power by Vladimir Putin. In 2022, the transatlantic security establishment gathered in the knowledge that Putin was days from launching his attack on Kyiv. In 2023, the opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in …

The government seemed to give a strong steer that it wanted the Competition and Markets Authority to do things differently when it

ousted its chair

His headline demand that

The agenda for the Middleton St George parish council meeting was quite dull: village show costs, condition of footpaths and a quote for a flagpole inspection.

But the meeting itself was more lively, with two councillors exchanging insults before a“wrestling match” that led to scratches, bleeding, a bruised finger and …

The Norwegian parliament has voted to open up protected rivers to hydropower plants, prompting fury from conservation groups who fear for the fate of fish and other wildlife.

The bill allows power plants bigger than 1MW to be built in protected waterways if the societal benefit is “significant” and the …

The first thing Olena Litovchenko thought, when she read the news of

Donald Trump’s phone call to Vladimir Putin

“It feels like Ukraine is being screwed,” said Litovchenko, a personal trainer who …

In his ghostwritten 1987 bestseller, The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump delivers his own version of the American Dream. Get as much as you can for yourself. There’s always someone out there who’s stupider than you. Any attention is better than none. Promise people the Earth even if you …

The Israeli government has signalled it intends to stick to the hostage release schedule agreed in the ceasefire deal with Hamas, but warned that if the anticipated three surviving hostages were not released on Saturday, it would go back to war in Gaza.

The statement from the prime minister’s office …

My friend and former colleague Alan McCarthy, who has died aged 69 of cancer, was a microbiologist at Liverpool University and was also involved in the running of the Council for At-Risk Academics (Cara), a body that supports academics who have fled from their homelands as refugees.

He began …