Baptista Adjei, from North Woolwich, was killed on Thursday afternoon in Stratford
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing a schoolboy to death outside a shopping centre in broad daylight, the Metropolitan police have said.
Police said that the teenager handed himself in to an east London police station on Friday, and was arrested on suspicion of murder. He remains in custody.
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Boris Johnson has signalled that he will make a last-ditch U-turn on his plans for the Irish border, setting up 48 hours of intense negotiations that will make or break a Brexit deal.
On a day of rapid movement in talks, EU sources said the prime minister had conceded that there could not be a customs border on the island of Ireland – a critical step away from his previous position.
Continue reading...40-year-old man detained over attack that put three people in hospital with stab wounds
A man has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after several people were stabbed in Manchester’s Arndale shopping centre, sending bystanders running for their lives.
Three people were stabbed and taken to hospital after the attack on Friday morning, police said. Two other people were assessed, one was treated at the scene and the other later went to hospital with a superficial wound.
Continue reading...Picture revealed as files relating to misconduct claims due to be handed to police watchdog
The first meeting with Boris Johnson that Jennifer Arcuri described as an “electrifying” encounter was caught on camera, the Guardian can reveal.
The picture emerged as files relating to allegations of misconduct against the prime minister over his links to the US businesswoman were due to be handed to the police watchdog.
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The Pro-Brexit Tory MP, Nigel Evans, has said members of the Eurosceptic European Research Group could vote for concessions on Northern Ireland if the DUP was in favour.
“I think it is very difficult to get it through without the DUP, but we have seen a shift from the DUP already,” he said according to PA.
“We’re going to look at the detail - none of us know.
“I believe it is three dimensional poker and we’re playing very high risk stakes here.
ITV’s Joe Pike has been told that the Labour defector, Angela Smith, now a Lib Dem MP, plans to stand against the Tory backbench shop steward Graham Brady.
She faces a tough battle: In 2017 Brady secured a majority of more than 6,000 votes over Labour with the LibDems a very distant third.
Angela Smith says: ‘Me and the @LibDems are confident we stand an excellent chance of winning the seat.’
The Altrincham constituency leans Remain and Sir Graham Brady is pro-Brexit.
Profits on social media app surged by more than 50% to £797m in latest tax year
Facebook’s UK operations paid £28m in tax last year despite attracting a record £1.6bn in British sales.
The social media company’s latest UK accounts show that gross income from advertisers rose almost 30% last year to £1.65bn, and pretax profits surged by more than 50% from £63m to £97m.
Continue reading...Husband of jailed British-Iranian hopes Gabriella’s return ‘unlocks another’
The five-year-old daughter of the imprisoned British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has returned to the UK.
Gabriella was living with her grandparents in Tehran and visiting her mother in prison in an attempt to minimise the trauma inflicted upon the family, while her father, Richard Ratcliffe, campaigned for his wife’s release. She was arrested three-and-a-half years ago on spying charges, which she denies.
Continue reading...A 15-year-old and an 18-year-old stabbed to death in attacks in Stratford and Camberwell
Two teenagers have been fatally stabbed within hours of each other in London.
A 15-year-old boy was stabbed to death outside a busy shopping centre in Stratford, east London, shortly after 3pm on Thursday.
Continue reading...Taoiseach ‘convinced’ UK and Ireland want an agreement in interests of all parties
Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar have agreed there is a “pathway to a possible Brexit deal”, surprising sceptical EU officials with their upbeat assessment after more than three hours of private talks.
The British prime minister hosted his Irish counterpart at a country house in the north-west of England for talks on Thursday that had been expected to break down. But when the pair emerged from discussions they painted a more optimistic picture, suggesting the Brexit logjam could be broken by the end of the month.
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Brexit party MEPs vote against plans to address Russian propaganda
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A few key dates for the diary:
Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay will meet the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, in Brussels on Friday when they are expected to assess whether there are the grounds to move forward.
Continue reading...Fifty arrested at City airport in London, including a former Paralympian who climbed on top of a BA aircraft
More than 1,000 people have been arrested since the start of Extinction Rebellion’s protests this week in London, including 50 who were detained at City airport.
Those arrested at the airport on Thursday included James Brown, a partially-sighted former Paralympian who climbed on top of a British Airways aircraft, while another man, who boarded a flight to Dublin and stood up to speak about the effects of the climate crisis, was held for failing to comply with the orders of a captain.
Continue reading...Columnist attacked outside pub in north London while celebrating birthday
Three men have been charged over a late-night assault on Guardian journalist Owen Jones outside a pub in Islington, north London.
The Met police said James Healy, 39, from Portsmouth; Liam Tracey, 34, from Camden, London; and Charlie Ambrose, 29, from Brighton, had been charged with actual bodily harm and affray.
Continue reading...Prosecutors criticised over jailing of Eritrean man wrongly identified as human trafficker
Italian investigators who pursued a case against an Eritrean man accused of being one of the world’s most-wanted human traffickers in a case of mistaken identity were guilty of “serious neglect”, judges in Sicily have said.
In a 400-page judicial report, the court of assizes traced the three-year ordeal of Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe, a 30-year-old refugee released from an Italian jail in July.
Continue reading...Vardy suggests someone else with access to her Instagram account could have leaked stories to the Sun
Rebekah Vardy has said she is calling in forensic computer experts to examine who had access to her Instagram account following an extraordinary dispute with fellow footballer’s wife Coleen Rooney over the leaking of private information to the Sun.
Vardy, who was on holiday in Dubai with her footballer husband, Jamie, when the story broke, has denied claims that she provided the stories to the newspaper – despite apparently being caught in an elaborate sting operation that involved Rooney posting fake updates to see which appeared in the media.
Continue reading...Footage streamed by gunman shows him becoming frustrated at malfunctioning weapons
The deadly attack carried out by a masked gunman in eastern Germany would have ended with many more victims if his homemade firearms had not malfunctioned, footage broadcast on a livestreaming platform suggests.
The gunman, who tried to force his way into a synagogue in the town of Halle on Wednesday before killing two people, broadcast his rampage on the Twitch platform.
Continue reading...Top child psychiatrist appeals to Johnson over Home Office’s ‘almost callous’ decision
A leading children’s psychiatrist plans to quit the NHS and move to Australia because of the Home Office’s “almost callous” refusal to let his mother stay in Britain.
Dr Nishchint Warikoo, the lead psychiatrist for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) in Hampshire, said he and his family were being “forced to leave” the UK in order to stay together.
Continue reading...Police investigation under way after blaze on Springfield Street on Wednesday afternoon
Two men have died in a fire at a working men’s club in Lancashire, police have said.
They were rescued from the fire at the Gordon working men’s club in Morecambe, but died a short time later. Lancashire police said they were in the process of contacting next of kin.
Continue reading...Parents of 19-year-old killed in collision to try to force Anne Sacoolas back from US
Donald Trump has said US authorities will speak to the wife of one of its diplomats suspected of involvement in the death of a British teenage motorcyclist to “see what we can come up with to do some healing”.
The president’s comments to reporters on Wednesday night followed a call from Boris Johnson in which the prime minister asked him to waive immunity for the woman and as the teenager’s family announced they will start a civil action to try to force her back to the UK for questioning.
Continue reading...Investigators say it is unclear whether wound happened before or after its death
A humpback whale that died after swimming into the Thames was hit by a ship, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has said.
However, it is not clear whether the wound on the juvenile female was inflicted before or after its death.
Continue reading...After being fined for blocking oil refinery traffic, Daniel Hooper, once the public face of green activism, applauds new generation
More than two decades after Britain saw its first widespread environmental protests, Extinction Rebellion is the latest in the vanguard.
But while campaign groups have come and gone, it’s business as usual for Daniel Hooper, the veteran eco-warrior known as Swampy who says the latest protests give him “hope”.
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