Police called to address on Princes Road in Great Yarmouth on Saturday where they found the victim
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman’s body was found at a property in Norfolk.
Police were called to the address on Princes Road in Great Yarmouth at 9.11am on Saturday. They found the victim inside.
Continue reading...Regulator’s review will look at evidence and options on how universal postal service ‘might need to evolve’
Royal Mail could be allowed to end Saturday postal deliveries as part of Ofcom’s review into how the service may need to be reformed.
Next week, Ofcom will publish a document outlining “potential options for the future of the universal postal service”.
Continue reading...Powers bestowed by the Criminal Finances Act 2017 are not being used effectively, say critics
HMRC has not charged a single company under landmark legislation passed six years ago to crack down on corporate tax evasion.
Critics say the data, released under freedom of information laws to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and TaxWatch, suggests that HMRC is undermining its own deterrents against corporate tax evasion by failing to use its criminal enforcement powers.
Continue reading...Shadow foreign secretary tries to continue as demonstrators shout and criticise Labour’s stance on Israel-Gaza war
A keynote speech by David Lammy at a Labour-linked thinktank’s conference has been disrupted by protesters who held Palestinian flags as they shouted “ceasefire now”.
As security officials at London’s Guildhall rushed to take the first two individuals out of the building, another three protesters began shouting and criticising Labour’s stance on the Israel-Gaza war as Lammy attempted to continue his speech at the Fabian Society event.
Continue reading...West Yorkshire police appeal for information over fatal incident as man, 25, is bailed pending further inquiries
A woman who died after falling from a moving van in Wakefield has been named by police as Leah Senior.
Senior, 27, from Huddersfield, was seen falling from a white Transit van on Denby Dale Road on Wednesday evening.
Continue reading...Police confirm they are not looking for anyone else in connection with incident after four people found dead
Police failed to attend a 999 call made from a house where four people, including two young children, were subsequently found dead.
Norfolk police said it was contacted by a man at the address at about 6am on Friday but no officers were deployed.
Continue reading...Around 900 of the estimated 11,100 job losses in the workforce last year were in the UK’s £5bn a year industry
Mass redundancies in the video game industry, with thousands of developers losing their jobs, have led to a record surge in workers joining unions, organisers have told the Observer.
The fledgling Game Workers branch of the IWGB union saw its membership jump by almost half between December 2022 and December 2023 as job cuts worsened in the sector, including at the studios behind bestselling games such as Fifa, Skyrim and The Witcher.
Continue reading...Nobody seems to know mystery organisation that funded YouGov survey but its agenda is clear
At the centre of this week’s mega-poll that projected an election wipeout for the Conservatives there lurked both a mystery and a statement of the obvious. Who was behind it? No one seemed to know. But what do they want? Seemingly, a change from Rishi Sunak.
It is a sign of Sunak’s plight that the poll – fronted by a Tory peer and explicitly framed as showing the prime minister’s policies are leading the party into doom – was not even the greatest act of disloyalty in a week when 60 backbenchers voted to amend his flagship migration policy.
Continue reading...Shadow foreign secretary says Israeli president must explain how post-conflict Gaza will operate
The shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, has described Benjamin Netanyahu’s opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state when the war in the Middle East ends as “unacceptable”.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, he echoed Keir Starmer’s reaction to Netanyahu’s stance. Lammy said: “We are committed to the recognition of a Palestinian state. We want to work with international partners to achieve that.”
Continue reading...Safeguarding staff say they can’t get referrals for serious cases and don’t have the expertise to give pupils the help they need
Increasing numbers of children suffering from domestic abuse, serious neglect and homelessness are being refused help from over-stretched social services, schools across England have told the Observer.
Child protection cases that would automatically have prompted intervention from social workers a few years ago are now routinely being passed back to schools to deal with themselves. The inability to obtain help for children whom schools think are in urgent need is taking such an emotional toll on education staff, who say they have neither the expertise nor the resources to cope, that some schools are bringing in counsellors to prevent their safeguarding teams becoming traumatised.
Continue reading...Payments halted four times and left Eileen McGrath without income over Christmas
A retired teacher has had her pension payments stopped four times because her pension provider repeatedly refuses to accept that she is not dead.
Eileen McGrath, 85, was left without income over Christmas when Teachers’ Pensions, which administers payments on behalf of the UK government, wrongly matched her with a deceased stranger.
Continue reading...Dental union says region will be ‘disproportionately’ affected by EU amalgam phase-out as health service is weakest in UK
Concerns have been raised about the future availability of silver dental fillings in Northern Ireland due to an imminent phasing out of the amalgam across the EU.
The plan to phase out amalgam by 1 January next year will apply in Northern Ireland as a result of Brexit trading arrangements and will also affect dental care in other parts of the UK, dentist representatives said.
Continue reading...President accused of allowing country to become a target because of ‘complicity in bloodshed of Gaza’
The Cyprus government is facing growing criticism over British military bases on the island being used by UK and US forces to stage airstrikes on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
President Nicos Christodoulides has been accused by activists of turning a blind eye to the risks the EU’s most easterly state might confront if the strategic facilities on the island continue to be deployed in military operations.
Continue reading...Ex-PM backs disgraced former US president ahead of election, saying he ‘won’t ditch the Ukrainians’
Boris Johnson has backed Donald Trump ahead of November’s US presidential election, saying his return to the White House could be “just what the world needs”.
In his weekly Daily Mail column, the former prime minister argued that if Trump backs Ukraine in its war against Russia, his renewed leadership “can be a big win for the world”.
Continue reading...Treasury committee writes to 21 bodies including Bank of England and HMRC to demand details of post-2019 deals
Fujitsu’s receipt of lucrative government contracts despite its role in the Post Office Horizon scandal has come under greater scrutiny after the Treasury committee wrote to organisations including the Bank of England and HM Revenue and Customs to demand details of their contracts with the tech company.
The influential group of MPs told 21 public bodies, including the Treasury itself, to provide information on work given to the Japanese-owned company since 2019, when the high court ruled there had been dozens of bugs and errors in its Horizon IT system.
Continue reading...Sarah Grochala’s Intelligence follows Lovelace’s attempts to be taken seriously as a scientist in 1840s London
A play about the reincarnation of the Victorian computing pioneer Ada Lovelace has won this year’s Women’s prize for playwriting.
Intelligence, by Sarah Grochala, follows Lovelace’s attempts to forge a career for herself as a serious scientist in 1840s London and being continually obstructed by men.
Continue reading...Britain faces ‘dangerous climate’ as online propaganda and referrals to Prevent surge, says policing leader
The conflict in the Middle East has led to a surge in Islamist activity, with online terrorist propaganda rocketing and new individuals feared to have been radicalised, the head of counter-terrorism policing has said.
Metropolitan police assistant commissioner Matt Jukes, who is head of the UK Counter Terrorism Policing network, said the events had led to a “dangerous climate” with indications of a rising threat, after Hamas’s atrocity against Israel on 7 October last year led to a sustained Israeli assault on Gaza with heavy civilian casualties still continuing.
Continue reading...Labour leader says Israeli PM’s comments are unacceptable and Palestinian statehood not in his gift
Keir Starmer has criticised Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he is “wrong” to reject moves to establish a Palestinian state.
The Labour leader stepped up criticism of Israel’s government, after Netanyahu told the White House that he rejects any moves to establish a Palestinian state when Israel ends its offensive in Gaza, and that all territory west of the Jordan River would be under Israeli security control.
Continue reading...Documents reveal humanitarian law investigation was far more intensive than David Cameron suggested
UK Foreign Office legal advisers were unable to conclude that Israel was in compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL) in its bombardment of Gaza, court documents reveal.
After reviewing specific potential breaches of IHL cited in a report by Amnesty International, the Foreign Office initially concluded it had “serious concerns” about breaches.
Continue reading...Officers find 45-year-old man, 36-year-old woman and two girls at a home in Costessey near Norwich
Four members of the same family have been found dead at a home in a Norfolk town, police have said.
Officers forced their way into the home in Costessey near Norwich on Friday morning at 7.15am after a call from a member of the public, and found a 45-year-old man, a 36-year-old woman and two young girls whose ages officers have not released.
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