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Photo of Annabel Rook (left) and a damaged house (right) where a gas explosion took place.
Mother was fatally stabbed before gas explosion

Man arrested on suspicion of murder after Annabel Rook’s body was found inside her home in northeast London

Crime
Jamil Ahmed, convicted of sex offenses, defying deportation order.
Asylum seekers who commit child sex crimes ‘a border security issue’
Politics
Teenage girl looking out a bedroom window at dusk.
Council spent £500,000 to house vulnerable child in unregistered home
Crime
Person sunbathing in a London garden during a heatwave.
Heatwaves topping 40C are Britain’s future, warns Met Office
Environment
Portrait of Sam Innes, a Food and Beverage Assistant at The Waldorf Hilton, standing with his arms crossed.
We don’t see anyone like us in jobs, say people with Down’s syndrome
Companies & Markets
Andrew Tate arriving at a police station in Romania.
YouTube ‘still profits from Tate’s misogyny’ after ban
Person sunbathing in a London garden during a heatwave.
Heatwaves topping 40C are Britain’s future, warns Met Office
Environment
Person sunbathing in a London garden during a heatwave.
Heatwaves topping 40C are Britain’s future, warns Met Office
Environment
Portrait of Sam Innes, a Food and Beverage Assistant at The Waldorf Hilton, standing with his arms crossed.
We don’t see anyone like us in jobs, say people with Down’s syndrome
Companies & Markets
Portrait of Sam Innes, a Food and Beverage Assistant at The Waldorf Hilton, standing with his arms crossed.
We don’t see anyone like us in jobs, say people with Down’s syndrome
Companies & Markets
Andrew Tate arriving at a police station in Romania.
YouTube ‘still profits from Tate’s misogyny’ after ban
Andrew Tate arriving at a police station in Romania.
YouTube ‘still profits from Tate’s misogyny’ after ban
Person sunbathing in a London garden during a heatwave.
Heatwaves topping 40C are Britain’s future, warns Met Office
Environment
Portrait of Sam Innes, a Food and Beverage Assistant at The Waldorf Hilton, standing with his arms crossed.
We don’t see anyone like us in jobs, say people with Down’s syndrome
Companies & Markets
Andrew Tate arriving at a police station in Romania.
YouTube ‘still profits from Tate’s misogyny’ after ban
Person sunbathing in a London garden during a heatwave.
Heatwaves topping 40C are Britain’s future, warns Met Office
Environment
Person sunbathing in a London garden during a heatwave.
Heatwaves topping 40C are Britain’s future, warns Met Office
Environment
Portrait of Sam Innes, a Food and Beverage Assistant at The Waldorf Hilton, standing with his arms crossed.
We don’t see anyone like us in jobs, say people with Down’s syndrome
Companies & Markets
Portrait of Sam Innes, a Food and Beverage Assistant at The Waldorf Hilton, standing with his arms crossed.
We don’t see anyone like us in jobs, say people with Down’s syndrome
Companies & Markets
Andrew Tate arriving at a police station in Romania.
YouTube ‘still profits from Tate’s misogyny’ after ban
Andrew Tate arriving at a police station in Romania.
YouTube ‘still profits from Tate’s misogyny’ after ban
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Politics

HS2 workers observing bridge installation at Interchange station.
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Labour to confirm HS2 delay until 2033 after ‘litany of failure’

Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, is to address MPs as the costly, crisis-hit rail project endures another setback

Transport
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Pro-choice protestors holding a banner that reads "For a Woman's Right to Choose".
MPs vote to decriminalise abortion
Baroness Louise Casey holding a red file folder.
Baroness Casey tells MPs that grooming victims want change
Illustration of Nigel Farage and the Bank of England building with pound notes and coins.
Reform says ‘everything is up for debate’ over Bank of England
Simon Case leaving BBC Broadcasting House after appearing on "Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg."
Simon Case gets a peerage despite ‘partygate’ and Covid criticism
Rachel Reeves outside 11 Downing Street before a cabinet meeting.
Rachel Reeves reconsiders non-dom tax changes to halt exodus
Portrait of Baroness Louise Casey.
Grooming gangs ‘still at large, and the victims aren’t believed’
Crime
Illustration of Nigel Farage and the Bank of England building with pound notes and coins.
Reform says ‘everything is up for debate’ over Bank of England
Simon Case leaving BBC Broadcasting House after appearing on "Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg."
Simon Case gets a peerage despite ‘partygate’ and Covid criticism
Rachel Reeves outside 11 Downing Street before a cabinet meeting.
Rachel Reeves reconsiders non-dom tax changes to halt exodus
Portrait of Baroness Louise Casey.
Grooming gangs ‘still at large, and the victims aren’t believed’
Crime
Pro-choice protestors holding a banner that reads "For a Woman's Right to Choose".
MPs vote to decriminalise abortion
Baroness Louise Casey holding a red file folder.
Baroness Casey tells MPs that grooming victims want change

London

Statue of George Washington.
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George Washington back in Trafalgar Square (but not on British soil)
28 minutes ago
NEW
SKETCHES OF LONDON
This marvellous steam engine museum is firing once again
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Scotland

Helen Joyce and Maya Forstater celebrating a Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act.
Obey Supreme Court on sex or we’ll sue again, feminists warn SNP
Upset schoolboy with his teacher.
Violent pupils to be given cards on how to behave, under SNP plan
a man wearing glasses and a black jacket looks at the camera
Kenny FarquharsonSwinney should stop dancing around the issue of independence
a man wearing glasses and a suit looks at the camera
Magnus LinklaterI didn’t believe how far the NHS had fallen … until I heard from Fiona
Tory leader’s plea to save diaries of his suffragette great aunts
Plan to pay single parents £28,000 benefits without working
Sex equality should’ve been sold better to men, says Cherie Blair
Killer of Scots gangsters is ‘member of rival crime gang’
Collage of a man, historical photos of suffragettes, and a hunger strike medal.
Tory leader’s plea to save diaries of his suffragette great aunts
A single mother playing with her two children on the floor.
Plan to pay single parents £28,000 benefits without working
Cherie Blair speaking at the Scotland 2050 conference.
Sex equality should’ve been sold better to men, says Cherie Blair
Eddie Lyons Jr. and Ross Monaghan at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
Killer of Scots gangsters is ‘member of rival crime gang’
a man wearing glasses and a black jacket looks at the camera
Kenny FarquharsonSwinney should stop dancing around the issue of independence
a man wearing glasses and a suit looks at the camera
Magnus LinklaterI didn’t believe how far the NHS had fallen … until I heard from Fiona

Science

Collage of Pope Francis and the James Webb Space Telescope.
James Webb telescope shows us what the Bible couldn’t, says Pope
Hearts with human cells grown in pigs for the first time
Want your marriage to last? Keep politics out of it

Environment

King Charles III wearing a hard hat and safety vest at a wind turbine factory.
Offshore wind gets £400m windfall from Crown Estate
Water shortage will ‘threaten way of life’, says Environment Agency
Enemies could weaponise new weather technologies against UK

Education

A person rolling a joint.
Pupils taking ketamine and ‘zombie drug’ spice in school, say teachers
Drag queen’s memoir joins English curriculum at top private school
COMMENT
GABRIELLA BENNETT
The Taliban letters show us what learning really is — hope

Law

Mehul Choksi is suing the Indian government over his alleged kidnapping from a Caribbean island
‘Kidnapped’ diamond tycoon sues Indian government in London
‘Gents’ is an unacceptable term in modern workplace, judge says
Why couples are paying judges £10,000 to quietly mediate divorce

Science

Collage of Pope Francis and the James Webb Space Telescope.
James Webb telescope shows us what the Bible couldn’t, says Pope
Hearts with human cells grown in pigs for the first time
Want your marriage to last? Keep politics out of it

Environment

King Charles III wearing a hard hat and safety vest at a wind turbine factory.
Offshore wind gets £400m windfall from Crown Estate
Water shortage will ‘threaten way of life’, says Environment Agency
Enemies could weaponise new weather technologies against UK

Education

A person rolling a joint.
Pupils taking ketamine and ‘zombie drug’ spice in school, say teachers
Drag queen’s memoir joins English curriculum at top private school
COMMENT
GABRIELLA BENNETT
The Taliban letters show us what learning really is — hope

Law

Mehul Choksi is suing the Indian government over his alleged kidnapping from a Caribbean island
‘Kidnapped’ diamond tycoon sues Indian government in London
‘Gents’ is an unacceptable term in modern workplace, judge says
Why couples are paying judges £10,000 to quietly mediate divorce