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A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two men were fatally stabbed at a business in central London. Emergency crews were called to Long Lane, Southwark, at about 1pm on Monday following reports of multiple stabbings inside a commercial property. The Metropolitan Police said four people were treated for stab wounds. A…
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A gunman who killed four people in a New York office block was trying to target the headquarters of the NFL but took the wrong lift, the city’s mayor has said. Eric Adams said it’s believed the attacker was trying to get to the NFL (National Football League) offices after shooting several people in the…
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A private equity fund managed by the world’s biggest institutional investor is plotting the sale of a pensions software provider it bought four years ago. Sky News has learnt that BlackRock’s Long Term Private Capital (LTPC) vehicle is working with bankers on the sale of Heywood, for which it paid about £350m in 2021. City…
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Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party will offer “unapologetically socialist” policies, with the pair to embark on a nationwide tour to listen to ideas, Sky News understands. The former Labour MPs are aiming to hold the party’s first conference in the autumn to help decide what it stands for and models of leadership. Farage…
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Police are warning rock fans at this weekend’s Download festival about the potential for accidental calls while in the mosh pit. Leicestershire Police issued an alert ahead of the event at Donington Park, which begins on Friday. Posting on Facebook, the force said, in previous years, they received “a rise of nearly 700 extra 999…
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British Palestinians have called on Sir Keir Starmer to take “immediate, concrete” steps on Gaza instead of “focusing on a symbolic gesture” of recognising it as a state ahead of an emergency cabinet meeting. The prime minister has recalled his cabinet ministers from parliamentary recess for a meeting at 2pm, when they will discuss what…
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It was a cold, typically rainy Manchester evening, October 1993, when Michael Spencer Jones set out to meet a new guitar band he had been commissioned to photograph. The weather was miserable, he didn’t know their music, wasn’t totally in the mood. “I had to drag myself from home, thinking: is it going to be…
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Two young bears escaped from their enclosure at a wildlife park in Devon – and devoured a week’s worth of honey. In a tale straight out of Winnie The Pooh, Mish and Lucy immediately dashed for the food store during their hour of freedom at the Wildwood Trust site. Visitors were “promptly escorted to a…
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A 13-year-old girl has died four days after encountering trouble in the North Sea. Edie Smart, from the Monkseaton area, was rescued from the water near the south end of Whitley Bay beach in North Tyneside shortly before 5pm on Thursday, Northumbria Police said. She was taken to hospital, where she died on Monday. “This…
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Donald Trump likes a wall. And now he has his very own 10ft-high metal barrier creating a fortress as he tees off for a weekend of politics, play and precision in Scotland. An almost surreal contrast now exists in the tiny Ayrshire village of Turnberry. On one side, the stunning coastline and luxury hotel that…