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A major power outage affecting almost a million people across England and Wales was not caused by a failure linked to wind power, a senior official at the National Grid has said. Duncan Burt, director of operations for the National Grid Electricity System Op…

Fifty years ago, the Battle of the Bogside in Derry between Catholics and police, combined with the attacks on Catholic areas of Belfast by Protestants, led to two crucial developments that were to define the political landscape for decades: the arrival of th…

A church warden has been convicted of murdering his older lover for money after subjecting him to psychological torture. Benjamin Field, 28, attempted to portray his victim Peter Farquhar as an alcoholic in the hope his death would be attributed to natural c…

A police officer who was attacked with a machete in London has been named as PC Stuart Outten. The 28-year-old Metropolitan Police constable remained in hospital in a serious but stable condition on Friday, as a man appeared in court accused of trying to kil…

When the Labour Party rejected, and attempted to redefine, the IHRA definition of antisemitism, it was not only patronising and lacking in self-awareness, but also sent out an awful message that the Labour party was not ready to listen or trust British Jews w…

As a parent in the summer holidays, there are certain activities that youll let your children do for nine hours straight without feeling compelled to intervene, and others that you simply wont. Reading books? How edifying! Making art? Very creative! Swingball…

A murder investigation has been launched after a man was shot dead in Birmingham. The 20-year-old victim was shot in Goosemoor Lane, Erdington, at about 7.30pm on Thursday. Police said the mans family had been informed. Well tell you whats true. You can fo…

A record number of accident and emergency (A&E) patients waited for more than four hours to be seen last month, according to new NHS figures for England.  As experts warned the health service was struggling to cope, performance statistics revealed 275,52…

August 8, 2019The UKs Fintech (Financial Technology) sector is on the rise despite Brexit uncertainty investors have put $16bn into the UK fintech market in just the first-half of 2018, a level of investment surpassing that of both the US and China. The UK re…

Now Dominic Cummings is joint prime minister, we have to take him seriously as more than a Vote Leave operative. I have therefore been reading all those interminable blogs on Bismarck, eugenics and American fighter pilots. I thought theyd be weird. Actually t…