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A Royal Navy serviceman has died in a training exercise in the English Channel. A Merlin Mk4 helicopter ditched during night-flying exercises with the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier near Dorset, the Navy said. A spokesperson for the Royal Navy said that there were no other fatalities or serious injuries. Defence Secretary John Healey says the investigation into the accident ...

Conservative leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat has said human rights laws are preventing the deportation of “murderers and rapists” and should be reformed. The former security minister said he was willing to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if it prevented the government from deporting foreign criminals and he was unable to reform it. Mr Tugendhat made the promise ...

Jas Athwal, the recently elected MP for Ilford South, rents out 15 flats and has described himself as a “renter’s champion”. But tenants in a block of seven flats in Ilford, east London, owned by the MP claimed they have to put up with black mould, ants and threats of eviction if they complain. “The ants are everywhere,” one resident ...

Conservative MP Esther McVey has been branded “repugnant” for using a poem about the Holocaust to criticise the government’s proposals for tougher rules on outdoor smoking. The MP for Tatton shared a section of Martin Niemoller’s 1946 poem, “First They Came”, on social media, adding: “Pertinent words re Starmer’s smoking ban.” The Board of Deputies of British Jews called on ...

A mother who attended Notting Hill Carnival on Sunday with her child narrowly avoided being killed after she was stabbed, the Metropolitan Police has said. The 32-year-old remains in a critical condition in hospital. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan said Carnival’s family day had been “marred by unacceptable violence”. About 7,000 officers are patrolling this year’s event, which is expected ...

Sir Keir Starmer is set to warn that “things will get worse” in the UK before they get better. In a speech on Tuesday, the prime minister is likely to say there are no quick fixes to remedy what he will call the “rubble and ruin” left by the Conservatives. He will also continue to argue that the last government ...

Police have arrested two men on suspicion of murder after a woman and her three children died in a house fire in Bradford. Bryonie Gawith, 29, and her daughter Denisty Birtle, nine, son Oscar Birtle, five, and daughter Aubree Birtle, 22 months, died on Westbury Road on 21 August. Two men, aged 36 and 45, were arrested overnight in the ...

Up to 70mm of rain could drench parts of the UK on Saturday with a yellow weather warning issued for the south-east of England, following widespread disruption caused by Storm Lilian. The warning will be in place from 06:00 to 13:00 and will span Portsmouth, Hampshire and parts of Suffolk including Ipswich. “With that yellow warning, expect some small travel ...

The UK must act to curb a sharp increase in the use of racist hate speech by British politicians and high-profile public figures, a UN body has said. Ministers must “adopt comprehensive measures to discourage and combat racist hate speech and xenophobic discourse by political and public figures” and ensure that such cases are “effectively investigated and sanctioned”, the UN ...

Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has said decisions on introducing road calming and safety schemes, such as 20mph zones, should remain with local communities rather than her department. Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) became a political issue under the previous government, when Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called such schemes “hare-brained” and ordered a review. Conservative ministers had sought to tighten up rules to ...