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Michael Webber Beck, from Cumbria, took her own life in her room at Larkhill Camp in Wiltshire in December 2021, five months after Webber's assault. At the end of Beck's inquest in February, the coroner, Nicholas Rheinberg, said Beck's complaint about being sexually assaulted during the exercise should have been reported to the police and the failure to do so breached army policy. He said the army's failure to take appropriate action more than minimally contributed to her death.

I am satisfied that it's both necessary and proportionate for that to be an indefinite order.

Ten homes, a pub and a medical centre were all flooded following a major water main burst in Kentish Town. Properties were flooded with metre-deep water after the 18-inch water main flooded streets between Leighton Road and Kentish Town High Street. The basements of the Caversham Group Practice and ten nearby homes were filled with water, the London Fire Brigade said.

Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl and was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre. The migrant, who had been living at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, when he assaulted the girl, took a train from Chelmsford to Stratford, east London, the day he was released and was later spotted in Dalston

A pensioner who ploughed 40,000 into a fraudulent wine investment scheme has warned others not to fall for similar scams after three men were jailed. Terry Fleming, 81, from Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, said he invested the money over two years believing he would make a profit, but eventually had to sell the bottles at a considerable loss. Three men who stole at least 6m from 41 victims in the scheme were given prison terms to at St Albans Crown Court on Friday.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

Staff say the shop is the only non-sectarian Islamic bookshop and stocks all kinds of titles from politics and culture, to children's books and translations of the Qur'an in major languages. Since el-Atar's death in 2022, his widow Noora el-Atar, a 69-year-old Muslim convert from Leeds, has taken over, even giving up her wage and not taking retirement to keep the business afloat. The shop has launched a 25,000 fundraiser to cover rent and running costs.

A woman in a life-threatening condition is under police watch in hospital after a nine-year-old girl died and two other children were hurt. Police were called to a property in Middle Street, Islip, at 11.15am on Tuesday after receiving reports that three children had been assaulted. A spokesperson for Thames Valley Police said the nine-year-old girl was pronounced dead at the scene in the Oxfordshire village, while a boy and a girl were taken to hospital for treatment before later being discharged.

Mr Finch said he was "having food and watching cartoons" with his 10-year-old daughter when he was alerted to the fire, which he said overwhelmed the building in "less than 15 minutes". He tried to battle the blaze, which had started accidentally in a storage area at the back of the shop, according to the London Fire Brigade (LFB).

Metlen employs nearly 10,000 people in 40 countries and moved its primary listing from Athens to London in August this year. With a total value of over 5 billion, it was the fastest company to be admitted to the FTSE 100 list of the UK's most valuable listed firms. The move comes after some big UK companies quit the London Stock Exchange to sell their shares on foreign markets.

You don't want to come all the way over to this part of the world and only play one game, Harry Brook said. Very frustrating.

A cordon remains in place while police investigate the death of a girl in Oxfordshire. Officers were called on Tuesday to Middle Street in Islip, a village around five miles north of Oxford, where a crime scene is still in place on Thursday morning. The girl, whose age has not been released and who has not yet been named, died at the property.

A Metropolitan Police officer who worked at Charing Cross police station has been sacked after he was secretly filmed making floridly racist comments and glorifying the use of inappropriate force. The undercover footage, which was aired on a BBC Panorama programme, appears to show Pc Philip Neilson refer to an immigrant who had overstayed his visa while off-duty, saying either put a bullet through his head or deport him, the hearing in south London was told on Thursday.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

Whatever you're up to in the capital on the coming days, the likelihood is you'll need to use public transport to get you there. And there's a lot to know about when it comes to disruption on TfL services this weekend, with significant disruption on the Bakerloo, Circle and District lines, and various Overground services. Here's what you need to know to navigate the city stress-free.

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Troubles on London Underground's Northern line that have disrupted journeys for millions of commuters since Sunday could persist into next week, with engineers still baffled by the cause of the signalling fault. Transport for London (TfL) is understood to be considering cancelling the weekend night tube service to allow time for extensive investigations if specialist engineers cannot fix the problem on Thursday night.

We really mirror the process between the police and the CPS, Davison said. The difference is that the police are agents of the state, whereas people call on Davison when the state fails to help.

Residents of a London borough face the threat of a bin strike after refuse workers in a pay dispute backed industrial action. The GMB union said it will now formally ballot members who work in Richmond, in the south west of the capital, on industrial action if contractor Serco does not bring forward a revised pay offer by Friday (October 24). GMB said Serco had not presented anything concrete to bin staff working in the borough, despite pay talks stretching back to April.