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Keir Starmer has said Boris Johnson has new questions to answer about allegations of lockdown parties at Chequers, despite the public being fed up to the back teeth with stories about his lawbreaking.The Labour leader said there were people who were feeling both hurt and fed up about the continuing saga, but there were questions now about why have these allegations not come out before.

Labour donor and green entrepreneur Dale Vince joined a Just Stop Oil protest for the first time on Thursday, saying he can't not speak out.Mr Vince joined demonstrators on a slow-walk protest along Whitehall to Trafalgar Square in central London as part of JSO's ongoing campaign against new fossil fuel licences.

The new boss of a PPE firm linked to Tory peer Baroness Mone was censured as part of a tax investigation last year.Arthur Lancaster's appointment as director raises fresh questions about the roles of Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman in PPE Medpro.The couple have denied involvement in the company winning government contracts during the Covid pandemic.

The case had been called Australia's trial of the century.And though it centered on a claim of defamation, it grappled with a more consequential question: Was the country's most decorated living soldier a war criminal?On Thursday, a judge effectively found that the answer was yes.Four years after the soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, sued three newspapers that had accused him of killing unarmed Afghan prisoners in cold blood, the judge ruled against him in his defamation case, finding that the newspapers had proved their accounts of his actions were substantially true.

WARNING: This story contains distressing details A British coroner on Friday urged police near London to wrap up their investigation into a student's 2021 suicide, amid authorities' renewed scrutiny of an Ontario man's controversial website.A detective in England's Surrey county last year reached out to Kenneth Law, months before he was arrested at his Mississauga, Ont., home, but British police declined at the time to pursue charges against him.

Prince Harry's bitter, yearslong feud with Britain's tabloid press will come to a head this week.He is scheduled to take the stand on Tuesday in a London courtroom for a lawsuit against the Mirror newspaper group on charges that it hacked his cellphone more than a decade ago.For the younger son of King Charles III to appear on the witness stand is a milestone for the House of Windsor he is the first senior royal to be cross-examined in a legal case since the 19th century and it is not one his family is likely to relish.

Here's a look at the life of former US House speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.Birth date: June 17, 1943 Birth place: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Birth name: Newton Leroy McPherson; adopted at a young age by stepfather Robert Gingrich and took his last name Father: Newton C. McPherson, mechanic Mother: Kathleen (Daugherty) McPherson Gingrich Marriages: Callista (Bisek) Gingrich, (August 18, 2000-present); Marianne (Ginther) Gingrich, (August 8, 1981-April 6, 2000, divorced); Jackie (Battley) Gingrich (June 19, 1962-February 1981, divorced) Children: with Jackie (Battley) Gingrich: Jacqueline and Linda Kathleen Kathy Education: Emory University, B.A., 1965; Tulane University, M.A., 1968; Tulane University, Ph.D. in European History, 1971 Religion: Roman Catholic Is the first speaker of the House to be punished by the House for ethics violations, on January 21, 1997.

As California Gov. Gavin Newsom stepped on stage at the state Democratic Party Convention this weekend, Vilma Dawson applauded with the visible faith of someone who had supported him through multiple elections and a recall campaign.Dawson does not expect her loyalty to Newsom will be tested in a politically fraught decision that may lie ahead selecting a successor to fill the seat of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, should the 89-year-old, who has already announced she's not running for reelection in 2024, resign before the end of her term.

Two years ago, when the Laurel District Association began to develop a new music series to be held in the Oakland neighborhood along MacArthur Boulevard, events planner Jody Colley had no list of local bands.In 2023, having launched the six-month Live in The Laurel music series May 19 and preparing for the second show June 24, Coffey's contact list boasts more than 170 local bands and solo musicians.

Former Los Angeles Dodgers icon Steve Garvey is considering running for the open U.S. Senate seat in California as a Republican, a move that would immediately upend the 2024 race, according to several GOP state party insiders and operatives who requested anonymity to discuss the former All-Star's plans.

Editor's note: This will begin our annual season in review.Over the next week, we will be dishing out or position by position ratings as well as looking back at the job done by ' manager.So, please, keep a look on both the website as well as the podcast for what we have in store as we look back on a tumultuous 2022-23 season.

Rishi Sunak has used a trip to Washington to push the UK as a global centre for artificial intelligence regulation, insisting its record in the sector will make others listen to this mid-sized country.Downing Street is hopeful that Joe Biden, whom Sunak was to meet at the White House on Thursday, will agree to US involvement in a UK-hosted global summit on AI safety in the autumn.

A woman who allegedly posed as a man to sexually assault a teenager also met up with someone else after messaging them online, a court has heard.Georgia Bilham, 21, is charged with 17 sexual offences after allegedly deceiving a 19-year-old woman by pretending to be George Parry, a male drug dealer from Birmingham.

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A top executive at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has been placed on administrative leave while the utility looks into his involvement in the bitcoin mining industry and whether he complied with ethics rules that require employees to obtain permission for outside work.

The Cabinet Office could take unprecedented action to prevent Boris Johnson's unredacted diaries and WhatsApp messages being handed over to the official Covid inquiry, the Guardian had been told.Officials are preparing to issue a response to the inquiry chair, Heather Hallett, by 4pm on Tuesday.Sources said they were likely to resist her demand for a cache of documents relating to the former prime minister's time in No 10.

The Duke of Sussex has been involved in six legal battles at the High Court in recent months.Harry's civil litigation has seen him bring claims against three major newspaper publishers over allegations of unlawful information gathering, as well as legal challenges against the Home Office in relation to his personal security.

More than two years after he was arrested, accused of bribing a friend to run as a spoiler candidate in a Miami state Senate race, it remains unclear when former lawmaker Frank Artiles will stand trial.During a Friday morning hearing, Artiles' attorney Frank Quintero told the court that the defense plans to depose the state's "main witness" in late June.

S adiq Khan is set to play a significant role in an event which has been dubbed London's answer to the Met Gala'.The Mayor will be one among several high-profile figures involved in Vogue World, a fashion and culture show which will kick off London Fashion Week.Mr Khan will feature in the September event alongside Naomi Campbell, Stormzy, Michaela Coel, and Sir Ian McKellen.

Polish referee Szymon Marciniak has apologised for speaking at a business event tied to a far-right politician and will officiate next week's Champions League final, UEFA said on Friday.Marciniak's appointment for the game between Manchester City and Inter Milan on June 10 was at risk after a Warsaw-based anti-racism group alerted UEFA to his conference appearance this week.

1. Dutch soccer player Quincy Promes has been arrested and is currently being prosecuted for alleged involvement in drug trafficking in the Netherlands. 2. Promes has been placed in pre-trial detention and is facing a possible sentence of up to eight years in prison. 3. His club, Ajax

The aunt of one of the teenage boys who died in a road traffic accident on an electric bike in Cardiff has accused South Wales Police of causing their deaths.Kyrees Sullivan, 16, and Harvey Evans, 15, died on Monday night, shortly after they were captured on CCTV being followed by a police van.Speaking to the BBC after a vigil for the pair, Harvey's aunt Hayley Murphy said they were two children who were chased to their death by South Wales Police.

1. Australia's aged care homes are failing to provide adequate services for residents with dementia, due to a lack of funding and resources.
2. A market-based service model is needed to ensure that aged care homes can provide a high standard of care and support for those with dementia.
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Jump to content Sign up to our newslettersSubscribe News Sports Voices Culture Lifestyle Travel Premium Close Police investigating disappearance of Madeleine McCann to search reservoir' Material collected in a three-day hunt for evidence over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann will be sent to Germany for testing, the Portuguese police have confirmed.