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Suspected dine and dash couple run up ?130 bill at Indian restaurant

'Dine and dash' couple run up £130 bill at Indian restaurant 'before going for a smoke'

UK 11 hours ago By Josh Layton

Full list of 26 New Look stores closing down in 2025

UK March 15, 2025 By Josh Layton

Seventeen years after the death of Martine Vik Magnussen, her father has made a plea directly to the man suspected of raping and murdering her.The body of Martine Vik Magnussen, a 23-year-old Norwegian student was found inside the basement of a property on Great Portland Street on 16 March 2008, after friends had reported her missing.A post-mortem examination determined she had died from compression to her neck. Enquiries also indicated that Martine had been raped around the time of her death.CCTV work identified Farouk Abdulhak as the main suspect. He had been at Maddox nightclub with Martine on 14 March and fled the UK within hours of her death, travelling to Egypt and then onto Yemen.Throughout the last 17 years, specialist Met Police officers have been committed to securing justice for Martine. Her family continue to support the investigation.

Murder suspect urged to hand himself in and 'grow up' 17 years after student's death

UK March 15, 2025 By Josh Layton

Caption: Mystery of jet with elite US troops that vanished en-route to Vietnam during Kennedy's secret war credit: Wreaths Across America

Mystery of flight that vanished during secret mission still remains unsolved

UK March 15, 2025 By Josh Layton

Caption: Sign from demolished British pub has bizarre new life 4,800 miles away in Houston

Bizarre journey of British pub sign that ended up in a Texas bar 4,800 miles away

UK March 13, 2025 By Josh Layton

Caption: 'This is for my parents': Ukrainian drone operator's reaction to deep strike on Russian air base Getty/14th Separate UAS Regiment, @14reg_army

Drone operator named Shrek says 'this is for my parents' in strike on Putin base

UK March 12, 2025 By Josh Layton

The parents of a British backpacker seized by US border guards after a visa mix-up have appealed for her release (Picture: ITV/Good Morning Britain)

British woman facing month in US immigration detention centre over visa issues

UK March 12, 2025 By Josh Layton

Caption: Firm run by Captain Tom's scandal-hit daughter and husband collapses with just ?149 worth of assets, despite last year's figure standing at ?336,300 credit: PA / REUTERS

Five key talking points from Captain Tom's daughter's new book about grief

UK March 7, 2025 By Josh Layton

Caption: Inside the secretive Ukrainian unit carrying out 2000km strikes inside Russia

Rare insight into Ukrainian unit striking Putin’s war machine 1,240 miles inside Russia

UK March 7, 2025 By Josh Layton

Caption: Formerly restricted file reveals how UK gave ?35,000,000 of aid to Putin's regime credit: Getty

Declassified file reveals how UK pledged £35,000,000 of aid to Putin's regime

UK March 4, 2025 By Josh Layton

Analyst who knows truth about Trump ?kompromat? has this ominous warning AFP/Getty Images

Man involved in Trump's 'kompromat' issues ominous warning over 'pact' with Putin

UK March 3, 2025 By Josh Layton

A composite image showing a solider in full khaki pointing a gun, and then two photos showing the indigenous community in their home in the Arctic wearing their traditional dress.

The indigenous people 'breathing last breath' in Putin's war 4,000 miles from home

UK February 28, 2025 By Josh Layton

Photographer revisits 'soul of community' football club where he worked as a teenager

London football club’s ‘soul’ captured by photographer who once worked on turnstiles

UK February 28, 2025 By Josh Layton

CCTV footage shows a person dressed as Batman cycling through Leamington Spa

Mystery surrounds cyclist seen riding around town dressed as Batman

UK February 27, 2025 By Josh Layton

Caption: (Picture: WOW Ukraine)

Brits remembered in the 'Heart of Ukraine' after deaths in the fight against Russia

UK February 27, 2025 By Josh Layton

RAF Typhoons patrol the skies over the Middle East where they had an encounter with two huge Russian military transport jets (Picture: Top Guns: Inside the RAF, Channel 4)

RAF fighter pilots have 'nerve-wracking' encounter with 154ft Russian jets

UK February 25, 2025 By Josh Layton

MMA fighter shaken after man tracked her down to Dubai hotel from social media post

UK February 25, 2025 By Josh Layton

Dramatic first-person footage of aid worker running from Putin?s drones

Dramatic first-person footage of aid worker running from Putin’s drones

UK February 24, 2025 By Josh Layton

Drill rapper jailed over gang murder releases EP behind bars despite life sentenceKay-OKammar Henry-Richards, who goes by the name Kay-O, says he is ?getting richer? while serving a life sentence for murder at HMP Belmarsh.Henry-Richards was given the tariff with a minimum of 37 years at the Old Bailey on January 14. He was among four men jailed for the murder of Kacey Boothe, who was shot almost seven times at point-blank range in east London on August 13, 2022.

Drill rapper boasts that he's getting richer after releasing tracks from behind bars

UK February 21, 2025 By Josh Layton

Nenets soldier

Putin calling up indigenous people 2,000 miles from war to ‘die in their thousands’

UK February 24, 2025 By Josh Layton