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Kemi Badenoch made ‘rape joke’ on social media in unearthed post Newly elected Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has been condemned over an unearthed image that shows her making a joke about rape on her personal Facebook page. The former women and equalities minister has been criticised by anti-domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid, which said it was appalled by the image. In a post on her own page dated from January 2008, which was still visible on her profile as recently as this week, Ms Badenoch shared an image of three men with the caption: “The Drummond Beer Rape incident.” The…

New footage released as police offer £20,000 reward to catch gunman | UK News New footage has been released of a man police want to speak to in connection with an unsolved murder four years ago. The Met Police is also offering a £20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the gunman who murdered Jason Diallo. The 30-year-old was cycling along Balfour Road in Ilford in November 2020 when he was knocked off his bike by a car and then shot in the head. Today, Scotland Yard released a clip of a man they would like to speak…

Boy, 14, charged with attempted murder after stabbing of girl, 13, near Hull Young victim found beside A63 in Hessle early Friday morning with lacerations to neck, stomach, chest and back. A 14-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after a 13-year-old girl was stabbed in the neck, stomach, chest and back near Hull on Friday morning. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has also been charged with possession of a bladed article. Continue reading… https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/02/boy-14-charged-with-attempted-after-multiple-stabbing-of-girl-13-near-hull

‘She’s a star’: Henley-on-Thames gives warm welcome (mostly) to Kemi Badenoch The true-blue constituency with a Lib Dem MP is split on whether the Tories’ new leader should take the party further to the right. On a dreary Saturday in the pristine Oxfordshire town of Henley-on-Thames, nearly 40 miles away from the standing ovations and gleeful commiserations of Kemi Badenoch’s leadership victory, news was beginning to trickle through of the new shape of the Conservative party. Just three months ago, the Tories were defeated here by the Liberal Democrats – until then, Henley had voted Conservative in every election since…

Sunday’s newspaper leads report on various stories with only the news of Kemi Badenoch’s appointment as Conservative Party leader on several front pages.
There’s a handful of royal stories on several tabloid front pages this morning and some showbiz news.
The upcoming US election finds some coverage on the UK newspapers – although perhaps not as much as you’d expect considering the election is just days away.
The back pages lead on two stories: Arsenal and Manchester City’s Premier League losses over the weekend, giving Liverpool a major boost in the title race and England’s slim loss to New Zealand in rugby ‘thriller’ at Twickenham.

Firm’s £500m investment in UK is show of confidence in Government – Chancellor Chancellor Rachel Reeves described a £500 million private investment by a US firm into a UK research campus as a “real show of confidence in what this Government are doing to grow the economy”. The investment by San Francisco-based developer Prologis, announced days after Labour’s Budget, will fund a 115,000 sq ft expansion to Cambridge Biomedical Campus. The campus already supports more than 22,000 jobs and generates £4.2 billion each year for the UK economy. The new development will house high-tech labs, supporting clinical trials and diagnostic…

Rhonda Alexander: Dating app boss who ‘bullied staff to tears’ judged industry diversity and inclusion awards A former CEO of a dating app company, who was accused of bullying staff and reducing them to tears, was drafted in to judge an industry diversity and inclusion awards. Rhonda Alexander, who was the boss of female-friendly dating app Fluttr, boasted about her judging credentials on social media despite claims against her including reducing colleagues to tears and “throwing eggs at ideas”. A native New Yorker, Ms Alexander set out to create Fluttr, a dating app that sought to beat “Tinder Swindler” type…

Moldovans to choose president in decisive runoff overshadowed by fraud and intimidation claims Moldovans are casting votes in a decisive presidential runoff Sunday that pits pro-Western incumbent Maia Sandu against a Russia-friendly opponent, as ongoing claims of voter fraud and intimidation threaten democracy in the European Union candidate country. In the first round held Oct. 20, Sandu obtained 42% of the ballot but failed to win an outright majority. She will face Alexandr Stoianoglo, a former prosecutor general, who outperformed polls in the first round with almost 26% of the vote. Polls opened Sunday at 7 a.m. local time (0500…

Adidas have signed a teenage sprinting sensation who has been branded ‘the next Usain Bolt’. Australian Gout Gout, 16, has followed in the footsteps of the likes of Lionel Messi, Steph Curry and Patrick Mahomes in joining the Adidas stable. ‘I’m super excited to have signed with Adidas,’ he told Citius Mag. ‘I’m not stopping here. I’ll work so hard to repay the faith they have shown me. I’ll stay hungry and chase down what’s next.’ Gout was born in Queensland in 2007 to parents from South Sudan who moved to Australia two years earlier. He is regarded as one…

Researchers who studied babies in Scotland believe cuts to benefits and services are linked to rise. Linking the lack of nutrition in mothers to UK’s austerity measures. To investigate the impact of such policies in the UK researchers at the University of Glasgow and Public Health Scotland analysed records for almost 2.3 million babies born in Scotland between 1981 and 2019. UK austerity policies increased rate of premature The introduction of UK austerity policies has been associated with a striking increase in the number of babies in Scotland being born smaller or earlier than expected, data suggests. Researchers believe cuts…