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Cottage left teetering on the brink of 400ft drop after Jurassic Coast cliff fall A house has been left teetering on the brink of a 400ft drop following a massive cliff fall along the Jurassic Coast. The thatched cottage is now just 40ft away from the edge of the unstable Sidmouth cliffs in Devon. It follows the collapse last weekend of a huge portion of the cliff at Jacob’s Ladder Beach between Sidmouth and Ladram Bay, where tonnes of debris came crashing down, prompting the local authority to close the popular South West coastal path for safety reasons. This in…

Met Police probe suspected hate crime after paint thrown on north London building Police are investigating a suspected hate crime after paint was thrown on a north London business premises. The Metropolitan Police received reports of criminal damage at 9.29am on Saturday on High Street, Hampstead, and said officers are on the scene. This came after campaign group Palestine Action posted photographs of red paint splattered on the windows of two buildings in London. One was at the premises of Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (Bicom), Palestine Action said on X, formerly Twitter. Images shared by the group appear…

Tory leadership live: Badenoch wins as poll shows Conservative party membership numbers at lowest eve Kemi Badenoch has won the Conservative Party leadership contest as the election results reveal Tory membership has plunged by almost a quarter over the past two years to its lowest level on record. In a resounding victory after being the overwhelming odds on favourite to win, the right-wing culture warrior bagged 53,806 votes over Robert Jenrick’s 41,000, out of a total electorate of 131,680. In her first speech as leader, she admitted the Conservatives had “made mistakes” and “let standards slip” but vowed to rebuild…

Royal news live: King Charles ‘axes’ Prince Andrew’s £1m allowance due to Royal Lodge row The King will cut financial ties to the disgraced Duke of York after he refused to move out of his home, a royal writer has claimed. Prince Andrew’s £1 million “living allowance”, received every year, has been withdrawn by Charles as he continues to seek to distance himself from his younger brother. This is according to royal writer Robert Hardman, in the serialisation of a new book published by the Daily Mail. The keeper of the privy purse was “instructed to sever [Andrew’s] living allowance”.…

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…