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00s metal band with iconic earworm to play huge UK show after resurgence Noughties nu-metal icons Deftones are set to return to the UK for a huge London show next year. The My Own Summer rockers – including vocalist Chino Moreno, lead guitarist Stephen Carpenter and drummer Abe Cunningham, and keyboardist and turntablist Frank Delgado – will perform at Crystal Palace Park, London on Sunday, June 29. They will be joined by Buddy Holly hitmakers Weezer and English hardcore band High Vis, famed for songs such as Talk For Hours and Trauma Bonds. Deftones will host an artist pre-sale at…

Appeal launched after artist vanished on Saturday morning in Camden | UK News Police are urgently searching for an artist who went missing in Camden during the early hours of Saturday morning. Sarah Cunningham, 31, was last seen leaving an apartment block in Jamestown Road, Camden, to get into a car with a male at around 3am on Saturday morning. The 5ft 3in-tall artist was wearing a black top, black skirt and black converse trainers at the time of her disappearance. She has links to Wandsworth and Camden, police say. Jamie Klingler, co-founder of women’s safety group Reclaim These Streets,…

WWE announces ‘unprecedented’ shows bringing WrestleMania fever to UK WWE is bringing WrestleMania fever to the UK and Europe with a string of huge shows. For the first time ever, Raw and SmackDown will take place across different cities in the UK and Europe over three consecutive weeks in March 2025. For fans in the UK, Raw is coming to Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on March 24, with SmackDown heading to the O2 Arena in london on March 28. Three days later, Raw takes over the O2 as part of what WWE has described as an ‘unprecedented’ run on the Road…

How a dry cleaning receipt caught a 1940s serial killer | UK News Serial killer John George Haigh his victims were ‘sacrifices’ and that he wanted to drink their blood To his friends in london, John George Haigh seemed like a perfectly respectable English gentleman. He mingled with the upper class, was a regular at concerts and sported the very best suits from Savile Row. The businessman claimed to have profitable links to the nylon industry and rented a small workshop in Crawley. Wealthy clients were occasionally invited there to discuss investment opportunities. However, once they passed through the door…

Domestic abuse: ‘My partner secretly drugged and filmed me – I still don’t know what he did to me’ It took a year for Hannah’s* abuser to start to show his true colours – when he began telling her to lose weight and banning her from cutting her hair, or dyeing it particular shades. But at the beginning of the relationship, she thought everything was perfect. Her partner had love-bombed her, told her she was his dream woman and called her an amazing mother. “He would make you feel really secure and you like were the one,” Hannah tells The…

Small boat smugglers to be fast-tracked through courts like rioters People responsible for smuggling refugees on small boats will be fast-tracked through the courts in the same way as those who participated in the summer riots, as part of a wider crackdown on channel crossings. As part of a £150m package of measures to tackle the small boat crisis being announced on Monday, the prime minister will order the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to speed up charges for people smugglers. The prime minister is looking to replicate efforts earlier this year that delivered swift justice following the August riots that…

UK politics live: Badenoch arrives at Tory HQ to unveil shadow cabinet amid anger over Partygate comments Kemi Badenoch has arrived at the Conservative Party headquarters to unveil her new shadow cabinet after winning the Tory leadership contest. In her first media appearance as Tory leader, Ms Badenoch claimed to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that the Partygate row was “overblown”, prompting swift condemnation from her political opponents and people whose loved ones died during the Covid pandemic. Lobby Akinnola, a spokesperson for the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice who lost his father during the pandemic, described Ms Badenoch’s remarks as…

Watch live: Keir Starmer announces Labour’s plan to tackle people smuggling Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer announces Labour’s plan to tackle people smuggling on Monday (4 November) at the Interpol General Assembly in Glasgow. The prime minister and home secretary will both speak at the Interpol General Assembly at the start of a week-long blitz on small boat crossings that will also see Sir Keir in Hungary for talks on tackling people smuggling. The speech in Scotland will see the prime minister pledge a further £75 million for the border command, doubling the total funding to £150 million over…

Chris Kaba shooting: Lead investigator speaks out after firearms officer acquitted The man who led the investigation into the police shooting of unarmed driver Chris Kaba has spoken out about the case for the first time after a police firearms officer was cleared of murder. Metropolitan Police Sergeant Martyn Blake was last month unanimously acquitted by a jury of murdering Mr Kaba, 24, after he tried to ram his way out of a police stop. The case sparked a flurry of debate over police accountability as police leaders hit out at the decision to press charges against the firearms officer.…

Why is Bonfire Night celebrated? Guy Fawkes’ Gunpowder Plot explained “Remember, remember, the fifth of November, “Gunpowder, treason and plot! “We see no reason, “Why gunpowder treason, “Should ever be forgot!” Every 5 November we remember the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 – a thwarted act of terror in which a cabal of Catholic conspirators planned to blow up the House of Lords to rid England of King James I. The plot is commemorated every autumn with the burning of an effigy of Guy Fawkes, its mastermind, an oddly pagan act of gloating sanitised by the addition of fireworks, sparklers and…