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Trump tariffs latest: Donald Trump unveils 10% tariffs on all UK imports

President’s ‘Liberation Day’ announcement will undo trade arrangements that have been in place since 1947

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Police still probing recycling plant three days after bones find

Forensic tents can be seen inside the Biffa recycling site in Hartlepool where human remains were found on Sunday.

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Trump announces tariffs with ‘liberation day’ attack on foreign countries

US President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs against countries around the world.

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Conservatives reiterate calls for national grooming gangs inquiry

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp has said that his party ‘will not stop fighting for justice’.

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Letby barrister to hand over ‘fresh’ evidence to CCRC

Mark McDonald will visit the Birmingham offices of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.

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Teenager pleads guilty to terror offences after sharing Islamic State propaganda

Leo Walby will be sentenced at a later date.

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Donald Trump tells allies that Elon Musk 'will leave Government soon'

Reports claim Tesla CEO will develop an ‘exit strategy’ and return to his businesses

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Green councillor attacks Met over ‘discriminatory’ use of facial recognition cameras in London

Data shows the technology has been deployed mostly in boroughs with a higher-than-average Black population

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Man charged with 64 offences after investigation into Hull funeral directors

Robert Bush, 47, has been charged with offences including 30 counts of preventing a lawful burial fraud in relation to human ashes.

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Hostage families urge Keir Starmer to take ‘bold steps’ in helping to end war

Two British families of Israeli hostages have written to the Prime Minister asking for ‘diplomacy’ and ‘bold steps’ to help end the war in Gaza.

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MP calls for ‘statutory protection’ for British soldiers following Clonoe ruling

Conservative former minister Sir David Davis said he would find it hard to imagine a ‘more clear cut case’.

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Dinosaur predator and prey drank together from lagoons on Isle of Skye – study

Prince Charles’s Point on Skye’s Trotternish Peninsula is one of the most extensive dinosaur track sites in Scotland.

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UK’s biggest police force to axe 1,700 officers and staff despite funding boost

The Metropolitan Police will cut services including the Royal Parks Police.

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Police issue fresh appeal to trace backpack after man in his 30s stabbed to death in Brixton

Emergency services rushed to Brixton Road at around 5.10am on Thursday, March 20, following reports of a man suffering a stab injury

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‘Devastated’ families pay tribute to three victims in station house fire

A mother and her four-year-old daughter were killed in a fire along with a 23-year-old man in Northamptonshire.

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Coroner says woman who killed herself ‘may have lived’ if full care plan set up

Rosie Fender, died of a serious head injury after being hit by a train near Romsey, Hampshire, on February 3 2022.

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Further CCTV footage to be examined ahead of Noah Donohoe inquest

The 14-year-old school boy was found dead in a storm drain after having gone missing in north Belfast.

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Prison governor tells court she was ‘incredibly stupid’ but did nothing wrong

Kerri Pegg, 42, is alleged to have begun a relationship with convicted drug dealer Anthony Saunderson.

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Lloyds and Halifax branch closures: Full list revealed as more than 250 banks shut for good

One Halifax branch is set to close in Lincoln in May and a Lloyds branch will be closing in Hodge Hill, Birmingham

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‘No plan B in Israel-Palestine’ beyond two-state solution, says UK minister

The Foreign Office’s Hamish Falconer also said the UK did not support Israel’s expansion of military operations in Gaza.