Month: February 2025

A report into the care received by Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane shows he may have been “spared prison on the basis of incomplete evidence”, his victims’ families have said. Calocane, who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order after killing 19-year-old students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar and 65-year-old caretaker Ian Coates before attempting to kill three other people, in a spate of […]

A 15-year-old boy has died after he was in stabbed at a school in Sheffield, police have said. It happened at All Saints Catholic High School in Granville Road in the city at around 12.17pm, South Yorkshire Police said. A 15-year-old old boy has been held on suspicion of murder, the force said. Assistant Chief Constable Lindsey Butterfield told a news conference at police headquarters: “It is with great sadness […]

The UK’s trading relationship with the US is “fair and balanced”, Downing Street insisted after Donald Trump said that the UK was “out of line”. The Prime Minister trusts Mr Trump to keep his word, No 10 said after the US president suggested he thinks a deal can be “worked out” to avoid slapping tariffs on the UK. Mr Trump suggested in comments overnight that he is poised to expand […]

“Dangerous fool” Daniel Khalife has been handed a jail sentence of 14 years and three months after spying for Iran and escaping from prison. Passing sentence at Woolwich Crown Court on Monday, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said he had been motivated by “a selfish desire to show off”. The 23-year-old, originally from Kingston, south-west London, was serving in the British Army when he “exposed military personnel to serious harm” by collecting […]

Lloyds Bank and Halifax customers have become the latest to be hit by service outages after both confirmed issues with their systems on Monday morning. Customers of both companies – which are both part of the Lloyds Banking Group – reported issues with their banking apps early on Monday, with users claiming they have had issues making and receiving payments. The issues come after a major outage hit Barclays on […]

Arsenal closed the gap on Premier League leaders Liverpool to six points with a 5-1 thrashing of reigning champions Manchester City while Marcus Rashford left Manchester United for Aston Villa. United suffered another home defeat as Jean Philippe-Mateta’s double fired Crystal Palace to victory at Old Trafford and Tottenham were also 2-0 winners at Brentford. Rashford’s move to Villa was confirmed at 10pm ahead of what could be a busy […]

The sister of headteacher Ruth Perry has said she is worried that new Ofsted proposals for inspecting schools are a “rehash” of the “dangerous” system they are supposed to replace. Schools in England could be graded across a variety of different areas – including attendance and inclusion – using a colour-coded five-point scale. Schools would receive ratings – from the red coloured “causing concern” to orange coloured “attention needed”, through […]

The UK risks becoming an “incubator economy”, where technology start-ups develop before selling or moving abroad, a House of Lords committee has warned. Urgent action is needed by the Government to foster innovative UK companies, including AI and creative technology start-ups, and support them in scaling up, a new report from the Lords Communications and Digital Committee has said. The Prime Minister has previously said he wanted the UK and […]

Farmer Tony Martin, who was jailed for shooting dead a teenage burglar, has died at the age of 80, a friend has confirmed. Martin served three years in prison after shooting Fred Barras, 16, at his home in Emneth Hungate, Norfolk, in 1999. He was initially found guilty of murder, but this was reduced to manslaughter on appeal. Martin’s friend, Malcolm Starr, told the PA news agency that the Norfolk […]