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Katarina Johnson-Thompson laid it all on the line to secure heptathlon silver at the Stade de France for her first Olympic medal. The Liverpudlian sat 121 points behind Belgian champion Nafissatou Thiam entering the final event, the 800 metres. She faced a nearly impossible task, needing to beat Thiam by more than eight seconds to surpass her main rival. Johnson-Thompson clocked a personal best 2:04.90, but it was not quite […]

Around a thousand people gathered in Belfast for a counter-protest against several hundred anti-immigration demonstrators on Friday evening. A heavy police presence and barriers were put in place to keep the two groups apart at Belfast City Hall, while Donegall Square North and Wellington Place were closed to traffic for several hours. The people at the anti-immigration protest were seen holding signs with slogans such as “Shankill Road says no […]

The British quartet of Dina Asher-Smith, Imani Lansiquot, Amy Hunt and Daryll Neita secured women’s 4×100 metres silver at the Stade de France. Team GB won bronze in the same event for the last two Olympics and were one of the favourites on Friday night. They looked like they might be on course to secure gold before a messy handover between Hunt and anchor Neita cost them time. The United […]

Russian officials have declared the situation in the Kursk region a “federal level” emergency, four days after hundreds of Ukrainian troops poured over the border in what appears to be Kyiv’s biggest attack on Russian soil since the war began. Meanwhile, a Russian plane-launched missile struck a Ukrainian shopping centre in the middle of the day, killing at least 12 people and wounding 44 others, authorities said. The shopping centre […]

A Facebook user who encouraged people to attack a hotel housing asylum seekers has become the first person to be jailed for stirring up racial hatred following widespread disorder across the country. Jordan Parlour, 28, admitted posting on the social media platform between August 1 and August 5 urging others to target the building in Leeds, which at the time was housing more than 200 asylum seekers and refugees. The […]

Katie Price must attend a further hearing in relation to her bankruptcies later in August with “no ifs or buts”, a judge has said. The former glamour model appeared remotely at a hearing before a specialist bankruptcy judge at the Rolls Building on Friday, hours after being detained at Heathrow Airport. During the short hearing in London, Deputy Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Daniel Schaffer ordered Ms Price to give […]

Two men have been jailed for an attack on “pro-EDL” protesters after rival demonstrations in Leeds, with a judge warning that “severe sentences will follow” for anyone taking part in the violence. Leeds Crown Court was shown CCTV footage of a group of Asian men kicking and punching a smaller group of four white men, one of whom was draped in a Union flag and wearing a Union flag mask, […]

The BBC has asked Huw Edwards to return the salary he was paid during the period following his arrest in November last year, after his guilty plea to charges of having indecent images of children. It comes after the Culture Secretary had urged the disgraced newsreader to “return his salary”, while she also asked the BBC to look into whether it can recoup an estimated £200,000 paid to Edwards between […]

Two men are set to be the first to face jail for stirring up racial hatred following widespread disorder across the country. Tyler Kay, 26, and Jordan Parlour, 28, are due to be sentenced on Friday as more suspected rioters are scheduled to appear in court. Parlour indicated he admitted posting on Facebook between August 1 and August 5 in connection with the nationwide violent disorder. The defendant, of Seacroft, […]