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Policeman left alone with dead child used grieving relative’s account to buy porn as he waited for an undertaker
"We can't definitely say whether he watched it or not as no one else was there at the time but it would be odd to purchase them and not watch them."
Health firm that made billions in profit refuse to grant staff an 82p pay rise to match their NHS colleagues
Staff working for contractor Compass have voted unanimously to strike after their appeals for a modest pay rise were shunned.
OBR warns no-deal Brexit will push UK economy into recession and £30bn extra debt per year
The Office for Budget Responsibility’s bleak assessment predicts 2% dip in GDP if UK leaves EU with no deal.
US Air Force warns against prank Facebook call to ‘storm Area 51’
The site is part of the vast Nevada Test and Training Range and has become the centre of UFO conspiracy theories.
Knife crime offences increase 8% over year to reach record high
Police recorded 43,516 incidents involving knives or sharp objects in the year to March.
Report slams government for not doing enough to prevent another Grenfell Tower tragedy
"This is a national emergency which is being met by the Government with utter complacency."
Giant Antarctic ice sheet ‘could be saved’ by generating billions of tons of artificial snow
Scioentists say the project would need "unprecedented" feats of engineering - including the installation of several thousand wind turbines in the inhospitable region
Human trials of world’s first HIV jab to begin
A protective injection is the 'holy grail' of AIDS research. Since the epidemic began almost four decades ago only four have been tested on patients - with none proving a success
Mexican drug lord El Chapo sentenced to life in US prison
Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been sentenced to life behind bars in a US prison, a humbling end for a crime lord once notorious for his ability to kill, bribe or tunnel his way out of trouble. A federal judge in Brooklyn handed down the sentence on Wednesday, five months after Guzman’s conviction in an epic drug-trafficking case. The 62-year-old, who had been protected in Mexico by an army of gangsters and an elaborate corruption operation, was...