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A Met Police firearms expert who blamed himself for the shooting of Mark Duggan blasted himself in the head in the street during a standoff with armed cops, an inquest heard. Civilian employee Tony Hanley, 51, turned the handgun on himself when negotiations with armed officers broke down near his home in Wallington, south London, the hearing was told. Officers tried to talk to him on January 30, 2016, and used a taser and fired two rubber bullets at him...

A zero hours worker has won a court battle to force his former employer to pay him for annual leave. Helier Heath, 23, is now calling on others to know their rights after he took his former employer to court over unpaid holiday. Helier worked as a security guard with Plymouth-based Crown Security Solutions for about three months. During that time he was on a so-called zero hours contract, where the employee is not guaranteed any hours, and said he...

Police in the US are facing accusations of collusion after they carried out "suspiciously timed" arrests of Rose McGowan and Corey Feldman on drug charges. Both celebrities have been vocal campaigners against Hollywood sex abusers following revelations brought forward in the Harvey Weinstein case. Former child star Corey Feldman announced plans on Friday to make a documentary that will expose the truth behind sexual abuse in Hollywood. In an interview he said: "I vow I will release every single name...

Speculation that a Brexit financial services job crisis could be in our midst have been downplayed after HSBC became the latest bank to change its warning of an exodus. The Bank of England this week released a warning that up to 75,000 jobs could be lost in financial services following Britain's departure from the European Union. The cautionary advice comes after Goldman Sachs agreed to lease 10,000 square metres of office space in Franfurt and JP Morgan planned to shift some services from London...

Scientists will close an Antarctic research centre next year over fears the ice beneath it will CRACK. The British Antarctic Survey's (BAS) Halley VI Research Station is situated on a floating 150m thick ice shelf which has split twice in the last 12 months. The crack is caused by a movement of a chasm in the Brunt Ice Shelf, which had previously been dormant for around 35 years, but is now extending eastwards. The British Antarctic Survey's (BAS) Halley VI...

The shadow foreign secretary challenged Boris Johnson to recognise the Palestinian state to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, when his predecessor as Foreign Secretary wrote in support of a "national home for the Jewish people" in the then British held territory of Palestine. And she promised the House of Commons that if the Conservative government would refuse to recognise the state of Palestine, the next Labour government would. Pouring scorn on Donald Trump's chaotic approach to...

Labour MP Chris Bryant has made a shocking revelation about royal family members covering up sexual abuse by a high ranking member of the clergy. The Labour MP for Rhondda told an emergency debate on sexual abuse in the House of Commons of a shocking case he was told about when he was a young vicar. A friend and colleague was suicidal after being raped by a senior churchman. Bryant told the House of Commons that "the senior cleric concerned...

A pharmacist gave bomb-making advice to her fellow jihadist after the pair met on a muslim dating site, a court heard today (mon). Munir Mohammed, 36, was helped by qualified pharmacist Rowaida El-Hassan, 33, in the Islamic State inspired plot, in which she also advised him on the toxin ricin, jurors were told. Mohammed was caught with materials to make the explosive TATP, and had instruction manuals on building explosives, mobile phone detonators and ricin, it was said. The pair...

With its jaws open wide, this Grizzly bear is just waiting for a leaping salmon to jump right in for a fish supper. Taken by British snapper Nick Dale, the picture was highly commended in the Wonders of Wildlife photographic competition. 1st prize zebras at dawn by Malcolm Blackburn. Nick, from London, who became a professional photographer in 2013, said: "The annual salmon migration is practically an all-you-can-eat buffet for bears in Alaska. "The journey upstream sometimes covers hundreds of...