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A-road; major towns and cities connected A1 London, Peterborough, Doncaster, Edinburgh A11 London, Cambridge, Norwich A120 Puckeridge, Stansted, Braintree, Harwich A19 Doncaster, York, Middlesbrough, Newcastle A2 London, Dartford, Rochester, Canterbury, Dover A249 Maidstone, Sittingbourne, Sheerness A259 Folkestone, Hastings, Eastbourne, Brighton, Chichester A27 Southampton, Portsmouth, Brighton, Eastbourne A30 London, Basingstoke, Exeter, Penzance A303 Basingstoke, Andover, Amesbury, Ilminster … Read more

A man has been charged with the murder of a teenage boy who was shot dead in Stockwell, south London, the Metropolitan police said. Lathaniel Burrell, 16, was shot dead in south London on Tuesday. Officers were called to the scene at about 3pm after reports of a shooting on Paradise Road. The teenager died … Read more

It has become a familiar routine for the Palm Beach county sheriff, Ric Bradshaw, and his deputies. Almost every Tuesday in recent weeks, the Federal Aviation Administration has posted to its website a formal “notice to airmen” advising of upcoming flight restrictions over south Florida, signaling once again to those who must protect him that … Read more

Keir Starmer could be heading for the same fate as Olaf Scholz, the recently defeated German chancellor, unless his government is able to deliver on issues such as immigration and welfare, a Labour MP has warned. Jake Richards, the MP for Rother Valley, said he had seen “uncanny” parallels between Labour and Scholz’s party during … Read more

Actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, who were found dead last month in Santa Fe, New Mexico, were rarely apart from each other, and it’s that closeness that may have led to the circumstances of their deaths. Arakawa had become Hackman’s caregiver in his later years when he developed Alzheimer’s disease and became … Read more

At various points in history it has been a prison for Mary, Queen of Scots, a battleground in the English civil war, and the site of one the country’s first flushing toilets. But despite its storied past, Wingfield Manor in Derbyshire has fallen into disrepair, and members of the public can no longer visit the … Read more

Councils in England are spending on average twice as much on school transport for children with special educational needs than on maintaining their road networks, a Guardian investigation has found. Many councils have said their obligations under the wider special educational needs and disabilities (Send) system are financially unsustainable, with the rapid increase in pupil … Read more

In just seven weeks since returning to the White House for a second term, Donald Trump has upended the US approach to the invasion of Ukraine and treated Russia increasingly not as an adversary, but an ally. After tossing aside decades of alignment with Europe against Russian aggression, the US president suspended military assistance and … Read more

Digital blackouts reached a record high in 2024 in Africa as more governments sought to keep millions of citizens off the internet than in any other period over the last decade. A report released by the internet rights group Access Now and #KeepItOn, a coalition of hundreds of civil society organisations worldwide, found there were … Read more

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Andrew Roth There was an audible gasp in the room at the Council on Foreign Relations as Keith Kellogg, the White House’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, characterised the US decision to cut off intelligence sharing and military aid to … Read more