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About 130 properties were evacuated after ‘suspicious items’ were found during a police operation in Grimethorpe, South Yorkshire.

The group said ITV Studios revenues tumbled 16% to £382 million in the first quarter.

It came as the boss of the London-listed arms firm said it has seen a ‘strong’ operational performance and is on track to meet its targets.

Kate Forbes was appointed deputy First Minister.

The MP for Stratford-on-Avon is to leave Westminster after 14 years in Parliament.

The country has faced calls to be excluded from the contest amid the war in Gaza.

The police force credits six months of its Right Care, Right Person scheme as the cause for responding to 18% more urgent robbery calls.

Pro-Palestine encampments have been set up by students at more than a dozen universities across the UK against the war in Gaza.

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Some 8,790 people have made the crossing so far this year, up on the same period in both 2022 and 2023.

He shares three sons with his former partner Maia Norman.

A Stormont Executive meeting in March 2020 was adjourned for 15 minutes at one stage, when exchanges became heated.

Dover MP Natalie Elphicke announced she was joining Labour just moments before Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday.

One lucky player won £1.2 million after matching five of the six main Lotto numbers as well as the bonus number.

South Yorkshire Police said the Wednesday morning evacuation came after ‘a number of suspicious items’ were found at a property.

No findings have been made in respect of the allegations and the legal claims are in the preliminary stages.

The students taking part in the protest had vowed to maintain the blockade until the university cuts all ties with Israel.

Ministers will call on university leaders to take immediate disciplinary action if any student is found to be inciting racial hatred or violence.

Albini produced Nirvana’s 1993 album In Utero, the Pixies’ Surfer Rosa, and PJ Harvey’s album Rid Of Me.

The 6.5% increase in the first quarter marked 16 months of successive growth.