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Police are hunting for two men who are wanted in connection with a number of sexual offences reported by a teenage boy. Thames Valley Police are looking for Adam Hastings and Reece Upton, both 28 and from Newbury, Berkshire, who went missing at around 3pm on 13 June. They were last seen in Devizes in

Flights have started departing from Manchester Airport’s two main terminals after a “major power cut” caused travel chaos for passengers. The airport said in a post on X that it was “now in the process of resuming operations” and it expects “flights to restart during the remainder of this afternoon and evening”. It added: “It

Police have named and released a picture of the seven-month-old baby killed by a pet dog in Coventry. Elle Doherty suffered serious injuries to her head after being bitten by the family’s dog inside their home, West Midlands Police have said. Officers and ambulance workers arrived at the Shorncliffe Road address “within minutes” of being

Labour raised almost £4.4m in the second full week of the general election campaign – close to 15 times the amount brought in by the Tories. Rishi Sunak’s party took in just under £300,000 between 6 and 12 June. Reform UK raised more than double this figure, with £742,000 taken. Election latest: Sunak faces more

Hungary player Barnabas Varga is reportedly stable in hospital after he was stretchered off the pitch in the country’s Euro 2024 match against Scotland. The Hungary forward went down in the second half after an apparent clash with Scotland’s goalkeeper Angus Gunn following a free kick. Hungary players quickly signalled Varga was in trouble and

A police chief has been sacked after being found guilty of gross misconduct over lying about his military record. Nick Adderley, the chief constable of Northamptonshire Police, had been suspended on full pay since October for exaggerating his own rank and length of service and lying about his naval achievements. The allegations included implying that

England have missed out on automatically qualifying for the knockout stages of the Euros tonight after drawing 1-1 with Denmark. The Three Lions were booed by their supporters after a lacklustre showing at the Frankfurt Arena. England’s display will not strike fear into Europe’s elite, with manager Gareth Southgate’s selection and the underwhelming all-round team

Drugs used to treat HIV are to be trialled in people with incurable multiple brain tumours. Scientists think ritonavir and lopinavir could shrink tumours in patients with neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2), a genetic condition where tumours grow along nerves. The tumours are normally non-cancerous but can cause symptoms such as balance problems, hearing loss and ringing

Gareth Southgate has admitted that England can “play better” than in their underwhelming opening performance at Euro 2024. The team got off to a winning start, beating Serbia 1-0 thanks to Jude Bellingham’s superb first-half header, but endured a nervous finish as they held on for all three points awarded for a win. “We know

Love Island star Jack Fowler has called for serving nuts on planes to be banned after claiming he suffered an “extremely scary” allergic reaction on a flight to Dubai. The reality star, who appeared on the hit ITV2 show in 2018, shared details on social media, saying he had to use his epi pen and

A watchdog has told police to investigate whether the decision to ram an escaped cow with a police car was “appropriate and proportionate”. After footage of officers using a patrol car to ram the cow was shared on social media, Surrey Police was widely criticised, with the home secretary demanding an explanation. The force said

UK inflation has eased to 2% – increasing the prospect of an interest rate cut this summer. The consumer prices index (CPI) rate for the year to May was confirmed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday. The figure indicates that prices are still rising, but at the slowest pace since spring 2021.

The general election may be “the last chance” to fix the UK’s “broken renting system”, housing organisations have warned as they called on party leaders to come up with bolder solutions to the crisis. In an open letter to Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer, groups representing tenants said thousands more people “face homelessness, poverty

Police have arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 12-year-old boy in a hit-and-run crash in Coventry. West Midlands Police said officers are continuing to search a second man – Dolars Aleksanders, 21, after Keaton Slater was struck by a black BMW, believed to contain four men, in Radford Road shortly after 4.30pm

Doctors are calling for the drink-drive limit to be reduced to the equivalent of a small glass of wine or beer. The limit in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is the highest in Europe at 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. In Scotland it is 50mg. The British Medical Foundation, the trade union for

The UK had the lowest rates of business investment out of all G7 nations for a third year in a row, a new report has claimed. The economies of the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan are all said to have attracted higher levels of funding from the private sector – as a percentage

Love Island star Jack Fowler has claimed “complete negligence” during an Emirates flight to Dubai left him with the “real possibility of dying” after suffering an allergic reaction on the plane. He said he made the flight attendant aware of his nut allergy twice before he was given a chicken curry which saw his throat

The King and Queen led a celebration of the ancient Order of the Garter but the Princess of Wales – who attended Trooping the Colour on Saturday – was absent. Both Kate and the King have been undergoing treatment for cancer. The Duke of York – a member of the order – did not join

House prices have been flat in recent weeks but the market overall remains “steady”, according to new figures from a leading property website. Rightmove said there was 0% growth in the four weeks to 8 June, compared with the previous month. The average price of a property coming to the market was £375,110 during the

An officer filmed deliberately driving a police car into a cow has been removed from frontline duties, Surrey Police have said. It comes after the farmer’s partner told Sky News he should “lose his job” over the “disgusting” incident. “I fully appreciate the distress our handling of this incident has caused and will ensure that