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At 5pm today, Sky News will publish the first YouGov poll-based projection of the campaign. The pollster, which has partnered with Sky News for the election, pioneered the technique to call every seat in Great Britain on the basis of extensive polling. This will allow Sky News to bring you YouGov’s projected winner and the

Diane Abbott has said she will run to be Labour’s candidate in Hackney North and Stoke Newington following speculation she may choose to stand down. Ms Abbott also denied she had been offered a seat in the House of Lords in the event she chose to retire. In a post on social media, Ms Abbott

A junior doctor who found a goldfish on his garden lawn has gone viral on social media after saying he had “no idea” how it got there. Dr Ben Beska, from Newcastle, made the discovery on Saturday after he heard a group of magpies squawking and went out to investigate – and then spotted the

Police are reviewing a Conservative candidate’s campaign adverts after receiving allegations of election fraud. Robert Largan, who is fighting to keep his High Peak seat, has published a number of campaign materials in the colours of Labour and Reform UK. The graphics also included the phrases “Labour for Largan” and “Reform for Robert”. Live updates

A 13-year-old girl from Wales has died while on holiday in the US. Anna Beaumont was found unresponsive in a pool at Discovery Cove in Orlando, Florida. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said she was transported to hospital in critical condition on Tuesday but died the next day. In a statement, the force said: “We

The body of a British kayaker – described as a “white-water legend” – has been found in a lake in northern Italy. Bren Orton, 29, had been missing since 16 May, Swiss police said in a statement. His “lifeless body” was discovered by a sailor in the “waters of Verbano” in northern Italy, officers added.

The King and Queen watched as their horse came last at Epsom on Ladies’ Day. King Charles and Queen Camilla had to watch the late Queen Elizabeth’s thoroughbred Treasure finish at the back of the pack in the Oaks at Epsom on Friday. Despite odds of 16-1 Treasure, who was bred by the King’s mother,

Police are appealing for information about the stolen motorbike used to shoot four people, including a nine-year-old girl, in Hackney, east London. At a news conference near the scene on Friday, police revealed the bike the offender used in the attack on Dalston Kingsland Road is a Ducati Monster with a white body, red chassis,

Police have launched an appeal to find a teenager who vanished 53 years ago today when she was aged 15. Tina Whittamore was placed in the Whitaker Mother and Baby Unit in Grasmere Road, Luton, in 1971. She was last seen in the Bedfordshire town on 31 May the same year at about 2.30pm when

Leaning out the open door of a helicopter, 75-year-old photographer Donn Delson shows no fear as he clicks away on his camera capturing the buildings below. Taking up aerial photography in his 60s, the LA-based entrepreneur has since sold nearly £1m worth of artwork since switching careers. Image: Donn Delson. Pic: Elizabeth Callaghan Delson has

The housing market is showing signs of “resilience” with prices rising slightly, according to new figures from the UK’s largest building society. Nationwide said house prices were up 0.4% in May, compared to April. It said the average cost of a home was now £264,249 – with year-on-year prices also increasing by 1.3%. The figures

A woman who, along with her partner, lay undiscovered in a crashed car for days probably would have survived, but for “organisational failure” in police call handling procedures, an inquiry has found. Lamara Bell, 25, and John Yuill, 28, died after their car careered off the M9 near Stirling on 5 July 2015 as they

Diane Abbott is “free” to stand for Labour at the general election, Sir Keir Starmer has said. The Labour leader on Friday told reporters: “The whip has obviously been restored to her now and she is free to go forward as a Labour candidate.” The veteran MP’s future appeared in doubt following reports she could

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of trying to purge general election candidates from the left of the Labour Party. Questions remain about whether veteran Corbyn ally Diane Abbott will be barred from standing again, while Labour suspended one candidate and declined to endorse another. Labour’s general election campaign has been overshadowed by the internal

A primary school teacher who murdered her boyfriend before burying him in their garden has been jailed for life with a minimum of 20 years. Fiona Beal, 50, from Northampton, stabbed Nicholas Billingham, 42, to death sometime between October and November 2021. After previously pleading guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter by reason of

A primary school teacher murdered her boyfriend in a “carefully planned domestic execution” after he sent her a letter declaring his love “until the day I die”, a court has heard. Fiona Beal, 50, has admitted the murder of Nicholas Billingham, who she stabbed to death before burying his body in their garden in Northampton.

The Home Office has “little to show” for the money it has used on the Rwanda scheme and “does not have a credible plan”, a group of MPs has warned. The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the government department had spent millions of pounds so far on the policy and its asylum accommodation plans.

A Singapore Airlines flight hit by severe turbulence experienced a rapid change in gravitational force and a 54m (178ft) altitude drop in four seconds, an investigation has found. It comes after a 73-year-old British man died from a suspected heart attack after the incident on 21 May on the London-Singapore flight. Dozens more were injured

Police will take no further action against Labour’s Angela Rayner after accusations surrounding her living arrangements in 2010. Officers from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) launched an investigation into the party’s deputy leader earlier this year, after reports suggested she may have lived primarily at her then-husband’s address in Stockport, despite registering to vote under her

Pro-Palestinian protesters have forced the University of Manchester to move exams after occupying a campus building. The university said demonstrators, linked to the nearby Encampment of Resistance for Palestine, “unlawfully barricaded” Whitworth Hall over the weekend. After the group “refused” to vacate the premises to allow student exams to proceed, and after police stopped more