The owner of Primark, Associated British Foods (AB Foods), has said it is considering separating the fashion retailer from its food division after reporting a drop in annual profits. The company announced a strategic review of its group structure alongside its full-year financial results, which showed an adjusted pre-tax profit of £1.7 billion for the […]
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A nine-month-old baby has died following a dog attack at a home in Rogiet, Monmouthshire, Wales. Gwent Police and paramedics from the Welsh Ambulance Service were called to the property on Crossway at around 6pm on Sunday. Despite their efforts, the infant was pronounced dead at the scene. The dog involved in the incident has
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The number of children waiting to be adopted in England has surged by 45 per cent over the past three years, while the number of approved adopters has dropped sharply, according to new government data. The Adoption and Special Guardianship Quarterly Data Collection, published by Coram i for the Department for Education (DfE), shows that
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A convicted sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison has claimed that he tried to surrender to police but was ignored by officers. Hadush Kebatu, 41, from Ethiopia, was jailed for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman. He was wrongly released from HMP Chelmsford on Friday instead of being transferred to an
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Relatives of convicted grooming gang members have been applying for roles at UK charities that support sexual exploitation survivors in an effort to intimidate victims and interfere with investigations, according to new revelations. Paul O’Rourke, managing director of Next Stage Youth Development in Rochdale, said his organisation has uncovered multiple infiltration attempts from individuals linked
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Hobbycraft has launched an internal investigation after a customer claimed she was removed from its Dundee store for questioning a staff member’s “no Terfs, no Tories” badge. Rebekah Chapman, a 33-year-old gender-critical campaigner and designer, said she was ejected from the store after politely questioning why the employee was wearing what she described as an
A Scottish GP, Dr Andrew McFarlane, is under fire after making a £1,200 donation to a controversial men’s rights group while allegedly waging an online harassment campaign against a rape survivor. Dr McFarlane, 61, who works with NHS Highland, was arrested and charged in August for allegedly using social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to
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In the early hours of the morning, retired police detective Jon Wedger walks through the dimly lit streets of Tottenham, north-east London. He points towards a corner near a takeaway shop.“That’s where the three young girls are,” he says quietly. One is just 12 years old. Wedger, who served 25 years with the Metropolitan Police,
Billions of pounds are being wasted by the Home Office on hotel accommodation for asylum seekers, according to a scathing new report from the Home Affairs Committee. The committee’s findings reveal that the projected cost of housing asylum seekers has tripled from £4.5 billion to £15.3 billion, as demand has surged since the COVID-19 pandemic
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The long-awaited Renters Rights Bill has passed its final parliamentary stage and is now set to become law once it receives Royal Assent, expected later this month. The bill marks one of the most significant overhauls of the private rental sector in decades. Following a largely procedural debate in the House of Commons after the
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