Thousands of Britons will become victims of crime as a result of Andy Burnham's early prison release scheme.

Sex offenders, robbers, arsonists and violent criminals will commit nearly 90,000 extra offences after being freed early, according to analysis.

Despite mounting public fury, the Prime Minister has decided to pursue the controversial Labour plans which let thousands out of jail before the end of their sentences to ease overcrowding in prisons.

But the Conservatives have found that, thanks to Mr Burnham green-lighting the scheme, there will be around 500 added sex offences, nearly 1,800 violent crimes and just under 36,000 thefts before the end of this Parliament in 2029.

The grim forecast also estimates that 1,500 crimes for possessing a weapon, more than 7,000 drug-related offences and up to 3,000 public order offences will be recorded.

This will lead to an extra 89,225 crimes in total being committed by mid-2029, the Tories found.

Tory justice spokesman Nick Timothy said: 'Labour's early release scheme is still set to let thousands of dangerous criminals out early, and this will mean

JK Rowling has offered to fund female NHS patients and staff who take legal action over biological males being allowed into women-only spaces.

The Harry Potter author acted after one health trust said transgender women can continue to use female wards, toilets, showers and changing rooms for now.

The move by the Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) came despite the introduction of a new statutory code on single-sex spaces.

Ms Rowling wrote on X: 'Then the lawsuits will keep coming. Should any female patient or member of staff require funding to fight this assault on their legal rights, apply to jkrwf.org.'

That refers to the JK Rowling Women's Fund, the private legal fund which she established last year.

Her intervention came after the trust, which covers Staffordshire and Shropshire, told employees there would be 'no immediate changes' to its policies following the introduction of the revised statutory code.

Under MPFT's current policies, patients may access single-sex facilities, including hospital wards, according to their gender identity rather than biological sex. Male staff who identify as women

The US Department of War will invest more than half a billion dollars in a central western NSW town.

A mining project in Fifield, south-west of Dubbo, produces the rare mineral scandium, which is essential to the operation of military assets including fighter jets and spacecraft.

In what has been described as a 'world-first', Sunrise Energy Metals' Syerston Scandium Project, will receive a $560 million loan from the Pentagon, it was announced at the weekend. 

Previously, the US relied on Russia, China and Ukraine for scandium, which it has not mined since 1969.

In a televised roundtable with mining executives at the US State Department on Friday, President Donald Trump announced the loan to the Syerston project, calling it 'the world's first primary scandium mine'.

Sunrise Energy Metals said the project aimed to deliver 'the world's first primary source of mine-able, high-grade scandium'.

In February, the company's chief executive, Sam Riggall, said the project, backed by mining billionaire Robert Friedland, was worth $US12 billion ($16.9 billion).

The historic loan comes off the back

The father of teenage school shooter Colt Gray has requested a new trial less than one week after he was sentenced to serve 15 years behind bars for gifting his son the gun used in the massacre.

Colin Gray was found guilty in March of second-degree murder for the deaths of Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, following his son's attack at Apalachee High School. 

He was also convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the deaths of two teachers, Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53.

The 55-year-old was then sentenced on July 30 and is now serving time at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison – a maximum-security facility located between Atlanta and Macon that also houses the state's death row and execution chamber.

His son, Colt, now 16, was earlier sentenced to life in prison for the September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School, which also wounded eight students and one teacher.

In a two-page motion for a new trial filed Wednesday in Barrow County Superior Court, Colin's attorneys argue his conviction is 'decidedly

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has accused the Albanese government of repeatedly missing its own migration targets, claiming Labor is on track to bring another one million migrants to Australia over the next four years.

On Monday, Hanson argued that Home Affairs and Immigration Minister Tony Burke's upcoming migration announcement would maintain Australia's high migration intake rather than reduce it.

'Tony Burke isn't cutting migration. He is doubling down on bringing in another million people over the next four years,' Hanson said.

'This weak government has never once hit a migration target it set. Not once, in four years.'

Hanson pointed to a series of migration forecasts she claims Labor has exceeded.

She noted the government originally forecast net overseas migration of 235,000 in October 2022, but said the figure later rose to 538,000.

She also cited Labor's May 2023 forecast of 315,000, claiming net overseas migration ultimately reached 429,000.

The One Nation leader further claimed Labor forecast net overseas migration of 260,000 in May 2024, but that figure later increased to 306,000.

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Peta Credlin has taken aim at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for billing taxpayers to fly his wife and adult son to Canberra for Budget night, insisting they should have paid their own way.

Appearing on News24 on Thursday, Credlin said she was stunned by the Daily Mail's revelation that Albanese used a parliamentary family reunion allowance to fund flights for his wife Jodie Haydon and their son Nathan from Sydney for the May Budget.

Both Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers are under fire after taxpayers were charged more than $4,200 to fly family members to Canberra for Budget night, even though their relatives hold well-paid professional jobs.

Expense records show Albanese claimed $2,591.32 for return flights for Ms Haydon and his 25-year-old son between Sydney and Canberra, covering travel from May 12 to May 14.

Each one-way fare was $647.83, with the public covering both outbound and return trips.

Nathan Albanese works in the institutional banking division of Commonwealth Bank, while Ms Haydon was a senior executive at Teachers Mutual Bank as

A doctor who lives in a $12million mansion in Sydney's eastern suburbs has been hit with more indecency and sexual assault charges relating to female patients at his longtime bulk-billing practice.

The GP, who has been operating the no-fee medical centre in Australia's densest public housing suburb, Waterloo, for four decades, is now charged with assaulting or sexually touching eight female patients, including one from the age of 15.

Dr Andrew Small was initially released from police custody in May, when the general practitioner was held overnight in police cells after being charged with five offences against four female patients.

NSW Police re-arrested him, took him to Mascot Police Station, and laid five further charges, including alleged offences against the patient who was 15 years old. 

The offences include three charges of aggravated sexual touching of another person and one of aggravated sexual intercourse with a person aged 14 to 16.

He is also charged with one count of aggravated indecency with a person aged 16 and under authority. 

Dr Small has practised at Waterloo Medical Centre since 1987 and lives in a luxury home with a swimming

A North Dakota mother slit her three children's throats in a frenzied attack before sending a chilling five-word text message to their father, police say. 

Kailey Erhart, 22, allegedly stabbed her daughters Morgan, three, and Ava, five months, to death at her Mandan home on Thursday evening, according to an affidavit obtained by KVLY.

She also allegedly knifed her one-year-old son, Colton, but the little boy survived the attack after undergoing extensive surgery. Police say he sustained serious injuries.

Erhart carried out the 'horrific' attack after waving a gun at her estranged husband, Cameron, and chasing him and the children's grandmother out of the house with a knife, the affidavit said.

When police responded at the home, they said they found Erhart covered in blood and holding a kitchen knife to her own throat.

Officers found the three children lying on the floor after following a trail of blood to a nearby bedroom, the filing said. They were unresponsive and had wounds on their necks, per the document.

Before the attack, Erhart texted a video to Cameron warning him to 'say goodbye to your kids,' the affidavit said. 

The 14 passengers onboard a motorboat that capsized in the New York harbor on Saturday night were celebrating a surprise birthday party.

Family and friends had chartered a 2019 21-foot white Yamaha AR210 from Zeus Luxury for Paula Rivera's surprise 41st birthday party, her daughter, Sara Raez, told the New York Post. 

The group then boarded the boat, which Raez described as 'kind of like a yacht' at around 7pm. They then passed by the Statue of Liberty and were heading back to shore when tragedy struck at around 10.30pm.

'The water got into the boat,' Raez recounted. 'The boat went up, and when it went down, it was, in seconds, it flipped over.'

All of the passengers were then left stuck underneath the vessel, she said, before crews rescued them and pulled them from the water.

'We were just trying to get out. Then, when finally everyone got out, everyone was screaming.'

Sara Sanchez, 27, and her five-month-old daughter, Antonella Garcia, were ultimately airlifted to NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn in critical condition and were later pronounced dead.

A dozen others were also transported to

The family home of Stone Roses legend Gary 'Mani' Mounfield has been placed on the market nine months after the musician's death – with a £1.05million asking price.

The much-loved bassist died at the property near Stockport, Greater Manchester, last November aged 63.

His death came almost two years after his beloved wife Imelda died from cancer at the age of 52, tragically leaving the couple's twin teenage sons orphaned.

Now, the family's imposing five-bedroom period residence has been listed for sale with a seven-figure guide price.

The substantial semi-detached Victorian house, situated in the sought-after suburb of Heaton Moor, is described by estate agents as 'oozing charm and character'.

Pictures taken inside the property reveal unmistakable traces of Mani's celebrated life in music, with guitars, framed mementoes and memorabilia connected to his beloved Manchester United still visible.

Its four floors include five double bedrooms, three bedrooms and cellar rooms that appear to have been used by Mani as his own retreat, with piles of records, a guitar rested on an armchair and a portrait of former United striker Eric Cantona.

Local estate agents John Mellor described the property as 'a stunning

Older Brits are ditching expensive retirement flats at home for cut-price Spanish ones abroad - where the pound goes further and the facilities are top-notch.

Expats say they'd rather live on the Costa Blanca than pour their money into so-called assisted living complexes in the UK, which have been exposed as money pits that many people struggle to sell.

Rather than buying a flat that threatens to swallow their cash, British retirees are investing in cheap retirement-ready property that comes with a swimming pool, libraries, transport and 24-hour on-call medical aid.

One such community is Ciudad Patricia, a 24-acre retirement community of landscaped parkland in the hills above Benidorm, where residents can buy a flat for around £200,000.

Sheila Morris, 87, moved with her partner Howard, 85, into the complex in 2018, paying around 320,000 Euros - £274,000 at current exchange rates - for a flat.

Some flats start from as little as 240,000 Euros (£205k) for a 65-year-old but the upfront purchase price falls by 3,500 Euros (£3k) for every year up to 80, for a maximum discount of £45,000.

On top of this, the couple pay a service charge of just over

Terry Smith and her sister, Sherry, have lived at the end of the cul-de-sac on Little Mountain Drive for the last five years. 

Smith describes her Virginian neighborhood as friendly, a place where everyone talks to each other, and most importantly, it's quiet. It was their prized slice of the American dream. 

But that's all about to change, as city officials have proposed building a 900-megawatt data center at Summit View Business Park, which is a mere one-fourth of a mile from Smith's home in Rocky Mount, near Roanoke. 

'It's literally in my backyard,' Smith, 53, told the Daily Mail. 'It's in a quiet neighborhood. You never hear any kind of a disturbance.

'It's unfathomable that these people aren't considering the impact on the people in the immediate area.' 

She and the 100 or so households in her section of the neighborhood are worried the proximity of the data center will destroy their home values and their sanity.

'I just feel the Board of Supervisors is not considering the lifelong impact of the environment,' she said. 'And I don't feel like they're considering the people who are affected immediately, like myself and the cul-de-sac.'

Smith estimated up to