Labour was bitten by its own 'monster of harvesting Muslim community bloc votes' in last night's by-election, Kemi Badenoch said today as police were urged to investigate allegations of illegal activity at polling stations.
The Tory leader lashed out at beleaguered Keir Starmer amid a growing row over claims of coercive 'family voting' in Gorton and Denton raised by independent observers of the shock Green victory.
A headteacher today blamed bubbling 'community tensions' for a chaotic outbreak of violence that saw pupils fighting running battles across school grounds, leaving one staff member hospitalised and others injured.
Up to 20 police cars swarmed the school gates as the mass fight broke out at 1,000-pupil Fir Vale Academy in Sheffield at midday yesterday.
CCTV footage has revealed the moment a train crashed into a van after a reckless delivery driver pulled on to a level crossing and opened its gates by hand.
William Backhouse managed to escape unharmed after the Northern Rail train ploughed into the front of his van at 49mph at Braystones station in Cumbria.
A husband started a 'tsunami' of domestic abuse which allegedly drove his wife to suicide after she asked his mother to move out their home, a court has heard.
Christopher Trybus, of Swindon, Wiltshire, is accused of the manslaughter of Tarryn Baird, who took her own life aged 34 in November 2017.
Coronation Street and Mrs Brown's Boys star Frank Grimes has left £125,000 to his beloved wife after he died at 78 years of age.
The much-loved actor, who was also a Tony Award nominee, passed away on August 1, last year, surrounded by his family following a short illness.
Floundering Keir Starmer insisted he will 'fight on' today after being humiliated by the Greens in a disastrous by-election.
Angela Rayner is among those demanding 'change' as critics insisted Sir Keir is personally culpable for the 'worst possible' result in Gorton & Denton.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said the party has reported cases of 'family voting' in the Gorton and Denton by-election to the police and Electoral Commission.
It comes after election observer group Democracy Volunteers warned it had witnessed 'concerningly high levels' of family voting – an illegal practice where two voters use one polling booth and potentially direct each other on voting.
A disgraced teacher struck off from a £35,000-a-year boarding school for having a sexual encounter with a boy has been pictured at a Barbie-themed school event.
Beverley Dunnage, 52, was head of Year 8 at the private girls' school St George's in Ascot when she 'incited' the boy to engage in sexual activity in May 2024.
A Russian vodka billionaire who bought Scotland's most expensive sporting estate is selling it for £67million.
Tulchan Estate, completed in 1906, was sold to a company owned by Yuri Schefler in 2017 for an asking price of £25million.
It was previously owned by the Litchfield family for 23 years.
A North Wales council has said it will only back plans for 'fully affordable' homes in a costal village if they are reserved for people who 'speak Welsh.'
Trefor and Llanaelhaearn Community Council wants a Welsh-language condition included before it approves a bid to build 15 affordable homes in the majority Welsh-speaking village of Trefor in Gwynedd.
Attorneys close to Donald Trump are urging the President to declare a national emergency that would allow him to take sweeping powers over the crucial midterm elections.
The President has railed against 'rigged elections' and still refuses to concede the 2020 race to Joe Biden while pushing the SAVE Act to force citizens to show ID at the polls, against the wishes of Congressional Democrats.
Bill Clinton will make history on Friday as the first ever former president compelled to testify before Congress against his will.
The 79-year-old is being hauled before lawmakers over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after being threatened with contempt charges.
