
Josh Halliday
North of England Editor at The Guardian
Acting North of England editor, @guardian. @LUFC fan from Bradford, @sunderlanduni alumni. DMs open.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Josh Halliday
A 16-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed in Huddersfield town centre was a Syrian refugee who came to the UK after being injured in a bombing, his family have said. Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim died after being stabbed in front of shocked onlookers in the West Yorkshire town last Thursday. In a statement, the teenager’s family said Ahmad had “just begun settling into his new life” with his uncle after fleeing Syria.
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2 weeks ago |
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theguardian.com | Josh Halliday |Pippa Crerar
Britain is “behind the curve” in tracking Russia’s deep sea operations, an ex-minister has said, after spy sensors targeting Royal Navy submarines were found in waters around the UK. Tobias Ellwood, a former defence and Foreign Office minister, called for a huge expansion of the navy’s surveillance capability after it was revealed that a number of Kremlin spy devices had been seized by the military.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Josh Halliday
Detective constable Beth Colbourne was walking out of Chester crown court when she got the email that brought an end to one of the longest baby death mysteries in recent times. It started: “Are you sitting down?”As an officer in Cheshire constabulary’s major crime review team, Colbourne had been tasked with solving a puzzle that had confounded police for 25 years: who was Baby Callum?
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Josh Halliday
A woman who killed her newborn baby 27 years ago while suffering from postnatal depression has been spared jail because her thinking was “substantially impaired” by mental illness. Joanne Sharkey, 55, was handed a two-year prison sentence, suspended for two years, after admitting manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility over the death of her days-old son, whose body was found wrapped in bin bags in woodland in 1998.
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Absolutely horrific. A 16-year-old boy who fled war-torn Syria - where he was injured in a bombing - had only been living in Huddersfield for two weeks when he was fatally stabbed, his family tell @RobynVinter. He only moved to Britain in October. https://t.co/iOPIAzsrGe

Very much enjoyed this by @DaniLavelle: https://t.co/o6iVS0h0ru

What I want to know is: what proportion of Oasis tickets did Ticketmaster sell at the standard price, and what proportion did it reserve for dynamic pricing? And what chance of refunds for those of us who paid £361 a ticket (yes I am still sore about it) https://t.co/ZuwQlKkbrB