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5 days ago | 
manchestereveningnews.co.uk | Damon Wilkinson |Ted Hennessey PA
There have been 115 blazes this yearLast weekend, as we basked in temperatures hotter than Barcelona, dozens of firefighters battled two huge moor fires on the hills above Greater Manchester. Crews from the across the north west fought fierce flames in woodland off Woodhead Road in Glossop, and on land surrounding March Haigh Reservoir in Marsden, near to Denshaw. Just a day earlier another moorland blaze near Tor Hill in Haslingden, Lancs, was put out.
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2 weeks ago | 
walesonline.co.uk | Alex Hickey |Ted Hennessey PA
North Wales could be set for its warmest day of the year so far as temperatures are tipped to reach around 20C this afternoon. This will put it on a par with European hotspots in Spain and Greece and even the west coast of the USA. The high temperatures will be felt across much of the UK which is set to bask in potentially record-breaking warmth. Firefighters have been tackling wildfires across the region and nation as the mercury rises.
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3 weeks ago | 
kentlive.news | Tom Van Klaveren |Ted Hennessey PA
The trial of a man accused of trying to kill an Army officer in uniform near a Kent barracks has been delayed due to his poor mental health, a court heard. Anthony Esan, 24, is accused of repeatedly stabbing married father-of-two Lieutenant Colonel Mark Teeton at Sally Port Gardens, in Gillingham near Brompton Barracks on July 23 last year. The serviceman, 47, was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
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1 month ago | 
bristolpost.co.uk | Pete Gavan |Ted Hennessey PA
A judo Olympian has appealed for help to find her brother, who police are "extremely worried" about after he went missing in Bristol. Lubjana Piovesana, 28, who competed for Team GB before switching to the Austrian team, says the next hours are "critical" in the search for her brother Luis Piovesana. Mr Piovesana, 26, was last seen at around 3am on Friday at Eastgate retail park having travelled there via a taxi from a venue in Little Ann Street, St Jude's, a 10-minute drive away.
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1 month ago | 
somersetlive.co.uk | Pete Gavan |Ted Hennessey PA
A judo Olympian has appealed for help to find her brother, who police are "extremely worried" about after he went missing in Bristol. Lubjana Piovesana, 28, who competed for Team GB before switching to the Austrian team, says the next hours are "critical" in the search for her brother Luis Piovesana. Mr Piovesana, 26, was last seen at around 3am on Friday at Eastgate retail park having travelled there via a taxi from a venue in Little Ann Street, St Jude's, a 10-minute drive away.
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1 month ago | 
birminghammail.co.uk | Jordan Coussins |Ted Hennessey PA
The BBC has issued a formal apology for the programme and an internal review found that the programme's child narrator is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, who has worked as Hamas's deputy minister of agriculture(Image: PA Wire/PA Images)Counter-terror police are currently assessing complaints regarding a BBC documentary that delved into life in Gaza, which controversially featured the son of a Hamas official as its child narrator.
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1 month ago | 
getsurrey.co.uk | Lucy Thorne |Ted Hennessey PA
The founder of an LGBTQ+ group told a jury his alleged conversations about kidnapping and sexually assaulting children were "fantasy" and "taboo". Stephen Ireland, 40, told Guildford Crown Court he was "smoking too much" and that there were "no actual plans to do anything". Ireland, who co-founded Pride in Surrey in 2018, and David Sutton, 27, a volunteer with the organisation, are accused of "targeting children for their sexual proclivities" between 2022 and 2024, prosecutors say.
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1 month ago | 
mylondon.news | Lucy Thorne |Ted Hennessey PA
The founder of an LGBTQ+ group told a jury his alleged conversations about kidnapping and sexually assaulting children were "fantasy" and "taboo". Stephen Ireland, 40, told Guildford Crown Court he was "smoking too much" and that there were "no actual plans to do anything". Ireland, who co-founded Pride in Surrey in 2018, and David Sutton, 27, a volunteer with the organisation, are accused of "targeting children for their sexual proclivities" between 2022 and 2024, prosecutors say.
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1 month ago | 
manchestereveningnews.co.uk | William Morgan |Ted Hennessey PA
A watchdog recommended that compensation be paid to women born in the 1950s whose state pension age was raised to be equal with menWASPI campaigners are threatening the Government with legal measures unless it rethinks its refusal to offer compensation to millions of women impacted by the alteration of the state pension age.
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2 months ago | 
mylondon.news | Emma Fradgley |Ted Hennessey PA
Fashion editor Dame Anna Wintour and artist Dame Tracey Emin are set to be be honoured at Buckingham Palace. They will both attend an investiture ceremony on Tuesday morning, along with other recipients. Dame Anna, 75, is best known as the long-serving editor-in-chief of Vogue, a position she has held since 1988. She has also been running the Met Gala since 1995 and was made a Companion of Honour in the 2023 King’s Birthday Honours list for her services to fashion.
