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Russell Brand: Inside the 'squalid, unsafe and overcrowded' London jail where he faces years locked up

Read our privacy notice . Convicted rapist Russell Brand is facing up to 10 years behind bars in a London prison condemned as “unsafe, squalid and overcrowded”. The 51-year-old is understood to have been locked up at…

Man who stole ambulance with patient inside jailed

Had it crashed, the patient would have died, the court heard. Leese eventually stopped at a petrol station on the A34 in Newcastle-under-Lyme and fled but was found hiding nearby by a police sniffer dog. The 32-year-old…

Edinburgh Academy ignored decades of ‘dreadful abuse’ to protect reputation, inquiry finds

Join today Already a member? Log in Pupils at Edinburgh Academy suffered “dreadful abuse” over 40 years while the school ignored numerous complaints and focused on protecting its reputation, the Scottish Child Abuse…

Iran rejects French claims it was behind supermarket fridge hacking

On Monday, the French authorities blamed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for the string of hacks, which foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot said were "unprecedented" in terms of their scale and "level of…

New regulation for heating oil market, but no price controls

However it will not include the sort of price controls applied to the gas and electricity markets. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigated the heating oil market in Northern Ireland and other parts of…

Three more London schools could close as pupil numbers plummet

The local Conservative council have proposed closing Bishop Stopford’s School , Starks Field Primary School and Suffolks Primary School in north London, claiming reduced pupil numbers are making them financially…

Asylum protester who threw bottle at police jailed

Up to 500 people gathered outside The Bell Hotel after a migrant living there, Hadush Kebatu, was charged with – and later jailed for – sex offences. Silk, of Torrington Drive, Loughton, was sentenced at Chelmsford Crown…

Noah’s Ark ‘evidence’ may have been found where biblical vessel came to rest

Charred wood has been recovered at the Durupınar Formation in eastern Turkey – an approximately 515ft-long, boat-shaped formation near the Mountains of Ararat. The site has long been believed to be the final resting…

French wartime resistance heroine Solange Alexandre dies aged 104

After serving as a Resistance courier from 1941, three years later she founded the Pas-de-Boeuf network near the town of Ruillé-sur-Loir. With some 30 men under her orders, she organised sabotage operations, sheltered…

California police investigate after 27 fall ill at half-marathon running event

In a statement provided to the BBC's US partner CBS News, officers said they received a report from Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital about race participants who sought medical treatment "for unusual symptoms" after the…