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Angela FergusonNorth West BreakfastFormer detective Natalie Samuels says the attacks on North West Ambulance Service staff have to stopParamedics in the north west are being “punched, spat at, kicked, racially abused [and] sexually assaulted” during the course of their work, an ambulance service has said.Natalie Samuels from North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) said their staff were facing an increased number of attacks, with abuse happening on a daily basis.She said staff were subjected to a “shocking” range of such incidents while out on the road and this had to stop.”Every ambulance service in the country is seeing an increase in…

Kemi Badenoch says the Conservatives will scrap the ban on petrol and diesel vehicles due to come into force in the UK if they win the next election.Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the Conservative Party leader said the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate (ZEV) was a “well-meaning but ultimately destructive piece of legislation”.From 2030, all new cars will have to be electric or hybrid as part of government efforts to meet a legally binding aim of achieving “net zero” by 2050.The Conservative leader’s comments come after her meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who has lobbied the EU to water…

Glasgow Warriors’ stunning comeback victory over Toulouse in the Investec Champions Cup will do wonders for their confidence, says fly-half Adam Hastings.Franco Smith’s side looked to be heading for a heavy defeat as the six-time European champions raced into a 21-0 half-time lead.Warriors caught fire in the second half to turn the game on its head, running in four unanswered tries to deliver arguably the greatest European win in their history.”It was just mental,” Hastings, who was named player of the match, told BBC Scotland.”For [the fans] to come out on a night like this, a sell out, and just…

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Phil ShepkaCambridgeshire political reporterRichard Knights/The John Mansfield Centre is home to an adult learning collegePolice are investigating after a council sold a college building worth £4.6m for just £1, it has emerged.Peterborough City Council officers are “concerned” its disposal of the John Mansfield Centre (JMC) – occupied by City College Peterborough – to a charity in 2020 and “associated financial transactions were unlawful”.After the sale, the council – which owns the college – paid rent of nearly £800,000 to the charity City College Peterborough Foundation (CCPF), but a cabinet report says there is “no evidence of any written lease or…

Noel Mikaelian beat Badou Jack by a unanimous points decision in Los Angeles to regain the WBC cruiserweight title.Mikaelian had been narrowly beaten by Jack in May and lost the belt, but the German earned a convincing win on Saturday as the three judges scored the fight 115-111, 116-110, 116-110 in his favour.The bout was a scrappy affair in which Mikaelian, 35, was deducted a point in the seventh round for a punch to the back of his 42-year-old Swedish opponent’s head.A point was then taken off Jack in the eighth for punching after the bell, with officials and both…

Tom Walker’s 2017 hit single, Leave A Light On, was about a friend with a drug addictionSinger-songwriter Tom Walker has spoken out about struggles with his mental health, saying writing music has been his therapy.Walker wrote about a friend with a drug addiction in his 2017 hit single Leave A Light On, and his 2024 track Lifeline was written after the sudden and unexpected death of a close friend.”Songwriting was a kind of therapy for me, and I was writing about the things in my life which made me ecstatic, and also the things I really struggled with,” the 33-year-old…

Everyone should “follow the rules” when guidance on single-sex spaces is released, the new head of the equality watchdog has told the . Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said “things could be sorted out if there is goodwill and recognition that everybody has rights”, and that “nobody is expecting there to be a toilet police”.The guidance, for businesses and services, was drawn up after a unanimous Supreme Court ruling in April that legally a woman should be defined by biological sex for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010.The interview, to be broadcast…

The NBA Cup is the competition’s annual in-season tournament, with all matches except the final also counting towards the regular season standings.The Thunder were beaten in last year’s final by the Milwaukee Bucks and had a 16-game winning run ended by the Spurs as they exited this season’s competition.Oklahoma City had equalled the best 25-game start to a season when they went 24-1 by beating the Phoenix Suns in the quarter-finals, but they have now made the second best start to a campaign after 26 games as the Golden State Warriors were 25-1 at the same stage in 2015-16.Shai Gilgeous-Alexander,…

A “women-only” affordable housing scheme in London has said it will accept male-born transgender women on its waiting list.The 102-flat Brooke House in Ealing will welcome applicants who were born male but now identify as women. However, transgender men, those born female who now identify as male, cannot apply for the development.The Women’s Pioneer Housing Association now appears to describe the project as “women-led” rather than women-only. Residents’ male family members will be permitted to live at the site.Those eligible for the waiting list include women who are female by birth, those holding a gender recognition certificate, and transgender women…