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Leigh Boobyerat Bristol Crown CourtMoment father is arrested for murdering his babyA father who murdered his two-week-old baby son on a neonatal ward has been jailed for life.Daniel Gunter, 27, of no fixed address, denied harming Brendon Staddon but a jury at Bristol Crown Court found him guilty of murder in July and he was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years at the court earlier.The jury heard Brendon suffered catastrophic injuries, including a fractured skull, a broken neck, a broken jaw and broken legs, in Yeovil District Hospital’s special care baby unit in Somerset on 5 March 2024.Sentencing Gunter,…
Chelsea and Liverpool meet at Stamford Bridge on Saturday with the Reds hoping to bounce back from consecutive defeats.In April 2014 the pair played out a huge match in the title race, which included a certain Liverpool captain’s slip on the way to a 2-0 Chelsea win.That’s the match we’ve chosen for this week’s Saturday starting line-ups quiz.How many players can you name? You have seven minutes. Good luck!
A company linked to Baroness Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman passed most of the money it received from the government for personal protective equipment (PPE) to other firms, according to a spokesperson for PPE Medpro.On Wednesday a judge ordered PPE Medpro to repay £122m as the gowns it supplied did not meet sterility certification standards.However, £83m of that was paid to other companies and there was a “very strong case” for the administrator to chase them for the money, the PPE Medpro spokesperson said.Health Secretary Wes Streeting said his department would seek to “recover everything we can”.When Mr Barrowman…
As the club prepared to leave its beloved Roker Park home after nigh-on a century, the series – broadcast in February and March 1998 – also detailed efforts to capitalise on the commercial possibilities opening up as the game’s top flight, then known as the Premiership, exploded in popularity.When a letter from the BBC proposing the production landed on the desk of Lesley Callaghan, the club’s head of PR, she and the board saw it as an opportunity to document a “historic moment”.”It felt like something important was happening with the growth of the Premier League, TV deals and construction…
St Helens were well beaten 42-6 in June’s Women’s Challenge Cup final at Wembley and are winless against Wigan so far this season.Saints drew 22-22 at Wigan on 29 June in their first meeting after that Wembley defeat while they lost 24-20 at home in September at the tail end of the regular season.Despite this, joint head coach Craig Richards said his side have taken a lot from their experience at Wembley, which came off the back of winning the Women’s Challenge Cup four times in succession.”For us there’s a lot of strengths to be taken away from Wembley -…
Labour has been urged to introduce sweeping changes to a popular vehicle after reports found growing safety risks on UK roads.It comes after research revealed that e-scooter incidents peaked last year, with almost 1,400 people killed or seriously injured by the electric vehicles.This included one pedestrian who was killed, five riders, and 59 pedestrians seriously injured due to crashes with the fast vehicles. An additional 158 Britons suffered minor injuries in collisions with the electric scooters. This was followed by cyclists (47 injured), car occupants (12 injured) and motorcyclists (seven injured). The Department for Transport research also found that 366…
Electric vehicle (EV) sales in the UK hit a record high last month, according to the latest industry figures. Sales of pure battery electric vehicles (BEV) grew by almost a third to 72,779 in September, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers (SMMT), while sales of plug-in hybrid cars grew even faster. It means sales of fully electric or hybrid vehicles made up more than half of all new car registrations in the UK last month.The SMMT said sales were driven by carmakers offering discounts, a larger choice of models, and the introduction of the government’s grant scheme.While registrations of…
Kelly: What are your memories from your childhood?Hugo: I grew up more with my mum. I spent a lot of time with my mum and my little brother. It was just football. I was going to school and playing football. Everywhere.Kelly: I saw a video of your brothers and friends when you scored your first Liverpool goal.Hugo: I remember my friend was there, but it was too much – I don’t like that kind of video. But it was nice because when I was in Paris, they were there with me. I have the same people there when I have…
A gang of migrants have been jailed after they attacked a shop owner while wielding machetes. Hana Hassan, 22, Yosek Shaban, 24, Osama Qadir, 21, and Dawan Mantik, 28, were sentenced to a combined 22 years in prison.Ahmed Omar and Rahel Omer, two others involved in the attack, have fled the country.It is understood that Hassan, Shaban, Qadir and Mantik, all Kurds from Iran and Iraq, arrived in the UK having crossed the Channel on small boats.Fellow Kurd Kurwan Ali and his friends were the target of the attack which happened in Bournemouth, Dorset.Sepan Qasim, one of the victims, was…
Storm Amy has swept into the UK, bringing heavy rain and strong winds to large parts of the country.An amber wind warning is in place for parts of northern and western Scotland, where the Met Office is warning of power cuts and flying debris that could endanger life.A lower level yellow warning for winds has been issued for all of Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well as Wales and north-west England, until Saturday evening.A man in his 40s died in the Republic of Ireland in what police described as a “weather-related incident”.Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland and north-west England…