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Andy Burnham has been stealing the show in Liverpool. Whether it’s electoral reform or rejoining the EU, Labour members have crammed into fringe venues to hear from Manchester’s man of the moment.“There’s nothing more unstoppable than an idea whose time has come,” Mr Burnham quipped last night. And it appeared that Labour members were rather taken by the Manchester Mayor’s offer.It makes a huge change from 12 months ago when GB News was quizzing Mr Burnham on whether he would rule out a return to Westminster.One Fleet Street journalist even labelled the People’s Channel’s question last year as “stupid”. But…

Police are understood to have been given powers to immediately arrest anyone who crosses new “no trespassing” lines around the future Windsor home of Prince William and Princess Kate, as work begins on a sweeping security zone to protect the family.New photos show cars and lorries arriving to build a wooden fence that will encircle the couple’s new residence, Forest Lodge, ahead of their planned move. Security minister Dan Jarvis’s order, which took effect on Sunday, allows officers to detain trespassers and is intended “as a deterrent for incursions”.GB News has contacted the Metropolitan Police for comment.Arrest powers in force…

Hundreds of thousands of pensioners are missing out on thousands of pounds because part of their pensions is frozen. Unite says around 400,000 retired workers are seeing the contributions they made before 1997 stuck at the same level, with no increases over time.Many of these retirees rely on the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) or the Financial Assistance Scheme after their employers went bust, but under current rules, those pre-1997 contributions are not protected against rising prices. Unite says this has left large chunks of pensions worth only half what they should be. The union is calling on the government to…

Getty ImagesThe MI6 headquarters, completed in 1994, was one of Farrell’s most famous designsSir Terry Farrell, one of the UK’s leading architects, has died at the age of 87.Farrells, the architecture practice he founded, announced his death “with deep sadness”, saying: “Terry was frequently called a maverick, radical and a non-conformist which he relished.”His typical building style was post-modernist, exuberant and playful, with his famous commissions including London’s MI6 building and the headquarters for ITV’s 1980s breakfast show TV-am, with giant breakfast eggcups perched on the roof.Farrells added that the architect’s “enduring commitment to urbanism has helped shape government policy…

World number two Jannik Sinner moved into the semi-finals of the China Open in Beijing thanks to a 6-1 7-5 victory over Hungarian Fabian Marozsan on Monday.Italian Sinner claimed a seventh semi-final spot from the eight tournaments he has played this year and only needed 26 minutes to clinch the opening set.In the second he fell awkwardly in the eighth game and was a break down at 4-5 but hit back immediately to deny Marozsan the set.Sinner held and pounced on his opponent’s serve again in the 12th game, sealing his 40th tour-level match win of a season in which…

EPAA schoolgirl victim of grooming gangs in Rochdale has told a court her abusers had “destroyed my life”.Her statement was read out ahead of the sentencing of seven men convicted in June of various child sex offences relating to her and another unnamed teenage girl in the town between 2001 and 2006.Both were treated as “sex slaves” from the age of 13 said prosecutors, “amid deeply troubled home lives” as they were given drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and places to stay.Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court previously heard they were expected to have sex “whenever and wherever” the defendants wanted in locations…

A council in Northern Ireland has spent £20,000 to protect a portrait of a unionist mayor after it was vandalised. The painting of Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) peer Lord Browne was damaged at an Irish-language celebration event in Belfast City Hall.A Sinn Féin employee at Stormont later resigned over the incident, after it was investigated by police as a hate crime.The city council had initially declined to disclose the figure, saying there was an “active police investigation” ongoing. REVEALED: Council forced to splurge £20k of taxpayer money on a painting after vandalism | Belfast City Council However, after a complaint…

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has announced the “biggest expansion of legal aid in a generation”.In his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, the Justice Secretary said he is “so proud” to put the expansion into force.David Lammy said legal aid lawyers are ‘not fat cats’ | GB NEWSThe boost, Mr Lammy says, will help ordinary families tackle the legal cost burden if they are ever caught up in court procedures.The Justice Secretary was full of praise for legal aid lawyers, who he says offer support for local communities for “much less than they could earn elsewhere”.LATEST…

Sarah Ferguson could lose her honorary “Freedom of the City of York” as the council considers a motion to strip her of the title at its next full meeting in November.The Duchess of York was granted the honour alongside Prince Andrew in 1987 as a wedding gift. Andrew lost his freedom of the city in 2022 after settling a civil sexual assault case with Virginia Giuffre.Leader of City of York Council, Councillor Claire Douglas, told the Mail: “A Full Council meeting of all City of York councillors next takes place in November. “Consideration will be given in advance of that…

Britain’s mortgage market experienced another month of contraction as lending figures released this morning revealed a further weakening in borrowing activity.The Bank of England’s latest data showed net mortgage debt taken on by individuals dropped to £4.3billion during August.This represents a £200million reduction from July’s figure, which itself had fallen by £900million from the previous month.The persistent downward trajectory in mortgage lending underscores the mounting pressures facing British households amid an uncertain economic landscape.House purchase approvals also retreated, with lenders granting 64,700 mortgages for property acquisitions in August, down by 500 from the prior month.The figures paint a sobering picture…