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Doorbell cam vision of arrest of UK parents who complained about their daughter’s primary school on WhatsApp

British parents arrested after complaining about daughter’s school on WhatsApp

Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine were reportedly detained by six officers in front of their three-year-old daughter after posting in a parent group chat.

  • Will Bolton

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Queen Camilla speaks as King Charles looks on during a reception to mark the launch of the Queen’s reading room medal at Clarence House on Tuesday.

‘Naysayers’: Queen claims victory over online reading club with 12 million members

The Queen’s Reading Room started life as a lockdown book list but has evolved to become a registered charity, a popular podcast, an annual festival and more.

  • Victoria Ward
Just Stop Oil protesters threw tinned soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s famous 1888 work Sunflowers, then glued themselves to the wall at the National Gallery in London in 2022.

After throwing soup at Van Gogh and painting Stonehenge, agents of chaos say they’re done

The group of protesters, which included women in their 80s, grabbed the headlines with disruptive stunts that saw them arrested 3300 times in three years.

  • Rob Harris
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speak to the media in Paris, France.

Russia wants crippling sanctions ditched for Ukraine ceasefire. Europe has other ideas

Speaking in Paris at the so-called Coalition of the Willing summit, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer accused Vladimir Putin of “playing games and playing for time”.

  • Rob Harris
King Charles was hospitalised in London after experiencing side effects from ongoing cancer treatment.

King Charles hospitalised after side effects from cancer treatment

The 76-year-old monarch was “greatly disappointed” to cancel public appearances scheduled for Friday.

  • Rob Harris
Sleep moored on a London canal with a stay at The Boathouse.

One of London’s most unusual stays is in a rejuvenated part of the city

Paddington Basin has had a remarkable 20-year rejuvenation, so it’s apt that one of the area’s accommodations is a barge – and a very swish one at that.

  • Rob McFarland
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Bob Hawke and Margaret Thatcher

Trump for the Commonwealth? He’d make the Iron Lady seem soft-hearted

Donald Trump seems taken by the idea that he might be welcomed into the Commonwealth. Those pushing the idea must have lost their knowledge of history.

  • Tony Wright
Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and Prince Harry at Sentebale’s Mamohato Children’s Centre in Maseru, Lesotho, on October 1.

‘Heartbroken’ Prince Harry has quit his ‘forget-me-not’ charity over infighting

The British Charity Commission said it was looking into “concerns about the governance of Sentebale”.

  • Victoria Ward
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Stripping off to pass exams: A youth spectacle like no other

Wandering the cobbled streets of St Andrews, Scotland, we stumbled across ancient rites celebrating the joy of youth.

  • Tony Wright
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Heathrow warned a decade ago about weakness of single grid connection

As Heathrow’s operations began to return to normal, its chief executive blamed the external power failure and said similar disruptions could happen at other airports.

  • Patrick Sawer and Fiona Parker

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