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Jim Allister said his party will be contesting the seat held by the DUP’s Gavin Robinson but that he would not be the candidate.

The Labour leader made his first major speech of the General Election campaign in Tory-held Lancing in West Sussex.

The 76-year-old died on October 8 2022 while serving a full life order for the murder of three women.

The new ICRIR, led by retired judge Sir Declan Morgan, will investigate hundreds of unresolved Troubles cases.

The right to a second opinion follows the death of 13-year-old Martha Mills from sepsis in 2021.

The International Criminal Court announced last week it was seeking the arrest of Hamas leaders as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Dr Ittai Gradel’s claims were initially rejected by the institution.

Anne-Marie Trevelyan said a ‘very small proportion’ of Muslims did not back British values but the majority were ‘peace-loving’.

The Liberal Democrats have been in fourth position since 2015.

Of the 21 femicide victims recorded by the Met Police in 2022, nine were black as were eight of the 13 victims in 2023.

Denise Wilson, who previously led the FTSE Women Leaders Review, is taking her mission to Girlguiding, in her new role as chair of the trustees.

Openreach said the project will cover a further 2.7 million homes and businesses.

Around 16% of teachers admitted to self-censoring in order to avoid causing religious offence, according to a survey in November.

He said Britain needs to work more closely with the nation’s ‘European neighbours, who share our experiences’.

Doug Baldwin, from Caddington in Bedfordshire, landed in northern France aged 18 three weeks after D-Day in June 1944.

The rate that prices were rising in shops across the country had returned to normal levels, an influential retail group said.

The East Yorkshire Regiment Living Group was set up to portray the actions of the Second Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment.

Donald Howkins, 103, was a gunner in the 90th Middlesex Regiment and landed in Normandy on D-Day on June 6 1944.

Mervyn Kersh said he wishes the gains made during the Second World War had ‘lasted longer’.

Here are the stories making headlines this bank holiday.