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The Prime Minister has said he is prepared to press the red button if he has to, as he looked to exploit Labour's division on the nation's security. On the first day of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, David Cameron said he believed the country should retain the Trident nuclear deterrent. And he said that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's recent comment that he would not authorise the use of nuclear weapons even if Britain was under nuclear attack "undermined national security". Mr Cameron said: "The problem with his answer is, if you ... believe like me that Britain should keep the ultimate insurance policy of an independent nuclear deterrent, you have to accept there are circumstances in which its use would be justified. "If you give any other answer then you are, frankly, u...

Police in Tower Hamlets are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of a missing 18-year-old woman from Tower Hamlets. Tamanna Uddin was last seen at around 07:50hrs on 2 October in Whitechapel Train Station boarding an overground train to Crystal Palace. She was due to change onto the DLR at Shadwell but didn't. Tamanna is an Asian woman, 5ft 5inches tall of medium build with black hair. At the time of her disappearance she was wearing a pink coloured head scarf, a black jacket with white trim, black trousers and carrying a light coloured handbag. Tammana has Bipolar Disorder and may be very scared being on her own. Officers are increasingly concerned for her wellbeing and would urge anyone with information on her whereabouts to call police on 101 or Missing People on 116000.

    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached London yesterday evening from New York en route home after winding up her eight-day official visit to the United States to attend the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). A British Airways flight carrying the prime minister and members of her entourage landed at the Heathrow International Airport in the British capital at about 8:10pm (London time), PM's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told BSS over phone. Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK Md Abdul Hannan received the prime minister at the airport. From the airport, Sheikh Hasina was taken to Hotel Claridge's where she will be staying during her brief tour to London. The prime minister will be accorded a community reception at a London hotel this afternoon. She...

    The woman, who has been taken to hospital, fell at the store's flagship branch in Oxford Street on Sunday afternoon. Police are said to be treating the incident as non-suspicious. Customers have spoken of their shock at witnessing the woman's fall. One 19-year-old shopper, who asked not to be named, told the Evening Standard: “We were on the ground floor as it happened, and she landed on the basement floor. “There was a very loud bang and lots of screams. It was really awful – no one really knew what to do. It was very, very busy and there were a few kids. I witnessed a lot of people walking from the escalator where they saw the incident running outside crying and covering their eyes. Everyone was just in shock. A police spokesman said officers were called to the store at ...

    Greeting the country’s people on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, BNP chairperson Khaleda feared that people are unlikely to be able to properly enjoy the festival due to the ‘prevailing anarchic situation’ in the country, reports UNB. In a message marking the Eid, she said, “An alarming anarchic situation has been prevailing in the country as there’s no security of people and their property. Under the circum-stances, it won’t be possible for all to enjoy the Eid properly.” The BNP chief observed that the poor and low-income people have been going through immense suffer-ings for unbridled price hike. She urged the country’s well-off section of society to extend their helping hands and sympathy to the poor and destitute. “We all should be careful so that no one remains unfed on ...

    A man has been shot dead in broad daylight in a busy London street. The victim, who was found with gunshot wounds next to a butchers in Chatsworth Road, Hackney, shortly after 1pm, was pronounced dead at the scene. An investigation has been launched by police into the fatal shooting and a post-mortem examination is due to be carried out. The dead man's next of kin have yet to be informed. Meanwhile, the gunman remains at large and is being hunted by police. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Officers, specialist firearms officers and the London Ambulance Service (LAS) attended the scene and found a man with injuries consistent with being shot. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A spokesman for the ambulance service said, Sadly, a man reported to be in his 20s was pronounce...

  A fire at a mosque in south London is being tackled by 10 fire engines, amid reports most of it is burning. The ground and first floors of the mosque in Morden, said to be one of the largest in western Europe, are affected by the fire. The London Fire Brigade said it was called at 12.06pm and it had 70 firefighters at the scene. It added the cause of the fire was not yet known. The mosque can accommodate up to 10,000 people and cost millions to build. It opened in 2003.One person has been taken to hospital, suffering from smoke inhalation. Crews from New Malden, Wandsworth, Tooting, Sutton, Mitcham and Norbury fire stations are at the scene. Police closed London Road, the road the mosque is on and urged people to avoid the area.

    Detectives at Scotland Yard launched a murder investigation after the discovery was made on Wednesday morning and have not yet formally identified the victim. The man’s body was spotted in the water by a member of the public near the entrance to the Islington Tunnel, by a houseboat-lined towpath popular with local residents, dog walkers and joggers. Police were last night searching the banks as divers combed the bed of the canal for evidence. A houseboat owner told the Evening Standardofficers asked him whether he had heard a shopping trolley pass by along the towpath. “I’d gone to sleep at 11pm after being at the pub to watch the rugby and woke with the police banging on my window, he added. “That’s when I found out the body had been found in a trolley. I think he was tie...

    London's cost of living was the biggest issue for Brits The things that Britons hate most about London are the cost of living and bad manners of its residents, according to a survey. The survey asked 1,800 people from across the UK what they loved and hated the most about London. London's most hated quality should come as no surprise to anyone - the cost of living came top, with 37.8 per cent of respondents saying this was their least favourite thing about the city. London was recently revealed to be the third most expensive city in the world, being pipped to the post by billionaires' playgrounds in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. 23.8 per cent, however, were more concerned about the lack of manners present in the city, clearly having had bad experiences on the Cent...