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    Residents in Oxford have accused their council of reigniting a class war after resurfacing only the posh end of a suburban street. Repair work in Cutteslowe divides the road at the exact spot where a wall once separated council houses from the area’s wealthier homeowners. The developer which built all the homes in 1934 put up a wall to divide the two halves, even placing spikes along the top. The two sections were even given different names; Wentworth Road for the more upmarket stretch and Aldrich Road for the part housing council tenants. Although the infamous barrier was taken down 60 years ago, recent repairs to the potholed road have revived tensions among residents. The split has left many people living in the Aldrich Road end puzzled about their apparently s...

    Boris Johnson and wife Marina Wheeler are divorcing after 25 years of marriage and have been 'separated for some time. In a joint personal statement issued to the Press Association through a family friend, Mr Johnson and Ms Wheeler said: Several months ago, after 25 years of marriage, we decided it was in our best interests to separate. We have subsequently agreed to divorce and that process is under way. As friends we will continue to support our four children in the years ahead. We will not be commenting further. It comes after reports circulated last night that the couple had split after Marina allegedly accused him of infidelity. Boris has been accused of a string of affairs during their 25-year marriage. But according to the Sun , the latest fling was the f...

    A mother-of-two has expressed her outrage after she was forced to stand and breastfeed her six-month-old baby on a crowded train because no one would offer their seat. Kate Hitchens, from Essex, was travelling home from London after a work event with her son Charlie when she realised her fellow passengers were not going to allow her to sit - even after she began breastfeeding. Frustrated by the situation, Hitchens, 32, took a photo of herself standing on the packed train and shared it on Instagram. What has the world come to that a mother has to stand up on a moving train breastfeeding a wriggling and writhing six-month-old, 20lb baby?! she wrote. The point here isn’t just that I found it difficult because I was nursing (although that was bloody difficult!), but t...

    The new BBC series Press dramatises the lives of editors and reporters toiling in London’s busiest newsrooms. Starring David Suchet, Charlotte Riley and Ben Chaplin, the drama from Doctor Foster writer Mike Bartlett centres on the intense rivalry between fictional print publications The Post and The Herald, a tabloid and broadsheet respectively. “Set in the fast-paced and challenging environment of the British newspaper industry, Press will immerse viewers in the personal lives and the constant professional dilemmas facing its characters,” the corporation says. Journalism has long provided a rich source of material on the big screen, from His Girl Friday (1940) and Ace in the Hole (1951) to All the President’s Men (1976), Network (1976), Nightcrawler (2014), Spotli...

    Sergei Skripal was poisoned by agents of the same shadowy but buccaneering Russian intelligence agency he served in and betrayed decades ago, British authorities have claimed. Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, named as suspects in his attempted murder and of his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, are agents of the GRU, the Russian ministry of defence’s elite intelligence and special forces arm, Theresa May told the House of Commons on Wednesday. There is barely any information available about the pair, but they are almost certainly commissioned Russian military officers highly trained in covert operations, espionage and assassination. After releasing photographs of the two well-built men in their 40s, police said they were travelling under aliases. Fontanka, an inde...

    Theresa May has vowed that Britain will wage an international campaign to disrupt the Russian GRU spy agency behind the… Theresa May has vowed that Britain will wage an international campaign to disrupt the Russian GRU spy agency behind the deadly Salisbury novichok attack. She said the UK would use its full range of security services including MI5, MI6 and GCHQ to expose its malign activity and dismantle its networks, after revealing how two of its agents were behind the chemical weapons incident. The prime minister then signalled new sanctions against Russia, with government insiders suggesting key GRU figures could be targeted with travel bans and asset freezes. The Foreign Office also hauled in the most senior Russian diplomat in the UK to explain his governmen...

    The 35-year-old Emmerdale actress also finally addressed claims made by her former soap co-stars , which she branded as devastating. The interview was in stark contrast to her chat with Jeremy Vine , which viewers blasted for its softly softly approach. On Monday, Emma was seen sitting down with Roxanne in a pre-recorded chat with the former CBB star. Over the last few days, she faced the wrath of the public after saying Ryan had punched her five or six times and insisted that he had deliberately tried to hurt her. Watching it feels like a completely different scenario to it was at the time, Roxanne replied, but Emma probed her on how two days later she still got it so wrong. Especially when she reenacted what had happened on Ben. The former soap actress insisted...

    Theresa May has said that giving in to calls for a second referendum on the final terms of the UK's withdrawal from the EU would be a gross betrayal of our democracy. The Prime Minister dismissed calls from the People's Vote, a cross-party group that includes several high-profile figures and MPs, for a second Brexit vote. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Mrs May said: In the summer of 2016, millions came out to have their say. In many cases, for the first time in decades they trusted that their vote would count; that after years of feeling ignored by politics, their voices would be heard. To ask the question all over again would be a gross betrayal of our democracy and a betrayal of trust. Mrs May said the coming months were critical in shaping the future of our c...

    A 16-year-old boy has been shot in the early hours of the morning in south west London, police said. Armed officers were called to reports of a shooting in York Road, Wandsworth, around 12.45am on Sunday. The teenage was discovered suffering gunshot wounds and rushed to hospital in a serious condition. He is now stable, Scotland Yard said. No arrests have been made over the incident. York Road was sealed off overnight as officers investigated the shooting. Wandsworth Police posted on Twitter: Police are currently dealing with an incident in York Road Wandsworth cordons are in place, Usk Road also closed traffic disruption expected, motorists please avoid area. The shooting comes less than 24-hours after a woman was stabbed in an unrelated broad daylight attack in ...

    An Isis fanatic who plotted to bomb Downing Street and behead Theresa May has been jailed for life. Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman was walking down a London road with what he believed was a pressure cooker bomb and a suicide vest when he was arrested in November. Sentencing the 21-year-old to life imprisonment, Mr Justice Haddon-Cave said that although the devices were fakes provided by the security services, he planned to carry out a major terror attack. The judge said Rahman hoped to kill as many police officers, bystanders and tourists as possible by detonating a bomb at the gates of Downing Street before storming the building to murder the prime minister and blow himself up. Rahman is a very dangerous individual and it is difficult to predict when, if ever, he will ...