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    A witness said he heard a young woman screaming during a stabbing on a busy street in a daylight attack. The man, who did not want to be identified, said he saw two men with a blade on Caledonian Road in Islington, north London. Two of them attacked one and basically they got stabbed pretty badly, he added. I thought the woman was just screaming I didn’t realise she was hurt. The victim, in her 20s, is believed to have been stabbed in the chest. Part of the street was in lockdown with cordons in place and traffic diverted following the attack at around 10.20am on Saturday. Piles of clothes could be seen lying on the ground outside a parade of shops and cafes. A man, who has not been identified, has been arrested and is being held by Metropolitan Police officers ...

    A small crowd gathered in Westminster to watch the 29ft blimp take to the skies on Saturday morning. As the inflatable went up, there were chants of higher, higher, higher. Organisers say the stunt has helped them raise £58,000 for an ongoing campaign to remove Mr Khan from his post because they say they blame him personally for a rise in violence in the capital. Under Sadiq Khan, we have seen crime sky rocket to unprecedented levels, a statement on the crowdfunding web page states. People in London don’t feel safe and they aren’t. It comes just a couple of months after the mayor waved through the flying of a blimp of Donald Trump during the US president's to the UK visit. Speaking on Saturday morning, lead organiser Yanny Bruere a 28-year-old sales manager from N...

    Princess Diana is being remembered in a touching way by William and Harry on the 21st anniversary of their mother's death. While the princes have had a packed summer of public and private events, including a monumental royal wedding for Harry and Meghan Markle, Kensington Palace scheduled no engagements for them today. It's believed the princes, 15 and 12 when they lost their mother, will be spending the day with their wives and wider families. Last year, the princes also stayed out of the public eye on the same day, spending it in private with family. But, on the eve of the 20 year anniversary, Harry, 33, and William, 37, visited the White Garden, a memorial dedicated to Diana in the grounds of Kensington Palace. Despite the huge impact she made on the world, ba...

    A 21 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a daughter and mother. West Midlands Police said the man was arrested in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham on suspicion of murdering Raneem Oudeh, 22, and her mother Khaola Saleem, 49. The women were fatally stabbed in Northdown Road, Solihull in the early hours of Bank Holiday Monday. Detectives revealed the mother and daughter were on the phone to police as they were attacked. Ms Oudeh had made multiple calls to emergency services that night but police struggled to locate the pair until a later call where the situation escalated and officers were dispatched, arriving within minutes. They were treated by paramedics for their wounds, but were pronounced dead at the scene. Detective Inspector Caroline Co...

    The Duchess of Sussex has given her first major ‘sit down’ interview since joining the Royal Family for a high profile documentary series on the Queen. Queen of the World, to be broadcast on ITV next month, will offer a unique insight into Her Majesty role as a figure on the global stage and the baton she is passing to the younger members of the family as they continue her passion for the Commonwealth. Filmed over more than a year by Oxford Films, the crew has been given privileged access to the Queen, her family, her staff and her residences, as they tell the story of how the Commonwealth has been a central focus and passion throughout her life. Meghan, 37, has given a lengthy interview to the team, as has her husband, Prince Harry, who has been named by the monar...

    France's President Emmanuel Macron and Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May inspect the troops at Sandhurst Military Emmanuel Macron is urging the European Union to agree to a close relationship with the UK after Brexit, according to reports. The French president aims to use an EU summit next month in Salzburg, Austria, to push for a new alliance between the bloc and Britain, The Times reports. A new Continental structure would see concentric circles with the EU and Euro at its core and the UK in a second ring, according to the newspaper. The latest claims emerged after the bloc's chief negotiator Michel Barnier struck an optimistic tone, stating: We are prepared to offer Britain a partnership such as there never has been with any other third country. The comments...

    Former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks has called Jeremy Corbyn an antisemite, saying the Labour leader’s comment about Zionists at a 2013 conference was the most offensive statement by a senior UK politician since Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech. In an interview with the New Statesman, Sacks, who was the UK’s chief rabbi from 1991 to 2013, said Corbyn had given support to racists, terrorists and dealers of hate who want to kill Jews and remove Israel from the map. He said: Now, within living memory of the Holocaust, and while Jews are being murdered elsewhere in Europe for being Jews, we have an antisemite as the leader of the Labour party and Her Majesty’s opposition. That is why Jews feel so threatened by Mr Corbyn and those who support him. Sacks condemned Cor...

    Drivers on the M25 have endured severe delays near the Dartford Crossing on Tuesday after two lorries were involved in a serious crash. Dramatic pictures from the scene show two lorries on their sides, with one having fallen down a roadside bank, and debris littering the motorway. The cab on one of the HGV lorries appears to have been severely smashed in the collision. Footage from the scene shows the two damaged lorries, with debris covering the road surface and pedestrians offering their assistance to those involved, Essex Live reports. But the collision has resulted in both sides of the M25 being closed. The crash has caused chaos for drivers on both sides of the M25 and on surrounding roads, including the A13 and A127. At present, traffic has been stopped in...

    Theresa May delivered a rebuke to her chancellor as she arrives in Africa for her first visit to the continent as prime minister. When asked whether she thought her chancellor was right in his assessment of the economic impact of no deal as outlined in a letter to the Treasury Select Committee last week, the PM refused to endorse Philip Hammond's position, stating that the figures he quoted were out of date. First of all, the chancellor was talking about a set of figures that I think came out in January. I think when they came out I was very clear on a previous trip that those figures were a work in progress at that particular time. Her failure to back Hammond and his prognosis for no deal will be cheered on the Brexiteer wing of the party. A senior government so...

    Record numbers of London homeowners are selling up to buy cheaper property in the north and Midlands, using profits made in the capital to splurge on bigger homes. Research by agents Hamptons International found the proportion of Londoners leaving the capital for northern England or the Midlands had tripled since 2010. The average Londoner quitting the capital pays £424,610 for their new property, enough to buy a large detached house in a good suburb of Birmingham but which only pays for a two-bed flat above a shop in east London. Aneisha Beveridge, research analyst at Hamptons, said: With affordability stretched, more Londoners are moving out of the capital to find their new home. Many London leavers were looking for a bigger home or better local schools, Hampton...