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    Salih Khater taken from his Facebook page. Khater, a 29-year-old British citizen of Sudanese origin, was arrested at the scene of the Tuesday Aug. 14, 2018 car crash outside the Houses of Parliament on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism, police said. Khater, a British citizen originally from Sudan, was arrested Tuesday after striking cyclists The older brother of the Westminster terror suspect has said he is 100 per cent sure he is innocent. Mustafa Khater, 33, said his younger brother Salih had never been radicalised' but admitted he had been struggling following the death of their father and brother last year. Mr Khater, who is still living in Sudan, said: 'Salih is a sincere kid, all his aims in life are studying, finis...

    The Labour party has made a formal complain to the press regulator over recent coverage of Jeremy Corbyn's attendance at a wreath-laying memorial in Tunisia. The pictures of the 2014 ceremony prompted an international row after the Daily Mail claimed that they showed Corbyn laying a wreath close to the grave of people linked to a terror attack. But the Labour leader has insisted he attended the service in honour of the innocent people killed in an Israeli air strike in 1985. In an unusual step, the party put forward a formal complaint to Ipso, the independent press regulator in the UK, over the coverage of the incident in recent weeks. The Guardian reports that the complaint named the Daily Mail, Sun, Times, Telegraph, Express and Metro and accused them of misrepr...

    Rhian Collins An NHS nurse hanged herself after being bullied by colleagues, an inquest heard. Rhian Collins, 30, was allegedly sworn at and picked on by fellow staff at a mental health hospital where she worked. She told her family her colleagues made her life 'very difficult' and would give her the worst night shifts. At an inquest into her death, investigating officer Sergeant Nia Lambley said: 'She was having issues at work. She was being sworn at, bullied and believed she was continually given the worst shifts on the ward. This lead to her becoming obsessed with her appearance and she would go to the gym four times a day. The family told police Miss Collins was struggling to cope with the 'stress and unsociable hours' and was looking to get a new job. She w...

    The judicial review against the prime minister, Theresa May, has been submitted to the high court in London by the UK in EU Challenge group, which represents Britons living in France, Italy and Spain. Nearly 80% of the estimated 1 to 2 million Britons living overseas in EU countries are of working age or younger. Many fear Brexit will threaten their livelihoods and make it far harder to travel across the continent. They argue that the decision to trigger article 50 to withdraw from the EU was therefore not in accordance with the UK’s constitutional requirements. We look forward to having this important constitutional case considered by the court. Elinore Grayson, one of the four named claimants in the action, lives in France. She said: It is fundamental that illega...

    Boris Johnson brings tea for the press to drink outside his house in Thame. Boris Johnson’s family has gone to war over his burka comments, with his brother accusing him of bigotry. Leo Johnson, who is married to a Muslim, spoke out after other members of the family declared they thought the former foreign secretary had not gone far enough in his newspaper column. Silence does not mean consent, the younger brother wrote on Twitter. Would be great if this round of competitive bigotry would end. He addressed the call to both Boris Johnson and their father Stanley who had dismissed uproar about the burka jibes as synthetic indignation that was whipped up by political opponents. Leo, who is three years younger than Boris, 54, met his Afghan-born wife Taies Nezam, with...

    Jeremy Hunt in Finland on Tuesday. Jeremy Hunt has called on the EU to change its approach on Brexit, and said the risk of failing to reach a deal has risen in recent weeks. The British foreign secretary was speaking at the start of three-day tour of continental Europe aimed at persuading member states to back Theresa May’s Brexit plan. I think the risk of a no Brexit deal has been increasing recently, Hunt told journalists in Helsinki. But it’s not what anyone wants and I hope very much that we’ll find a way to avoid that. He added: We do need to see a change in approach by the European commission. Hunt, who became foreign secretary last month after Boris Johnson resigned in protest at May’s plan, is also due to meet counterparts in Latvia, Denmark and the Nether...

    More than 40 people, including seven children, have been injured after a coach crashed through a barrier and overturned at the bottom of an embankment on the M25. Three of them suffered serious injuries in the collision and have been rushed to hospital, it has been confirmed. Highways officials warned that queues of more than seven miles had built up in the aftermath of the crash, which happened at around 4pm close to the Dartford Crossing. Ambulance chiefs tweeted: Following reports of a coach involved in an RTC on the M25 at J3, we have 41 patients. Currently, 31 adults and 7 children with minor injuries, three other patients with more serious injuries taken to hospital. This means that we're preparing to accept casualties from the incident. We've been told no...

    More than 100 parliamentary seats that backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum have flipped to support staying in the EU, according to a major new poll. Constituencies in Wales and the North have seen the largest swing, according to YouGov research commissioned by Hope Not Hate and pro-EU group Best for Britain. The constituencies of Brexiteers Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Jacob Rees-Mogg are among the 112 areas where opinion has changed in favour of staying in the EU. But support for Brexit has increased by nearly half a percentage point in eurosceptic Ken Clarke's Rushcliffe constituency. The figures show the national mood has shifted to 53% support for Remain and 47% for Leave. Constituencies with the biggest swing to Remain :: Liverpool Walton - 14.3% :: Kn...

    A former Scottish Labour leader has accused Jeremy Corbyn of being arrogant and inept in his handling of the row over anti-Semitism which has engulfed the party. Jim Murphy has taken out a full page advert in the Glasgow edition of the Jewish Telegraph to offer an apology to British Jews and to accuse Corbyn of failing to do enough to throw anti-Semites out of his party. The former Cabinet minister’s comments comes as Corbyn faced fresh criticism after footage emerged of him drawing comparisons between the Nazi occupation of wartime Europe and Israeli actions in the West Bank. Murphy said that under Corbyn, Labour appeared to have deliberately turned its back on British Jewry. It’s as inexplicable as it is destructive, he said. And when in a hole of its own making...

    Disney Store in London A Muslim convert has admitted plotting to kill around 100 people in a terror attack outside the Disney Store on Oxford Street. Lewis Ludlow, 26, swore allegiance to Islamic State as he prepared to drive a van through London’s shopping district or Madame Tussauds. Between March 15 and April 19, he bought a phone under a false name and wrote down his attack plans which were later found ripped up in a bin. He also researched potential targets around the capital, van rental and hotel accommodation. He identified Oxford Street as an ideal target, writing: It is expected nearly 100 could be killed in the attack. Ludlow, from Rochester, in Kent, formulated his plan after being stopped by police at Heathrow airport in February as he attempted to bo...