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A woman has been arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, Scotland Yard has said. The 27-year-old is a UK national. She had just arrived on a flight from the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa when she was arrested on Friday. Police said she had been taken to a south London police station, where she remains in custody. In a statement, police said: Officers from the Met's counter terrorism command have arrested a 27-year-old woman at Heathrow Airport. The woman, a UK national, arrived on a flight from Addis Ababa and was arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts under section 5 of the Terrorist Act 2006.

    An elderly couple who are said to have had a telepathic connection and were married for 67 years have died just 90 minutes apart. Arthur, 91, and Dorothy Harding, 88, from Newton Heath, Manchester, both passed away in separate hospitals on January 5. At 6:45 am Arthur sadly died, shortly followed by Dorothy at 8:10am after learning of her husband’s passing, Manchester Evening News reported. “We told her that he had died, and we said, Nana you can go, said the couple’s granddaughter, Ros Harding. And that's when the life started to fall away from her. We feel like there was some telepathic connection between them. The happy couple married in 1950 and, while Arthur spent his life working as a buyer for a textiles company, before working in a bric-a-brac shop, Dorot...

    Thousands of inner city London children will get to experience the outdoors as part of a new multi-million pound Government investment, Theresa May announced Thursday. The Prime Minister said double the number of children will visit the country’s national parks on school trips. Money will also be made available to for schools to plant new gardens and vegetable patches. Mrs May said: “More than one in 10 young people do not spend time in the countryside or in large urban green spaces, meaning they are denied the benefits which spending time outdoors in the natural environment brings. These young people are disproportionately from more deprived backgrounds and their effective exclusion from our countryside represents a social injustice I am determined to tackle. It...

    Brandon Lewis, who is charged with overhauling the Conservative party’s organisation, insisted May was in control and had succeeded in bringing in new talent. He named Matt Hancock, the new culture secretary, Damian Hinds, the new education secretary, Caroline Nokes, an immigration minister and Claire Perry, a business minister, as signs that fresh faces would be seen around the cabinet table. However, the prime minister’s attempt to stamp her authority on her party was overshadowed by the botched changes at cabinet level, in which Jeremy Hunt refused to give up his job as health secretary and Greening refused to take the role of work and pensions secretary. Lewis told the BBC’s Today programme: In a reshuffle, personalities, people, roles do change. It is a shame ...

    The deputy leader of far-right group Britain First faces a spring trial in Belfast over remarks made at an anti-terrorism rally last summer. Jayda Fransen appeared at Belfast Magistrates Court on Tuesday on two hate charges related to a speech she made at a Northern Ireland Against Terrorism rally in the city in August. The 31-year-old will go on trial on April 6, district judge Fiona Bagnall said. Britain First Deputy Leader Jayda Fransen leaving Belfast Magistrates Court where she faced charges related to comments made about Islam. She faces four unrelated charges after alleged threatening behaviour concerning remarks made on December 13 beside a peace wall dividing Catholics from Protestants in Belfast. The comments, about Islam, were posted on social media. ...

    For Westminster villagers, Cabinet reshuffles are like Christmas and Transfer Deadline Day rolled into one, with the minutiae of every promotion, demotion and gaffe feasted upon. It is true, the wider public won’t care whether or not David Lidington’s move to the Cabinet Office makes him de facto First Secretary of State, or about how many minutes Chris Grayling was named party chairman before the mistake was rectified. But what the public will notice are the broad brush impressions that are left by what should be a set-piece moment for any Prime Minister. Which begs the question, what is the big visionary message that Theresa May is hoping to get across to voters particularly those who deserted her party on election day last June from what was billed as her widest...

    The VAT changes spelled out in the taxation (cross-border trade) bill one of a string of Brexit laws passing through parliament are causing uproar among UK business groups, which say that they will create acute cashflow problems and huge additional bureaucracy. Labour and Tory MPs and peers said that the only way to avoid the VAT Brexit penalty would be to stay in the customs union or negotiate to remain in the EU-VAT area. Last night the Tory chair of the all-party Treasury select committee, Nicky Morgan, said the committee would launch an urgent investigation. She also said she would be writing to the head of HM Revenue and Customs to see what contingency plans were being made to avoid hitting UK firms. David Levene for the Guardian The Treasury select committee,...

    Accounting giant KPMG is no longer advising on the Grenfell Tower inquiry after campaigners said the government's decision to appoint the firm was a conflict of interest. The company said on Sunday night that it was stepping away from the investigation as we recognise that strength of opinion about our role risks undermining confidence in the inquiry. The move comes after an open letter signed by pop star Lily Allen as well as academics, writers, politicians and campaign groups urged prime minister Theresa May to drop the company from the probe. They argued that KPMG should not be involved in the process given it is an auditor to Celotex, which made the insulation in the building, Rydon Group, the contractor that refurbished it, and the Royal Borough of Kensington ...

    The Conservative website broke in the middle of Theresa May's critical reshuffle. The official site found at Conservatives.com wouldn't show to visitors who attempted to visit on one of the Government's most high-profile days. It was one of a run of technical problems for the party, which also tweeted the news that Chris Grayling would move to be Conservative party chairman before deleting it very soon after. As chairman, it would be one of Mr Grayling's responsibilities to ensure the website worked. Visitors over the morning of the reshuffle saw a message that said the connection to the site wasn't private, and were warned not to continue. Others saw a less explained error, which only showed that the site's server had broken. The problem appears to be a consequ...

    Meghan-Markle-Darlene-Blount-Mugshot-Josephine-County-Jail-Tom-Markle-Jr Meghan Markle’s future sister-in-law, Darlene Blount, has been arrested for an alleged assault, Us Weekly can confirm. Blount, who is engaged to Meghan’s half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr., was charged with fourth-degree assault on New Year’s Day for an altercation with her fiancé in Oregon. Thomas Markle Jr. previously made headlines when he spoke with The Daily Mail in December about his sister’s future royal wedding, telling them, I don’t know if [Meghan] gets to invite who she wants. But she’ll reach out if she wants me there. She’ll call me. She knows where to find me. But that’s up to her, there’s no pressure. I wouldn’t mind seeing my little sister have the biggest wedding in the world. Th...