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    The scene of a terrorist attack at Parsons Green Tube station London and (inset) the homemade bomb An 18-year-old man has been arrested in Dover in connection with the attack on a London Underground train in Parsons Green. The suspect was arrested by Kent Police in the port area under the Terrorism Act on Saturday morning. He remains in custody at a local police station and will be transferred to London in due course. The Metropolitan Police described the arrest as “significant” but did not give any further information on the man’s alleged role, having previously suggested investigators were hunting multiple suspects. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, the senior national co-ordinator for counter-terrorism policing, said: We have made a significant arrest in our inve...

    Since George Osborne became editor, the newspaper has carried scathing news articles and leaders about May’s approach to Brexit and her stewardship of the Conservative party. Mr. Osborne told colleagues at the Evening Standard that he will not rest until Theresa May is chopped up in bags in my freezer, according to a profile of the former chancellor. Osborne, now editor of the Evening Standard, is said by Esquire magazine to have mentioned the phrase to more than one person at the London newspaper. It would not be the first time he has used gruesome language about May, who sacked him as chancellor when she succeeded David Cameron after the EU referendum. He has previously described May as a dead woman walking who is on death row, while an Evening Standard leader compared ...

    A 102-year-old man given a suspended sentence on Monday for sexually abusing a girl in the 1970s is thought to be the oldest person convicted of a crime in Britain, prosecutors said. Douglas Hammersley was given a two-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to three counts of indecent assault. The Crown Prosecution Service said the incidents took place in the Buckinghamshire area, to the west of London, when the victim was between five and eight years old. ‘We were able to prosecute Hammersley thanks to the victim coming forward, even though the offences were committed more than four decades ago,’ said Jennie Laskar-Hall, senior prosecutor for the CPS. In December, a 101-year-old man was jailed for 13 years for a string of historical sex crimes against two young sist...

    British property belonging to one of the world’s most wanted gangsters and second richest criminal ever after Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has been frozen. Kaskar Dawood Ibrahim, 61, an Indian national, who goes by 21 aliases, is estimated to be worth $6.7 billion (£5.05 billion) while rewards totalling $25m are on offer for his capture, according to Forbes business magazine. He owns a hotel in Warwickshire and other residential properties across the Midlands. The shadowy son of a Mumbai policeman is accused of heading a global crime empire called D Company, spanning 16 countries across five continents. The Indian government claim he has ties to Al Qaeda and blame him for a series of bombings in Mumbai in 1993 and for planning the Mumbai massacre in 2009, the Birmingh...

    Britain's most wanted fraudster Mark Acklom is on the run with another top fugitive, Sky News has discovered. Conman Acklom, 44, wanted in the UK for a romance scam, was photographed with a mystery companion at a cafe in Geneva, Switzerland, in May. A source told us the man was Jose Manuel Costas Estevez, a building contractor who fled Spain after a fraud conviction. We passed the information to Spanish detectives and they have now confirmed the man is Estevez, 50, who they have been hunting for more than a year. He faces six years in jail for ripping off government departments in Vigo, northwest Spain, by submitting false invoices up to €11m (£9.9m). Former Metropolitan Police border control officer Chris Hobbs said the absence of border controls in most of Europe was all...

    Inflation in August jumped to its joint-highest level since the vote to leave the European Union last year, as Brexit continues to push up the cost of living in the UK. The UK's Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate — the key measure of inflation was 2.9% in August, up from 2.6% in the previous month, according to the Office for National Statistics. Inflation had been expected to climb to 2.8% from the 2.6% level seen in both June and July, according to economists polled before the release, but just exceeded those expectations. CPI measures the weighted average of prices of a basket of goods and services, such as food, transportation, and medical care. CPIH, a measure which includes costs associated with maintaining a home — and which the ONS cites as a more usef...

    Shoppers are being urged to check their new £10 notes for serial numbers that could earn them thousands of pounds. The new notes are released on Thursday and estimates have been made as to which serial numbers collectors will be desperate to obtain. The Bank of England are hosting an auction on October 6, where there will be the opportunity to bid for a series of the special notes. The codes that will be available to bid for will be announced on Friday. They refused to comment on the prices that they are expecting to receive, but did point out that a similar auction for the new £5 notes proved very popular last year. A spokesman said: In total we received £194,500 from the auction last year, including a bid of £8,500 for a single £5 note. Every note is unique. Last year we...

    Senior Tories MPs warn May over Brexit bill after MPs vote for second reading. Conservative MPs have warned Theresa May that their support for her government’s Brexit legislation is not unconditional, as they demanded significant changes to the EU withdrawal bill within minutes of backing it. Parliament’s post-midnight vote resulted in the prime minister facing no rebellion from within her party, as the government secured a victory of 326 to 290. The result handed May an effective Brexit majority of 36 after seven Labour MPs Ronnie Campbell, Frank Field, Kate Hoey, Kelvin Hopkins, John Mann, Dennis Skinner and Graham Stringer – defied their own party whip to support the government, arguing that the referendum demanded the legislation be passed. Pro-European Union and anti...

    The number of EU citizens the Government is deporting from the UK has rocketed since the Brexit vote, despite ministers promises to guarantee residents rights, The Independent can reveal. Analysis of official government data shows there were 26 per cent more enforced removals of EU nationals in the first three months of 2017 than in the same period last year. Almost 5,000 EU citizens have now been deported from Britain in the last 12 months: the highest since current records began and an increase of 14 per cent in the last year alone. The figures come after a leaked Home Office memo revealed comprehensive plans to significantly restrict immigration from Europe when Britain leaves the EU. Meanwhile, Tony Blair yesterday called for tough new rules to allow Britain to curb EU...

    Tony Blair is calling for tougher immigration policies to take back control of Britain's borders without the UK having to leave the European Union. The former prime minister has put his name to a report calling for tighter domestic controls and the negotiation of modified free movement rules with the EU. He said the policy change would fulfil the will of the people expressed in last year's Brexit vote, while allowing Britain to stay in the EU. Mr Blair's intervention appears designed to provoke a fundamental shift in the Brexit debate and solve the seemingly intractable trade-off between the economy and immigration. In an article for The Sunday Times's website, Mr Blair said: There is no diversion possible from Brexit without addressing the grievances which gave rise to it...