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    After over a year of dating, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sent fans speculating that an engagement could be on the horizon when they were spotted holding hands at their first public outing as a couple. So is this a sign that there’s an engagement announcement coming? Myka Meier, the founder and director of Beaumont Etiquette and the expert on all things proper in the royal family, thinks so. I believe an engagement is imminent, she tells PEOPLE. I think to show PDA at such a highly publicized public event would be a very conscious decision by Prince Harry, and shows the seriousness of the relationship. Meghan would very much have taken his lead under the circumstances. And while Meier admits that there is no formal protocol against showing PDA at events, it is rare to se...

    Footage has been released of a parent deliberately driving into a teacher at the school gates when he went to pick up his child. The teacher at Winston Churchill School was swept off his feet and carried on the car bonnet before being thrown to the ground by the VW which narrowly avoided hitting two schoolchildren. The driver, Rainer Schoeman, of The Goldings, Woking, Surrey, was jailed for 10 months at Guildford Crown Court on Friday. He had earlier pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm, dangerous driving, driving without insurance and having no MOT. The 22-year-old had continued to travel at speed through the car park, police said. Surrey Police have released dramatic video footage of a parent who drove at a teacher at the school gates. Headteacher Zoe Johnson-Wal...

    Britain looks set to be battered by the remains of Hurricane Maria and debris from Hurricane Lee as the two storms speed across the North Atlantic, forecasters have warned. Maria is currently moving in a northerly direction off the east coast of the USA, and is likely to pick up turbulent weather from Hurricane Lee. At least 25 people have been killed by the deadly hurricane, and forecasters believe the two will merge to form a superstorm across the Atlantic. This is likely to be picked up by the jet stream and swept towards the British Isles and northern Europe, with the potent cocktail predicted to reach an area close to the UK on Monday. Western areas are likely to be hit by the worst of the storm, with some forecasts indicating winds could be gale force. It means condi...

    Girls as young as four are being forced to wear the hijab as uniform at state funded Islamic schools, new research has found. More than two in five Islamic schools in England that accept girls require them to wear a hijab as school uniform, according to the research. Some 59 of 142 (42 per cent) of Islamic schools, including 27 primary schools, have a uniform policy which states a head covering is compulsory, the National Secular Society (NSS) said. The body has written to Education Secretary Justine Greening to express its concern over the figures, which also showed eight of the secondary schools and three of the primary schools were state-funded. The research was first reported in the Sunday Times. In the letter, the NSS asks for Muslim girls to be given free choices and...

  Bank of England says banking system requires a contingency plan of £10bn to ward off the threat of bad debt. Banking system needs £10bn contingency plan to ward off the risk of bad debt. Britain’s banks could incur £30bn of losses on their lending on credit cards, personal loans and for car finance if interest rates and unemployment rise sharply, the Bank of England warned on Monday. After assessing the fast growth in the consumer credit market, Threadneedle Street is requiring the banking system to hold an extra £10bn of capital as protection against any future losses after finding that lenders are underestimating their exposure to bad debts in an economic downturn. Publishing its latest assessment of risks to the financial system, the Bank of England also spelt out specific conc...

    Dr Nasser Kurdy suffers stab wound in neck while arriving for evening prayers at Altrincham mosque. Altrincham’s Islamic centre Police said they are treating the attack as a hate crime and confirmed they have arrested two men, aged 54 and 32. Sunday 24 September 2017 22.53 BST Last modified on Sunday 24 September 2017 23.54 BST A man has been stabbed outside a mosque in Greater Manchester in an incident that police are treating as a hate crime. The victim, named locally as Dr Nasser Kurdy, an orthopaedic surgeon and imam, was reportedly arriving at the Altrincham Islamic centre, Grove Lane, for evening prayers at 6pm when someone stabbed him in the neck from behind. A friend of the victim told the Manchester Evening News that he had suffered a non-critical 3cm stab wound w...