13 minutes ago About sharing The Labour leader says he will only put up “first class candidates” at the next general election Sir Keir Starmer has apologised to voters in Rochdale for disowning Labour’s by-election candidate but insisted it was “the right decision”. George Galloway stormed to victory in the contest, with Labour’s suspended candidate…
36 minutes ago About sharing Marcus Osborne pleaded guilty to two murders and the false imprisonment and rape of another woman in the house By Steve Jones BBC News A man who killed his ex-partner and her new love interest out of “sexual jealousy” will spend the rest of his life in jail. Marcus Osborne,…
Giving a statement outside Leeds Crown Court, the family of Katie Higton have described her killer as a “monster”. After Marcus Osborne was handed a rare whole-life term for the murder of Katie and her partner Steven Harnett, they say Osborne was: “a man, if he can be called that, whose name does not deserve…
1 hour ago About sharing Watch: BBC doorsteps Leonid Zakutenko By Angus Crawford and Tony Smith BBC News A Ukrainian man selling a poison thought to be linked to at least 130 UK deaths has been identified by the BBC. Leonid Zakutenko advertised his services on a website promoting suicide and he told an undercover…
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1 hour ago About sharing By Chris Mason Political editor, BBC News George Galloway is an outsized character with an outsized facility for articulating outrage. And a knack too for locating – by geography and circumstance – the opportunity for it to find expression in the House of Commons once again. Mr Galloway has now…
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The BBC’s Carrie Davies in Tehran says there are major concerns about “voter apathy”.
Analysis22:00 Chris Mason Political editor, reporting from Rochdale I’ve never covered a by-election like it. Bizarre, noisy, angry, colourful. 11 candidates, all men. Oh, and wildly unpredictable. Candidates disowned. And the local and the international jostling alongside each other for attention. The big characters: the two former Labour MPs, George Galloway and Simon Danczuk. The…