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28 minutes ago About sharing Yusuf Deen Kargbo competed for Sierra Leone in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and then claimed asylum By Dan Johnson and Alex Littlewood BBC News The roommate of an Albanian asylum seeker who is believed to have taken his own life on the Bibby Stockholm says others may harm…

4 hours ago About sharing By Tom Symonds Home Affairs correspondent Young people taking nude pictures are contributing to a rise in sexual offences committed by children in England and Wales, police figures show. Potential offenders were aged under 18 in more than half of all reported child abuse cases, according to analysis. Senior officers…

54 minutes ago About sharing Bearskin caps are made from the fur of black bears hunted in Canada By Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent Stephen Fry has called for an end to the use of real fur in the bearskin caps worn by the King’s Guard on duties such as guarding Buckingham Palace. The actor has…

49 minutes ago About sharing Seven Post Office workers of South Asian heritage have told the BBC they believe racism affected the way people were treated in the Horizon scandal. One of the workers who spoke to BBC Newsnight said: “It felt like they thought that you were a foreigner and you’d robbed them.” The…

1 hour ago About sharing By James Gregory & Anthony Zurcher BBC News, London and Tel Aviv The cost of war on Gaza’s civilians is “far too high”, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said. Mr Blinken said Israel needed to remove barriers so more essential aid could be allowed into Gaza. But he…

2 hours ago About sharing Prosecutors said there was “no real prospect” of convicting 22-year-old Bethany Cox By Philippa Goymer Reporter A woman charged with carrying out an illegal abortion on herself has been found not guilty on the eve of her trial after the prosecution dropped the case due to “evidential difficulties”. Bethany Cox,…