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The Conservative Party has suffered heavy losses, including the mayoralty covering the Prime Minister’s own constituency in North Yorkshire.

Alfie was stabbed to death ‘in full view’ of pupils leaving a primary school in the Horsforth area of Leeds last November.

Richard Tice was bullish about his party’s performance at Thursday’s polls and said it was ‘clear that the Tories are on the way down’.

The officers were cleared on Friday after a three-week disciplinary hearing.

The union said it was bringing legal action over the relationship of the Civil Service Code with the Government’s Safety of Rwanda Act.

Lord Cameron called on Israeli authorities to clamp down on alleged human rights abuses by settlers in the West Bank.

A pathologist said Shawn Seesahai suffered a fatal wound to the heart and three other sharp force injuries to the head, arm and thigh.

David Skaith won slightly more than a third of the vote in York and North Yorkshire, the first time voters went to the polls to elect a mayor.

Zak Hania previously spoke about his fear of never seeing his family again after they were able to leave Gaza at the end of last year.

Animal Rising said their actions ‘helped shine the spotlight onto our broken relationship with animals and the natural world’.

A High Court judge ruled ministers acted unlawfully by approving the Carbon Budget Delivery Plan in March 2023.

Second-placed Jamie Driscoll had quit Labour after he was barred from standing as the party’s candidate in the North East.

Shane Cunningham fatally stabbed Mikey Roynon in the neck with a large knife during a house party in Bath last year.

Jarnail Singh was sent a report which identified a fault in the Horizon system only three days before Seema Misra was prosecuted, an inquiry heard.

Asylum Aid says it is concerned the policy could lead to the Home Office unlawfully denying people seeking asylum from entering the UK asylum system.

Rishi Sunak inspected soldiers who have completed initial training at Catterick Garrison, in his North Yorkshire constituency.

Around 100 RMT members on services along the Barrhead and East Kilbride routes will stage a series of 48-hour strikes from May 18, May 25 and June 1.

The winning Tory candidate in the Tees Valley contest praised the Opposition’s position on devolution, saying it would give him ‘more autonomy’.

With more results still to come, Labour has hailed a big by-election win while the Tories welcomed a mayoral win in Teesside.

Maurice Robinson, 29, from Craigavon, Co Armagh, was jailed in 2021 for 13 years and four months after admitting multiple counts of manslaughter.