Former police officer Lewis Edwards, who admitted more than 100 sexual offences against children, has been handed a life sentence. He will serve a minimum of 12 years behind bars. He was granted a reduction of one third to his sentence due to his entering a guilty plea. Sentences for other counts for which he
Brazen shoplifters looking for a brand of gin warned Waitrose staff they would return when it was back in stock. The supermarket’s boss, Dame Sharon Lewis, says organised gangs are stealing high-value items to order – and described the trend as “profoundly shocking”. Dame Sharon – chair of the John Lewis Partnership – has previously
US spy agencies believe the blast at a Gaza hospital a week ago was caused by a Palestinian rocket that suffered engine failure and broke apart into two pieces, with the warhead striking the hospital’s parking lot, intelligence officials said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters by phone, the intelligence officials said they had “high confidence”
British astronauts could get the chance to blast into the cosmos thanks to a new deal between the UK and a US space company. The UK Space Agency has signed an agreement with Axiom Space, a Texas-based firm working on what it says will become the first ever commercial space station. It has previously sent
Thousands of AI-generated images depicting child abuse have been shared on a dark web forum, new research has found. Around 3,000 AI images of child abuse were shared on the forum in September, with 564 depicting the most serious kind of imagery including rape, sexual torture, and bestiality. Of the images, 1,372 depicted children aged
A 22-minute brisk walk, jog or cycle every day is enough to offset the negative health effects of too much sitting down, research has suggested. Experts found that people who sit for long periods – such as in an office job or watching TV – are more likely to die earlier, but moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA)
A mosque in South Wales that hosted Sir Keir Starmer has apologised for the “hurt and confusion” caused by the visit after a backlash from some within the Muslim community. The South Wales Islamic Centre issued a statement late on Tuesday evening in which it sought to “clarify our stance” following the Labour leader’s visit
Coronation Street actress Dame Maureen Lipman has said ITV offered security to protect her from antisemitic attacks. The actress, 77, who plays Evelyn Plummer in the soap, is quoted by The Sun as telling an event at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism that she found the offer “a real surprise” before
ChatGPT can be tricked into producing malicious code that could be used to launch cyberattacks, a study has found. OpenAI’s tool and similar chatbots can create written content based on user commands, having been trained on enormous amounts of text data from across the internet. They are designed with protections in place to prevent their
A third former lawyer has pled guilty to attempting to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat in Georgia. Jenna Ellis, who was a member of the then president’s legal team, reached a plea deal with prosecutors rather than going to trial over the case. She pleaded guilty to a felony count of aiding and abetting
Massive Attack have said they are “devastated” after the British band’s guitarist Angelo Bruschini died. The Bristol-born musician had said in a social media post in July that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. Massive Attack confirmed the death on Tuesday, calling Bruschini “a brilliant, eccentric talent”. Instagram This content is provided by Instagram,
Bitcoin mining consumes more electricity than most countries, according to a new report on its damaging environmental impact. Mining is the process by which transactions are added to and validated on the blockchain, the public ledger for cryptocurrencies. Competing miners race to use computers to solve complex mathematical puzzles using extremely powerful hardware – receiving
A former Tory MP failed to declare where he received £39,000 in political donations from, a crown court jury has heard. David Mackintosh, who represented Northampton South between 2015 and 2017, is alleged to have accepted three donations of £10,000 and six of £1,500 that were made in an allegedly “underhand way”, Warwick Crown Court
Both Microsoft and Google’s parent company, Alphabet, have both reported higher than expected revenue in their latest quarterly results. Microsoft recorded revenue in the three months to the end of September of $56.5bn (£46.4bn), a 13% rise on the same period last year and better than the $54.5bn (£44.8bn) predicted by analysts. It credited the
The cap on bankers’ bonuses is to be abolished, the financial services regulatory body has announced. From 31 October, EU rules that limit bonus payments to twice a banker’s salary will be removed, the Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) said. The policy change was initially announced by former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in the infamous September mini-budget
Israel is taking its time before launching a ground invasion into Gaza as troops would have “fallen into a deadly trap” set by Hamas had they entered too quickly, a top Israeli diplomat has said. Emmanuel Nahshon, a senior official at the country’s foreign ministry, said it was also “not a bad thing” for the
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