The GuardianUK News Forget campfires… today’s scouts focus on climate crisis and homelessnessThe Guardian - Rob WalkerInspired by a wave of youth activism, scouts from across Britain are setting aside campfires and hobby badges to tackle some of the UK’s biggest social issues, from homelessness and the climate crisis
The GuardianUK News Man charged with murder of one-year-old girl in BuryThe Guardian - PA MediaA man has been charged with the murder of a one-year-old baby girl. James Chadwick, 21, of Radcliffe, had been arrested along with Chelsea Crilly, 19, from Atherton, both in Greater Manchester. Chadwick
The GuardianUK News Campaign launched to catch 'Europe's most wanted women'The Guardian - Agence France-Presse in The HagueEurope’s policing agency has launched a campaign to catch the continent’s most wanted female criminals. Europol’s new website, called the Crime Has No Gender campaign, reveals the faces of fugitives wanted
The GuardianUK News One arrest after reports of knifeman at Arndale centre in ManchesterThe Guardian - Press AssociationOfficers from Greater Manchester police arrested a suspect on Friday after reports of a man with a knife at the Arndale shopping centre. Footage on social media appeared to show a large police and ambulance
The GuardianUK News Extinction Rebellion protester removed from Big Ben's towerThe Guardian - Damien Gayle, Peter Walker and Jessica MurrayAn Extinction Rebellion activist who scaled Big Ben’s tower and unfurled banners calling for action on the climate emergency on Friday was brought to the ground by police three hours after his ascent.
The GuardianUK News Council asks judge to ban LGBT lessons protesters from near schoolThe Guardian - Nazia ParveenA high court judge has been asked to extend an exclusion zone permanently banning activists against LGBT equality lessons from demonstrating outside a Birmingham primary school. Protesters went head to
The GuardianUK News Church warden jailed for life for murder of university lecturerThe Guardian - Aamna MohdinA church warden has been jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering a university lecturer following a sustained campaign of physical and mental abuse. Benjamin Field, 28, was convicted in August
The GuardianUK News 'It's party central': the Bristol residents fed up with noisy student neighboursThe Guardian - Steven MorrisDerrick Collier was feeling a little weary. “It’s party central around here. The students are taking over,” he said. “Last night two girls were hammering on the front door of the house opposite me at for
The GuardianUK News Bristol University pays for late-night police patrols targeting noisy studentsThe Guardian - Richard Adams and Will CharleyThe University of Bristol is paying for night-time police patrols in areas around its campus after years of complaints from residents about loud parties and disruption caused by its growing number of living
The GuardianUK News Man, 81, jailed for being getaway driver for drug dealerThe Guardian - Steven MorrisAn 81-year-old former burger van worker who took up work as a getaway driver to overcome his “isolation” and helped an alleged drug dealer flee the UK, has been jailed. Ian Hemmens, of Chichester in West
The GuardianMental Health ‘You are not alone’: Justin Welby reveals he sought help for depressionThe Guardian - Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondentThe archbishop of Canterbury has revealed he is taking medication for depression and has urged others who are “walking in darkness” to reach out for help. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day
The GuardianUK News Johnson sells out to get his Brexit deal – but worse is to comeThe Guardian - John CraceThis was the fourth Queen’s speech that I have attended, but the first at which there have been plenty of empty seats on the Lords’ benches. As is customary, the press were in the gallery an hour or so
The GuardianUK News Boy out of intensive care after Tate Modern fallThe Guardian - Jedidajah OtteA six-year-old boy who sustained severe injuries after allegedly being thrown from a viewing platform at Tate Modern in London has been moved out of intensive care. The boy, a French national who cannot
The GuardianHong Kong Hong Kong protesters in UK say they face pro-Beijing intimidationThe Guardian - Ben QuinnSupporters of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests say they are being intimidated and harassed by pro-Beijing Chinese students and others at their events around the UK, forcing police to step in to separate
The GuardianUK News Gaelic 'disappearing' from Scottish island communitiesThe Guardian - Libby Brooks Scotland correspondentThe number of Gaelic speakers in Scotland’s island communities has plummeted in less than a decade, according to a leading Highland researcher who believes the language is on the point of “societal collapse”
The GuardianUK News Police arrest more than 700 in UK-wide county lines drug crackdownThe Guardian - Jedidajah OtteMore than 700 people have been arrested and more than £400,000-worth of drugs confiscated in a week of UK-wide crackdowns on county lines gangs, police have said. In coordinated law enforcement activity
The GuardianUK News 'Betrayal? Ridiculous': Northern Ireland ready to move on from BrexitThe Guardian - Rory CarrollThe last time Downing Street foisted a deal on Northern Ireland’s unionists, the backlash was swift and bitter. Hundreds of thousands poured on to the streets to protest. A mob punched and kicked the of
The GuardianUK News Football agent claimed he gave Alex Ferguson gold watch to fix match, court toldThe Guardian - PA MediaA corrupt football agent made unsubstantiated claims to have “thanked” former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson for fixing a match by giving him a £30,000 Rolex watch, a court has heard. Giuseppe
The GuardianUK News Fraud charges against ex-Barclays executive are lunacy, trial toldThe Guardian - ReutersA former Barclays executive who is on trial in London on fraud charges would have risked losing a £50m “good leaver” package if he had sought a criminal deal with Qatar during the credit crisis, a court
The GuardianUK News Prince Harry: 'My mother's death is wound that festers'The Guardian - Caroline DaviesThe Duke of Sussex has described the emotional impact of walking in his mother’s footsteps, and how dealing with her death is a “wound that festers”, in a new ITV documentary. In an interview with ITV
The GuardianUK News Meghan kept copy of letter to father at centre of legal rowThe Guardian - Jim Waterson Media editorMeghan, the Duchess of Sussex, kept a copy of a highly personal handwritten letter she sent to her father Thomas Markle, suggesting she may have correctly feared it would later be leaked to the media.
The Guardian Victims of conflict do not die in gloryThe Guardian - LettersThe Royal British Legion has modified the meaning of the red remembrance poppies to include “innocent civilians who have lost their lives in conflict and acts of terrorism” (Report, 16 October). This of
The GuardianUK News Police release e-fit of man who fell from Kenya Airways planeThe Guardian - Ben QuinnPolice trying to identify a man whose frozen body fell into a garden in London from the landing gear of a plane have released a e-fit image of his face in the hope that he will be recognised. Investigators,
The GuardianUK News Police cleared over three-hour delay in response to woman stabbed 173 timesThe Guardian - Diane TaylorThe police watchdog has found no misconduct from Essex police in a case where a woman died after being stabbed more than a hundred times by her mentally ill partner and officers took almost three hours
The GuardianUK News Paul Gascoigne cleared of sexually assaulting woman on trainThe Guardian - Josh Halliday North of England correspondentThe former England footballer Paul Gascoigne wept as he was found not guilty of sexually assaulting a woman he kissed without consent on a train. Gascoigne, 52, was accused of drunkenly grabbing the woman’s
The GuardianUK News Knife crime hits record high in England and WalesThe Guardian - Nadeem BadshahKnife crime in England and Wales reached an unprecedented high in the year to June, increasing by 7% on the previous 12 months, according to figures. Police-recorded offences involving a knife or sharp
The GuardianUK News Irish border checks risk creating a 'depressing, jobless' regionThe Guardian - Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondentThe re-emergence of Irish border checks risks turning the region into a “depressing” and “jobless” area with a “devastating” emotional impact on people, a survey has found. The research into emotional
The GuardianUK News Former IRA chief cleared over Jean McConville killingThe Guardian - Henry McDonaldThe case against a former IRA commander accused of involvement in the murder of a Belfast widow who was kidnapped, killed and buried in secret has collapsed. Ivor Bell, a veteran republican, was cleared
The GuardianUK News UK family arrested in US for 'inadvertently crossing border'The Guardian - Matthew WeaverThe Foreign Office is helping a British family of seven who were arrested in the US and said they were subject to the “scariest experience” of their lives at the hands of the immigration authorities after
