LONDON (Reuters) – A British Nazi sympathiser who targeted a prominent immigration lawyer in a knife attack was on Thursday sentenced to indefinite detention in hospital. Cavan Medlock, 32, took a knife, handcuffs, a Nazi flag and a Confederate flag to the London office of law firm Duncan Lewis in September 2020 and demanded to …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will consider adding a new intermediate tier to its court system, the justice ministry said on Thursday, as the government scrambles to deal with a record-high backlog of cases and a prison overcrowding crisis. Britain has western Europe’s highest rate of incarceration, and is undergoing a prison capacity crisis due to …
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By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) – Director and dancer Carlos Acosta admits he once hated ballet as he launches the London run of his new Cuban-inspired version of Tchaikovsky’s festive ballet “The Nutcracker”. Rather than the usual setting of a small town in Germany in the 1820s, “Carlos Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana” still takes place …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The father and stepmother of Sara Sharif, a 10-year-old girl who was found dead in her home in Britain, were on Wednesday convicted of her murder after a trial which heard harrowing details of her treatment before her killing. Sharif was found dead in August 2023 at her home in Woking, a …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Lawn Tennis Association has updated its rules to bar transgender women from competing in national and inter-club female competitions, the governing body said on Wednesday. The LTA said that while it was committed to making the sport welcoming and inclusive for everyone, it had a responsibility to ensure competition was fair. …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Three dinosaur fossils from the Jurassic period will go under the hammer at a London auction on Thursday, with price estimates of millions of dollars. Christie’s is offering the skeletons of an adult and juvenile Allosaurus, sold as a pair with an estimate of 5 million pounds to 8 million pounds ($6.4 …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Caroline Dubois, sister of IBF heavyweight world champion Daniel, was handed the WBC lightweight belt on Wednesday after Ireland’s Katie Taylor vacated the title. Dubois was the interim champion and will make a first defence of the world title on Jan. 11, her 24th birthday, against Canada’s Jessica Camara in Sheffield. …
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By Lori Ewing MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Despite a combined population of nearly 1.6 billion people and a deeply engrained passion for football, there are no players from India or Thailand in England’s Premier League, but Manchester United are hoping that may soon change. The club and sponsor Apollo Tyres invited six young players from …
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(Reuters) – Chelsea’s defence is key to the club’s surprise push for the Premier League title despite conceding three goals in one game at Tottenham Hotspur at the weekend, manager Enzo Maresca said on Wednesday. Chelsea’s attacking prowess rescued them on Sunday as they fought back from a 2-0 deficit to win 4-3 at Spurs, …
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By Lori Ewing MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Former Manchester United defender John O’Shea has warmed to new coach Ruben Amorim, but warned that the Portuguese must get his ideas across quickly to turn around the club’s form after two wins from five games in all competitions. The 39-year-old arrived last month to succeed Erik ten …
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