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Teddy Hobbs, four, from Somerset, is UK’s youngest member of high-IQ-score clubA boy who taught himself to read and count – including in Mandarin – while playing on his tablet has become the UK’s youngest member of Mensa.Teddy Hobbs, four, of Portishea…
Peter Cavanagh, 35, and Jordan Devine, 22, are charged with killing of journalist in Derry in 2019Two men are to stand trial for the murder of the writer Lyra McKee, who was shot dead while observing a riot in Northern Ireland in 2019.Peter Cavanagh, 3…
Intruders wearing balaclavas broke into couple’s home in Ongar, Essex, in November 2021A man has been found guilty of robbing the Olympic cyclist Mark Cavendish and his wife Peta of their high-value watches in a knifepoint raid at their home in Novembe…
Case brought by two creative writing lecturers will draw on landmark 2021 supreme court gig economy rulingTwo academics are suing Oxford University for employing them as gig economy workers in a case which draws on the landmark ruling that gave Uber dr…
Exclusive: Nick Markham, who co- founded Cignpost Investments during the pandemic, was given a peerage by Liz TrussA Conservative health minister has a substantial financial stake in a private health screening and Covid testing firm, raising questions …
Promotion for County Antrim hot tub, massage and shooting offer described as ‘truly appalling’A Northern Ireland resort has apologised for causing offence by advertising a “bikinis and balaclavas” spa package, but said it would continue offering the se…
US investment group typically buys stakes in underperforming firms and seeks changes to way they are runThe US activist investor firm Elliott Investment Management has taken a multibillion-dollar stake in Salesforce, the business software company that …
Frank McAveety apologised for comments made in Holyrood meeting in 2010 about 15-year-old girlThe Scottish Labour party has been criticised for putting a former MSP who made “deeply sexualised and racist remarks” about a 15-year-old girl on to its shor…
Jeremy Hunt expected to confirm help for British Steel and Tata to employ lower-emissions technologyThe companies running Britain’s four remaining steel blast furnaces have been offered £600m in government support to invest in lower-emissions technolog…
Yellow weather warning in place for large area of England after extremely cold temperatures overnightDozens of flights out of the UK’s largest airport have been cancelled as freezing fog causes disruption to transport networks. Forecasters warned that …