The asylum seeker who was jailed for a sexual assault in Epping has been released by mistake
It's been confirmed that an asylum seeker who was jailed last month for a year for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping has been released from prison by mistake. Also: Plaid Cymru celebrates a decisive victory in the Senedd by-election in Caerphilly, a stronghold for Labour for a century. And one of England's oldest football clubs, Sheffield Wednesday, goes into administration.
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A former paratrooper is cleared of murder on Bloody Sunday
A British Army veteran, known only as Soldier F, has been cleared of murdering two people in Londonderry on Bloody Sunday in 1972. Also: Three metropolitan police officers have been sacked for gross misconduct after featuring in an undercover report by the BBC’s Panorama. And The hosts of Strictly Come Dancing, Tess Daly and Claudia Winkelman, have announced they are to leave the programme at the end of the current series.
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A second candidate to chair the grooming gang inquiry has withdrawn
The government's beleaguered inquiry into grooming gangs has run into further difficulty with the final significant candidate to chair it ruling himself out, and a fourth survivor stepping down from the panel. Also: A migrant has returned to the UK on a small boat after being removed to France under the "one in, one out" scheme. And the director of the Louvre blames under-investment in equipment for weaknesses in the museum's security.
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Senior politicians add to the mounting scrutiny of Prince Andrew
Senior politicians have added to the mounting scrutiny of Prince Andrew, as the discussion around his connection to the late sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, has thrown the spotlight on his living arrangements. Also: A third abuse survivor resigns from the Government's grooming gang inquiry, because of concerns about its direction. And the British designer, Grace Wales Bonner, becomes the first black woman to lead design at a major fashion house, after signing as creative director of menswear at Hermes.
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Calls grow for Prince Andrew to be permanently stripped of his royal titles
Buckingham Palace has urged people to focus on the King's royal work and not be distracted by the scandal surrounding his brother Prince Andrew because of his relationship with the sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. Also: The pilot of a new treatment for a form of blindness that affects a quarter of a million people in the UK has been welcomed by specialists and medical charities. And online access returns after a major outage at Amazon Web Services.