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Wayne Couzens handcuffed and arrested Sarah Everard before he raped and strangled her, a court has heard. The then-Metropolitan Police officer may have used COVID-19 lockdown rules as an excuse to stop her as she walked home, lock her in the back of his hire car, and then drive her 80 miles to her death.

Boris Johnson has suggested key workers such as medics and carers will not get priority to refuel at petrol stations as the situation was now “stabilising”. When asked if any such plan was being considered, the prime minister said: “I understand people saying that, but with the situation now stabilising, with things getting better on

The first “very tentative signs of stabilisation” are being seen on petrol forecourts, the transport secretary has said, following days of long queues and closed pumps at some filling stations across the country. Grant Shapps said the sooner people returned to their normal habits and stopped panic buying petrol and diesel, the sooner the fuel

A 36-year-old man has been charged with the murder of primary school teacher Sabina Nessa. Koci Selamaj, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, was arrested in the seaside town in the early hours of Sunday, and a light-coloured Nissan Micra was seized in a residential street around half a mile away. He will appear before Willesden Magistrates’

The UK is temporarily suspending competition laws for the fuel industry to allow the sharing of information and to target petrol stations running dry around the UK as a result of driver shortages. Earlier, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng met with fuel industry executives in an effort to find a way through the current supply chain

There are no plans to bring in the army to drive lorries to deliver fuel to petrol stations, a government minister has said, as some brands report as many as 90% of their sites running dry. The comments by environment secretary George Eustice came amid newspaper reports that the government was considering using the army

The transport secretary has said “there’s plenty of fuel” in the country as he urged motorists to only fill up “when they need to”. Grant Shapps was speaking on Sky News’ Trevor Phillips on Sunday programme as panicked motorists caused lengthy queues at petrol stations for a third day. A shortage of fuel tanker drivers

Up to 4,000 people will be trained up as new HGV drivers as part of a package of measures that will help tackle the driver shortage, the government has announced. The government is looking to ease the pressures currently faced by the supply chain, which has seen people queueing for petrol and shops struggle to

The family of murdered primary school teacher Sabina Nessa have said they are “shattered” by her death – as mourners gathered for a vigil held in her memory. The memorial is being held in Cator Park, where the 28-year-old was attacked as she walked to meet a friend at a pub near her home in

Insulate Britain campaigners have blocked the Port of Dover as they called for a “Churchillian response” to the “urgent horror” of the climate crisis. More than 40 people in two groups have blocked the A20 at the Eastern Docks roundabout and near the junction with Union Street for the Western Docks, Insulate Britain said on

­­­­The UK has recorded 36,710 new COVID-19 cases and another 182 deaths in the last 24-hour period, with 7,588 people currently in hospital with the disease, according to the latest government figures­­. The latest figures compare to 34,460 infections and 166 fatalities on Wednesday. Follow COVID-19 updates live from the UK and around the world

Sabina Nessa was murdered while doing something perfectly normal – walking to a local pub to meet a friend at the end of the working week. The 28-year-old teacher was attacked as she made her way across Cator Park in Kidbrooke, southeast London, last Friday. Police arrested a 38-year-old man in relation to her murder

Teacher Sabina Nessa is thought to have been murdered during a five-minute walk to meet a friend in a pub, police have said. The 28-year-old never arrived and is believed to have been attacked in Cator Park in southeast London. Ms Nessa, who taught at Rushey Green Primary School, left her home in Astell Road,

Virtually any child between the ages of 12 and 15 would get COVID-19 at some point without vaccination, England’s chief medical officer has said. Professor Chris Whitty said that the highest rate of coronavirus transmission is currently occurring in children of this age group. Approximately half of all children have already had coronavirus during the

A man has been charged with the murders of a mother, her two children and their friend, who were killed during a sleepover at a home in Killamarsh, Derbyshire. Police said Damien Bendall, 31, had been charged with the murders of Terri Harris, 35, her children John Paul Bennett, 13, and Lacey Bennett, 11, and

A man who was arrested after four people were found dead in a house in Killamarsh was taken to hospital with self-inflicted injuries. The 31-year-old was arrested with minor injuries after the bodies of John Paul Bennett, 13, Lacey Bennett, 11, their mother Terri Harris, 35, and Lacey’s friend Connie Gent, 11, were found in

A woman found dead near a community centre in southeast London has been named as a 28-year-old primary school teacher. Sabina Nessa’s body was found near the OneSpace venue in Kidbrooke Park Road, the Royal Borough of Greenwich, on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said. The force said a post-mortem carried out on Monday was inconclusive,

Hundreds of people have attended a vigil in Killamarsh, near Sheffield, to remember a mother and three children who were found dead in the village. A crowd of around 300, including many children, turned up on Monday evening – a few hundred metres from where Terri Harris, 35, was found dead with her children, John

The coronavirus vaccine programme is stepping up with jabs being offered to children aged between 12 and 15 and booster invites sent to around 1.5 million people in England. Three million youngsters are eligible across the UK with vaccines being delivered primarily within schools. Children will be offered jabs at some schools in England from

John Challis, who played Boycie in Only Fools And Horses, has died at the age of 79. His family said in a statement that he died “peacefully in his sleep, after a long battle with cancer”. The actor, who was born in Bristol in 1942, had an extensive television career but was best known for