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Constance Marten and her partner Mark Gordon have been found guilty of killing their newborn baby.Marten, 38, who is from a wealthy family, and Gordon, 51, went on the run with their daughter Victoria to get away from social services after their four other children were taken into care.The baby's body was found with rubbish inside a Lidl shopping bag, in the corner of a disused shed, in an allotment in Brighton on 1 March 2023 - two days after…

Many people with a cancer diagnosis "should be confident that it's not a death sentence and that more treatments will become available", according to the outgoing medical director of NHS England.In his final interview before retiring, Professor Sir Stephen Powis said our understanding of the genetics of cancer and how it can be targeted is being "revolutionised". Sir Stephen, 64 and a kidney specialist who has been the national medical director since 2018 and throughout the COVID pandemic, told The…

A military exercise bringing together more than 35,000 personnel across 19 different nations, including the UK, is under way in Australia - with Chinese spy ships expected to watch.The drill - the largest-ever war fighting exercise to take place in Australia - officially started on Sunday with a ceremony in Sydney. The biennial drill, known as Exercise Talisman Sabre, started in 2005 as a joint exercise between the US and Australia.This year, personnel from Canada, Fiji, France, Germany, India, Indonesia,…

The BBC has said it breached its editorial guidelines by failing to disclose that the child narrator of a Gaza documentary was the son of a Hamas official.A report into the controversial programme said three members of the independent production company knew about the role of the boy's father - but no one within the BBC was aware. The independent report - commissioned by the corporation - criticised the BBC team involved in the documentary for not being "sufficiently proactive"…

Thames Water is introducing a hosepipe ban across Swindon, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire.It comes after the Environment Agency placed the Thames area into its Prolonged Dry Weather category, meaning there is a heightened risk of drought. The Temporary Use Ban, in areas with a postcode starting with OX, GL, SN and RG4, RG8 and RG9, will come into operation at one minute past midnight on Tuesday 22 July. Image: Pic: istock Customers living in areas affected by the ban…

Warning: This article contains details some readers may find distressingAn "evil" postman who moaned about being lonely hours before he severed his girlfriend's head and tried to dismember her body has been jailed for a minimum of 23 years. Ewan Methven murdered Phoenix Spencer-Horn, 21, in the flat they shared in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, last November.The High Court in Glasgow heard the killer dumped his partner's body parts in their hallway and failed to call emergency services for two…

Police plan to breathalyse some passengers driving off after landing at Aberdeen International Airport, in a trial scheme to tackle drink-driving among holidaymakers.Operation Safe Landing is a joint initiative between border policing and road policing officers and could be rolled out to other areas. Those who choose to drink alcohol on their flight are being urged to make arrangements for safe onward travel from the airport to their final destination.There will be an increased police presence at the airport and…

An investigation into Gregg Wallace's "inappropriate behaviour" on MasterChef has found that more than half of the allegations against him have been substantiated, including one of "unwanted physical contact".MasterChef's production company Banijay UK shared a summary of its report into historical allegations of misconduct against the 60-year-old presenter, carried out by independent law firm Lewis Silkin over seven months. The report also said the number of sustained allegations made Wallace's return to MasterChef "untenable".The investigation heard evidence from 78 witnesses,…