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Wayne Couzens: Sarah Everard’s killer is appealing his whole-life sentence – what does that mean?
High-profile murderers, including Wayne Couzens, have lodged appeals with the UK’s Court of Appeal against whole-life sentences they are currently serving. Couzens was sentenced in 2021 after pleading guilty to the rape, kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard. Another appellant, Ian Stewart, was found guilty at trial in 2017 forContinue Reading
Northern Ireland election: despite Sinn Féin’s historic win over unionists, things may not be as they seem
It is clear that Sinn Féin has achieved a historic result in the Stormont election. For the first time in Northern Ireland’s history, a nationalist party is set to claim the most seats in a political system that was originally designed to guarantee a unionist majority. Yet this does notContinue Reading
Chelsea vs Wolves LIVE: TV Channel, live stream, team news as Blues have TWO goals ruled out – Premier League updates
CHELSEA take on Wolves today on the day of Todd Boehly’s £4.25bn takeover of the club. Boehly is an American investor and businessman who has a reported net worth of £3.6bn and will take over from Roman Abramovich. He is a part owner of the LA Dodgers baseball team andContinue Reading
The history and meaning of Children’s Day in Japan
Shin Okamoto/Shutterstock In Japan, Children’s Day – Kodomo no Hi – is held on May 5 and marks the final national holiday of the period known as Golden Week. This is a series of national holidays that allows Japanese people to take the best part of a week off toContinue Reading
Local elections are about the most important issues affecting our daily lives – so why do they always become a referendum on the prime minister?
Alamy/Daniel Leal-Olivas As the dust settles on another round of local elections in the UK, parties are seeking to spin the results to suit their own narratives. For months, the May 5 elections had been framed as crunch day for Boris Johnson. A poor result was to be taken asContinue Reading
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder explained
Stephanie Foo, an award-winning radio producer, suffers from complex post-traumatic stress disorder, a disorder that in her country (the US) “doesn’t officially exist”. In her new book, What My Bones Know, Foo writes movingly about what it’s like to live with complex PTSD and her long journey to getting aContinue Reading
The standard model of particle physics may be broken – an expert explains
The storage-ring magnet for the Muon G-2 experiment at Fermilab. Reidar Hahn/wikipedia, CC BY-SA As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is “When are you going to find something?”. Resisting the temptation to sarcastically reply “AsideContinue Reading
Worst secondary schools according to Ofsted revealed – is your school on the list?
THE worst performing secondary schools in England according to Ofsted have been revealed – is yours on the list? Schools across the country have been facing unprecedented pressures recently as they have had to contend with the Covid pandemic and some have found this harder than others. Alamy Schools areContinue Reading
What the Gazza documentary gets wrong about domestic violence
The new BBC two-part documentary, Gazza, opens with the solitary figure of former international football star and fallen hero, Paul Gascoigne, fishing alone in a deserted lake. Taking as its title Gascoigne’s nickname, Gazza presents the footballer as a man more sinned against by the press than guilty of hisContinue Reading
Released date announced for Will Young’s new documentary about the death of his twin
T he release date has been announced for British singer Will Young’s new documentary Will Young: Losing my Twin Rupert about the death of his brother, who died by suicide in 2020 aged 41. Rupert Young had battled alcoholism for over 20 years. “I’m very honoured and proud to tellContinue Reading