Russia puts British warship HMS Trent under ‘constant tracking’ as it enters the Black Sea

Russia is ‘constantly tracking’ a British warship on patrol in the flashpoint Black Sea, the defence ministry in Moscow has announced. HMS Trent sailed through the Dardanelles and Bosporus on Sunday amid high tension over the Kremlin’s intentions in eastern Ukraine.   Despite planning to track the Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel’s every move, it posed … Read more

Russia puts British warship HMS Trent under ‘constant tracking’ as it enters the Black Sea

Russia is ‘constantly tracking’ a British warship on patrol in the flashpoint Black Sea, the defence ministry in Moscow has announced. HMS Trent sailed through the Dardanelles and Bosporus on Sunday amid high tension over the Kremlin’s intentions in eastern Ukraine.   Despite planning to track the Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel’s every move, it posed … Read more

Aerial photos show police dig for Fred West’s ‘second victim’ as it enters its second day

Mary Bastholm may have been the first girl Fred West snatched off the street that ‘set him on the path to mass murder’, Rose West’s lawyer has told MailOnline today, amid suspicions the 15-year-old may also have been their first victim as a couple. Mary, 15, was last seen waiting for a bus in Gloucester … Read more

Minneapolis boards up as Chauvin trial enters final phase and shooting of two National Guard in city

Minneapolis was transformed into a fortress over the weekend, as a tense city braced for a verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin – the white police officer accused of murdering George Floyd – this week.  More than 3,000 members of the National Guard have been drafted into the city, in addition to 1,100 officers from … Read more

Minneapolis boards up as Chauvin trial enters final phase and shooting of two National Guard in city

Minneapolis was transformed into a fortress over the weekend, as a tense city braced for a verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin – the white police officer accused of murdering George Floyd – this week.  More than 3,000 members of the National Guard have been drafted into the city, in addition to 1,100 officers from … Read more

Police search of Epping Forest for missing Richard Okorogheye enters third day 

Searches for missing Oxford Brookes student Richard Okorogheye in Epping Forest today entered their third day as police appealed to the teenager to ‘let us know you are safe.’  Detectives moved their search to Essex after a confirmed sighting showed Mr Okorogheye, 19, walking alone on Smarts Lane, Loughton, towards the woods at 12.39am on … Read more

Police search of Epping Forest for missing Richard Okorogheye enters third day 

Searches for missing Oxford Brookes student Richard Okorogheye in Epping Forest today entered their third day as police appealed to the teenager to ‘let us know you are safe.’  Detectives moved their search to Essex after a confirmed sighting showed Mr Okorogheye, 19, walking alone on Smarts Lane, Loughton, towards the woods at 12.39am on … Read more

Covid Europe: Italy enters strict three-day lockdown while France begins four week national shutdown

Italy and France entered strict lockdowns today, with both countries struggling to cope with a dramatic rise in Covid-19 cases that has overwhelmed hospitals.  In Italy, the country entered a three-day Easter lockdown to prevent a surge in infections over the bank holiday weekend. The entire country is now in the ‘red zone’ – the … Read more

American Idol: Katy Perry compares Cassandra Coleman to friend Florence Welch as she enters Top 24

Katy Perry compared a nervous contestant with a stunning voice to one of her most famous pals on Sunday’s episode of American Idol. ‘Listen, my friend Florence, of Florence + the Machine, …you remind me a lot of her,’ the 36-year-old singer told Cassandra Coleman, a 24-year-old coffee shop manager from Columbia, Tennessee, who’d just … Read more

Race to free the Ever Given enters SIXTH day: Two tugboats speed to Suez Canal to join efforts

Two heavier tugboats sped to Egypt’s Suez Canal on Sunday to join efforts to free a skyscraper-sized container ship wedged for days across the crucial waterway. The massive Ever Given, a Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, got stuck on Tuesday in a single-lane stretch of the canal.  Authorities have so … Read more