Summary
- Updates on the Rwanda Bill with a vote expected today.
- The dangers of Smart Motorways will be the focus of tonight’s Panorama on BBC1.
- South Yorkshire Police officer to appear in court charged with common assault.
- Police Appeal for indecent exposure in Endcliffe Park.
- Rishi Sunak calling on more effort to rebuild the trust among Jewish community.
- Margaret McKeich saying that justice has finally been made after the murderer of her child has been jailed.
- UK is about to become the first country to ban extreme right-wing online terror group
- A Sheffield teacher heard for exchanging over 1,000 chats with student.
- The Crucible theatre selling iconic outfits in order to raise money for their costume department.
- Updates on Doncaster Rovers and Sheffield United
- Guinness World Records for Lloyd Martin at the London Marathon.
- Train strikes expected during May.
- Newsreader Huw Edwards resign from BBC.
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Edited by Esme Kenney and Marie Koehl
16 train companies have announced they will be on strike between May 6 and May 11.
This is following a poor communication between ASLEF and the train companies since the beginning of strikes in July 2022.
Customers are advised to check the conditions of travelling online before leaving since cancellations and delays can occur.
- Tuesday 7 May: c2c, Greater Anglia, Great Northern, Thameslink, Southeastern, Southern, Gatwick Express, South Western Railway main line and Island Line
- Wednesday 8 May: Avanti West Coast, Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, Great Western Railway and West Midlands Trains
- Thursday 9 May: LNER, Northern Trains and TransPennine Express
The last pay deal has been rejected already a year ago in April 2023.
Disruption due to train strikes during the Bank Holiday weekend.
The BBC have announced that Huw Edwards has resigned from the BBC “on medical grounds”, in a statement given today.
Last summer reports emerged that Edwards had paid a young person for explicit images, and he has been off air since last July.
He was lead presenter at the News at Ten and led the BBC’s coverage of the Queen’s death.
Huw Edwards resigns from BBC
The House of Lords’ Amendment to the Rwanda bill will be debated at 4.15 in the House of Commons today.
An urgent question on the Sudan will take place at 3.30pm, pushing back the debate on the Rwanda bill.
In the press conference at 10:30 today, Sunak blamed Labour for holding up the progress of the bill.
Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said: “The Tories are the largest party in both Houses of Parliament and they could have scheduled the final stages of the bill a month ago but they voluntarily delayed it because they always want someone else to blame.”
More updates to follow.
Rwanda bill debate in Commons to start at 4.15
This morning around eight, a female driver and her passenger crashed into one of the walls of Beacon Primary School in Everton, Liverpool.
Luckily no pupil was present.
The driver and passenger have been admitted in the hospital with minor injuries.
The school will remain closed for the day and roads around as well.
Car accident tragedy avoided in Liverpool
Metropolitan Police has bailed two men for spying under the Official Secrets Act.
They are meant to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday 26 April.
Qualified as an “extremely complex” investigation, Christopher Berry, 32, of Witney in Oxfordshire and Christopher Cash, 29, of Whitechapel, London, are accused of providing prejudicial information to a foreign state.
Charged for spying for China
Calling all costume and theatre enthusiasts!
The Crucible theatre are holding a clothing sale on Saturday 18 May, where they will sell costumes from iconic shows to raise money for wardrobe store house, and to create better costumes for future shows.
The event is not ticketed, and will be open to the public via the Crucible theatre doors.
Read more about this story here.
Sheffield Theatres to sell iconic outfits to raise money for costume department
By PA Reporters
Britain’s biggest police force needs to rebuild the trust of the Jewish community after an antisemitism campaigner was threatened with arrest at a pro-Palestine demonstration, the Prime Minister has said.
Rishi Sunak told journalists that he shared public shock and anger over exchanges between Gideon Falter, chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), and officers policing the protest in central London on April 13.
But he said he has confidence in the head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, if the commissioner works to rebuild the confidence and trust of the Jewish community and the wider public.
Prime Minister calls on police chief to rebuild trust among Jewish community
By Lucinda Cameron, PA Scotland
The mother of a teenager murdered in 1996 said justice has been done but she will always feel the “void” left by her daughter’s death as one of her killers was jailed for at least 17 years.
Donna Marie Brand, 44, was found guilty in December at the High Court in Glasgow alongside Robert O’Brien, 45, and Andrew Kelly, 44, of killing O’Brien’s 14-year-old girlfriend Caroline Glachan in August that year.
Mother of murdered teenager says justice has been done as killer jailed
By Margaret Davis, PA Crime Correspondent
Extreme right-wing online terrorist group Terrorgram is set to be banned in the UK.
Britain will be the first country to ban the group if the plan is approved on Friday, and it will be the first time that an online terror network has been proscribed in the UK.
The move would mean that support for the group would be illegal with punishments of up to 14 years in prison or an unlimited fine.
A draft proscription order was laid in Parliament on Monday and will come into effect on Friday if it is agreed by MPs.
Home Secretary James Cleverly said: “The Terrorgram collective spreads vile propaganda and aims to radicalise young people to conduct heinous terrorist acts.
“This is why we are outlawing membership or support for the group – we will not tolerate the promotion or encouragement of terrorism in the United Kingdom.
“It will become the first online terrorist network to be proscribed, alongside 80 other Extreme Right-Wing and Islamist organisations, as we continue to disrupt and outlaw terrorist groups to protect the British people.”
Terrorgram will become the sixth extreme right wing terrorist group to be banned in the UK, on the list of 81 banned organisations.
It has published propaganda designed to incite followers to commit violence, and was credited by an attacker who killed two people in an LGBTQ+ nightclub shooting in Slovakia in 2022, the Home Office said.
Security minister Tom Tugendhat said: “The Terrorgram collective is a dangerous neo-fascist organisation that actively encourages and promotes terrorist activity.
“We must do everything in our power to deter and limit the reach of hateful and terrorist ideologies, and to protect the most vulnerable in our society.”
UK to become first country to ban extreme right-wing online terror group
Police have released e-fit appeals in order to find men that have been seen exposing themselves indecently in Endcliffe Park earlier this month and in February.
Don’t hesitate to contact them if you have witnessed anything or know anything.
LIVE: South Yorkshire Police releasing appeals for men exposing themselves in Park
The Refugee Council are criticising the Prime Ministers’ claims that the Rwanda policy will act as a deterrent, which he made in this morning’s press conference.
Chief Executive of the Refugee Enver Solomon, said: “Even if, as the Prime Minister asserts, there is to be ‘a regular rhythm of multiple flights every month’, this will still only correspond to at most a few thousand people a year out of tens of thousands. Instead of giving these people a fair hearing on UK soil to determine if they have a protection need, the Government will have to look after them indefinitely, at considerable cost.
“Despite the Prime Minister’s renewed claims about deterrence, we know from the Home Office’s own research, as well as our own, that policies such as the Rwanda plan don’t actually work as a deterrent, and people seeking asylum have said they won’t stop coming to the UK to find safety.
“The Government must stop wasting time and resources on futile endeavours and focus instead on the vital task of processing asylum claims promptly and fairly.”
Leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Ed Davey called the Rwanda plan “a colossal failure”, and said that Sunak should call a general election.
The bill will be voted on in the House of Commons today.
Rwanda Policy unlikely to work as a deterrent, says Refugee Council
The 38 year old teacher has been heard for exchanging indecent messages and influence a teenage girl to share indecent images.
On a period of two months the teacher exchanged almost 2’000 messages with the student.
The teacher has been ban for life of the profession after all the allegations were proven.