Author: Darren Smith

A Romanian man has been charged with rape after being intercepted by border officials at Dover as he attempted to re-enter the United Kingdom — weeks after two teenage girls were sexually assaulted on a popular Norfolk beach. Madalin Ilinca, 34, of Stafford Road in Great Yarmouth, was stopped at the port of Dover and arrested in connection with the attack that took place at South Beach Parade in Great Yarmouth on 16 May. He was taken to Wymondham Police Investigation Centre for questioning before being charged on Sunday with one count of rape, one count of sexual assault by…

Iran has launched its first missile barrage against Israel since April, firing waves of strikes that landed on Israeli territory without causing casualties — as Donald Trump simultaneously warned Tehran it had gone far enough and claimed a final nuclear deal could be within reach within 24 hours. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards confirmed the strikes, describing them as a warning rather than a full assault. The IRGC’s top joint military command said the barrage was a direct response to Israel’s bombardment of the Dahieh area of Beirut and issued an explicit threat of escalation. “We had previously warned that if…

Stormzy and Craig David are among the artists paying tribute to Talay Riley, the British singer and songwriter who wrote hits for Usher, Dua Lipa and Khalid, after he was stabbed to death in an east London garden on Friday morning. Riley, whose real name was Mark Orabiyi, was discovered with multiple stab wounds at a property on Rayleigh Road in Silvertown at around 9am. Despite the efforts of paramedics — including a trauma team dispatched by London’s Air Ambulance — he was pronounced dead on arrival at a major trauma centre. He was 35 years old. A second man…

A historic suburb north of Austin has been crowned America’s number one boomtown after adding a third more homes and jobs in just five years — with Texas so dominant in the rankings that it nearly swept the entire top five of a nationwide study of 400 cities. Georgetown, Texas, tops the list compiled by personal finance website SmartAsset, which measured growth across jobs, housing and economic activity in cities with populations of 65,000 or more over the five-year period from 2019 to 2024. Georgetown added 34 per cent more homes during that period while its workforce grew by the…

A serving United States Navy sailor has been arrested as part of an FBI operation to dismantle an ISIS plot in which one of the suspects expressed a desire to “kill 300 million Americans” and another called for the targeting of US Special Forces — with the trio having paid $2,000 to someone they believed was a terrorist organisation operative to fund drones and rocket-propelled grenades. Bereen Dzayee, 25, of Lakeside, California, was arrested by the FBI on Friday along with two 21-year-old men — Elias Shamsaldeen, of Porterville, California, and Bisaam Ghafoor, of Leawood, Kansas — the Department of…

Kim Kardashian has been accused of “pure arrogance” after she and her sister Khloe blanked Sky Sports’ Martin Brundle on live television during his iconic grid walk at the Monaco Grand Prix — refusing to say a single word to the veteran broadcaster before apparently signalling to her entourage to have him moved away. Brundle, whose pre-race grid walk has become one of Formula 1’s most beloved traditions, approached the Kardashian sisters as they stood trackside in the French principality watching the pre-race ceremony unfold. Rather than engaging with one of British motorsport broadcasting’s most recognisable figures, Kim and Khloe…

A man understood to have appeared as a VIP guest at events linked to Tommy Robinson has held a TikTok Live in which he and other participants allegedly ran a poll asking viewers to vote on whether to urinate or defecate on Henry Nowak’s grave — sparking widespread outrage and calls for a police investigation. The leaked four-minute clip, which has spread rapidly across social media, allegedly features Sikh activist Bobby Singh, who posts under the handle @bobbysinghesq on Instagram, alongside other men on a livestream. According to descriptions of the footage circulated across multiple platforms, the participants mocked the…

David Lammy has defended Labour’s “righteous anger” over George Floyd’s death in 2020 while questioning Nigel Farage’s call for “pure cold rage” following the murder of Henry Nowak — drawing a distinction that critics have immediately seized upon as evidence of exactly the double standard he was attempting to refute. The Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary appeared on Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, where he was pressed directly on the apparent contradiction between Labour’s vocal response to Floyd’s killing at the hands of American police and the party’s calls for restraint in the wake of Nowak’s murder…

Britain’s credibility with its allies has been undermined by the government’s failure to publish a promised defence spending plan, while a £6.3 billion tank programme risks producing equipment that may never be fit for use on a modern battlefield, a cross-party committee of MPs has concluded. The public accounts committee, which scrutinises government spending, delivered a damning verdict on the Ministry of Defence’s management of both its strategic planning and its flagship armoured vehicle programme — warning that bureaucratic drift had sent a damaging signal to allies and adversaries alike, while soldiers were being injured by the very tanks they…

Danny Dyer has branded Thomas Tuchel’s decision to leave Jarrod Bowen out of the England World Cup squad “ridiculous,” revealing the families were so convinced of his selection they had been half-booking flights to the United States before the crushing call came through. The former EastEnders star, whose daughter Dani married the West Ham captain just over a year ago, spoke about the double blow facing Bowen — World Cup heartbreak combined with Premier League relegation — on The Wayne Rooney Show. “It’s a double whammy for him, he had a terrible weekend, it’s awful,” Dyer said. “He didn’t get…