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The ultra-safe North Shropshire was left on a knife-edge after weeks of disquiet hit Conservative popularity in the polls. Liberal Democrats campaigned hard in the hope of overturning the 23, 000 majority. Tory insiders admitted it had been “ very tough ” on the doorstep and was an incredibly competitive election. The party was braced for a “ very significant drop ” in vote share caused by local and national factors and sources admitted there was “ also no escaping the reason we had this electio

Socialite Maxwell, 60, faces up to 65 years in jail after she was convicted of grooming, recruiting and sexually abusing girls as young as 14. But just minutes after the jury gave their verdict, her family announced they had begun lodging an appeal. Sister Isabel, 71, and brother Kevin, 62, attended court every day to support her, older brother Ian, has repeatedly criticised the prosecution.A family friend said:" Blood is thicker than water, and that means the Maxwells stick together through thi

Jack Lis was killed by an 8st pitbull-type dog, nicknamed the Beast, at a home in Caerphilly, south Wales, on Monday.... The dog was sold online just days before the attack, over fears it was so ferocious it would go for other animals. New figures for NHS England last year show how widespread animal attacks have become.... And last year there were 7, 443 NHS appointments in England for people who had been bitten, up 22 per cent in a decade. Jack is the latest of many youngsters killed by dogs.

Kyiv told parliament on Friday Russia had massed more than 94, 000 troops near Ukraine's borders.... The defence minister said they were ready to fight back if Moscow launched an attack, even though they would not do anything to provoke the situation. Ukranian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said:" Our intelligence analyses all scenarios, including the worst." It notes that the likelihood of a large-scale escalation from Russia exists." The most likely time to reach readiness for an escalatio

He said ISIS had managed to inspire extremists — unlike Al-Qaeda — with no direct connection to the organisation to take their online terror manuals and attempt much smaller scale plots. What is happening where you live?... And something that is often forgotten is that in the UK, ten months before 9/ 11, we disrupted with the police a bomb plot in Birmingham.... [ It was] not formerly by Al Qaeda the organisation but this wave of terrorism was already coming towards us.”....