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Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank have welcomed a baby girl born at a hospital in Lisbon on Monday evening, weighing 6lb 9oz. The infant is the couple’s fifth grandchild and 15th in line to the throne and will not be an HRH; a name has not yet been announced.
A 28-year-old man has been arrested in South Yorkshire on suspicion of murdering former minister Ann Widdecombe, who was found with serious injuries at her Devon home. A previous 26-year-old suspect had been arrested and then released, and police say terrorism is not suspected as the live investigation continues with heightened security around Widdecombe’s property.
A girl was injured in a Southend park in a 'loading vehicle' incident, while a separate court case sees Daniel Day denying charges of intentionally or recklessly causing a public nuisance by scaling the Elizabeth Tower, with the Big Ben climb costing taxpayers £67,000.
A 17-year-old girl was stabbed in a street attack in Lancashire; in a separate case, Joe McCaldon was jailed after speeding caused a car crash that killed his friend Max Greenhouse, also 17, days after McCaldon's driving test.
Essa Suleiman, 45, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with attempted murder of two Jewish men, Shloime Rand and Moshe Shine, in Golders Green, plus a separate charge of attempting to murder Ishmail Hussein earlier the same day and a knife-possession offence; prosecutors say the incident is treated as terrorism. Rand has been discharged from hospital, Suleiman remains in custody, and the case is headed to the Old Bailey with a preliminary hearing set for 15 May. The terror threat level has been raised to severe.
Christine Dawood, mother of Suleman and Shahzada Dawood, says the Titan submersible victims’ remains were recovered as ‘slush’ and delivered in two shoebox-like boxes; DNA testing by the US Coast Guard separated the remains, and she says they did not receive the bodies for nine months.
An inquest concluded that Aleisha Rochester would likely have survived if she had received the correct antibiotics for sepsis, prompting the NHS to apologise for the death.