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Police investigating the disappearance of teenager Louise Smith have searched the home of a married couple five minutes walk from her house. Specialist forensic officers have been seen taking ‘bag loads’ of items including carpet and clothing from the first-floor flat in Havant, Hampshire. Neighbours said the couple had been arrested last week on suspicion … Read more
The State Department inspector general fired by President Trump was said to have been investigating claims Mike Pompeo made a staffer walk his dog and pick up his dry cleaning. Donald Trump announced the planned removal of Inspector General Steve Linick in a letter to House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi late Friday night. That … Read more
At least 15 states are looking into cases of a rare inflammatory syndrome mainly affecting children and believed to be linked to the novel coronavirus, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday. Cuomo told reporters at a press conference that state health officials are investigating 102 cases, including dozens of hospitalizations. The disorder, dubbed … Read more
Police investigating disappearance of woman, 45, last January charge man with murder as well as four rape charges, 12 assault offences and indecent attack against girl, 14, dating back to 1998 Susan Waring, 45, went missing from Darwen, Lancashire in January last year Alan Edwards, 47, was first arrested last March and re-arrested on Wednesday … Read more
BIOGRAPHY THE PROFESSOR & THE PARSON by Adam Sisman (Profile £12.99, 240 pp) The Oxford history don Hugh Trevor-Roper is chiefly remembered (poor man) for his one disastrous mistake: his brief authentication of the so-called ‘Hitler diaries’ in 1983. Anyone who enjoyed Adam Sisman’s 2010 biography of Trevor-Roper will be haunted by what must have … Read more