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Diane Abbott, who has been MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987, spoke out to clarify the situation as Keir Starmer faces a major backlash. Ms Abbott was suspended from Labour's parliamentary party for more than a year, amid an investigation into her comments about Jewish people in a letter to the Observer newspaper in April last year. However, it has emerged that the race row probe ended months ago. Ms Abbott was understood to have been given back the Labour whip yesterday, but confusion remained over whether she would stand as a party candidate at the general election.

It has been praised as an 'enchanting' gem of a seaside resort, attracting 5million visitors a year and hailed by the author Thomas Hardy as a 'city set in a garden'. Yet Bournemouth's pleasures have turned sour for many locals as a series of horrific crimes cast a shadow over the resort - including last week's fatal stabbing of 34-year-old beloved mother and wife Amie Gray. The picture-postcard appeal of the resort has made it one of the UK's most popular tourist destinations ever since the arrival of the railways in the Victorian age. But modern-day residents have become alarmed about a rising tide of crime ranging from harrowing murders, rapes and violent attacks to daylight drug-dealing and threatening anti-social behaviour. Bournemouth West MP Sir Conor Burns has been raising concerns about crime across the visitor attraction and calling for more police presence in the town centre.

A 20-year-old man from Croydon, south London , has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 34-year-old woman died after being stabbed on Durley Chine Beach in Bournemouth on May 24, Dorset Police said.

Violent pro-Palestine mobs have clashed with police outside Downing Street as shocking footage shows Met Police officers donning riot gear attempting to gain control over the chaos. Videos posted to social media on Tuesday night captured the moment swarms of Palestine supporters took over the streets around Parliament before banging on car windows and surrounding double-decker buses. Swathes of cops donning hi-vis police jackets and helmets were seen scuffling with activists as footage taken by demonstrators showed masses of chanting crowds blocking roads and running riot in the streets. Video taken at 10.30pm showed sprawling crowds of protesters yelling as they came face to face with Met Police officers - on the same that has also seen dramatic protests erupt across France and Italy. In an earlier clip, taken outside Downing Street and shared on X, formerly Twitter, cops could be seen tussling with members of the public with one woman seen on the ground as officers worked their way through the crowd.

Gaza health authorities said yesterday that another tent camp in the city had been hit, this time by Israeli tank shells, in an area Israel designated as a civilian evacuation zone. They said at least 21 people were killed in the attack, including women and children. The IDF denied striking the area of al-Mawasi, west of Rafah. Meanwhile, witnesses reported seeing the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) tanks advancing into central areas of Rafah - three weeks after the army launched a ground operation in the southern Gazan city. Tanks and and armoured vehicles mounted with machineguns were seen near al-Awda mosque, a central Rafah landmark, according to witnesses. Inset: Sunday night's attack.

The Victorian Society's annual top 10 list of buildings and structures in need of rescue - released on Wednesday - was described as 'terrifying' by the society's president, comedian Griff Rhys Jones. It includes the Kursaal in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, which is believed to be the world's first purpose-built amusement park with a circus, ballroom, arcade, dining hall, billiard room, zoo and ice rink.

A crew member who suffered 'life-altering­ injuries' when a US Navy ship toppled over while in dry dock in ­ Edinburgh has lodged a $10million ­(£8million) claim for damages. Magin Luis Caballero is suing the US government after research vessel RV Petrel tipped at a 45-degree angle in strong winds in Leith on March 22 last year. More than 30 people were hurt, with some sustaining life-changing injuries.

He's blessed with a $14.5 million Tuscan-style mansion with seven bedrooms, thirteen and a half bathrooms, library, cinema, gym, pool and chicken coop - not to mention two delightful children and a bewitching wife who yearns for you to taste her jam. But Prince Harry and, indeed, his entire neighbourhood may now urgently be in need of a 'scrubber' machine - or several of them - as I will explain. That's the verdict of those contending with a 'skunk-like' odour, a 'jaw-clamping stench' and an 'ungodly stink'. It's caused by the cannabis which is now legally grown in California - including at the farm where Meghan and a 50-strong crew will film much of her impending home-cookery series for Netflix. Lying just ten minutes from the Sussexes' Montecito residence, the farm is one of several which have seen traditional crops - like grapes and avocados - make way for cannabis, grown on an 'industrial scale'.

Mrs Vardy, the wife of Leicester striker Jamie Vardy, lost her £3million libel claim against Mrs Rooney, the wife of ex-England captain Wayne Rooney , in a bombshell case that gripped the nation in July 2022. In October that year, the judge ruled that Mrs Vardy, 42, should pay 90 per cent of Mrs Rooney's costs, with an initial £800,000 then ordered to be paid. The bitter trial exploded back into life on Tuesday as Mrs Rooney, 38, challenged parts of Mrs Vardy's £325,000 bill, of which she will have to pay 20 per cent. But as the Wagatha Christie saga resumes, Mrs Vardy is holidaying at a £7,000-a-night resort on the Koh Samui island in Thailand with Jamie and their five children. She shared several photos on Instagram of the holiday, including one of her basking in the sunshine on the edge of an infinity pool overlooking the ocean - and another of her children jumping on the beach at sunset.