EXCLUSIVE: Detectives investigating historical sex offence claims against Russell Brand have passed a file of evidence to prosecutors. The Met has asked the CPS to consider bringing charges against the star after a 13-month inquiry.w/ @RosamundUrwin.

Protest update: the Met confirms that 522 people were arrested for supporting Palestine Action in Parliament Square yesterday. Around half of those people were over 60. The oldest was 89 @metpoliceuk

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Police confirm 466 arrests for supporting Palestine Action at today's protest. They include 89-year-old La Pethick, of Hastings, who was carted off by police on her fold-away chair. She said: "We are having our right to peaceful protest being taken away.".

Tommy Robinson was able to catch an early morning flight from Stansted to Tenerife despite being flagged as “wanted” by police almost five hours earlier following an alleged assault at St Pancras station.

RT @thetimes: 🔺EXCLUSIVE: A businessman granted asylum in Britain is at the centre of a billion-dollar oil smuggling operation that is help….

Britain gave Salim Ahmed Said asylum and a passport after he fled Saddam Hussein's regime. Now US officials claim he is at the heart of a billion-dollar oil smuggling operation helping to finance Iran’s overseas terrorism and domestic repression.

He gained notoriety for threatening to behead Aled Jones and targeting a Bridgerton star, but today we reveal the full extent of Zacariah Boulares's teen crime spree: 32 offences, including an assault on a cop at 14, Rolex muggings and dangerous driving.

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Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, says the model of 43 county-based forces has not “been fit for purpose for at least two decades” and suggests they should be replaced by 12 to 15 regional mega-forces. W/ @HarryYorke1.

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An 83-year-old Anglican vicar is among the first people arrested on suspicion of supporting Palestine Action after it was outlawed as a terrorist organisation at midnight.

A British-Azerbaijani man arrested on suspicion of spying on RAF Akrotiri could be part of an Iranian-run espionage ring targeting Nato facilities. It follows the arrest of a 2nd Azerbaijani man at a naval base in Crete used by UK & US aircraft carriers.

Scottish forensic experts have extracted DNA from the suitcase containing the Lockerbie bomb for the first time and will seek to match it against swabs taken from Abu Agila Masud, the Libyan explosives chief accused of Britain’s worst terrorist atrocity.

"We've lost our muscle memory to do some of the basic things," admits Sir Andy Marsh, head of the College of Policing. In an ST i/view, Marsh tells forces to:.-"refocus on enforcing the law".-stop policing "online spats".-signals the scrapping of NCHIs.

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"An Iraqi asylum seeker who was granted UK nationality but later stripped of his citizenship over his alleged links to a prolific people-smuggling ring has managed to return to the country using his British passport." You couldn't make it up.

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Ahmed Ebid was jailed in Italy for drugs offences, entered Britain illegally on a small boat and was put up in a taxpayer-funded London flat - from where he smuggled thousands of other migrants across the Med before the NCA finally caught up with him.