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In recent months residents in this affluent corner of south-west London have found themselves locked in a battle over a three-bedroom property on the street that was converted into six separate bedsits.

With the killer of the ex-Tory minister turned Reform justice spokeswoman still at large, other party figures are living in fear of a potential copycat attack.

Westminster is a minefield for inexperienced MPs - sudden power combined with a youthful, hard-living lifestyle and no shortage of alcohol to add to the cocktail.

The 30-strong list is dominated by well-known Labour MPs and includes a senior minister accused of forcibly kissing a member of his office staff in front of colleagues.

The BBC is scrambling to make savings after discovering a £500million hole in its budget and has announced a bloodbath of cuts

This is the first time in the 25 years since I first stepped into public life that I feel genuinely scared. Knowing that Ann died in horrific circumstances has only deepened my state of fear.

The ruling by the International Court of Justice, which the Government endorsed, declared that states had a binding obligation to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

If this court has its way, we wouldn't be able to further exploit our natural resources in the North Sea, and we'd be on the hook for trillions of pounds in reparations to developing countries.

Castellina was the obvious choice for our honeymoon. There was only one thing missing - Devon. A month before our wedding, the love of my life had died in my arms. So, here I was on honeymoon - alone.

You might assume that because I've spent my career negotiating billion-pound property deals and investing in businesses around the world, I'd be the last person to fall victim to a fraud.

When Carl and Clare Bolton met with the senior medical team at the Countess of Chester Hospital seven years ago, they were looking for reassurance.

If Nigel Farage survives his duel with Count Binface in the Clacton by-election, his allies would like him to do two things this summer.

John Richard Simpson, who works for the family of a secretive Kazakhstan-born billionaire, split the sum over seven payments between June and August last year.

Pregnant Vogue Williams wowed in yellow bikini as she got beach day ready in a recent Instagram video on Saturday. 

An article in the first edition of last week's Mail on Sunday said that Catherine Atkinson MP was privately educated. In fact, Ms Atkinson has never attended private school. We apologise...

Since February, New York state police have arrested 48 people for trespassing on a former IBM campus in Somers, New York, reports the Wall Street Journal. 30 of the arrests were teenagers. The long-vacant site has become a magnet for so-called urban explorers, who prowl abandoned malls, hospitals, power plants, amusement parks, factories and any other disused structure they can breach... [I]t's been turbocharged by artsy videos on Instagram and TikTok that spur others to create their own posts, luring still more curiosity seekers... In Somers, social-media images of the old IBM campus — a sprawling, pyramid-studded 1980s complex designed by the late I.M. Pei's firm — show dystopian scenes: busted windows, tossed rooms and graffitied walls. But they also give eerie glimpses of conference rooms and cubicles unchanged since IBM left a decade ago, as if employees had fled the daily grind one day and never returned... One man in his mid-20s faces felony charges; police allege he had a loaded 9mm gun and took a Sony camera and power strip among other souvenirs. Andrew Proto, a defense lawyer, said "a 15-second clip" isn't worth a criminal record... Proto said he has represented or advised several minors arrested on the campus. The Somers town court clerk said some defendants received a 6-month "adjournment in contemplation of dismissal," meaning charges will be dropped and their arrest sealed if they avoid trouble. Some explorers who have posted about the IBM site say they follow an observe-and-preserve ethos and reject vandalism. They say they're driven by curiosity, the thrill of roaming forbidden spaces and a zeal to document discoveries — and that they're careful and know their limits. "It actually gives me hope when I hear that kids are out there getting into trouble," says Bradley Garrett, a cultural geographer and author of the book "Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City," about his own urbex adventures. He sees urban exploration as "a gateway drug in a good way, sometimes, into intellectual curiosity about history and culture." But Garrett said popular spots can be "loved to death" online — and then shut down, looted or set ablaze. "Trespassers were blamed for a March 30 fire, reports a local newspaper, "that damaged one of the buildings and required volunteer firefighters to spend three hours extinguishing the blaze."

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Ellie Goulding surprised England fans in Miami Stadium on Saturday night as she put on an epic pre-match performance.

Thomas Tuchel's are preparing for a meeting with Erling Haaland & Co in Miami on Saturday night, and should the team gain a substantial lead, a place in the final four.

Former cabinet minister Ann Widdecombe was engaged in conversation with a researcher on Channel 5's Matt Alwright show when her messages suddenly stopped without explanation.

For nearly two years the Free Software Foundation has been fighting web crawlers (including many aggressively scraping training data for AI models). A botnet controlling about five million IPs hit one system for six months in 2025. Their systems administrator wrote this week that they view these as distributed denial-of-service attacks. How are they fighting back? We noticed patterns in the scrapers that were abnormal, which gave us material for writing regular expressions. Searching for the regular expression then gave us a large lists of IP addresses. Looking up the origin of those IP addresses revealed that some of the crawlers were using botnets of residential IP addresses to scrape faster and avoid detection. We looked for what kinds of botnets might be generating the kind of traffic that we were seeing, and one that we suspected was called the "Vo1d" botnet, comprised of smart TVs running some sort of compromised app... We got confirmation that at least some of the botnet traffic hitting GNU Savannah was originating through the Vo1d/Popa botnet. We placed our regular expressions in fail2ban, and found that we were hitting the maximum rules that could be added to UFW firewall rules on our systems which showed degradation around 65,000 rules... We learned about ipset and configured fail2ban to add IP addresses that it found to IP sets. Using ipset, we kept building larger IP sets and did not find instability with as large as five million rules... We eventually found a promising project on Framasoft's forge Framagit called reaction written by ppom... After we ran into scaling issues with our initial implementation, we developed a much faster implementation where the reaction shutdown process would export the IP sets to disk and the reaction startup process would restore the IP sets. This allowed us to have nearly instantaneous restarts of the service to apply new rules. We published both of our configurations upstream to reaction's wiki so that everyone can benefit from it. reaction's getting started documentation now leads to the method that we proposed... Many sysadmins know about fail2ban, but not enough people know about reaction. I am very grateful to ppom for the help they have provided and for the tremendous project they have released to the world with reaction. We have implemented other defenses as well, but reaction is doing the majority of the automated work keeping our sites online.

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