Good evening. GB News has suspended the Rev Calvin Robinson as the fallout over misogynistic comments made on the channel continues.
Elsewhere, a 14-year-old girl and a bus driver have died following a motorway crash on the Wirral involving a school coach and a car.
Duane Jackson spent five years behind bars before developing a software business he would later sell for £20m.
The Rev Calvin Robinson has been taken off air after he posted comments on social media supporting Dan Wootton, who had already been suspended along with the former actor Laurence Fox. Rev Robinson, a deacon in the Free Church of England, said Wootton was being targeted by “careerist ambitious” people “who are currently gunning for his job”. He also took aim at GB News bosses, saying they were “afraid of Ofcom”.
A 14-year-old girl and a bus driver have died following a motorway crash on the Wirral. Police, fire and ambulance crews were called to the M53 northbound carriageway after the coach struck a reservation and overturned. In a press conference at Birkenhead Town Hall, Merseyside Police Chief Superintendent Graeme Robson said 54 people including the driver had been travelling on the bus.
It is a quarter of a century since the Good Friday Agreement ended The Troubles. The deal owed much to the UUP – which, riven by splits, was overtaken by the more hardline Democratic Unionist Party in the years that followed. Now, the question of Irish unification is moving into the mainstream 102 years after six counties in Ulster were partitioned.
Met Police | The firearms officer who lawfully shot dead an armed gangster in 2015 is to face a gross misconduct hearing, the police watchdog has confirmed.