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Injune following the mass shooting in plymouth in august 2021. campaigners want better medical checks and higherfees for firearms licences — ministers say public safety is their priority. and the uks biggest mortgage lender, halifax, says house prices are down on last year. but the bank also said mortgages are taking up more of peoples incomes — making home ownership still a stretch for many. thats the news, shourjo sarkar has the sport. in rugby union, the england number eight, billy vunipo...

Money was transferred from those countries to iran. no strings attached. until it is not an bounty and that is factually incorrect was secretary pompeo was saying. shannon: lets turn to afghanistan were coming up on the second year anniversary of the chaotic withdrawal there. the service members again we like to remind people of their names, their faces and their families that you heard from this week. special inspecto inspector geneo outlined in his new report this. despite tell them promises m...

Commission have said, they dont see evidence of the hackers have downloaded vast amounts of data in the electoral roll because if they had have done it may have alerted the electoral commission sooner to their presence. but somehow they found their system was breached in october and there would have been a forensic process that said actually they have been in since august 2021 and then the process of securing the system and kicking them out begins. listeners and viewers, get in touch if you have...

Access to their systems in august 2021. it wasnt discovered until october 2022, that is a long gap. that implies this was not a criminal attack, button espionage attack to try to find weakness in the electoral system. likely these are very skilled, very patient hackers. then they announced today this is what they have been dealing with and they have clearly secured their systems now and say their e—mail systems now and say their e—mail systems were hacked and accessed by the hackers and ther...

Private and not able to be sold on to the phone book and other companies for example, that data has been accessed by hackers. if you registered to vote anonymously, which some people do to protect their privacy and their location, for example if they are a victim of domestic abuse are something like that, that data has not been accessed by the hackers. this happened _ accessed by the hackers. this happened quite _ accessed by the hackers. this happened quite a _ accessed by the hackers. this hap...

Electoral commission said nothing had been affected. it is interesting this lag between august 2021 and october 2022, what is likely is that they gained access in august 2021 and have since been looking for weaknesses, researching and looking through those millions of e—mails sent by the electoral commission office to potentially try to find weaknesses in the electoral system. it is a serious incident. we often talk about the sky falling in cyber security when it is not. the electoral commissi...

In august 2021, so his mother has decided to take legal action against the editor of the irish light. the cases for harassment with defamation, an attempt to hold to account the conspiracy theory newspapers and people pushing these ideas. some of the hate that has ensued since that legal case was launched has been described as shocking by her lawyer. these are some of the messages i found on the channels belonging to the irish light and its editor directed at and about a grieving mother, describ...

To leave hotels where theyve been staying since fleeing the taliban. the organisation representing councils in england and wales said that one in five afghans being evicted from hotels had nowhere else to live. 0ur political correspondent ione wells has been looking at the numbers. these were the scenes in afghanistan two years ago — thousands of afghans trying to flee after the taliban seized control of the country in august 2021. the uk set up two legal routes for refugees to come here — f...

Its just shocking. she really was beautiful inside and out. coming up to two years on the 26th of august. but its been an utter nightmare, it has. terrible. jade met russell marsh when she was 17. they were together for ten years, but he was very controlling, and in august 2021 she ended the relationship. a week later, in the middle of the night, while jade and her children slept in their beds, marsh turned up unannounced. he broke into the house and hejust, uh... he went off and he murdered our...

They were together for ten years, but he was very controlling, and in august 2021 she ended the relationship. a week later, in the middle of the night, while jade and her children slept in their beds, marsh turned up unannounced. he broke into the house and hejust, uh... he went off and he murdered our daughter. he got a knife from the kitchen. got a knife from the kitchen. and it was only a small boxroom. tiny boxroom, one door coming in, double bed. she couldnt have got out if she tried, know ...