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Militants from the Islamic State group launch a new offensive in Iraq, killing around 30 people in military clashes and bomb attacks. Warning: this report contains some distressing images.

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Paul Kohler, who was viciously beaten in his Wimbledon home in August, says seeing his attackers in court when they were sentenced to jail was “very scary”, and “brought it back to me in a way that nothing else has done”.
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If Winston Churchill was pitted against today’s MPs he would have “eaten them alive”, but “would not have been any good at the television interview”, says his grandson, Conservative MP Nicholas Soames.

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