Neil Parish has formally resigned as an MP after admitting watching pornography in the House of Commons.
Reports emerged last week that an MP had been seen watching pornography on the Commons benches.
Mr Parish then came forward, admitting that he had twice watched pornography in the chamber.
He claimed the first time was accidental after looking at tractors online but that the second was "a moment of madness".
The 65-year-old farmer announced that he would be resigning after recognising the "furore" and "damage" he was causing his family and constituency.
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A statement from the Treasury said they had formally appointed Mr Parish, a Conservative, to be Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead - a formality allowing MPs resign from office.
The announcement will trigger a by-election for the MP's seat of Tiverton and Honiton, which is in Devon, though no date has yet been set.
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It had been held since 2010 by Mr Parish, who at the 2019 general election enjoyed a majority of more than 24,000.
It comes after another Tory MP, Imran Ahmad Khan, resigned as MP for Wakefield after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
The capital's new Crossrail service, known as the Elizabeth line, will open on Tuesday 24 May, Transport for London said.
The railway will run from Reading in Berkshire to Shenfield in Essex and Abbey Wood in southeast London.
It was was originally planned to open in full in December 2018 but it was hit by numerous problems including construction delays and difficulties installing complex signalling systems.
It is hoped the Queen - who the line is named after - will be involved in the opening.
But, the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has claimed the decision to announce the opening date for the Elizabeth line a day before local elections in London breaches pre-election rules.
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The cabinet minister accused Mayor of London Sadiq Khan of "breathtaking political cynicism".
He said he would be "referring this breach to the Electoral Commission for investigation".
Image:Elizabeth line map - The section between Paddington and Abbey Wood will open on 24 May. Passengers from Reading and Heathrow must still change trains at Paddington and passengers from Shenfield must change at Liverpool Street
The Elizabeth line will operate 12 trains per hour between Paddington and Abbey Wood from Monday to Saturday 6.30am to 11pm.
Further testing and software updates will take place on Sundays.
The Sunday closures will be lifted on 5 June to help people travelling in the capital during the Platinum Jubilee weekend.
Andy Byford, TfL's commissioner, said: "I am delighted that we can now announce a date for the opening of the Elizabeth line in May.
"We are using these final few weeks to continue to build up reliability on the railway and get the Elizabeth line ready to welcome customers.
"The opening day is set to be a truly historic moment for the capital and the UK, and we look forward to showcasing a simply stunning addition to our network."
The project went massively over its original £14.8bn budget in 2010.
Image:Signage on display at the Paddington Elizabeth line station
The total cost of the project has been estimated at £18.9bn, including £5.1bn from the government.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the Elizabeth line will make London "safer, fairer, greener and more prosperous".
Crossrail journey times
Liverpool Street to Ealing Broadway: 19mins (currently 32mins)
Tottenham Court Road to Heathrow Terminal 4: 39mins (currently 61mins)
Woolwich Arsenal to Canary Wharf: 5mins (currently 22mins)
Stratford to Bond Street: 14mins (currently 22mins)
Tottenham Court road to West Drayton: 32mins (currently 42mins)
He went on: "This is the most significant addition to our transport network in decades, and will revolutionise travel across the capital and the South East - as well as delivering a £42bn boost to the whole UK economy and hundreds of thousands of new homes and jobs.
"Green public transport is the future, and the opening of the Elizabeth line is a landmark moment for our capital and our whole country, particularly in this special Platinum Jubilee year."
A full timetable with direct trains running across the Elizabeth line is expected to launch by May 2023.
Bond Street Elizabeth line station will not be ready to open on 24 May but is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
Ukrainian troops will beat their Russian counterparts and it will "be free" from occupation, Boris Johnson has told the country's parliament - adding that it is a fight of "good versus evil".
The UK prime minister, who has become the first world leader to address Ukrainian MPs since Russia invaded in late February, said Ukraine had proven military experts "completely wrong".
In a recorded address, he told the Verkhovna Rada that the "so-called irresistible force of Putin's war machine has broken on the immoveable object of Ukrainian patriotism".
"Ukraine will win, Ukraine will be free," he said, while Ukrainian soldiers have "fought with the energy and courage of lions".
"You have proved the old saying - it's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
Russian soldiers "no longer have the excuse of not knowing what they are doing", the prime minister added, flanked by both British and Ukrainian flags.
They are "committing war crimes" and their "atrocities emerge wherever they are forced to retreat".
It is a conflict with "no moral ambiguities or no grey areas", the prime minister told politicians watching him from Kyiv.
It is about "freedom versus oppression", "right versus wrong", and "good versus evil".
Turning to Vladimir Putin, the PM said the war had exposed the Russian leader's "historic folly" - the "gigantic error that only an autocrat can make".
"When a leader rules by fear, rigs elections, jails critics, gags the media, and listens just to sycophants - when there is no limit on his power - that is when he makes catastrophic mistakes," Mr Johnson said.
A "free media, the rule of law, free elections and robust parliaments, such as your own" are the "best protections against the perils of arbitrary power", he went on.
What Vladimir Putin has done is an "advertisement for democracy", the PM said, and the "carcasses of Russian armour littering your fields and streets" are "monuments to his folly".
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The conflict is Ukraine's "finest hour", the prime minister told the gathering in Kyiv.
"Your children and grandchildren will say that Ukrainians taught the world that the brute force of an aggressor counts for nothing against the moral force of a people determined to be free," he said.
But he also noted the "terrible price" the Ukrainian people have paid.
"Today, at least one Ukrainian in every four has been driven from their homes, and it is a horrifying fact that two thirds of all Ukrainian children are now refugees, whether inside the country or elsewhere."
Other countries had been "too slow to grasp what was really happening", Mr Johnson said, and "failed to impose the sanctions, then, that we should have put on Vladimir Putin".
A further £300m of UK military aid has been announced as Ukraine continues to fight back against the Russian invasion.
It includes a counter battery radar system, heavy-lift drones, GPS jamming equipment and thousands of night vision devices.
In the coming weeks the UK will send Brimstone anti-ship missiles, Stormer anti-aircraft systems and armoured vehicles to evacuate civilians, Mr Johnson vowed.
The UK will carry on supplying Ukraine, he said, until no one "dares" to attack it again.
Sir Keir Starmer has suggested that he will expel Labour MPs who do not voice “unshakeable support for Nato”.
He said he was “very clear” that support for the military alliance was “the root of the Labour Party”. The Times reported on Tuesday that Starmer’s allies wanted him to force hard-left MPs out of his party before the next general election.
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Asked about the report on Times Radio, the Labour leader said: “We’ve been very clear about the expectations of our members of parliament when it comes to issues like antisemitism, when it comes to the false equivalence that some argue between Russian aggression and the acts of Nato. I’ve been very, very clear about that. And I’ll be very clear and firm on those
In a fundraising appeal to raise £10,000 for Ms Kenyon's "send off", her family said they were in a "heartbreaking nightmare" and she was "taken away from her children and family far too soon".
It added that the page will also be used for Ms Kenyon's son and daughter "and their future to fulfil Katie's dreams she had planned with her children".
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Ms Kenyon was described as "a mum, daughter, granddaughter, sister, auntie, niece, cousin, friend and animal lover".
It added: "Thank you for all your kind words and support. We know you're all behind us".
Image:A court sketch of Andrew Burfield, 50, appearing via video-link from HMP Preston
Burfield, from Burnley, spoke only to confirm his identity during the seven-minute hearing.
He was remanded in custody and a trial date was set for 14 November.
Ms Kenyon was last seen at about 9.30am on 22 April and vanished after being seen getting into a van in Burnley, Lancashire.
Image:Map showing the key locations around Katie Kenyon's disappearance
A woman matching her description left an address in Burnley that morning, travelling about 17 miles in a silver Ford Transit van to the Bolton-by-Bowland area of north Lancashire.
The man suspected of abducting Madeleine McCann insists he was many miles from the scene having sex in his camper van with a young woman who will back his alibi.
Christian B says he drove the woman to the airport at Faro, Portugal, for a flight home the next day and they were stopped and photographed at a police roadblock.
The suspect, a German drifter, claims she was arrested at airport security for carrying an illegal pepper spray and later appeared in court.
Christian B, as he is known under German privacy laws, believes Portuguese police must have a record of those events that will establish his relationship with the young German woman who was on holiday with her parents.
Apparently, German police found a photograph of the woman lying in his camper van during their investigation into a rape for which Christian B, 44, is now serving a seven-year jail sentence in Germany.
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When he first spoke of his alibi he couldn't recall the woman's full name, but it's understood he has since been able to identify her.
If it's true the alibi would contradict vital, but circumstantial, evidence from mobile data masts that police say puts him close to the apartment from where Madeleine vanished from her bed 15 years ago on 3 May, 2007.
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German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, who is leading the Madeleine investigation with Portuguese and British detectives, told Sky News: "I assume if he has anything that exonerates him that sooner or later he will share it with us and we would then check it out. What happens then, let's see.
"So far he has told us nothing, he's given us no alibi. So, we can only work on the evidence we have found so far in our investigation. And there was nothing to exonerate him."
Image:Madeleine McCann vanished in 2007
But German prosecutors had never, until two weeks ago, formally interviewed Christian B, a convicted sex offender, even though he has been their chief suspect for more than four years.
They questioned him on 21 April on behalf of the Portuguese authorities who had just made him an arguido, a formal suspect, for their own purposes to avoid a statute of limitations on serious crimes under Portuguese law.
But as an arguido Christian B had the right to silence and refused to answer questions about his whereabouts on the night Madeleine vanished.
Madeleine was nearly four when she disappeared from the family's rented holiday apartment in Praia da Luz on the Algarve coast.
Her parents Kate and Gerry McCann were dining with friends nearby on the holiday complex and had left her sleeping with her younger twin siblings. They and their friends were taking turns to check on the sleeping children every half-an-hour.
Image:Madeleine's parents cling on to the hope she will be found alive
Portuguese police and UK detectives have investigated, but the German authorities took the lead in 2017 when a friend of the suspect told them Christian B had allegedly claimed to know what had happened to Madeleine.
Mr Wolters said: "We actually haven't found a single piece of the puzzle in the two years that would have somehow helped to exonerate Christian B. So it's really nothing that would somehow maybe be an alibi or something. Nothing of that has come to light, really at any point.
"What we found out, it all went in the other direction, so was rather incriminating, without me being able to elaborate on that now.
He added: "However, it is not foreseeable when we will come to an end. So I can't say that we will definitely conclude the investigations this year. That really also depends on how this develops."
Mr Wolters has said in the past he believed Madeleine was dead, but would not reveal what evidence he had.
He is also investigating Christian B over three other sex assault allegations, including the rape of a young Irish woman, Hazel Behan, who was working as a holiday rep on the Algarve in 2004.
She has spoken publicly about being raped in her apartment at Praia da Rocha and waived her right to anonymity.
Mother-of two Katie Kenyon died of head injuries, police have said, as they confirmed a body discovered in a forest is hers.
The 33-year-old from Padiham, Burnley, was found on Friday following "extensive searches" of the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire Constabulary said, and has now been formally identified.
She was last seen at about 9.30am on Friday 22 April.
"A Home Office post-mortem examination was conducted yesterday and the cause of death was given as head injuries," the force added in a statement on Sunday.
"Our thoughts remain with Katie's family and loved ones at this difficult time. The family continues to be supported by our specially trained officers."
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Image:Police made 'extensive searches' in the Forest of Bowland
Andrew Burfield, 50, appeared at Preston Crown Court by video link from HMP Preston on Friday, charged with Ms Kenyon's murder.
Burfield, from Burnley, spoke only to confirm his identity during the seven-minute hearing.
He was remanded in custody and a trial date was set for 14 November.
