Sam Russell

Crime

Injured dog walker’s face was ‘black and blue’, jogger tells murder trial

Mother-of-six Anita Rose, 57, was found injured by a cyclist in Suffolk on July 24 last year and died four days later.
4 Jun 2025
Crime

Runner who died in crash took up sport after fraud charge in US, inquest told

Stephen Chamberlain sustained a traumatic head injury in a collision on the A1123 near Stretham, Cambridgeshire, on August 17 last year.
3 Jun 2025
Crime

Partner of dog walker tells murder trial of their last phone call

Mother-of-six Anita Rose, 57, was found injured by a cyclist in Brantham, Suffolk.
2 Jun 2025
Crime

Murder accused ‘dumped victim’s phone to put police off trail’, court told

Roy Barclay denies the murder of Anita Rose, whose phone was found by members of the public.
30 May 2025
Crime

Man accused of woman’s murder lived off-grid to avoid prison recall, court told

Roy Barclay, 56, denies killing Anita Rose, 57, while she was out walking her dog near her home in Suffolk last July.
29 May 2025
Crime

Judge adjourns for judgment in Jodie Marsh appeal against animal licence refusal

The media personality told an earlier hearing that online trolls are behind much of the criticism of her animal sanctuary in Lindsell.
28 May 2025
Crime

Footballer Jay Emmanuel-Thomas pleads guilty to cannabis importation offence

The 34-year-old striker was sacked by Scottish Championship side Greenock Morton after his arrest last year.
21 May 2025
Tech

Cambridge cows get GPS collars to stop them from falling into river

A firm that makes geofencing for livestock said animals are controlled by solar-powered GPS collars and an app.
20 May 2025
Crime

Mark Cavendish watch raiders must pay back cash or face extra jail time

Balaclava-wearing intruders broke into the athlete’s home in Ongar, Essex, as he was asleep upstairs with his wife, an earlier trial was told.
19 May 2025
Health

Patient of suspended hospital surgeon says she wants answers

Chloe Humphries, of Newmarket, Suffolk, said that in 2015 surgeon Kuldeep Stohr operated on her knee.

15 May 2025
Crime

Mental health trust boss offers apology to families at inquiry into deaths

The Lampard Inquiry, chaired by Baroness Kate Lampard, is examining deaths at NHS-run inpatient units in Essex between 2000 and 2023.
15 May 2025
UK

Magna Carta ‘copy’ wrongly catalogued in 1940s found to be original

Tests were carried out on the Harvard Law School Library document and it was confirmed to be an original issue of the Magna Carta from 1300.
15 May 2025
UK

Theatre exposes historic timber floor dubbed ‘dry equivalent of the Mary Rose’

St George’s Guildhall identified 15th century floorboards believed to have once been trodden by Shakespeare.
14 May 2025
UK

Anger over ‘public vilification’ of police as two officers cleared of wrongdoing

The arrest was in May 2024, and the IOPC concluded its investigation in February of this year.
12 May 2025
Crime

Mental health deaths inquiry hears about ‘denial and defensiveness’

The falsification of safety records was ‘well known within the Essex context’, the Lampard Inquiry was told.
12 May 2025
Politics

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch speaks with patients and staff on visit to hospice

Mrs Badenoch was told Farleigh Hospice in Chelmsford needed additional funds of £250,000 after the increase in national insurance contributions.
9 May 2025
Health

Mothers of patients of suspended surgeon seek meeting with Health Secretary

Ms Kuldeep Stohr, who specialises in paediatric surgery, was suspended earlier this year from her role at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.
9 May 2025
Health

Girl, 12, who was operated on by since-suspended surgeon ‘left in awful pain’

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said the cases of almost 800 patients are being reviewed.
2 May 2025
UK

Lorry driver wins £5.2m on lottery, quits job, buys vacuum cleaner

Gary MacDonald, of Barking, east London, had been delivering parcels for more than 30 years.
2 May 2025
Crime

10th teenage boy admits to violent disorder in Southend last summer

All 10 defendants will be sentenced at the same court during the week commencing July 14.
29 Apr 2025
Crime

Mental health deaths inquiry to ‘confront big and difficult questions head on’

The Lampard Inquiry is examining deaths at NHS-run inpatient units in Essex between 2000 and 2023.
28 Apr 2025