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THE COAST GUARD has recovered a body in the search for a missing fisherman.
The body was discovered by a local fishing vessel involved in the search off Teelin on the Donegal Coast just before 6pm this evening.
The discovery followed three days of intensive searching coordinated by the Coast Guard at Malin Head Maritime Rescue Sub Centre.
The Coast Guard extended its sympathy to the family of the man, and thanked all who had been involved in the search operation.
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The prime minister has warned Reform UK “will tear this country apart” ahead of the Labour party conference.
Arriving in Liverpool on Saturday, Sir Keir Starmer said Reform’s plans to abolish indefinite leave to remain (ILR) for legal migrants was one of “the most shocking things” Nigel Farage’s party had said.
Sir Keir said the conference would be an opportunity to show Labour’s alternative to the “toxic divide and decline” offered by Reform.
He is under pressure after opinion polls show Labour trailing Reform UK, alongside speculation Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham could mount a leadership challenge.
But in an interview with the Sunday Times, Sir Keir insisted Labour could still “pull this round”, and said it was time for Labour to put in the “hard yards, roll up our sleeves and get on with it”.
Farage told the Telegraph, Sir Keir’s language “smacks, frankly, of total desperation” after the prime minister referred to Reform as an “enemy” in an interview with the Guardian.
“To call somebody in politics an enemy is language that is bordering on the inciteful,” he added.
Arriving at the conference centre in Liverpool, Sir Keir said it would be a “big opportunity to make our case to the country, and make it absolutely clear that patriotic national renewal is the way forwards – not the toxic divide and decline that we get with Reform”.
He continued the attacks as the conference got under way, telling the Sunday Mirror Farage was “grubby“, and that the Reform leader was “unpatriotic” for pretending he would fix problems that mattered to voters.
“Add to that that he spends more time grubbing around in America, trying to make money for himself than he does representing his constituents,” he said.
“He goes there not just to make money, but to talk our country down. The leader of a political party going to another country to talk his own country down. Grubby.”
Comparisons with Reform could be a theme of this conference, as Sir Keir tries to portray his party as a patriotic alternative to Reform, who continue to lead opinion polls.
Last week, Reform announced it will replace ILR with visas and force migrants to reapply every five years, if the party wins the next election. That includes hundreds of thousands of migrants currently in the UK.
Applicants would also have to meet certain criteria, including a higher salary threshold and standard of English. ILR is a key route to gaining British citizenship and allows people to claim benefits.
According to a YouGov poll published on Saturday, abolishing indefinite leave to remain divides the public, with 58% of Britons opposed to removing it from those who already hold it.
But more than 44% say they support ending ILR as a policy, while 43% are opposed to the idea.
During a visit to the office of newspaper Liverpool Echo, Sir Keir said: “These are people who have been in our country a long time, are contributing to our society, maybe working in, I don’t know, hospitals, schools, running businesses – our neighbours, and Reform says it wants to deport them in certain circumstances.
“I think it is a real sign of just how divisive they are and that their politics and their policies will tear this country apart.”
In an interview with the Sun on Sunday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said legal migration was a “good thing” and the UK had “always welcomed people who want to come and work here”.
However, she said migrants should make a “contribution to their wider community”.
“So I am looking at how to make sure that settlement in our country – long term settlement, Indefinite Leave to Remain – is linked not just to the job you are doing, the salary you get, the taxes you pay, [but] also the wider contribution you are making to our communities,” she added.
Speaking to teenagers at the Liverpool Echo visit, Sir Keir also insisted the government would not legalise cannabis, and defended his plans to lower the voting age to 16 in general elections.
“It already happens in Scotland, already happens in Wales, and the sky didn’t fall in,” he said.
Ahead of the Labour conference, backbench MPs and unions renewed calls to end the two-child benefit cap.
Several MPs from Liverpool were among those who wrote to Sir Keir ahead of the conference insisting the cap “is one of the most significant drivers of child poverty in Britain today”.
Two MPs – former shadow chancellor John McDonnell and Apsana Begum – have had the whip restored, after a year-long ban for voting against the government on the cap.
McDonnell told the BBC: “If this is a signal the government is going to scrap the two-child limit I’m really pleased.”
The prime minister’s plans for a new digital ID system, revealed on Friday, will also likely face scrutiny at the conference.
Senior Labour figures are meanwhile expected to set out the details of a fresh tranche of “New Towns” at the event.
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President Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of US troops to Portland, Oregon, authorising use of “full force” if needed.
Trump said he was “directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland”.
He claimed that the move would help protect “any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,” adding on Truth Social: “I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary.”
The announcement drew pushback from Democratic lawmakers, who said there was no need for federal troops to be deployed to the city.
“There is no national security threat in Portland. Our communities are safe and calm,” said Oregon Governor Tina Kotek in a statement, adding that she has asked the Trump administration for further information.
Portland’s mayor Keith Wilson said in a statement that the “number of necessary troops is zero, in Portland and any other American city”.
Saturday’s announcement marks the further expansion of deployment of troops in American cities, amid a wider crackdown by the Trump administration on illegal immigration.
Trump’s post does not specify whether he intends to activate national guard or regular US military. The post also did not specify what is meant by the use of “full force”.
“We stand ready to mobilize U.S. military personnel in support of DHS operations in Portland at the President’s direction,” Chief Pentagon Spokesman, Sean Parnell told the BBC. “The Department will provide information and updates as they become available.”
Getty ImagesThe Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland has been targeted by protesters since early June, sometimes leading to violent clashes.
As of 8 September, the US Attorney’s Office had brought federal charges against 26 people for crimes including arson, assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.
On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that demonstrators had “repeatedly attacked and laid siege to an ICE processing centre” in Portland.
In a post on the social media platform X, the department stated that several individuals had been arrested and charged with federal offences.
“Rose City Antifa, a recently designated domestic terrorist organization, illegally doxed ICE officers. They published their home address online and on public flyers. Individuals associated with Antifa also sent death threats to DHS personnel,” DHS wrote on X.
Earlier this week, Trump signed an order formally designating antifa as a domestic terrorist organisation.
Antifa, short for “anti-fascist”, is a loosely organised movement of primarily far-left activists.
Legal experts have pointed out that there is no legal mechanism in the US that would formally establish any group as a domestic terror organisation. Such efforts, they said, could face constitutional challenges under the First Amendment, which protects free speech and assembly.
Democratic lawmakers have criticised both the president’s rhetoric and the reported actions of ICE agents in the state.
Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon said on Friday that there were “credible” reports that federal agents “may be replaying the 2020 playbook “, in a reference to federal forces being deployed in response to protests against the murder of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody.
“I urge Oregonians not to fall into Trump’s attempt to incite violence,” Wyden said.
Local lawmakers have also accused ICE of going after people who are not an actual danger to society.
“ICE has said they’re targeting people for arrest and detainment who have committed crimes. That’s what they told us. But that’s not what we are seeing,” said Democratic house representative Suzanne Bonamici on Friday.
Lawmakers cited recent incidents, including the detention of a father outside his child’s preschool and a wildland firefighter who was arrested while battling fires in the Olympic National Forest.
They also pointed to a statistic published by the Cato Institute, a US think tank based in Washington DC, which reported that 65% of people detained by ICE had no criminal convictions.
Despite the backlash from Democrats, the move has drawn support from some Republican officials.
US labour secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said she had seen how “lawlessness” had turned Portland into a “crime-ridden war zone”.
In a post on X, Chavez-DeRemer, who previously served as a Republican house representative for an Oregon district, thanked Trump “for taking action to keep our ICE facilities protected and Make America Great Again”.
Earlier this year, Trump deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington DC, and federal agents are expected to arrive in Memphis next week.
In Los Angeles, the president ordered 2,000 federal personnel to deal with unrest over raids on undocumented migrants. Clashes erupted over several days, and tear gas was used to disperse protesting crowds.
A federal judge in California ruled earlier this month that the National Guard deployment to Los Angeles was illegal, and that it violated the Posse Comitatus Act, which limits the power of the federal government to use military force for domestic matters.
It is unclear whether the president has legal ground to deploy federal forces to Oregon.
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A man has died and seven people have been treated for the suspected effects of carbon monoxide poisoning at a takeaway.
Emergency crews were sent to a shop in Cresswell Crescent, Bloxwich, West Midlands, on Friday night after concerns were raised over the welfare of a man.
A man in his 50s was confirmed dead, with seven others, including emergency service workers, treated at the scene and at hospital, West Midlands Police said.
A number of nearby properties were temporarily evacuated, at about 21:40 BST. Walsall councillor Michael Coulson said the premises, called Timmy’s Pizza, were being refurbished and he believed a generator had released toxic gasses.
Police said they were now working with the Health and Safety Executive to establish what had happened.
Cara Jackson, 23, who was working at the neighbouring One Stop convenience store and lives nearby, said she had seen medics trying to save the man’s life.
“There were three ambulances, four cop cars, a fire engine and the forensics obviously came after,” she said.
“I did see them doing CPR… I did see everything that happened.
“I don’t really feel the best today because obviously I breathed it all in.”
Ms Jackson and her colleague were evacuated from shop while tests were performed.
“I didn’t really sleep last night,” Ms Jackson continued.
“I wasn’t like scared to sleep but… the fire brigade told us we’re lucky because if we went to sleep last night we wouldn’t have woke back up.”
People had been allowed to return home at about 03:00 BST after safety tests were completed, Coulson said.
Nearby shops, including a chip shop and pharmacy, had been able to open on Saturday, he added.
He also said he had spoken to three men at the shop on Friday evening prior to the incident.
“I had done two litter picks around the shops in the last few days, including one completed just after 7pm last night, and I briefly spoke to those setting up the takeaway on both occasions,” Coulson said.
Four residents and two emergency responders had also needed medical treatment, he said.
Coulson said he believed the generator had been being operated without enough ventilation.
He added: “My thoughts are with the deceased, and all affected by this awful tragedy.”
In a statement, police said they had attended the scene at about 21:40.
“Other emergency services were also in attendance and a man in his 50s was sadly confirmed dead at the scene,” they said.
“Our thoughts are with his loved ones at this devastating time.
“Seven other people – including emergency service workers – were treated at the scene for the suspected effects of carbon monoxide poisoning. Some were taken to hospital for further assessment.
“A small number of nearby properties were temporarily evacuated but occupants have since been able to return.”
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