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The parents of terminally ill toddler Alfie Evans have said they will work with doctors to ensure their son has “the dignity and comfort he needs”. Father Tom Evans said the family intend to “form a relationship, build a bridge and walk across it” with the hospital where their son has been treated.”Our lives have been turned upside down by the intense focus on Alfie and his situation,” he told reporters outside of Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool.Making a plea for privacy, Mr Evans said: “We are very grateful and we appreciate all the support we have received from around…

Two Italians have been charged after a man was seriously injured in an attack before Liverpool’s Champions League match with Roma. Merseyside Police said Filippo Lombardi, 20, has been charged with violent disorder and inflicting grievous bodily harm against the 53-year-old on Tuesday evening.Daniele Sciusco, 29, has been charged with violent disorder.Both men have been kept in custody, and are due to appear at South Sefton Magistrates Court later. Image: Sean Cox remains in a critical condition Sean Cox, a father of three from Dunboyne, Co Meath, suffered serious head injuries when he was assaulted outside Anfield stadium.The Irish businessman…

The father of sick toddler Alfie Evans says there will be a meeting with doctors later to discuss taking his son home. Tom Evans told reporters outside Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool that his son no longer needs to be in intensive care.Judges on Wednesday rejected appeals made by Alfie’s parents to allow him to be taken to Italy for treatment.Mr Evans and Kate James made applications to the Court of Appeal after a High Court judge ruled they could take their son home from the hospital, but not abroad.Doctors say the toddler has a rare degenerative neurological condition and…

The proposed merger between household energy suppliers SSE and npower is feeling the heat from competition regulators. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Thursday it would refer the deal for an in-depth investigation, unless the firms offered remedies to address its concerns that the tie-up could force up bills for some customers.It gave them until 3 May to offer such measures.The merger, first announced last November, would see the household supply businesses operated by SSE and npower join forces – reducing the industry’s dominant “big six” firms to a “big five”.::MPs demand probe into planned energy mergerThe CMA…

TSB has called in IT specialists to help resolve its digital banking crisis following a bungled upgrade to a new IT system last weekend. The challenger bank used its first-quarter results announcement, which showed a slump in pre-tax profits, to say IBM had been recruited to try and resolve continuing “performance” problems with the new servers.The team will report directly to TSB’s embattled boss, Paul Pester.TSB said all overdraft fees and interest charges for April would be waived for its retail and small business customers, on top of its commitment to ensuring no one was left out of pocket by…

Chinese geologists say North Korea’s main nuclear testing site has collapsed under the stress of five successive bomb tests. A mountain above the notorious facility has collapsed, a study found, rendering it unsafe for future testing and presenting a serious risk of radiation leaking.The paper’s authors, Tian Dongdong, Yao Jiawen and Wen Lianxing, urged that authorities “continue to monitor any leakage of radioactive materials” in view of the “research finding that the North Korea nuclear test site at Mantapsan has collapsed”.The findings follow an announcement by President Kim Jong Un that North Korea would cease activity on its weapons testing…

There’s only one bridge onto South Korea’s Gyodong Island and it’s guarded by soldiers. Every visitor is checked in and out.A tiny sliver of water is all that separates it from North Korea.Metal security fences surround much of the coastline to help guard against an enemy that is less than two miles away.Despite living on front line, few of the residents seem afraid.In a hairdresser, Bang Eun Jung tells me they’re too close and too small for Kim Jong Un to target with his guns. Video: What it’s like living next to North Korea They know a deal from this…

Whitbread is to spin-off its Costa coffee empire from its hotel and other interests following pressure from shareholders. The company said Costa would be listed as a separate business within two years under its plans which were announced after so-called activist investors clamoured for greater value from their holdings.It emerged earlier this month that Elliott Advisors had become Whitbread’s largest shareholder and was seeking the so-called demerger on the grounds it could potentially value separated firms at a combined £10bn as opposed to the current £7.7bn within the Whitbread stable.It was supported by at least one other major shareholder. Image:…

TSB customers are reporting they are able to access their accounts after the lender took its digital banking platforms offline to fix a bungled system upgrade. The bank’s boss rushed to Twitter in the early hours of Wednesday to declare services were “up and running” again.However, TSB later clarified that access to accounts was being strictly limited to prevent a surge of anxious customers from crashing the new systems’ servers. Image: TSB’s message to digital banking customers on Tuesday morning They were taken down on Tuesday morning for urgent work as customers endured a fifth day of frustration.It had been…

A court in Denmark will deliver the verdict today in a horrific murder case which has gripped and shocked a nation. Danish inventor Peter Madsen faces a life sentence if found guilty of the mutilation and murder of 30-year-old Swedish journalist Kim Wall.Her dismembered body was discovered in a bay near Copenhagen last year. She had gone missing after accepting Madsen’s invitation for a short voyage on his home-made submarine.The 11-day trial, spread over seven weeks, heard some truly horrific detail as the prosecution laid out its case against Mr Madsen who denies murder and sexual assault but admits dismembering…