In this Wednesday’s Mirror Daily Digest, we’ve pulled together the biggest stories of the day from Starmer’s suspension of four Labour MPs to the tragic death of a baby in hospital
Welcome to the Mirror’s Daily Digest, where we pull together all the best stories of the day from our News, Showbiz, Sport teams and more. This Wednesday, we’re featuring everything from a newborn being ‘killed by a boy left to roam a hospital maternity ward’ to the PM’s suspension of four MPs and Emma Watson’s driving ban.
A criminal enquiry has been launched in France after a boy, 6,‘left to roam around a maternity unit’ allegedly killed a newborn baby. Elsewhere, Harry Potter star Emma Watson was banned from driving after her fourth offence in two years and Keir Starmer suspended four Labour MPs over discipline breaches.
Boy, 6, ‘kills newborn baby girl while roaming hospital’s maternity ward’
A baby identified as Zayneb-Cassandra, who was born premature to a 23-year-old woman earlier this month, suffered a traumatic brain injury last Friday after the boy “treated her like a doll” and dropped her on the floor of the Jeanne-de-Flandre Children’s Hospital in Lille.
The boy had already been reported as a ‘disruptive presence’ in the hospital when he was found alone with the unconscious baby in a neonatal unit. The baby was her mother’s first child, and she was delivered by caesarean section, said the investigating source.
Zayneb-Cassandra’s grandmother told the Voix du Nord newspaper: ‘The boy would arrive at 7am and spend all day running up and down the hallways.’ She added: “All the mothers were complaining, and a nurse even warned the child’s mother that there was a problem. He was entering the other rooms.”
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Harry Potter’s Emma Watson banned from driving after fourth offence in two years
Our Showbiz team’s eyes were drawn to court again today as Emma Watson was handed a six month driving ban after pleading guilty to speeding. The Harry Potter star did not appear at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court for sentencing.
The 35-year-old actress earlier this year admitted to driving at 38mph in a 30mph zone. She was driving her Audi S3, which was towed away last year after being illegally parked, when her car was caught by a camera on Banbury Road, Oxford.
Emma was later charged by post and pleaded guilty to the driving offence on March 3. Today she was sentenced over the driving offence.
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Keir Starmer suspends four Labour MPs over discipline breaches
This afternoon, our Politics team broke the news that Keir Starmer has suspended four Labour MPs over persistent breaches of party discipline and stripped three others of trade envoy roles after a series of rebellions. Brian Leishman, Chris Hinchliff and Neil Duncan-Jordan – all elected just last year – and Rachael Maskell will now sit as Independents in the House of Commons.
It is understood the four MPs met with the Chief Whip today, where they were told they would be suspended for repeated breaches of party discipline, pending a future review. They were among dozens of Labour backbenchers to vote against the government earlier this month on disability benefit cuts.
Mr Duncan-Jordan, the MP for Poole, was among 42 Labour MPs to sign a letter earlier this year warning the PM cuts to disability benefits were “impossible to support”. He told The Mirror: “To my constituents: it’s business as usual. I remain your hardworking local MP, I will continue to take up your concerns and speak up for Poole.”
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Prince Harry ‘won’t let Meghan go to England’ as he ‘bans’ her from latest trip
After Prince Harry landed in Angola on Tuesday, our Royal team reported that the Duke of Sussex has “banned” his wife, Meghan Markle, from joining him on his recent trip to the African state of Angola due to safety concerns. Insiders likened the move to him not letting her visit the UK.
Meghan Markle has not returned to Britain since the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, where she was pictured on a walkabout with Prince William, Prince Harry and Princess Kate outside Windsor Castle. The once dubbed “Fab Four” haven’t been pictured together since then.
Now, an insider claims Harry refuses to let Meghan return to the UK along with join him on his latest trip. “The duke won’t let his wife go to England over security concerns, so there was no chance he’d allow her to go to Angola to walk across landmines,” a source told the Daily Mail.
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Bizarre story of Sycamore Gap duo and moment that ‘tipped them over the edge’
Following their sentencing yesterday, the two men who cut down the famous tree at Sycamore Gap out of “sheer bravado” have now been put behind bars. This Wednesday, our news team have been looking further into the bizarre story of the duo.
The two were once pals with locals saying the plot saw “the man with no friends” – Daniel Graham, 39 – team up with “the man with no brains”, Adam Carruthers, 32. Their three-minute “moronic” destruction of the much-loved tree, which had stood for more than 100 years in a fold in the Northumberland landscape, will never be forgotten.
Graham turned on Carruthers, tipping police off that he had cut down the iconic landmark in September 2023. The pair, who were each jailed for four years and three months, were convicted of criminal damage to the tree along with criminal damage to Hadrian’s Wall, caused when the sycamore fell on the ancient monument.
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